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Strength and Consolation Only
be Found in the True
Religion.
W0RKIN6MEN AND MASTERS.
The Church Has a Salutary and Lasting
Influence Over all Glasses of
Society.
At the audience granted by His Holi
ness Leo XIII. to the first group of the
pilgrimage of wbrkingmen from France
to Borne recently, the Pontiff delivered
one of the most important discourses
that he has ever uttered. How much
he felt from its importance may be de
uced from the &ct that he read it from
a written paper. It constitutes almost
a treatise on the social question which
agitates the world at the present day,
and it furnishes the mode of remedying
the relations of workingmen to masters,
if, that is to say, its counsels are follow
ed.! Undoubtedly it is destined to make
a great sensation in every country which
has to deal with the question it dis
cusses. After referring to a recent oc
casion when French workingmen came
to Rome to visit the tombs of the Apos
tles and the Sovereign Pontiff, and after
most heartily welcoming those now
before him^tiieH«lyJFatlier said:
"You have understood that only in
religion will you find strength and con
solation in the midst of your increasing
fatigues and miseries herp beiow. Re
ligion alone, in fact, will open your
souls to immortal hopes it alone will
ennoble your labor, in elevating it to
the height of human dignity and liberty.
In confiding to religion then, your pres
ent and future destinies, you can not
perform an act of higher wisdom. And
upon this point we are bappv*to confirm
here the words pronounced by Us in
other circumstances, and which vou
have just called to mind. We wish
even to insist, once again,
truths, persuaded as We are, that, for
you also, your safety will be the work
of the Church and of its teachings re
placed in society with honor. r.'
"Paganism, as you are aware, had
pretended to resolve the social problem
ffe in despoiling the weak portion of hu-
manity of its rights, in stifling its aspi
rations, in paralyzing its intellectual
and moral faculties, in reducing it to
the state of absolute impotence. That
j. was slavery. Christianity came to an
|^|||i|nouDce to the world that the whole
^l^^human race, without distinction of
on/1 nf nlnhiona uraa no 11
art hi
"^fKlnobles and of plebians,
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was called to
loiter into participation of the divine
heritage it declared that all, by the
Isame title, were the children of the
If^lHeavenly Father, and redeemed at the
P^same price it thought that, upon this
p|r]f^«arth, labornatural condition
Jof maQ tdaccept it with courage
wa^ fvvt:.him an honor and a proof of
wisdom/tha*, the desire to withdraw
fromjt was/atthe same time, to show
ai^lo betrav a s%cred and
^und^ental^tity.
3 "Inorderto give comfort still more
||«fficacioiti8ly to laborers and to the poor,
l^the Divine Founder of Christianity
jr|deigned to unite example with precept.
8®^j4',He had not Where to lay His head He
K- /fl ,"knduredthe rigors of hunger and of
'MJ.Wpa^d.'Sw life, public as
as fjjivate* in fatigue, anguish and
According to His doctrine,
the rich -man, as Tertullian expresses it,
has been created to be the treasurer of
43od upon earth far him are the pre
scriptions on the good use of temporal
litfU wealth against him ace the formidable
menaces of the Saviour, if he should
y'X::r shut his heart in presence of misfortune
^t'B||§|»nd poverty!
SiiliPW':. ^Neverthless, even ttiatdid, not yet
IpiupBe. It was necessary to bring the
.|§|two classes together, to establish be
f$|tween them a religious and indissoluble
Vbond. This was the part ot charity it
licreated this social bond and gave it a
|l|force and a sweetness hitherto un
%i-Vknown
1t
invented-"in multiplying it
'«elf —a remedy for all evils and a eon
^Bolationin all sorrows and it knew.bv
I wits innumerable *rorks and institutions,
|}^v^luw£oraiae jip in favor of the n&ha$*r
pHIt noble emulation of zeal, generosity
the sple solution, winch,
*rthe iheyitabieinequaiity of human
*m$tofcdtt|onsi cpnld jteo&ire, to reich
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formed the vast project of perverting,
on this point, the mind and heart of
the populations and of aiming at the
total ruin of society. What were the
fatal doctrines and events which, at a
later period,{shook the social edifice so
patiently built up by the Church, We
have elsewhere told We will not return
to them here. What We ask is that
this edifice may be cemented anew, by
returning to the doctrines and to the
spirit of Christianity by reviving, at
least as to substance, in their beneficent
and multifarious virtue, and under such
forms as the new conditions of the times
permit, these corporations of arts and
trades, which in past times, informed
bv Christian thought, provided for the
material and religious wants of work
ingmen, facilitating their labor, took
Care of their savings and their econ
omies, defended their rights and sup
ported, in the measure, their legitimate
demands. What We ask is. that by a
sincere return to Christian principles,
there should be re established and con
solidated between employers and work
men, between capital and labor, this
harmony and this union, which are the
sole safeguard of their reciprocal in
terests, and from whence depend, at the
same time, private well being and the
public peace and tranquility.
"Around you, dear children, thou
sands of other laborers are agitating,
who, seduced by false doctrines, imagine
they find a remedy to their ills in the
overthrow of that which constitutes as
it were the very essence of political and
civil society, in destruction and annihi
lation of property. Vain illusions!
They will dash themselves against im
mutable laws which nothing can sup
press, They will steep in blood the
paths on which they pass, sowing dis
cord and disorder but they will thereby
only aggravate their own miseries and
draw down upon them the maledictions
of honest souls. N"o, the remedy is
neither in perversie projects and subver
sive acts of tbe one class, nor in the
seductive but erroneous theories of the
other it is wholly and entirely in the
faithful fulfilment of the duties which
are incumbent ori all the classes of
society, in the respect for and safe
guarding of the functions and attri
bates proper to each of them in par
ticular. These truths and these duties
it is the mission of the church to pro
claim aloud and inculcate them upon
all
"The ruling classes have need of
heart and bowels of charity for those
who gain their bread by the sweat of
their brow they have need of a bridle
on this insatiable desire for riches, for
luxury and pleasures, which, in the
lowest as the highest, is unceasingly
propagated more and more. In all
degrees, indeed, there is a thirst for
enjoyments and as it is not granted to
all to give it satisfaction, there follows
an immense uneasiness and discontent
which will have for result permanent
revolt and insurrection.
"It is incumbent on the holders of
power, above all things, to be pene
trated with this truth, that to turn aside
the peril which threatens society,
neither human laws nor the repression
of judges, nor the bayonets of soldiers
can suffice what is above all important,
what is indispensable, is that to the
Church be left the liberty of reviving in
souls the divine precepts, and Of extend
ing her salutary influence Over all
classes of society it is that by means of
wise and equitable rules and measiires,
the interests of the laboring classes may
be guaranteed, the young may be pro
tected, as well as old age, and the
thoroughly domestic mission of woman*
the right and the duty of Sunday's rest,
and that through this support may be
given, in families as in individuals, to
purity of morals and the habits of mi
ordered and Christian Ufa, The public
good, no less than jostiee tnd natural
right, demands that it ms* W«o.
"Employers are enjoined to consider
the workingman as a brother, to soothe
his fate within the limit possible and by
equitable conditions to watch over his
interests, spiritual as well aft corporal,
to edify him by the good example of a
Christian, and a dove all neyertp depart,
in regard to him and to his detriment,
from the rules of equity and justice, in
aiming at rapid proflte and dispropor
tionate gams."
The$ope, applying these principles,
fl^Wspeoiat advice to the French work-
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Well nigh sixty years ago Di. Prit
chard, in his splendid work entitled
"The Eastern Origin of the Celtic
.Nations," first drew attention to the
importance of the Irish language. This
distinguished writer,skilled in linguistic
learning, deemed the ancient language
of Ireland of vital importance to all
who make any pretentions to Philology,
on account of its affinity to the "San
scrit, Greek and the Germanic Lan
guages."
A decade of years had barely finished
their course, when a man of Irish birth
and lineage entered with well directed
energy and great ardor on the arduous
work of preparing for publication a
grammar of Erin's national tongue.
He was marvelously qualified for such
an undertaking, and scholars from the
different universities of Europe have
borne testimony to the success and
ability with which he has discharged
the self-imposed duty. Dr. John O'Don
hovan was a man of great natural gifts
and magnificent acquirements. Among
the scholars and philologists of any age
or country he may be considered emi
nent, and in Ireland his researches and
patriotic achievements have made his
name as imperishable as the granite
cliffs that guard her Western coast.
In 1845 his "Grammar of the Irish
Language" first appeared. It Was
founded on a very practical knowledge
of the spoken language, and a thorough
and intimate acquaintance with Irish,
literature both^ancient and modern^
So clear and comprehensive was this,
work that it enabled great minds in
many parts of Europe and America to
pursue the study of our national lan
guage and literature with pleasure aud
appreciation. Other great minds there
.were, such as Prof. Eugene O'Curry
and Yallancev. who devoted much
means and remarkable erudition to the
resuscitation of our ancient language.
Professor Max Muller, lecturing on
languages, shows pretty clearly that the
European races, before starting from
their original location in Central Asia,
possessed a common vehicle of ex
changing ideas. Emigrating from the
common centre they moved westward
in mighty waves. The earliest of these
migrating bands, on reaching the shores
of the Atlantic, according to this grave
authority, was "represented by the
Celtic dialect." For this reason alone
the study of the Irish language must be
of rare interest to modern philologists.
And it is. Ever since the publication
of Dr. O'Donovau's work the interest
has been waxing warm and strong.
Tbe mantle of Dr. O Danovan has fall
en on a German named John Caspar
Zeuss, whose Grammatica Celtica is
a work everywhere admired by those
who are competent to judge. Professor
Zeuss has spent .considerable time of
late in the Irish capital enlarging his
knowledge of this great subject and
perfecting himself in the English lan
guage. The materials on which he has
labored are to be found without stint in
Ireland, notwithstanding the vandalism
of the Anglo-Norman invaders. There
is a good! number of Irish manuscripts
still extant in the Royal Irish Academy
and Trinity College. Through the aid
of some of those old writings the*
sianic Society of Dublin demonstrated
the ^famous McPherson frauds." But
it is continental libraries that most
of the M. SS. of ancient Ireland are to
be found. They were taken thither bv
OMiholic Missionaries who went forth
to found monasteries, and spread the
light of the Gospel in other lands. It
was, however, during the trouble with
the Danee. and again from 1641 to the
treaty of Limerick, that the priests and
nobility of Ireland took with them a
great deal of the literature of their
native land into France, Spain and
Italy. Hence we flod, here and there,
in the writings of the monks^ references
to Compositiones linqua HiDernica ve
tusta scriptae. This old language of
Hibernia Was for the mbst of them a
sealed book. It was from such mate
rials, according to his own testimony
that. Professor Windisch oompiled ^4.
Concisejlrish Gr&nmaf" whlch,by tile
way« translated ^shoct time
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1889:
c|LTi(Mm|i.
—4iMilliters
The Study of the Irish Language of
Bare Interest to Modern
Philologists.
ITS ANTIQUITY AND IMPORTANCE.
The Irish Race Slave Attained a Hich
Social Standing by Their Talents
and Integrity.
Oj-
t-SSfM)!
versed Irish lore and have mastered
all the difficulties of the lingua vetusta.
In the United States there are at least
two distinguished men of letters who
take a deep interest in and are quite
conversant with this dear old language
v5' "Whose yoatb beheld, the Tyrian
Ca our Irish coast a guest."
Professor Curtin, of the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington, who was born
,of Irish parents in Wisconsin, is among
the very first of living linguists. During
his first year in Harvard College he
took up the study of Hebrew and Irish,
and so well did ha succeed in the latter
study that before the close of the term
he read the New Testament entire.
For the purpose of perfecting himself
in this venerable tongue, he visited Ire
land two years ago, and spent the
summer months among the people of
Connaught. There is a work now in
press from the pen of this gifted Irish
American which has tor title, "The
Folk Lore of Ireland/' In the preface
of this work I find embodied the self
same idea which has been advanced in
Max Muller's "Lectures on Languages.'
^'Gaelic mythology," writes Professor
Curtin, "contains many myth facts
which have perished elsewhere. The
Gaelic language shows that the Celts
left the home of the Aryan race at a
period far anterior to any of the other
migrations." This is the verdict of the
majority of philologists, and a fact
which lends importance to the speech
of Erin's elder days. Its development
assist very materially in the difficult
task of tracing back to one common
origin the different nations of the earth,
In viewing the facts just stated, and
noting with pleasure the interest taken
by strangers in the study of the Irish
language, that comparative indifference
with which patriotic Irishmen regarded
iheir national language and literature
is to me a matter of no little surprise.
Here the city of san Francisco, where
the men of the Irish race have attained
that high social standing for which they
ayfe Well qualified by talents and in
tegrity, there is a school under the
"auspices of the
f'Gaelic
Literary Soci­
ety" for the resuscitation of our ancient
language. A few generous and noble
spirits have organized this school, and
struggle perseveringly to maintain it,
and enlarge the sphere of its utility.
They have succeeded to a degree that
exceeds even their own sanguine hopes.
Already many members of this Philo
Celtic Society have achieved remark
able proficiency. Not a few of them
can read and write the Gaelic pleasingly
and well. They have procured Irish
type from Boston, and the Irish depart
ment in the Monitor, which is edited
under their supervision, affords great
pleasure to all those readers who are
familiar with the dear old tongue.
But it is a fact, remarkable and de
plorable, that a great number of leading
Irish-American citizens seem to take no
interest in the movement towards per
petuating the language in which the
history of their race is enshrined, It is
the key that locks the hidden treasures
of the Past
"And it bears back oar spirit
On history's wing-8
To the glories of Erin's
High heroes and kings,
When the proud name of Gael
Swelled from ocean'to shore,
Ere the day ot the Saxon
And Northmen of yore.
If thy sons, beloved language.
Endeavored to win
Thjr release from the tomb
Thou art sepulchred in
Thou shalt shine as the san,
I, To revive and relume
The annals of Erin.
Jr Long shrouded in gloom.
Come, then, to rescue,'v
Ye sons of the Qael,
With the a^dor that swelled it£
The breast ot MacHale
itknd tbe fame of our Fathers^
and
Shallibe^niflth their language'
-. And shin« as of old.
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Ttii
wdtkiiiRs of the human heart
have been commuted by a celebrated
physiologist, and he has demonstrated
that it is equal to the lifting of 129 tons
in twenty-four hours. Presuming that
theblood is throwii out of the heart at
each pulsation in the proportion of
sixty-nine strokes per minute, and at
the assumed force of nine feet, the
mileage of the blood through the body
might tie taken as 207 yards per minute,
seven tnile* per hour, 168 milee per day,
61,3$) miles per xettrf^r 5150,890 miles
in alifetime of eighty^four ye*rs. The
number of beats in the same long life
^OTrid readhthe enormous total of 2,869,-
Items of Interest Clipped From Our
Exchanges for Headers of The
Irish Standard.
A GLEVER FORCER IN THE TOILS.
Horrible
in
Death! of an
the Town of
Sweden.
Old
New
This story comes from Faribault. A
man who lives north of here near one of
the lakes is said to have killed 134 wild
ducks one morning last week. On
looking out of the window early in the
morning he saw ducks extricate their
legs from the ice that had formed
around them while resting in the water
the previous night The man took a
corn cutter, went down to the lake and
clipped off their heads.
Charles Merkle killed his brother-in
law, Frank Slaiten, six miles north of
Adrian the other day. After being
taken to Worthington Merkle made a
confession. He said: "I never liked
Slaiten because he called me hard
names. He struck me on the shoulder
with a pitchfork and I knocked him
down with a stick of wood. The first
blow killed him, but I struck him twice
more to make sure. I buried his body
under the floor of the stable behind the
horses. I did not tell my sister I had
killed her husband, butshe found it out
Great excitement prevails at Spring*
field oyer the discovery of coal two miles
west of town. While well drillers were
boring for water they passed through a
six-foot vein of seemingly very fine coal*
Specimens have been sent to scientists
for examination* A mass meeting of
the Citizens was held and a company
formed with ^sufficient capital to
thoroughly investigate the matter. The
discovery was made on lands in close
proximity to what is known as the Min
nesota coal lands The company will
Commence operations towards investi
gating the matter immediately
News was received at
week of the most horrible death of an
old couple living in the town of New
Sweden, in Nicollet county. Their
house was discovered in the morning a
smoldnfe rain,,having been destroyed by
fire during the night The old couple,
Mr. ahd Mm Svgnke Torg»on, ^fao
were newly seventyyears age,-occu
pied the cottage, s^d their
maiiis were fdhnd.beneath thesm1
of flw
kno^^W^ t^e fire uittthe ^ilh^«
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MINNESOTA.
The Catholic fair at Madison last
weeK proved a financial success, the
promoters having realized $240.
Death the other day ended Mrs. Ma
tilda Powers' thirty-three years' resi
dence in Winona, Her husband. Judge
Powers, died in 1865.
The new bell for the Catholic church
at St. Peter has arrived from St. Louis.
It weighs 1800 pounds without the
mounting and has a full rich tone.
John Bush, aged ninety-six years, who
went to St. Peter as a soldier in 1823,
and was the oldest settler in the North
west, as well as of St. Paul, died, tbe
other day at his home in St. Peter.
Three out of a flock of twenty-four
white swans were killed recently by
parties on the steamer Pepin near Lake
City. One of the swans measured six
and a half feet from tip to tip and
weighed twenty pounds.
Edward Aires, an employe in a tin
shop at Rochester, will start for Eng
land next week, having been notified
that he is the only heir to an estate
valued at about £100,000, which will fall
to him on the death of .his uncle, who
resides there.
Winona county has an applicant for
champion mean man. A farmer's wife
died recently. He washed and dressed
the body to save expense, put it in a
rough box and drove to town f&r a cof
fin. On the way back he met another
man and traded horses, then continu
ing his funeral.
A Montana man has bought $10,000
acres of the St. Paul and Duluth land,
between Mille Lacs and Duluth, on
which he will start a large sheep ranch.
He claims that Northern Minnesota is
far ahead of Montana for sheep raising
in several particulars. He will buy
more land if the experiment is success
ful. He paid $4 per acre for the land.
St Pe^Br last
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1.50 PER YEAR M'
Warden Randall, of the Minnesota
state prison, has received a telegram
from Bavaria that Frank Landers, per
baps one of the cleverest forgers known
to tbe American police, has been cap
tured there.. At the ag# of 18 he en
tered Cornell university and near the
end of his first term stole his chum's
trunk, forged his name to a check for
$100 and decamped. He went thence to
Pittsburg, where by a remarkably clever
forgery he secured $7,000. At Omaha
he made a haul of $10,000, and at San
Francisco over $13,000. His next work
was at St. Paul, where under the name
of Wilbur F. James, son o£ a wealthy
La Crosse business man* he secured
about $7,000 in money and jewelry. He
was captured in Boston and was sur
rendered to the St. Paul officials. He
was tried and sentenced to tbe state
prison for twenty-four years. He es
caped in October, 1887, three months
after his incarceration.
DAKOTA.
Sioux Falls has a horned horse, a
moose deer and a bald-headed parrot in
its zoological garden.
The Milwaukee Bail way company has
donated 1,500 tons of coal to needy set
tlers in tbe vicinity of Boscoe.
A clerk in the court house at Dead
wood left $20 on his de k, while he went
out for a minute. When he returned
the money was gone.
About the happiest man in Bismarck
Monday was Father Perault, who was
unanimously nominated in the senate
caucus for chaplain of that body.
Maggie Murphy, of Grand Forks, was
met the other night bv a footpad who
ordered her to shell out her money.
Maggie refused and the robber tried to
scare her with a revolver, but she broke
away from him and made her escape.
J. W. Sheridan, one of the prosperous
business men of Jamestown, Dakota,
has leased a half interest there to P. M,
Ganigaus, and, with his family, Mr.
Sheridan has moved to Sioux Falls,
where he has already become an exten
sive dealer in coal, wood, oats, corn and
ground feed.
In a runaway at Sioux Falls the other
day, Frank Sbinn narrowly escaped be
ing thrown over a viaduct acioss the
Milwaukee track. However, he man
aged to save his shin by catching hold
of a railing within reaching distance,
but sustained, a few slight injuries
which will confine him to his home for
some time.
W. Braley, a prominent politician of
Minnehaha county, disappeared very
mysteriously from his home near Sioux
Falls a few days ago and can nowhere
be found. lie has with him a large
sum of money, and it is believed he has
either skipped the country or has been
foully dealt with. He leaves wife and
family at Sioux Falls.
John Hauser, who disappeared from
Sturgis several weeks ago, has not yet
turned up. It is feared that he has been
foully dealt with. He left quite an
amount of property, house, claim, ox
train, wagons, etc. He acted queerly a
few days before his disappearance,
which leads his friends to believe that
he was suffering from some mental
trouble.
WISCONSIN. I
Burglars blew open the safe in the
post-office at Mondovi the other night
and secured $200 in money and $100 in
stamps. .•.
Dennis McCarthy, a brakeman on the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western rail
way, lost both legs recently by falling
under bis train at Watermeet.
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•^Marv Solmee, a 13 year-old girl, living
in the town of Belgium, Ozaukee count*
ty, accidentally tumbled head first into
a fifteen-foot well last week but man
aged to climb out.
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The three^year old son of' Balph
Clementson of Colby Mills, was burned
to death by his clothing becoming
ignited from a fire in the stove during
a short absence of his mother a few
days since.
MartiD J. Hlggins, ot MUiraalMeirlt|#'
was found dead in his berth the bther,:M
day on a train at Dwigbt Station,
He was superintendent of theW^ito^^/
Bay Dummy line and was
best-known railroad men lh the N
The citizens of Hurfejr ai^
abl^ worked np nt the
regh&tioniof thiitoWnv
hand by ,Whito. Gaps,
nlng skttli
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