The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-08
M'MANUS WRITES OF QUEEN.
AN ARDENT EMERALD ISLANDER'S
VIEWS OF VICTORIA'S TRIP TO
IRELAND.

1t Makes the AngIO-Irish and Scotch
Irish Happy, of Course, for She Is
Their Queen, and SO Are n Few
Tuft-Hunting Irishmen, But the
Mass of the People Are Indifferent.
Admits VictOria's WOmanIy QuaIi-
ties and Personal Availability, But
Says She Has Signed Many Mea-
sures That Carried Misery to Ire
Iand-MOreOver There Are Many
Women Who Are az WOmnnly and
as AmiabIe as She, Yet No One
Thinks of According Special Hon
ors to Them.
Copyright, 1900 by Seumas MacManus)
Donegal, ireland, March 25.-Ever since
Queen Victoria, few weeks back, an
nounced her (ministry's) decision that
she should visit ireland in April, there
has been no end of speculation amongst
outsiders, and amongst a few of the Irish
themselves as to how they should re-
ceive her. But how she should be re-
ceived has never been a matter of specu-
lation with the greater portion of the
Irish nation. They will casually read in
the papers that the Queen has come, and
casually read that she has gone again,
and pass on in quest of more exciting
news.
In England there is an astonishngly
numerous bourgeois body who literally
idoize royalty, who think of their Queen
with bated breath and to whom the news
paper echo of court tattle is more absorb
ingly interesting than the widest sensa-
tionalism; and the people really believs
that let the Irish and the remainder of
the world affect what outward show of
indifference they please. they have in
their innards'' worshpful love for Eng
lands royalty, and an Unsuitable thirst for
tidings of Queen and court. These people
are convinced that if we Irishmen act
as our feelings prompt when Victoria sets
her sacred foot on Irish soil, overwhelmed
with gratitude for the sublime favor
shown us, the Irish nation will PROSTATE
itself upon the earth. and from the depths
of it's soul breathe 'Hallelujah!' And IL
we disappont our English friends here
they will sigh and say that we were
burning TO do homage and did not do 50
only because we have given our con-
sciences in bond to the agitators.
Such is and will be the English view OF
the matter.
The Irish View.
AS regards the Irish view: In the first
place the Anglo-Irish and ScOtch-Irish
colonies will, of course receive their
Queen (for she is their Queen with ac-
clGmations-acclamati prompted In
many cases by genuine delight at her
coming, and in just as many instances
by mere hostility toward those who will
not shout with them.
And, in addition to being greeted by her
own colonies in Ireland, (Which from
about one-ffth of the populaton) l fore
see, with not a little shamefacedness, that
a AZ am irish npnOla will
crave the opportunity of kow-towing 20
English royalty. This will be confined
to portion of the shopkeeping class in
several of the large towns, and viii rep
resent and voice the sentiments probably
of not more than three per cent. of the
Irish people. In Ireland. as elsewhere. de-
| cay of principle is found in the shop
keeping community, when the rest of the
nation is in the enjoyment of lusty and
vigorous health.
Now, giving generous allowance Of
| % per cent. of the population of Ireland to
| Anglo-Irish, Scotch-Irish and the un-Irish
| portion of the shop-keepers. we have
three-fourths of The people still to account
for. OF these the major part will regard
/ the royal visit either with philOsophic
amusement or complete Indifference and
the minor portion with bitterness of heart
For, the former win say:
well. so far as we hear, this is a very
]
over. Though we hate the English col
lectively, we can tolerate them individ-
ually She, or any other English lady
is free to come to our island and to so
when and how she pleases, so long as she
conducts herself peaceably.'
The remainder will say: 1--WE cannot
be indifferent. We can not be amused
We con not be Tolerant of this. visit-the
visit of a woman who, IS fgurehead of
| the British government. reminds us that
for more than half a century she, while
assuming and presuming a material in
terest-in u.s. has sat upon her throne, and
witnessed, unmoved. the appalling sights
that attend the execution of her national
laws in our country; who saw the roof
tree riven in the homes of our poor and
the hearth made desolate by her officers
and pleading old women and old men and
shreking babies left homeless and shelter
less on bare hllllsides when the seet
knives pierced the flesh and the March
winds searched the bones of them; who
signed almost every second year of her
reign new coercive law to curb the men