The Irish Standard

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1890.

MINUS THE WORD.

The Minneapolis Times seems to have grown weary of accusing the Catholics of not being good citizens etc. We thought the Times would soon get tired misrepresenting a people, many of whom fought and bled for the country of their adoption, and whose children are as loyal to the land of their birth as any other American born. Some newspapers are bent on increasing their circulation no matter what the means to that end are. They will ally themselves with anything if they think it will bring them a few hundred additional subscribers. Such newspapers, however, are very few, as the average newspaper proprietor in this country is above anything so contemptible. It makes no difference to us, however, whether the Minneapolis Times sells its paltry influence to the anti-Catholics of this city for $1000, or one cent. It has started on the downward path, and when it denies that it is a know-nothing sheet, it simply convinces its readers that it is ashamed of its name. The Times will probably say that no such sale was made to the anti-Catholics: that it is above such a thing, and that it will continue to spread the light. That will not go down. The Times ought to have sand enough to come out and admit that it is an anti-Catholic organ, and its readers would have more respect for it. The newspaper that publishes one thing and denies that it means what it publishes, is not fit to adorn the everyday waste-basket.