The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-27

Roman Catholi are inca citated 1IDtn
friends Y ou come here fTonn al quarters
of the earth and san buy ~ corner lot in
Minneapolis, which SOON makes YOU a
small millionaire laughter. # the
son abjures the religion 0f his father,
the father becomes 3 pensioner on the
land iii favor OF his son. No Catholic
can take a lease OF land for more than
thirty one years. Priests who cele-
Ibrate mass should be transpo ported and if
| they returned should be hanged. A
Catholic having horse in his possess
ion alone the value Of e5 should forfeit
the same to the discoverer. 81 BY q CON
strnction Of Lord Hardwick an Irish
Catholic could not. loan money on mort
cages. Sidney Smith used this awful
metaphor: on can trace Ireland
Through the statute Of England
as you can q wounded shark through
the water BY the blood X Dung says in
l776, A landlord can scarcely invent an
order which a servant dare refuse to
execute. Bring the thing home to your
selves in this noble land, where liberty
comes to us as natural as
the air we breathe. Think
of the degradation, the crowding
down and mpoverishing Of people
with such laws! William Pitt said in
1876, and he spoke as an Eng ishman,
Ireland has been Systematically de-
prived Of her resources. Z In 1888 a
duty was IMPOSED upon Irish WOolens,
equal to prohibition. The export of
cattle from Ireland to England to the
colonies vas forbidden. Laws were
passed against cotton and hemp manu-
facture. BY the statute Of Charles the
Second, the Irish were forbidden to ex-
port cattle. At the time when the
great fire Of London swept away a
great portion of abe city, q cry Of alarm
went forth to these oppressed Irishmen,
to these Irishmen whom England said
lthey could not export cattle to the col
lonies and they sent as as a free present
to the starving people OF London, 3d.
600 head of cattle. Why, my friends,
is it an wonder that the poor Irish peo-
pie have been made hewersof wood and
drawers Of water in the world? De
MED the exercise Of their religion, their
priests expelled. Why, my friends.
when we think Of it, that the Irish peo-
pie at that time numbered only 500, GOO,
less than a million and all this aw-
full pressure brought to bear upon them,
| it is the miracle OF the world that there
is to-day a single one Of them left upon
1.-The face of the earth. 1t is the mira
Gle of the world that to-day more than
2, 100000 people of Irish blood and
Irish birth exist in our own great
land, and many millions more, who
trace their ancestry to that noble stock.
Is it any wonder that the poor Irish
men with this territory Of oppression
and misery, bear in the very liniments
of his face the awful chirography he
he has endured for generations? And
| in spite Of all, my friends, what have
they done? Name a department Of
science or literature in which the Irish
man has not shone resplendant. Go,
ask the Englishman who was the great
lest orator and statesman that has illum-
f;,4-lsAsl 4 the .EoaliI., IearllamenJ; that
marvellous mani and he will put his fin
ger upon Edmund Burke; ask the Eng
llsh aristocrat, il, you please, when the
wars OF the insurrection were raging,
mad with fire, from all the hosts OF
France, when that blessed revolution
came that shook the shackles FROM the
French race, and made the Frenchman
what he is; ask the Englishman, whose
indomitable will, whose Irish heart
stood like a rock upon the field Of Wat
erloosand he will tell you it was Arthur
Wellesley Duke Of Wellington, ian
Irishman of Irish extraction. Go, ask
your literateur to point to the
,is5Sgssetest poet in the English language.
the gentlest and the noblest soul, and
who painted those beautiful lines in
| THE Deserted Village and he will
name Oliver Goldsmith. Go ask the
scientist to-day, and he Will tell you
that it is Tyndale, the Irishman. Ask
the Englishman who commands the
armies OF England, aud he will name
that illnstrious Irishman Wolseley.
Ask the American who commands to-
day the armies Of the United States and
he will name that fiery thunderbolt Of
war the immortal Sheridan. lGreat
applause.) In 1865, upon steamboat
on the Mississippi, I was introduced to
Ulysses S. Grant and his father. When
old Jesse Grant heard my name he
turned to me and said, Where were
your people from2p I said, From the
north of Ireland He shook hands
with me and said, Why, that's where
my ancestors were from. = by, = Il
said, u thought you were Of Scotch OK
traction nOh. no, he said.
g My grandmother's name was
Kelley, and nobody has ever said
that Kelley WIS Scotch
family. Think, that all Gen. Grants
battles dwindied into insignifcenee
when he refused to take from the hand
Of Gen. Lee the sword that he had ten
dered him. While England. represent
ing flower civilization than ours, was
blowing the reisellious Sepoys from the
mouths Of the cannons, the great gener-