The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-04
for Condon's Imprisonment has suffered
the penalty ofhis neglect OF duty.
THE MARcHloNEss OF ouEENs7uRRY

and why IS IL Sue STATUS "Poi' -
the tribe in which she was born-the seh>
fish land-stealing, man-deoaslns trioe
the aristocracy?
She is indeed singular woman. Back
in the page Of history you will dlscoset
men. and odd men who STOOD ouc
from their order. and mace
head against its crimes. buI
since the mother of the Graceful we aont
remember any such distinction slgnaliy
earned and claimed by the fair sex.
Joan ofArc did good things, but 1t was
less for people than for dynasty: IN
their local spheres there is nothing OF the
lust the merciful, and the heroic that
women have not done and dared In
GREAT issues involving the fate OF natlons
thew NAV, perhaps, have done. OF a1>
tempted. glorious things that may nave
been swept away from history, OF Iadeu
from our memory, if they ever hao
place there.
But here is name. 1t belongs 10 Tue
nineteenth century, and 1t Will not anu
cannot be erased from the historic RECORD.
The Marcoioness OF Queeenshurry. IL IS
a new star in the political sky, and 1t
needs no telescope to reveal It's lustre.
This lady is not more imbued with the
| God-inspired enthusiasm that reoeeWs
| nations than she is with close and Keen
perception of the true and solid, as con-
trasted with the lacquered and the false.
Were it otherwise-and here lies her
most honorable distinction-she would
have ranged herself in the ranks OF the
eloquent, the rich, the right honorable,
if Won please. apostles of that bungling.
impracticable organization that WINES
for Home Rule. She has been handling
Mitchell Henry-the prospective rent
raising Mitchell Henry-who strings
Galway and NJ. 2. to his name. She has
been letting in little light, or lightning
rather, on this gentleman and his gold
eye,ylass associates. 1t seems to have
struck him sharply, and even blinded
him little. After wincing about the
accident OF an English birth, and deny
ing for the first time, we believe his
recorded speeches, he comes to throw the
LIGHT of his own darkness on compare
son between England and the Unlted
States; between Ireland and single
state-for example the State OF Ne"
{ York.
Now. there happens to be, first, a great
. natural and immovable disparity between
= Ireland and New York. New York
, blends into Connecticut, New Jersey,
) Pennsylvania, etc., forming geogra>
I nh;cal Notwithstanding what the ALI
wise. or Nature, intended them to be
5 Is it so with Ireland? Does there not
roll between her and her enslaver g sea
4 as deep as the Boetian ignorance ano
:. the begging subservience OF the home
e Rulers.
But is it an exhibit of his own ignor'
/. ance when he makes the political com
n parison between Ireland and one. OF TIT
d States of this Union, or does he count up
J. on a presumed ignorance OF the lrlsf
II people in connection with our American
: institutions? Here's what ne says
There is in America one army, one nav.
and Custom Union, so that as agalns
i the outer world America presents an I'm
" tied front: but on all other matters eacl
/, state is governed by its own parlla
le ment and its own State laws. HON
lr Rulers strive to obtain the same boo
at for Ireland, so that in future no powe
t. on earth shall have right to make law
le to bind Ireland except the monarch
n Ireland and the Lords and Commons
a. Ireland
,st We can by no means absolve Mr.. Her
de nv OF wilful attempt to mis.ead, w
lg cannot believe him ignorant that Ne
,e- York State has Governor who is CON
ne mander-in> chief of the militia OF tt
en- State, in number hundreds OF thousands
all that he commissions their officers az
N, furnishes their military equipments az
in stores. and that he is elected by Il
err whole people OF the state. Faith. M
an Henry, if you will bear out yovr cor
,p- parison, and insist upon making 1t goo
nv AS against the British Crown, we w
to take service ourselves under your ba
ly ners, at least for a year or two, tor
Ireland had all that sho would soon na
the rest.
Your Commons and Lords"
on> ireland 60 good deal against our sto
vas ach, as they now stand, especially tho
.'lords" of yours. The ARMY and ma
sed that you would have under the new
pint rangement wouldn't be good for yo
> to health. O.. yes-we had forgotten-th
im- would be quite good for you and all
,ich other rent-raisers. But justin propt
uch ton as they would be good for you wo'
to they be quite the other thing for the Ir
IS y people.
der But where are we to get the ''m'
red ARCH you talk about? You are 10
UGH man, you are ''golden-link-of Of
g to Crown" man. So, OF course. you ooult
srn> think OF disturbing adams dear Ii
tain queen" out OF her easy chair and
was ..pilesr of laces. Very we'll! The 70
ern- assent is needed to all those fine pr
j to pcctiye laws with which your Home R
en- wisdom will surprise the world. ID
YOU wish you may get it?" Why, m
ade. that adorable queen of yours will moi
be there at all to give either assent"
oper dissent if she were ever so will
not There will be thing calleda ''Cabil
Der there, and it will give you inst what
the likes to give. Like discontinued ch
dis YOU may clamor for this bauble or
v he that toy, but the Beaconsfield crew
def. decide that they wouldn't be good
rican Jou. So, alter all, your Home
Ell as success would bring you to about wi
ects You started