The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-08
PROSTATE AT THE THRONE

PROSTATE AT THE THRONE.
A thoroughly Anglicized Irish Ameri-
can is very much alarmed lest Irishmen
should get excited over Engl5nd's at
tempt to subjugate the Beers Of the
Transvaal: he warns them that Eng
land is rich and powerful and that
therefore she should be upheld. This
reminds one OF the arguments used by
certain deserters Of binletallism to in
duce believers in the free coinage of
silver to go over TO the camp Of the
goidbugs who are rich and strong and
determined TO have their way.
1t is the plea Of the crayen, the claim
that might makes right. that liberty
should never be sought except with the
permission Of the despOt. It recalls
what Washburn Hopkins says in the
Forum He explains that there is
higher morality than the desire for
self government; and that it is the
duty Of the Poles and Films TO &C
knowledge the superior power and abil-
ity of Russia, and the duty of the Irish
and the Beers to submit TO the wiser
ana more experienced government of
Great Britain.
even Poland and Ireland viii have
to admit this hereafter" he says, las
brittany can admit it today. Is there
not here a counterpart in the moral
world TO the infexible maintenance Of
physical laws, whereby the mainten-
ance Of the race is upheld at the sacri-
fee Of individuals In the end, as far
as man is concerned, the survival Of the
nttest is the success Of the most civil
lized"
This is the argument Of Imperialism.
Accordiag to Abraham Lincoln the
king has always claimed that he ruled
the subject. not that he wanted to,
but because he deemed it better fer the
subject.
IN the judgment of the local organ
OF imperialism, Irishmen who sympa-
thize with the Beers are "a set Of loaf
ers" who are trying to swindle the
Irish born population OF this country,
and it warns them against antagoniz-
ing England because she is powerful.
"The utmost strength" says the
Tribune, that the Beers can bring
against Great Britain cannot exceed
100000 men. If any other ma
ton would interfere. Great Brit
ain would sink every transport
that tried to carry reinforce
ments to the Beers. More than that,
there is no nation in a condition to
make war upon Great Britain at all"
So the american coIonists were in
formed ia 1775. SO imperiaIists in
France. TalIeyrand for one told La
fayette and his fellow patriots when
they sympathized with the colonists.
So men have been told by Anglicized
newspapers whenever sympathy has
been expressed for Ireland in her strug-
gIes for nome rule and emancipation.
But our local Republican contemporary
continues:
Our private Judgment is that Ireland
has lost the opportunity Of century.
Had the leading men in Ireland. when
tl-s war broke out with the Beers. pro-
oseiUed that whatever their former diff
la~euces u-gnt have been or may now be,
vs.-E England. the realm being assailed,
rccy were ready to help in the war in
faVcr Of their own country; had they
rue ta SIX mOuJhs-h0me rule as much
as Australia or Canada has As il is,
England VIII whip the Beers this year
or next some time and when her army
con- es meme. with 10000 trained men to
back her 10 Warshirs. she will not be in
o Aumo- 10 be very merciful to her pro-
E0unced enemies.
That is cowardly plea. It means
this and nothing else: England is able
10 whip the Beers, because Of her su-
perior resources and numerical
strength. she viii then turn her at
tention to the Irish and punish them
in the same way and by the same
means: therefore. no matter how the
Irish people or their leaders feel, they
should fawn at the feet Of imperial
power and profess q sympathy which is
not in their hearts. to keep on the good
side Of royalty and militarism."
Irishmen are advised TO be hypo-
critics 10 save their bacon, just as sill
yer men in this country are advised in
the same way to court favors with the
goldbugs in order 70 set the crumbs
which fall from the table Of avarice
and greed. Such an appeal may reach
the heart of an Anglicized IrIshman.
but the great majority Of Irish born
people an0 their descendants win re-
pudiate it and take no pains 10 conceal
their disgust at such a proposition.