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King Edward of England is $10,000,
000 in debt and will ask parliament 1o
appropriate that amount to get square
with his creditors.
Mrs. Carrie Nation's fame has tie
come national since she began a raid
on the saloons of Wichita, Kan., with
her little hatchet.
The Minneapolis Tribune of last
Sunday published a long and inter
esting contribution front Michael Da
vitt on "The Doom of the British Em
pire," which appears to be fast ap
proaching.
Says the Providence Visitor: The
Btories about the wholesale conversions
of Filipinos to Protestantism with
•which the secular journals have been
regaling us are on the face of them
absolutely incredible. We hope our
readers will give no credence to these
mad reports until Archbishop Chap
pelle lias been heard from.
Mrs. Nation shows no symptoms of
being crazy when sire says in an open
letter to the people of Chicago: "Peace,
prosperity, and the pursuit of happi
ness are guaranteed by the constitu
tion of the United States. The saloon,
be it found in Chicago or Kansas, is a
conspiracy against this guarantee."
The 123d anniversary of the birth of
Robert Emmet will tie celebrated un
der tire auspices of the United Irish
societies of Chicago at Central Music
Hall, on Monday evening, March 4.
One of the principal speakers will be
Christopher A. Gallagher, the eloquent
Irish-American attorney of Minneap
olis.
Quoth our e. c., the Boston Pilot:
Murray Hamilton Hall, who died late
ly in New York, had passed for a man
during fifty years, being married, tak
ing a man's part in politics and busi
ness and doing a man's share of hard
living aud strenuous lighting at times.
After death she was discovered to be a
woman. She was a native of Dundee,
Scotland, and in all probability was the
original and only "Scotch-Irishman."
Says a London correspondent: A
funny story is going the rounds about
a chapel in Belgravla, where, two Sun
days ago, there was a prayer that the
queen's health be restored. But the
parson went on to say that if tills was
Impossible he prayed that Providence
would turn the heart of the Prince of
Wales and make him a better man
and that he might lead a more moral
life.
Business In congress is being blocked
by Mark Hanna's ship-subsidy bill, and
there is talk of an extra session. The
chief beneficiaries of Hanna's bill will
be a few large and wealthy railroad
companies and steamship lines. The
Republicans are restive under Hanna's
lash, but they will fall into line and
vote as he directs them. McKinley is
Impatiently waiting to attach his sig
nature to the bill in return for favors
received at the hands of his boss.
"Expectations based on the result of
the election have not been realized,"
says Gen. MacArthur in a dispatch to
the war department. During the elec
tion a dispatch from the Taft Commis
sion was published to the effect that
If McKinley were re-elected the war
In the Philippines would be at an end
In sixty days. More than ninety days
have passed away since Mac's re-elec
tion, and the war appears to be only
beginning.
George W. Smalley, the American
Tory who acts as correspondent of the
London Times, says of the new king of
England: "He likes very much to have
men about him who share his own
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-/if* -ysn5\"waw* «,i
tastes." John L. Sullivan, the Boston
pugilist, says of him: "Albert Edward
is a man easily put at his ease. He
was polite to me, and as respectful in
meeting me as any man I ever dealt
with." After these testimonials from
•eminent Americans King Edward VII.
cannot be as black as he is painted.
Not one foreigner in the service of
the Boers has been a mercenary or
paid soldier. The men who went from
Europe and America to assist the
burghers of South Africa were the
friends of freedom and fought without
pay. Thoy were men imbued with the
spirit of liberty like Lafayette, Kosci
usko, l)e Kalb and Du Steuben, who
volunteered their services in the cause
of American independence in the days
of Washington.
Miss Mary Conger Pierce, niece of
the American minister at Pelcin, writes
home to a friend about looting iu the
Chinese capital after the flight of the
government. She naively says: "Stacks
of silver have been found in Pelcin,
but we have found very little." "There
were lots of storerooms," she contin
ues, "but tliey will be empty iu a
short time." Again: "We followed
their (the looters') example, and
brought home a few little things.
Though small they are very fine, be
sides the fact that they are right from
the palace." The "we" includes "the
daughter and two sons of the Russian
general. Uncle Ed, Aunt Sarah and
me." No comment is necessary. Loot
ing is an epidemic, as Li Hung Chang
said to Hie American reporter.
Mark Twain, llie American humorist,
is opposed to McKiuley's "benevolent
policy" in the Philippines. In an arti
cle in the North American Review he
says: Dewey should have sailed away
from Manila as soon as lie had de
stroyed the Spanish tleet—after putting
up a sign guaranteeing foreign proper
ty and life against damage by the Fili
pinos and warning the powers that in
terference with the •emancipated patri
ots would be regarded as an act un
friendly to the United Slates. Dewey
could have gone about his affairs else
where and left the competent Filipino
army to starve out the little Spanish
garrison and send it home, and the
Filipino citizens to set: up the form of
govrument: they might prefer and deal
with the friars and their doubtful ac
quisitions according to Filipino ideas
of fairness and justice.
THE ANERICAH CONSTITUTION.
The Chicago American contains in
teresting letters from school children
in reply to the question: "To what na
tion of Europe do we owe most for the
Important features of the American
Constitution and system of govern
ment?" The most of the pupils an
swer that the United States is indebt
ed to "the mother country" for the
Constitution, and
SOUK
of them quote
Bryce who says that "there is little in
the American Constitution that is ab
solutely new, and there is much that: is
as old as the Magna Charta." The two
leading features of the great charter of
liberty extorted from King John by
the barons at liunnymede, who, by the
way, could not sign their names, were
trial by jury, and limiting the power
of taxation to a representative body
of the people..
One of the scholars goes further
hack and gives the credit to Greece In
1257 B. C., when Thesus laid the foun
dations of Attica. He says Athens and
Thebes were the first to try the experi
ment of a Constitution In a republican
form of government. Lycurgus re
modeled the Constitution in 884 B. C.
and instituted a senate to preserve a
just balance between king and sub
jects. Solon afterward instituted a
senate of 000 members in which mea
sures originated, and the young writer
opines that the Romans adopted that
system of government from Greece,
that England took It from Rome to
gether with the idea of a Magna Char
ta, and the United States took It from
England.
We suppose that the schoolboys of
Chicago have never heard of the great
legislator, Ollave Fola, the Solon of
Ireland, who lived away back about
080 B. C., and held a triennial parlia
ment at Tara, in Month, In which wise
laws were enacted for the government
of the kingdom and the administration
of justice. The laws were written on
parchment in large characters and
were collected by three brothers in the
eighth century of the Christian era,
and translated into English by the late
Eugene O'Cnrry. It is a historical fact
that the Irish gave an alphabet to
England. Why not its laws? The
English certainly did not take their
unwritten constitution from the Rom
ans while the latter were in Britain,
and why should not they lake it from
the enlightened people across the Irish
sea and St. George's channel? The
Brelion laws of Ireland are hardly
known through the medium of English
literature, for it lias been the policy of
the English to represent the Irish as
an ignorant and barbarous people be
fore the Anglo-Norman invasion in the
twelfth century.
In his great oration on the death of
Daniel O'Connell in 1817, William IT.
Seward, the secretary of state in Lin
coln's cabinet, made use of the follow
ing language, to which we direct tin
attention of young lrish-Ainerlcans
who are proud of the race from which
they have sprung:
"Ireland was long ago an indepen
dent nation, governed by a king and
council or parliament, and was divided
Into inferior kingdoms and subordinate
sects or clans. It had population and
revenues equal to what were generally
possessed by other states In the same
ages. One of the inhabitants thus de
scribed the kingdom a thousand years
ago:
tmiu S.i.t'iW"Wwg^y^!^w»ff^^wtewwW!P^"«jWWBg W8jPPW*!g^WW
'Far westward lies an Isle of ancient fame.
By Nature blcss'd—Illbernla Is her name
Enrolled In books—exliaustless iu her store
Of veiny silver and of golden ore:
Iler fruitful soil forever teems with wealth,
With gems her waters, and her air with
health
Iter verdant fields with milk and honey
flow,
Her wooly fleeces vie with virgin snow
Her waving furrows float with bended corn,
And arms and arts her envied sons adorn.
No poison there Infects, nor scaly snake
Creeps through the grass or settles iu the
lake.
A nation worthy of Its pious race
In war triumphant, aud unmatched in
peace.'
"Ireland then had a court, in which
learning was honored next to royalty
a church that sent forth missionaries
who converted a large portion of west
ern Europe laws that divided the es
tates of the dead with equal justice
that gave trial by jury—the Anglo
Saxon's boast that ordained inns for
the entertainment of travelers at the
public expense, and that knew only
one capital or unpardonable crime.
And it was treason or sacrilege to
change those laws. There were trained
bands which were sworn to resist even
a seven-fold foe, knights who won re
nown for valor and courtesy on the
plains of Palestine, and dames who
were honored by admiring bards and
minstrels. I speak no interested, no
partial, no imaginative eulogy. It is
the testimony of general history as ac
credited by modern learning."
So it is, and yet how little the school
children of America know of these
things from Anglo-American histories.
Even the public libraries have little, if
anything about the early civilization
of Ireland. It is mainly the fault of
Irish-Americans themselves that such
is a fact. Many of them are so foolish
as to feel ashamed of the grand old
race from which they are descended
and prefer to pass for Americans, Eng
lishmen and Scotch-Irishmen, because
they are ignorant of the history of
their glorious ancestors.
ILLITERACY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
In his admirable speech on the Phil
ippines in the United States senate,
Hon. C. A. Towne. of Minnesota, de
clared that SO per cent of the popula
tion of Luzon can read and write. This
statement was immediately contradict
ed by General Elwell S. Otis, the man
who acted as governor-general of the
Philippine Islands and officially an
nounced a year ago that the war be
tween the United States and the na
tives was at an end. "I notice," said
McKinley's pro-consul, "that Senator
Towne says that per cent of the in
habitants of the Philippines can read
and write. This is absolutely untrue,
and everybody who has been there will
readily understand the absurdity of
the statement. In and about Manila
there are many natives who are able
to read and write, but when you go
inland you will lind a largo majority
of the people illiterate."
Now, Mr. Towne did not say that "90
per cent of the inhabitants of the Phil
ippines can read and write." What lie
said was that "SO per cent of the popu
lation of Luzon can read and write"—
which is a different statement alto
gether. What percentage of the whole
people of the Philippine archipelago,
numbering over a thousand islands and
some 10,000,000 inhabitants, can read
and write, nobody knows. If Otis had
read Mr. Towne's speech a little more
carefully, he would have kept silent
and not have set himself down "an
ass" like Dogberry in the play.
But the Taft commission had report
ed that the Filipinos are "an uneducat
ed and ignorant people," and Otis was
in duty bound to confirm the false
statement to please the administration
at Washington. What are the facts as
to the literacy or illiteracy of the Fili
pinos? Iu the United States official re
port on "Education in the Philippines"
for the year 1S97-98 by II. L. Packard,
wc find the following:
"All travelers state that there are
schools in every village, which are un
der the control of the priests. Good
observers have noted the aptitude of
the natives for instruction."
"Nearly all the Tagales can read and
write."
"As to literature there is a Tagale
grammar and dictionary, and a com
bined grammar of the Tagale, Bicol,
Visaya and Isinay languages."
"In the provinces every village has
its public school in which instruction
is obligatory."
"On the east coast of Mindanao the
number of natives who can read and
write is tolerably large."
"In the Camarines, a province of Lu
zon, they have schools in every vil
lage."
"In 1SOO there were 1,010 schools for
boys aud 502 for girls in the archipel
ago, with an attendance of OS,7(51 boys
and 78,352 girls."
"While the natives of the archipel
ago have a greater |Kiwer of resistance
to alien influences than those of the
American continent, the greater por
tion of them show decided and su
perior intellectual capabilities."
That report was prepared for publi
cation before Dewey destroyed the
Spanish fleet In Manila bay and before
McKinley thought out his "benevolent
policy of assimilation," on the sugges
tion of his evil advisers, for the promo
tion of commerce, at the expense of
American lives and American money.
It is too late for the Taft commission,
General Otis and the rest of the im
perialislic horde, to cast aspersions on
the intelligence of the Filipinos and
represent them as "an uneducated and
ignorant people."
Dewey declared twice in 1S9S that
the Filipinos were far more intelligent
than the Cubans, and he knew more of
both races than General O.tis, who re
mained in Manila mostly all of the
time and rarely ventured outside the
city limits. In his celebrated speech in
tlio United States Senate, Mr. Towne
gave authorities for his statement re­
THE IRISH STANDARD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1901.
garding the literacy of the people as
follows:
"The petition of the citizens of Ma
nila says that SO per cent of the popula
tion can read and write, referring, I
am told by Senor Fontcla, president of
the Manila Bar association, tjj the civi
lized communities, which, according to
Professor Blunientrill, the celebrated
ethnologist, comprise fully eight-tenths
of the entire population of the islands.
If this estimate of literacy seems some
what high, I remind you that General
Charles A. King ventures an opinion,
as the result of his experience, that the
true proportion is 00 per cent. Senor
Fontcla says that it is practically im
possible to find in ordinary life a Fili
pino who cannot read and write either
Spanish or Tagalo, or both."
General King, who is referred to by
Mr. Towne, is decidedly a better au
thority on everything in the Philip
pines than is General Otis. He is a
trained observer and a writer of abil
ity, who fought with the American
army in the Philippines until he be
came disabled by sickness and re
turned home. An Englishman named
Bray, who spent many years in the
Islands, corroborates General King
about the percentage of literacy, and
many of the soldiers in their letters
have spoken of the evidences of edu
cation and culture among the people.
According to the "Compendium of
the Eleventh Census," issued at Wash
ington in 18!)7, which lies on our desk,
we find that the illiteracy in several
parts of the United States, but par
ticularly in Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, is greater by far than in
the Philippine Islands, save and except
among the Sulu Islanders and the Ma
eabebes, who are savages and polyga
mists. And strange to say, McKinley
has made an alliance with the former
and wants 10,000 of the latter for his
army to slaughter his Christian
"wards," as ho calls the Filipinos.
In the census reports for 1S00 we find
that there were 0,324, 702 illiterates in
the United States. Native white illite
rates of native parentage constituted
29.S9 per cent of that number, while
native white illiterates of foreign par
rentagc constituted only 2.70 per cent
of the whole number of illiterates.
The illiterate colored population was
49.21 per cent of all the illiterates in
1S90. The percentage of illiteracy in
Alabama was 38 per cent among the
males over 10 years of age and 43 per
cent among the females. In Missis
sippi it was 37 and 42 per cent, respect
ively, and in Louisiana 43 and 47 per
cent. And yet they enjoy self-govern
ment in these states and nothing is
said of their ignorance because the
great majority of them happen to be
Methodists, Baptists and Presbyteri
ans.
The Filipinos were taught all they
know by the Spanish priests and fri
ars. In God's name why don't the
Protestant ministers take hold of their
own ignorant countrymen in the South
and teach them the English alphabet?
They prefer to go to the Philippines,
not to Christianize the Mohammedans
and civilize the Stilus and Macabebcs,
but to proselyte the Catholic Filipinos
and save them from papal jurisdiction.
Perhaps they will find it more profit
able than to begin their work of edu
cation at home.
THE BEST CATHOLIC PAPER.
In glancing over the columns of the
Northwestern Chronicle we find the fol
lowing brief paragraph: "In the last
issue of the Immaculate Conception
Church Calendar, Father Keane speaks
of the necessity of having a good Cath
olic paper in every Catholic home, and
says that, in his opinion, two of the
best, if not the very best, Catholic pa
pers in America are the Northwestern
Chronicle of St. Paul and the Catholic
Citizen of Milwaukee.."
Of course, Father Keane is entitled
to express his opinion of anything and
everything in the pages of his own lit
tle publication, and had he used the
disjunctive instead of the copulative
conjunction in reference to the papers
in question we would not have a word
to say on the matter. Is it possible
that Father Keane does not know that
"the Northwestern Chronicle of St.
Paul" is not published in St. Paul at
all and has no legal habitation in that
city since its subscription list was pur
chased by the Milwaukee Citizen? The
Northwestern Chronicle, notwithstand
ing its date line, is not simultaneously
published in Milwaukee aud St. Paul.
Not a line of type in its pages is set
up in St. Paul. It is issued in Mil
waukee and is an exact duplicate or
transcript of the Citizen with the ex
ception of the headings of articles aud
a column under the caption of "The
Archdiocese of St Paul," which gives
Items written by its agent in the
Saintly city and clippings from North
western exchanges, principally from
the Northwestern Catholic and the
Irish Standard without any due ac
knowledgment.
The late John Brennan, of Sioux
City, bitterly complained that the Mil
waukee Citizen and its duplicate were
guilty of printing news taken from
his paper without the slightest credit.
The Irish Standard has never com
plained and hereby cheerfully grants
permission to its enterprising contem
porary or contemporaries to appropri
ate everything iu its columns. Though
somewhat, stale when it appears In It
or them, the news from the Irish
Standard will always prove interest
ing to it or their readers.
As to whether the Citizen and Chron
icle are "two of the best, if not the
very best. Catholic papers In America,''
that, of course, is only a matter of
opinion.
Perhaps if Father Keane were better
acquainted with such Catholic papers
as the Boston Pilot, the Boston Repub
lic, the New York Freeman's Journal,
the Philadelphia Standard and Times,
the Buffalo Union and Times, the
Western Watchman, the Baltimore
Mirror, the Chicago New World, the
Michigan Catholic, the San Francisco
Monitor, the Colorado Catholic and
others we could enumerate, he would
have been slow to place the twinkling
Siamese twins at the head of them all.
The Irish Standard has no desire to
detract from the merits of the Mil
waukee Citizen as a Catholic paper.
It is a good, newsy and attractive
sheet, gotten up with little mental ex
ertion by a gentleman who is an ex
pert in the use of the editorial scissors.
Of course, our reverend friend may
not consider the Irish Standard worthy
of mention among Catholic papers. He
may think it is not Catholic at all, be
cause the word "Catholic" is not in
cluded in its title. But it is a Catholic
paper, nevertheless, and is recognized
as such by the bishops and priests of
the Northwest, many of whom were
its ardent supporters and patrons at its
first appearance sixteen years ago,
long before Father Keane came to the
city. During its existence the Irish
Standard has been the uncompromis
ing advocate and defender of every
thing Catholic in this section of the
country, and is as loyal to the ancient
church as any paper in the United
States or elsewhere. It is independent,
however, and is not the organ of any
ecclesiastic, either in politics or in the
ology.
Different .persons have different opin
ions as to which is "the best Catholic
paper in America." Father Keane has
expressed his opinion and we will ex
press ours. "The best Catholic paper
in America" for priests and laymen
to patronize is the one published in
their own city. At all times, in season
and out of season, the Catholic priests
and people find their local Catholic pa
per the best in the country for them,
both individually and collectively.
When there is a church concert or
festival, a Fourth of July picnic, a 17th
of March entertainment, a moonlight
excursion on Minnetonka, an annual
outing on the Mississippi, or anything
else to be given for the benefit of
church or school, the very best Catho
lic paper in America for Minneapolis
priests and laymen is the Irish Stand
ard because it is always ready and
willing to "l)oom" the affair gratuitous
ly and to give all the space necessary
for advertising it. When the Chronicle
was published in St. Paul as the offi
cial organ of this archdiocese it never
had but a limited circulation in Minne
apolis. Now that it is published in an
other city hundreds of miles away and
no longer a home paper, its circulation
is more circumscribed. Therefore it is
in vain for Father Keane, through his
monthly Calendar, to attempt the ex
pansion of its subscription list even
within the confines of his own parish
where he exerts the most influence.
The Irish Standard is truly a Catho
lic home paper as well as a paper for
the Catholic home, and while it con
tinues to be so it will receive the en
couragement and support It deserves.
No foreign paper can supersede it in
the city where it has accomplished so
much good in the cause of God and
country, and we desire Father Keane
to make a note of it iu the forthcom
ing issue of his periodical.
EXTERMINATING THE BOERS.
AVe publish today on the front page
a letter from a British officer in South
Africa to a friend at home, in which
he makes a terrible charge against the
blood-thirsty Kitchener, who has com
mand of the army since the departure
of General Roberts for England. The
sum and substance of the officer's let
ter is that Kitchener conceived the dia
bolical idea of killing DeWct and his
burghers without taking any prisoners,
when he supposed he had that great
general surrounded on all sides, with
no chance for escape from the British
cordon. The British officer in question
was naturally shocked at such cruelty,
and says:
"Lord Kitchener having, as he
thought, caged his enemy, sent secret
instructions to the troops to take no
prisoners that is, if the Boers, sur
rounded on all sides, find themselves
unable to resist, and hoist the white
flag as a token of surrender, they are
to bo shot down to the last man. Now
I have seen too much bloodshed to be
easily shocked, and if this intention
had been openly proclaimed when the
opposing parties were in similar posi
tions, and the fortunes and terrors of
war were as likely to fall on one side
as on the other, though I would cer
tainly regret the return of the English
people to the barbarism of our Anglo
Saxon ancestors, I would not have con
sidered it a matter affecting the honor
of the army but that we should enter
into a struggle proclaiming loudly our
adhesion to the rules of civilized war,
that we should beg for quarter our
selves with somewhat humiliating fre
quency, and accept the generous terms
that have been invariably offered, till
the time came at last when our en
emies, gathered together at our feet,
asked for the mercy which had been
so freely accorded by themselves—that
we should then ruthlessly massacre
those unfortunate men is an act not
only so cruel, but so mean aud coward
ly, that now as I write I have difficulty
iu convincing myself that it could ever
have lieeu contemplated by an English
officer."
There Is no doubt but such an order
was issued by the butcher of Ouidur
nian, and it is well that De Wet and
his brave men were not caught in a
trap. The order to give no quarter
and take no prisoners must have been
sent from London, for in the colloquy
in the House of Commons, as reported
by the Dublin Freeman, Arthur J. Bal
four justified the barbarity by reading
the American military rules now en
foced with the approval of President
McKinley, the sanguinary hypocrite
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who talks of "benevolent assimilation"
when he sanctions the indiscriminate
slaughter by his imperial soldiers of
non-combatants in the islands.
Later news from London leaves no
doubt of the Cromwelllan policy of
Kitchener. A cablegram of Feb. 4
says that Kitchener lias begun an of
fensive movement designed to sweep
the Boers out of the whole eastern
half of the Transvaal, and his scheme
is thus outlined:
"Seven columns will operate in a
wide fan-shaped order from bases ex
tending from the Delagoa railway on
the north to the Natal railway on the
south. By keeping in constant com
munication with one another the col
umns will advance as a huge, concert
ed force along a battle front more than
100 miles in width. Their work will
consist not only iu driving the enemy
before them, but also in denuding the
country traversed of every vestige of
supplies capable of supporting guerilla
warfare, which has harried the British
so unceasingly since last summer."
It is exactly copying Cromwell's tac
tics in Ireland in the seventeenth cen
tury. The troopers of that bloody mon
ster pillaged, destroyed and murdered
everything in their path, saving neith
er age nor sex. Having killed the cat
tle, they burned the crops, and the un
fortunate non-combatants who escaped
with their lives finally died of starva
tion. After Cromwell had finished his
bloody work there remained not more
than half a million people in the whole
island.
The British, however, will not have
things their own way in South Africa.
When they destroy the food they may
be hastening their own destruction.
The Boers will capture their supplies
and ultimately starve them out. Al
ready they have blocked, traffic on the
Delagoa Bay railroad by blowing up
the bridges with dynamite, and Colonel
Blake, of the Boer Irish Brigade, is
marching on Lorenzo Marquez to pun
ish the Portuguese officials for deliver
ing up Boer refugees to the British in
violation of the laws of neutrality. The
British had better carry on their war
fare according to civilized methods or
they may rue the day when they
adopted McKinley's barbaric policy in
the Orient. The Boors are amply able
to take care of themselves, and if ever
Kitchener resorts to the massacre of
the Boer troops and of the defenseless
non-combatants on the farms, he ought
to be visited by a terrible retribution
if he falls into De AVet's hands. He
had a narrow escape a few weeks ago,
and some months ago he was forced to
fly in his night shirt. AVhen he is
caught, as he is likely to be before
long, he ought to be hanged, for he
does not deserve a soldier's death.
Consul-General Goodnow, in his ad
dress on Protestant missionaries in
China at the AA'esley M. E. church in
Minneapolis the other evening, omitted
to say anything about the Catholic
missionaries in the Celestial kingdom.
The present status of the Catholic
church in China, as summarized by
the London Tablet from the Katho
lisce Mission, is as follows: "There
are 39 vicariates apostolic among some
454,000,000 of heathen. The number
of Catholics is 702,708, excluding the
catechumens, of whom the Jesuits
have 49,875, the Franciscans 13,102, the
Dominicans 30,000. The clergy com
prises 942 European and 445 native
priests. There are, besides, 90 Euro
pean and 20 native lay brothers and
.teaching brothers, 3,709 native eate
eliists and school teachers, 339 Euro
pean and 720 native sisters, besides at
least 2,390 women consecrated to God,
though living in different missions, like
the virgins of the early Christian
church. Of churches and chapels there
are 4.348, of elementary schools 4,054,
with 05,990 pupils also numerous agri
cultural and trade schools with 2,203
pupils 239 orphanages with 26,835 or
phans 47 seminaries with 809 stu
dents 47 colleges and boys' high
schools. Other departments of Chris
tian charity are represented by 395 hos
pitals and dispensaries, a great num
ber of homes and asylums for the
aged poor, for lepers, etc. Finally,
seven printing presses. These brief
statistics give some idea of the Catho
lic interests at stake in China." Nei
ther Li Hung Chang nor any other
"heathen Chinee" in high or low sta
tion has ever accused Catholic mission
aries of looting during the Boxer dis
turbance.
The erudite editor of the Minneap
olis Times has the gumption of wani
ng President McKinley against signing
the appropriation bills fathered by
Hanna and other plutocratic legisla
tors. He says: "It is the sworn duty
of Mr. McKinley to protect the people
of this republic from injustice when it
is within his power to do so. AA'ill he
do his duty?" We beg to inform our
brother of the Times that Mr. McKiu
Iey will perform his duty as Mark
Hanna dictates. Mark is his boss, and
the Times man ought to know it. lie
Is not only Mac's boss, but the boss of
the Republican party, and his imperi
ous will is law to the man lie helped
out of bankruptcy and twice elected
to the presidency of the United States.
The classical editor of the Minne
apolis Tribune says: "It has seemed
to us for some time past that the Unit
ed States has needed a Pompey in the
Philippines and a Maniliau law to give
him full scope to act." AA'as not Otis
a Pompey, and is not MacArthur ditto?
They certainly have had full scope to
act, and have not succeeded iu con
quering the Filipinos. Chaffee will not
do any better. It will take long years
of bloodshed and slaughter before the
natives are "benevolently assimilated"
according to McKinley's Draconian
code, quoted by A. J. Balfour in the
British parliament
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The following hymn to the air of
"America" or of "God. Save the
Queen," was sung last Sunday by
Anglomaniacs in Chicago at memorial
services in honor of the late Empress
A'ictoria:
"Two empires by the sea,
Two nations great and, free,
One anthem raise.
One faith, one tongue we claim,
One race of ancient fame,
One God whose glorious name
AVe love and praise
One of the "empires" is yet a repub
lic, but it will not remain- long SO' if
the British-Americans can destroy it.
Justice Harlan, of the Supreme
Court, is reported to have made a
speech at the Loyal Legion banquet in
AArasliington last Saturday night, in
which he said: "The fathers of the
republic never intended or desired that
congress should have any authority or
any power over any part of the sur
face of the earth free from the letter
and spirit of the Constitution." Sen
ator Lodge says that Justice Harlan is
not likely to have used, the words at
tributed to him, and we are inclined
to agree with Lodge, if I-Iarlan obtain
ed his seat in the manner described by
Senator Chandler. The statement
ascribed to the judge is true,, never
theless.
A young lady journalist of New
York named Grace AA'hite will start a
paper called The Reasoner to combat
the principles advocated by AArilliam J.
Bryan in The Commoner. She says
"I shall take up his arguments for free
silver, and by cold reason and logic
dash them into atoms." If her "rea
son aud logic" can be kept cool and'
do not get to the boiling point, she
may succeed in knocking out his argu
ments, though that feat has not yet
been accomplished by journalists of
the masculine gender. But lay on, Mac
duff!
The Catholic Citizen and Northwest
ern Chronicle, of Milwaukee. Wis., are
being advertised by an Irish-American:
priest in Minneapolis as "the very best
Catholic papers in America." Perhaps
tlicy are, but at the same time it is
well for the Irish members of his con
gregation to remember that the papers
aforesaid contain no news from Ire
land like that in the present issue of
the Irish Standard. They are Ameri
can papers of the "Cawtliolic" type,
but their agents will take subscriptions
from the generous Irish just the same
if they get them. Thiggin tliu?
Lady Raeliael Charlotte Fitzgerald.,
wife of Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, andi
eldest daughter of the Earl of Dunra
ven of "American Cup" fame, died re
cently at Adare Castle, county Lime
rick. She was one of the Geraldines..
and ought to have been a patriotic
Irish woman. Her father, Dunraven
of the Valkyrie, though of the ancient
stock of the O'Grady's, at one period,
among the leading Old Irish septs in:
Minister, has lost the national spirit
for which his forefathers were remark
able.
The inauguration of President Mc
Kinley is going to be the most gor
geous ever attempted in our history.
The general drift is towards imperial
display and the making of a deity of
the individual holding a little power..
—St. Paul Globe. What J. ,J. Hill's
personal organ says is too true, but:
why, it may be asked, did the Globe
prefer McKinley to Bryan last fall?"
AVas it not because of his Philippine
policy in the interest of railroads and
steamship companies?
AA'e notice in our Irish exchanges
that the Right Rev. Bishop Slieelian.
of the diocese of AVaterford and Lis
more, Ireland, is likely to be appoint
ed assistant to His Grace the Arch
bishop of Cashel, with right of succes
sion. Bishop Slieelian is amongst the
most learned of the Irish prelates and
is a brother of the Very Rev. Father
Slieelian of the Sioux Falls diocese,
South Dakota.
The Sampson-Seliley controversy is
up again before the United States sen
ate, and Secretary Long has been criti
cised for attacking congress. AVhen
Long, in 3S99 at the Minneapolis Ex
position building, referred to Sampson
as "the hero of Santiago," he was in
terrupted by a chorus of Schley!
Schley! Schley! from all parts of the
auditorium.
John Goodnow, consul-general at
Shanghai, says that the trouble in
China was confined to three out of the
nineteen provinces. The other sixteen
were quiet. Had the entire empire
met the invaders there would have
been less looting by the civilized Cau
casians.
Samuel Clemens, alias Mark Twain,
lias brought upon himself the wrath of
the Minneapolis Journal for ironically
reviewing McKinley's Philippine policy
in the February number of the North
American Review. It is pleasant for
Mark Twain that he does not read the
local organ of Mark Ilauna.
The Pioneer Tress consumes over a
column of editorial space in trying"to
refute the arguments employed by Mr.
Towne
!n
his famous speech on the
Philippine question in the United
States senate.
The British captured a one-legged
Boer general named Pretorius last
week and they are crowing over the
victor}'. The crippled Boer, however,
scared his captors by telling them
that the burghers were determined nev
er to surrender, their motto being "Lib
erty or Death."
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