The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-14
WHO REFLECT HONOR ON ERIN.
They Have Achieved Distinction in
Peace and in War.
SOME INTERESTING SKETCHES
Sir Robert Hart, of Pekin, the
Most Powerful.

OF the dispersed races, the Irish and
the Jews have alike made homes and
careers in alien lands. The marked d.
vergence in those careers has been en-
phasized by the war between the United
States and Spain. An incidental effect
OF that war was the abandonment of the
project that one hundred thousand rep
rescntativc Irish Americans revisit their
native land In honor of the anniversary
of 9S. That would have vacated tenn
porarily most of the executive offices
IN many American cities. But that would
have been only an incident The war,
to the student of history. ,iscloscs the
remarkable fact that never before in the
history of the world have so many and
so important posts of honor and influ-
cnce been filled by men of Irish birth
and descent. not only in Spain, but In
Austria, her natural ally, in Russia, in
France, in Great Britain and the Unit
ed States, says John Paul Bocock in the
Cosmopolitan
During the period when an Anglo
American alliance has been discussed by
the statesmen of Europe as at least Il
possibility, and has been cordially con-
sidercd by leaders of opinion among
English speaking people, 1t was actually
true that, were Queen Nictorias Irish
born generals, admrals, colonial gov
crnors and diplomats disposed all at
once to rebel. they could, for the time
being, come very near converting the
British into an Irish empire
Furthermore, II was true that a lineal
descendant of one of "thc martyrs of
'9S' was president of the United Suites,
and that the municipal government of
most large American cities was con-
trollcd in the main by lrish-bo Amer
leans or their sons
One hundred years of what many
lrishmcn deem lIngland's oppressive
rule have just elapsed. To many Irish
Americans, to most of them indeed, the
suggestion of an alliance between the
United States and Great Britain is ab-
horrcnt Yet never since the days of the
Duke of Wellington has the British mil
itary establishment been SO conspicu-
ously Milesian in it's commanders as
Now.
General Lord Wolsclcy and General
Lord Roberts, tho great British generals
of today, were born in the county of
Dublin and the county of Waterford, re-
spcctivcly. Sir Garnet Joseph WOseiey,
X. p, G. c. 3D., G. c. M. c., d. c. l..
and LII. d., who was made viscount
in 1883. about the time he had that ter
rible fall from n camcls back going up
the Nile toward KhartOum, was born
Juno 4, 1893. in Godenbridge House,
county of Dublin
"Bobs," as kipIing's Tommy Atkinses
call Baron Roberts, of Candahar, in AZ
ghanistan and the county of Waterford
in ireland, is now cOmmander-in-c chief
Of the forces in Ireland, and is one year
older than his commander, Lord Wolse-
ley. While yet Sir Frederick Sleigh
Roberts he had already become a G. C.
-
and the popular idol of the soldiers in
India. But the list that didn't even start
with Wellington, who was born in Dub
lin, April II, 1863. but which already in
cludes his most eminent successors, is
only begun. Readers of the war news
from the Indian frontier all through the
late rebellion of the Afridis and the
MOhmunds have become familiar with
the name of Col Sir Bindon Blood, X. @.
b., who seems to have had general
charge Of the British forces. This gal
liant officer Is n son of William Bindon
Blood, ESD, of the county Glare. His
laurels were won long ago, for he was
chief staff officer on the Chitral relief
force. He is now the head of the royal
engineering military works department
in India.
No wonder there are Mulvaneys plen-
ty under the leadership of Il Roberts and
Blood. The army roster will fill out
the record almost at will. Gen. Sir John
Doran, X. c. b., famous throughout two
decades Of Hindoostanee wars, comes
from Ely House, in the county of Wex-
ford. The gallant Sir Hugh Henry
Cough, whose Indian career is long
series Of wounds and decorations, is q
son of George Cough, of Rathronon
House, in Tipperary. Sir Henry's serv-
ices in the time of the Mutny, his gal
liant conduct at the relief of Lucknow,
and on many another bloody field, blaze
red trail Of glory into the British war
Office. Scarcely less distinguished at
Cawnpore and Lucknow was Gen Sir
Richard Dennis Kelly, X. G. B., who
comes from Weston, in the county Of