The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-23
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Thomas Oanty, Esq, and T. =. Maher's
Answers 10 Tribune Home
Rule.

Words That Penetrate Facts Of History
Brought Plainly Before the
Light.
Mondays Tribune contained two COM
municatiolls, one from Thomas Canty,
and the other from the pen Of P..8J.
Mahar, in answer to Edward j. Stack,
a man who would call himself an Irish 4
man, but VINO n ever can be such in all
that the term implies, while he is, as
we believe this Stack to be, an edito
rial hireling Of the Tribune. Herewith
we produce the letters Of the gentlen-
men mentioned
Mr.. Ganty says: Some one calling
himself Edward j. Stack furnished an
article to Thursday IS Tribune on home
rule for Ireland.
/ will not answer his assertions that
the Irish people have q yearning for
everything English; that they are
ashamed Of their own language; thai
they have become English themselves;
the blind followers and adorers OF
everything English. Every one knows
that such assertions are absurd and
ridiculous, except to a few such men as
Stack. He asks, why does Ireland want
home rule Why does Dakota want
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home ruler Is she willing to give up
her statehood and be governed like the
District Of Columbia? He says the
Irish parliament would pass such bad
| things as protection laws. Well, will
not discuss the question Of protection
Or: free trade; it is big question, and
ADLER men have discussed it. but suffice
| it to say that Canada and Australia;
have both passed protection laws against
mother England; every other country,
| in Europe ana America have also passed
such laws against her, and they have
got at least few as great statesmen as
Mr.. Stack. He says that the Irish par
Lament would rob the landlords of
their land. Well, the editor of tho
Pail Mall Gazette would not then find
so much RIGHTEOUSNESS and debauchery
in the city of London But no one be-
lieves that this parliament would do
any more than reduce rents to such a
rate that the land lords would be willing
| to sell to their tenants at such price
that the tenants could earn enough in
an ordinary life time to; pay for the,
land he tills.
He says Australia and Canada are
getting tired Of their, severance from
the British empire, and ask. for a repre-
lsentation in the British parliament un-
der complete federation of England
| and her colonies. There are a few men
in Canada and Australia as exceedingly
English as he is, but only q few. 4 I was
| at Winnipeg for d few days about two,
years ago, when one Canon @ '.Mera
gave d lecture on this same subject, of
such a federation with such a parlia-
ment: This Canon O'Mera was the
head Of the University at Winnipeg,
and seemed to be an Irishman who had
sucked so long at the breast Of the
British lioness that, like Mr.: Stack, he
had really thought he was one Of her
own whelps He drew glowing pic
lures, indeed, Of the great empire on
which the sun never sets, with her
representative wisdom gathered at
Westminster from all quarters of the
earth. The Winnipeg papers published
his speech the next morning, and then
handled it without gloves. They said:
Yes, we will be equal partners with
Great Britain in all her glory--in the
glory Of keeping up her standing army
and costly navy, in the glory of paying
her natioal debt, and supporting her
royal family, and her expensive and ar
istocratic army of officeholders. We
think the thread that binds us to Eng
land will continue to grow weaker un-
til it fades entirely away. We may not
like the Yankee well enough to unite
with him, but we will never be any
more to Great Britain than we are,
Every one knows that this is the gen
eral sentiment of the Canadians. He
says that an Irish parliament would
deprive 1900 policemen of their po-
sitions. What does Ireland want Is 600
policemen for9 The Homerulers rule
Ireland now with almost absolute sway
without any policemen at all, and in
spite of 1900 policemen. He says
that the American government pre-
served her union with blood, aud that
the British ought to and will do like
wise When the American govern
ment was preserving her
union with blood the copperhead said:
What will you do when you conquer
the South? VIII she not rebel again?
viii you not have to keep standing
army like England does in Ireland9''
But we keep no standing army in the
South and Il, 600 policemen. Why7l
Because we did not confscate their
lands, deprive them of their civil
rights, and drive them to Connaught or
hell, as the English did the Irish when
they conquered Ireland. No. we gave
the South home rule and every right
we possessed ourselves. Ne crushed
the South with cannon, but we con-
quered it with kindness aud magnanim-
+ity---a lesson in craftsmanship that
England has never learned. Size has
crushed Ireland and kept her crushed