The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-10-17
MONSIEUR MICH. MORPHY.
An Adventurous Franco. .Irishman,
Who Tyiumphed Over the
French Government.
WAS AsAsTRONG FRIEND LABOR,
Was Expelled Several Times From France,
On Account of Ills Extrava-
CANT Speeches.

On Account of His Rxtrava-
CANT Speeches.
a large majority of the I1ish who
made France the land OF their adoption
were by education and tradition more
Royalist than the Royalists themselves.
They had chlYalrous but q no less ab-
surd notion of the loyalty they owed to
the persons of kings and princes. AT
home some Of these brave men had
fought in Limerick and at Aughrlm, II
defence of an Anglo-S Saxon churl who
was struggling to regain his crown.
Despite the final overthrow Of James.
IrishmeD still clung to the Jaconlte
cause, and carried with them to France
that intense feeling OF king worship
which is even still predominant Char
acterlstic Of the Irish gentry and Castle
shopkeepers of today. When the star
OF "bonnie Charlie, ''the last OF the ia
cobite pretenders, says Eugene Davis in
Boston Pilot, sank behind the horizon.
the Hibernians ln France transferred
their undivided allegiance to the Bour-
bon kings, none OF whom showed any
particular interest in an project started
for the independence of Ireland. Thus
the devotion of the Irish TO the Jacob
ites on the one hand, and to the Bour-
bons on the other, was in every sense OF
the word a thanklsss as well as a profit
less One---so far as the realization OF
their countrY's national hopes was con-
cerned. Yet, when the Bourbon flag
fell begrimed with dust and blood in the
awful revolutionary cataclysm OF '93'
these men Of Irish birth OR origin clung
for the most part with splendid fatuity
to the shattered crown and the broken
sceprre. Like other children Of their
race on other occasions, they had the
peculiar misfortune OF linking their
destinies with those of losing cause.
AND they paid the penalty Of their devo~
ton in death;tor hundreds Of Franco
Irishmen, like Dillon and others. died
under the blade of the gaillotlne shout
ing, "Vive le Roil' Their defendants IN
France today still belieyein the chlmera
of royalty. The Revolution in that
country has made but very few Irish pro-
selyles--,lot, perhaps, becausa the Irish
loyed liberty lass than the French but
because revolution in France often
meant atheism; and the Irish. who were
and are intensely Catholic, were unable
to join hands with those whose gospel
was the Ency yclopBdia Of Voltalre and
Diderot. Nevertheless, there have been
and there are exceptions; and one OF
these latterday exceptions is no less
parsonage than
MONSIEUR MICHAEL MORPHY,
who is at present one of the le ding
lighJs of the Boulangist movement in
Paris. Mr.. MorphY, or Citizen MorphY,"
as he prefers to be called, comes from
father and mother who were born IN
the County Kerry. Michael hims elf
saw the light, very appropriately, IN the
revolutionary heart of Paris, on the
slopes of Republican Montmartre, some
twent ty- seven or eight wears ago. Nor
ply the father, was an artisan, and dur
ing his residence in Ireland was a mem
Der of the Irish Republican Brotherhood,
which had been at tha time established
under the auspices of Head Center
Stephens. Morphy Junior sucked demo
cratic milk at the breast of a mother who
was daughter of the people; ;and thus
provided on both sides with revolution
ary leayen, the STRIPPING, who received a
solid education at Paris lyceum, began
to make his mark at comparatively
early age on French contemporary an-
nails. He was only fifteen years old
when he made his debut as a demagogue
in Belle,ille. His Montmartre surround
ings had fostered in him that wild spirit
Of unrest which tempted him to mount
rostrum after rostrum, and denounce IN
every mood and tense the stvile and ra-
pacious capitalists who were living like
yultures on the vlEals of the people"
Morphy was in those davs an nncom-
promising rebel against society and
pomps. He used to arouse the enthu
siasm. or i mi zht more properly say. the
wolfish greed of the Dopulace by pictur-
ing to their mental gaze the glad and
glorious time comlag. " when the wealth
OF nation would not, be monopolized
by the few, but shared equally by ALL.
This rhodomontade went down the
throats Of the horny handed sons Of toll
like so much treacle, and the Franco
irish youth became at once the petted
darling of the vario GUS Jaeobin clubs in
TIE His bright blue Irish eyes.
I'LL tbasdless md ruddy face, and his
Shril Yet tnusicl SOPRANO voice had g
sl,ae sct oll tl,e MULTI