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CHURCH CALENDAR.
Week, July 5-12.
5, Saturday—St. Anthony.
6, Sunday—St. Goar, St. Isaias.
7, Monday—S. S. Cyrial and Methodius.
8, Tuesday—St. Kilian.
9, Wednesday—St. Veronica.
July 10, Thursday—St. Amelberga.
July 11, Friday—Pius 1.
AMERICA ON THE SIDE OF FREE
INSTITUTIONS.
President De Valera of the Irish Republic has
reached these shores at a time when the minds and
hearts of all Americans should be heartily recep
tive to his message and appeal. The anniversary
I of our own immortal Declaration of Independence
'0 brings to mind the struggles and sacrifices of the
t,,' Revolution and the patriotic heroes who were con
fronted with a situation in which, as-it was tersely
i. phrased, they were obliged to hang together in or
der not to hang separately. Upon the issue of that
conflict Washington, Patrick Henry, Franklin,
Adams, Hancocjk, Carroll and the rest of the im
mortal galaxy of leaders pledged their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honor, at a time when the
odds were strongly on the side of the forfeiture of
..these pledges and forever in American hearts will
be cherished fondly the story of their great achieve
ment under the favor of Divine Providence.
It is but natural therefore that Americans should
Y^'view with sympathy the efforts of another new
-nation to lift itself into the sunlight of freedom and
the pure atmosphere of democracy. The leaders of
the struggle in Ireland today are attacking the same
forms of tyranny and alienism in the reign of George
1 as Americans struck down in that of George III
and because of their proximity to the enemy they
|$-are staking their all against greater odds than did
the Revolutionary fathers. The voice and influence
of this Republic has always been on the side of the
'v down-trodden and oppressed wherever and when
ever the national conscience was aroused to the
point of expression or action. Speaking of the part
America should take at the time the Greeks were
J" engaged in fighting for their liberty in 1823 the
eminent statesman Daniel Webster said in address
ing the Senate:
"What part it becomes this country to take on a
ij/ question of this sort, so far as it is called upon to
take any part, cannot be* doubtful. Our side of the
4* question is settled for us even without our own
volition. Our history, our situation, our character,
necessarily decide our position and our course be
fore we have even time to ask whether we have an
option. Our place is on the side of free institu
tions."
If Webster's declaration of the American policy,
made nearly a century ago was sound at that stage
of democratic progress in the history of mankinc
how much more clear and definite is that principle
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Published by th«
KORTHRRN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY,
•i.v 412 to 410 First Art, No.
Minneapolis, Minn.
the world war has added Poland, Czecho-Slavia, £erst
one remaining white nation in the slavery of alien
despoilers while the rest of the civilized world is
marching forward on the lines of democracy anc
self-determination of sovereignty? Such a situation
is incongruous as" well as dangerous to the peace
^„and progress of all mankind. A solution of the
f' Irish question is absolutely necessary for the sta
bilization of the post-bellum world. It is, as«was
v-» said in the Parnell-Times case, "a dark cloud that
has long rested on a noble race, and dimmed the
glory of a mighty empire." By the lifting of that
cloud both the immediate parties to the controversy
and the world at large will "be tremendously bene
fited. The path of the progress of civilization and
k\, democracy will be cleared of an obstruction that has
persisted for centuries in retardation of internation
al comity and good will. It will signalize to the
world the good faith and sincerity of the Allied
Powers in their acceptance of the proclamations and
declarations of President Wilson in behalf of Amer
ica prior to and during the war.
Furthermore, it will be on the part of America
a fulfillment of the. pledge of Benjamin Franklin on
the occasion of his visit to Ireland during the Revo
lutionary war that when the time came the weight
of American influence would be thrown into the
scales on the side of Erin. The psychological hour
for the redemption of that solemn pledge has now
arrived. One of America's own sons in the person
of the earnest and brilliant De Valera is making a
-most cogent and powerful plea for our good offices
.^•and beneficent intervention in behalf of the new
^Republic of Ireland. Shall that plea be ignored,
that supplication be disregarded Certainly not.
if America has not failed to cherish the spirit of '76.
Il&ow as ever we should be "on the side of free insti
tutions."-
"BOUGHT AND PAID FOR."
At liection times in many of the states candidates
»or office are required to set forth in their press ad
|ve£tisements the cost thereof and by whom it has
paid or to be paid. In the light of the exposure
o»f the irrilnense sums of money that have been paid
various kinds of propaganda in some of our
^'ng newspapers and periodicals if such a rule
\lapplied it would make highly interesting read
these articles would warrant as an
'Bought and PaidLFor."
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in the light of the world situation of today. Within phys'cal force policy nor does it believe in the ma
that period almost every country in South America
ch'ne
has gained its independence, as also have Greece, ffen£sis uj the epoch-milking book published by Mr.
Belgium, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Roumania, ^.r^ur Griffith in 1904 entitled "The Resurrection
Montenegro, Italy, Norway and Cuba. To these
Hu"gary.
tt tu Gambrinus! 1 hough you were made or-
With the heads of the several Barleycorn fami
lies will also depart their numerous and interesting
offspring of numerous combinations and permuta
tions. The task of enumerating them would excite
tender recollections in the minds of their quondam
associates and chums. Gone they are but not for
gotten, the mint-juleps, the cocktails, the high-balls,
lemon-sours, etc., to refresh and rejuvenate the peo
ple of other and more hospitable lands. Less re-^
gretted will be the roughneck members of the
Barleycorn family, among which were the horse's
neck, the stone-fence, knd the 'low-grade booze
shots of the nickel or dime variety.
As they take their leave the Barleycorn contin
gent may admit some faults and abuses, but may
be chuckling at the discomforture that may be
created by their elimination in toto. Meanwhile
the 234 per cent stuff and Peruna will be on the
market to ameliorate the asperities of the drastic
situation.
GENESIS OF SINN FEIN.
To understand De Valera and his aim and object
in America, one must know something about th6
philosophy of the Sinn Fein movement. It is not a
?f Austri.an
Jugo-Slavia, Finland, and a dozen or more smaller !]er hack on Vienna, kept her representatives at
nationalities. home and worked out her salvation on her own
But Irelahd, as President De Valera says, "the
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rule," shall she be abandoned to the mercies of her {*0mP Gr,ffit prophesied in his book which
desooilers while the rest of the civilized world is has helped to revolutionize the Irish people. Just
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politics of Parliamentarianism. It had its
Hungary became a nation and freed
tyranny and because she turned
When Ireland realizes these obvious truths
turns her back on London, the parallel may be
as the. Hungarians struggled from 1849 to 1867 for
emancipation, so now the Irish people following
their Sinn Fein leaders observe a policy of passive
resistance. They have turned their back on Lon
don, they have formed their own National Assem
bly and Voluntary Arbitration Courts, and seek the
aid of their fellows abroad as well as of all lovers of
freedom to win the independence of the Irish nation
—The Monitor, San Francisco.
WHO SCUTTLED THE GERMAN WAR
SHIPS?
The scuttling of the surrendered German" wrar
ships while in the custody of British authorities and
in a British harbor has occasioned some comment
that may or may not be justified. It is pointed
out that the demand for the destruction of these
vessels came from an English source a few months
ago, and that Britain was opposed to the proposi
tion for their distribution among the Allied Powers
Why then was vigilance relaxed by their custodian
at a time when final disposition of them was almost
at hand And were the crews in charge under Ger
man or British control, when the vessels suddenly
disappeared in shallow water? Will they be
raised again and added as salvage to the British
naval power after the excitement of the war has
subsided Those *.vho have had experience of Eng
land's perfidy in the past are making such a predic
tion. There is not much comfort for the British
authorities in either the negligence or the design
born of the dilemma.
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GOMPERS ON BOLSHEVISM.
(McClure's.)
Bolshevism is a theory, the chief tenet of which
is the "dictatorship of the proletariat." Leaving
out of consideration for the moment the story of
murder and devastation that has marched with this
theory into practice, we must set down the theory
as abhorrent to a world that loves democracy. We
shall progress by the use of the machinery of democ
racy, or we shall not progress. There is no group
of men on earth fit to dictate to the rest of the world.
It is this central idea of bolshevism that makes the
whole of it outcast in the minds of sane men. It is
this focusing point that makes it an enemy to our
civilization.
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THE IRISH STANDARD
EXEUNT SPIRITUS FRUMENTI ET AL.
With July 1 came the abomination of desiccation
oreshadowed by the latter day prophets of depri
vation, at least until after demobilization. Henee
orth we are apt to hear few complaints about the
lumrdity of the atmosphere, and more about the
extreme aridity in all the national latitudes. In
tense fever with concomitant discomforts are apt
to prevail among those not acclimated'to the new
meteorological and psychological conditions. After
the deluge it will be remembered that Noah and his
crew on^ the ark isought anxiously for a long time
for a dry spot .until at last Mr. Ararat was found.
Now the quest will be for an area of wetness for
relief from the universal drought of the desert.
Oasis will be popular if at all reasonably accessible
Many may be tempted to risk the dangers of aerial
transportation to Europe in the way of relief, and
tramp vessels on the high seas may also find
abundant patronage if they are ballasted with the
right stuff. Many realize now as never before the wu
truth of the legend, "our blessings brighten as they resolution regarding the independence
take their flight." Ireland was passed by a body of
John Barleycorn with his Lares and Penates is men made desperate by disappoint
about to depart from our inhospitable shores. In- ment. Here he treats Intelligent sen
eluded in his entourage are that radical fellow ators as If they were brainless boobs
Spintus Frumenti, the toughest member of the who would pass any resolution as long
gang, and his immediate' relatives of the juniper as it frustrated the progress of some
berry tribe, said to be a favorite with the Ethiop- one who had not given them all they
ians, and the molasses branch of the stock that fig- demanded. In the remainder of the
ured so conspicuously in the early New England editorial there Is nothing worthy of
activities. Miserabile dictu, the sparkling and Vi- mention outside the statement that
vacious Bacchus cousins of the Barleycorns, eel?- "the fact that the Senate did meddle
brated in song and story from a time whereof the is regrettable chiefly as a less cordial
memory of man runneth not to the contrary, are relation between these two great Eng.
also on the list, with one-way tickets of transporta-
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The Minneapolis Tribune
and the Irish Question
(Continued from Page 1.)
tory and would learn that Ireland was
a nation long before the Roman inva
sion of England. He would also know
that Ireland has never resigned her
claim to a separate and individual
nationality—the Act of Union, not
withstanding. If he is not educated
or well-informed on the Irish question,
then he should not, in justice to its
readers, be employed as an .editorial
writer on the Irish question by the
Tribune. He endeavors to choke the
readers of the Tribune with the state
ment wherein he insinuates that the
Ush
tion in their hands, provided by their unsynjpa- heard of such a statement? Is this
thetic and top-timbered neighbors, who are im- editorial writer a disciple of Andy
mune to the appeal of the Horatian odes and all Carnegie, or one of those Anglo-mani
other rational propaganda.
acs who
'ginally in Germany you were an excellent mixer, satisfied that the Irish question is an
and had made multitudes of friends in these lati- internal question to be dealt with by
tudes. But your percentage of the Barleycorn the English government alone then he
strain, scarcely discernible to the average citizen, suggests by innuendo that The Ameri
has made you taboo among the expert scientific
bunch who are always capable of seeing things and
viewing them with alarm. We know not what
germ, microbe, organism, or eon lays in your little
inside that has excited the indignation and appre
hension of the anti-alcoholic virtuosos—but what's
the use of- argumentation Judgment has been
pronounced and execution is at hand. There can
be no stay or appeal allowed, so all that remains is^
to say "good-bye," or "au revoir" ("Auf Wieder
seb-n," verboten).
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speaking democracies." Whoever
believe that "the Anglo-Saxon
race 8b0uld rolb the world? If he
can Declaration of Independence is
a mockery. Does the gentleman under
stand that the Irish race and the Eng
lish race can no more readily mix
than, oil and. water can mix? Does
this modern Socrates realize that the
Irish race is a race different to the
English, in manners, in customs, in
sentiment, yes, and' in language?
Does this prodigy of literary effusions
realize that Ireland is systematically
robbed, year after year, by imperial
taxation and exploitation? If he does
not realize this situation then he is
entirely, unversed in the Irish ques
tion and is no more competent in the
attempt to elucidate that problem,'
which has one very simple solution—
that is evacuation by the British army
of occupation—than a chimpanzee at
tempting to define the diurnal motion
of the earth? Furthermore, if the
Tribune believes in Truth and Justice,
it should engage someone versed in
that mighty question to discuss the
affairs of Ireland. If it does not be
lieve in Truth or Justice then by all
means let it continue to consider the
Irish question an internal one and we
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shall then know it, not as a disciple
of that democracy which it flaunts so
much before its readers but as a pro
mulgator of Northclilfian autocracy
and,imperialism. I have done!"
Well, our friend having finished, and
having set us a, thinking we shall
give the Tribune time to shape its
course, we shall watch its editorials
closely in the future and we shall
judge whether it would see these
grand United States free and power
ful as they are today or once again a
fettered, enslaved colony of the Brit
ish Empire. We would suggest to
the Tribune to be a little more care
ful in its choice of editorial writers
on the independence of Ireland, or at
least attempt to furnish facts unbiased
and more In accord with the senti
ments of glorious Washington and
great Lincoln than this editorial which
appeared In the Tribune of June 16th
under the caption "The Senate and
Irish Independence."
Men of Ireland! you whose shield
Was but the briar in the field,
You have made of your green land
A brilliant star
You who never yet did yield,
While one man a sword could wield,
We pledge you heart and hand
From afar.
Under the Direction and Gontrol ofArchbishop Dowiing
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TO 8INN FEIN.
Men of Ireland! you who stand
For Liberty and Motherland,
Tou who fought the bitter fight
Adown the ages
You who held the battle-brand
Tho' It flickered In your hand,
Tou have written valorous might
On history's pages.
Men of Ireland! who thro' woe
Fought a treacherous, fiendish foe,
You who never left the battle
Thro' the years,
You who never flinched a blow
You who watched the watch-flre glow,
You have eased poor. Mother Erin
Of her fears.
Men of Ireland you who led
Gallant sons who freely bled
To drive those sons of Belial
From your shore
You who oft the cannon fed,
And death for Banba wed,
Have shown that you were filial"
Evermore.
Men of Ireland! No surrender
You have shouted loud as thunder
When British hirelings came
To kill your soul
You have crushed these fiends of plun
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And we should never wonder
That you earned your ancient fame
And won the goal.
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