The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-05
FAvsllTE HYMN Of TIE MB1heDIsrs
The Poet Of Imperialism Curses
The United States.
IN THE PURE ANGLo-sAxON STYLE
Ere Yankee Gold Got Into His
British Pockets.

British Pockets.
Mr.. o. D. Jones writes as follows in
the Knox County (Mo) Democrat on
Kiplings impious prayer:
Many inquiries have been made as to
what Kipling's "Recessional' is. 1
give it to you for publication as sung in
the Methodist churches:
God of our fathers known of old,
Lord OF our far flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion, over palm and pine.
The tumult and the shouting dies,
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands the ancient sacrifice,
A humble and a contrite heart
If drunk with sight of power, we loose
wild
Tongues, that have not thee in awe,
Such boasting as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the law.
CHORUS:
Lord God OF Hosts be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget.
So far as it has any, the meaning is
simply this: "God of our Fathers" :"
Henry VIII, George III. and Howe,
CORVALLIS, Andre and Arnold, Chinese
Gordon and Kitchener. lord Of our
far-Aung battle line" Certainly it has
been flung for hundreds of years over
India and Ireland; for many years over
China, Egypt and Africa. In 1875 to
1888 it was flung" from Lexington and
Concord to Yorktown; from our burn
ing Capitol at Washington to New Or
leans in 1915. "Our far-nung battle
line" includes and sustains the harems in
India, the Sultan OF Turkey and his
harems, the Khcdive OF Egypt and his.
Last August, at Omdurman, in Africa,
"Our battle line" killed 10000 Dervishes
in day for trying to defend their native
land and city against the red-coat brig
ands and invaders; and next day they
killed all the wounded. Right now
"Our far-hung battle line" is at the
point of making war on the little Dutch
Boer republic, in Africa, because it is a
republic and its poor, Woodworking
farmers have land and other things the
red brigands want
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
dominion over palm and pine" in India,
Ireland, Africa and Egypt and China
There we murder, loot, plunder and
starve the people to DEATH Starved one
and half millions in ireland and re-
duced her population from nine to four
and a half millions in less than CEN
tury.
In India we have starved 16,ooo, 900
to death during the reign OF the En-
press OF India; it is for this "We hold
dominion"
"The tumult and the shouting dies"
Yes, it died in the 10000 Dervishes at
Omdurman, in the 100000 of India
starved to death, in the million and a
half starved and murdered in Ireland.
"Thc Captains and the Kings depart"
OF course, Kitchener and Cecil Rhodes
depart to London to be lionized for their
murder and slaughter, and to sing the
"Rccessional." Still stands the ancient
sacrifice, humble and contritc heart"
That may mean almost anything. The
Tories claim it is reference to the
Empress OF India" in whose name they
loot, murder and starve. 1t would take
great poetic license" to permit the idea
that John Bull ever had heart He is
all teeth, gullet, paunch and pocket. He
never was known to be humble, contrite
or sorry, only when we gave him a good
thrashing, or when he tried to rob and
murder someone and failed.
That song was composed to be and
was sung at the Queens Jubilee The
answer to it was the slaughter last sum-
mcr of the Dcrvishes.
The Gar OF Russia called a confer
cnce to consider the measure OF general
military disarmament. That conference
met and voted on the proposition,
among other things, to discontinue the
use OF the "dum dum," or explosive bull
let, even in war with uncivilized people,
as it is now prohibited among the civil
lied nations. England and the British,
Tories sent by William Mckinley as
peace Commissioner" to misrepresent
the American people, voted to continue