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Show s "When we think of the great Curran In the last Irish parliament, and then again think f the lovable "soggarth aroon" who bears that name in Salt Lake, how incongruous the name appears ap-pears alongside that of the pig-headed, obstinate President Curran of the Chi-ago Chi-ago teamsters' union or freight handlers' han-dlers' union, we don't know which, nor does it matter to which this irrecon-ciliable irrecon-ciliable agitator belongs. At Allentown, Pa., recently, a coroner's cor-oner's jury decided that a railroad contractor con-tractor came to his death by a dose of quinine supplemented by an excessive exces-sive quantity of drinking water. An accident ac-cident like that would never happen in Indiana, where quinine is used for very malady of human flesh, including includ-ing corns and bunions, but it is never taken with water. Instead, quinine is taken as a sandwich alittle whisky Viefore the dose and a little more "whisky "whis-ky after the dose. In a communication to the Rocky Mountain News, Father Torke ilagel-iates ilagel-iates the Denver Post for its clownish exhibition of pretended wit at the expense ex-pense of the Irish. The editor puts words in the mouths of the Irish characters char-acters conjured up no more resembling "brogue" than a Chinese fiddle does a piano. Father Yorke has had the funny fun-ny man of the Pan Francisco Call across his knee and spanked him well with his literary slipper. He does the same to the Post fool, although it is with another man's type and press. The Freeman's Journal takes exception excep-tion to the Western Watchman's attitude atti-tude on the Philippine question. As both editors rank high in their profession, profes-sion, the lesser lights among the craft will be divided in their opinions on that all-important question. s s The dispatches tell that the ultima tum, which means the last proposal in diplomatic relations, will soon be sent I to Rome from Washington. This ulti matum being the first received in ; Home, will add one more new incident to her long history. Will the ultimatum mean that the friars must leave the islands? Then the president and his secretary of state , are greater than the constitution, which protects all treaties made by our government with foreign countries. If the ultimatum means the expulsion of the friars because they are Spanish subjects, then the Paris treaty is vio- . 3a ted. Is it because they are not loyal to the government? Herr Most is 'not and never has been loyal to the home government, gov-ernment, yet Germany has received no ultimatum, because our treaty with Oermany must not be broken. Individuals Indivi-duals may be swa3d by religious prejudice, pre-judice, but a government that repre- i Rents all the people without allegiance to any creed, will not dishonor its name by yielding to vulgar prejudices and violate its own solemn contract. |