The Irish standard., 1900-01-06
THE POLITICAL RENEGADE HONoRED
Students of Trinity Pull Down
the National Emblem.
MAUD CONNIE WAVES The BOER FLAG
Incidents in the Career of the
Colonial Secretary.

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Colonial Secretary.
Joseph Chamberlain, colonial secre-
tary, has had the degree OF doctor OF
laws conferred on him by the .Univer-
sity OF Dublin, better known as Trinity
college, and Dublin has had a lively
time over it, says "Owen Roe the
Dublin correspondent of the Chicago
Chronicle. No man in the United
Kingdom is hated more by the Irish
people than Chamberlain, and Judas
Joe" is the kindest epithet they apply
to him. They remember his betrayal
OF Gladstone and the liberal party when
public opinion in England was disposed
to redress some of Ireland's grievances,
and they cannot forget that he has
been the bitterest enemy of home rule.
His coming at this time when feeling
in connection with the South African
war runs high was nothing less than
a challenge to this Parnellite city and
to the nationalist OF all Ireland. The
action OF Trinity college in inviting
him to receive its l1onors is looked up
on by many outside of the ranks OF ma
tionalists as not only reprehensible, but
as direct insult to the city and the
nation of which it is the most famous
seat OF learning. In this display of pro-
vincialism and anti-nationalism Trinity
has snirched itself and given to the
world another argument why Ireland's
manhood and self-respect revolts
against alien rule and loyalty that is
subsidized at the expense OF the people
| it derides and discredits. 1t was
shameless, too, in Trinity college to
confer the honor upon man whom its
own representative in parliament, the
noted scholar and historian, Mr.
Lecky, has branded as lacking in honor
and whose dealings with the Transvaal
question are emphasized by the trail
of finance" that inspired them.
OF course, the coming of Chamber
lain aroused much anger and excitement
and naturally resulted in discord. On
the 18TH inst. the day before the de-
gree was conferred, the people made a
demonstration SO markedly disloyal that
the police took hand in its suppress
sion. One of the conspicuous charac-
tiers in the popular protest was Miss
Maud Come, the "Irish Joan OF Arc F"
Accompanied by James Connolly, she
drove by Dublin castle and defantly
waved Boer flag. This was too much
for the police, and, rushing toward the
carriage, they seized the flag and bore
it away in triumph. Nor was it in the
streets alone that public feeling was ex-
pressed. In the rooms of the Irish
Transvaal committee fiery and defiant
speeches were made by William Red
mond, M. P; Michael Davitt and 9TH
ers. The next day, however, when
Chamberlain was made an IL. D., the
FIRST sensational incident occurred An
gered by the popular demonstrations and
the hostility to the man VIII n their uni
versity had just honc~ed. the Students
of old Trinity, to the number OF 2ou or
more, made dash for the mansion
house where the green flag, the munich
pal banner, was floating, and after its
caretaker, who offered resistance, hauled
it down, bore it away in triumph and
then tore it into shreds. Had the raid
on the mansion house been anticipated
there would certainly have been serious
trouble.
This was not the first time that the
municipal flag has been captured by
Trinity's students. Some fifteen years
ago when the Prince OF Wales visited
Dublin the feeling of the citizens and
the city authorities was SO strong that
the lord mayor, who was an ardent ma
tionalist, declared his intention OF hoist
ing the municipal flag at half mast on
the day the prince arrived. This be-
coming known to the students they de-
termined to prevent the indignity. A
number of the more daring was banded
together and under cover OF the night
scaled the walls of the Mansion house
grounds and soon had the flag in their
possession. The prince arrived, but the
municipality had no banner with which
to faunt its sorrow in the public gaze.
Neither did the incident end here. The
students elated with the capture of the
flag could not contain their Joy. Nor
could the populace contain their chagrin.
A conflict was the result and the STU
dents routed their undisciplined adver-