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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

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thlrd-rate power among the nations, it
would be folly any longer to keep the
Irish clamoring for justice at her gates
The Irish ought to be willing to make
any sacrifice for their independence.
Instead Of furnishing recruits for the
British army let the Irish people help
England's enemies whether in Europe
or Africa. Ii England attempts con-
scription in Ireland let there be the
sternest opposition, even revolution,
and let England understand, once for
all, that she cannot get Irishmen to
fight her battles to guard her shores or
extend her sway in Asia or Africa.
A united and determined people can
dare England to do her worst. She
will never grant the rights of Ireland
from a sense OF justice and fair play,
but she must grant them Tor her own
preservation. England must fear the
Irish people, and she will fear them ii
they have sense enough to keep united
Let us hear no more of Irish dissen-
sions. Ii any leader is recalcitrant, let
the people drive him from public life
forever
The Irish element in the United
States is power that England will
recognize in the future. As long as
Ireland is denied her national rights,
there will be no friendship between the
United States and Great Britain. The
Angomaniacs in this country are
numerically weak and year by year they
will become less potential The Euro.
pean elements in American citizenship
are opposed to England, and the day is
not far distant when the British pos
sessions in North America will be lost
to England forever. England's power
is on the wane, and clustering and
Boosting will not intimidate the Yankee
when he takes it into his head to ex-
pand on this continent
England's professions of friendship
are taken at their proper value by the
overwhelming majority OF the Amer
lean people, and it is only question OF
time when Britannia will be made
aware OF the fact She must not be de-
ceived by the false reports sent by
Americans to the London
press. The McKinleys, the Hays and
the Choates do not represent American
sentiment towards England They will
soon be relegated to private life and ro-
bust, patriotic Americans will fill their
places.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03
The Belfast-News Letter, the organ

The Belfast-News Letter, the organ
of Orangeism in Ulster, recently pub
lished a leading article containing the
following insulting passage: "The mere
Irish are degenerate race. They ran
at Derry; they ran at Newtown Butler;
they ran at the Boyne; they ran at
Athlone; they ran at Limerick; in fact
they ran everywhere that they had not
the opportunity of throwing themselves
on the mercy of their foes" They did
not run at Benburb, at the Yellow Ford
or at Fontenoy. Indeed, they ran no.
where and never threw themselves on
the mercy of the English, who never
displayed any humanity to a defeated
foe in Ireland or elsewhere. History
records that the only troops that ran at
the Boyne were the Ulster contingent
in King Williams army. The brave
Prince of Orange threatened to shoot
the cowardy dogs for throwing his
army into confusion by their precipi-
tate flight from t'the-merc- Irish" cav
airy.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Were Abraham Lincoln alive TODAY
he would be denounced as "a traitor"
and "a copperhead' by the Anglo
American editors OF the St. Paul Dis
patch and Pioneer Press for saying:
No man is good enough to govern an
other man without that other mans
consent. When the white man gov
crns himself that is self-government,
but when he governs himself and also
governs another man that is more than
self-government-that is despotism.
Our reliance is in the love OF liberty
which God has planted in us; our de-
tense is in the spirit which prizes liberty
as the heritage OF all men; in all lands,
everywhere. Those who deny freedom
to others deserve it not for themselves,
and under a just God cannot long re-
tain it."
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03
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grounded aversion to the British en-
pire.
The Britishers continued to support
Cleveland until the Venezuelan Incl
dent. Then they became absolutely in
solcnt in their dcnunciation OF the
Cleveland administration, and their ami
mostly was only claimed when Olney
came out as an advocate of the British
American arbitration scheme. In 1906
they were solidly in favor of Mckinley
and the gold standard, because the can
didate and his policy were more accept
able to Great Britain than Bryan and
Tree silver. When the Mckinley ad
mnistration announced its intention to
clean the Spaniards out OF Cuba, the
British outlanders were opposed to a
war with Spain. When the monstrous
lie was started that England prevented
European coalition against the United
States, these mental reservationists
howled so loudly for an Anglo-Amer-
lean alliance that the American people
began to sight an African i'll the wood
pile, and the conspiracy withdrew its
snakes head into its hole. When the
Mckinley administration fell into the
trap laid by England and seized the
Philippines, the British outlanders, as a
class, voted for expansion and imperial
ism, because they knew that the adop-
ton of such policy would be likely to
drag us into foreign complications and
force us to act in alliance with England.
If, tomorrow, the question of the
United States undoing the work of the
revolution, and becoming an appendage
OF the British crown, were submitted to
the votes of the American people, 90
per cent of the Britisll-American vote
would be in favor of reinstating the
authority of the British crown over our
country. They would sell the govern
ment of the United States to Great
Britain did opportunity offer. 1t is to
be hoped that the process of absorption
will in time assimilate their children
and make genuine Americans out of
then though the obstacles in the way
are difficult to surmount
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03
The act of union has been in opera

The act Of union has been in opera
ton for one hundred years, and the
effect OF it upon Ireland has been most
disastrous. In 1900 factories were run
ming in almost every section of the
country. Nearly one hundred wooden
mills were in full operation in Dublin.
There were silk mills, too, and hosiery
factories, and they employed from 5000
to 10000 people steadily. In Cork an
equal, if not greater, number were en-
ployed i'll the braid, worsted, hosiery.
cotton and linen factories. In Wick
low, Kilkenny, Kerry, Limerick and
elsewhere similar conditions existed.
But there are no such factories to-day.
They have been starved out by British
laws and by British competition. In
addition to the strangling OF her indus
tries Ireland had to suffer from whole
sale plumber through the taxgatherer
BY the act OF Union a ratio was fixed
determining the. relative proportions OF
the British and Irish contributions to
the imperial exchequer. The basis was
wrong then. 1t has been made worse
since, until to-day it-forces Ireland to
pay annually f2,5oo,ooo, or over $12,-
DOC, 1000 in excess of her due proportion.
This injustice has been going on for
fifty years, and England has, therefore,
robbed ireland of over 5000, 100000.
The same fate awaits the Beers should
they be beaten in the war now waging
in South Africa. And the Beers are
we'll aware of this fact, so they have
resolved to die rather than give up the
fight. ireland sympathizes with them
because ireland knows by sad expert
ence the depressing effects of English
domination. Every people who love
liberty and every people who enjoy lib
erty should feel the same way about
the situation. Surely every American
who knows the traditions of the republic
should be on the side of the brave Beers.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

A Kansas minister named Rev.
Charles NJ. Sheldon, author OF I'm His
Steps, is going to run the Topeka
Capital. newspaper for seven days Just
as Jesus would do Sheldon lays no
claim to being divinely inspired, and
docs not produce any credentials to
show that he is a true representative OF
Jesus either in preaching the gospel or
i'll editing a daily paper among the Jay
hawkers. We believe he is one OF the
sensational preachers of the Go Lightly
Morrill, type who wants to advertise his
book in this way. He has no training
or experience in newspaper work, and
will certainly make a failure OF his
much-heralded undertaking.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Private Sharpe, a member of the
First Shropshire with Lord Methuen,
writes to friend in England: "While
we were at De Aar man of the Cor
don Highlanders was taken out and
shot for cowardice at Modder River;
also nine Beers, or rather seven Beers,
who had fired on the doctors and two
Irishmen who had been captured at
Belmont. They were placed in row,
with their hands tied to stake, and a
company of the Cornwalls gave them
their last 'Beecham,' as our fellows call
the bullet. They made the other Beers
see them shot and dig their holes"
The attention of DR.. Leyds has been
drawn to this act of British brutality.
Shooting prisoners of war without trial
is an act of barbarism confined to the
English.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03
WHY IRELAND IS WITH KRUGER. y

In reply to the sneers at Irishmen by
Yankee organ of imperialism and
British proclivities, the Boston Repub-
lie gives several cogent and indisput-
able reasons for the antagonism of the
sons of Hibernia in this country to
British rapacity in South Africa, and
why they get up mass meetings to Gre
ate American sympathy for the Beers.
In the course OF leading article, which
we unhesitatingly endorse, our es-
teemed contemporary says:
Apart from any other consideration,
the open and undisguised hostility of
the Irish people is worthy OF attention.
The Irish have their faults, but unjust
hatred or opposition is not one of them
There is no more generous race in the
world, and England would have no
more loyal support than that given by
Ireland if she had given Ireland a
chance or shadow Of fair play. The
worst and most damning indictment
against England, therefore, is the unre-
lenting hatred of vast majority of the
Irish people.
Ireland has been under British rule
for centuries. That rule has been
marked and punctured with the most
brutal, inhuman, unjust and barbarous
acts OF oppression known in the history
of modern civilization When ireland
therefore, sees England endeavoring to
bring another people under her sway
she naturally and instinctively protests
She knows too we'll what is in store fol-
the prospective victim. She knows that
British victory means for the van
pushed robbery, spoliation, military
dictatorship, dwar6ng OF industrial &C,
tivity, the gradual extinction of ma.
tionality, the teaching of false history
and the seizure of private property
That is why Ireland sympathizes with
the Beers and hopes that they will wir
their fight for independence.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

We are in receipt OF an anonymous
note from disgruntled Britisher of
Helena, Mont, who sends the following
clipping, intended for the Irish World,
with the request that we put it in our
pipe and smoke it: "The Irish World
speaks of Emperor Mckinley The
Irish World should be sent to Warm
Springs until it regains its sanity, un-
less it is hopelessly incurable. Or per-
haps it should take the Kelley cure"
1t may be interesting to the sender of
the above, and also to the editor of
the Helena Herald who wrote it, to
know for fact that the able editor of
the Irish World is a total abstinence
man who has no need to take the Kee-
ley cure. The editor of the Irish Stand
ard is also a cold water man. Can the
Anglo-Saxon who edits the Mckinley
organ in Montana say the same for
himself?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Nelson H. Tunnicliff, an attorney OF
Omaha, Neb., is in search OF the heirs
at-law and relatives of one Patrick To-
bin, who recently died in Wyoming,
leaving some property. Tobin died on
Oct. "a of last year. He was about 50
years old, five feet six inches tall, and
from $50 to 165 pounds in weight. He
told friends that he had sister in Col
orado who was about 40 years of age.
and some brothers, one of whom lived
in Ireland. The deceased was formerly
in the United States navy and served
in the u. S. ships est. Louis" and
Constitution" from 1873 to 1881. When
enlisting he gave New York city as his
birthplace. Any information concern
ing his relatives will be thankfully re-
ceived by the attorney.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The London Spectator kindly says
that Great Britain will permit the
United States to build, own and fortify
the Nicaraguan Canal, notwithstanding
the fact that Lord Pauncefote few
days ago entered protest at the state
department in Washington. eff the
canal is to be made, and cannot be
under Our CONTROL" says the Spectator,
lit is immensely important that it
should be in the hands of a strong
friendly, neutral power, and, God be
thanked, there is less fear of our being
at war with America than with any
other power in the world" We sup
pose some Anglo-American organs will
say that it is great condescension on the
part of Great Britain to allow Uncle
Sam to build the canal and pay for its
construction out of his own pocket.
This is another instance of the friend
ship that England has for Americans.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

A British officer, a prisoner in the
Boer capital, Pretoria, in telling OF the
treatment received by himself and his
fellow-prisoners, at the hands of his
captors, says among other things: eve
are teetotalers, as we are not given any
spirits, and in fact all spirits are forbid
den to be sold in the Transvaal, during
the war, and all liquor shops and re-
freshment rooms are closed,-a very
wise proceeding, but unpleasant forus. "
What difference between Pretoria and
Manila! In the latter city there are
hundreds Of saloons under the protec-
ton of the American flag where there
was not one before the war, and all for
the use of McKinley's boys in blue:
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

if that is the way she teaches Englisl,
history to the students OF the Univer-
sity we sincerely pity them. She speaks
of England's ''benefcent rule" Has
she ever read OF British rule in India and
Ireland? "Ordcr and justice, pros
perity and civilization" What a
mockery! Miss Sanford is simply a
parrot who is repeating what British
writer's say OF the empire on which the
sun never sets.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Rev. Thomas P. Hodnett of Chicago,
is Mckinley republican, but that does;
not prevent him from giving SIS to the
Boer ambulance fund. In letter to
Col. Finerty he says: IT believe the
Beers have no parallel in history
Their fight has equaled if not surpassed
the Greeks at Platea and Marathon,
and I pray the result may be equally as
glorious. When men stand up for their
country, their fresides and their affairs,
the citizens of free republic should
rally round them, cheer them on with
words, strengthen them with means,
and if necessary lift up their arms,
point their guns and see that every bull
let strikes home"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

sponsible for similar meetings held
throughout the United States. The
members OF the A. o. Fl. have no apol-
ogy to offer for their hostility to Brit
lsh aggression whether i'll ireland or
IN the Transvaal They are ready at
all times to oppose the graspng empire
OF Victoria in every manner possible
but as Americans they will always re-
Train from involving this republic in
any international imbrog1io by overt
acts.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

In recent speech at Forfar, John
Morley told his audience the real cause
OF the Ang1o-Boer war, as follows:
"Therc had been a conspiracy of gold
hunters,-some foreign and some Brit
ish. 1t was sordid plot against the
peace Of South Africa, at the expense
OF the fame and strength of the British
empire. 1t was maddening to think the
well intentioned people OF Great Britain
should be dupes in such stock-jobbing
manoeuvers-a mere game of bulls and
BEARS"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Prof. Maria L. Sanford, OF the Min
nesota University, rushes into print to
take England's part in the South
African war. She admits that the
Beers are struggling for liberty, but as
they are not cultured people she SYM
pathises with Great Britain because
wherever it has planted its flag it has
established order and justice, brought
prosperity and civilization, and main
tanned local customs and privileges"
Miss Sanford is an estimable lady, but
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

We hear nothing of an Anglo Amer
lean alliance since the opening of hos
tilities in South Africa. The Beers
have knocked the contemplated coali-
ton into a cooked hat If John Bull
cannot do better at sea than he has
done on land during the past three
months he cannot get Uncle Sam for
an ally. The Boer would be preferable
to the Bull as partner in international
affairs.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The London Spectator says: eve
do not for moment wish to indorse
the mischievous sentiment, My coun-
try, right or wrong If man sincerely
believes that his country is playing an
evil part lie cannot, of course, give her
help with whole heart" 1t is be-
cause the Mckinley administration is
playing an evil part in the Philippines
that the American people do not in
dorse the inperialistic dictum, "My
country, right or wrong" When the
country has gone wrong, they deem it
their patriotic duty to set it right and
keep it so.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
1t must be more or less annoying to
President Mckinley that the most
active TRAITORS" are men who are
known to the country as prominent re-
publicans. They are TRAITORS" because
the definition of treason, under parti-
san construction, has been expanded to
take in any kind of opinion not ap-
proved by the administration.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Says VIM. O'Brien's Irish People:
Happily, the proportion OF Irishmen in
the British army is much smaller now
than in past days when scores of thous-
ands of peasant lads donned the red
coat and went to all parts of the world
to fight for England, and to die on the
fields of battle or return home to share
the fate of Kickham's "Patrick Shee-
ham
A poor neglected mendicant
I wander through the street,
My nine months pension now being
out
l beg from all 1 meet.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The Catholic chaplain in the Can
adam regiment at Modder River seems
to have no hesitation in slandering the
Beers. He says that British prisoners
are cruelty treated by them. They are
disarmed and told to return to their
camp, and on the way back they are
shot in cold blood by the Beers. The
prisoners themselves say they are
kindly treated by their captors. No
newspaper correspondent has corrobor-
ated the charge of cruelty made by the
priest, and we believe he has grossly
misrepresented "the enemy"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The London Chronicle reluctantly ad-
mits that the British loss at Spion Kop
exceeds 1000, which is 30 per cent Of
the troops engaged, and the greatest
percentage of loss by the British since
the battle of Albuera, Spain, in 1871.
The Boer loss was comparatively light.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Ex-senator w. D. Washburn, of
Minnesota, regrets exceedingly that the
Mother Country" is being whipped by
the Dutch republics. He is intensely
plo-British. A few years ago he ran
sacked all England in search of family
crest, and carried it back with him in
triumph. OF course, he is for Great
Britain first, last and all the time.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Joe Chamberlain's son was member
OF volunteer regiment, but instead
OF going to South Africa he went on a
voyage in cruiser to Gibraltar. 1t is
said that he has been the recipient OF
many missivcs containing white featf-
crS
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

In 1899 the number of cmigrants who
fled from British misrulc in Ireland was
42,o22. OF that number there were TO-
900 men capable OF bearing arms for
England had they been treated decent
Iv in their native land.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Bourke Cochran says that he favors
William ]. Bryan for the presidency.
He was opposed in 1896 to the Chicago
platform, but not to the candidate.
The New York orator is strongly OPP
posed to Mckinley Imperialism.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The American eagle holds its head all
the higher now that the Roberts case
has been settled, quoth the Peoria
Journal. The bird OF freedom would
hold its majestic head still higher if the
American flag ceased to float over
polygamy and slavery in Jolo.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

William Goebe1, Democratic claim
ant for the governorsllip Of Kentucky,
was shot on the streets OF Franklin.
KY, last Tuesday, as he was on his way
to the state capitol He is not expected
to live. The cowardly assassin is un-
known
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The Chicago Citizen, of which Hon.
John F. Finerty is editor, has already
received upward Of $4,000 for the equip
ment OF hospital corps to aid the sick
and wounded soldiers OF liberty in the
Boer republics.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

1t is reported that DR.. Jameson, the
famous freebooter, was wounded in the
leg by a Boer shell at Ladysmith. Ac-
cording to Arthur J. Balfour, the canny
Scots raid is the chief cause OF the war.
II he falls into the hands of the Beers
after the capitulation OF Ladysmith he
need not expect any courtesies from
Dom Paul.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The British consul at New Orleans
denies that he has criticised American
citizens for expressing sympathy with
the Beers.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

Ma or- General Otis is authority for
the statement that the climate OF the
Philippines has destroyed the teeth Of
the American soldiers OF imperialism.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

1t is said that w. ]. Bryan is in re-
ceipt OF an average OF 1000 letters a
week during the last two months.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03
Inn TX dn. IN FIN
american TrdnSvadl Fund.-
~~E~w~~E'

The following contributions in aid OF
the widows and orphans OF the Beers
have been received at this office:
Amount previously acknowledge. sos. 90
t. ]. Lee, Cylon, Wis.......... 500
James Cullen, Braincrd, Minn.... 500
William O'Hara, Watcrtown, SD. 200
!. T. Salmon, Cylon, Wis. 100
Pat Gleason, Cylon. Wis......... 100
Michael Gleason, Cylon. Wis.,. 100
John +. Mcnamara, Cylon, Wis. 100
James Paddcn, Cylon, Wis...... 100
All subscriptions, small and large.
will be acknowledged in this column
and forwarded to George w. Van Sic
len, LII Broadway, New York City.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03

The Transvaal republic is as large as
Texas