The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-04-14
..s JOAN OF ARC AND VICTORIA.

structures on the Saxon queen tor order
ing the shamrock worn on Patricls's
Day, and for visiting the Emerald Isle
after the lapse OF forty years, have been
written by members of her own sex and
of the established church of which her
majesty is the head Miss Anna Par
nell, the brave sister OF the late Irish
cfieftain, poured hot shot on the
crowned pate of the old lady Of Wind
sor for causing the national emblem OF
Ireland to be put to the base use OF
decorating the caps of Irish Hessians in
the British army for slaughtering the
burghers of the little South African re-
publics. Miss Parnell has endeared her
self to the Irish race by her patriotic
attitude. Miss Maud Come, the Irish
Joan OF Arc, took another shot at her
majesty in the United Irishman, and
so disloyal was her attack that Lord
Cadogan, the representative OF her ma
jesty in Ireland, Immediately ordered
the paper to be suppressed.
The silencing of the national press in
Ireland is no new thing, and the arrest,
prosecution and Imprisonment OF Irish
editors by Dublin Castle are as old as
the hills. 1t was pastime for the Brit
isl1 satraps in Ireland to con6scate the
newspaper property of publishers in the
eighteenth century and to cast the fear
'ess editors into prison for criticising
The government. During the reign OF
Victoria some celebrated editors have
heen the victims OF prosecution. Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy, OF the Nation
was arrested for reasonable writing in
he beginning of her majestys reign:
'ut a packed jury and partisan Judge
allied to convict him. John Mitchell was
transported beyond the seas in 1S4S for
,riticising Lord Clarendon, the then
viceroy OF Ireland. In 1866, O'Dono-
IAN Rosa, Thomas Clarke Luby, DR.
Iohn O'Leary and Charles -Kiclzha,n
we're sent to penal servitude for expos
ng British tyranny in the columns OF
the Irish People. During the Land
League agitation in later years every
Irish editor worth his salt was incar-
ceratcd by her majesty's viccroy. 1t is
therefore nothing new for Irish editors
to have the publication of their papers
suspended, but it looks quite bad dur
ing the queens visit of Cancellation" to
make hawklike descent on the office
OF newspaper and seize the whole edi-
ton because it contained contribution
by Miss Come on Famine and the
Queen" The editor was absent at the
time but was subsequently arrested and
thrown into one OF her majesty's bas-
tiles. Miss Come was in Paris, or she
would probably have accompanied the
editor into durance vile. We imagined
from the cable reports that the article
was of malignant and abusive charac-
ter, but after carefully reading it we
find it contains facts that defy contra
diction. We endorse every word Of it
and admire Miss Come for giving it to
the world. The following paragraphs
are taken from the article as it appears
in the United Irishman of March cd:
"The British banners and triumphal
arches-wl,ich the British, garrison will
float and erect, and which the British
police will guard, night and day, from
destruction by the Irish people-repre-
sent the loyalty of the vermin who
thrive on the decay of the Irish nation.
The enthusiasm with which she will be
greeted will be the enthusiasm OF the
Castle gang and the Orange gang, and
the wretched creatures who seek her ia
vors. But,-Frenchmen, Germans, Hol-
landers, and Russians,-the voice of the
Irish people will not be heard save to
curse the ours and slaves who hail this
woman to Our land; and the troops Of
England, and the spies OF England will
swarm in Dublin,-ready to shoot OF
seize the citizens, disarmed by Britain
who dare whisper one word against her
She will smile, to hear her hirelings
cheer, as her chariot rolls through the
! streets OF the city OF Tone and Emmett
but, deep in her heart, she knows that
if the men OF Dublin had arms in theil
hands, she would never drive in triumph