The Irish standard., 1897-02-27
WYMAN ON THE TREATY.


on the arbitration treaty and waxeu
most eloquent in it's praise He stated
he could not comprehend the xsason of
the opposition to it. Among other
things he said: "TlIe history of the
Anglo-Saxon race is one of aggression.
But ask, has British aggression been
blessing or curse to the world, and I
point to India, to Australia and to
Africa, where today, because of English
progression, there are just laws, pros
porous conditions and all the essentials
of civilization"
In pointing to India he points to a
land that has been plundered under
British rule. Under that rule the coun-
try has been driven to such horrors of
starvation that the world perhaps has
never seen it's equal. If India had been
fairly dealt with the failures of one crop
or two or three would not have cast
such a blight upon the people. But the
Anglo-Saxon has robbed the people so
shamefully that they had no resources
to fall back upon in such an emergency
as the failure of crop.
AS to Australia, happily the people
there have little or nothing to do with
England. The connection is merely one
of sentiment and; as in Canada, that is
rapidly waning y Certain portions of
Africa are in the clutches of England
and the people there, native and foreign
born, are doing tiQeir best to get rid of
her. Are the laws just in India and
Africa? Australia makes her own laws
and so need not de included in the in
uuiry Are the people of India in a
prosperous condition? Ii so, let the
present famine speak. AT NO time has
India been prosperous under British
rule. and it Was never intended that it
should be except: ts in so far as to allow
English companies to enrich themselves
at the expense of the toiling natives.
The country has been ruled to suit the
English fancy apd to fill the English
purse and her immediate rulers in the
land are but little better today than
they were in the time of Warren Hast
ings, when the grass never grew where
his horses hoof had trod. Perhaps J.
W. Wyman can extract some of the
essentials of civilization" out Of these
conditions.
But in dwelling upon the blessings OF
British rule in SO many countries, how
was it that Mr.. Wyman overlooked Ire
land? Was his memory defective or the
facts too painful? What beautiful pic
lures he could have drawn of the bene-
tioence of British rule had he only
turned his attention to that unhappy
island. Would he not have found there
the effects of English progression?
There is where he would have found
just laws, prosperous conditions and all
the essentials of civilization. He forgot
that, and more's the pity, because he
might have rounded off his grafton with
beautiful periods concerning it.
He also further said: Il am proud Of
Great Britain and glory in her achieve
ments, and every American citizen
ought to be proud of the mother coun-
try. She has carried the cross to the re-
motest corners Of the earth and she has
borne forward the banners of civiliza-
ton"
There it is again-the mother coun-
dominate in this country. Ireland and
Germany and Scandinavia have sent
their predonlinatlng millions over here
and other European countries have also
contributed largely. And as to England
carrying the cross to the remotest cor
ners of the earth, the case of China
comes wildly to the mind when the
English did carry the cross in one hand
and the opium traffic in the other, and
when the natives were unwilling to ac-
cept the latter, even with the cross at
tached, they were compelled to do so at
the point of the bayonet.
Mr.. Wyman continues in his lauda-
tory efforts: E,ns
g The only; TIME the whole English
army surrenderadnwas at Yorktown, and
to their own pebble. If you remind an
Englishman that this happened, he may
get red in the face and not enjoy it, but
he will turn todyou and say: Yes, but
the French cannptsay that, or any other
nation, but your own Anglo-Saxon."
But the hoststthat CORVALLIS met to
his sorrow ah FaEktown were largely
composed of Irishmen and whatever per-
centage OF Anglo-Saxon took part in
that struggle they did it knowing the
perfidy of their own countrymen who
sought to keep lovers of freedom in
America forever in serfdom.
Again:
."In this treaty ara sure we rue no
risks of compromising cur national
honor or of touching the Monroe doc
trine do not fear that we will be
taken advantage Of by England, for we
have this spirit of aggression as much
as England has. 4 am willing to trust
q man so patriotic and Who has proven