The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-23
me Anti-MonoP0liSt.
1.-THE United lrishman."

Among the nefarious arts by which
tyranny in every age and country has
son cht to fabricate letters and CONSOLE
date its iron chain, to perpetnate its do .
minion, the most vulgar and common
place IS to keep the captive in darkness
We need not inform our Irish readers OF
this fact. To them it is perfectly well
known. They have learned from the
, traditions of their fathers that the most
hideons feature in the revolving visage |
If oppression was its antipathy to educa-
, ton. They remember only toe well the
! dismal days when
4 Crouching meath the shetering hedge OF
b stretched on mou ntain fern,
The teacher and his pupils met, feloniously to
When st;ll beside the smouldering turf, where
o Of heavenly saints and princely chiefs, the
IS power and faith OF old.
This mode OF rivetting the letters OF
8 slavery and giving perpetuity to bond
" aoe was not peculiar to Ireland. 1t was
y as widespread as the dark dominion OF
~ oppression and as old as the empire OF
~ might. was practiced by Julian, the
e Anostate when. in the face of the Chris
VI tan adolescence OF Rome, he shut the
schools of classic literature. Regarded
from the standpoint of oppression this
r. nolicv was enthusiastically wise. To use
y" the words of the poet:
al Well. well. they knew that never,
Face to face beneath the skies,
Could tyranny and knowledge meet
4l5 But one of them must die.
600 1.-THE six-and twenty letters" said Johl
~ p. Curran. ''arc the natural enemies Q
vice. folly and slavery-the great sewers
80 but still the great weeders, OF the huma
no SOIL"
mo These reflections have been suggeste
Der bv the appearance of newspaper ded
ON Gated to Irish interests, which is publish
eiy ed in Liverpool, and entitled me om1e
out freshman. We regard the appearance
ars of this new paper as an event pregnal
uot with the promise of better fortunes Il
n OF the Irish in England The spirit whlc
try breathes in its columns is strangely al
TO tithetical to that of the penal enactmen
OF for the suppression of education IN IT
J, OF land. It would tain educate the peopl
asst in order that they may be tree, as u
nee English legislators prohibited educatlf
lher in order that they might be slaves; II
ner- especially devoted to an active ana ear
yer, est propagandism OF the principles
IS IS Irish Nationality, and earnestly adyoca ;.
own the right of Ireland to distinct legis:atl
the INDEPENDENCE. To publish such PAP
v OF in America or even in Ireland, whe
ears the efforts of the patriots are foster
nple by the proclivities of the public Is
eh nee comparatively easy task, but to YIN
lett cate the character and advocate
IS IN rights of the slave in the precincts OF
aolo- tyrant. is an evidence OF intrepid
lis OF which is worthy of admiration Al
John was the business of the oppressor
como create darkness, it is the task OF
eopie United Irishman to diffuse light.
IS an sincerely wish the editor success IN
I that undertaking. A good newspaper,
om 10 has been often asserted, is 1.-THE
ready noss;ble instructor of the public"
from all we have seen OF 1t, the IN
Irishnan possesses all the charact'
ties and elements of a good newspa
ers on Irish World.