The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-16
IT'S LAST MEETING,
What "Oivls Has to Say in the Dublin
Nation Of the Old Irish Par
lament.
How the Fortunes Of Ireland's Country
men Were Battered Away for
Titles and Honors.'

For the last time the Irish Parlla-
ment met on January Is, 1860, to carry
out the political turpitude planned by
his Saintship Castlereagh. The breath
of mobility" was infused into the
bodies Of twenty-seyen individuals will
ing to sell the fortunes OF their country
and the liberties of their countrym en-,
for what was termed title and honors.'
Those money-making machines and
adorers of British gewgaws disposed OF
national property to which they had 10
legal claim; so upon this pretence their
tituIar descendants have since been
''honored" and paid for political s'Fllld-
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 a 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, y had not pen
etrated the selfish hearts OF the clerical
| assistants who sold their countTy'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 Mr. 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 1862 to 50. Men
of intellect clearly foresaw the curse OF
/, bureaucratic Capitalization and conse-
quent pauperisrn, 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
petitioned 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 honses-exporters OF money
earned in ireland to be spend in En-
gland -chaunels for the flow OF rents to
absentee acknowledgements 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,
s'the Importation Of English capital"
which is Of no use when every available
cent Of Irish earnings is seized upon by
the rapacious claws OF foreign rulers,
aided by antl-Irisll Irishmen.
Up to this time 1sso) the Catholic
bishops had been neutral, fearing the
consequences of any sign Of life from
their DISTINGUISHED, poverty-stricken
tlocks, who still suffered from the
effects of a penal code worthy of Luc-
fer. The heavenly Castlereagh, with
the usual effrontery Ct imported states
men, by duplicity, lying and Hypocrisy,
induced the Catholic bishops to preach
against the anti-Unio movements.
Ignorant people and deep-scheming,
hidden conspirators, who talk OF relig-
ious hate and endeagor 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 nation. Seven hundred
Thousand electors petitioned against
the Measure, and only 1000 forit. 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 frighten
sensible men. Fitzgerald, the Shear
eses, Emmett, Grattan, Flood, Shiel,
John Martin, John Mitchell, Butt-all
differed from the majority of their
countrymen in religion; yet those pa
trlots 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 I'M
ported cheats and official garroters.
That despotic. unconstitutional fraud
is adored as sacred union by educated
beings who imagine they know the
of words, and think they can
read events. and even prentend to teach
history, philosophy, and political econ
omy. Such a race of thinkers would
remind 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
dern sophists breed national plague |
by allowing the fostering corpse of our
white elephant, the Union, to continue
It's fatal course of decay and coTTup- |
ion, until Ireland fell a victim to such |
insane, mmolating idolatry. ITishmen |
will never re-inact the Penal Laws; yet
this pestiIence is advocated. forsooth, I
because Catholics would extiTpate Pro
although the leader of the
Irish race is Protestant, and the most |
Of Catholic constituencies have elected I