The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-04-19

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bludgeoned or bayoneted and dragged
out covered with blood, and imprisoned.
while his wife, with piercing cry. and
his young, wailing, shuddering, fright
ened children, shed tears enough 70
moisten the land that gave them birth !.
Soon after the oil can and match. are APP
piled to the roof that sheltered them lest
they should seek shelter there again.
The mercenaries that execute these bru-
tai evictions are known to play with the
lamentations and tears Of the tenants
young daughters by Insulting them with
obscene expressions and remarks. while
a Gordon Of police sometimes keeps back
newspaper reporter from witnessing
the cruel s'enormities' perpetrated on
the victims OF Engiand's Czarina.
Gladstone truly called these evictio1s
sentences of DEATH" Archbishop Croke
said ''There is no other land, savage or
civilized, where such scandalous and
unchristianllke scenes could be enacted
without fierce contest and even blood
shod, The sending of crown forces to
demolisn the dwellings, OF the poor for
.ne benefit Of the pampered few is 9
crime that cries to heaven for vengeance. :
Place Irishmen on an equal footing with
their enemies and rather than suffer
what they are suffering they will fight
them one to three, but like the criminal
that is always afraid, the cowardly
English government always takes care
not to allow the people of Ireland any
arms except sticks or stones, while its
own h1relings are armed to the teeth.
Mr.. Ingalls,, when speaking in the
senate with regard to protection for
American fishermen, said: s''England
has always been rufian, a coward and
bully among the nations of the earth,
insolent to the weak, tyrannical to the
feeble and crlnging aud oDsequious to
the strong. Her history for centuries
has been record Of CRIME against the
human race" A Hindoo lecturer SAID
lately in England that "The British
have degraded India and her people to
the level of beasts, and that tens of
thousands die yearly Of starvation and
all reports are suppressed" After read
hing some acts passed in the English
parliament for governing Ireland, a
Frenchman SAID, ''Such laws could be
only conceived IN hell and executed by
DEVILS" Look at the meshes of the ia
fernal plct woven to entrap Parnell, and
the thousands of dollars offered P. J..
Sheridan for perjury to deprive Parnell
Of his liberty if not of his life, because
ne is acting the part of Christian to
this people of ireland. Gould more
atrooious plot be conceived in hell or
executed by devils? During fifty years
reign of Victoria, England's Ozarina,
], 1926, 600 Irishmen have died of faminel
8. 668. 600 Irishmen have been evicted!
And 4, 1853. 600 Irishmen were compelled
by English tyranny Commonly called
law to emigrate from their native land,
though, governed BY proper laws, that
land could support five times it's present
population!
What I have stated are incontrover-
tlble facts-facts that can eclipse the
.senormities" of the Czar, and if the
s'stinging rebuke to be signed by every
man, woman and child IN this free re-
public was not got up by some British
American association and subsidized
Anglo American press for the purpose Of
creating an ill-feeling between this
country and Russia, I can't see why a
more singing one should not be got up
and s'circulated all over the United
States to be signed by every man,
woman and child in thus free republic. .
and placed in tho hands Of England 9
Czarina, Of lying Salisbury, and IF brutal
Balfour, requesting them to cease their
1nhuman and unchrlstlan stenormlties'
in Ireland. s.5
Irishmen have q stronger claim on the
sympathy Of the United States than
Russians. Irishmen fought hard and
we'll for the blishlng Of this republic.
It was stated IN the English house Of
commons before q committee appointed
to inquire into the revolution, in answer
to question by Edmund Burke, and on
the authority Of Gen. Lee that half the
rebel continental army were from Ire
land, Evidence to this effect is supplied
by the official register 81 officers and
men from New jersey who took part ii
the Revolutionary var. Wien the
Deelaration,of ependence was signed
in the old hall ii Philadel phia. az least
nne men Of Irish birth Of irish descent
put their names g the document. And
from that day until the day that Gen.
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