The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-06
A VICTORY FOR The FIGHTING Eulro R
DIR. ANDREWS OF BIMETALLIC FAME
A BLEEDING VICTIM.
Ex.PREsIDEnr Of BROWN UNIVERSITY
FROM "LITTLE RHODY,,
IS A BRAYING JACKASS.

DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews speech at
Lake Monona assembly on the subject
of Foreign Politics." has stirred up the
Irish Nationalists in the city, says the
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
DR.. Andrews advocated strongly an al
lance between this country and Great
Britain. The advantage of an Anglo-Sax-
on alliance is favorite theme of the ed
ucator from Rhode Island, and on nu-
merous occasions it is said he has gone
out of his way to advocate it. The An
glo-Saxon alliance scheme to the Irish
is like red rag to bull. At the Hi
bernian banquet few weeks ago the.
sentiment Of Chicago Irishmen on the
subject of an alliance between England
and America was expressed vigorously.
DR.. Andrews speech at Lake Monona
stirred up the wrath of John T. Finerty
especially. To reporter for the Inter-
Ocean he said yesterday: "Dr. Andrews
speech at Monona was a bolder repeti-
tion of what he has been saying in
speeches all over the West. Professor
Andrews-I think his name originally
was MacAndrews, distinctively Irish
name-is filled with New England
bumptiousness and thinks, perhaps, that
he has mission to enlighten us West
| ern barbarians' This Anglo-American
alliance nonsense is typical New Eng
land fad, worked up most adroitly by old
England in order to further her political
designs. The professor doesn't want
| to go into the alliance as a lions
whelp,' but as full-grown lion,' capa-
BILE, of course, Of devouring the weak,
according to the feline habit. He brays
loud enough to be mistaken, not for
: full-grown lion, but full-grown jack
ass.
| II know I speak the sentiments of the
Irish Of Chicago continued Mr.. Fin
erty, when 1 say that DR.. Andrews
manifests very bad taste in coming to
this cosmopolitan American city to ad-
vocate Anglo Saxonism. He forgets that
Poles, the Scandinavians, the Italians,
the Bohemians, and the negroes, with
their immediate descendants, are ma,
! jority here. Even New England i'm
pudence and ignorance cannot class
these elements as 'Anglo-Saxons.' Pro-
fessor Andrews, or MacAndrews, is an-
other of these renegade Celts who make
honest Celts sick by the glorfcation of
racial enemies. Macauley was their
chief All the rest are bad imitators"
Mr.. Finerty ridicules the idea of an al
! lance between this country and Eng
land on the ground of humanitariansm.
Said he:
1T is amusing to find Andrews dealing
with the humanitarian side OF the pro-
jected alliance. Does he mean to justt-
fly England's odious acts in India, in
Ireland, in South Africa, and elsewhere?
Does he indorse blowing Sepoys from
the mouths Of cannon and taxing salt? +?
Does he indorse the cruel policy that
allowed millions in Hindostan to starve
to death within the last three years?
Has he read Julian Hawthornes de-
lished in the Cosmopolitan Magazine of
last year and this? Does the professor
indorse England's policy in Ireland,
where she allowed, from 1876 to 1861,
1 ,250,OOO people to die of starvation, with
plenty to feed them in hand, which she
kept from them by the bayonet? Null
halls statistics say Victorias reign has
been the most disastrous 70 Ireland since
EliZabeth's. And Mulhall is not an
Irishman, although he has an Irish
name. Does he indorse England's scoun-
drelism in China when she forced the
Chinese ports to open to the infamous
opium trade, for the benefit of British
merchants, at the point of the cannon?
Does he indorse Englands policy in the
Transvaal, where she threatens to wipe
out the Dutch republic for the sake Of
empire? Is this the kind of course Pro.
fessor Andrews wants the United States
to enter upon for the sake of human
ity?'
Let me present to Professor An
drews, and to the readers of the Inter-
Ocean, a poem from Truth (Mr. La
boucheres paper), in which Anglo-sax-
on virtue is vigorously summed up
The poem Mr.. Finerty calls attention
to appeared in last weeks issue of the
Irish Standard.
| The Irish representatives on tn,
board of education are keeping quiet,
but it is well known that DR.. Andrews
has been bitter pill to them all along.
At the time of his candidacy every effort
was made by them to defeat him, out
side of directly voting against thu
mayor. Archbishop Feehan even took
hand. Marked copies of DR.. Andrews
United States history were sent to all
the board members in an effort to prove