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To see one of their own, as it were, accepted by a Catholic division to work side by side with Parnell, Healey and O’Bnen in the Commons was evidently too much tor them, for they have not uttered a word since. There never was any reason, anyway, for such talk. The OraDgemen of Ireland, like their kinsmen in America and Canada, are merely perpetuating religious prejudices and are not friends of themselves. The Orangemen of Ireland are enemies of their country, and they will And that out when they are given an opportunity of making their own laws in conjunction with their Catholio brethren. Mr. Knox, we are inclined to believe, will mako an able representative in parliament, and though not familiar with his political record, except so far as that he is a pronounced Home Ruler and an ardent admirer of Mr. Parnell, still we have the greatest confidence in him, and particularly because Mr. Parnell has seen fit to select him iu preference to many others equally as capable. We hope Mr. Knox will imitate the example of his worthy predecessor. If ho does half as well his constituency will have much to thank him for.BETHANY HOME.A great deal is being said for and against paying money out of the city treasury to Bethanv Home. Fora long time tbe citv council voted money illegally out of the city treasury for this institution, but ex-Alderman Lawrence of the 8th ward hustled around and got an act parsed througg the legislature three years ago legalizing such action on the part of the council. The act has never been tested, but everv one who knows anything, knows that it would notstaud the test. It cannot be denied that Bethany Home has done Bomo good, how much we do not know, but it is not fair to make tbs city support an insti tution of that kind, any more than it would be to force the payment of several hundred dollars a year out of the citv treasury to the House of the Good Shepherd. The payment of public money to a sectarian institution, no matter what the purpose or motive may be, is wrong. Tbe city couucil may fall back on the act legalizing the payment of this money, but that will not excuse them in the least. If the city feels that it should do something for these fallen women, then let it establish a ward in connection with the city hospital, ana care for these unfortunate creatures. What a howl there would go up iu this community were the House of the Good Shepherd receiving mouthly installments from the city treasury, though no one who has examined both institutions can deny the superiority of the latter over the former. Bat let us put them on au equality and let the council give to the Catholic ihstitntioo what Bethany Home is now receiving, and what would be the result? Indignation meetings all over the city, in everv ward, nay in every precinct denouncing the payment of public money to private institutions would follow, and justly too, but not a word is said against paying several thousand dollars a year to Bethanv Home. The Catholic people of Minneapolis do not want the citv to support any of their institutions, but they are opposed to the city supporting sectarian institutions over which it has no con trol. Tbe people who built Bethany Home ought to have tbe spirit of their religion within them, and should see that the institution is properly taken care of by private contributions, and not unload the whole responsibility on the city, without at the same time relinquishing their rights in tbe matter. If the bacxere of that institution cannot keep it going without the public’s money, then let them turn it over to the city. This thing of asking the city to contribute to private Institutions should be stopped.be prouder if he had been on the other side. He, at least, has shown bis ability to stand aloue. Time and again in tbe early days, when Mr. Blggar and Major O'Gorman acted as tellers, Mr. Parnell walked alone into the lobby against a House ragiDg with important indigua tion. Popular or unpopular, it did not matter to Mi. Parnell. He had a long row to how and he went on with his work, “rain or shine ” When Mr. Rhodes, of South Africa, offered Mr. Parnell $50,000 for the benefit of tbe Iilsh ciuse Mr. Parnell suggested to him that it would be better if the gift were held over until after he had vindicated his character from the charges of the London Times. This was some time before the Commission was appointed, or even talked of. Mr. Rhodes said he was satisfied if Mr. Parnell said that he did not write tbe letters, and asked for no further proof. Mr. Parnell replied: “Not only did 1 not write the letters, but 1 have a very shrewd idea who did. I am accumulating evidence, and In time, when I have completed all the links, I will prove the forgeries in open court. Till then it will be better for you to keep the money.” Mr. Rhodes refused and handed him the $50,000. This incident, which is eq uall v creditable to both men, is now told for the firBt time.EDITORIAL BREVITIES.Weather Prophet Kellogg wa» evi dently off the track when he predicted that spring would blossom on March 20.The latest news is that Secretary Houston of the late landlords Protective Union is to visit this countiy some time the comiDg summer.Read over that report carefully which the special council committee on “boodle” submitted to the council yes terday. “Charity covers a multitude ofEh!The will of the late Joseph Gilia Big gar bequeaths to Archbishop Walsh, of Dubliu, the sum of $10,000 This money will be well spent. The poor and the needy of Dublin will get the most of it.Madam Louisa Muhibach, a Protestant writer of wide reputation, writes in her “John Milton and His Times” that the Reformation was far more advantageous to the princes than to tbe people; that it enriched the kings and lmDOverished the people.Catholic Union and Times: The public competitive examinations held in New York last week to .fill four vacancies—two at West Point and two at the Naval Academy, Annapolis— were all won Dy pupils ot the Catholic porochial schools. Comment unnecessary.British Consul Hoase at New York has not yet denied the charge made bv Mr. Harrington, M. P.. that he (Hoase) was empowered to furnish an agent of the London Times with the names of men who could be of service to the Times in its attack on Parnell and fris followers.The Providence Journal says that no one can look at any ordinary line regiment of the British armv at the Dre-seut day without being struck by tbe boyish and physically weak appearance of the soldiers, who no longer represent the stnrdy country laborers, bnt are mainly tbe riff raff of town streets.Connecticut Catholic: SecretaryBalfour, while in Dublin recently, met a Catholic pneBt who did not belong to the Nationalist party. “Are the Irish people as bitter against me as certain newspapers say they are?” asked Balfour. “Since you have asked me I will tell you the truth,” answered the priest If our flocks hated sin half as cordially as they hate you there would be no use for priests in Ireland.”Rev. “Golightlv” Morrill in a recent discourse roasted the supreme court of Wisconsin because it held that the Bible was a sectarian book, and that its use in the public school was ancon stitutional. Itris too bad that some of these ministers had not been educated for the bar instead of the pulpit. They would look better before a down town bar than before a learned congregation. Try it again “Golightly. You may scare the Minnesota supreme bench into ruling the Bible in instead of out of the public schools.The representative Irish-Americans who entered into the spirit of St. Patrick’s day celebration iu St. Paul were treated to fine addresses on that day. The Irish Standard, always mindful of tne wishes of its patrons, and always anxions to furnish them the choicest reading possible, takes pleasure in serving its readers with the principal addresses delivered on that day. In to-day’s issue of our paper will be found tho orations delivered bv James R. Corrigan, Minneapolis; Daniel W. Lawler. St. Paul; Judge Nethaway. Stillwater, and J; J. McUale. Minneapolis. _Montreal True Witness: On all hands tbe speech pronounced by Hon. Mr. Gladstone on the presentation of the report of the Parnell Commission to tbe House of Commons is admitted to be the greatest effort ever made by the greatest orator of modern times. Some members of the house are reported to have wept daring Its delivery.Minneapolis Journal: One of tbe meanest speeches ever made bv a man claiming to be a statesman was that made by Lord Salisbury Monday when he moved the approval of the Parnell commissisn report. The report, as is known, embodies a forced admission that both the Times newspaper and the government have been lying aDd virtu plly admits that the charges against the Parneilitej were not proven. Salisbury, with all tbe venom ot his nature, denounced the Parnellites as criminals and repeated all tbe well worn Tory epithets be could muster. If there is really anv generbsltv in the English na ture, Salisbury certainly has never been acquainted with it. He and his party would rather Bee Ireland disappear in the sea than to accord common justice to Irishmen. Time, however, brings its revenges, and there will, some time, be a different spirit in England—and a different premier.Philadelphia Freeman: The ter rible poverty of the poor of England can hardly ba realized. The returns for the second week of February show that iD tbe city of London nearly one hundred and five thousand paupers are receiving relief. These terrible figures do not include lunatics or vagrants. How long can such a condition continue? The monster meetings of Socialists and Reformers held weekly in London are but waves on tbe ocean of popular discontent. The state of things now existing in England cannot last. With all her wealth there is grinding poverty. Swarming of their nets of vice, poverty and crime will some day pour the starved poor of England and their greed will not be satisfied with less than tnat which appeased the toilers of France in the days of the French Revolution. “History repeats itself.’? There is everv condition existing to cause the cry of au ianterne to echo in the streets of London.The Boston Traveler commenting on the negro question says: “It is a question easily answered the moment one considers that the great Protestant denominations, however they may have commenced tbeir work in the Southern field, have come to a point where tbev have accepted separate churches and schools for the negro as a necessity. They have accommodated themselves to the American idea, and have virtually ostracized a great race, whose great need Is anything but ostracism. The nation may refuse to provide for schools wblch shall make of the children good colored citizens, bnt if there be such failure the Catholic Church will be fonnd in the field with schools which shall make of these children good Catholics. That Church permits no spirit of caste to denominate, it recognizes no superiority of race, it tolerates no die tinction on the ground of color. Protestant narrowness and cowardice are making tbe South a field of opportunity for Roman Catholicism, and such opportunity will not be neglected.”Martin HefFron, of Rochester, is at Graceville, Minn., looking after a contract for the erection of a church at that plfioe.
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The Irish Standard
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Sat, Mar 29, 1890
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