The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-20
ITS WORKS AND RESULTS POINTED OUT
TERROR TO WEAK RACES ALL OVER
THE HABITADLE GLOBE.
ANGl lo.sAxoA CIVILIZATION IN IRELAND
SUCH CIVILIZATION is A CURSE AND
NOT A BLESSING.

In recent issue Of the Chicago Citi-
zen Hon. John f. Finerty says in an edi-
torial:
No more brutal fraud has ever been
perpetrated on the American public than
| the laudation and eulogy Of what is
called Anglo-Saxon civilization. In the
forum, in the pulpit, on the stump and
On the stage, the glories and the benefits
of Anglo-Saxon civilization have been
represented as Gods highest gifts to
humanity; while the .so-called Latin
nations are decried as ignorant and
non progressive. The Anglo-Saxon phar-
isee sounds forth his self-praise, and
| thanks God that he is not like that
wicked Latin publican, who stands at
| the door of the temple, acknowledging
his faults and asking for mercy. The
scriptures tell us that the publican
went down from the temple more justi-
| fed than the pharisee, and in like man
ner the civilizing efforts Of the Latin
races will be justified before God above
those of the AngloSaxon. The empires
of old, though cruel, were not extermi-
nators. Taskmasters they may have
been, but it does not seem to have been
their policy to entirely destroy those
whom they vanquished. Always severe,
and at times cruel, the Roman elevated
the races his valor had overcome, and
his yoke became training school where
barbarian nations acquired the science
of government. The Anglo-Saxors
leave no mark upon the nations they
subdue but the brand Of undying hate
impressed on the souls of the van
quished. AS rule, the government Of
aboriginal races by Latin nations,
though at times stained by cruelty, has
(, not been destructive. English rule, on
the contrary, has externlinated when
ever determination has been possible,
and Its effects have been invariably de-
structive and degrading to the con-
quered. Enslands rule in Ireland has
been, and is still, f1endish and calcu-
lated system of determination.
Sir John Davies, attorney-general for
Ireland under James l., and an English
Protestant, admits that as far back as
the reign of Edward Ill, according to
English law, it was no offense to rob or
even murder an 1rishman; that il an
| Engllshman married an Irishwoman, he
was sentenced to be half-hanged, to have
his heart cut out before he was dead,
then to have his head struck off, and
every rood Of his land passed to the
crown OF England. He says: "The
Irish We're considered as foreigners and
enemies, insomuch that an Englishman
might settle upon an Irishmans farm
with impunity. There was no redress
for the Irish" Now the time prescribed
by Davies is that epoch when the Eng
lish were "'oly Romans that period
when devout modern English Catholics
tell US their country was 1.-THE island
of saints and "Mary's DOVER"
When the English changed their
creed, their method of civilizing tho
irish underwent no modification. In
Elizabeth's reign the southern half of
ireland was almost depopulated coun-
try, outside of the walled towns. In the
pext generation Cromwell drenched the
soil Of Ireland with the blood of her
people, sold thousands into slavery, and
drove the remainder into the mountains
OF Connaught, in the hope that starva-
tlon would complete the bloody work
the sword had failed to accomplish. In
the eighteenth century the Anglo-Saxon
c1v1llzers crushed the unfortunate Irish
under code of laws, described by Ed
mund Burke as "a machine of wise and
elaborate contrivance and as we'll fitted
for the oppression, impoverishment and
degradation of people, and the debase-
ment in them of human nature itself, as
ever proceeded from the perverted in
genuity of man. This horrid code"
says Montesquieu, was conceived by
devils, written in human gore and reg
istered in hell"
When this benevolent product of
Anglo-saxon civilization failed to effect
Its pious purpose, the philanthropic
/
fore they professed to believe that Ire
land could never be civilized until the
Irish became Protestants, but Grat1an
convinced them that Irish Protestants,
no more than Irish Catholics, could
properly appreciate the blessings of An
glo-Saxon civilization, SO it was re-
solved to drive the Irish out of ireland
by forced famines and crushing taxation.
During the present reign English rule
has reduced the population of Ireland
from nine to four and one-half millions.
One million and half were murdered,
and three millions, with their natural
increase were forced to emigrate In ad-
dttion to this awful loss of population,
Ireland has also been robbed during the
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