The Irish standard., 1888-11-17

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dered posse of policemen to stand out
side his store, varying their attentions
by ransacking the poor mans store and
taking thirty dozen copies Of "United
Ireland"
+ Another offender, O'Rourke OF Ira
lee, was sent to prison for month i'm
dlatelY after the poor mans wife died,
! taking him away from his helpless
children, all because the poor news
yeilder dared to sell a paper prescribed
| Dy the rulers OF ireland.
! In the face OF al this, and more be-
yond rscounting. the people, headed by
! their priests, presented a united frcnt
! to the enemy; it became criminal FOR q
| priest to warn his fock, and treason to
assist Illen in their social and religious
| needs; and thus came the strange sight
! Of public meetings held III chapel yards,
with priests as chalruen and people
who came to pray getting TO boot sound
| lessons in politics.
! Thus there came to be a new Ireland,
composed Of men s'who knew theil
rights and knowing dared laaintain,"
cheered in their work by the co.opara-
tlon Of priests and bishops, and held
! together by leader the like OF whom
the world never saw before, Charles
Stewart parne}l. From hirn and them
the Old spirit Of submission to wrong
has gone forever.
The murder OF LORD I4eitrim was the
death kneIl Of landlords tyranny. That
murder was held up to the world by the
British press as proof positive Of the
savagerY Of the Irish people, but when
it became known that Lord Leitri,n
made his tenants daughters the crea--
zlres Of his lust, and when at Last; the
hand Of the braYe man avenged the out
ragged honor OF his espoused wife, who
dared to turn inforrner
Now the landlords are holding hign
carnival, eyicting tenants, notices to
quit. knocking down houses with this
aid Of red coats, emergency nlen and
OGttcljAEG 1asAc'
From 1S49 10 the present time al
average of three thousand families e
year haye been turned out upon the
streets to die for the payment Of an
unjust rent. But never again will the
Irish tenant leave his little home with
out Il struggle. The man of all others
who has the courage Of his opinlons,
William Z. Gladstone, created land
act giving the tenant some security Of
tenure and some compensations for in1
provements in case Of disturbance. 1t
passed the House of Commons but was
rejected in the House of Lords by q ma.
jority Of 23l, manv Of them showing
contempt and derislon for the feelings
of 80 many of these poor sufferers.
Here in this !aud of OURS, the best
and freess the sun shines upon, the
sympathy Of the great American repub.
lie gave new energy to a people strug-
Cling for their rights, and they have not
looked in vain across the ocean for aid
in their just cause. The slanders Of the
enemy, both in press and pulpit, havo
been taken at their Just value, falling
flarmlessly before the impartial mind
A greater Ireland has arisen up in
Australia, There many of our people,
banished by English injustice, have
found home with every opportunity of
development.
In Ireland new impetus has been
given to education; the schools are
filled with bright class of pupils, who
from an early age learn their country's
story aud with that knowledge learn to
prize that liberty which their fathe1s
strove to preserve.
Half century aga the Irish Attorney
General snee1ed at the Home Secretary
for proposing to educate the Irish.
eyes," said he, ''teach them to read.
To read what? Laws enacted for their
degradation. Teach them to calculate.
Calculate what? About property not be.
longing to then.'
A modern genius, we'll up to the
times, says that mathematics has been
always favorite study with the Irish.
We therefore are sorry to say that in
Ireland the terms used in the books
should not be more familiar; that III
fact the mind of the pupil should have
been diverted FROM the working of any
part Of the rule by the names Of the
various quantities. What does an Irish
boy know about barilla, or isinglass OF
madder2~ We think great injury has
been done the poor scholar by filing his
books with names he knows nothing Of.
To prevent this evil in future, we must
have a new arithmetic with known Or
familiar terms: such as potatoes, par.
sons, bishops, bales Of old clothes, bayo.
nets. bibles, policemen, taxes, notices
to quit, etc. We might occasionally in.
troduce ''ships, houses, exports, i'm
ports, traders, merchants, manufactur-
les, - for though the Irish know but very
little about such matters at present they
may cultivate a taste for them.