The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-04-28


fulfill and facts were not necessary for
it's performance. The world must be
made to believe that even London's
jubilee celebration could not approach
in fervor and wild enthusiasm the well
come Dublin has given and is giving
her gracious majesty. The truth of it
is that whenever the queen has ap-
peared the people at large, while cor
dial enough, have been neither enthusi-
astic nor sycophantic. OF course the
simple truth would not be florid
enough f.. the cockney or the trans
Atlantic cables, and so it must be over
daubed with color. The correspondent
of the London Times, paper supposed
to have credit in your country, has not
even been satisfied with recording
glowingly the actual movements Of her
majesty; he insists on having the Irish
do nothing but loyal shouting day and
night. Here is vivid description OF
what he says he saw here on the even
ing of the 9th inst. The story is lit
tie long, but as an instance of how the
Times and the English press manufac-
ture news to deceive the world when
their country is concerned it is worth
giving:
IT was walking down from the castle
to College Green few minutes after
s. The streets, still gaily decorated,
were crowded with cheering people.
The stand in front of Trinity college
was packed almost as densely as on
the great day when the queen came.
The cheering was remarkably hearty
and the first two causes of it were cal
culated to make one reflect. We were,
be it remembered, in the heart of the
Irish capital, and there, past Trinity
college, past the Bank of Ireland, and
past that strange equestrian statue of
William III, two Irish cars ratified by
in quick succession amid volleys of
cheers. The first of them contained
two Indian attendants and one of the
Scotch attendants, son Of the original
John Brown, who was in highland cos
tune. The second of them contained
four hearty bluejackcts, and the crowd
cheered them to the echo.
'"The queen herself, who was accom-
panied by Princess Henry of Batten-
berg, followed shortly afterward. She
had come by the north circular route,
as it is called from Phoenix park to
Sackville street. All down that splen-
did thoroughfare huge crowds were
collected. At Trinity college, too, there
was Il tremendous demonstration,
which was kept up all the way down
Nassau street, up Kildare street, down
Grafton street (Which, beautifully
decorated as it is, was practically left
out Of the route on Wednesday,, and
down College, Green and Dame street
on the way back to the lodge.
'"That was the end Of the outdoor
proceedings of the day, but it was I'M
study it's tone without realizing that
the royal visit, apart from externals,
has already done IL vast amount of
good. Car drivers notoriously, Of
COURSE make a practice Of saying the
thing which they believe to be pleas
ing, and they are remarkably quick in
suiting themselves to the taste of the
person whom they happen to be driv-
ing. Still, not from car drivers only,
but from others and from the sponta-
neous observations of people in the
street it became abundantly clear that
the mass Of the people do realize the
queens visit has really brought a deal
of money into Dublin,
Now can it be believed of the Thun-
dercr that every word of the above is
purely imaginative? And yet the fact
is that the queen was not in this city
at all that day, and that, consequently
there were no wild demonstrations Of
loyalty and reverence at Trinity col
lege or College Green, nor up nor down
the streets mentioned. The cheering
multitudes and the eXulting crowds
are as apocryphal rs the alleged 10y
atty to queen and crown of the people
of Ireland.
A fact that will be pleasing and in
teresting to Irishmcn the world over is
that DR.. Ingram, the famous scholar of
Trinity college and the man who, in his
youth, wrote "Who Fears to Speak OF
'9S" is still true to his early convic
lions and has not forgotten hi. enthu-
siasm for liberty. Probably no other
song is as we'll known or as dear to
the Irish patriot heart as DR.. Ingram's
rebel anthem, but it is so long since
he sounded Il national note that it was
feared lie had changed his views. For
writing who Fears to Speak of '9S'
he came near losing his position in old
Trinity, but his silence clearly has not
meant desertion, and his love Of free
dom now is apparently no less intense
than when he voiced in immortal verse
his country's cause and hopes in the
Nation in the early '40's. A volume of
his poems is shortly to be published
and in it will be the following sonnet
relating to the Boer war, entitled
1892.