The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-24

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meeting held here, Friday of last
week, Michael Riley of the Detroit
Grocery Co. (Wholesalers) became so
"riled" when the editor of the Call of
North, P. j. Orn, presented facts per-
tanning to the parochial school and
the achievements of Professionalism,
that he jumped to his feet and shout
ed at the speaker, "You are giving US
nothing but damnable lies" Know
ing from experience on farm that a
calf will hang himself if given enough
rope, Mr.. Orn let the hot headed K.
Z. rave on" for time. Sure enough
Riley "opened his mouth and put his
feet In" Straighway he admitted
that ne was a Casey and more.
Then he wildly made "weak-sisters''
effort to "prove" something's in favor
OF the parochial, but failed most
tragically. One of Riley's employees,
a salesman by the name of Eagen,
came to the assistance of his "boss."
Eagen's knowledge of history, how
ever, was even worse than that of
Riley's, if that could be possible, and
the pair" made history "as inaccur-
ately farfetched as might wildmen
from the Solomon Islands. Riley be-
gan to wax oratorical after the first
"pop-off" and paid tribute to Christ
opher Columbus as "the discover of
America" The "Irisher" began to
feel his "oats," and so gave the mis-
information that "Lord Baltimore
wrote into the Constitution the part
which gives religious freedom to all
Americans" Holy smoke of Prince
Albert, how some "birds" know "hist-
DRY wat amt history atall, atall." It
was Eagen's turn now. The "feller"
on Riley's payroll had a notion in his
"glzzard" and advanced the informa-
ton that revealed" an Irish woman
as Lief Ericson's wife. Holy Saint
Jackass, what may we hear next.
Facts About Columbus
Let's read accurate history for the
benefit of Riley and his fellow CO.
workers. Columbus Brightly named
Colon) discovered some islands in the
West Indies, but died thinking San
Salvador and other nearby islands
were off +he coast of Asia. Columbus
was not an Italian, but Morano,
that is, converted Jew. Lief Eric
SON discovered North America, near
ly 500 years before Columbus set
sail on P voyage which he hoped
might result in the discovery of a
new route to Asia. Cant help it
Riley, that's history.)
Michael Riley Should Study History
Lord Baltimore (nor any of the
Baltimores) did not have anything to
do with the framing of our federal
Constitution. Riley says he did, we
insist he didn't. If busters and bel
lows could down historical facts Riley
could possibly make some believe that
he is right. The first Lord Baltimore
died in 1882 and the Constitution was
frOmed in f787-a hundred fifty-five
years after Lord Baltimore's death.
(Tut, TUT Riley do we hear you
shout, "damnable lies?") However,
it was evident that Riley wanted to
emphasize the word federation" and,
jumping shades of the Hibernian con-
vention, how sweetly tolerant
Riley spluttered. Eagen at this point
had to push a sentence into the tir-
ade of his "meal-ticketer' so as to
make sure "barbs" aplenty were
twisted onto the anti-Klan whip-lash.
He said, Baltimore, a Roman Catho-
lie, was the first man in America to
grant religious freedom" We don't
know why this bit of historic inaccur-
acy was offered-no, we don't know.
Well, history shows that Lord Balti-
more had been brought up Protest
ant, and, it is very evident that his
early education made a deep impress
sion for he as a Catholic was tolerant.