The Irish standard., 1893-10-28

EEISH SEAN l)Al.Rl) 81.
lord Mayor Shanks is Parnellite and
8 Protestant. The greatest objection he
has to the Gladstone bill is in it's fnan-
cial clauses. He wants Ireland to have
the collection and expenditure of the
Irish revenues instead Of England, and
every staunch Irishman will agree with
him in that particular. Though he adj
mires the pubic school system of this
country and considers it superior to>the
one in vogue in Ireland yet he is demo
cratic enough to say that as q Protestant
he is willing that his Catholic fellow
countrymen, who are in an overwhelming
majority, shall have any system they
please when they are governing them
selves. Heretofore England has given
them 8 system they do not want, said
he, and when they have Rome Rule the
Catholics are entitled to have system
of education combining religions with
secular instruction, which they desire.
We regret to find that our esteemed
contemporaries, the Irish World and
The Citizen, have severely criticised
Mayor Shanks for speaking against the
Mckinley bill and blessing Queen Vic
toria in a speech at banquet in Chi
cago. The Irish World, being an organ
of high protection, thinks it an unpar-
donable offenee for Mayor Shanks to
have said that the American people
should get rid of the Mckinley tariff.
That is exactly what the American peo-
pie elected Grover Cleveland for, and
Mayor Shanks only said what the ma
jority of the American people desire to
see done by the present administration.
It the Democratic party fails to get rid
of the Mckinley bill before the next
election, it's name is Dennis" when it
comes before the people for reelection.
The Irish World calls Mayor Shapks a
"Hibernian Donkey" and asks what we
are to think of an Irishman just landed
with the mud Of ''dear, dirty Dublin" yet
on his shoes, advising his American
countrymen to down the Mckinley tar
if, and take the side which England
would have them take in American pol
itics. We have read that kind of talk
and as it says it is needless to frame an
answer to the question, we shall drop
the subject by merely remarking that
it is in extremely bad taste for our New
York high-taritf organ to turn it's vi+u-
peration against distinguished stranger
who was visiting our shores aa the repre-
sentative Of the capital of Ireland.
Our friend Finerty of the Citizen is
also too severe on Mayor Shanks for say
ing "God bless our precious Queen Vic
toria." There il 30 harm done in bless
ing tie old bag, and he must remember
that "out of the same mouth proceedeth
blessing and cursing" It may be the
policy OF Mr.. Shanks to bless her m jesty
in public and damn her in private. In
reading the speech of Mayor Shanke at
the banquet in Music Hall, Chicago, we
find the following manly utterances:
Il am surprised chat our American
kinsmen should consider Ireland to have
sunk SO low that although she is ruling
nation in her own right she has forfeited
all right of sovereignty in this world.
Gentlemen, I am sorry that while the
State of Nevada and the State of Cali
fornia and the State of Wiicopson and
the State of Ohio are represented in this
great Worlds Fair, Ireland is not repre-
sented. ca voice. 'Shei>, in the Midway
Plaisance. We have the British par
lament voting half a million dollars or
less for representation of British indus
tries at the Fair, and Ireland is to come
IN at the tail. Gentlemen, I tell you if
Ireland had rotunda Of her own this
Worlds Fair and had got my friend MIR.
Gibson, our Richardson's, our Odins aud
our big linen manufacturers in Ireland
to arrange their exhibits in the rotunda
you would have an exhibit of Irish indus
try which would open your eyes. Don't |
deem the Irish Villages as representa-
lives of ireland. The next time don't |
have the Mckinley tariff. We will erect |
in the Worlds Fair. the next time ro-
tunda and we will fill it with Irish ex-
hiblts which will give you different inn
preston of Ireland than you ever had
before. We want to stand by our neigh 4
bors, England and Scotland. We believe
ia the British commission, but we do not
believe that the Irish trade has been
presented at the Fair. We are
not prord of our exhibit here and We
have J. OF an exhibit which is mirror of
Ireland ~..ss
We are glad that Mayor Shanks visited
and d d not spend his whole
time in New York and Chicago where
Irisb papers did not appre-
ciate bis sentiments. He came to city
1bout the size of his own, and during his