The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-19

OF the most energetic and spirited Of our t
middle classes. In the great tribulatlon
of our seven years famine they sent us Z
q timely and splendid succor. In our {
aspirations for legislative independence ]
we have their sympathy" 4
On June 81, in the British House of
Commons, Mr.. O'Connor Power asked
the Home Secretary if it was really true |.
that an Irish political prisoner (military)
named O'Brien, row undergoing sem
tence of penal servitude for life at Cath
| am. had been in chains since Christmas,
| and if it was true that his mother went a
| few DAYS since to see him, but, after
| having been broughtto Catham, was told
| that her son had forfeited his right to a
visit, and had to go away without seeing
him. The Home Secretary said hat 1t
wus true IN both cases. Poor John
| O'Brien has been ten years in prison.
His offense was an attempt to escape.
God help him!
.sThank God" said O'Connell once,
"there are 100000 children in the schools
of ireland, and they will be masses OF
the future" 1t is not a bad sign for Ire
land, that, although two millions OF PEG
pie have left her shore since OConnells
time, there are more children in the Irish
schools to-day than there were then.
The Report of the Commissioners OF Ma
; tional Education for 1874 is now issued.
It states that on the 31st Of December last
there were 1851 schools importation, be-
] ing 81 more than in 1873. The number
of children on the rolls who made any
! attendance was 1,006, 511, which was an
d increase Of 31,815 over the previous
!, year.
e The "twelfth of july has come and
u gone and we thank God that it has wit
/ messed but little OF that old spirit OF In
: Tolerance and bigotry which has toe
long disgraced a class of Irishmen. We
trust that there will not be found Irish
men in America dead enough to the hon
s or of their country to encourage in any
is manner the existence in this tree Repub
a lie of organizations based only on preju
1t dice. On this subject the following from
q, the Liverpool Untied Lrishman may b.
TO of interest to our countrymen: "a
ID everybody knows, William Ill AM
lie the battle of the Boyne have bee
the sources of bitter feud amongst lrlsn
men, and have contributed to the fallur
If of many a patriotic movement. In
ae Orangemen glory in the ''pious and I'm
le mortal memory" and monopollze alltn
4 credit of the great victory, while nun
~ bers of uniformed and foolish Catholic
Id can think of William only as the dead
tn enemy and prosecutors of their Church
y and of the Boyne as tho most disastrou
ID and h%umiliating event in the history
their country. A knowledge OF the re;
- facts would be of immense benefit
Irishmen. The truth being known, tt
!. Orangemen would have no occasion
boast, MOI the Catholic to be ashamed
feel insulted or humiliated. Villa
III was not an Orangeman. If the o
iect OF his policy in Ireland was the pc
&c secution OF the Catholic Church, the POI
W. of that day was much to blame, tor w
ur liam, in his invasion of England, w
acting as the agent Of a Continent
~, League, of which His Holiness was
ant active member. As regards the bait
've Of Boyne, a large proportion of w
III liam's army consisted of pious and q
voted Catholics who would no be like
ave to fight so bravely, or fight at all, in su
airy port OF the no-popery principles ma
I'M, tanned by Orangemen of the present "a
rec No one was more gratifed at the RESI-
4 in of the battle than the papal legate
'ap- London, who, from the manner in viii
was he re,oiced over the event, evidently
h it parded it as a victory obtained over I
ach enemies Of his master-the Pope. Tht
on ;wror4ant facts should be known and
9Th aected on bv those misguided Prote
ants and Catholics who, unconscious
the play the game of the enemies OF lreia!
n in by their miserable quarrels about N
pups William and the Boyne."