The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-09-17

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ma jo1ity 40 sooner eot tthe pl,1! III than
they not only esta led full eqs1al lily 90 /
between creeds, but they very often gave
the Protestant minority the lions SHARE
Of the honors and paid Offices, q VI u.
In Dublin the Catholics have given
the Professionals the highest honor It
their disposal, that is, the Mayorality,
fifteen times since 1841, and this very
year Protestant has been chosen to be
Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1893. With
regard to the paid offices under the Dub
lin Town Council, some Of the best OF
them are held by Protestants, including
the Chief Medical and Sanitary Officer,
the City Treasurer, the City Engineer
and several others. In one of his recent
speeches in Midlothian, Mr.. Gladstone,
touching upon this matter OF the toler-
ance and libera!ity OF the Catholics Of
Ireland IN contrast to the intolerance of
the Protestant party, gave facts In re-
gard to" Dublin as follows:
In the Dublin Council, three or four
years ago, this case happened. The post
of Surveyor became vacant. The salary
was E1,O0O vear-not contemplate
salary, gentlemen; especially in Ireland,
where, as Lord Salisbury says, you know
in these parts of Ireland there is neither
money nor industry nor anything else
however, there was this salary OF 81, 600
year. There were two Assistant Sur
veyors-one a Protestant and the other
a Roman Catholic, and what do you
think the Nationalist Catholic Corpora
tion Of Dublin did? They chose the
Protestant to be Chief Surveyor, and
gave him the thousand year; and they
have upon the whole about eight thous-
and year to lay out on the renumera-
! ton of civic ofticers--eight thousand four
hundred--ano of this not only four thou
| sand goes to the Professionals and four
thousand to the Roman Catholics, but
! the odd four hundred goes to the Prot
estants-they are four thousand four
hundred
Such is the religious federation of the
Catholic Town Council Of Dublin. OF
the 9s,400 which they pay annually in
| salaries to officers, more than half goes
to Professionals. The same generosity to
the Protestant minority has been and
continues to be manifested elsewhere
throughout Ireland, as Mr.. Gladstone
eo1o
| which we have quoted the above:
| Gin Cork nine Professionals were elected
on the first City Council after the Irish
Municipal Reform Bill. Now, recollsct
that was when the Protestants had been
resisting the gift Of municipal reform.
! In Cork nine Professionals were elected on
| the first council. The second Mayor YVES
Protestant, Is not that fair? The
! majority got the first Mayor, and then
turned about fair play. The second
Mayor was Protestant, and others have
followed, one Protestant Mayor having
been elected three times. There have
been lin Cork also Protestant sheriffs,
and up to 1885 there were eight Protest
ants on the Harbor Board. In Dublin
| there have been fifteen Protestant Lord
; Mayors elected in that Catholic city
Catholic by considerable majority
fifteen Protestant Mayors since 1S4l, and
many Protestant sherlffs. In Limerick,
Roman Catholic town, fifteen Protest
ant Mayors town, at any
rate, in that part OF Ireland that Lord
Salisbury describes as in SO horrible
a condition-in Limerick, fifteen Protest
ant Mayors since 1881 think it is
| Waterford, twelve Protestant Mayors
since 1885,
This is the sort of persecution" which
the Professionals of Ireland experience at
the hands Of Catholics where the latter
are in the majority. And the Protestant
ascendancy men, of course, know all this
perfectly well. They know that the
Catholics in Ireland have given and do
give more than fair play to their Protest
ant fellow-countrymen But it isn't fair
play or even much more than fair play
the ascendancy gentry want. They want
all the good things exclusively for them
selves. The idea of mere equality is
odious to them. They want the Catho-
lies Of Ireland under their feet as they
have them in Belfast and in all the Gov
eminent departments of the country.
Their claim is that they must be forever
dominant. An Irish Presbyterian minis
ter, in an article in the London Contem-
porary Review for July, states the as
cendancy position very correctly as fol-
lows:
'The men at the head of the Ulster
Protestant movement are the descend
ants of the hucksters who sold the Par
lament of Ireland ninety-two years ago
for the round sum of FL, 100000, and who
have since usurped the offices and cap
tured the emoluments of State, and de-