The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-12
THE DIFFICULTIES.

! view and we may be alJOSeCle1 Aiio'e
ken. but as well as we can Judge, we
are forced to the conviction that While
there is a probability that England
! will be brought into the present Euro
peaE war there is still a stronger
probability that the event. II 1t taxes
: place. will be Of little benefit to ireland.
! ..Whv. would not England's difficult
! ty be Ireland's opportunity
+, Yes. to be sure, but we have SO ma
.tny difficulties of our own in the way,
\ that we are not likely to getat Eng
. lands difficulty, to make any use or It.
!. There is the Fenian difficulty (you
t may call these policies if you please)
I the Home Rule Difficulty, the church
difficulty, the never-do-anythlng-b but
s7.eer difficulty, the cautious, good al
j vice difficulty; bah. we cannot count
, over all our difficulties; but they are
J all more or less, smashingat one anoth-
er, with little chance Of uniting against
Tie COlIlI1IOlI
Let it never be forgotten, and we
wish it would be remembered by the
champions of the difficulties, that Eng
land, at war or at peace, could not
hold ireland six months if the Irish
.. people at home and abroad were united
and worthy of the cause that has come
down to them through successive gen.
erations of patriots and martyrs.
Ofcourse we know that perfect uni
ty is impossible. There is a strong
English faction, Il government party
in Ireland, that would fight to the last
man, for England.
!. With centuries Of possessionit would
be impossible not to have such party.
1T existed in this country during the
revolutionary war. 1t IS and Will be
in every country where the govern
ment has plumber and patronage to be-
stow.
But, we are not taking this party IN
to consideration when we speak OF uni
ty; we only allude to the protested
friends of Ireland. and we say that ii
they were united like rational beings,
for the country they profess to love and
wish to serve, England could not hold
Ireland six months. We wish to good
ness that Ireland's friends would take
a lesson from Ireland's enemies and
the study might keep them from daily
follies.
Now, there are the nationalist, the men
who do not want to ask England for
part or parcel of their own, but, to take
their own bravely. They are right;
nothing will ever be had from Eng
land by begging or asking. They are
right, but to carry out their plan; to
make right victorious, they must have
men to back them up.
Where are they to get those men!'
Among the Irish, the Catholic Irish
ut home and abroad.
All, yes, the Catholic Irish over whom
the Catholic church exercises unlimit-
ed sway.
Surely then those nationalists endeav-
or to keep in harmony with this great
power; at least to the utmost of their
ingenuity they avoid coming in COLI
sion with it! Not at all. They are
continually knocking their heads
against it without the slightest cause
A leading nationalist, a fellow that
would break your head did you dare tC
say anything against Catholicity il
his presence, will-prompted by some
fiend created for the purpose of keep
ing Ireland weak--step out of his way
to have poke at a Priest or Bishop
Quite a sharp thing he thinks ant
and while he is poking the screws 0
the national machine are getting loos
and the spokes of the wheels comm!
out.
Then there are your ether good Iris
men. your religious Irish men, VIII
are actually afraid that any disturb
ance now in behalf of Ireland Nigh
interfere with the conversion of Ems
land. Then there are your conserv;
tive Irishmen, who tell you that til
nationalists are nothing better tina
communists, and your aristocrati
Irishmen. who ssdamn those fellow
sir, going about and collecting none
from poor servant maids.
All, beautiful watchfulness over til
interests of the innocent, who by tn
way.are very we'll able to take care {
themselves. excellent excuse for givin
nothing one self.
Enough. Ireland is not nation,
not likely9to be. in the near futur
nation, because her children are NJ