The Irish standard., 1899-12-16
COMPLETE MErAMORpHOs1S.

COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS.
While the great, inspiring conflict be-
tween the adherents OF commercial Tree
dom and the henchmen of monopoly was
in progress, a few years since, one OF
the most frequently reiterated calumnies
uttered by Republican partisans was the
charge that the Democratic party ia
vored free trade because OF sympathy
with England, with the English govern
nent and with English institutions. We
have in our possession one OF the CAM
paign Leaflets" circulated in vast vol
ume by the Republican party managers
in the years 1880, 1884 and 1888. This
leahet bears upon one side represen-
tation OF the American flag, printed in
colors, and on the reverse a colored rep
resentation OF the British imperial STAN
dard. On each side appear admonitions
addressed to the American voter, warn
ing him, in vehement language, against
voting the Democratic ticket on the
ground that vote for Democracy was
vote for British free trade" all this
reinforced by the question, printed in
heavy-faced capital letters, "Under
Which Flag?" Campaign documents OF
this kind were extensively circulated
among the people OF Irish birth and an
tecedents and were considered quite
effective in gaining votes for the party
OF monopoly and high taxation by
arousing that natural antagonism to all
things English which every Irisllman
inherts.
What change has since occurred!
The party that once affected to consider
the terms British" and English" dis
tinctly opprobrious, now fawns upon the
monarchical government of Great Brit
ain and seeks to consummate an alliance
between that government and our own.
Wherever the leaders OF that party as
semble to participate in Sybaritic ban
quets amid the gorgeous surroundings
OF plutocratic magnifcence, there we
find them drinking bumpers to "The
Queen" singing God Save the
Queen" and indulging in hysterical lau-
dations OF the land, people and institu-
tons Of George III. and Victoria, while
the walls are hung with the "Union
Jack" intertwined and intermingled with
the flag under which Washington ac-
cepted the surrender of CORVALLIS at
Yorktown. In the fulsome Aattery of
the British monarchy, all thought of the
political crimes inflicted upon Ireland
by William of Orange and his success
sors are calmly ignored by those who
throng around the trust-buttressed
throne wfereon, by the grace OF Mark
Hanna, sits the statesman from Canton,
Ohio. What change!
The transformation is, however, more
apparent than real. They have gone
through the simple process of throw
ing off mask. Monopoly is timorous
because oppressed with an inward sense
of guilt and shame while outwardly
wearing a brazen countenance in its
career of widespread pillage. 1t breads
the day Of reckoning. 1t longs for mill
'arism to defend its agents and its plum
der. 1t seeks the overthrow OF free insti-
tutions and the establishment of mon
arcly and an aristocracy built upon
wealth. Thus they hope to be secure in
an uninterrupted continuance of their
gainful robberies. Thus they hope to
lord it over once free people, The
kingly ruler hoped for by them will sus-
tain the wrongs which they find so
profitable and it will no longer be nee
essary to export the daughters OF mil
lionaires to Europe in order to secure
the coveted investment in title of no
blity. OF all this the people must be
made aware through the warnings of
our Democratic journals-our sentineIs
upon the watcl-towers of Liberty.
If the monopolists no longer deem
association with England and her rotten
government an occasion of reproach, the
intelligent masses OF the American peo-
pie hold different view. They are true
to the ideals born in the American revo-
luton. Time will emphasize this condi-
ton Of public thought Meanwhile, let
us congratulate ourselves upon the fact
that the cause of commercial liberty
and reduced tax burdens can no longer
be discredited by the cry, British Free
Trade!" The cringing minions of Vic
toria's realm who transact their money
changing on this side of the Atlantic will
hurl at us no more denunciations barbed
and poisoned with the term British"
THE BOERS AND THE BRITISH.
A noble Christian gentleman and ma
tive American who can trace his lineage
to the patriots of the Revolution, Mr..
Myron w. Cole OF St. Paul, recently ad-
dressed to the Pioneer Press letter of
remonstrance against the course of that
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