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Show I ; 4 ''- vvt - V-v' v l t 1 : 'V- - : f i whm i ' ir' '''ZvzsWJv ! : fetifetgK i : I : V Wy 4 4- 1 -f - 4- I 4 P.EV. FATTIER KEEN'AN, WHOSE DISCOURSE OX ST. FATRICK 4AND THE IRISH CHURCH WILL BE READ WITH MUCH INTER-.. I EST BY ALL. ' T ST. PATRICK. ! I i Sermon Delivered By Rev. Father Keenan at St. Hilary's Cathedral ! . ! on Sunday, I&arch. 18. - I "Dy their f:-uits ; eu shall know ; I them." Matt. T-1G. I T.iiere is not an Irish Catholic . thyoiifrhout the whole of Christendom j s who does not claina as his own, in a i ? Ficeial sense, the great festival we are 1 met to celebrate, who does not claim for himself, above others, the honor of ; being- the child of that great Saint and , j apostle of his land and people. But, j brethren, if we ask many of our people j j to show their credentials for claiming j ! this high honor of kinship to St. Pat- rick, they will be content to answer that by birth of descent they are from the Emerald Isle, and by profession they are Catholics. Is not that sufficient? suffi-cient? I answer "No:" Kinship with a Saint of God is not of a natural or- ! dor, but supernatural; it is not of tha j order of nature, but of grace, and it is j " in grace and in the works of grace that a man makes g-ood his title to kinship j with the Saints of God. And what does , our Holy Father and apostle, St. Pat- j rick, ask of those who claim for them- j pelves the honor of being his children? j "Be ye imitators of me as I am also of j Christ." The likeness worked in the j soul of man by the grace of God and the work of. grace constitutes its sane- Itilicati.in, and the f.delitj- and beauty of the likeness wrought in the human soul j 3s the measure of that soul's sanctifica- j tir-n. And the Saints of God were most like of all to the Divine Model, and j what St. Patrick asks of his children is , t hat th-v should reproduce, reflect in j ti. rnsi-lvea that likeness, that repro-. . . du.-tion of his Divine Lord, which he j f-hovs us in his Saintly character an ! ; h'p By their works ye shall know the i 1 i-i!dren of St. Patrick, and by our good j works, and not by our profession, are j w- to make good our claim to be the : i-'Tt of the great apostle of Ireland. It , is. therefore by Catholic holiness of life , tl.r.t a man proves himself worthy 08 j j tire dignity he claims of being a child I o; :h" patron Saint of Ireland and her I j ! :. That is by the habit of prayer 1 sm xho devout frequenting of the sac- ti:vw.--; bv love for the ever Biessd M.tl,-r of God, and her Rosary, by tha constant exercise of those virtues which in.-ke up the Christian character humility, hu-mility, r-haritv, purity, sobriety, pa ti re. honesty, truthfulness and tho r st. in one word, to be a child of St. Patrick a man must be a g-ood, practi- .;1 Catholic. Not being such he has no -'!"nti.-;ls to shnw, no Justification for Mi-' .-'aim N makes. If today there b-j -ne who c alls himself a child of St. Pat ri'-k. but who is liv'ng. consciously ana d'-'lih-rately. in the neglect of his duties es a Cat hoik-, keeping, away from th-a FHcrameniP. negl''ct ing prayer, giving bad example to his neighbors, the victim, vic-tim, it may be. of thnt accursed vice of drunkenness the prolific mother of nueh a horrible brood of sins and social i -vi)s if there be such a ore here j amongst us. what is his condition? It I is that of t he man in the gospel who. at I tl.e wedding feast, b&d not on the wed- iing garment. "Friend, how comeft th"u in hither, rot having on the wed- I J-:?g garment?' Nor, brethren,. will it : for us to try. a? some of our people d.i. t.. make Tip by loudness and fear-. fear-. ssness of profession of Catholic faith, fur their weakness in its practice. Many of us. too. hide our own shortcomings .is Catholics by wrapping ourselves round in the glorious drapery of those who have cone before us. We Irish Catholics often glorify ourselves by reason rea-son of the glorious things done for God end his church by a lqng line of con-ff-'ssors and martyrs among our Catholic Catho-lic forefathers the true children of St. Patrick. But, brethren. 15 it just what they who themselves idlers .are leading ignoble lives of sin, should presume pre-sume to take to themselves as their own the glory of thor.e who have loved and Fcrved their Divine Master. even unto nlood in the past. Look at it in thi.1 way. Supposing a soldier is himself a coward and a deserter, what avails him the chivalry, the fidelity, the bravery brav-ery of his brothers in arms who have ! gone before him in his country's history, his-tory, and bled and died for that coun- try. Instead of hiding his shame by contrast, it makes it the greater. So I say with regard to ourselves, if our lives show us to be cowards in the army of God, the glory of those who have jrone before us instead of hiding- our ohame makes it more, conspicuous and lamentable. By their works you shall know them, and here is the first. Let no man say he is a child of St. Patrick, Pat-rick, that be honors and loves his spir- ' itual father, unless he is a good, practical prac-tical Catholic. It is on record that a sompatriot of ours once lamented that he had the misfortune to be born ouij of his native land. That is a misfor- j tune that a large proportion of the Irish Catholics in this country of our I time share with him.. The present gen- ! eration are, for the most part, not Irish by birth, but descent only. Now, God gave to St. Patrick as his own the land of which he made him apostle, to which he gave him a special commission, and the heart of St. Patrick ever goes out with a father's love to Ireland and her people. They belong to him especially by God's own gift. Therefore, it would be a sign of the spirit of St. Patrick in his children to have a yearning, a love, a devotion for the mother country o5 their holy faith. Though at a distance and living amongst others, the children of St. Patrkk will ever remember that he owes his glorious spiritual heritage to Ireland and her people. Therefore it should be one of the true signs of a child of St. Patrick, one of the good works by which he should be known, that he should always instinctively show for the cause of religion a very loving and intelligent devotion and solicitude, so-licitude, and be in mind and heart at Cne with his mother country and people. peo-ple. Then it has pleased God in the mysterious ways of his providence, in a market? way to make the children chil-dren of: Sr. Patrick in our own times I sharers in his apostolate. By the I providence of God multitudes of our people have been driven out of their native land to the end of the earth, and God's purpose, it would seem to be, is that they should do the work, of Evangelists: that they should go forth and. in the spirit of St. Patrick, the Apostle, carry the light of the gosu pel of Jesus Christ to others. Wet children of St. Patrick here in America, have a glorious Apostolate ready to jour hands. Ours it s.iould be with loving lov-ing and constant zeal to labor to spread I throughout the length and breadth of this Western Republic the Catholic I faith, which St. Patrick implanted in iour souls amidst the darkness of Pa-gani?m. Pa-gani?m. Just think, brethren; if all the Irish Catholics in this country were good Catholics, what a mighty influence j such a leaven would be upon the masK j in which God has set us. Why do we do , so little in the way of Apostolic work? j Because so large a proportion of cur ! people have not the work at heart, and not only fail to give good example, but, unhappily, give bad example; and in this matter, mark, there is no standing ground between the workers on the one side or the other. There i no such thing as not taking sides. The life of a Catholic living in a non-Catholic country, as we are, ift both necessarily neces-sarily and naturally watched as of o'd they watched cur Divine Mas tar. The l'fe of such must be spiritual light for j the guidance and salvation of others, : or darkness for the scandal and spjr-itual spjr-itual ruin of others. There is our re- j sponsibility. And, again, we are bound j to promote the work of the conversion j of this land by a means which has al-wavs al-wavs been dear to our pt-opje. You know how it has always been the instinct in-stinct of the Irinh Catholic in exile, as soon as he could, to pet up his Church, j the sltar. the tabernacle, ihe statue of 1 Our Lady, before which he could say his Rosary. In this country it is told j the honor of those who have gone j before us. that through the hard. fpir- 1 itual winter that went before the sec. I ond spring, churches and chapels were f bui't and maintained, either wholly or , in part, in this country, in many in-j : staneeg by the pennies of the IriPh poor. I To their glory be it told. Let us not j bp satisfied with admiring their good j 1 deeds in the past, but let us emulate them ourselves in the present. Some ! 1 of you have here shown that you have 1 1 the spirit of those who have gone be- fore you. by your princely and generous donations towards the building of a new cathedral, which is at present in the course of erection. Now, a Catholic church is the most mighty instrument in the h3nd of God for doing Apostolic work, for spreading spread-ing the light of the Gospel; and. therefore, there-fore, when you promote the building and maintenance of a Catholic church, you are doing truly Apostolic work. But the work you have begun is yet far from being complete. A considerable consider-able amount is still required to perfect it, and I would take the liberty, in the name of our Apo3tolic father. St. Patrick, Pat-rick, to appeal to each and every one of you to give generously towanls the completion, in our midst, of the most beautiful andi magnificent church in this intermountain country. At home in Ireland we swy that there is a kind of oratory, so sweet and so persuasive, that it is able to coax the birds, off the bushes. I regret I cannot com-, com-, mand that kind of oratory. I wish I 'could. But 1 appeal most earnestly to you to show yourselves in warmth of heart and openness? of hand worthy descendants de-scendants of thefe who have gone be- i - j fore us, and who did so much for the i churches of this country in hard timea ; and in bitter poverty. Give, therefore, j when called on, aa largely and as generously gen-erously aa you possibly can, that the j largeness of your gifts may compensate j for the smallnesa of my ability in ask-i ask-i ing for them. I have shown you what j I may call a spiritual shamrock to be ! worn today in honor of our glorious j father and Apostle, with its three lmvc-s, holiness of life be a good, prac-j prac-j tica 1 Cathohc. Seeordly, constant faith and love to the 1t'"1 and people i of St. Patrick, from whence you have i drawn your glorioua spiritual heritage ' under God; and Apostolic zeal for this land of your adoption and its people; and desire, and prayer, and effort to do our part to our utmof t - in making America Catholic. The i2 is the shamrock sham-rock that we true children of St. Patrick Pat-rick should wear in his honor. Wear it upon your hearts. Let all men see , it, and know you by it. jt Wearing of the 0mm . i Written for the Tntermountain Catholic T Ey O. F. Whitney. -f O, Paddy dear, and did vou hear -f The news that's goinj: round? -f !-f The shamrock and the harp are now j The talk of London town. ! From "Windsor castle floats the flag, The fairest e-er seen, And there's no bloody law agin' The wearing of the green. , . . The Briton and the Boer have met -f Old Ireland she was there: -f 4- She's been on every battlefield. 4- Both red and green to wear; She's poured her blood, a crimson flood, 4- Brittania's plume to preen; 4- They well may sport the shamrock sprig, ; 4- And hoist the trampled zreen. 4- -4 4- God grant the reign of love may last 4 4- Till Erin's griefs are o'er; 4- 4- That no more red, by England shed, 4- Shall stain the Emerald shore; 4- That shamrock, mingling with the rose . 4- . And thistle, shall be seen. 4' -4. 4- All blossoming on Emmet's grave, 4- 4- His memory to keep green. . 4- 4- 4- Let Celt and Saxon cease to clash 4- In fratricidal broil; 4- ' No more let Judah Ephraim vex, 4- Nor Ephraim Judah spoil. 4- For St George iclasps St. Patrick's hand " 4- , A miracle is seen! 4- "Tis Freedom's apringtime. All tha world 4- Is wearing of the' green! -f St. Patrick's Day, 1900. 4-4- 4- 4 4- 4- 4- 4 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4 f 4- 4 4- 4- 4- -- 4- 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 ! S01E AMERICAN HUMBUGS. (From the Boston Pilot.) With all the bountiful prodigality with which Nature has blessed the American Republic, there come years when the fields refuse their richness and the harvest is scant and meagre. There are some crops, however, that never fail. Fools, we are told, are born daily; idiots and imbeciles show a steady growth, and the harvest of American humbugs is at all times in excess of the demand. The Humbug, like the tare in tha harvest field, is seen in every department depart-ment of human activity, though it is in religion, literature and politics that his assurance, loquacity and enormous self-esteem are observed in their most radiant splendor. The Humbug is a very serious and superior person, match given to condescension and unnecessary unneces-sary advice; he is so hardened in the habit of. deceiving everybody that ho at last succeeds in deceiving himself; he poses on public platforms, at dinners, din-ners, conventions and meetings with all the grandiose grace of a Turvey-drop; Turvey-drop; he emits opinions on public questions ques-tions with the air inscrutable and syb-illine, syb-illine, and he is always burdened with a wealth of shopworn platitudes. While we have always heen blessed or cursed with a plethora of humbugs, the era of MeKinleyism has given a most amazing stimulus to this pesrilent brood. There is something peculiarly sryrr.pathetic ia the atmosphere of this new, flabby and unwholesome growth of MeKinleyism to the propagation and multiplication of this breed. The American Amer-ican humbug gravitates to. and flourishes flour-ishes in. MeKinleyism as naturally as ducks take to water; and this phenomenon phenom-enon has become so noticeable that the terms humbuggeiy and MeKinleyism have come to be accepted as synonymous synony-mous and interchangeable. The revered and Imperial personage who holds the sceptre of manifest destiny des-tiny in his fine, fat, open Ohio hand, is suspected of being infected with the disease himself; but such a base suspicion sus-picion cannot be tolerated, as it has a tendency to reflect upon the purity of the motives and the sincerity of the utterances of the Imperial Distributor of good things, the friend, benefactor arid patron of all the benevolent brood of pinchbeck professors, pap-peddling politicians, pushful parvenus, pragmatic prag-matic poseurs, perambulating parsons, platitudinous patriots, and all the pack of parlous apologists of Philippine piracy, pi-racy, plunder, Pharisaism and prose-lytism, prose-lytism, who cling like parasites to the imperial poison-ivy strangling the Republic. Re-public. Anglomania is a symptom of hum-buggery, hum-buggery, and Hay fever an accompanying accompany-ing circumstance; though there are political bacteriologists who allege that the diseases are identical, Hay fever being simply Anglomania in it3 most advanced stages. We trust these savants sav-ants will carry their investigations further and learn if there be any con- 1 nection between Hay fever and the recent re-cent invasion of the British brigade of iubois grass widows now ravaging the country with "Absent-Minded-Beggar" cadging- matinees. A fine figure in the political Cult' of the Humbug, is our junior senator from 1 Massachusetts. He started in life as a mugwump, but learned with amazement amaze-ment and disgust that the mugwump camp was congested with young men with brains, conscience and independence, indepen-dence, if not burdened with hungry ambition and inherited wealth. In such company Mr. 'Lodge found himsrff merely an incident; so he fluttered hurriedly hur-riedly back to the old crow's nest where his youth and inexperience could be utilized by party hacks, and his "cold feet" were accepted as proofs of loyalty loy-alty and allegiance to the party. In. those days he was dabbling in what is called literature in the magazines, mild-ly perverting history to glorify Nahant; and he modestly wore the amusing title of the "Scholar in. politics," poli-tics," when he was merely a pupil of politicians. For awhile he was a hot patriot of the. Bunker Hill, revolutionary revolution-ary type, and had a fine scorn for Britain Brit-ain and the Britishers; but it must be remembered that thia was in the davs before the patriotic Biitish-American rushed into naturalization to avenge his queen and swat the Irish. After that the "Sculler in Politics" allowed the ardor of his patriotism to cool and he bef,an to take up a sturdy humbug then coming into vogue the Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Saxon. With the newly enfranchised Briton at his back the senator's Anglo-Saxonism Anglo-Saxonism grew robust and insistent; and he bagan to make fierce forays into American history, producmg literary gems whose historic value was praised to the sky by the author and his publisher. pub-lisher. Henry C. had his weather eye on the senate, so he went into training as a boss, and took his Anglo-Saxon British-American brother to his bosom, for the A. S. B. A. was annexing legislative leg-islative seats and acquiring votes needed need-ed by the blushing young patriot and statesman of Nahant. As the imported Briton waa fast obtaining dominance in the party in Massachusetts, it became be-came necessary for Henry -to reorganize reorgan-ize his principles, abandon the nonsense non-sense of Americanism, scoff at the declaration and constitution, and get a card guaranteeing his soundness from Pauncefote and Chamberlain. Expansion, Ex-pansion, imperialism and the Salis-bury-MoKinley-Hay entierrte cordiale ldgitimitiaed hi3 position, and he is now a patriot of patriots, a stout shouter for open doors and tariffs and ahle to point the finger of scorn at his confrere con-frere in the senate from Worcester. Some of his enemies the Anglo his-torico-patriotic statesman has a few decry him as a demagogue and humbug; hum-bug; but he has the satisfaction of knowing that he is the idol of every exile from Nova Scotia and is a persona per-sona grata in Canada. He is an ardent ar-dent advocate of the Hay gold brick treaty; yet since that triumph of diplomacy di-plomacy has excited the bile of Republicans Re-publicans outside the sphere of British influence, he is waiting, under the doctor's doc-tor's care, with his ear to the ground. He hag his eye on the cat, and when ha sees the animal jump he will take a firm stand for his country and-flag. An interim everybody is imiteu to guess which flag and which country are his. . OUR NAyAL TURVEYDTtOP. Literature naturally suggests another poseur of the Humbug colt, anocher shouter for the Angle-Saxon, another glorifier of the "Mother" country that is, some other feMow's mother country, for if Alfred T. Mahan has a mother country, it muet be that of Denis Mahan Ma-han his father poor ould Ireland. Captain Cap-tain Mahan's vogue rests upon the heroic he-roic efforts he has made to glorify one of tha bitterest enemies of the American Ameri-can Republic ever had. the British Admiral. Ad-miral. Lord Nelim. a famous sailor and a famous blackguard. Captain Mahan's reputation is altogether British, for he never did anything as an American naval officer, and his American vogue is reflected and artificial. He takes himself seriously, for what greater tame can an American officer get them the praise of his country's enemy for glorifying glo-rifying his country's slatiierer. The gallant captain is like Captain Corcoran Cor-coran of the Pinafore, a fine sailor on Xaper: and since his relegation to the retired list his knowledge of naval tactics tac-tics has excited the admiration of every lamdroan in the Republic. He appears to have concealed his talents while in the navy and the advent of MeKinleyism MeKinley-ism gave him his chance to pose as a serious authority, cne eminent enoii&'h to make Dewey. Sampson and Schley soem small potatoes beside him. Since we began to expand the Grand Old Mariner has stood by to regulate and commend the expansion and to caution and reproach the objectors. He endorsee en-dorsee MeKinleyism and MeKinleyism endorses him. He settles all questions of sea power and land power and can take a fall out of the great powers: he has settled the West Indian question; he has authoritatively settled Kruger and the Transvaal question; and he has recently turned hi sheep-like eye on Asia to make Russia 'tremble. As an Anglo-Saxon and British shouter he ranks high, for as the son of Derric Mahan, Ma-han, an Irishman, he is entitled to shout for all Anglo-Saxony. He must regret the thoughtlessness of the mother moth-er Who bore him in the United States, a vulgar country, good only for pensions pen-sions and half-pay, and one in which the Anglo-Saxon is merely a noise rather rath-er than a concrete entity. Colonel Hig-ginson Hig-ginson of Boston, recently suggested the use of a rawhide on the back of the great naval Turveydrop. The gallant old gentleman was too severe; a common com-mon garden hose and a town pump ought to be enough to take the starch out of this Irish cuckoo. The navy suggests the army. General Wesley Merritt, once a gallant soldier of the American Army, came into the atmosphere of MeKinleyism and immediately im-mediately he developed a mania for Anglo-Saxonism, as noisy and senseless as any in this disturbed land. West Point was forgotten and its traditions and events have male the dinner fork more formidable than the general's sword. He was eent to Manila and I stayed nearly four weeks there and i was ordered home via Paris, where he was to give advic? and counsel to - the--Pro to Commission, concerning con-cerning affairs Philippine. A man who spends four weeks in Manila learns all about the Philippine archipelago; archi-pelago; at any rate the general did, and so was enabled to direct the peace commission and sign a series of magazine maga-zine articles on the islands. I say sign advisedly, for nobody supposes that even a senius as great as Merritt j could conduct siege operations on the strand of Manila bay, and at the same time find material enough about all ! the interior of the country to write about. The magazine warriors the late war developed are not the least among our humbugs; and certainly the warrior who is willing to sign and father the work of another man cannot can-not be expected to have a fibre out of which heroes are made. Rather are humbugs made of such stuff. Favilis decenaus Averni. From the borrowed plumes of literature to the bawler for British alliance is an easv and a natural descent. Some European country has an order of merit, which I suspect is not called after Wesley. : As the gallant colonel of the Fifth cavalry, Wesley Merritt, stood higher ! in the opinions of his countrymen than j he does as the McKinleyized Major General Maudlin making after dinner panegyrics of our ancient foe. If he desires to remain in the glorious company com-pany of American Humbugs he wants to continue on the idiotic course he has mapped out; if he prefers the partnership of emotional old women to that of soldiers let him keep on. The spectacle of a United States general gen-eral officer yelling for the queen and the empire is enough to make bonee at West Point and Arlington rattle: and it sets the average Republican thinking think-ing about the uses of standing armies. Merritt should apply at once to the Widow at Windsor for his chocolate box and hie order for a bath." THE AMERICAN MISREPRESENT . TATIVE AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES. Perhaps the most egregious hum- ! bug in hia way in the whole shoal of j them ie the dapper and supple attorney now misrepresenting this republic at at the court of St. James, Joseph Choate. Chpate has a vogue for smart after-dinner- speaking, for an acidulous acidul-ous persiflage and a gentle way of insulting in-sulting his hosts, which is supposed by hia admirers to be the very acme of humor. He posed for vears as an independent, but came off his lofty perch promptly when the imperial jellyfish offered him the place of American Amer-ican butler at the table of her majesty. ma-jesty. The duties of an American ambassador am-bassador have been reduced to a system sys-tem in London. The secretary, a hired man of the ministry, runs the ambassador, ambassa-dor, and Mr. White has been doing thi3 to the queen's taste for years. The ambassador makes after dinner speeches about our common race and so forth and assures England that America is with her heart and soul. He calls on the aueen periodically and is allowed to slobber on the old lady's hand and tell her with deep emotion how much Americans think of he;. His principal business is to have the daughters and wives of pushful parvenus par-venus introducted to her majesty and get them invitations to be insulted by the nobility and gentry and opportunities opportuni-ties to loan small suma to those members mem-bers of society who are hard up. If the ambassador be genuinely enthusiastic enthu-siastic toady like Bayard or Choate he can facilitate British . schemes in America and arrange treaties to suit the Britons. The amiable Mr. Choate seems to fill the bill to the entire satisfaction of the Chamberlain gang in London; but Americans, outride of the court of his imperial oiliness. do not regard him with the same enthusiastic enthu-siastic favor. The British are humbugging hum-bugging Mr. Choate; they are adepts in augar-coated conversation; Mr. Choate is humbugging himself, for ne has a profound faith in his own cleverness; clever-ness; imt neither one nor the other has been humbugging the American people to any appreciable extent. THE DISINTERESTED II ANNA AND A FEW OTHERS. Marcua Aurelius Hanna of Ohio, the at 'boss of the Imperial Pretorian 4 C f 4- : I ; tev"-fe:;,i : REV. FATHER CASH MAN OF CHICAGO WHO DELIVERED. THE 4" ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON IRELAND AT THE SALT LAKE THHA- 4 4 TRE ON ST. PATRICK'S NIGHT. -f Guards, is something of a humbug. Mark is a man with a full knowledge of the value of a dollar; he has garnered gar-nered dollars industriously through a strenuously sordid career, and he has an almost religious faith in the dollar as a unit of power. He flashes the dollar dol-lar in the eyes of the people, speaks unctuouaiy of its sanctity, and demands de-mands special protection and privileges for the coin and its owner. As the Protectoi- of.OUi National Honor, the 1 disinterested Hanna took chaj-pe of the j Republican end of the last campaign, and scared every banker, broker, and man in business out of his wits. lie introduced the candidate, his client, to the trembling capitalists, and said: "Gentlemen! Behold your champion. He is a resolute, fearless champion of ! anything you put in the platform, all j former opinions to the contrary notwithstanding. not-withstanding. He will stand by us if i we stand by him. I will now pass the ! hat." I Mark was a great success. He went to tha Senate by virtue of well-distrib-I uted largess, and he ia now looking for ! reimbursement in a mild little subsidy I shipping bill, which is being advertised I aa a great national and patriotic meas-I meas-I ure to renew American maritime donii-i donii-i nance. Marcus is interested in lake I navigation; the bill is supposed to aid our foreign shipping enterprises. Hence iMark's disinterested conduct would ! surprise those who know the fat gentle-! gentle-! man commercially, if they did not re-ialize re-ialize that subsidies would go to lake shipping as well as deep sea argosies. iThe bill is sniffed at suspiciously, but j it will receive the aid of all the frienda of his Imperial Oiliness. Mark is not a success as a humbug; he lacks the smooth and adroit manners of the Choate and Lodge class; his addresses are crude and violent; Captain idd, not Captain Surface, is his model; he overcomes over-comes friction with force instead of oil. This unscientific way of going to Congress Con-gress to get the people's money, instead of holding them up and shaking it out of them, is entirely contrary to Mark's genius; but he is getting smoothed and. groomed, and learning that humbug-gery humbug-gery is a neater brand of larceny than sand-bagging. He knows it is more effective, ef-fective, lucrative and satisfactory in the end to tap the gas main on- the quiet than to commit assault and battery bat-tery on the treasurer of the gas company com-pany oi" blow up the works. Marcus Aurelius, therefore, has joined the ranks of the humbugs as a matter of expediency rather than one of choice; he has gold bricks to sell and his mortgaged mort-gaged man to push. |