The Irish standard., 1893-06-24
oRANGEMEN uNMAsKED.

oRANGEMEN UNMASKED.
During the Orange convention, held In
this city last week, w. j. Fl. Traynor,
1the most worshipful past MASTER
made the greatest effort of his life in the
written speech he read for his brethren
at the Lyceum Theatre. He unblush-
ingly declared that the mission of Or
angemen, from the beginning, had been
to restore liberty Of conscience in Ire
land, and that the followers Of King Will
liam are leaving Ireland for this country
to escape the persecution of Rome.
As Traynor is Canadian who never
was in Ireland, it may be interesting for
him to learn what kind Of liberty of con-
science Catholics enjoy in Belfast-the
stronghold of Orangemen in Ulster. OF
the forty members of the Belfast Cor
poration, not one is Catholic; of the
twenty-five members Of the Harbor
Board, not one is Catholic; Of the.
thirty seven officials of the executive de-
partment of the citygovernment, not one
is Catholic. There are only four Gath
olics on the board OF guardians and the
asylum board, and they have been ap-
pointed by the Viceroy, and not elected
by the people. Belfast has never elected
a Catholic mayor, while Dublin has 9
Protestant and Londona Catholic mayor
this year. If Mr.. Traynor cannot see
that the Catholics Of Belfast, and not the
OraDgemen, are deprived Of their civil
rights, it is because he is blinded by re-
ligious prejudice. According to this
"most worshipful" blgot, the Irish par
lament at the time of the American rev.
olution was composed almost entirely Of
Catholics, and that is why 1000 troops
from Ireland were sent to "cut the
throats OF the Americans to use the
words Of Henry Grattan in his philippe
against Flood. The fact is that not q
single Catholic sat in the Irish legislA-
ture at that time, as every one familiar
with Irish history knows, The Irish
soldiers sent to fight the colonists were
British soldiers, and we'll for Ireland that
they left the country, for it was after
their departure the Irish Volunteers
eprang into existence and backed Graf
tan in his demand for legislative inde-
pendence.
When Grattan rote
None dare oppose,
The claims he made for freedom,
They knew eur. swords
To back his words
Were ready, did he need them.
There was, b viewer, regiment Of
Irish Catholics conscripted for the
American service, but Arthur Lee, in q
letter to Washington, said they had ex-
pressed their unwillingness to 60 and
that every man Of them was forcibly put
on board the ship, after being tied hand
and foot, and he significantly added that
they would desert from the British army
"more than any other troops, whatso-
ever" Very likely the "most worshipfnl
past master" was in total ignorance Of
this subject, though he pretended to
have read American history and quoted
distorted passages from Bancroft and
Losing. Yes, fellow citizens he ex-
claimed, ssit was thus by joining with the
troops Of George and the Iroquois and
other six nations Of Indians to destroy
The homes, outrage, kill and scalp those
battling for freedom, that the Irish pa
pists fought our battles in the revolu-
lion. Is # 5ss
s "A few evenings after the delivery Of
this rigmarole, Judge Canty, Of the SUI
[preme Court Of Minnesota, spoke from
the same platform and denounced the
Orange order IN an able and convincing
.peech, which is gIiivet ID this issue Of b
rHR IRISH STArDARD. The Judge de-
,lared that the Orangeman has been the
eot American liberty, and that IL reyo;-
utionary days he was the same Tory
;raitor and spy il this country that he
las always bean il Ireland. He IS OPP /
,osed 70 the annexation of Canada to
he United Skates and when he CROSSES
,he border he rarely renopnces his alIe.l
lance IS the throne. The Judge humor-
'luell told how INV iilling the Oraneemsn II
s. ~ bscons Aner ican ciitinens Be-