The Irish standard., 1898-08-13
A CONTEMPORARIES CHAGRlN

at Inc Irish Standard for its temerity
III criticising recent editorial relating
to the Anglo-SaXon alliance which APP
peared in it's columns under the caption
or Foreigners Do Not Understand"
IL gets back at The Standard in an ILL
natured and insulting manner, as might
have been expected from a sheet of
Anglo-Saxon proclivities. The Times
calls The Standard several ugly names,
and declares that the fact that The
standard is unable to see that Engand's
friendship in this crisis was vital to us
argues grave lack either of perspicuity
or patriotism on it's part
10 enlishten such "a foreign paper"
as The Standard, the Times quotes one
Wheeler, writer who is as big an An
gloman1ac as the Times editor himself,
and who, had he been with the latter on
mis- trip over the Canadian Pacific, would
nave sung God Save the Queen" with
Just as much gusto as this descendant
OF the American Tories. The Times
thinks that The Standard assumes a
narrow and unpatriotic attitude" on
the alliance question, and asks, rs it an
american paper, or merely an Irish pa
per? Not content with it's bitter TRADE
against us In its leading article, it re-
turns to the attack in paragraph con-
tanning garbed extract from The
Standard, and SAYS that the general inn
preston in thisscolIntry is that Cham
berlain simply meant "a neral alliance.
such as exists today, and has done us
such inestimable service in the present
war" II. b
In reply to our disgruntled contempo-
rary, we will say that The Irish S,and-
ard is a real, live, American paper. owned
ana operated byiAmericans, and racy Of
the soil. 1t is published in the interest
or American citizens, and one of it's OH
jects is to defend the Irish race at home
ana abroad from tho instrumentation
or such sheets as the Times, which some
time ago enormously declared that Ire
land had never produced first-class
statesman, either in ancient or modern
times When The Standard refuted 4ts
brazen allegation, it remained eloquently
silent. The Standard is an American
paper that has American PRINCIPLES tn
advocate. and it will continue to advo-
cate them despite the structures and
sneers Of its contankerous contempo-
fary. Unlike the Times, it is consist
ent and unwavering in its principles. It
does not blow hot and cold in the same
way the wind blows. and adjust it's sails
accordingly. The only things in which
the Times is consistent are it's advocacy
and glori1cation of Anglo-Saxonism. its
antagonism to foreigners who have the
misfortune of being Celts or Teutons or
Slavs, instead of Anglo-Saxons, and its
unccasing opposition to J. j. Hill and the
Great Northern railroad. On everything
else it is as changeabe as a weather.
cock, and all because it is "independ
ent"
The Standard is called an "Anglophobic
Fenian organ" and is suspected of being
gravely lacking in PATRIOTISM, be-
cause. forsOoth, it does not accept the
| cratic views of it's acrobatic contempo-
ray. The Standard has never been an
organ of Fcnanism FOR the simple rea-
son that it sprang into existence after
that Irish movement had run its course.
Ii by "Fenianism' is meant Irish ma
tionaity, The Standard pleads guilty to
the soft Impeachment. 1t may be AN
gophobic' in the sense that it is on
| posed to AnglO-Saxon arrogance and
hypocrisy, and it is surely anti-British
SO far as British chicanery and robbery
are concerned. Opposition to British
Vaccinations. however. does not render
The Irish Standard unpatriotic to the
American republic: on the contrary, it
displays its loyalty and patriotism by
cautioning this col ntry against any
alliance with foreign nations, and es-
peciaIIy with England, which is jealous
of our prestige. glory and greatness.
When The Irish Standard declares
that English professions of friendship
and affection to the United States are in
sincere and based Solely upon selfishness,
it does not stand alone The Boston
| Aieiaiu' WHOSE proprietor ana son own
the controlling interest in the Minncapo
lis Times, agrees with The Irish Stand
ard on the subject. We shall quote the
following editorial utterance from its
pages to enlighteh' our next-door neigh
Dor: '
up to a recent date" it says, Eng
fish papers have had the kcenest of eyes
to detect our faults. These they have
been swift to expose. prone to exagger-
ate and eager to hold up as warning
to their own people. In the recent
change that has come over the spirit of
their dream, they are in danger of con-
tinued interpretation in reverse direc-
tion. They see nothing not to be adj
mired in us now; they forget the flaws
that they have found and have labored
to bring into prominence; everything
here has become rose-colored to them.