The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-21

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Tories who fought on the side Of royalty
in the Revolutionary War and committed
barbaric cruelties that made the red
Indians and mercenary Hessians blush
for shame.
These loyalists by occupation are usu-
ally mon whose antecedents will not
bear close inspection. The Saturday
Budget, of Quebec. which is edited by q
Protestant, recently said that the Cana
dian Orangeman with all his professions
of loyalty is ready to stone governor
general, burn down parliament house,
insult the heir~apparent to the British
throne or deny liberty of speech to any
man with whose views he is not in accord.
"As rule" says the Saturday Budget,
"the man who is constantly Boosting OF
his loyalty is the most disloyal man in
the community. He takes off his loyalty
and puts it on again just as he takes off
or puts on his coat, and yet in the face
OF all this known regeneration, he
brazenly keeps the parrot cry that he
alone is loyal"
The great Edmund Burke, who was
thoroughly patriotic Briton, and who
represented Bristol in the imperial par
lament for many years. was once charged
with disloyalty in the House of Commons
by member of the administration to
which he was opposed. Burke replied
that he was Thoroughly loyal to his SOY
erelgn and to the constitution and laws
of the country, but he did not feel that
his loyalty to the King required him ITO
play elephant to His Majesty's man
servant or to his ma,d-servant, or his OK,
or his ass"
The greatest loyalist in these United
States is the man who refrains from vio-
lating the laws of the land and is ready
to defend the institutions of his country
at the risk of his life when it is endan-
gered by foreign foes or domestic traitors.
Where were the Orangemen and men,
bers of the A. P. A. during the late re-
bellion when thousands Of Catholic SOL
diers were fighting rebels on Southern
battle fields? History. does not record
that single Orangeman ever handled a
musket under the stars and stripes, but
it is very probable he gave all the aid
and comfort in his power as q British
subject to the southern confederacy.
How many members OF the A. 2. A.
throughout the country endangered life
limb with Grant. or Sherman, or
Sheridan The fact that members OF
the Grand Army of the Republic keep
aloof from these secret consplrators is
proof positive that they are wolves III
sleeps clothing and are patriots in name
only.
Tneir object is mercenary. They are
after the flesh pots of politics, and try to
bambooze the public by charging the
Catholics with disloyalty. They cry out
that this republic and it's institutions are
in jeopardy because so many Irishmen
are filling positions of trust and emolu-
mont in all parts of the country. Irish
men constitute the back bone OF the
Democratic party, and hence the great
influence they WELD in politics. They
have always been loyal to the party OF
their choice, and uni Ike other nation
alities they remained true to defeated
party for an entire quarter of century.
The Protestant Standard is alarmed
because New York City and Boston have
so many Irish Catholic otfice-holders.
It lugubriously declares that in New
York City, the mayor, sheriff, comptrol-
Ter, county clerk, commissioner OF public
works, counsel to corporation, board OF
tax assessors, board of tax commission
ers, clerk of the board of aldermen, the
armory board, collector of the port, are
all Irish s'Romanists" of the first water.
They have a majority of the board of
aldermen, police justices, civil justices,
and in many wards majority OF the
board of school trustees. Three-fourths
of the police force. FIVE sixths OF the fire
men, and four ,ftths of the appointees in
the various city departments and three
fourths of the employees of the national
government in New York belong to the
:Romish Church"
In Boston, which was once the centre
of puritanism, the Irish Catholics have
everything worth having. continues this
organ of Apaism. Today they. draw in
salaries ninety per cent of the amount
raised by taxation in the "Hub." Out
of the six thousand persons employed by
the corporation, nearly five thousand are
Irish "Romanists," and the Standard de-
clares it is an impossibility for an Amer
lean Protestant to get city job if there
is an Irish Roman Catholics who wants it.
This is terrible state of affairs, but
what is it going to do about it? The Bos-
ton Irish and the New York Irish are
filing the offices which "loyal Americans
ought to have, but it will not remedy
matters one particle to asperse and mis-