The Irish standard., 1901-03-09
Seth Brown, of Ohio, Republican Recacitrant is the
Traitor Opposed to Imperialism.
He Dared Stand Up in the House and Criticise
Benevolent Policy of Mark Hanna
Nay be Tried on the Charge of Les Majestic Along with
General Harrison and Mark Twain.

Champ Clark. the brilliant congress
I. man from Missouri, writes as follows
I from Washington, d. c., to our es-
teemed contemporary, the st. Cloud
Times:
Away with him to the block Seth
w. Brown, a Republican congressman
from Ohio, is the latest traitor to
stand up in the house and with front
Of brass to mouth treason. Nothing
short of the guillotine will do him any
good. He should be made an example
to all the idiots and criminals who
still dare to believe and assert that
the Declaration Of Independence is not
a historic lie. Senator Mark Hanna is
neither wise as serpent nor harmless
as a dove. His lack of wisdom is
shown in this: For some time, as a
sort Of amicus curin, have been ad-
advising him gratuitously to have Il
law passed creating and defining the
y crime Of lese majestic and providing
pains and penalties therefor. warning
him that in that way, and that way
alone, could he muzzle free speech in
this country as he has done in the Phil
ippines. For some reason he has not
accepted my friendly counsel, though
it would have saved him more trouble
oil t1,o 1Io 1,1
in the senate in month of Sundays.
The first fruit of his. neglect to fol-
low my suggestion was that General
Benjamin Harrison, once president of
the republic, broke into speech and
print with a lot of reasonable rubbish
which must vex sorely the patriotic
4 heart of Hanna as he revolves in his
capacious head new plans for 'bene-
VIOLENT assimilation" Unfortunately
tho pestiferous Benjamin has bad
habit of catching the public ear. Mil
lions read eagerly what this hoary
headed traitor has to say. and, sad to
relate. many believe his utterances.
His remarks are widely copied and
are safely stored in divers and sundry
(, scrapbooks for future use and ready
reference. BENJAMIN. to Marks dis
gust, does not take kindly to our new
tangled imperialism.
When Mark does enact his lese ma
ieste statute, he will have to run
counter to the constitution and make
it act as an ex post facto law in
order to catch General Harrison. but
that won't matter as that immortal
iurist, General Wesley Merritt, who
accumulated his store Of legal lore by
=. dancing attendance on drumhead
courts martial, has declared in an ex
cathedra sort of way: "The constitu-
ton is played out. 1t is not worth
discussing" That settles it. But
9 when General Harrison is arraigned at
the bar OH ex post facto charges of
lese majestic perhaps of high treason
to Mark-he can throw himself on the
mercy Of the court and allege as a
palliating circumstance the doctrine of
heredity, showing conclusively that a
love of liberty, which is becoming un-
fashionable and dangerous under
Marks regime, runs in the Harrison
blood, citing as incidents that one of
A his ancestors helped chop off the royal
head Of Charles l.; that his great,
grandfather. "Bluff'' Ben Harrison
signed a certain antiquated and obso
lete paper, yclept "The Declaration of
Independence" which was saturated
with treason to his gracious majesty
King George I'LL: that his grandfather
General William Henry Harrison
spent his whole life, and long one
at that, upholding the glory of a re
public. doing some extraordinarily
good fighting at place called Tippe
canoe, for which he was made presi
\ dent of the United States proper: that
he himself. BENJAMIN Harrison. pfis
:. oner and defendant. for four years
barred his breast and rsked his life or
y numerous battlefelds in defense of Ole
4 Glory. while Senator Hanna was serv
s@ ing the country by means of a snhsti
d tute. for which service in his ow1
"a proper person he was also made presi
@@ dent Of the United States proper b,
% the unthinking hoi polloi. as was hi:
nv grandfather before him. while Marcu:
sssa A. Hanna was made a senator Of th'
IN United States. proper or improper. b,
venal legislature and boss in chic
of the Republican party as reward
tor the fighting which he did and th'
blood which he shed vicarionsl!
through his substitute. Perchance II
this way General Harrison may saw
i his white head and reduce his punish
b., ment to forfeiture of estate and t.