The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-03-02

is hardly any dOuDt out what his schemes TeuOnc
expansion and would have been by this
time. Napoleon had no America to contend with and
therefore was enabled to maintain his dominance in
Europe for many years, but Wilhelm abors under the
disadvantage of contendng with great democratic power
surprising his empire in of and
mentality 1t is therefore, safe conclude the period
between the elimination of his power that of
his final overthrow will be much shorter that his
French prototype and exemplar
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER AMERIcANIsM.
Minnesota may we'll be proud of her war governor
Speaking recently National Service Congress at
Chicago Governor Burnquist delivered straight from the
shoulder address which has the true ring of
patriotism and hits the buseye the target of dis
loyalty and treason. He said:
every disloya citizen should deprived of the fran
chise Every naturalized citizen loyal nation
should be deprived of citizenship favor the
of law giving federal judges the power
disfranchsement Every immigrant who requited
nation with dsloyay should his property stripped
from him and be sent back to his native shores
same condition when he arrived here Every
public official whether La Toilette in the senate the
humbest constable who gives voice soyal
should be stripped of his Office forthwith"
This is emphatic language but it is the only kind that
will get under the skin of the pachydermatous brood
Americans that in midst and Burnquist
backs up his words by deeds Wherever the head of
disloyay has protruded it's features the public
in the state has promptly received ponderous
whack from the governors "big STICK He has
the seditionmongers that Minnesota big is, has
room for their perncious propaganda, whether promu
gated by native foregnborn citizens 1t is high time
that American citizenship should be appraised it's
true valuea value far beyond that of citizenship in any
other country in the world And yet there found in
surprisingly large numbers who biting the hand
that is feeding hem-men who have no sense of appre
citation of the difference between auocracy and democracy
between serdom and freedom. Our efforts to assmiate
this indigesble stuff has caused serious trouble in
ali we of
the remedies at hand suffer everlasting social
Governor Burnquist has prescribed the proper medi
cine and the quicker it administered the speeder will
the relief to the long suffering patient Both in
and in peace Minnesota may we'll feel pride and conf
dence in her executive chief.
EFFECT OF THE WAR ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
RELATIONS.
In the Lenten pastoral issued by Cardinal Bourne,
archbishop of Westminster to be found thought
and timely suggestions touching upon social and labor
questions that pertinent not only to conditions in
Great Britain but to all other civilized nations we'll
The distinguished prelae with keen foresight has peered
into the future of the economic and social status of
mankind is about result from the experiences of
the world He the possibility of great
Industrial upheava and disturbance which will rise
to order of things and create relations be-
tween the different sections of business and society
of the destruction of the old order entertain
hope better arrangement of mems lives may
be developed than that the existing system is capable
Of The soldiers says only fighting but think
ing the old institutions justify themselves at
of rather than by virtue of authority
He continues:
The effect of competition uncontrolled by morals has
segregate and the capitalist from the
wageearning classes he "and to form the latter
prolearat people owning nothing but their labor
power and tending to shrink more and more from the
responsibilities of both ownership and freedom. Hence
increasing lack of selfreance and the tendency to
look the state for the performance of the ordinary
family duties While the constitution had increasingly
democratic forms and reality underlying those
forms had been increasingly plutocrac Legislation
der the guise of social reform tended to mark off all
wage definitely servie class, and the result
even before the feeling among the workers
irritation and resentment which manifested itself in
sporadic strikes, found clear expression in
any other way
i In this feeling of discomfort has not mani
tested itself acutey as in the old world but there are
many indications incipency. 1t is likely that
soldiers abroad will with radically changed
views of social and economic conditions but they will
have at least deeper sympathy with and broader com
prehension OF the problems of European peoples in the
struggles to shake off the yoke of caste and win place
in the sun of human happiness and wellbeing.
In America have in large measure already solved
many the yexatious questions that will confront thu
peoples and living under the old regime JUS
have crossed the bridges of slavery and religious
toeraton and based institutions the broa
principles democracy, which the greatest
to the greatest number. We have accomplished thes
reforms, in the Russian the French way-by vic
and revoluonbut by the application of the prin
cples the doctrines of Christianity to tn
several industrial and social issues they TO
adjustment. With a Quickened sense of our respon
soites and cordial cooperation in all worthy e
undertaken the welfare of the masses
in tho fufur in