The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-11-20
A LUXURIOUS COMPLAINT.

A LUXURIOUS COMPLAINT.
The London Spectator is Mortified at
the enthusiastic cheering for Mad Mullah
and his tribesmen at a recent meeting
IN Dublin 1t cannot understand for the
life of it how Irishmen can rejoice over
the defeat of British troops by a hord,
Of barDarans1 til grows wrathy when
1t considers that the sympathy OF the
Irish could go aoutfin such demonstra-
tive manner to the Afridis, when thou
sands of the troops about to contend
with the clansmen are "Irishmen, Celtic
lrishmen, Celtic 1Catholic Irishmen,"
who are not only shot down by then
rebels in battle but "sniped" by
adroit shooting from behind rocks when
they are off their guard. The Spectator
says that the British cause is the cause
of Ireland, and indeed of the whole
world, and how the Irishmen in Dublin
could be SO bitter against England that
they lose sympathy with their own rela-
tives passes its understanding.
Commenting upon the lugubrious COM
plant Of the Saxon sheet the Chicago
Citizen cleverly says:
Alas, yes, that is Ireland's blacklist
disgrace. Among her sons can still be
found freshmen, Celtic Irishmen, Celtic
Catholic Irishmen," base born Irish
| men. denationalized Irishmen, traitor
1rishmen, goddess, soulless Irishmen, re-
creants to their country, their faith,
their fathers and their God, who gener-
alton after generation, sell themselves
for far less than a mess Of pottage to
the heartless Saxon, and
Go to STAY the free and brave
Whose wrongs with wrath the world is
filing"
and die like dogs ("unwept. unhonored
and unsung'), in the service of peo-
pie who hate and despise them even
when they are fighting their battles. Oh,
but, says the Spectator, they are "sniped
by adroit shooting from behind rocks
when they are off their guard" Well,
what better fate do they deserve? What
better are they than red-handed rob-
bers and murderers Of men who never
wronged them.
"Who ever rocked, how where or when
The prowling wolf is trapped or slain?"
"Sniped," indeed; and from behind
rocks too; sensible, level headed Afri-
dis adroit sons of Islam, prudent care
full Mahomedans, that is the way to meet
the English marauders. Many respect
able presidents exist in America for
this time honored system of Kidding the
world Of the worlds oppressors. 1t be-
gan on a fine April morning at a small
town called Concord, where the Yankee
farmer fired the shot that was heard
around the world. But that was only
the beginning for
I'm the books we've read
How the British re- ulars fired and fed,
How the farmers gave them ball for
ball -
From behind each fence and farm yard
wall. 1s
Chasing the red coats down the lane,
Then crossing the i fields to emerge
again, ~
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausihg to- fire and load"
Thus they SHIPPED them in Boston
town, and out again on that blessed St.
Patrick's day iii the morning in 1776,
never to return again forever more.
Another fine exhibition of shipping" was
given during Burgoynes march to Sar-
atoga, where he was so badly "sniped"
that he surrendered horse. foot and ar
tillery and theft returned ome to relate
his experience Of Yankee "snipe" shoot
ing. And so it Went on until that ever
glorious 10Th of October, 1852, when the
last of the English snipe surrendered 70
Washington and Rochambeau and their
gallant armies. But by far the most
successful example Of shooting English
snipe was accomplished at New Orleans
when, under the direction of the grand
old Irish-American, Andrew Jackson,
2,117 men, including two generals, seven
colonies, seventy-five line and staff off,
GERS were "sniped" by few Kentucky
and Tennessee hunters, who from behind
their breastworks accomplished the