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Week May 31—June 7.
May 31—Saturday—St. Angela.
June 1—Sunday—Sixth after Easter.
June 2—Monday—St. Marcellinus.
June 3—Tuesday—St. Clotilda.
June 4—Wednesday—St. Francis Caracciolo.
June 5—Thursday—St. Boniface.
June 6—Friday—St. Norbert.
THE TWIN CITIES AS A NORTHWEST
CENTER OF IRISH ACTIVITIES.
As a result of the brilliant success of the two great
Minneapolis and St. Paul meetings, May 16 and 18
respectively, at whicK Rev. J. Grattan My then was
the principal speaker, it has been suggested that the
Twin Cities by the co-operation of the leading or
ganizations promoting the cause of Irish freedom
should become a center for the promotion of the
cause in other cities and towns of the Northwest.
p|§The campaign for the emancipation of the mother
||iland has but just begun. The door of opportunity
p| is at least partially opened by reason of the present
state of flux in world politics, and the future happi
ness or misery of Erin depends in a large measure
upon what her children in other lands may be able
to do for her in the present crisis.
Much has been already accomplished in the line
of the advancement of the cause. The series of pub
lic demonstrations that have been held in the large
centers of population throughout the country, simi
lar to the two recently given in the Twin Cities, have
served wonderfully well to arouse American interest
and sympathy with Ireland's aspirations. Hostility
NJv: has weakened and apathy has given place in a meas
urable degree to concern and solicitude. The Amer
ican conscience has been stirred to its depths.
The change of the political complexion of Con
gress is opportune for Ireland's cause. There is lit
tle danger that the League of Nations covenant will
be adopted without a prolonged and exhaustive de
bate in Washington. The political campaign of 1920
is already open, and with it will come many oppor
tunities for public discussion of the Irish problem
as a part of the proposed international program. In-
deed, it is quite apparent that the controlling issues
of the coming Presidential election will be interna
tional rather than domestic ones, and the question
^h of the adjustment of Irish grievances will come nat
urally and logically into the arena of American poli
tics. J|
In no part ofthe United States is there a better
field for the fair and open discussion of this question
than in the West and Northwest. The people of
these sections being in a large degree dependent up
on their individual efforts and merits for their liveli
hood are a little farther removed from the influence
of the propagandist than elsewhere. With self-reli
ance as the basis of their material prosperity they
have also acquired an independence of opinion and
judgment on public matters that is at once note
worthy and commendable. In many instances it is
this western trend of popular opinipn that haj turned
the scale in our national politics.
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The tide of American sentiment is now turning
in favor of Ireland, and the indications are that it
will continue to set in this direction as the discus
sion of the League of Nations compact proceeds in
Congress, in the press and in all- public forums of
debate. It is therefore the opportunity as well as
the duty of friends of the cause to foster and
strengthen this movement wherever and whenever
it is possible to do so. The Twin Cities are the hub
of the Northwest section, and from them as a center
should radiate a mechanism of influence that should
reach all the other communities of this section in the
interest of the Irish cause.
Many ways and means will suggest themselves
for the accomplishment of this objective if the mat
ter is taken up with the same zeal and vigor as char
acterized the great meetings held in the Twin Cities.
SEPARATE THE LEAGUE COVENANT
FROM THE PEACE TREATY.
i®*An egg can be "separated," but nobody has yet hit
$ upon a successful plan of unscrambling an omelette,
""'f The League of Nations Covenant is still in the egg
state, and is separable, but—After it has been
cooked up into an international omelette with an
^admixture of multitudinous foreign ingredients it
will defy the ingenuity of the most ingenious and
'expert political chefs to bring it back to its original,
^condition as it came from the hennery. The adop
tion of the Covenant will constitute the transforma
tion of the Versailles ^product into the irretrievable
"omelette.
With the changed political complexion of the
ifnatioriM Congress the Republican opposition to the
^Covenant has decidedly stiffened. Senator Sher
man, of Illinois, has introduced a resolution seelcing
yiepar^tion of the Covenant from the peace treaty
H^^jper:.so that each may be acted upon by the Sen
severally in the procedure leading to their final
^position and the vote thereon. In the course of
attack upon the Covenant the Senator indulges
invective of .the administration in
^3|ie^ay^:
p%e .administration of Woodrow Wilson, even
$er|lbnstitutipnal forms of government, is a hy
jndtetween.Ta
French revolution and an Oriental
History would forget the- reign of Ca-
|fc& in the-excesses and follies of the American
it operated und$r the League of Nations
tisd. by President Wilson and" Colonel
members of the Cabinet, says the Senator,
t^fith Socialism, and a vast" swarm of the
's aPPointees are known tq be open and
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Pointing out the wide scope of the League's scope
of action because of its power to deal with any mat
ter affecting the peace of the world, Senator Sher
man contends that the new organism is a permanent
and independent government which would absorb a
material part of our national sovereignty. Under
Article XVI ~of the Covenant we could be forced
into a state of war with one or more nations without
such a declaration by Congress.
If the League had existed at the time of the Amer
ican revolution it "would have forbidden the sword
of Lafayette to be drawn with Washington's and
would have crushed the infant republic beneath the
armies of George III and Louis XVI. It announces
in substance to mankind that the\period of success
ful revolution has drawn to a close in the world's
history."
Senator Sherman charges that the interlocking of
the Covenant with the peace treaty was designed
with the ulterior purpose of procuring votes for the
support of the former that would otherwise be im
possible—thus giving it the aspect of a bit of politi
cal log-rolling. As the'pact now stands the two sub
jects* are directly linked together in hundreds of
places, and doubtless indirectly in hundreds of
others.
But the omelette is not yet cooked. The ingredi
ents are prepared and ready for final culinary opera
"on that will effect irrevocable scrambling. Before
this is consummated there will be apt to be a taking
of counsel that will cause serious delay. Even the
separation procedure will require a period of some
precious weeks of universal nervousness and trepi
dation. But if. the two issues are misjoined, as
American opinion is coming more and more clearly
to discern, it is better to make a drastic cleavage of
them at once, rather than commit the nation to a
vast and intricate scheme of international policies
without adequate and exhaustive study of the ma
chinery of the Covenant.. It is quite obvious that in
this way we shall deal with both subjects more in
telligently and more thoroughly.
BOLSHEVISM, LIKE HOHENZOLLERNISM,
MUST WALK THE PLANK.
All current signs point to the downfall of Bol
shevism. It has been tried and found wanting in.
Russia, and the fatal handwriting portending its col
lapse has appeared on the wall. It is encircled on
all sides by enemies, many of whom are the victims
of its temporary ascendancy in the Muscovite realm.
A structure in whose construction there is so much
rotten timber cannot possibly survive the blasts of
adverse criticism and must eventually fall to pieces.
Dr. John A. Ryan of the. Catholic University
points out a few of the political and economic de
fects of Bolshevism, in a recent article in the Nation,
in which he.reviews the Bolshevic Declaration of
Rights and the new Russian Constitution. The
fantastic and unjust principles proclaimed in these
documents, he points out, are the inevitable reaction
from the oppressive rule of Russian autocracy dur
ing many centuries. But they are just as autocratic
and anti-democratic as the regime of Czarism which
they have superseded, and on a par with Hohen
zollernism in respect to placing might above right.
Bolshevism is Marxian Socialism in its extreme
form, says Doctor Ryan. All private property in
land has been abolished and the right of property
in personalty ceases with the death of the owner.
The State is the owner of all the land and becomes
the universal heir to all personal property inasmuch
as the laws of inheritance are abolished, as also the
power of disposing of money, goods and chattels by
will. When a man dies the State steps in and takes
possession of not only the real estate he used or
occupied, but also of his furniture, watch and trou
sers.
Under the system set forth in these two basic
documents of the Bolshevik government the nation
al debts are repudiated the proletariat take the
places formerly occupied by the aristocrats in poli
tical control merchants, professional men, clergy
men and other "intellectuals" are hog-tied so far as
participation in public affairs is concerned only
civil marriages are recognized and these tnajr be an
nulled by the petition of one or both parties and
churches are without the right to own property or
to enforce support from their members.
These are a few of the bizarre effects of the back
ward swing of the economic pendulum from the
regime of the Czar autocracy. In point of orderli
ness, however, the old autocracy was superior to
that of the modern proletariat variety. But two
wrongs do not make a right. Neither system of
despotism is justifiable or defensible in the modern
world. Hohenzollernism has met its well-deserved
fate. Its economic and political antithesis, Bol
shevism, is soon destined to walk the same plank,
overboard to the sea of oblivion. Between these
extremes lies the truth that will eventually prevail.
WHY IS IRELAND EXCEPTED?
"Whenever we see the cause of liberty threatened,
we are ready to cast our lot with those whose liberty
is threatened."—Woodrow Wilson to the Frencn
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
What IS liberty? Does it depend on geography,
color, race, religion or the power of the oppressor
'or his friendly attitude toward us?
The Irish are clamoring for liberty. They want
to rule the land on which they were born, land that
belotiged to them before such a thing as an English
king or parliament existed. Is their demand for
liberty not valid because eminently respectable Eng
lishmen say that it would interfere with their plans?
—Chicago Herald-Examiner.
ONE STEP FROM CATHOLICISM TO
RATIONALISM.
A.
Yes,
there
is
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onjy one* step from Catholicism
Rationalism. The Catholic logically accepts all or
nothing^ of divine revelation. To rob the Christian
of his f^ith is the aim and purpose of several power
ful organizations in our midst, and their propaganda
is the more pernicious because it is carried on in the
name of progress and sociaf enfrncipation.
The Protestant Lecky says: "Whatever is lost
by Catholicism is gained by rationalism wherever
the. spirit of rationalism recedes, the spirit of Cath
olicism advances."—-Sunday Visitor.
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The League of Nations Covenant would reduce
the German Kriegerbund to the dimension of a little
German band while the entire Austrian military
force, if the comparison be pardoned, could not
stand up against the ordinary city Salvation Army.
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