The Irish standard., 1918-07-13
THE IRISH STANDARD
MISTAKES HAVE THEIR USES.

MISTAKES HAVE THEIR USES
When plumber makes mistake he charges twice for it.
When a Judge makes mistake it becomes the law of
the land.
When preacher makes mistake nobody knows the
When dentist makes a mistake he can always repair
the damage.
When an electrician makes mistake, he bames it on
knows what that is
When lawyer makes q mistake it's lust what he
wanted because he has chance to try the all
again.
When carpenter makes mistake it's just what he ex
pected, because chances ten to that he never
learned his trade anyway.
But when newspaper makes mistake: Good
night-H. NJ p, in New York SUM-
ANOTHER WAR ANTHOLOGY
Replying to address of welcome reception at Lin.
coin, Neb Rt Rev. Charles ]. ORely was recently
installed Bishop of the Lincoln diocese delivered an
earnest patriotic discourse reaching climax which thrilled
his hearers to the highest pitch of enthusiasm the
ment:
If necessary, rather than defeat we will sell the
sacred vessels from the altar the church. that liberty
may not perish from the earth"
JULY 4, THE WORLD HOLIDAY OF DEMOCRACY
Americas national holiday July has derived new and
greater significance in the world situation What
has hitherto meant to the United States the
ton of glorious emancipation thradom of
foreign domination, it is apparently become
the nations of earth which have under the
sion and tyranny of powerful peoples or govern
mens Our Independence day this year celebrated
joyousy and gratefully in France in England other
European countries with popular
The Stars and Stripes acclaimed with genuine
Grafton and applause in most of the European
of population outside of Germany and her territorial
hnterlands. million American soldiers sailors were
on the battle lines ready to die need be for the ideals
the Declaration of Independence convincing proof
our sincerity in the basic proposition of that immortal
document that all created equal.
We have backed these words by deeds, as was
attesed by General Pershing the of Lafayette
when he said "LaFayette here!" We have made
good" promises to the world and humanity even
though it involved stupendous achievement and
dous sacrifice. And humanity has gratefully bowed it's
acknowledgment of American honor fidelity to the
sacred of freedom There left spots on
the great round globe of the earth outside
the German Kaiser where the American flag greeted
with the same cheering and applause receives in the
land of the free and the home of the brave"
Is glorious Fourth" then eventually the
worlds holiday of independence? Is immortal Dec
to become the basis and bulwark rights and
mmunes of mankind in part of the world
not yet enjoyed the blessings of liberty equaty Are
its splendid teachings and benecent philosophy to
finally accepted in the schools of the world embodi
ment of the axioms of true SCIENCE
ing sodly predcated in the principles of justice as the
theorems OF mathematics established in the relations
of and quantities? Is Jeersons masterpiece to be
textbook of the universal democracy already
foreshadowed on the horizon of the future?
The Declaration lies dearer and closer the
the American people than the Constitution
although the Constitution is generally recognized as
best code of enacted in the history
mankind for the regulation of civil conduct u.s.
subject to change and amendment to
to the circumstances and needs of times conditions
while the Declaration embodies those immutable prnci
pies which lie at the foundation of human liberty
and not subject to the vcssudes of the passing
They true at the earliest dawn creation and will
remain true long the human brain norma
process of reasonng and they bound ultimately tt
triumph the fallacies and sophisries of Teuton
PHILOSOPHERS Notwithstanding their protecting crust O.
feudalism
| Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of Gods hers,
While Error wounded, wrthes in pain
| And dies amid her worshipers."
1t would not be overhaZardous therefore, predict tina
in the not distant future Americas holiday July
will be celebrated universally throughout newly
ratified world (Which may include the Teut6ni
realms) after martial forces shall eliminated
armies recruited fear and feudalism The father