The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-29

tomorrow. Ireland cuts no Inquire IN
the matter at all. The Irish-Americans
will never sanction an alliance with
England or any other nation. Neither
will the German-Americans. The only
set OF men who clamor for such a con-
Eliminating thing are the so-called
Anglo axons, who are in minority in
this country. They belong to the party
OF Mark Hanna. Alter the next presi-
dental election we shall hear no more OF
an Anglo-Saxon alliance The advo-
Gates of it will be forever silenced at the
polls.
COL. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
The famous American agnostic, Rob-
ert G. 1ngersoll, died OF apoplexy at his
country home at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y,
on July 81, at the age of &c years. His
sudden and unexpected death furnished
topic for many preachers of the gospel
last Sunday, and but few OF them had
anything good to say of Inn. Some OF
them showed an unforgiving spirit,
while others referred kindly to him.
Among the latter was the celebrated DR..
D. ]. Stafford, OF ST. Patrick's Catholic
church, Washington, D. c., who ex-
claimed: "Poor Bob Ingersol If he
was only honest he is all right"
We have seen no remark on the death
OF the scoffer of revealed religion from
FIR. Lambert, his greatest antagonist in
the controversial arena. In his "Notes
ON Ingersoll'' he gave quotations from
the writings of the agnostic and then
made his clever comments. In his
Tactics of Inhdels" he replied to one
Lacey who had come to the defense of
Ingersoll. Bob himself never attempted
to answer him. Next to Fir. Lambert
the greatest OF his opponents was Judge
Black OF the United States supreme
court, but the North American Review,
i'll which the discussion appeared, shut
him off to save Ingersoll from defeat
lngersoll was far from being learned
man. His knowledge of science and
philosophy was very superficial. He
had sufficient knowledge of reasoning
to be sophist of the sllallowest kind.
His great weapon was sarcasm. He
was scoffer of sacred things. He was
not an atheist and yet he blasphemed
Almighty God. We seriously doubt
whether he was sincere or honest. Take
the following as a sample of his flip
pant and irreverent illusions to the
Creator: "Why did he allow millions
OF his children to be enslaved? Why
did he allow millions of mothers to be
robbed OF their babes? Why has he al
lowed injustice to triumph? Why has
lie permitted the innocent to be i'm
prisoned and the good to be burned?
Why has he withheld his rain and
starved millions of the children of men?
Why has he allowed the volcanoes to
destroy, the earthquakes to devour, and
the tempest to wreck and rend?"
He charmed the ears OF the ground
lings who paid their dollars to hear his
rlbaldry and blasphemy by fine rhetor-
ical phrases about liberty. Take the fol-
lowing for sample: Liberty is a
word hated by kings-loathed by popes.
1t is word that skaters thrones and
altars-that leaves the crowned without
subjects, and the outstretched hand Of
superstition without aims. Liberty is
the blossom and fruit of justice-the
perfume OF mercy. Liberty is the seed
and soil, the air and light, the dew and
rain of progress, love and JOY"
Ingersoll adopted the tactics of VOL
taire in attacking Christianity, but he
was only feeble imitator of the great
Frenchnan. There was nothing orig
inal in his warfare on the church. The
same sophistry had been employed by
ADLER men before him who antagonized
Christianity, and Christianity has sur
vived. One of his disciples in Mime
apolis thinks him the greatest man Of
the nineteenth century. He will be for
gotten in twenty years. Adam Bede,
the philosopher of Pine City, Mimi,
forms just estimate of his life when he
says Of him:
His voice was like that Of the ship
wrecked and disconsolate mariner con-
stantly taunting and tormenting his fell
lows with the cry that they would never
get ashore. In language of surprising
beauty he ridiculed all sacred things
The world asked for bread and he gave
it stone. The soul yearned for i'm
mortality and he offered it dust. The
mother wcpt for her child, but he
couldn't comfort her. His teachings
were negative: they destroyed but did
not build again. He battered down the
castle OF hope only to leave us in dark
ness and despair. He taught not evolu-
ton but revolution in our beliefs His
was not the philosophy that exalts the
heart OF the humble and points the
storm-stricken mariner to a star. At
best his testimony was that OF witness
who could only answer, don't know.
1t proved nothing, and left the world
more discontinued than before.
THE.PH1LIPP1NE MIsMANAGEMENT.
Now that President Mckinley has got
rid of Alger he ought to follow up the
good work BY retiring Gen. Otis II is