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

own the earth, which COO mace loi
mans use aud benefit.
The prophecy of MIR. Stack concern
ing .scivil wal, = free trade, = ''Ameri- |
can protection and his own opinion
about duty, L pass over as not worthy
of notice, for evidently Mr.. Stack has
not got the gift of seeing into the
future when he is so ignorant OF past
and present.
Now Mr.. Stack makes a deliberate
misstatement when he says that Far
nell wishes to raise q rebellion III Ire
,and, OF that he has no friends III the
House of Commons, or that he has only
eighty-three followers, or that Joseph
Arch is his enemy, or that be is trying
! to carry an act Of secession IN the
| United Kingdom. All these statements
are false, as anyone taking any notice
OF the last session of Parliament or the
good viii Of the laboring classes Id
England towards Parnell well knows.
/, + will have to consign MIR. Stacks
| next attempt at prophecy to the same
| fate as his former one. And as to the
1900 police whose duty is now to pre-
serve order in Ireland, ETC., etc. Now,
how much does Mr.. Stack know about
those police and officials? BY his own
statement see he knows as little about
them as an Indian does about the police
of Minneapolis when he says they
/ would not submit to the new regime.
! T alphabetically deny that assertion, for
/ I have had personal association with
/ hundreds Of the irish constabulary,
and while they are the best educated,
4 the best disciplined and by Tar the best
morally and physically OF any military
/ body in the world of their numbers,
! they are, Of course, the most obedlent
4 to orders Their orders come from
! English officials, their pay comes from
/ the English Irish Eychequer: and Whiie
| they are sworn to do English duty for
/ which they are paid Irish money, those
same men would do Irish duty far bet.
ter if they had Irish officials and their
paw came from the Irish Exchequer
controlled By an Irish Parliament.
/ These are personal statements which
I make from personal intercourse with
/ both officers and privates.
| Mr.. Stacks bosh about Canada and
Australia, OF course, no one will notice;
for If Ireland had geographical posi-
ton, as either Of these countries, she
would have been an independent nation
Hong before Mr.. Stack was born or the
grain to make him was sown. But III
no statement does Mr.. Stack make such
q complete fool OF himself as when he
tries to make such comparison between
the expense of running the proposed
Irish government with the billions car
ried away In rents. ] say billions with
la perfect knowledge Of what am say
ing-for no one man, no Statistics, blue
books or government satchel can give
any idea Of the four million cases OF
individual suffering there are that
many suffering directly OF indirectly IN
Ireland.
! wonder where Mr. Stack got his di-
plOLaa GA MStslCAi6, No PAJSAo hs
says seemed to do them any good, "etc..
} etc. Try few buckshot Forster's pills,
| and take few yourself, Mr.. Stack.
|, They'll give you clearer understand
: ing OF history Sure, my dear friend,
lit doesn't necessarily follow because
France had to fight for peasant propri-
, etary. that Ireland would have to dc
so. She may have to, but sure you'll
never give her any physical help, for il
your physic be as weak as your mind
and as tainted as your historical quota
tons, you would indeed be apoor speci'
men of Irish soldiery.
Again Mr.. Stack calls history to his
assistance, to prove that the Irish are
industrious. great agitators, that they
never had civil or religious liberty; that
Catholics could not vote. Those are
. statements would be ashamed to tel
child 10 years old, for he would say he
! knewsthem since he was FIVE years old
Mr. Stacks little bit Of sophistrJ
l about Irishmen fighting for an English
Empire, and then handing 1t over to
England. won't stop to contradict OF
= comment on, for there is no one who
| reads the Tribune but knows when
! Irishmen were fighting with The Eng.
! lisl they were the victims OF clrcum-
stances and not Of their own choice.
But must contradict Mr.. Stack WheI
he saws the soil Of Ireland is exhausted
for statistics prove it to be the mos1
g fertile country in the world. A sol
9 that produces 60 bushels of wheat, u
4 bushels of barley. 40 bushels Of oats
5 and from 80 to 80 tons OF Swedish tuT-
nips per acre, is not nearly SO exhaust
2 ed as Mr.. Stacks brains. after the con-
: glomerating statements and historical
epochs chronicled in to-day's Tribune
I don't think Mr.. Stack gives Amer
; lean readers any excuse why England
: ! should nlisgoyern Ireland, from the
fact that the Irish receive government
tai positions In the colonies, Tor Ameri-
cans are too well aware that freshmen
!. are adapted By nature 20 rule impair.
italy. and in no country are there more
Irish in Office than in our own. AND
everybody knews that it's not for love
of Irishmen that the English govern
Hent gives them Office, but to conciliaee
! them and as there are SO many ioya
/ Irishmen-Iike Mr.. Stack-who are
/ ready and willing to sell their birth
} right for mess Of potlage, 1T Is not to Be