The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-27


Roman Catholic are incap lated from
friends. You come here from all quarters
Of the earth and can buy "a corner lotin
Minneapolis, which soon makes you a
small millionaire (laughter.) If the
son abjures the religion OF his father,
the father becomes a pensioner on the
land in favor OF his son. No Catholic
can take lease of land for more than
thirty-one years. Priests who cele--#
brate mass should be transported and it
they returned should be hanged. a
Catholic having q horse In his possess
ion alone the value of e5 should forfeit
the same to the discoyerer. By a con-
struction of Lord Hardwick an Irish
Catholic could not loan money on mort
cages. Sidney Smith used this awful
metaphor: You can trace Ireland
through the statute OF England
as you can wounded shark through
the water by the blood Young says in
l776, A landlord can scarcely invent an
order which servant dare refuse to
execute. Bring the thing home to your
selves in this noble land, where liberty
comes to US as natural as
| the air we breathe. Think
| of the degradation, the .crowding
down and impoyerishing OF a people
with such laws. William Pitt said in
1875, and he spoke as an Englishman,
| ireland has been Systematically de-
prived of her resources" LII 1888 a
duty was IMPOSED upon Irish woolens,
equal to a prohibition. The export OF
cattle from ireland to England to the
| colonies was forbidden. Laws were
passed against cotton and hemp manu-
facture BY the statute Of Charles the
Second, the Irish were forbidden TO ex-
port cattle. At the time when the
great fire Of London swept away a
| great portion of abe city, a cry of alarm
went forth to these oppressed Irishmen,
/ to these Irishmen whom England said
they could not export cattle to the col
onies-and they sent as as afree present
to the starving people Of London, 3d.
600 head OF cattle. Why, my friends,
is it an wonder that the poor Irish peo-
| pie have been made heWers of wood and
| drawers of water in the World2 De
] MED the exercise Of their religion. their
priests expelled. Why, my friends.
| when we think of it, that the Irish peo-
pie at that time numbered only 100000,
less than million-and all this aw-
full pressure brought to bear upon them,
| it is the miracle of the world that there
is to- day a single one of them left upon
the face of the earth. 1t is the mira
4 Gle of the world that to-day more than
4 2,0O0,O 900 people of Irish blood and
! Irish birth exist in our own great
land, and many millions more, who
trace their ancestry to that noble stock
Is it any wonder that the poor Irish
men with this territory OF oppression
and misery, bear i'll the very liniments
of his face the awful ehirography he
he has endured for generations? And
in spite Of all, my friends, what have
they done2 Name department OF
science or literature in which the Irish.
man has not shone resplendant. Go
ask the Englishman who was the great
est orator and statesman that has illum-
. 1900. the ,E.oasiiS.a Parliament; tina
marvellous man! and he will put his fin
ger upon Edmund Burke; ask the Eng
lIsh aristocrat, if you please, when tn,
wars Of the lnsurrection were raging
mad with fire, from all the hosts O.
!. France, when that blessed revolution
came that shook the shackles from TIT
French race, and made the Frenchmal
what he is; ask the Enghshman, who's
indomitable will, whose Irish hear
stood like rock upon the field OF Wat
erloosand ne will tell you it was Arthu
Wellesley Duke of Wellington,-al
Irishman of Irish extraction. Go, ash
your literateur to point TO thu
s ,4gqsaetest poet in the English language
the gentIest and the noblest soul, ant
who painted those beautiful lines il
1.-The Deserted Village and he vii
name Oliver Goldsmith. 60 ask til.
, scientist to-day, and he will tell yo,
that it's Tyndale, the Irishman. Asl
!, the Englishman who commands Thu
armies Of England, and he will name
/ that illustrious Irishlnan w olseley
Ask the American VINO commands to-
day thu armies Of the United States ant
. he will name that fiery thuHderbolt O
I war--the immortal Sheridan. tGrea
applause.) In 1865, upon a steamboat
on the Mississippi, was introduced t.
Ulysses S. Grant and his father. Wher
old Jesse Grant heard my name HI
turned to me and said, Where wer.
your people from2n / said, From th'
north of Ireland. lie shook hands
with me and said, Why, that's whers
my ancestors we're FROM - by, !"
said. Il thought you were Of Scotch OK
traction @Oh, no" he said
My grandmother name va;
Kelley, and nobody has ever sait
that Kelley was a Scotch
family. j think, that all Gen. Grants
battles dWindled into insignidcenct
when he refused to take from the hand
! of Gen. Lee the sword that he had ten
dered him. While England. represent
ing alower civilization than ours, wa.
blowing the reiGeilious Sepoys from thu