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Show "WE AMERICANS WILL j . DIE TO SET IT RIGHT" - Thomas B. Minahan to the Knights l of Columbus of Seattle. i I Tho Hon. Thomas B. Minahan, first I prosicifnt of tho American Federation ! f Catholic Societies, vice president of j the American Savings Hank & Trust company. Seattle, Wash., and a nrom- inent nieniber of tlie Knights of Co-; I lumbnus, addressing the Knights at a I recent local gathering:, said, among I other things: I "In t'-.e matter of our country's solution solu-tion of delicate and difficult problems I W me polect a single striking instance j one, too. of special interest to us ! Catholics from the present trend of our f'tintry towards a broader religious ; toleration. JVrhan.-! I can best con-do- se my tmgts by an illustration. " little while ago. when the grra I ! 'Lion of the Fold of Judah' when the i "world leader. Leo XIII. laid down the J j masterful ard gentle life that had so 1 long enriched all Christendom, you re- I i member bow our Catholic fellow-citi- j 7-ens. th-a humblest as well as the most I ;. distinguished, of every condition and I : ff all denominations, you recall how I j theiy vi-d, one with the other, to be I the first to pl;o-e upon the sarcophagus II of the dead Pontiff the wreaths into j "whoso leaves of ivy were entwined I America's highest esteem, her keenest ! regret ind her profoundest sorrow. This tender non-Catholic tribute of Jew nd Gentile, .if minister and layman f alike, tou'bed deeply the Catholic II ; American heart. In the beauty of its I noble sentiment one recognized the I brighter day. "It convinced ns that the problem of wiping out. the last vestige of intolerance intol-erance is afur all only a question of education. In the intellectual fight of today every unkindlly sentiment withers with-ers and shrivels as though touched vith a flame from the lamp of uni-1 uni-1 vrrsa.l brotherhood upon the high al- j tars of our God-blended American citi- 1 i zen shirt. ! "No more of the mistrust born of I misunderstanding: vo more forever of Iiatred because of honest difference of J religious conviction! This. 1 lake it.l my fellow-knights, is the whitest i flower of our country's best oiviliza- ; lion: the fact that here at the broad ; 3iearthstone of our common citizen ship the Almighty has vouchsafed to Americans to see at last unraveled the ; ton long tangled and bloody skein of ' race hatred and of creed bitterness! The fact that here in the great, luminous lum-inous temple of human freedom, we ' the removing all the idols of the past whose ignorant worship darkened minds and embittered hearts that frhould have blended and throbbed as one! "This let me repeat it this is the whitest flower, as it is the grandest , meaning- America's cultured broad ei- ; vilization has nut upon the deathless j folds of the Hag of George AVashing- i 1 ion snd Abraham Lincoln: upon the j l'ag of Theodore Roosevc-lt and Wil- Jl liain J. Rryan! (Applause.) t j "In this same connection permit m ! , to link a single thought in practical ' i touch with conditions of the hour. joiay another great Pontiff, Pius T. with unweapened banL but. pano- j plied ill the light of Catholic truth. , j -Iothcd in the armor of Christian right I ; fin -a Jusiice, stands in gentle but stern. 5 ! relentless grandeur, defying the infi- I ' del. atheist government that shames I Hie fair name and sullies the proud fame of the land of Lafayette and I , Kochambeau. I "Out upon this dastard sham of re- x , publics nism: Away with the atheistic .' anarchist spawn that Insidiously seeks to clothe its villainy under the Amer- i "J ican and Catholic doctrines of "separa- . ii lion of church and state,' as we have I f I it. in ordr to repeat again the days I " 1 of a Robespierre, a Marat, and a Dan- I if ton to flood the streets of Paris with J i the best, blood of its Catholic citizen- !l Fhij.. I "f "Upon the influence, upon the might I ( f American public opinion, the great I ' fssue ;u France now appears to turn. I . Our country's stern sense of 'a square f deal.' of what is right and just, no 1 matter the erert in t Vi-;fi namo it muv be invoked America's sense of fair Jilay. of Christian justice, will ring as true here in Seattle as it does in every ; 1 section of the country. It may find ; expression here in a public demonstra- ' lion, but. perhaps I should leave this to the bi tter judgment of men longer i jn this community. "My time limit has expired. Let me, therefore, propose to you this sentiment: senti-ment: 'Our country; may it always be right: but if ever in the wrong, we .Americans will die to set it right.' " I (Applause.) IRISH BONANZA KINGS. Rivals of the "Big Four" Digging j Out Gold in Nevada. The state of Nevada contains over 70,000.000 acres of land, and five years po held 70.000 people, writes J. K. Mc-luire Mc-luire in the Catholic Sun. The common com-mon animal is ihe slinking, cadaverous cadaver-ous coyote, the flower of the desert is the cactus bush, and mountains of rocks conceal the puii and the stars. And yet in this rugged commonwealth common-wealth of rocks and miners one mining amp alone in which worked four famous fam-ous Irishmen, produced nearly the colossal co-lossal sum of S700.000.0O0. The big four were the bonanza kings Maekay, Fair. Flood and O'Brien. Mrs. Mackay is now a great society lady of Paris and Jyondon. The new discoveries of Ne- ' va.da's treasures are wonderful in their riches and as fascinating will be the history of the daring- Irish-American miners of the new mining districts of JN'evada and they may surpass, improb-' improb-' able as itmay seem, the fabulous ( amount of metal produced in the palmy (days of Virginia City. Outside of the nearly $700,000,000 produced pro-duced cm the Comstock lode there was ! 500,0.00.000 more of precious metal mined in the other camps of the state. Seven years ago an Irishman named Jim Butler made the discovery of gold which has brought 40,000 people into ' the state, made three railroads and luilt four cities. He.no, the principal . town, had 7.000 inhabitants only, and i Carson City, famous for ring contests, j fewer still. Today there are four larger j towns, sprung up over night like mag- i ie, and every man there and the few ' women, crazy mad for gold, saloons, gambling houses, concert halls running i day and night, and no coins under i dimes to be found in the camps, water ihe rarest commodity and some of the dreariest spots in the trackless desert the scene of most amazing life, and the costliest place in all America to live. Jim Butler struck the golden vein on the Mizpah ledge in 1!00 and here" was . Tonopah which shipped 121,000 tons of p ore last year, on which was paid $2,200.- f. (0 in cash dividends. Of course not all ? Hie successful miners are sons and '1 grandsons of Erin, but there is no de nying the fact that they are born miners, min-ers, and among the most adventure-seme adventure-seme and bravest of that hardy class. The pick and shovel of the early '50s j and '60s made great graduates as min- : ers and contractors. The combination ; of adventure, good humor under dis appointment, industry and the spirit of unfailing home-love did not die out ( with the passing of the generation that produced Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien. The same stock of a i generation is hammering away tod. t the rocky ledges of -mountainous Nevada. Michael Mi-chael Keily, James Hayes, Nixon. Daly, Martin Higgins. Ryan and Mac-Namara Mac-Namara are there behind the stamps, drills and mules. The Sweeney-Nixon-Hennessy lease produced $600,000 in Goldheld the first year, and Loftus. on the Sandstone mine, $i'00,000. I fancy the Hayes mine will eclipse them all for I have seen a copy of the receipt for the largest single sin-gle shipment of ore, a record-breaker. The sacks of ore in this one shipment weighed forty-nine tons, and they cashed in to the mines $374,055.39 net from that single shipment from the Hayes mine. The mountain burro, worth ?s, that carried Jim Butler across the Tonopah mountains, was truly the Golden Horse. At Silver Peak are Lynch and O'Meara working on a vein which promises a rich yield. The famous Blair mine is owned by William Wil-liam Flynn of Pittsburg. There are some bad Irishmen in the camps, too; there as everywhere else. And it may be said right here that nineteen mines out of every twenty advertised in the newspapers are fraudulent and designed to separate the investor from his money. Goldfield has 15.000 inhabitants and there was r.ot a soul there four years ago. There is not room for half the number to Jive comfortably, and the town is congested with much sickness. This objection will be overcome in time, as they have water and are putting put-ting in sewers. The town produced ?2O,000,000 in gold last year. The payroll pay-roll is $500,000 a month, big wages for a town of 15,000 people. j |