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Show 1 Rev. J. J. Curran of "Wilkesbarre, Pa., I who has figured considerably in the j strike, said in his address at his church i the other day that if J. P. Morgan did j not do something to bring the strike to j an end it would last for a long time. Before Mr. Schwab succumbed to s mental and physical prostration, he made a deal with the ship trust which I netted him $lS.5o0.0u0. How much of this sum would he not give now for a ; I good night's sleep and an appetite for ! t breakfast in the morning? ; There is one diocese in the United ' States which gives over 3 cents per j capita for Catholic foreign missions. It is the archdiocese of Boston, Next in proportion comes the little diocese of Boise. Ida., which gives over 2 cents per capita. " The story of Father De Smet's mis- j sionary labors in Montana (on our first page) speaks well for the literary abil-, abil-, ity of Rev. Victor Day of Helena, Mont. . That portion of it relating to Utah, ! concerning Father De Smefs presence I here in 1S43. will be new to most read- ers. An Irish expert on peat has demon- 1 strated that the turf dug up from New Jersey bogs will burn as bright and hold its fire as long as anthracite or !j soft coal when kindled. If peat is ? generally substituted for high-price i anthracite coal, it will bring the coal barons to their senses and be the most j ' effective means of ending the strike. Six hundred dollars each' is the cost of the new uniforms which our Gen- f crals "Wood, Oorbin and Young will i '. wear on their visit to Germany to wit- ' ih-sr the army maneuvers. That's more money than General Grant spent on , soldier clothes during the years of the i civil war. But we should not forget I that these are the piping days of Am erican imperialism and militarism. It was a saying of Know-Nothings ; years ago that the potato rot in Ire land was to blame for the Democratic party in this country. No doubt it helped some, but not so much' as the discovery of Irish peat in the bogs of New Jersey will help to knock out the coal barons who keep up the prices of ' ir-.thracite and refuse to' pay miners living wages. ; Several Cleveland Slavonic priests I have protested against the erection of a statue of Louis Kossuth in the pub- He sijuare of that city. Church Profi- rcss. ; .-.everal A.' P. A.'s have protested ,rtir.st the placing of a statue of Fa--v h r Marquette in the capitol at Wash ington, because he was a Catholic priest. These Savonic priests, we pre-sunv, pre-sunv, protest against 'the Kossuth ; Ftatue because the liberator gave cler- i'-als some trouble in Hungary when they deserved it. Some of these foreign priests in this country need lessons in religious tolerance as well ;is the A. P. A.'s. ' ' The Irishman who imagim-N that the hange from blue to green in the new-uniforms new-uniforms of Uncle Sam's troops is a , . "-ompl'ment to his native isle by the ; war department, should get at the real i reason before he shouts. The war de- partment has made a most wonderful X '' j discovery, one that has escaped the ob- nervation of great generals from Julius : Caesar down to "Hell Roaring Jake Smith." A soldier in gi-een uniform, according to the theory of the war department, de-partment, is not so easily perceived by the enemy as a soldier dressed in brighter hue,- like' blue, for example. Therefore, should a regiment of troops in green -uniform taKe . up position, in a brush, while" pur boys could, pick off the enemy easily the !rther fellows could' not tell whether they were shooting shoot-ing at a United States soldier, a gooseberry goose-berry bush or a big watermelon. Sufficient time has now passed since the action of the court to learn how the injunctions of Judge Jackson of West Virginia are regarded by the press generally. With few exceptions the leading newspapers declare he exceeded ex-ceeded his rights when he estopped the coal mine strikers from endeavoring by argument to persuade men to join the Miners' union. His subsequent punishment of the infractors for eon-tempt eon-tempt of court is denouced roundly. It is certain his action will not stand r.s legal precedents to be followed by our judges. The statement that Judge Jackson is financially interested in some of the properties concerned in the strike seems to be well founded, and the fact does not help the court in the way of indorsement of his injunctions in the public mind. Archbishop Ireland tells a good one on himself. Recently in Chicago he stopped at a fruit stand behind which stood n. swarthy individual whom he naturally took to be a son of sunny Italy. His grace is handy with many languages, Italian among the rest, and he addressed the fruiterer in his supposed sup-posed native tongue, only to bring forth this retort: "Wirra, may God forgive your reverence for taking me for a Dagol'. ..To square himself with his fellow countryman, the archbishop selected se-lected a few bits of his choicest fruit, for which he offered an over-generous price, and this time he was greeted something like this: "Begorra, 'twas bad enough to be taken for a -Dago, but to offer me pay for the bit of fruit that 'tis an honor for me. to have your reverence accept is more than I can stand. Oh, what did J ever do to earn this insult!" So the archbishop gave the case up as hopeless and departed, having left his blessing as an. offset to the wounded feelings of the Celt who might have been in better business! |
