The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-06-24

that Orangemen will rarely settle out
side Of the queens dominions and few of
those who have settled in the United
States have ever become natural;zed.
In the summer of 1880, I vas located
at Grand Forks, Dakota, where I had
commenced to practice law, but about
the only business was that connected
with the government land office. An I'M
mense amount of land was entered at
that land Office that season, and large
portion Of it by Canadians. I got 80
used to the Canadian character that I
could tell an Orangeman in ten minutes
after commenced t., talk with him,
Without referring in any way to religious
matters. Before he could enter govern
ment land he was obliged to declare his
intention of becoming citizen OF the
United States, and renounce allegiance
to the queen, and take out full citizen
ship papers before he could prove up and
get title. As soon as this question was
raised the Orangeman infallibly rebelled,
and he very frequently left the land he
80 much coveted and went to Manitoba,
because he was obliged to renounce his
allegiance to the queen. Time and
again he came from the clerks Office
with his first or second citizenship pa
pers, holding them in his hands, reproach-
ing himself, using such expressions as Il
am rank perjursr this morning" Il dis
grsoed my father when ! renounced allie
glance - the queen" II have renounced
government that Ineed not be ashamed
of, for spoh government as this" I
have known instances where he refused
to take the oath, but got hired man to
enter and prove up his claim for him.
When the Irish Catholic from Canada
stepped up to renounce his allegiance to
the queen it seemed to be the proudest
moment of his life, and he acted as
though he was getting diploma to the
degree of full manhood, and so he has al
ways felt when he performed that import
ant act whether coming from Canada Or
direct from Irsland. II The extraordinary
thing about the matter is that
rBE ENGLISH CANADIAN
and generally the Scotch Canadian felt
very little concern about renouncing
their allegiance to the queen, while the
Orangeman invariably took it as he
would breakfast of crow.
The Orangemsn, with all his preten-
sions, is the ultra Tory and monarchist
first and the anti Catholic second. Par
nell was q staunch but tolerant Protest.
ant, yet the Orangeman hated him more
than he did any Catholic in the kingdom.
Some of the most ultra and illiberal
Tories in England are Catholics, but the
Orangeman seems to love them none the
less for that. He is the political bosom
friend OF such Catholics. OF late years
the Catholic is getting to be the fashion
able religion Of the Tories and aristocrats
of England, but this does not seem to
lessen the love of the Orangeman for
those Tories and aristocrats. The only
conclusion that can be drawn from these
we'll known facts is that this is a political
organization whose corner stone is fealty
to British monarchy, devotion to British
conquest and aggression, retaining its
hereditary intolerance against the Oatho-
lie Church only as the religion of the
common people, but not as the religion
of Tories, landlords, aristocrats and snobs
who are ''English, you know" But by
what authority Goes the OrangemaR
champion free schools? Where in his ira
dition does he find such principle? It
was one of his strongest principles that
to educate papist was treason. He
knew of no fit condition for papist but
ignorance,
SLAVERY AND DEATH.
His prejudice against the education Of
the papist was never equaled BY the pre-
judice Of the Southern tire eater at seeing
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the negro educated after the late war.
The free school system Of this country
is not in it's origin British institution,
much less an Orange institution. The
Orangeman in Ireland has opposed uni.
versal education as he has every other re-
form in that unhappy country. II was
the liberal and progressive Protestants
and Catholics, the men who abolished
the tithes, who disestablished the Irish
church and procured Catholic emancipa-
Eon, that were first and foremost II the
attempt to b ing about universal educa-
tion il Ireland, and the Orangeman was
the last straggler in the rear Of the non
progressive Tories. He was ii this, as
he was il all other things, the Bourbon
Of the British empire.
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