The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-12-04

thentic statistics that the Irish drank
proportionately much less beer and
whisky than the inhabitants Of Great
Britain. In Great Britain, the expendl-
ture for beer is over $13 a head per
annum, while In Ireland it Is only $3.50
head.
For whisky, the Britons spend $7.25
"a head. while the Irish spend only $3.50.
Thus the Englishman besides drinking
twice as much beer, drinks 4 great deal
more whisky than the Irishman. This
is specimen Of the lies told to injure
the cause of Ireland.
Moreover. the history of English in
vasion and rule In Ireland proves that
the English have no right there, ex-
cept the right Of the strongest. From
Henry II. to Henry Will, period of 500
years, the English were never able to
obtain possession of more than a third
of Ireland. Although they made constant
war on the country, and brought army
after army from England to subdue it.
the English never got beyond three or
four counties on the east coast. They
were cooped up in the so-callcd Pale
which was simply an Anglo-N Norman
garrison Beyond it's limits, Ireland
was free. Finally even the inhabitants
of the Pale" became SO intensely Irish,
that they were said to be more Irish
than the Irish" themselves.
During these 300 years no English king
presumed to call himself king of Ire
land. The first one to do that was Hen
ny Will. after he had become Prot
estant Did the Irish submit to his
claim? No, Mr.. Green, one of the latest
historians Of the English people tells
us that professionalism had failed to
wrest single lrishman from his older
convictions, but it succeeded in uniting
all Ireland against the crown" The
right of the English to rule Ireland
has been disputed by it's inhabitants in
every century alone. They have always
refused to acknowledge the authority of
the English kings and their deputies.
The Irish forced Bellingham, the lord
deputy of Somerset, to withdraw the
English garrisons he had established in
the south
1t was against these that the Irish
rose in l64l. The uprising of the ma
tive Irish in that year was not a re-
ligious uprising but political one, for
the purpose of getting back their prop
erty and their self-government, both Of
which bad been stolen from them by
English invaders. The whole of Ireland
was again in revolt against England in
Cromwell's reign. and again in the reign
of William of Orange. The rebellion of
1885, the attempt to rebel in lS4S and in
1866. bring the armed protests against
English rule down to our own time The
legal protests and arguments present an
unbroken line. These facts show that
the English never had peaceful possess
sion of Ireland. Their rulers can claim
no prescription there for Irish protest
legal or armed, or both, has always in
corrupted it.
Tho last great attempt to destroy
Irish Independence was made in the
year $500. when the English ministry
paid one million pounds sterling in
brides to corrupt the Irish parliament
to vote for the Act of Union Lord
Castereagh. the chief agent in the bril-
berry, afterwards cut his own throat. Thus
it is quite probable that the devil If he
was not cheated got the first and the
last great criminal against the right Of
ireland to freedom. That right is i'm
mortal. for the cause is just