The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-08-24


Il danee Sin iii paf iences tosd rink Irish blood
4 Is. there 50 lost to honor, 50 insen-
ssIIsibIe to racial pride, 50 pusi llaninno GUS II
y mat onal spirit as to defend al policy that
4 permits such condi lions to- exist? How
can a nation become great when there is
I{no inducement to retain its young men,
i when the departure OF every vessel
drains her Mfeblood and leaves behind
4 but the sick and aged?
I There is something wrong with a sys-
I tenn that practically says to the young
Imam of Ireland: IF you want to make a
living you must 60 to America, or Join
1.-THE English army. The sapping policy
of agitation has almost denationalized
1.-The people in Ireland. There was day
when ITishmen considered it greater
honor to enter a British dungeon than
| to enter a British parliament. There
was a time when the leaders in Ireland
llfelt,they owed debt tot hemen who had
| died for Ireland, and duty to the gems
GRAFTON to follow. that made them unWill-
ing to mortgage the freedom Of people
that they might enjoy immunity from
personal sacrifice.
| II instead of presenting her hat to
her friends Ireland would present the
sword to her enemies, Irish famines
would be thing Of the past Instead OF
inviting Irish immigration let the Irish
people of America say to the young men
Of Ireland: Stand your ground! Resolve
that you have right to live upon your
native soil Remember the conditions
which drive you from your native shore
enslaye you wherever you go. To turn
your back upon those too old or feeble to
escape is cowardice. It is your duty to
stay and defend them, to prepare the
way for~g generations yet unborn, and if,
in the performance of this duty, you need
aid, our purse, our hearts, our lives are
yours to command
5a"Such message would put new blood
into the youth of ireland, would light the
hillsides of Ireland with rebel fires that
would burn till liberty's torch had en-
famed every Irish heart.
There are in Ireland today thousands
Of young men waiting for the proclama-
ton Of the Irish people of this country,
and, thank God, the declaration Of Irish
national independence is already framed
in the hearts of the people and in few
weeks will be proclaimed by a conven-
ton, in the history Of this country sec
ond only to the immortal gathering Of
1776. know not what the exact ex-
preston OF that convention will be, but
this do know, there must be one cause,
one issue and one leader, and my judg-
ment will bow to the expressed wisdom
Of the largest, grandest, most represent
alive and earnest Irish gathering this
country ever witnessed"
fho t1o
proved methods of war and showed the
fallacy of mere numerical strength and
the impossi bility of predicting the future
developments of science in war Refer
ring to Englands method of warfare, he
said: ""'
'SThe English soldiers are skilled in
war, but England never fought an equal
battle with Ireland, never gave her an
open field. England always fought from
the bush; she used every diabolical
means that the inventive genius of hell
could command. And yet there are some
lrishmen who have conscientious scru-
pies of attacking England without the
accompaniment of brass band. Any
system Of warfare is justifable against
England. Nothing that can be thought
Of can begin to approach in cruelty the
methods used by her. When this infant
republic sought to fix it's star in the firm
ament Of nations the American colonists
declared war against England. And Eng
land who boasts Of her civilization, Eng
land who prates OF her Christianity, Eng
land who brags Of her courage, Eng
land who throws up her hands in horror
at Turkeys treatment Of the Armenians
this England entered into partnership
with the savage Indians OF America and
hired them to scalp and butcher defense
less women and children to burn the
dwellings and let loose the demons of
torture against the men whom she called
brothers. With the tomahawk and torch
branded into her brow by the pages CT
history England has the effrontery to lift
her brazen head among the civilized ma
lions Of the world to protest against the
cruelty Of pagan rulers! England who
not content with the crowbar and torch
in Ireland invoked the aid of famine to
decimate people she could not subdue,
England who with her hypocritical pre-
tense to charity saw the nations of the
world snatch her subjects from death by
starvation, England who impressed her
courage ~ upon the Sepoys of India by
blowing them from the cannon's mouth
this England, whose name is putrid
with barbarous butchery, while she dots
the pages Of history with conquests
sprinkled them with the blood of say
age warfare.
s'"There can be no more disgusting spec
5tacle than the sycophantic Irishman or
the Anglicized American who weeps over
the prospect of the Irish national1sts
using unfair methods Of warfare against
England. When you hear man in this
country trying to advance an agreement
against a nations struggle for freedom,
YOU may make up your mind that it is
one more proof of theuse Of English gold
or the spread of American asininity.
ALREADY the croakers are at work;
no sooner was it known that your grand
city was selected as the place Of conven-
ton than system of disparagementw was
inaugurated.
England finds her ready tools whether
it be from a, desire Ito share her. gold
or a chronic disposition to reject every
policy that does not emanate from the
egotistical brain of a professional patriot.
There are men so selfconceited that they
would see Ireland forever in chains
rather than gain her independence by
those to whom they were opposed. Now,
this cause is greater than any man; it
it greater than any combination of men,
and the Irish people of this country are