The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-23

ia Ireland. lis it not the same
lydrophobia that Patrick Henry and
had? that Lincoln Sumner
md Wendell Phillips had! The hydro
ohobia that cures millions. Let the
log return to his vomit, the slave to-
his master and Mr., Stack with them,
out Irishmen will never return to the
yoke and the British cattle.
When I commenced + did not intend
TO sign my name to this, but as ! have
talked plain to this man Stack I will do
10. THOMAS CAVITY.
In the morning Tribuneof Thursday,
two columns Of that paper were filled
with the statements of a Mr.. Stack, and
as those statements for the most part
are false, whether through the writer's
ignorance Of the subject under discus
sion or his willful prejudice, he per-
haps knows best; and being well ac-
quainted with the facts in the case, 4
feel called upon to refute them.
Mr.. Stack says he is an impartial OBJ
server and practical student OF Irish
history, past and present. I don't know
what history OF Ireland he has studied
for in no authentic history Of that
country will be find anything TO cor
roborate the statement that Ireland has
been part of the British Empire for
100 years; for, while one country is in
a state Of warfare with another. it can
not be part of the other. Ireland never
had any semblance of being part OF the
British Empire until after the battle OF
the Boyne, 1880, or little more than
200 years ago. Ia fact, Ireland never
became, in reality, part of the British
Empire until 1900, when the two parlia-
ments were united by the fraudulently
consummated act Of union.
Nj. Stack says that Parnell and his
.'nob" means total separation from
England. Now, any one with unbiased
Judgment knows that Mr.. Parnell and
the Irish people have never materially
depressed from the Home Rule pro-
gramme as inaugurated by the Home
Government Association, at meeting
held at Billion Hotel, Dublin, on the
18th Of May. 1870. The meeting was
composed OF the most prominent pro-
fessional and mercantile gentlemen OF
the metropolis, and was made up OF the
most part of heterogeneous elements.
Here are some Of the resolutions
passed at that meeting, and none con-
ficting with them has since been passed
by any representative body of Irish
men: e ..ss
1T is hereby declared as the essential
principle of this, ASSOCIATION, that the
objects, and the only objects, contem-
plated by its organization are
TO obtain for onrs country the right
and privilege Of managing onr own at
1aessils, Dy d parliars ut assembled in Ire
land, composed soaf Her Majesty, the
sovereign, and her. successors, and the
lords and commons Of Ireland.
q TO leave to an Imperial parliament
the power to deal, with all questions af-
iecting the Imperial Crown and govern
ment; legislation regarding the col:
onies and other dependencies OF the
Crown; and relations of the United
Empire with foreign states; and all
matters appertaining to the defense and
the stability Of the Empire at large.
To attain such an adjustment Of the
relations between the two countries,
without any interference with the pre-
negatives Of the Grown, or any disturb
ance Of the principles Of the Constitu-
tion.n
Mr.. Stack says: " Irishmen have
never been slow to avail themselves OF
the advantages Of their union with
England. They. have plucked more
than their rjghtful advantages from
their position, as I shall presently
show"
Any man in this age making such q
statement as the above, in the face Of
the voluminous fact to the contrary,
takes the best possible means OF
demonstrating his ignorance, his big
otry and his hypocrisy. To say that
Ireland derives any benefit from Eng
land is only equaled in preposterous alb
surdity by the statement that sthe
South had far more right to separate
from the Onion than Ireland had from
England The American Union was
like a band Of brothers; the English
Irish union was and is something like
what Jesse James said to the mail car
rier: Give me all the money and mat
ter that you have, then give me all your
clothes and your underwear, including
your weapons then tell me I have q
right to do so, and il see an oppor-
tuaity Of robbing you again / won't
shoot you
Nov, turn to Ireland" says Mr..
Stack, s'and then you see the voluntary
Of every English manner and
custom, to the utter ignoring Of every
Irish practice
I have lived twenty years in Ireland
inside Of the pale, too, and. speaking
IN general terms, I have never seen
decidedly English voluntarily
adopted. The people have to submit to
innumerable evils against their will.
While l am expressing my own opinion,
{ think / am reiter8ting the sentiments
II 80 per cent Of mY c0untrymen when I