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THE IRISH STANDARD.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1887.
NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES.
Sunday, June 5—Trinity Sunday. Cap
ture of Fort Cornwallis, S. C., 1781.
Monday, June 6—Patrick Henry died,
1799. Sdeus burned by the British,
1813.
Tuesday, June 7—Independence pro
posed in Congress by Richard Henry
Lee, 1776.
"Wednesday, June 8—Monster meeting
at Kilkenny, 1843.
Thursday, June 9—Corpus Christi.
Battle of Arklow, and death of
Father Murphy, 1798.
Friday, June 9—Return of the "Fe
nian" expedition from Canada, 1866.
Saturday, June 11—Monster meeting
at Mallow, 1843.
ME. O'BRIEN'S VISIT.
Now that Mr. O'Brien has concluded
his labors and will leave in a few days
for
Ireland, it is proper to look calmly and
deliberately over the field and see what
he has secured that will practically
benefit the
Irish
cause. To do this we
must go back and leview the obstacles
that gentleman had to contend with
during his trip through Canada. In
the first place the objection was raised
by his Orange opponents that Lord
Lansdowne being the representative of
the Queen the editor of United Ireland
was guilty of seditious utterances in
attacking him. This was easily refuted
by the friends of Mr. O'Brien. It was
shown that the men who raised this ob
jection were of the same class who
once upon a time pelted Lord Elgin
(the then Governor-General,) with rot
ten eggs and chased his wife around the
mountain at Montreal. It was also
shown that they were of the same breed
who refused the Prince of Wales a
landing at Montreal, and later on dese
crated the Sabbath with their fiendish
yells while His Royal Highness joined
in prayer at St. James' cathedral in
Toronto. Thus
was
this fallacious ob­
jection against Mr. O'Brien's visit ut
terly disposed of. If it was sedition
for Mr. O'Brien to tell a plain, unvar
nished tale of the sufferings of the Mar
quis of Lansdowne's tenants, was it not
very much worse for the Orangemen to
mob the heir-apparent to the throne of
England, and assault the Queen's
representative in the person of Lord
Elgin
But we do not propose to constitute
ourselves into a judge and jury and de
cide whether Mr.O'Brien, or theOrange
men for that matter, was guilty of se
ditious utterances within the meaning
of the act. All we wish to show is that
the dauntless editor of United Ireland
accomplished what he set out to do—
expose Lord Lansdowne's hypocrisy
and the brutal manner in which his
Luggacurran tenants have been
treated. In the first place Mr. O'Brien
while in Ireland made certain charges
against the Canadian Governor-General,
but fearing that he would be accused of
attempting to take an unfair advantage
of his lordship while he was on this side
of the water and unable to defend him
self, the former came to Canada to
beard the lion in his den. Ample op
portunity was afforded Lord Lans
downe to deny any or allot the charges.
But how did he reply With clubs and
stones in the hands of a mob. We con
fess that such an answer was the only
one that could be expected under the
circumstances. It, however, lacked the
elements which should constitute con
vincing proof that Lord Lansdowne
was not guilty of the charges preferred
against him. The "truly loyal" city of
Belfast would has given a similar an
swer on like occasions, but it only con
vinced the honest Preshyterians of An
trim that an argument which had to be
sustained by lawlessness was a very
weak one. Lord Lansdowne's answer
I will result practically the same in the
'10: United States and Canada. We appre
date the fact that there were still a few
in this
country who
questioned Ireland's
right to govern herself, and doubted
9h- 4' yeiy mtich whether the condition of the
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Irish tenants was as bad as repre
sented, but what must they think now,
when Lord Lansdowne can find no bet
ter answer to Mr. O'Brien's charges
than clubs and stones in the hands of a
wild, untamed Orange mob Thus it
will be seen that Ireland has made
many warm friends through the man
ner in which the Orange mob treated
William O'Brien while in Canada.
But the conduct of the champions of
mob law has assumed an aspect that
they little dreamed of. From all ac
counts it has set the Canadian people to
thinking seriously whether or not there
is any advantage in supporting an im
ported Governor-General who spends
their money in harrassing his Irish ten
ants. Therefore, the mission of Wil
liam O'Brien has become more than a
question between Lord Lansdowne and
his tenants. It has broadened into an
attack on American institutions, and
gives an emphasis to the Monroe doc
trine which it never had before. This
continent can never become what it
ought to be till the shadow of Euro
pean tyranny, represented by the Gov
ernor-General, ceases to cast its baleful
influence over Canada. A mighty move
ment, that had been gathering its forces
for years, has received a tremendous
impetus from the tour of Mr. O'Brien.
It has aroused the attention of states
men and the great forces of law and or
der to the fact that here on the Ameri
can continent a power opposed to free
dom is being consolidated under the
wing of Imperialism. The question
now is—Shall it be permitted
DECORATION DAY.
Decoration Day, of all other days in
the year, is the one in which sadness
reigns supreme. On that day friends
and relatives assemble around the
grass covered graves of those who once
held a place in their affections and
scatter flowers of sweetest fragrance and
most beauteous hue thereon. The sa
credness of the day exerts a peculiar in
fluence over the lives of the living.
Standing at the tomb of our dead what
thoughts flit through our minds! It
recalls happy hours spent long before
death stepped in and severed the golden
cord that bound the living and the now
dead together. It is also serves as a re
minder that life is an uncertain thing
under any conditions or circumstances,
but if our life is as spotless and pure as
the flowers we scatter upon the graves of
our fallen heroes and dearest dead, we
need not not fear the inevitable hour
when our spirits must go forth to meet
our God.
EUROPEAN EMIGRATION.
Last week 1531 emigrants left
Queenstown for America, 400 more
than the week previous. Thus thou
sands of Europeans, driven out of their
own county by monarchical tyranny
find their way to our shores. The im
migrants landed at Castle Garden thus
far this vear number 133,000, or 40,000
in excess of the same period last year.
As a rule they are intelligent and of a
better class than usual. The Italians
and Hungarians are the least to be de
sired. We get only the.lowest elements
of these two nationalities, men who
grovel for small pav, hoard their savings
and then return to their old homes to
live off their accumulations. The Dish
men now coming oyer pretty generally
have friends who have sent for them.
Much money is thus kept from the
pockets of the landlords. Immigration
on this plan may yet be a factor in the
settlement of the Irish question. Mean
while what is to be thought of the re
sources of a country which can provide
for thousands of new comers every
week? There is room for everybody—
except the Chinese.
THE END.
At last the London Times has con
cluded its series of scurrilous articles
entitled "Parnellism and Crime." It
has been our privilege to be permitted
to peruse many of these articles, and
from what we have read of them we
can only arrive at one conclusion, and
that is, the Times has not produced
any evidence which would convince
any person that Mr. Parnell has in any
way or time been connected with
the serious charges preferred against
him. As we have said on former occa
sions, it altogether depends on the
color of the glasses through which the
reader gazes whether many of the
charges would be considered crimes,
but the attempt to connect Parnell with
universally admitted crimes has been a
failure:
The object the Times had in view in
publishing this series of articles was
not a worthy one. It hoped to
strengthen the Tory policy of coercion,
but so far from gaining its point, it has
alienated many of the men who have
stood by the party for years. What hor
rible straits Salisbury and his party
have been reduced to when they can
stoop so low as to subsidize a paper to
traduce the character of men who dif
fer with them. At no time in the
history of the constitutional struggle
for Insh political freedom has so
many people championed it, and all the
Times with its lies can now do is not
yery much. The day for that kind of
argument has long since passed away.
THE attack by the Orangemen on the
•office of the Kingston Freemen imme
diately after the address of Mr. O'Brien
in that city is an evidence of the lati
tude allowed to'members of that order
in certain portions of Canada. We
hope the Freemen will bring an action
for damages against the corporation
for the loss it sustained.
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WHY NOT 00ER0E CANADA?
It would be well if the Tory Govern
ment which manifests such an ardent
desire to "put down crime" in Ireland,
would turn their attention to Canada.
We believe a comparison of the statis
tics of crime in the two above-named
countries would result favorably for
Ireland. The most prolific source of
crime in Ireland is the intolerance of
Belfast Orangemen ,and in Canada mem
bers of the same degraded order swell
the criminal statistics in Canada. But
while Belfast is the only city in Ireland
in which these bigots are permitted to
carry on their notorious trade in in
tolerance, Canada has at least three
cities in which it is winked at—To
ronto, Hamilton and Kingston. There
fore, it is reasonable to suppose that
Canada would lead Ireland in the mat
ter of crime.
•In view of the fact that Canada's
criminal statistcs, in proportion to the
population, show a greater amount of
crime in that country than in Ireland,
it would not seem an unreasonable
question to ask why the. Imperial Gov
ernment does not subject the former
country to the same debasing restric
tions which they intend to impose upon
Ireland? __
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
CARDINAL GIBBONS will arrive in
New York in the conrse of a day or
two.
THE Journal de St. Petersburg says
Turkey's circular relative to Bulgaria
does not modify Russia's justified re
fusal to negotiate with the present Bul
garian regency.
FROM all accounts it is quite evident
that Mr. Parnell is wearing away. It
is, as Justin McCarthy says, the old
story—the sword has worn out the scab
bard. We hope for the best, but it
looks as if this matchless and honest
agitator will shortly be called to his
eternal repose. Should such prove to
be the will of Providence may it please
the Father of all to give Parnell a home
among the blest.
MR.C. P. MAGINNIS, of Morris, this
State, has been appointed receiver of
public moneys at Duluth by President
Cleveland. Mr. Maginnis is president
of Division No. 1, A. O. H., Stevens
county, a prominent Democrat and one
of the leading Irishmen of the North
west. This appointment is one of the
best that could possibly be made by the
President, and is accepted as a compli
ment to the Irishmen of Stevens
county.
TROUBLE has again come upon the
house of Argyle. Lord Colin Campbell
has been declared a bankrupt. When a
man of his station in society loses caste
and becomes bankrupt in character he
might as well be bankrupt in pocket.
The best thing that Lord Colin can do
now is to migrate to New Zealand or
Natal and begin life over asrain. under
the easy alias of his family name, shorn
of Colin and the title. The dime mu
seum also offers a good opening for
men of the stamp of Lord Colin.
IT seems that the Tory Ministry have
decided to postpone, for the present, the
demand for utgency in the passing of
the Coercion or Irish Crimes Bill. Con
sidering the Irish "crimes," even in
cases of extreme political ferment, do
not equal the sum total in that depart
ment of the city of London, nor, pro
portionally to population, the criminal
rate of England, and that crimes at the
present moment are like angel visits in
Ireland, there is every reason to believe
that Salisbury and Co. have been think-
ing*
CHICAGO, the youngest archdiocese
in the United States, is, in most re
spects, ahtiad of all its seniors, with
the single exception of New York. It
exceeds New York in the number of
churches, having 203 to the latter's 182
but it has fewer priests. Boston ex
ceeds Chicago in point of Catholic pop
ulation, having over 600,000 to Chicago's
409,000 but Chicago has 34,200 children
in her parochial schools (only 2,000 less
than New York has) to Boston's 20,000.
Recent growth in all the great cities of
our land is nothing short of marvellous.
IF there is any one thing more dis
gusting than another in connection
with the so-called variety stage of
America it is the attempt of certain
so-called actors to portray Irish char
acter. The make-up of these indi
vidoals in no way resembles an Irish
man. They generally tie a'pair of false
whiskers under their chin, drink
whiskey out of a black bottle, wipe
their noses on their fingers, and their
fingers on their pantaloons. This class
of variety actors should not be permit
ted to traduce Irish character.
MICHAEL DAVITT has told the men
of North Scotland that he loves the
Gaelic language. It would be amazing
if he did not, says the Boston Republic,
for that is the venerable language of his
fathers, the tongue in which St. Pat
rick preached at Tara, in which Colum
ba discoursed of the loftiest truths to
his monks and people in the sea-swept
Hebrides, in which many a noble song
of joy and countless elegies of weird
beauty have been chanted. Of great
antiquity, it has been supplanted in
modern times, but has ndt perished.
May it forever survive, if not as a ver
nacular, at least as the precious heir
loom of a nation, a nation that has suf
fered but survived disaster, that is des­
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tined to renew her youth. Davitt
surely was pleased on hearing addresses
of welcome in the old idiom of the
Irish Scots. It was like an extra as
surance that he was among friends and
almost among kindred. If it comes to
that, there is comparatively little differ
ence between the descent of the High
landers and that of a majority of Irish
men, and the Gaelic that is spoken at
Inverness or Kintail is nearer to that
spoken on the coast of Galway than is
the English of Yorkshire to that of
Boston.
SINCE the Queen crme to the throne
4,186,000 Irishmen have emigrated,
3,668,000 persons have been eyicted
and the most awful fact of all, 1,225,000
persons have actually died of famine!
Practically, for Ireland, the event of
the Queen's jubilee will be celebrated
by the coercion act, should that mea
sure pass the House of Commons, as
seems not unlikely to be the case,
through the union of renegade Liberals
with their habitual foes. With facts
like these on which to fall back, com
mon sense would suggest for Ireland
conciliation instead of coercion as the
safest remedy for a state of matters un
paralleled anywhere else in Europe.
FROM the Montreal True Witness we
learn that Ottawa Nationalists are
moving to get up a relief fund for the
Luggacurran evicted tenants whom
Lord Lansdowne has reduced to a de
plorable condition of want and destitu
tion. The Canadian Goyernor-General
is getting to be rather an expensive
ornament. With Canadian public
money he reduces '500 persons to beg
gary, and now Canadians are called
upon to subscribe in charity to save his
victims from extermination. Would
not the dismissal of Lorn Lansdowne
be more logical? However, we trust
the people of Ottawa will consult their
charitable instincts and show their
sympathy of the evicted and detestation
of the evictor by sending a good round
sum to the poor people of Luggacurran.
WE are pleased to note that the re
presentative of the Irish woolen mills,
Mr. Peter White, has received
one of the largest orders for woolen
goods ever sent to the mills of Ireland.
The order is from a Shuman & Co., of
Boston. Other great merchants of that
city have also given large orders. As
the Boston Pilot says, Mr. White can
easily secure American orders that
would exceed the power of Ireland to
supply. He represents nearly all the
mills in Ireland, in a consolidated com
pany ot which Michael Davitt and E.
Dwyer Gray, of the Freeman's Journal,
are members. He is a fortunate repre
sentative for Ireland, a perfect business
man and a man of character and singu
lar amiability. He will break the ice
for every Irish industry. We' con
gratulate him and the country he re
presents on his splendid success at the
very start in America.
THIS is how Labouchere speaks of
Chamberlain in a recent number of
Truth: Mr. Chamberlain is now, I
rejoice to know, at home, where he can
receive all the attention which his case
requires. The unfortunate gentleman
is much shaken in nerve and body. He
spends most of his time in reading fic
tion, which, as involving no great strain
on the intellectual faculties, is permit
ted by his medical attendant. His
favorite romance is 'Parnellism and
Crime.' He thinks the proprietor of
Times, whom he calls 'Walker' (this
confusion of names is a very common
symptom in these cases) is the greatest
of living men, and hopes soon to see
him made a Peer by the title of Lord
Mendax. He spends most of his time
in the conservatory trying to produce a
cross between the primrose and the or
chid, If he succeeds, he proposes that
he and Jesse Collings should wear the
hybrid in their buttonholes. He sleeps
well, but always has the same dream
that he is Prime Minister.
IN an interview with a gentleman
who is in a position to speak authorita
tively on the subject the following facts
concerning an eviction on Lord Lans
downe's estates were elicited: "Cruel
ties prevail on the Lansdowne estates
in Queen and Kerry counties to an ex
tent hardly equalled elsewhere in Ire
land. I knew the case ot a tottering
old woman named Bridget Kelly, aged
86 years, who was evicted. In the
house with the poor woman were her
son. his wife and six pale looking chil
dren. The sub-sheriff entered the
thatched cabin and was told by the
aged mother that her son's wife lay
very ill in a small bed-room off the
kitchen, The sub sheriff went into the
bed room and asked if she had a doc
tor's certificate. On receiving a nega
tive reply he said: 'Well, 1 can't help
it you must go out,' and after a pause
he added: 'Get your things on you
know you can't wait here." The poor
woman seemed oblivious to all that was
passing, and her moaning was piteous
to hear. The old woman stepped to the
bedside and said to her daughter-in
law 'Mavourneen, don't fret. Cheer
up. God will provide for us.' At this
time the sheriff interposed with, 'See
you get out of here!' As the aged
mother was clinging to her sickly
daughter he added in a brusque man
ner, 'Get her out in a hurry, too.'
Meanwhile the little children were cry
ing bitterly outside in the storm, as
they viewed the mother taken harshly
from a death-bed and the infirm grand
mother praying for mercy on her
knees.".
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OF
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At $1.35,
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At $1.50,
Jersey-fitting Wrappers, with turned
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At $1.65.
Mother Hubbard Wrappers, with turned
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At $1.50.
Special Lot of 50 dozen Jersey-fitting
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At $2.00.
Cambric Wrappers, in new light pat
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in
White Lawn Wrappers,
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Mother
in
At $2.50,
Seersucker and Chambray Wrappers, in
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as Batiste Wrapers above.
At $1.35,
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with one ruffle. Same with two
ruffles, $1.65.
GREAT BARGAINS in Wrappers which
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WHITESDITS!
500, all new this season, of which we
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At $3,75, worth $5.
A White Suit, beautifully made.
Basque made with vest front,
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At $4.00.
White Barred Muslin Suits.
At $5, worth $7.50.
White Suits, with basque with vest
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Skirt with straight pleated front,
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OUR $10 SUITS, WORTH $15.
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Imported Suits,
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Pattern Suits.
Entirely new, with Grecian Embroidery.
LACE SUITS,
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MISSES' WHITE SUITS,
In full assortment of sizes.
SPECIAL SALE of SHAWLS and
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Parasols and
SUB
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B. S. G00DFELL0W & CO.,
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Tambour, Irish Point,
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Being direct importers, we not only
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NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS,
Three Yards Long,
65c PER PAIR.
Regular price, 85c and $1.00.
NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS,
Three yards long, with and without
Tape Edges,
$1.00 PER PAIR.
Usually sold at $1.35 to $2.00.
Fine Lace Curtains
Of Scotch and English manufacture, 3
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$1.50 PUR PAIR.
Worth from $2.50 to $3.50.
French Lace Curtains,
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Worth $6 to $7.
Antique Curtains,
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Have sold at $6 to $12.
Nottingham Lace
BY THE YARD.
At 9c worth ..124c
At 124c. tape edge, worth 15c
At 15c, tape edge, worth 20c
At 20c, tape edge, woith 25c
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SILKS
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we will also offer
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IN
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