The Irish standard., 1918-03-23
EXIT LA TOILETTE,


EXIT LA TOILETTE.
BY an emphatic majority the State of Wisconsin has
administered rebuke it's representative in the
Senate the "wilfu La Toilette, who must
classed among the bndest of althose who will not
see resoluon>is pending for his expulsion from the
Senate because Of his attitude before and after
entry into the world war; but action it has been
delayed, much to the derment of the of loyalty
throughout the country For long his contumacy and
treason unpublished other lesser microbes
will their pernicous activities along the lines
down for their direction and>imation.
he were summarily ousted from his at Washing
ton would give the nation thrill that would stimulate
the national patriotism than would the of
great breach in the Hndenburg line 1t would in fact
stitute greater advance toward Allied victory than
breach would soidy and unity the nation in
all activities, and to the Teutonic
that America is in the fight to stay until victory is
1t would be wholesome lesson to the sackers of all kinds
the proeers and the macontents who trying to foster
labor troubles in this critical period Of national life
If the Wisconsin misrepresentation sincerely believes in
the principles the referendum and recall that he has
proclaimed in of his public utterances he would vol
UNFAIRLY resign his office and ask for vote of confidence
from his constituency This would afford genuine test
the the electorate for which he is speak
in the national councils But he does not dare
to stake his political fortunes the outcome of such
judgment
The explanation Of his failure the righteousness
of the nations is perhaps to be found in his
sive egosm and opionatveness He has failed to reach
the tremendous fact of the great world and the
gers surrounding the national existence much few
misguided Democratic leaders failed grasp signif
canoe of the Civil War.
The Senate should lost time in making prompt app
cation of Pershngs message the this
conumacious and audacious member-the American Car
RINGING DECLARATION OF cHuRcHs ATTITUDE
ON DIVORCE.
The institution of divorce was, in a large measure,
concomtant of the alleged Reformation Germany
and England but especially in England that
the rejection of the authority intimately
connected with the lust for unrestrained qualification
sexual passion. Had the Pope granted the petition of
Henry VIII for divorce from his wife, it quite likely
that the Reformation might have been indefinitely post
poned in Britain
The position of the Church today this question
just as strong and uncompromising the
Henry. For fifteen centuries she had maintained unity
and indissolubily of the marriage tie Reform
ers inspired by their own lust and Righteousness de-
manded reform" this line upon other age
long established doctrines But with adamant
their claims denied their wickedness condemned
That the position of the Church Of today has
from her historical attitude in reference the ndsso-
bity of the conjugal tie thus cogeny and eloqueny
stated in Lenten sermon of Rev. L. Kearney, p
Philadelphia who thus makes argument that
divorce separation should sanctioned as relief for
those mismated lives who grieve and the
burden and the bitterness of their disappointment:
II answer no! Ten thousand times MOI First because
the law of God orbids it. An alwse has answered
no. Secondly, human wisdom gives the answer It
tells that divorce, far from serving remedy
would but multiply and all the evils complained
Of; would multiply and aggravate whatever things
marriage round about with uncertainties and
ties, with risk or rue and repentance and remorse
Their dreams of bliss have been shattered fidelity
to stern duty will be of comfort to their
They must bend their necks to the yoke of the
rce It is the hour for them to perform great act of
selfabnegation and devotion just it the the
soldier sacrifice all and die field of battle when
the safety of his country is at stake"
IRELAND STOOD UNITED AT THE BIER OF REDMOND.
is gratifying to note the fact that the dispatches
say A Ireland" represented in the great funeral
cotege Redmond through streets of Wexford
Nationalist Unonists and Sim Feners WED with one
another honorng the mortal the dead chief
Over thirty thousand people who had assembled all