The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-03
DIED AN ATHEIST,
Brief Sketch of Ireland's Bitter
Enemy and Prince of Lying
Historians,
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE,

JAMES AIN HUN FRUUUE'
The Eloquent Dominican, Father
Burke, Refutes His Statements
Made in 1873.
James Anthony Froude, the prince OF
lying historians, died at his home in
London on October 20, aged rs years,
says Eugene Field in late issue OF the
Western Watchman. Throughout his
career, he was the bltterest enemy OF
Ireland. In his volume. ''Fhe English
in Ireland in the 18th Century," he ut
tered fabrications of an astonishing
kind about the habits and customs of
the people of that country, defaming
their character and denouncing their
laziness Their character Of probity and
of the virtue of their women have sur
vived Mr.. Froude's onslaught On them;
for The So called facts that he has writ
ten in his book were unsupported by any
State papers or other documents worthy
of credit. Iu fact, the literary men used
to give him the nick name of the "ro-
mancing historian" Pages on pages, re-
plete with mendacities issued from his
fertile imagination, as Diana issued
from the brain of Jupiter. His facts
were his own invention. AS to the lazi
ness OF the Irish people, they had no
time to indulge in that luxury. in those
dreary penal days, when their limbs
were whipped by the cat o'nine tails by
Anglo Saxon scorpions. They were per-
secuted ruthlessly at that time by the
minions end officials of England, because
they would not abandon the Catholic
faith of their fore fathers. Here are the
laws that ruled and oppressed them
laws til ct would have compelled another
,tion of bopdsmen to rebel against their
oppressors. The Irish of that day were
SO down trodden, however, by the de-
feats and disasters at the end of the l7th
century that they lost all hope OF rid
ding themselves Of the English yoke; yet
they nobly and self sacritclngly clung to
their faith. The following are the Penal
laws:
l. Catholic peers are deprived of
votes.
2. Catholic gentlemen are forbidden
tn ha elected members of the Irish Par.
lament or hold any official position in
Ireland.
3. All Catholics are denied the liberty
of voting.
4. Catholics, who will abstain from
Protestant form of worship, must pay a
fine of sixty pounds $4,000, month.
S. All Catholics are forbidden to
travel five miles from their houses. to
keep firearms, to maintain suits. at. law,
or to be guardians, or executors OF wills.
6. ANY four Justices Of the Peace
may. without trial, Danish any mau for
life, if he refuses to attend Protestant
service.
Z. Any two Justices Of the Peace can
call any man over sixteen before them
and, if he refuse to abjure the Catholic
religion, they can bestow his property on
his next of kin who have joined the Pro
testant fold.
8. No Catholic can send his children
to a Catholic schoolmaster, and if he
sends his child abroad he is liable to q
fine of not less than 100 pounds (S5OO),
and the child cannot inherit any prop
erty in Ireland or England.
8. Any Catholic priest coming to Ire
land should be hanged.
10 Any Protestant, -supecting any
other Protestant of holding property in
trust for any Catholic, may file bill
against the suspected trustee, and take
the estate or property from him, and
make it his own.
II. Any Protestant, seeing Catholic
tenant-at will on a farm, which in his
own opinion, yielded one third more than
the years rent, may enter on the farm,
and, by simply swearing to the fact, take
possession of it
| IL Any Protestant can take away the
horse of q Catholic mo matter how val
liable. by simply paying him five pounds
($25).
13. Horses and wagons, belonging to
Catholics, are in all cases to be seized on
for the use of the militia.
IA Any Catholic gentleman's chile, be-
coming Protestant, might at once take
possession Of his fathers properly.
Edmund Burke, one Of the most intel
lectual Irishmen OF the last century, said
lin the English House Of Commons:
'The Infamous penal laws that we're
passed by the Christian (forsooih) Par
liamentsof Ireland, are the very worst
that ever emanated from the perverted
Ingenuity Of man. The Penal laws were
J rnally repealed by the British Parlia-