The Irish standard., 1898-06-18

n. f.,
P. c., G. G. B., G. c. M. G., D. G. L., LII
D., and others. In addition to which
no is a peer of the realm, and acquired
worldwide notoriety by falling from his
camel and sustaining severe contusions
In the Nile campaign to relieve Chinese
Gordon. Lord Wolseley fell into the
sand. fortunately furnishing the first
example on record of a general sand
bagglng himself.
General Lord Roberts, peer of Kan
dahar, in Afghanistan and of Waterford,
In Ireland-where he was born, Septem-
ber Both, 1832-is affectionately known
as "Bobs," Rudyard Kipling says, and
is, according to universal testimony, a
fine figure of an Irishman. Like VOL
seley, however, Roberts is decidedly
conservative in politics, and the Irish
men who make fuss in parliament
about the wrongs Of their country have
never dreamed of appealing to him for
even moral support.
Michael Davitt, M. P, who has been
the first of the Irish agitators to make
public utterance on the Anglo-Ameri-
can alliance, denounces 1t bitterly MI
Davitt is almost as we'll known in New
York as he is in Dublin and
London. Davitt interviewed himseS
very promptly after Mr.. Chamberlain's
Birmingham speech. In the cabled re-
port he appealed to the twenty-five
millions of Americans of Irish descent
to resent an alliance between the op-
pressors of their original native land
and their adopted native land. Not more
that 100000 people Of Irish birth have
ever come to the United States, and 49,
100000 would probably be fair estimate
of their descendants, instead Of Mr..
Davitt's 25,000,000. Yet if the Irish
Americans in power in New York and
other congested American cities were
to respond to Mr.. Davitt's appeal there
might be trouble.
For example. Mr.. Richard Croker, who
was born in Ireland 81 years ago. ana
lily there, and interviewing himself on
the enormities of the reform regime in
New York city, can but view an Anglo
American alliance with mixed emotions,
Many of Mr.. Croker's fellow countrymen
from the Old Sod who happen to occu-
py offices of high Importance and valu-
able emoluments in the second city in
the world view with alarm any rap
procurement between the country of
their adoption and of their oppressors.
Mr.. Croker and the Irish-Americans for
whom he stands have bitterly opposed
the arbitration treaty between the
United States and Great Britain.
What does President Mckinley think
of it all? He is the first president OF
direct Irish descent, tracing his lineage,
as he does, to Francis Mckinley, the
friend of Henry Joy McCracken, the lead
er of the Ulster rebels in 179S The Nc
K1nleys OF Dervocll were a substantial
family. Francis Mckinley was executed
at Coleraine as a traitor The ami
Versary of 1898 has witnessed an out
burst of Irish sentiment in the United
States which has been the means of
tracing back to this martyr" to the
cause of Ireland's freedom the ancestry
of the chief magistrate of the American
Union.
The opinion of no native of Ireland
will carry greater weight with it among
diplomatists than that of Lord Dufferln.
The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava,
eminent as governor-general of Canada
and OF India, as ambassador, statesman,
and orator. has been called the first Dip
lomat of his time. He is living now
in retirement at his beautiful home in
the County Down, seven miles from Bel
fast. Lord Dufferins family is con-
nected with America by the marriage
of his son. He is likely at any time to
be called to assume most important du-
ties of state.
After all, who would carry more
weight in any cause in which they en-
listed than the fighting Beresfords," )"
those gallant Irishmen, one married to
the American duchess Of Marlborough
(nee PRICE,, the other the pride and pet
of the British navy. Lord Charles
Beresford, whose portrait is here print
ed, shows his Celtic lineage in his feat
ures. He has recently been made a
rear admiral, and hence holds almost as
high position in the sea as his fellow
| ccuntrymen, Roberts and Wolse1ey, dc
in the land forces of the British empire.
Last of the eminent Irishmen here
cited as examples Of what their country
has done for the world, and of the con-
spicuous place tlGy fill in the powers Of
civilization is Sir Charles Gavan Duffy,
| whose name is almost synonymous with
the development of the continent of
Australia. Sir Charles went to Austria
liza in 1855, and became eventually the
| most conspicuous statesmen. His book,
"My Life in Two Hemispheres," re-
Gently published, attracted world wide
attention.
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