The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-10
WHO NEVER PROSECUTED CATHOLICS
The Outlanders Described as a
Gang of Thieves.
ANGL0-BOER CAUSE BRIEFLY STATED
English Argument is That of the
Wolf in the Fable.

WO1l IN Lne FaOl0.
Whatever may be said of the Beers.
with respect to the relations existing
between the Transvaal government and
its Catholic citizens, it i'll becomes Eng
land to put on an air of sympathy for
our co-religionists there or elsewhere
lhe Beers may be exclusive, but they
are not prosecutors. They never put to
the torture, hung or burned men and
women at the stake because they were
Catholics. They never disemboweled
people because they we're Catholics.
They never cut mans head off for be-
l'evlng that the Pope, and not Paul
Kruger, was the divincly appointed
head OF the Church They never made
Catholics traitors i'll the eye of the law.
They never made it felony for man to
be Catholic priest They never set
the same price on the head of a priest
as on the head of wolf They ncvc,
made it crime for Catholic father to
teach his child how to spell or read.
They never robbed Catholics OF their
lands, plundered their monastcries,
seized on their churches and desecrated
the sl1rines OF their saints. None OF these
things has the Boer Republic ever done
to Catholics in the Transvaal; but all
these horrible things the English gov
ernment did, and for centuries contin-
ued to do, to Catholics in England.
Nor was England the only place they
did these things; all these atrocities the
Protestant government OF England
perpetrated in Catholic Ireland, also.
After centuries of this hellish business
England "let up" on the Catholics.
The Catholics in 1899 were cmanci-
patcd, that is, they we're admitted to
some OF the rights OF British subjects.
But England held on, and still holds
on, to the stolen lands of the Catholics
and to the churches and sacred cdificcs
she had plundcrcd. She doesn't believe
i'll restitution. Nor are Catholics under
the English government yet put on a
footing of perfect equality with Prot
estants. Jesuits, Dominicans, Francis
cans and members of other orders of
the Catholic Church are denied, by
English law, the right to accept bcquest
by will Nor is this law a dead letter,
as instances of its frequent enforce
mcnt prove Nor do Catholics under
the English government yet enjoy
equal rights with Protcstants in respect
to education. Certainly not in ireland.
The Protcstants OF Ireland, who num-
Der one-fourth of the population, enjoy
three wcll-cquippcd colleges, for the
support OF which the Catholic people are
taxed, while the Catholics, who consti-
tutc tl,rcc-fourths OF the nation, arc not
granted one. How many persons are
aware of these things? How many per-
sons, outside OF fairly educated Irish
men, are aware that even to this day
the man whom the English Queen
sends over to govern Catholic Ireland
the Lord Licutcnant-must, accord
ing to English law, be Protestant?
And this is the England, with the
blood OF martyrs on her sword and the
crimes OF centuries on her head, that
blasphcmously trumpcts to the world
her mission to "civilizc" and "Chris-
tianizc" the nations and establish JUS
ticc on the earth!
What is most remarkable in the his
tory OF England's anti-Catlolic pcrsc-
cutions is that, while those bloody
things were being enacted, the Catlol-
les OF England were loud in protesting
their loyalty to the Government of
their country; and their acts attest their
deep sincerity, fer when Spain sent the
Armada to chastisc England for her
prosecutions and to avcngc the wrongs
of Queen Catherine, who was Span
lard, the English Catholics were among
the first to take arms to rcpcl the invad-
crs. To this day the English Catholics
glory in that patriotic act Of their faith
crs. From national point of view, we
guess the English Catholics were right.
The Catholics OF America proved their
loyalty in the Revolution, at time
when they were Disseminated against
by colonial laws, and we are perfectly
sure they would act likewise again in a
like state OF affairs. And, of course,
this is the right way to look at the
matter. The true man will stand by his
country when she is menaced from
without, in the evil day as when the