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The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
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province of Connaught elected a Sim
Fein representative. Capt. Fahey, the
Sinn Fefn candidate for South Gal
way, was elected, according to the
complete returns, although the first
reports favored w. ]. Duffy (Nation-
alisD. Arthur O'Connor, Sim Feiner,
was also elected for Kildare South,
althouh Dennis Kilbride> was at first
reported elected. The error in the
Kildare report may have arisen from
the fact that there were two candidates
named O'Connor running in Kildare,
J. O'Connor (Nationalist) for North
Kildare, and Art O'Connor, Sim
Feiner, for South Kildare.
The reported election of Duffy (Na-
tionalist) for Galway may also be due
to the fact that a Sim Fein candidate
Duffy was elected in South Dublin.
The above dispatch. while giving
seven Nationalists as being elected, is
evidently an error, because T. P.
OCOnnOr sits for an English cOnstitu-
ency and the Collins who is given as
Nationalist was returned unopposed
as the Sim Fein candidate for Lime
rick West.
The E. ]. Kelly who is given in the
Sim Fefn list above is a Nationalist,
being one of the four Nationalists
elected as result of the coalition
brought about in Ulster by Cardinal
Logue.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
One Million Men
In ineteen Nineteen

the history of the order has come such
a pronounced command to the indi-
vidual to demonstrate by his energy
the depths of his soul to which he has
taken in the ideals of the Knights of
Columbus.
With the glory of its war time
achievements shining in brilliant let
ters before the world, membership in
the order holds a tremendously new
and inviting significance. A new
vitality has been infused into it's being.
Hundreds of thousands of Catholic
men who looked with but passing in
terest upon the work of the organiza-
tion in the past now have acquired
new depth of feeling for it, for it's
aims and purposes, and new, en-
thusiastic spirit of friendship has been
built up, even outside the Church.
Hundreds of thousands of returning
soldiers and sailors on their way from
the tortures of the battlefields to the
pleasures and the ties of home are
coming with greatly heightened re-
gard and understanding for the order.
The American mind has been instilled
witha new regard for the body of
men who bent patriotically to the task
demanded of them and accomplished
it. Our ideals and achievements are
known and aclknOw1odpod
There is no doubt that thousands of
eligible Catholics all over the country,
properly approached, would readily
welcome the opportunity of sharing
our manifold benefits and of partici-
pating in the great work that lies be-
fore us. Magnificent, indeed, are the
possibilities that tower above the
foundation of a membership of a mil
lion of such men. Never, in fact, were
there such wonderful opportunities
for united Catholic effort, or the de-
velopment of Catholic thought and
enterprise. Each council, built up to
its maximum strength, would be a po-
tent source of enlightenment and of
real service in it's community, while
the order as whole would be SO
equipped as to rise to heights of
achievement far beyond the range of
even its present large membership.
To it's larger ranks and larger hopes
the order cordially welcomes the
eligible men of the Catholic faith, in
Guiding former members who may
again wish to share the benefits and
the merits of it's work, confident that
their undoubted sympathies with
Catholic effort cannot fail to find it's
best avenue of expression through the
nights of Columbus.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18

"Sinn Feiners elected: Welsh,
Roiste, Mulcahy, S. O'Kelly, shanahan,
McGrath, Staines, Markieivicz, T.
Kelly, ]. MacNeil Londonderry, J.
MacNeill Qrish University, O'Do
herty, Sweeney, E. ]. Kelly, Ward
Lawless, Duffy, Fitzgerald, o'Mahoney
O'Maille, Cusack, Fahey, Buckley
O'Connor, O'Mara, Dolan, Hayes, Nc
! Guinness, O'Kelly, Crowley, Mcbride
Valera, Mellowes, Duggen, Blythe, Nc
Entee, O'Higgins, Boland, Clancy, Nc
Cabe, McCann, Moloney, Griffith, Bur
CESS, Ginnell, Sweetman, Ryan, Bar
ton, Etchinghan.
Valera East Clare occupies two
seats.
"Nationalists: Devlin, Redmond
Donnelly, McVeagh, HARRISON, Collins
T. P. O'Connor.
"Unionists: Lindsay, Carson, Moles
Dixon, Burn, McGuffin, Donald, Lynn
Smiley, O'Neill, McCalmont, Allen
Lonsdale, Reid, c. Craig, Sir ]. Craig
Brown, Wilson, Dockrell, Archdale
Anderson, Henry, Coote, Samuels
Whitla-Total Is.
independent: Sir r. Woods.
Total Irish seats-1O5."
While the above cable dispatch is
in some respects confusing, it shows
that the Sim Fein victory was even
more sweeping than was indicated by
the first cable dispatch we received
and published. last week. 1t now ap
pears that every constituency in the
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
ALWAYS HELPED
MAKE AMERICAN HISTORY


1t has been claimed that this coun-
try was discovered by St. Brendan, an
Irish monk, eight or nine centuries be-
fore Columbus. And we are told on
good authority that the ship that car
ried Columbus across the ocean had
an 1rishman aboard.
There were two Irishmen on board
the Mayfiower-William Mullins and
Christopher Martin.
Twenty years later five hundred or
more were forcibly transplanted. In
the days of Cromwell, when ESQ was
paid for the head of a patriotic Irish
man, more than hundred thousand
were driven out, and most of them
came to the American colonies. They
came with grievance, and hence we
find the Irish everywhere on the firing
line and readiest of the ready in the
War of Independence.
You lost America by the Irish!"
declared Lord Mountjoy in the British
Parliament.
The first blow-four months before
Lexington-was struck by John Sulli-
van, from the rugged hills of Desmond
in ancient Kerry. He captured the
British military stores in Portsmouth.
crippling their operations.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
Prosecuted by Germans, They Wei
come Allies Who Deliver
Them.

Paris.-The entry of the allied
troops into Alsace was welcomed by
none more warmly than the religious
who have lived under German domina-
tion. The nuns in particular appear
to have been the special objects of
the invaders malice and the Sisters
of Mercy were shamefully prosecuted.
The Mother Superior of one of the
converts at Strasbourg, who is nearly
blind and is 20 years old, was ban
ished for four years, and has just re-
turned, shaken in health, but not in
spirit. She told how she had professed
her faith in Providence to protect
France.
The acting superior, sitting next her,
told an even more pitiful story of pitt
less wrong. She wrote to friend in
Switzerland a postcard expressing her
love for St. Genevieve. The post card
was found by German censor and
she was charged before a military tri-
i, bunal with disloyalty, because the
saint personified France. She was con-
demned to nine months imprison-
ment in common cell with prosti-
tutes and thieves She was taken
there by Catholic Polish soldier, who
wept at leaving her. Another sister
was imprisoned because, without
guile, she had written a letter re.
ferring to the health of two other
nuns. Sisters Andre and Aurelie. The
magistrate said this meant Russia and
Italy, because Andre was Saint An.
drieff, and Aurelie was Marcus Aurel.
ius. She received three months i'm.
prisonment on each charge.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
lndulqences Such as Those Granted
for Visits to Holy Land Shrines
Attached-Septi-centenniai
Of Saints Visit to Holy
Land Commemorated.

Washington, D. C.-Coincident with
the celebration of the seventh centen-
nial of the coming of st. Francis Of
Assist to the Holy Land, where he
founded what is known even to this
day as the Custody of the Holy Land,
the Holy See has granted to the now
famous Church of Mount Saint Sepul-
chre at Washington, D. c., the same
indulgences that may be gained by
visiting and generating the original
Sacred Shrines in Palestine.
BY virtue Of an Apostolic Rescript
of recent date, the Faithful who visit
this Memorial Church and venerate
the Sacred Shrines therein reproduced
may gain plenary indulgence at each
of the designated Shrines. The only
conditions to be fulfilled are that a
person visiting the shrines be in a
state of grace and there recite one
Our Father and Hail Mary.
In commemoration of the septi-cen-
tennial before mentioned, Pope Bene-
dict XIV has issued Pontificial brief
addressed to the Catholics of the en-
tire world, wherein he states that it
is his wish that this momentous event
should not pass without due notice on
the part of Catholics. The Holy Faith
ers' letter appeared in the current is
sue of the Latin "Acta Apostolicae
Sedis," the official organ of the Va
-tican.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
GREAT HONOR IS CONFERRED
UPON CHURCH IN AMERICA

At the same time, the Most Rev. FIR.
General of the Franciscans ordered
that in all the churches of the order
this anniversary should be celebrated
with fitting solemnity during the
month of January.
To commemorate these two import
ant events, special services were held
at the franciscan Monastery near the
Catholic university in Washington on
Sunday, January S, the eve of the
Feast Of the Epiphany. At 9 a. m. a
Pontifical High Mass was celebrated
by the Right Rev. Bishop Shahan, rec
tor of the university, assisted by the
clergy of the Monastery and surround
ing institutions. Rev. Ethelbert Sam
brooke, o. F. NJ, one of the best known
missionaries in Canada, delivered the
sermon. After the Mass process
sional visit was made to the Indul-
genced Shrines of Nazareth, Bethle-
hem, Calvary, the Stone of the An
nointing and the Holy Sepulchre. AS
a fitting close of this important and
extraordinary celebration, Pontifical
TIE Deum was sung in thanksgiving to
Almighty God for the liberation of the
Holy Land, which came so happily at
the close of the seventh century of
Franciscan guardianship of the Sacred
Places in behalf of Holy Mother
church.
In addition to the Privileged Shrines
above mentioned, two others located
outside the Monastery in the "Gethse-
name Valley" viz, the Grotto of the
Agony and the Tomb of the Blessed
Virgin, have had this indulgence ex-
tended to them.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
Countrywide Membership Campaign Il
Be Carried on This Year by the
Knights of Columbus.

The Hennepin- Minneapolis Council,
nights of Columbus has started an
active campaign for new members.
There are now nearly 100000 Cath
olic men affiliated with the order, and
1t is the intention of the Supreme
Council to make a membership drive
in every State of the Union. zone
million men, in 1919 is the slogan for
the campaign throughout the country.
Knighthood has been afield in thought
and in action from the very moment
the big heart of America was turned
in compelling sympathy toward the
task of saving civilization and en-
throning anew in the breast of man
the principles that dawned with the
coming of Christ. America has stood
in Europe as the redeemer of civiliza-
tion, a worldly savior worthy of the
name. In her ranks has marched the
spirit of the nights of Columbus,
sharing every trial, every wound and
every anguish of war.
The Orders power for right and for
justice and for the privilege of mercy
has been proved in the trying days
that are gone. 1t intends now in the
awakening era of peace this power for
good shall be increased thousand
fold and driven forward with an IRE
sistibility comparable only to the un-
questionably honorable record achiev.
ed by the order upon the field of bat
tie, in the hospitals back of the lines,
aboard the transports that have car.
ried the war-winning troops of Amer
lea to the fight and in the training
camps and cantonments at home.
One million members in 1850
per cent Insurance.!
That is the unshakable goal of the
order from this moment forward
This is the New Years summons. Its
vital point is personal responsibility
the task It sets is tremendous in it's
inspiration. Zone million members in
1919" means that our order is destined
so far as intent of man can initiate
destiny, to grow upon itself to more
than double it's existing numbers.
That summons has been issued tc
our order, but it's appeal is not merely
to the united body, nor yet alone to
some or all councils, but definitely
clearly, directly is it an injunction
demanding the personal obedience Of
every true knight Indeed, never in
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
NUNS OF ALSASCE Relate
PITIFuL STORIES OF WRONG

All these brave and loyal women
are proud of their suffering and over
joyed at their liberation from German
tyranny. Outside the convent were
banners with scrolls in French and
English Welcome to our liberators.'
Alsace is a country of deep religious
faith. Catholic and Protestant, with
a great Catholic majority, but both are
equally for France and freedom from
spies and inquisitors.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
Albert bemb|e's Attack
Truthfu||y Answered

told me good deal more about Ire
land than l ever got out of books.
She had wise head on her shoulders,
as all her children can testify, and
she often warned us against pro-
fessional Irishmen whose whole stock
in trade was to keep Ireland boiling
with hatred instead of trying to
teach the young people to be indus
trious and saving and become useful
citizens. She wasn't an Ulsterite
either
ALBERT BEMBLE.
Graceville, Mimi,
Jan. 10, 1919.
To the Editor of the Pioneer Press:
Albert Bemble, apologize to the
Sim Feiners. Recent Irish elections
returned 73 Sim Feiners, Z National
lists, and Unionists. John Redmond's
figures c'lreland on the Somme, Lon
don 1917 PIP. 3S), show that 100000
Irish born soldiers from Ireland, Eng
land and the Colonies, fought for in
ternational freedom. Rating percen-
centage of Sim Feiners in firing line
by above election figures Sim Feiners
were over 100000 strong. So, Albert
Bemble, l stand corrected.
Ireland's contribution to Washing
toms army is a matter Of histOry-not
Irish imagination. In the Irish House
of Commons, April 2, 1884, Hon. Luke
Gardiner stated: II am assured from
the best authority that the major por-
tion of the American army was COM
posed of Irish. 500. am also inform
ed that it was their valor determined
that contest so that England had
Americans detached from her by force
of Irish emigrants". Major General
Robertson of the British army in "The
Evidence as Given before Committee
of the House of Commons on the De-
tail 1of-the Conduct Of the-American
War" (London, 1855 Is recorded as
testifying under oath that the Ameri-
can General Henry Lee, informed him
that Half the rebel continental army
were from Ireland.
Forget cattle thief Illustration. In
1915 Lord Kitchener wrote to the Dub
lin viceregal conference l915) "Ire
lands performance has been magnifi-
cent. "England is unworthy to kiss
! the hem of lreland's garment. Ches-
tertOn. ireland is the one bright spot
in the Empire" Earl Gray What
ever the future may have in store, the
British people will never forget the
generous blood of the sister nation
! Continued on Page 81
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18
Further Returns Of the
Election in ireland

SINN FEINS SWEEPING VICTORY CONFIRMED BY
LATEST REPORTS = ONLY SIX NATIONALISTS
WERE RETURNED, FOUR OF THEM BEING
UNOPPOSED = CONNAUGHT is SOLIDLY SINN
FElN, WITH LElNSTER AND MUNSTER ABOUT
THE SAME.
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18

Cardinal Logue and Archbishop Walsh Cast Their Votes
Snn Fein Candidates Parliament of the Irish Re-
public Summoned to Assemble Message of De Valera
to the Irish People,
The following the latest of the Irish elections
December ID:
The Irish standard., 1919-01-18

CONTINUED on Page 81
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-05-23
INDUSTRIAL Center
NOW RADICAL H0TBED

Berlin, May 23.-The state arsenal
at Spandau. which has been shut
down by the government. has shown
monthly deficits of $4,000, 900 marks
for the past few months. Estimates
for April, May and June indicated a
further total operating loss OF co.
100000. Attempts to utilize the gi-
gantic plant for peace production
have been unsuccessful in its pres
ent condition and it will have to be
dismantled and re-equipped.
The arsenal, which in peace-time
employed 5000 hands and in the
past few years engaged 40, 900 work
ers, has since the revolution de-
veloped into a hotbed of radicalism.
Communist leaders openly engaged
In the intimidation of other workers,
threatening them with boycott and
other forms Of terrorism. II is stat
ed also that the plant has also been
grossly mismanaged which gradually
brought on a state of passive resist
ance and insubordination among the
workers.
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reach them. Nearly two score of the
Americans wear British or French
ribbons for bravery in action agains,
the bolsheviki, and more decorations
are on the way.
The Yanks have gone on, day by
day, grumbling but smiling about
their hardships. They're not extra
ordinarily fascinated by the Russian
'Marishnas," or young girls, and
having Yankee contempt for males
who wear whiskers and kiss each
other in the streets and speak a Jaw
breaking. foreign language. They
want to go home as soon as they
can, and, to them, 1t seems that all
Uncle Sam has to do to get them
home quickly is to send up a lot of
regulars and marines and finish the
bolsheviki quickly.
The point Of view of some of the
American officers is illustrated by
the remarks Of one of them to the
Associated Press correspondent.
HI" he said, when he arrived
here with other american reinforce
ments last September, there isn't
any justice, no justice at all. We've
been training at home at Camp Gus
ter for months and months to fight
the Germans. And then they send
us up here to Russia. to guard
stores, 1 suppose. The bolsheyiki
can't fight, any way, for they're
nothing but an organized rabble. We
wanted to fight: we didn't Join the
army to watch these Russians revol-
'ute."
This winter down In a snow-cover-
ed little. log hut. thatched with birch
boughs, on the front, saw this same
young officer, half-frozen despite his
fur coat and Shackelton boots. as
ne waited at the field telephone
while shrapnel from bolshevik guns
were bursting somewhere around us.
HELL" he said, there isn't any
Justice, no Justice at all. The war
is over in France and we're still up
In this iblahkety-blank frozen swamp.
Fighting. Why, do you know, I've
had only two weeks relief since we
landed. Been fighting ever since"
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CEDAR RAPIDS FIRE
FATAL To WORKMEA
Ten Dead and Score Buried Beneath
Wrccitagc-Pcrsons Mile Away
Hurled From Chairs

Cedar Rapids. Iowa. May 23.--
Ten bodies have been taken from the
ruins OF the Douglas Company starch
plant. following an explosion and
fire. Seven men are missing and
are probably In the ruins. Workmen
say dust caused the explosion.
The entire plant was burned by
resultant fire. which was confined
TO the Douglas property. The loss
is s3.O0O.o00.
Many employees were In the works
at the time OF the explosion. Scores
were buried beneath the wreckage
and are being removed to hospitals.
Persons on tho streets and about
the works were injured by flying
wrockags and broken glass. Win
dows in the business district we're
blown in and many people In the
buildings we're cut by flying glass.
The shock was felt all over Cedar
Rapids and for miles around. Fire
followed the blast and consumed
the. shattered plant, though the en-
tire fire department was called out
Flremen extricated dead and
wounded from the debris hastily to
avoid incinerations The injured
were rushed 10 hospitals and homes
as rapidly as volunteers with auto
mobiles could be mustered. :
So severe was the explosion that
persons a mile away were thrown
from chairs. The cause of the acci-
dent is thought to have been due to
either a defective boiler or spontan-
eous combustion.
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HUNS WIN CONCESSIONS .
PUTTING Up BIC BLUFF.
China to Sign Regardless Of Former Declaration Turkish
Question Puzlsr-- limited States May Be Mandatory
---Allies Force Enemy to Retreat in Russia

Paris, May Concessions OF
some points in the peace treaty have
been made to the Germans by the
peace conference. Slight modIfica-
tion were made In the terms of the
Saar valley and the terms regarding
reparations have also been modified.
II Is not given out just what terms
were decided upon.
China's delegation decided to sign
the treaty. despite the declaration
that II would not. II is reported that
reservations we're made regarding
kiaa Chau and Shantung.
The question of the future admin
istration of Turkey Is occupying
much time OF the peace conference.
The powers appear to want the Unit
ed States to assume the position as
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yANKS AT ARCHANCEL SAY THERE IS
NO JUSTICE IN FIGHTING THE REDS

Archangel. May 23.-The Russo.
Allied force which has been conduct.
Ing the campaign against the bolshe-
WIKI In this far northern region has
been outnumbered by the enemy
everywhere from two to ten to one.
What they lack In numbers, this
force makes up in pluck. the pluck
that makes them stick tight under
attacks by superior forces, although
they have not much interest in the
Russian question and feel, candidly
speaking, that the folks at home in
Washington and London and Paris
are making them suffer the penalty
OF their inability to make up their
minds as to what should be done in
Russia.
They grumble because they're
here. and at the mistake made by
those at home and in Archangel who
sometimes don't exactly understand
the disposition Of homesick Yankee
doughboy or British Tommie who Is
sitting in the snow in frozen trench
where heavy fur coat makes no
more impression on a mans heating
apparatus than IL 1t we're web Of
gossamer. But they so on fighting,
just the same.
With all their hardships, these
troops have confidence in their COM
mander, Major General Edmund
lronside. d veteran of several British
campaigns, and six-footer physic-
ally who spends more time at the
front than at headquarters in arch
angel. They know the general is
looking out for them but they don't
feel the same way about the folks at
home.
To march for four or five days
over snow trails. sleep on the cold,
hard floors OF peasant cottages at
night In an atmosphere so thick that
one couldn't even pour 1t, and then
to fight all day in Is below zero
temperature, has been more or less
routine for the Yanks up here. They
have fought with signal bravery,
when greatly outnumbered, and
when support, because Of the wealth
er conditions or the trails, failed to