The Irish standard., 1897-02-20
Crit Using the English.

a rare. II not unique. amount Of night
Ing spirit; this il a most precious quality
il directed aright. There is an enemy
Of our race, and the entire human race,
that Is right now adding one more to
the villanies we have been the victims
Of The very essence Of British brutalt-
ty an hypocrisy is now working might
and main for the arbitration treaty, TO
get America into alliance with our An
glo-Saxon brethren.
The Protestant churches and allied or
ganizations are running Q hot, and per-
sistent campaign for arbitration. They
at once and easily read creed and reh-
gion under the common public phrase
kindred Institutions, of the English
and Anglomanaac arbitration cant. And
who that knows anything OF the tactics
Of England, and of the special weakness
Of Americans, but must suspect that,
having got such value for their money
from the preachers Of America in the
late "A. P. A. campaign, they could hardly
have neglected hiring them now again to
whoop up the arbitration treaty. And
so morning, afternoon and evening servi-
ces, and the weekday prayer-meetlng
have been given to preaching peace and
arbitration, and organizing, the signing
of petitions, and other forms and ways
Of pressure upon members of congress
on behalf of the treaty. This is at pres
ent the chief occupation of what is left
Of the A. P. A.-and It's we'll for us to
understand that there Is left for practi-
cal purposes, tremendous lot OF it. To
down the Irish it worked on other lines
before; and for the same object 1t Is
working on these lines now: Now as
we'll as heretofore American venality Is
at the service Of English overbear1ng
conceit and outrageous annoyance. In
deed much more easily so; for the A. F.
A. program was so palpably cruel and
mean that it could be advocated and car
ried out only secretly and underhand;
whilst the present business of England
in America can be, and is, conducted op-
enly and proudly as the very aim OF
Christianity and humanity, peace on
Earth" "Good will to Men,. So much for
the Rev. Stigginses' services to their An
glo-Saxon mother country. And then,
as in the late campaign how the "busi-
ness interests" are worked to get Amer
ica against the world! Says Washing
ton dispatch to the New York Herald:
'Tha fact that business interests have
united with the friends Of religion and
humanity in demanding the ratification
of the treaty is not surprising in view OF
assurances which have been conveyed
from British sources to the State Depart
ment There is no doubt from the mes
sages received from the British capital
lists that the United States will become
more than ever the favorite investment
of British capital. If f1nanciers in both
countries feel that their international re-
lations cannot again be threatened by
such hurries as those which broke out
in the stock market when the Venezuela
an message was delivered to Congress in
December, 1882.
There is what British capital IS after,
and British rapacity: freedom from any
such restraint on its sweet will as was
that Venezuelan message. There is what
has been keeping "Christian England"
peacebly and calmly still while the poor
1p},1 hr,f0 M
outraged: to interfere would make a
furry in the stock-market. And there
is going to be Americas part OF the pro-
fits out of the proposed treaty which
would make it the ally of its national
enemy, and the enemy of all its afore-
time friends among the nations: that
beggarly. bloated, renegade portion OF it's
people, It's f1nanciers, it's gamblers on
the grana scale, would be- saved from
f1urries in the stock-markets! The devil
everlastingly knock his backside against
them and their stocks. But curstng
them won't do any good Nor will mere
ly being mad at them do them any harm.
They must be opposed, and exposed.
Their threats Of the bowwows that would
come from the stock-market f1urries
must be sized up at their true worth,
before the people at large must be brack-
eted with their late promises of prospe-
rity on the triumph of Sound money.
The influence of their. deceptive work
through the press and the pulpits must
be counteracted and destroyed. The ar
ticle showing up the fraud and foul In
tent of tho treaty, that appears in a few
honest and are read by but a small por-
tion of the people should be multiplied
a hundred thousand fold, and be brought
before all the people. And the pressure.
they bring on the members of congress
should be met by counterpressure. There
are enough voters opposed to that trea-
ty to kill 1t if they will make themselves
heard, if they will give full and emphat-
ic notice that they want it killed. Here
is work especially for the Hibernians.
They are numerous, we'll organized, and
widely spread through the country. This
treaty is as English as Kilmainham jail
or Portland prison. Let them then 60
to work and spread the light" about it.
Let them run q campaign Of education,
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