The Irish standard., 1900-01-06
M'Kinley Organs on Side of the
British Brtgands.
COMMENTS ON SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
Most Disgusting Exhibitions of
American Journals.

"Iconoclast' Brann is no longer in
the flesh, but his spirit quite evidently
edits the publication which still bears
his name. Brann's shade uses about as
vigorous English in regard to public
matters as did Brann himself. The fol-
lowing on the British Boer war makes
delightful reading:
There seems to be no doubt that the
people who are at the head of this gov
eminent have effected secret alliance
Will England. There is not an nd
ministration organ in the United
States OF America that is not upon the
side OF the English in their present at
tempted invasion OF the Transvaal
There is not all administration organ
that is not filled with rot from turret TO
foundation stone; not one that has not
preached longwinded praises of British
government. British effectiveness, Brit
ish methods, British nlilitarism and
British courage. They have neglected
to say anything of British thirst, though
the British thirst for glory is as numer
Gus now as it was when Majuba Hill
was fought There is not an admins
tration organ that does not reek with
fs,1e 81 0f
berlain, OF Lord Roberts, of Redvers
Butler of the imprisoned White, who,
as the Iconoclast goes to press, must be
of an extremely dark complexion; OF
any and everything which tends to the
constant glorifcation of the British
empire.
would like to know why straight
bred Americans are filled with this i'll
sane admiration OF things British, and
why. particularly, they should stun
their consciences with club in order
to glorify British robbery and wrong.
! have stated, before now, the causes OF
the war in the Transvaal. 1 have said
that the South African Dutch have been
three times forced to desert their cou1-
tries and their homes because OF British,
greed. I have said that they now make
their last stand And l say again can
not understand nor appreciate Ameri-
can support of this invasion. When
the Dutch rode by the British forts on
their way to invade Natal, they turned
in their saddles and shook their Maus-
ers-their new guns-at the British
sentinels and said: 1--WE are going. to
make you sit up" 1t tickles me to
note that the invading British are being
made to "sit up
This invasion, from inception to its
present status, is an, admission of Brit
ish inferiority, of British sloth, of Brit
ish corruption, of British ineficiency,
and of British assumed superiority. We
all know the British type. 1t was set
out many ..,ea-e ago by Alfred Tenny-
son-who at at time had not beer
dh-British tsnl, ess. 1t is to be found
ia his poem ~ .ud," and the lines in
which I ic5e, bed his sweetheart's
brother t.a"e r. led an undying place
in the language:
For his face, as I grant, in spite of
spite,
Had broad blown comeliness red and
white,
And six feet two, as think he stands;
But his essences turned the live air
sick,
And barbarous opulence, jewel thick,
Summed itself on his breast and hands.
So many of the so-called Americans,
living mostly in the eastern part of this
country, have been Gorgonized from
head to foot by the stony British stare
that they really imagine England to be
the only country. There are others.
Our daily newspapers for many years
have devoted their front columns to ex-
Quotations of British aristocrats. They
have contained long and feebly written
accounts of British social doings. They
have refused to place in their small
typed personal columns the name OF
any full-trousered Englishman who
landed in New York. They have felt
compelled to give him three-line head.
The most disgusting exhibitions OF
American journalism are to be found
in the files of the New York and Boston
papers, reporting the doings of some
Englishman of title, who lands upon