The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-14

Aup1AAoA eullo1Ad1S Al Iue AOuuOu Od4ty
News, the great Liberal organ. As q
journalistic historian he reminds one Of
the work of Theirs. T. P. O'Connor In
the Sun. O'Conor Power in the Speaker,
the leading Liberal weekly, Frank Hugh
ODonnell. and many another free lance,
WELD trenchant pens.
What of science and the liberal pro-
fessions? Lord Kelvin-Sir William
Thomson-who won his title by practi-
cal achievements in electrical science,
was born an Irishman.
| Sir William MacCormac, who is de-
scribed by Burke as "Surgeon-in-C Chief
| of Anglo-American Ambulance" and
who has been decorated by nearly every
government in Europe for his services to
humanity, is native of Belfast. He
now holds the post of examiner in surg
| cry at the University of London. Any
Londoner can extend the list. The lord
chief justice of England Baron Russell,
of killowen, in the county of Down, was
born in Seafield house, Killowen, Nov.
10, 1892.
The chairman of the Midland and
Great Western railways, Sir Ralph
Smith Cusack, is CLERK of the Crown
and Hamper" in Ireland.
In Canada, where four-fifths of the
population may be deemed Celts, there
have been such eminent Irishmen as
Blake, now in parliament at Westmin-
ster Costigan, and Thomas Darcy Nc
Gee. No man better than Blake can call
the bead-roll of Canadian Celts. None
more than he would delight to recall
that If Hume and Carlyle were Scotch
Celts, that other famous historian, Ma
caulay, sprang from the Magawleys,
family of great antiquity in Ireland,
and descended from no less parsonage
than the mysterious "Niell of the Nine
Hostages"
The growth of the Irish Celt side by
side with the French Celt In Canada, is
only to be expected from the history of
the two countries which for centuries
fraternized with sword and scapular.
The achievements of the Irish in France
and under the feur-de-lis wherever
French troops set foot, are as old as
Froissart, and are famous alike is his
| tory and in romance. A solitary exam
pie may suffice in the Macmahons, who
lived with distinction many centuries in
Ireland, and. having "risked all for the
last of the Stuart kings" transferred
| 1,o;,,
and became generals, marshals and pres
idents in that congenal soil. Nor is
any lover of roses, in any cline, likely
to forget that other gallant Franco-Ir Irish
name of Mel French Of the French
since, after the treaty of Limerick in
1851, $1,000 Irish soldiers, with drums
beating and colors flying, chose to serve
Catholic rather than Protestant king.
laurels won under the banner of France
by the McDonalds, O'Tooles, William
sons, Careys and Dilons.
Now, when the tide of immigration to
North America is already ebbing, the
undeveloped republics far to the south
of us are attracting some of Erins most
stalwart sons This ebb of the tide was,
in the nature Of things, bound to come.
The official statistics of the treasury de-
partment show that 3,675,3S4 Irish peo-
pie arrived in United States ports be-
tween Oct. 1, 1920, and June 3d. 1894.
Whereas there were 1888 arrivals from
Ireland in the year 1888; the corre-
spending number in 1894 was only 49,
9O4.
| These immigrants and their sons be-
gan so speedily to take possession Of
the minor political, especially the mu-
nicipal. offices of their new homes
they settled mainly in the towns-that
an accurate resume made within five
years past showed them then to be in
control Of the municipal machinery of
the cities of New York, Boston, Brook
Ign. Jersey City, Hoboken, Chicago,
Buffalo, Troy, Albany, Pittsburg, st.
Paul. St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha,
New Orleans and San Francisco. The
history of the Irish in the United States
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general history of the Celt abroad
Gen. Patrick A. Collins, himself an
American-1rishman, thus enumerates
those American-Irish whose names most
readily recur to the student of Ameri-
can history:
Mckinley, the president, and Bryan,
his competitor; Andrew Jackson; John
c. Calhoun; James Buchanan, and Ches-
ter A. Arthur, the ancestors of all six
belonging in the same county in ireland.
In the army and navy the roll includes
Montgomery, Wayne. Stark, Knox
Lewis, Conway, Sullivan, Meade, Sheri-
dan. Kearney, Shields, Barry, "the IA
Their Of the American navy, McDonough
and Mahan. Other great names are:
Patrick Henry. the immortal champion
Of revolution in Virginia; Ulysses S.
Grant, general and presidents the fight
ing McCooks, McClellands. Netherlands,
McDonoughs and McDowells, in the
Union army, and Stonewall Jackson in
the Confederate ranks; John Barry, Of
Wexford. the first ranking officer in the
navy, and Capt. John D. O'Brien
Under adverse circumstances in most