The Irish standard., 1894-05-26

scendanta Of the IRISH Presby terians Of
the North, they have not shown any su /
pernrity over the Celtic Irish or the
Norman Irish, either at home OF abroad.
Cork county alone, which is principally
Celtic and without any admtxture ct
Scotch, las produced more eminent men
in Gil departments of literature and the
arts than has the entire province OF us
ter since the Scotch colonization in the
days Of James the First.
The Ulstermen OF the last century were
patriots who prided themselves on being
called Irishmen, but their degenerate
sons are ashamed Of the land Of their ma
tivity In 17es nine Presby terrain patrl-
OTIS offered up their lives on the gallows
for love of Ireland, and they thought
themselves no better than their nine Epis-
oopalian and seventeen Catholic country
men who suffered martyrdom with them
for the love of national liberty. Who
are the Scotoh-Irisb anyway? Every
student conversant with history ie cog
INFANT of the fact that Ireland was once
called Scotia and that it's inhabitants
we're known as Scots. The Irish are the
Scots Of history. In the sixth century
they colonized Caledonia, which they
called Scotia Minor. In the 18th CEN
tury, or about the same time the Pill
grims arrived in America, they returned
to Ireland and were just as Celtic as the
Pilgrims were Saxon, and more so. The
change in their faith did not change their
blood, and they were simply the Irish
come back to the parent country.
Why do the influential men in this
country who style themselves Scotch
Irish manifest so little interest in the
cause of Irieh Home Rule? The Scotch
people both at home and here are in
sympathy with Ireland, while the Scotch
Irish show stolid Indifference. We,
of course, make wide distinction be
tween the Scotch-Irish and the Grams e.
men. The latter are hybrid breed de-
scended from Cromwellian freebooters,
drummers and ffers, and possess no
Celtic characteristics. The Orangemen
ars not the Scotch-Irish, though some
bigoted Scotch Irish may be Orangemen.
We expect nothing but bigotry and
hatred from Orangemen, for though born
in Ireland and breathing it's pure air for
two centuries, they are today as foreign
to the soil and as hostile tn the aspira.
tions of the great majority OF their coun-
trymen for sell. government as they were
when fighting with William on the banks
of the Boyne.
/ What grand thing for Ireland it
would be if the Scotch Irish who meet
in their sixth annual convention next
month at Dee Moines would pass reso-
luton ia favor OF self government for the
land of their fathers. A resolution OF
that kind would cheer the hearts Of the
faithful Irish representatives who are
laboring in an alien parliament for the
inalienable right of self-government, of
which they we're upjustly deprived by
force and fraud. Such action on the
part of the Scotch Irish would send a
thrill of delight throughout the United
Kingdom and merit the gratitude OF the
democracy of England, Ireland and Scot
land. But no, the Scotch. Irish, like the
pharisees of old, will meet for self lauda-
ton and to proclaim their own import
ance. They will meet to thank God they
are not like the other Irish who believe
| in the ancient creed of their ancestors
the same creed believed by Wallace and
Bruce and the noble Scots who fought
British tyranny in the brave days OF old
The Scotch. Irish do not see themselves
as others see them, or they would feel
ashamed of their pretensions.
TIE Roeebery. cabinet has sustained
quite q loss in the forced retirement OF
Mr.. Mundella, the president of the board
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