New-York tribune., 1900-04-15


ants OF the Willamites and Cromwelllanites. They
knew not, Needed not cared not for glory OF
ancient Ireland. and they realized the innate
greatness OF the whom they crucified for full
two hundred years An mpassa bic gulf parted the
oppressor and tho oppressed. nation of martyrs
on the one side. cnging with the herosm of the
hrst Christians TO the ideals of their glorious past
ana on the other the tyrant and his minons using
the might of England to crush to plunder and 10
degrade The worlds annals present greater
contrast. and let US hope that the world shall never
present such another
We Irish are proud Somehow In physique
ana bone and muscle we excel the world.
The dauntless valor of the Irish soldier and
the genius of the Irish captain have been
proved on a thousand battlehelds At Fontenoy
brigade of Irish extles fell upon a triumphant
English army and smote IT nip and thigh, and tram
ped II In the dust In the American Civil War an
other Irish brigade, led by Meagher charged the
heights of Fredericksburg and the glorious valor
or the achievement will renowned in history for
ever. Crenona, Families and Magenta Irish
eXiies winning the admiration Of the world
THE IRELAND OF THE PAST
But the glory of the Irish is It's achieve
inents in war. but in its wondrous achievements In
the darkest days of Europe Here is a picture OF
ireland In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
on the one side, and the other a picture OF
Client Ireland prior to the Norman period. Until
you appreciate ancient Ireland. you cannot under
stand modern Ireland In the ancient world three
civilizations shone out respendent-the Jewish the
Greek and the Irish. I omit that Of Rome for
brevfty. and because its art its literature and It's
civilization were a reflection Of that OF Greece.
In art, in poetry in architecture and literature
the Greeks surpassed the irish; but In music in
melody. in oratory, in Jurisprudence and in re-
inning social Influences Ireland only surpassed
Greece, but all other nations of the pagan world.
A great Irish warrior in pagan days. in bidding
farewell and giving advice to his grandson used
these words: 'MacLuggsh: Let three-fourths of thy
gentleness be shown TO women and children and 70
men OF art" Such sentence has parallel in
the literature of the whole pagan world outside of
Ireland and il reveals the existence of social
dtions nowhere else existing in the world prior TO
Christianity Then St. Patrick came and took this
whole people into the fold Of Christ. Ireland be-
Immediately the island Of saints and scholars.
The Frank. the Goth, the Hun and the Vandal
had swept the last vestige of Roman civtltza ton
away and art, learning and refinement seemed
have pershed utterly the European continent.
But all this time In Ireland the lamp Of learning
burning brilliantly than ever. and the
youth OF France OF Spain OF Italy. of Germany
and of England hastened to Ireland TO the foun-
tain OF all learning. the and the civilization
then existing in the world. They we're received
with the open hospitality of the Irish educated free
Of all and sent back spread the fame and
the glory of Ireland. Armies of Irish schoolmas-
ters. priests and missionaries went forth from the
motherand to rescue the Saxon, the Frank. the
Goth and the Hun from barbarism. ignorance and
1t Irish genius and Irish zeal and Irish talent
that paved the way for the civilization OF the MOD
world. Iona, Lindsfarne and Melrose were
Irish schools, founded by Irish monks, and the
Eng land were almost exclusively irish. The J9r1s-
prudence which the good King Stephen tried TO
Indeed, the Irish the prime factor in dis
peiing the awfni night Of dsrkness ana lgoTaIfe rb
Hun and Vandal and this I consider a more glori-
GUS achievement than the conquest or an empire or
} the world by the sword.
ALIENS IN CONTROL.
The horde of adventurers that William and Crom-
we'll planted IN Ireland to rule the Irish people and
to plunder the fruits Of their sweat and toll knew
nothing Of the glorious past of the Irish race They
cared less. The Irish chung the religion st.
Patrick planted with a passionate devotion un-
paralleled in history That religion was part OF
their glorious past. 1t the consolation of their
ties stole their churches and their schools. and
tried TO make the Irish people abandon the religion
Knox and Elizabeth. The preachers of the new
/ creed the creed of the oppressor, the tyrant and
4 the knave, housed and fed and clothed and
enriched the expense OF the people of nation
false creed But the tribute money kept this
frightful incubus OF an alien Church alive was
the tyrant's sword. The Irish priest Irish
teacher had price set upon his head. and the Irish
Catholic had to worship his God in caves in woods
and on the mountain tops at the peril OF his life,
whom Cromwell and William made the lords of Ire
land ranted and preached and prayed in the grand
and solemn temples which the piety Of the ancient
Irish built the living God.
A Parliament OF this caste OF scoundrels sat IN
Dublin framing laws and providing ways and
means for the plumber and degradation OF a nation.
An executive, Judiciary and a police system
were contrived. which for dabolcal infamy never
have had a parallel The martyrdom of the early
martyrdom which the Irish endured at the hands
handed over the Irish nation Call these scoun-
drels ariStocrats, oigarchists. hiessians, Anglo
for they alien in blood. in creed. in sentiment.
everything irish The ruling caste remained en-
tirey distinct from the Irish people. That ruling
power and opportunity for plunder have been cur
tailed but it is still in the saddle and will be till
Home Rule s won The magic eloquence OF O'Con-
nell electrified the world and won emancipation
tocra,I IN, LIS r,aIirors o. Cnn,e -n1sad ne
masses of the English people from the lethargy in
% the masters @ a Of tR Rs empire oConne @ INV was tha
real organizer nf free trade and extended English
died before he could tear down the uDas tree Of
] ] OF NE eoFq on b F"GI h9 pIe f
hricands whom Cromwell and William fastened
his native land. Gladstone swept away Church
escendarcy and Parnel ended most Of their op-
portunities for nunder But they are stin in in
police and IN the maSstracy and they cling 70
their intrenchments with the ,enacity Of pirates
The Queen and the Parliament of England are now
free born man alive who would not scorn the Irish
man VINO py WORD or act or deed would % indIcaI 1 e 9
the ruling in Ireland? Gladstone tried 10 end
It's power forever and give the Irish autonomy. but
royalty and English ar1stocracy TOO much for
him SNd ne died with his greatest work undone.
Now are told that England and its Queen are
feeling change of heart
THE IRELAND OF TO-DAY.
Events in South Africa have revealed the weak
OF the empire and the valor and genius Of
Irish soldiers and generals have made II patent
the MONDAY that Ireland, content and happy
/ and self-governed means the safety of the British
Empire and an alliance of the English speaking
world against The growing might and power Of the
Slav. Till Ireland is happy content and free. wher-
ever on Gods footstooi there stands true Irish
man, there also is deadly enemy OF England and
Il is just that II should be so. The dawn or