The Irish standard., 1897-02-13
TIT FOR TAT.

Recently President Winston OF the
Texas University addressed the associa-
ton of superintendent and principals OF
public schools, and in speaking OF organ
zation, among other things, said: The
| Irish race is deficient in the faculty OF
organization, and will be crushed out
with the Indian and Negro by the more
| highly. organized races He said many
| other things in his sweeping and grandl-
ose utterances, and Brann in his lcono-
clast analysed his statements, refuting
every one of them by the facts he pre-
| sented Regarding what the president
said concerning the lack Of organization
| among the Irish, Brann says:
That the Irish race is deficient in the
| organizing faculty is a great discovery,
and would advise President Winston to
apply for patent. John Bull will prove
himself ungrateful if he neglects to peri
sion him for having demonstrated that
those Irish organizations which for halt
century have kept his public servants
| looking under their beds O nights for
things neither ornamental nor useful,
| were mere Fatamorganas, Broken spec
| tres or disease Of the imagination. Win
ston has evidently been misled by more
than Boeotian ignorance blitheiy footing
| it hand-in-hand with vivid anti Celtic
| imagination. He does not know
| that Ireland was the seat of learn
| ing and the expounder of law,
| both human and divine, when the
rest of Europe was a wide-welteri1g
chaos, in which sllrieked the demons Ig
norance and Disorder. He is ob1ivious
OF the fact that the American peop1e-the
master organizers OF the age-are far
more Irish than English. You can scarce
scratch an American babe of the third
generation without drawing Celtic blood.
| Strange that the only Federal regiment
which did not go to pieces at the battle
of Bull Run-though occupying the hot
test part OF the 6eld---was composed Of
these very Irishnen who are incapable OF
organization! Mcclellan, the greatest
military organizer of modern times
though by no means the ablest conlma11-
| der-was of Celtic extraction, as was the
| Duke Of Wellington, as are the men at
| the head OF the British and American
armies today
The college president also said that the
| English ''in education. literature, science
and art have lifted humanity upon the
highest plane of civilization" To this
sentiment OF laudation Brafn answers:
"Were President Winston better III
| formed he would not talk so glibly of
what the English race has done for lit
erature No Eng1ishman of pure Anglo
Saxon OF Anglo Saxon Norman lineage
t has ever reached the front rank in the
great republic OF letters. In art and sci
ence in oratory and n1t,sic-even in war
and commerce-they have had to con-
tent themselves with walking we'll to the
rear OF the band-wagon. Shakespeare
was of Welsh descent, but whether OF
Celtic or Cimbric stock it were difficult
to determine. The Cin1bri and Celts are
| both very ancient races. "A remnant OF
| the former is found in Wales, while the
survivors Of the latter are the Irish and
Scotch Highlanders. Northern France
and Wales have strong Celtic contin-
gents Byron, Rare Ben Jonson,
Christopher North, Oliver Goldsmith,
Dean Swift, Lawrence Sterne and Louis
Stevenson we're Gets by blood. Scott,
Burns, Carlyle and Macauiay were Scots
OF Celtic extraction. Tom Moore, B1in-
sley Sheridan and Edmund Burke were
Irishmen, as are Balfe and Sullivan, the
musical composers. Disraeli was Jew
The genea1ogy OF Pope and Tennyson re-
! main to be traced That the original
Duke OF Marlborough was an English
| man by birth and breeding goes without
saying He acted like one. No Celtic
commander COuiu nave EODOeu HIS QeI0
soldiers. In the province of belles-lettres
John Bull can at least claim Alfred Aus
tin. his present poet-laureate, and Oscar
Wilde, the dramatic dscadent DR.. Talu-
cson is England's military ton ard Pres
ident George T. Winston, q tie Texas
varsity, her representative Ut learning!
The English proper are bur a nation oil
skop-keepers, and the greatest shops are
not conducted by Anglo Saxons. Eng
lands great manufacturers arc Scots. her.
merchant princes arc freshmen. her lead.
ing bankers are Jews and l1er reigning
family an indifferent breed OF Low
Dutch. Tie Romans ogerrssn England.
but unable to subjugsts either Scotland
OF Ireland. abandoned peshdious Albion
as a worthless Conquest. Everybody
took ! turn at robbiag il whenever il bad
anything WORT, carrying off, until the
Norman buctancefs app opfiatsd it bed