The Irish standard., 1897-06-12
"jawsmiths" and "jingoes." am not
an other-cheeked Christian like the


an other-cheeked Christian like the
meek and lowly Mangum, and the rec
ord Of England's Indian atrocities and
other cowardly infamies is writ too deep
in the history of my family to permit
of pardon. England is most remark
able apostle of freedom. It was not un-
til the year of grace 1929 that Catholics
could sit in the House of Commons or
even hold municipal Office. In 1851
only 46 years ago-a law was passed
by Parliament imposing fine of $500
on Catholics who accepted ecclesiastical
titles. Previous to 1829-within the
memory of men now living-they were
excluded from the practice of law and
pedagogy, could not purchase land or
hold it on long lease, and priests who
endangered the precious souls of Protes-
tants by marrying them to Catholics
were executed. Yet the Irish were in
veigled into the Act of Union by the
solemn promise of an English premier
that Catholic disabilities would be i'm
mediately removed. That was 81 years
ago, and they are not all removed yet
there's no such thing as religious liberty
in England. There are important secu-
lar offices from which Catholics are still
debarred because of their creed. Not
until 1858 did England remove the civil
disabilities of the Jews-yet this stul-
tiloquent idiot has the audacity to init
mate that the broad liberty enjoyed in
the United States is the fruit of English
example! For what freedom Jews and
Catholics now enjoy they owe nothing
to the Church of England. It bitterly
opposed every proposition looking to
the removal and amelioration of their
civil disabilities: it originated and
forced through the infamous Ecclesias-
statute so subversive of liberty, SO rank
ly intolerant, that, enacted in the latter
half of the nineteenth century it made
the name OF England a byword and a
reproach and shaking Of the head
to the nations. The favorite dogma of
the establishment" time and again
promulgated, is non-resistafce to the
sovereign no matter how tyranntcal his
acts. That's why it bred Tories and
traitors among us during the Revolution
yet we are asked to believe that the
Church of England, with the dogma
of non-resistance In one hand and the
sword of Gideon in the other, won Mag
ma Charter at Runnymede! Will my
Memphid1an friend kindly forward be-
fore-and-after taking photographs?
England feared that, if longer op-
pressed, the Jews would take elsewhere
the capital which gave her commercial
supremacy and supplied the sinews OF
war; that if Catholics were not accorded
larger liberty she might not be able
to ensconce herself in time of danger be-
hind bulwark of Irish bayonets, so
she reluctantly followed the example OF
the United States.
The man who seriously intimates that
English influence is paramount" in
simples. 1t ceased to be paramount
more than century ago-when king
Georges most dutiful," etc., struck
their flag and were given hours in which
to pull their freight. Of the twelve and
a half million immigrants who landed
on our shores during. the half century
ending 1890, England supplied only one
and a half millions, and a majority of
those came either to ply the trade of
thievery or wear livery as the servants
of American sovereigns. 1t is not Ireland
or Italy but England that supplies Amer
lea with funkeys would not be at all
surprised If Mr.. Mangum has worn brass
buttons and danced attendance at some
Americans door, for he has all the pert
ness of a Jeames de la Pluche. His wit
suggests the bavardage of the buttery.
His suggestion that may be the father
of mule is a. particularly brilliant be-
low-stairs bon-mot; but he need no1
wave his ears at mel never grazed in
the same pasture with English mares.
Perhaps the most densely ignorant, the
most hopelessly stupid people on earth
are English. The farming class Of that
country cannot so much as speak a civ
ilized language. Each district has a
barbarish gibberish peculiar to itself,
and when people of the opposite shores
of the 2x4 island meet they have to
make signs like different tribes of saw
ages. The great bankers of England
are Jews, it's great manufacturers are
Scotch, it's great merchants are Irish, its
reigning family is Dutch, while all its
great authors and orators, soldiers and
statesmen have been either Celts or of
Celtic extraction. The genuine "Anglo-
Saxon runs chiefly to beef and brutal
| ity and little to brains.
First Nighter-"The man who writes
the dramatic criticisms for your paper
does not know a good play from a bad
one" Editor-"I know it, but what can
| we do? He is the only man on the staff
| vpho 10 foil onon0h IN coo nrnr tho hon.