The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-16
IT'S LAST MEETING
What /" Oivla' Has 70 Say 8 the Dublin
Nation d the Old Irish Par
lament.

HsAs Z
lament.
How the Fortunes Of Ireland's Country
men We're Battered Away for
/" Titles and Honors.' 4
For the last time the Irish Parlia-
ment met on January Is, 1900, to carry
out the political turpitude planned BY
his Saintship Castlereagh. The breath |
of mobility" was infused into the
bodies Of twenty-seyen indiyid uals will
ing to sell the fortunes of their country,
and the liberties of their countryn,en
for what was termed title and honors.'
Those money making machines and
adorers Of British gewgaws dispo Of
national property to which they had no
legal claim; SO upon this pretence their
tituIar descendants have since been
''honored'' and paid for political sWind-
ling. Twenty-seven new peers had been
added to the Lords, to the degradation
of the peerage, so that the pure, unde-
filed Castle might reckon on majority
Of three. Two Of the Lords Spiritual
only had the decency to prefer honesty
to corruption, the vast majority being
evidently swayed by the carnal desires
which they had solemnly promised TO
war against by word and example. OBJ
viously the Divine precept, 'sMy king
dom is not Of this world had not PEN
etrated the selfish hearts Of the clerical
assistants who sold their country's
birthright for a mess Of pottage. In the
Commons, fifty virtuous slaves were
introduced as new borough members
all nominees of that wonderful vessel
Of light, the Castle, save and except
Mr.. Saurin, returned for Blesslngton,
and MI. Grattan, elected at the last
moment for Wicklow. In the previous
December the great constitutional
body of the Bar had declared strongly
against the measure by 1872 to 50. Men
Of intellect clearly foresaw the curse OF
bureaucratic Capitalization and conse-
quent pauperism, IF petty provincial
patronage and practice; but West
British factionists had taken care to
silence the lawyers in Ireland by judi
cious subsidies literally applied in the
proper political quarters. The bankers
retitioned against the Union, foresee-
ing that London would become the en-
porium Of wealth. And so it has come
to pass. What are called Irish banks
are simply collectors for English dis
count houses exporters of money
earned in ireland to be spend in En-
gland. -chaunels for the flow Of rents to
absentee landlords agents for the ex-
portation of taxes to be used in pay
ment of English labor in Government
stores and of imported Government
officials. All this was clear to the
minds of fnanciers who we've not in
sane upon the fashionable humbug,
1.-THE Importation Of English capital"
which is Of no use when every available
Icent Of Irish earnings is seized upon BY
the rapacious claws Of foreign rulers,
aided by anti Irish Irishmen.
Up to this time (18s0) the Catholic
bishops had been neutral, fearing the
consequences of any sign Of life from
their DISTINGUISHED, poverty stricken
flocks, who still suffered from the
effects of a penal code worthy of Luci-
fer. The heavenly Castlereagh, with
the usual effrontery tf imported states
men, by duplicity, lying and Hypocrisy,
induced the Catholic bishops to preach
against the anti-U Union movements.
Ignorant people and deep-scheming,
hidden conspirators, who talk Of relig-
ious hate and endeavor to excite alb
horrence to Home Rule, by alarming
the minority, should be reminded of the
historical fact that, in the old Irish
sectarian Parliament, the Protestant
patriotic members and the Protestant
electorate, jealousy guarded the rights
of Ireland as a nation. Seven hundred
thousand electors petitioned against
the measure, and only Z 900 for it. Irish
men Of any creed, class, age, or posi-
ton must be safer legislators than
alien absorbers. 1t is the old, old
story divide and conquer. The
religious DOGGY should not brighten
sensible men. Fitzgerald, the Shear
eses, Emmett, GrattaD, Flood, Shiel,
John Martin, John Mitchell, Butt all
differed from the majority Of their
countrymen in religion; yet those pa
tr1ots laid down their lives or gave
their lifetime to the service Of ireland.
The present movement to recover our
constitutional privileges and legislative
rights, which were appropriated by inn
ported cheats and official garroters.
That despotic, unconstitutional fraud
is adored as sacred union by educated
beings who imagine they know the
meaning of words. and think they can
read events, and even prentend to teach
history. philosophy, and political econ
omy. Such race Of thinkers would
remind q reasonable person of Thee
baw's followers, who would fam have
kept the pestilential remains Of their
sacred white elephant until its putre-
faction would destroy themselves. In
like manner would certain law and or
der'' sophists breed q national plague
by allowing the fostering corpse OF our
white elephant, the Union, to continue
;fo <ofal oy,,,ron ~ do<,uv md enrr1Yr1.