The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-06-09

vention at Boston the week before l
left America. I do not mean TO say
that such ideas found appreciation or
were even considered by the conven-
ton, but the idea was undoubtedly in
| the air when that great procession OF
Irishmen, $1,000, passed through the
streets of that city, which a hundred
years before had resounded with the
martial tread of heroes who proclaimed
the doctrine of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness as inalienable to
all. l believe the Frenchman was right.
But God alone knows what there may
be in store for the Irish people. That
there is some difference of opinion as
to what Ireland needs may fairly be
inferred from the fact that His Emil
hence, Cardinal Logue, attended the
dinner to Victoria in Dublin, while
Archbishop Walsh, the idol of the Irish
people, absented himself from the city
on the occasion. After all, the Arch
bishop of Dublin has made no mis-
takes in correctly diagnosing probable
treatment of Ireland at the hands of
the average British government. Small
wonder that in the last analysis of all
matters appertaining to Ireland, His
Grace of Dublin is the most popular
man in Ireland.
During a conversation crossing the
Atlantic an Englishman, finding him
self overwhelmed by German, Freneh
and American opinion, in sheer desper-
alton ventured to justify English ag-
gression in South Africa by the trite
statement that the exigencies of civil
cation required that England should
intervene to put down the republics
with which she is now warning. The
general laugh of derision which
drowned the Briton's self-sufficient
statement drove him to a new plan of
defense, which was no less than the
commercialism of England which, he
affirmed, was so interviewer with the
worlds interests as to render that
power not amenable to interference
from other nations, as long as exploits
redounded to the good of the world at
large, and the United States in par
ticular. What the Briton obviously,
meant was that English money was in
vested in American industry so abund-
antly that the means whereby such
money was obtained by Englishmen
were not to be questioned. OF course
the fallacy of his argument was not to
be considered for a moment, although
the great power of the British empire
in world affairs was not to be minim-
lied in the least degree. Nor can it be
doubted that the reasons advanced by
the Englishman mentioned above have
frequently silenced nations as we'll as
individuals who have been the bene-i
iciaries of England's ill-gotten gains.
That the great republic of the new
world is challenging this commercial
supremacy of England is a self-evident
fact. For three years now the balance
States as against the world. AS fast
as securities are returned to the United
States from England they are taken
up, paid for in cash and cancelled, thus
adding to the riches of the country. 1t
is hardly conceivable that there could
from America in sufficient quantity to
cause even more than a temporary en-
barrassment. English statesmen are
not insensible to the condition of af-
fairs, and hence-with the United
States out of its commercial claws-the
next best thing is to cajole us into an
alliance offensive and defensive as long
as such an arrangement might prove
to England's benefit, but to be rejudi-
Gated the instant it ceased to enure to
the welfare of Her Majesty's govern
ment
But will the United States govern
ment be foolish enough to pull Eng
lands chestnuts out of the fire? Such
a thing is absurd.
Let it not be supposed that [ am
drifting away from the peculiar atti-
tude of England towards Ireland. On
the contrary, all the matters herein re-
ferred to have their bearing on the |
ultimate attitude which England will |
assume in regard to Ireland. The phil |
osophy of them clearly demonstrates
that they are working along lines that |
will in the long run be to Ireland's adj !
because to England's detri- |
ment.
After all, Lord Salisbury has done |
ireland a service, in my judgment-one
that will work for Ireland's greater ]
good.
THOMAS H. MALONE.
Cherbourg, France, May 90, 1900.
On board North German Lloyd S. S.
Lohn, May 90. 1900