The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-03-31
o'BR1EN ON THE ROYAL VISIT.

O'bNlEN UN HE NU1AL Will.
In the Irish People OF March II,
which has just arrived from Dublin, Mr.
William O'Bricn writes OF the queens
visit, and says in part:
We are threatened with revival OF
on the occasion of the
queens visit The announcement has,
in the expressive Scotch phrase, raised
our corruption" All that is most hu-
and servie in Our Irish char
acter has been stirred up from the
depths All the tuft-hunters and slaves
OF mean ambitions, so long chadng I'M
der the pressure Of public opinion which
has kept them exiled from the Castle
drawing-rooms and the smiles OF the
great, are already beginning to thrill
with the touch OF the sword OF knight
hood on their shoulders and the vision
OF their wives and daughters on the
arms OF glittering courtiers. The poor
fools have been Knocked and jeered at
by thirty generations of Saxon satirists
from Geraldus Cambrensis down to
Thackeray; but the Mrs. Mulhooligans
will still have their Mulhooligan villas,
and will prattle of their "fawther's
esteet' as innocently as ever to the
English handles who make fun OF their
vulgarities and their mean admirations.
The announcement was not 48 hours
in print when the Nationals" Lord
Mayor OF Dublin by letter and telegram
assembled his Nationalist corporators
in hot haste to deliberate on a loyal
address to her majesty. 1t appears
Lord Mayor Pile and that other stern
patriot, Privy Councillor Meade, would
not hear even Of one ,1nmannerly word
of the wants of ireland in the address
from the Irish capital to the representa-
tive OF English conquest. 1t must be
"non-political' in every syllable and
sentiment, as strictly as if it had been
endorsed by Mr.. Horace Plunkett. The
representatives of Nationalist Dublin
must simply sink on their knees, "wor-
shipping and wondering" like the Sim
pic Irish chiefs inmortalized in Mac
lisc's picture, whose poor boards were
pulled by the contemptuous Castle
courticrs OF seven centuries ago. An
address has been framed and voted
which is worthy OF contented slaves.
It is nery co1nical;; hut IL serious side
is that it shows how easily England
could be gulled as to the realities of the
Irish situation by the servile antics OF
the Mr.. and Mrs. Mulhooligans who
would fain have us PROSTATE ourselves
in the mire again under the feet of the
rulers who represent the spoliation,
degradation, and determination of our
race
The mere multitude, we are proud to
know, are making themselves heard and
felt; and not an hour too soon. When
the Lord Mayor OF Nationalist corpo-
ration begins his year Of office by parad-
ing to do homage at Dublin Castle, sets
to work next to induce his Nationalist
colleagues to throw themselves on their;
stomachs with him, and asks them to
make him the bearer OF loyal and
dutiful address, the inevitable sequel Of
which would be knighthood, it is
high time to remind all concerned that,
in the eyes OF the Irisl, race, the man
who so abuses his high National trust,
purchases for himself not honor but dis
grace.
If the queen came to ireland, as she
would have gone to France, for the
sake OF the climate or through a liking
for the country, she would be received
here with as delicate a courtesy and as
scrupulous desire to respect her pri-
vacy as distinguished strangers have al
ways met at the chivalrous hands OF
France. All the world knows it is
fudge to say her majesty comes to the
Vicercgal Lodge for change OF air. Her
movements arc regulated by her consti-
tutional advisers, OF whom the author
of the Chamberlain war is at this mo-
ment the most potent; and her trip to
Ireland is arranged to demonstrate to
a watchful continent that the thirty
thousand Irish mercenaries who arc
foremost in the guilty work OF strang-
ling the South African republic are act
ing with the enthusiastic approval Of {
loyal and contented Irish people.
Thirty members OF the Dublin corpo
ration-the greater number OF then
elected by Nationalist people to sup
port and maintain Nationalist principles
have succeeded in dragging Dublin il
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