The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-16

Protestant Nationalist would be certain
to get their votes against the Pope him
self should the latter run upon an anti
Nationalist ticket.
A thought arises in connection with
these comm entaries. American imper-
ialists can find here in Ireland one OF
tine most striking and luminous object
lessons that the page of history sets
forth to throw light upon the new de-
parture which they propose for the
United States in the Philippine Islands
or elsewhere Great Britain assimilated
Ireland by force many centuries ago,
and the process of assimilation has been
repeated over and over again, and the
result is patent to everybody with eyes
to see that the Irish people are held to
England solely by force-brute force
not by bonds OF amity, not by the con-
sent OF the governed. The lord lieuten-
ant i'll Dublin Castle has at his back at
the present moment in Ircland-in
territory about as large as the island OF
Luzon--about 10000 rifles and bayo-
nets, his permanent garrison, with more
to call upon from Great Britain in case
OF need. This garrison forms the inn
perial tie that links the two countries
together.
| am perfectly conversant with the
TACT that since 1868, when Mr.. Glad
stone disestablishcd the English church
i'll Ireland, down to the present time,
many measures to redress grievances
have been passed by the British parla-
ment, yet the Irish people are neither
thankful nor grateful to England for
them. Rightly or wrongly, they be-
lieve these measures were wrcnched
from England by their own action, by
disturbance and agitation. That they
have some good reason to think as they
do cannot be successfully disputed Mr..
Gladstone publicly alleged that he discs
tablished the church in Ireland because
OF Fenianism. The people OF ireland
remember quite we'll that scores OF Fen
ians suffered long terms OF imprison-
ment and that some were sentenced to
death Again, in 1881, he carried
most radical land act because the fierce
agitation OF the Irish National Land
League had paralyzed the running of
the Queens writ over two-tllirds of the
island. But the Irish people remember
also that the grand old man locked up
at his pleasure without any right OF
trial OF any kind about I,4oo of their
most active and self-sacrifcing leaders,
as conccmitant of that great act.
True, when he opened new chapter, as
it was called, in the relation of the two
peoples by the Introduction OF the home
rule bill, he personally won the graft
tude, ii not that warm affection, OF
great majority OF the people-indeed,
OF all except the Orangemen and some
fanatical Nationalists But alas the
house OF lords vetoed the measure with
the result that Ireland stands today with
political hatred, deep and inveterate,
and more dangerous to the empire than
probably at any period in the history OF
the two nations. The Salisburys and
Baltours may affect to pooh-pooh this
danger, but it is imminent and potential
in contingencies not unlikely to arise at
any moment. Give little further at
tention to this fact. At every meeting
OF the United Irish League-the ma
tlonal organization which extends over
the country-some of which meetings
are attended by crowds OF people num-
berlng several thousand, Paul Kruger
and the Beers OF the Transvaal are
chccrcd with the greatest enthusiasm.
1t is worthy OF note also that the Irish
Nationalist members of parliament
without exception advocated tile cause
OF the Beers in the late session of par
Lament with as mucl, vigor as they did
eighteen years ago, before the conflict
opened that ended with the British de-
leat at Majuba Hill