The Irish standard., 1900-03-03
Castigates Mr.. Chamberlain and
His Predatory Gang.
THR WHOLE SORDID POLICY EXPOSED
Spurious Patriots Eliciting the
Popular Applause.

''fhe demand for political equality as
justification of the Boer butchery
comes strangely from the snug and
self-complacent kind of people who
who make it. However profound their
admiration for political equality when
applied ito other people, they have no
more conception of it for themselves
than has footman. They are the
same right-thinking persons who are
too pompous and arrogant to grant po-
litical equality to those poorer than
themselves, and too servile to ask it
from the lordling who legislates for
them by hereditary right-Sydney Bull
letin.''
1t is enough to make cat laugh"
says Reynolds Newspaper. The 8ooo,-
900 English Outlanders are to have no
citizenship rights in this country after
all; but bill is to be introduced to en-
able the classes in South Africa-that
is, the officers and others who have
votes in England, while the soldiers
have none, to exercise the right to vote
even when abroad. Such is the an
nouncement in the ministerial program
known as the queens speech.
This is the most colossal display we
have yet known of the contempt in
which the governing classes OF the ma
ton hold the common people. For a
handful of shady fnanciers and their
ghastly hangers-on the criminals in
power, spurred to the task by Chamber
lain, the tool of Rhodes the raider, have
brought the country to the verge of
ruin. These spurious patriots had been
capturing the cheers of the ordinary
dunderhead of the streets by talking
about bloated empire" and the Bir-
mingham renegade was never tired of
sneering at the little Englanders, as
this loathsome turncoat styled those
who wished to save the honor and pos
sessions of our common country.
See now the pass to which the b1oat-
cd EEngiander has has brought Us.
We are Inundated before the world.
We have been soundly thrashed by
two little states of republican farmers.
We have incurred responsibilities
which, directly and indirectly, will cost
US 92oo, 100000.
We shall be compelled to double Our
army, and greatly increase our navy.
We shall be adding new Ireland to
our many existing troubles.
We have forced upon ourselves a
modified form of conscription, and the
burdens and horrors of continental
militarism.
Gentlemen of the bloated England
party, we, whom you style little Eng
landers, dof Our hats to you-past mas
tiers in the arts of ruling by brag, and
bounce, and lies.
Where, oh where, are the knife
throwers of Trafalgar square,, the
breakers-up of peace meetings, the sod
den patriots of the music halls? Many
of your relatives are now eating horse
flesh in Ladysmith. Many of them are
ignominious prisoners in Pretoria;
many are filling unknown graves under
a tropical sun; many are shrieking in
agony in hospitals; many are deformed
for life, their wives and children starv-
ing and moaning at home. Three cheers
for Joseph Chamberlain, the hero of the
Hawksley letters!
And the poor, despised, contemplate
English Outlander takes it all lying
down." He get vote, indeed! Perish
the thought. The wretched creature
slouches through the streets and has
hardly soul he can call his own; yet
the unfortunate imbecile will cheer for
a war as to whether the Jewish and
Gentle gold-grubbers in the South
African republic are to have the fran
chise after residence of five years, or
of seven Tears are mingled with
laughter at the notion. If the Oofander
Wesleyan missionaries want field for
their operations, let them stay at home
and try to reclaim these savages.
And then they thought they were go
ing to get old age pensions, promised
by Judas Chamberlain on behalf of the
bloated English government. Was
there ever more credulous people than
the English? They are, ordinarily, so
busy betting and footballing that they
have no time to interest themselves in