The Irish standard., 1892-03-19
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.

CHRISTIAN ana SAINT on March litn, there
are entwined about it recollections that
| awaken the tenderest emotions as we'll
as the more stirring feelings. Irishmen
have made it day as we'll known in
America as in Ireland, st. Patrick's
Day is not only a holyday but one that
awakens patriotic ardor. But for Ire
lano's unyielding struggle with Eng
land, q campaign of centuries with no
fixed date ahead to terminate the con-
fiict except the day when England will
Internationally surrender every fraudu,
lent claim it as: erts in Ireland, this day
would be q mere holyday like those Of
Saints Clothilde, Augustine, Peter Claver
and others who have taught Catholicity
in strange lands or edited by til ir ex-
amples. But the heroism Of Irish priests
who ministered to the souls and bodies
of their people when scourged by famine,
deceit, English pixies, bullets and glib
bets, their women wronged and babies
irnpaled on the bayonets of cowardly
brutes marching under the English flag;
their homes converted into blazing bea
cons to illuminate the surrounding coun-
try and make the work of plumber and
destruction more easy and compile, &,
this heroism, in which these priests
shared every suffering shat their people
endured, has raised the day above that
of any other on the Church calendar in
the estimation Of the Irish, their &C.
scendants and the millions in this nation
who believe that every man should be
treated as such while he acts manly.
It is usually day Of retrospection, of
turning over the leaves of Irish history
and cleaning therefrom inspiration to
emulate mon who's lives shine with in
creasing splendor as we are waited far
Their from their days. O'Connell, Graf
tan, Emmett, Parnell, whose ideas of
duty embraced the entire human COM
munity that constitutes the Irish nation.
O'Connell who broke down the wall OF
religious bigotry which divided the ma
ton and blazed the way that led to the
disestab]ishment of an alien church;
Grattan the incorporating champion
of the Irish parliament that dissolved be-
fore his eyes under the magic of treach-
cry and Castlereagh's English gold; EN-
met the approximation OF patriotic
unselfshness, who believed in force, in
tellectual and physical, and valued his
life less than the defiant assertion Of his
nations rights; and Parnell who stepped
upon the ground hitherto occupied by
English opponents of Irish demands, the
constitution of England, and there
fought them step by step, breaking down
position after position with weapons and
under conditions of their own selection,
until the premier of England gave up
the contest and publicly proclaimed that
Ireland was constitutionally right in it's
claims, and Gladstone became at once
and has continued since, the undinching |
advocate of an Irish home government.
These were men who, looked at through |
The events of the last quarter of CEN
jury, we're political Titans, and whose
principals have sturdy followers to-day.
The tireless progress of these principles,
which have been welded into powerful
government in America, are cor
:oding the iron set monarchies of the
Eastern continent steadily and surely.
The political conservatism that affects to
gnore the expanding intelligence of man
md haughtily refuses to accommodate
ITSELF to modern ideas of human rights is
itself in deceptive and dia-
ohanous coat of armor easily penetrated,
md it's imprudent determination not to
zoe what is so menacingly visible will cut
t off from all benefit by compromise
when the inevitable crumbling com-
nences There is no instance in modern
history of a monarchy, once overthrown,
,ver again being permanently re-estab-
ished. The spasmodic twitches Of the
lying monster in France have only made
;he doctrines Of republicanism better
known and loved. The destruction Of
he empire in Brazil is complete. En-
ylish rulers, by virtue of descent from
4 parent stock, who would to-day be hung
IN England for the crimes that gave to
heir descendants the right to sit in the
English house Of lords, have more in
telligent appreciation Of their danger
than they had q few years ago. The de-
graded character Of their Tory allies in
the house Of commons, is Of itself cause
tor alarm. Il is this Tory party that is
the prop for the throne and the unad-