The Irish standard., 1900-05-12
THEIR B0ASr1NG IS IN VAIN.

THEIR B0ASTING IS IN VAIN.
"The Loyal Orange Institution OF the
United States" is the name now borne
by the organized followers of King Will
liam on horseback in this country. The
grand lodge OF the order held its annual
session at Pittsburg, Pa, on the first OF
May, with Grand Master Alexander
Bowling as presiding officer. The pro-
motors of bigotry sympatllized with
England in the South African war and
claimed that large proportion of the
British army is composed of loyal
brethren. That is not fact, as was
recently shown in the British parlia-
mcnt. When Colonel Saunderson and
Major Johnston, OF Ballykilbeg, were
twittcd by Irish members on their alb
sence from the battlcfeds of the dark
continent, the former retorted by say
ing: 1T is because we are needed here
at home, to watch you fellows, who are
all rebcls!"
In his letter to Alex Scarlet, OF this
city, Major Johnston said that the
Orangemen had offered their services as
body for home and foreign service and
were refused by the war department.
When asked why they did not enlist in
dividually, the major in buckram kept
eloquently reticent and made no reply.
The fact is that the fybrids who cele-
brate the 18th of July Gold style) are
loyal to nothing but their own ignorant
pccjudices. They are continually boast
ing of their allegiance to the British
crown, but when that dadem is in peril
they act the part OF arrant towards, and
to save their precious skins from being
perforated by Boer bullets they remain
at home and Drag of their loyalty!
They did the same thing in the United
States during the Civil War Though
they profess to be loyal to this republic,
when it was in danger OF disintegration
by domestic traitors they stayed at home
and cast aspersons upon patriotic
Catholics who we're shedding their
blood on every battlefield of the South.
And yet in their declaration of princi-
pies they audaciously say: "The Pill
grim fathers first planted Our principles
on these shores. The constitution of
tfeUnited States may be regarded as
an epitome OF what we hold and teach
The members OF Our order are known as
Orangcmen in honor of the noble Will
liam OF Orange, who did so much for
the cause of universal liberty. In the
United States, where everyone loyal to
our government and institutions is nee
essarily an Orangenan, we adopted the
honored name, because OF its universal
ity."
When it is remembered that the Pill
grim Fathers landed on the bleak New
England shore" one hundred and severn
ty-five years before the Orange society
was organized in ireland it will be read
lily seen that the refugees from English
religious persecution had nothing to do
with planting Orange principles i'll
America. 1t was in the northern part
OF the county of Armagh that the bloody
association originated in 1905, and the
Pilgrim Fathers who sought refuge in
this country never heard of it or its
principles Consequently they did not
first plant their principles on these
shores" as alleged by these lying pre-
tenders. Was there any resemblance be-
tween the Pilgrims and the founders of
this odious order? Not particle.
Henry Grattan, the Protestant patriot,
denounced their acts in the Irish parlia-
mentinthe following scathing language:
1T was persecution conceived in the
bitterness OF bigotry, carried on with the
most ferocious barbarity, by banditti,
who being Of the religion OF the state,
had committed with the greater auda-
city and confidence, the most horrid
murders; and had proceeded from rob-
berry and massacre to determination"
This quotation is taken from the History
of Ireland by John Mitchell, an Ulster
Protestant.
Does the constitution of the United
States embody the principles of the
Orange order as claimed? Is it an cpl
tome of what they hold and teach?
Not bit of it. The Orangemen have
kept alive for over one hundred years
the religious animosities between Catho-
lies and Protestants in Ireland. Wher-
ever they are in the majority, as in Bel
fast, Catholics are excluded from every
office, both elective and appointive. In
Canada it is the same way, and in the
United States they always use whatever
influence they possess against the mem
bers OF the Catholic faith. And yet the
first amendment to the American con-
stitution reads in part: Congress shall
make no law respecting an establish