The Irish standard., 1889-11-16
MINNEAPOLIS And ST PAUI. ATUKDAY oYEnBER
{ self-respect Of those men They
,li me- back changed in every rything but


1ltlil 6lf-respect Of those men they.
back changed inseYeryt ything but
attsir hstred Of England. He 4 Mr..
sKinRl did not want lrlshmen to go to
America to fight manhood J; trey ought
To shake of the nig ghtmare OF oppre essloIll:
and slavery which had for centuries
grown upon them; he wished every.
5Irishman to cast of the stoop from his
shoulders, the whine from his voice,
the insincerity from his words, ard to-
stand up, free spoken. self -respe citing.
and self-reIlant b, fearing no man and
making none afraid. And when that,
change would have come about, as soon
it would, ireland would begin to be en-
1iched By the energy and industry Of
her IN sons, and by the genius and
talents which they now squandered in1
every country but their own.
Beside their lazlness, Ir!shmen were
held up to the scorn and contempt Of
the world for their laWlessness, Hardly
a week passed that some English news
paper didn't draw a contrast, in which
they compared the law-abldlng English
people with the laWlass Irish. The law.
abiding English peoplel It was a we'll
known fact that of all the people in
history there was never any so restiye
under laws made not by themselves
than the law abiding English people.
They killed one king and they banished
another, and reduced the successors of
those monarchs to political impotence
because they could not stand the rule
OF the rulers under laws not made by
themselves,
COMING down to the present day, was
there any government or any people
that has done so much TO foment rebel
lion and revolution in Europe, Asia,
and America as the English2 1T was q
most significant thing. that OF all the
nationalitles in the world there was
not one that showed such contempt for
and such defiance Of any laws that came
in their way In the least degree as the
English people. IL any official repre-
sentative Of any country in Europe
were asked what people gave the most
trouble by their insolent contempt Of
laws that interfered with thsir comfort
or convenience, the reply would be shat
the EBgiisn-fp ,Ees were the most law
less OF all. Like Sir Anthony Absolute,
they welv ali ompiiances when they
were not thWarted. Thb- Nnglish law
abidingness that they had he.l ID 50
much Of simply meant that they welee
law-ablding so long as the laws were
made by themselves, aud So far as their
showing respect for the law as law,
there We're no people in the world who
showed such utter disregard Tor the law
as the English people. If, then, Irish
men We're to be preached to about their
laWlessness, surely the English were
not the people who ought to do it, and
1T should be from some pulpit Other
than the English press, Was law to De
reverenced as fetish merely because il
was law? Dill any nlan mean to tell
him that the Catholics should reverence
the penal laWs2 Law was to be obeyed
and respected only when 1t represented
and EXPRESSED and embodied a prinelpIe
of justlce. Even enemies Of Ireland
had been forced to admit that of all the
people on earth. the IrIsh had the most
extraord dinary;Iespee for law But how
cou!d1sh Irisil people have respect for
the elRWlw was being administered
to Them juso ncW? The law was ad-
nllsistered in these days according to
thepDlit litical exigencies Of Dubin Cas-
tle.Sand from Edward LII. down to Ed
ward Of SAKE Wein4r, one could not
tell where he was with regard to the
law. What respect could the people
have for the law that was admi nisrsred
by magistrates who were aymuch in the
service Of the Castle Us the Royal Irish
constabulary themselves2 .