The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06


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system OF arbitration between nations.
think that 1t Should b the first duty Q
orr government. where any: difference 9
11niDn AFdseA - Haass. all proper easost
TO obtain a settlement OF the questions Il
controversy ~ psacseal ana srtsadly pro
cesses. What ! object to II the turnin'
sxsr OF tho great 4nestlnn thsk naay. ais
which May effect the anterssk OF the teF14
tory OF the United States to any one man
especially AZ he be q king or tho Rppoan4ea
OF q king, ami not only having no natnra
sympathy With our institutions. but mrs
have inherited tram his NazHnt8 q doctrtnl
Of malignant and deep seated hostility o
. government whose form OK goyernInsn
~ q Continual threat ANainst foTa1 1HGt4
tu1iona.
Neither "a the question IN controversy
one OF technaea1 or abstract nature. waascf
q common man cannot understand. It h
a :'iain and simple proposition.
ANCIENT ARI9TOGRACT SCORED.
have nothing but Kindly feelings to
wards people OF English birth or an
csstnry- I have bcen for twenty years OF
my life engaged In literary work In al
attempt to eluc4date the genius Of Francis
Bncon. tho xr latest EaElIshman and. In.
deed. the greatest intellect that has eve.
AShSs
pre5ndices against the people OF knsaand
I cannot forEet that George Wasia.ngt, n
the father Of his country, John Adams
Bentanajn Franklin and uany other naer
prominently connected with the birth and
development Of our country were trans
p7auted Enxisshmen. IT IL true that thes
have been modified by residence +of theil
families through two or three generations
on American soil. but their people were
exclusively English. In what shall .sa,
Ia this connection desire to be urIsratood
that am not refecttnE upon individual
Englishmen. or upon the good people Of
England. They are noble racs.1 ailudl
s1hther to that aristocracy which has fol
a thousand yenrs dominated the English
people. There Was Arat the king Of mur.
Asrers and outlaws. who, acconapan it:d b.,
William the Bastard from Northern
Franco for the conquest OF the Anglo
Saxon people Of England, more brutal
barbarous and cruel race never stripped
tho people Of any country OF their country
and reduced them to absolute Serfdofn
Their successors in Ireland and Wales be-
came horrible ooDressors Of those coan-
tries and wherever they laid their haAda
liberty and justice disappeared. In later
times the PiantaEneta have died out and
q money aristocracy more cruel and more
heartless than that Of William, tho Nor
fann, has taken its place and they have
become the great plunderers and robbers
of the nations of the world. To show,
Mr.. Speaker, that am not alone in enter
tanning these views but they are held by
Tsngnshmen themselves In England, Will
qaaote the following striking lines which,
appear In Labourchere'S paper, tho London
Truth. Labourchere. as you know. Mr..
Speaker. Ii perhaps the liberal and re-
former OF England. The verses are a.
follows:
WHERE IS THE FLAG OF ENGLAND,
':And tho winds Of the world made answer,
North south and east and west:
Wherever there's wealth to eovet.
Or land that can be possessed;
Wherever are savage races
To coxen. coerce and scare,
Ye shall find the hunted ensign;
For the English flag is there!
AYE, 1t waves DER the blazing novels
Whence African victims fly.
To be shot by explosive bullets,
Or to wretchediy starve and die!
And where the beach-comber harries
Tho isles of the Southern sea,
At the peak Of his mellish vessel,
It's the English flag flies free.
1.-THE Maori full oft hath cursed it
With his bitterest dying BREATH
And the Arab has Missed his hatred
AS he splits at Its folds In death.
The hapless fellah has feared 1t
On Tel-el-Kebir's parched plain,
And the Zulus blood has stained it
With a deep, indellble stain.
1T has floated DER scenes OF pillage,
1t has Haunted Ger deeds of shame.
1t has waved DER the fell maralldcr
AS he ravlshed with sword and flame.
1t has locked upon ruthless slaughter.
And massacre dire and grim;
1t has heard the shrieks Of the victims
Drown even the lingo hymn.
Where Is the flag Of England?
Seek the lands where the natives rot;
Where decay and assured extinction
Must soon be the peoples lot.
Go! search for ths once glad islands.
Where diseases and death are rife,
And the greed Of callous commerce
Now battens on human life!
where Is the flag of England?
Go! sail where rich gs,aieons come
With shoddy and loaded cottons,
And beer and Bibles. and rum!
Go. too. where TO brute force has triumph
ed,
And hypocrisy makes its lair:
And your question will find its answer.
For the flag OF England is there"
-Labouchere In London Truth.
ENGLAND NOT OUR MOTHER.
This Is not a question to be decided upon
,entimenta1ities. The talk which we hear
now adays about England being our mother
Is not true. She has been, rather
! stepnother to the nations with which she
came In contact In our own case, when
We were colonies, her treatment Of US were
most unjust and despicable. She passed
avs that we could ship none our product
10 any other ports than English ones. If
any man found a bed Of ore upon his land
and attempted to reduce 1t to metal he was
punished as criminal. In that great docu-
rayhi n1, iu he str ~,
tional ltfe drawn by Thomas Jefferson. one
II the greatest men that ever lived, we find
! long list Of grievances repeated as q
Justification Of the revolution which made
Ii separate people. It is not necessary
10 quote them.
For quarterirg large bodies of armed
troops among US.
For protecting them by mock trial Of
punishment for any murders which they
should commit upon the inhabitants In these
titles.
For cutting Oft our trade from all parts
If the world.
For depriving us in many cases Of the
benefits OF trial by jury.
For transporting us beyond seas to be
ried for petty offenses.
HE has abdlgated government here by
US out Of his protection and waged
war as1nst us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts. burned our towns and destroyed
the lives OF our people.
HE has excited domestic Instructions
among us and has endeayored to bring on
the Inhabitants of our boarders the merci-
less Indian saYages, whose known rule of
warfare Is destruction of all ages, sexes
and conditions
After eight years Of terrible war, in
which our people were reduced to the
greatest straits OF poverty and suffering,
We achieved our Independence. But Eng