Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 12 November 1915. Letters 1916-1923 Fr. Martin Mahoney

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Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman. Mahoney, a parish priest in Minnesota, edited the Catholic weekly 'Manifestos'. The letter refers to political and religious matters including references to Ireland.

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 J Mendota Minn 12.11.15 Dear Mr S. You've passed the Censor.O.K! Madness surely tis: mostly from badness too, more of theugly ways of Cain. My, but what a conversion from 'laissez-faire'!What a quite German rise to government in earnest in one year! Hadthat come a few years ago we should be in the millennium mnow. And themission preachers might take a long holiday. And still an odd crankof them might find right now a fine field. In Bess's days it looked inSpain as if about all there was for God to be angry with & punish was in England.And so all the good people of Spain & outside it were praying for the Armada.And the Lord deigned to explain the upshot to some highly favored & holyone. England did not deserve being set alight, & Spain deserved beingpunished…. And as does Ireland. And I'm grieved not to see someone, several, saying so, & convincing the people that they are called onnot only for econom economic retrenchment but for humble selfafflicting penance, In which mood they'd look with high favor on everydeamening of those pagan luxuries they lately so stoutly fought for.Maybe even if the priests have to go it is no worse than they & theirpeople deserve for the universal neglect of the Love from Heaven givensome years by poor . Maybe this last year will have giventhem all a new idea of the efficacy there can be in thracts, posters, cartoons, in those bizarre, unlofty forms of literature which, the nation Eiréhave so changed the views & ways of whole peoples & continents. Notice how the Poles, cousin of ours in felinisity take to abstinence& fasting. Their action may well serve you for to start the idea in Eire.There is now & especially thereabouts so much sham & lying & fourberiethat all the Heavens Powers would be mightily struck by something sonovel & different as humble self-reproach & penitential fasting: tryit, do ye! The ad. going Mitchellbooks in 3 issues each of the IW, the St Paul Cath Bulletin&& the Pillsbury Elsevier, brought me $1.90, .30c, .00c, so desperately are weunder some sort of Curse of Columbkille. What a lift to the Irish melody & to readthose Miss Petersons' articles: but — not a book that she has mentioned — & recommended is, or ever has been accredited in the Leader. Start on it an appeal& subscription but for a gratis supplement reproducing on a 4 or 8 page sheet thebest of what the songs & airs she mentions, plus what she so unaccountablyomits, the Heather Glen. Be not beat by evil, but beat evil by God! M.M John Sweetman Telegram to John F. Sweetman, 28 July 1916Postcard from Herbert Pim to John Sweetman, 1 October 1916Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 2 December 1915Letter from John Sweetman to Sir John Griffith, 23 October 1916Letter from Herbert Pim To John Sweetman, 16 September 1916Letter from John Sweetman to Herbert Pim, 21 September 1916Letter from Herbert Pim to John Sweetman, 28 September 1916Letter from Herbert Pim to John Sweetman, 30 September 1916Letter from Herbert Pim to John Sweetman, 12 October 1916Letter from John Sweetman to Herbert Pim, 15 September 1916Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 12 November 1915.Letter from John Sweetman to Piaras Béaslaí, 10 March 1916Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 18 January 1916.Letter from Herbert Pim to John Sweetman, 21 October 1916 Fr. Martin Mahoney Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 2 December 1915Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 12 November 1915.Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 18 January 1916. Mendota, Minnesota, US Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 2 December 1915Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 12 November 1915.Letter from Fr. Martin Mahoney to John Sweetman, 18 January 1916.