The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-08-20
MEN IN BUCKRAM.
The Ulster Orangemen who Threa-
ten to Fight Against Irish
Home Rule. @
THEIR EMPTY VAPORlNGS.

The Present Threats Will Swell
the Category of Unfulflled
Orange Vows.
It is curious how history repeats itself
in ireland. Generation after generation
since the union We have had the same
performance, the same old Orange stock
piece, the same trucu1ent threats, he
same vows of 'No surrender" the same
protests before high heaven that they
never, never would submit, and the
grand old fnale--the eating Of the leek,
and the acquiescence, with surly and
scowling looks, to the laws DEGREES. In
fact, the only change in the piece at each
performance is the actors.
The game of bluff began with the
union. ''The gallant Orange yeamanry,
who fought in '98"-as one Of their songs
has it helped to crush the rebellion be-
cause, probably, they considered it's sue
cess would mean the end of their un-
bridled ascendancy over their Catholic
fellow-countrymen but when the union
was proposed they thought they saw in
the absorption Of Ireland in England the
extinction Of their supremacy in Ire
land, and SO they gave the measure
their opposition.
The same loud voiced protestations
we're indulged in OIL the eve Of every
change in the constitution. Every pro-
posal of the government since the union,
which, in the opinion OF the brethren Of
the lodges, tended to effect their domin-
ion, or loosen their hold on their country
or which offered a concession to the
Catholics after their century of oppres,
sion under, the penal laws, aroused tNs
fiery Indignation of Orangeism. It is
also significant that on these occasions
of reform, when it was proposed to widen
the bounds Of civil and religious liberty
in Ireland, the slumbering embers of
Orangeism were famed into fierce flames
for party purposes, and tho institution
received new lease of life.
It WAS, however, in the church discs
tablishment period that the Orangeman
was seen in all his glory as mouther of
words of sound and fury signifying moth
ing, as wielder of q painted sword, and
as vower of VOWS made only to be
broken. The Orange agitation of those
days has given us that historic phrase
Kick the Queens crown into the Boyne,
which happily illustrates the flexible na-
ture of the Orangeman's loyalty. Rev.
John Flanagan was rector of Killevan,
county Monaghan. He published some
little pamphlets called 'Voices of the
Past" in which he dealt, with character
istic Orange buster and rhodomontade,
with the great question of the day.
But Rev. John Flanagan did not con-
fine himself to publishing pamphlets.
He appeared at several Orange meetings
in Clster, and delivered the most belli-
cose utteranoes. Here IS the famous ex-
tract from his speech at Newbliss, county
Monaghan, on March 20, 1868:
If they ever dare to lay unholy hands
upon the church 100000 Orangemen will
tell them it shall never ibe. Protestant
loyalty must make itself understood.
People will say, oh, your loyalty is con-
ditional.' say it is conditional, and 1t
must be explained as such. Will you,
Orangemen, indorse the doctrine of un-
conditional loyalty? repeated cries of
No, never.) 1t appears wonderful that
there is one thing upon which we can
confidently throw ourselves, and which
has been overlooked by all speakers
mean the Queens coronation oath. She
should be reminded that one of her an
cestors, who swore to maintain the Prot
estant religion, forgot his oath, and his
crown was kicked into the Boyne He
then read the oath taken by the Queen,
in which her majesty swore to "maintain
and preserve invlo]ably the settlement of
the united church of England and Ire
land, and the doctrine, worship, discip-
line and government thereof, as by law
established Will any minister, he con-
tinued, dare to ask the Queen to perjure
herself? Will any minister come and
ask us to surrender our rights? We
must tell our gracious Queen that if
she breaks her oath she has no longer
any claim to the crown. Let us not put
our trust in man, but trust in God and
ourselves
Put your trust in God, my boys.
And keep your powder dry
The coronation oath was the great ar
gument Of Rev. John Flanagan. But
after all it was merely compact be-
tween the Queen and the nation, and by
passing the Irish church disestablish-