The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-03-24
THE QUEEN NOT WELCOME. e
IheElMarshal; and Sword Bearer Of

ously protests against civil reception
to Queen Victoria in Dublin.
The reason for the Queens visit
he says, "is manifest. If it were slight
ly disguised we might be tempted to
forget many things which it would be
treason to forget for more than a mo-
ment. But the reason for the Queens
visit is clearly political. She comes to
do the business which her recruiting
sergeants failed to do; she comes with
the shilling between her fore6nger and
thumb and bag of shillings at her CIR
die, wearing the shamrock at the crea-
ton of regiment of Irish guards.
Above all, the presence of the Queen in
ireland is undoubtedly intended as a
bride to Ireland to abandon the nation
al for the imperialistic idea
eve are proud that the Irish soldier
faced death with less fear than did the
English soldier, but we have no voices
to cheer our few countrymen who will
return from fighting to bring into
| bondage like ours race as valiant as
| ours.
with England plighted to the impe-
rial idea, it becomes her destiny as it
was Napoleon's after Austerlitz. There
can be no turning back now. She needs
soldiers to fill up the gaps which Boer
bullets have made in the Irish regi-
ments. She is about to conquer the
Transvaal and will need an army OF
$4,000 to hold it. The cry is Soldiers!
more soldiers!' but the English soldier
is degenerate. The lean hound hunts
better than the fat one, and the man
who runs England's ridiculous empire
sent the Queen to ireland to recruit.
"The recruiting sergeant's mission is
not in accordance with the Queens age
nor her desire; but she possesses such
a high sense of sovereign,s duty that
she bent herself to the states emer-
gency.
eve all know in Ireland how to hon
or the fortitudc OF this woman without
becoming the dupes of our admira-
ton"
This is what purports to be the true
story of the Queens determination to
visit Ireland and give the order for the
Irish troops to wear the shamrock on
St. Patrick's day.
When General Butler cabled his stir
ring culogium OF the valor of the Irish
troops the Queen was deeply moved,
and she lay awake all that night consid-
cring how best to requite their services.
Toward morning she fell into a deep
sleep, to the great relief of her attend
ants, and on rising she sent Sir Arthur
Bigg to London with two dispatches
one to Lord Salisbury, announcing her
intention to visit ireland, and the other
to Lord Lansdowne commanding that
an order be issued without delay, di-
recting the wearing of the shamrock by
the Irish regiments. Both were wholly
the Queens own conception, according
to the story.
The shamrock order was bitterly dis
approved at the war office. elan NAL
colin, M. P, the Scotch Tory, had in.
formed Arthur Balfour two days before
that he proposed to ask the house o.
commons for the shamrock concession
but Balfour dissuaded him, saying il
would raise most difficult, mischiev.
Gus, and undesirable controversy.
| John Henry Parnell, NJ. P, brother
OF the late Charles Stewart Parnell, i:
the city marshal of Dublin. In thai
capacity he has custody of the keys o
the city, which will be formally pre-
scnted to the queen on the occasion
OF the presentation of the corporation
address. Properly, it would be Par
nelps duty to present the keys, but he
has notified the Lord Mayor that hi
must provide deputy.
The bearer of the civic sword OF Dub
lin is James F. Egan, who was released
from prison four years ago, to which
he had been sentenced for life for al
legged completely in a dynamite plot
but as he asserts that he was really &
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