The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-05-05

the great cities of the New World
Mayhap your majesty can even imagine
how that poor Irish mothers soul is
filled by day and night with a terrible,
haunting fear for the loved one in New
York or Chicago or San Francisco, who
has no shield against the dangers of a
grim and treacherous world but her
own innocence and the innate virtue OF
her Irish heart.
May it please your majesty, more than
100000 Irishmen and Irish women left
this part of the United Kingdom called
Ireland" to find the means of living in
other lands under such deplorable con-
ditions since the joybells rang in honor
of your coronation.
And has anyone now dancing attend
ance upon you furnished your majesty
with information to the effect that there
are not now in this favored island as
many people as the emgrants OF your
reign numbcred-and that there are
now within our borders less than half
of the nine millions Of loyal subjects
who would have rejoiccd at your majes-
tvs presence had you graciously con-
descended to cross the channel in 1S45?
Your most gracious majesty ought
also know that out OF that miserable
remnant of four millions of decaying
race-decaying and dying under your
English rule in the land where it lived
and flourshed for three thousand years
no less than 1920 fled away from a
single port, named after yourself, dur
ing the glorious week which, witnessed
your advent in Dublin
May it please your majesty to recall
the fact that you had in your service
great statesman named William Ewart
Gladstone-wEom you hated because he
strove to undo share OF the cruel
wrongs wrought this country by his pre-
decessors and yours. This mighty
statesman once called an Irish eviction
notice "a sentence OF death -as it &C
tually was in millions of cases.
We think it right to inform your ma
jesty that your brilliant reign has wit
messed the execution Of nearly 1900, 900
of those dread sentences OF death in this
kingdom Of Ireland
These, your majesty, are terrible
facts. Have they been hidden from you
up to the present? Ii they have been
concealed, what think you OF your min
listers? If not, what inspired you to re-
visit people so cruelty outraged, so
grossly wronged, so mercilessly tor
tured and very nearly exterminated by
the laws signed by your own royal
hand?
Why, it is quite impossible to believe
that your majesty has forgotten the fact
that the last and worst OF the forty
coercion acts made law by your sigma
ture yet hangs over the heads of the
people. We do not ask your majesty to
urge your ministers to repeal it, We
merely remind you that we are aware
of its existence
And will it please your majesty to
remember that this impoverished little
nation pays more than 100000 in
over-taxation every year into your trea-
sury; and that this hideous crushing
impost has just been increased; and
that the young Catholics who can, per-
chance, remain at home-the co-reli-
gionists Of your Connaught Rangers
and Dublin Fusiliers-are denied the
right to prepare themselves for the bat
tie of life by acquiring the necessary edu-
cation; and that the fathers and broth
ers of your "brave Irish soldiers" starve,
and toll as they starve, to pay rackrents
to those who now surround you; and
that the policemen in your majesty
uniform insult and maltreat and thrust
into your jails these relatives of your
Connaught Rangers when they meet to
protest against the exactions of your
friends, their tyrants?
But VIC shall not weary your majesty
with further questions. We shall simply
place before you few facts of the pres
ent situation.
May it please your majesty to learn,
and to store in your memory, the fact
that Ireland is not loyal to anyone or
anything but to its own National cause.
That those who futter about you, and
flatter you, and delude you, and cheer
for you in the streets OF the castle-rid-
den city OF Dublin are only the parasites
of the nation-a powerless, unhonored
clique, defeated and disowned by the
masses of the people.
That four men out of every five in all
Ireland will ever rejoice in the peris of
your empire and sympathize with its
foes while the bonds forged by cut
threats and traitors and perjurers a
century ago fetter the limbs of their ma
ton.
That the struggle to break those
bonds will be carried on with all the
might of the people, even though your
majesty and all your family should be
eraciously pleased to make Dublin Cas-
tie or the Lodge in the Phoenix Park a
permanent home.
That fifteen or twenty millions OF the
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