The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-07-06
THE BELFAST oRANGEnEr.

AAG O0AIASk ONANUENENs
The followers of King William of
Orange in the Irish metropolis have
again given an exhibition of their
rOwdyism and blackguardism. They
attacked Catholic religious procession
on the feast of Corpus Christi and more
recently made an Infatuated assault
upon Catholic laborers employed in one
OF the factories of the Ulster city.
On the first occasion the police pro-
tected the Catholics as well rs they
could, but OH the second occasion the
guardians of the law We're conspicuous
by their absence. The Orangemen had
things their own way and no protection
was afforded to their victims, who
were overwhelmingly in the minority.
Instead Of bringing the violators of law
and order to justice their dastardly
acts have been condoned by the British
authorities in Ireland. William
O'Brien, in the Irish People, refers to
them rs follows:
ut is only the Hooligans of Belfast
boys and girls Of sixteen or eighteen
who take part in these riots and dis
grace the city," say the Orange organs
and Mr.. George Wyndham. The organs
and the chief secretary are deliberate
liars. 1t would be unspeakably sad if
all the responsibility for these orgies
Of rampant ruffiansm could be placed
on the shoulders of boys and girls of
seventeen and eighteen years. For
these will be the men and women of
the future Belfast. But such plea is
worse than "stuff and nonsense''-it is
opposed to the truth Rioting in Bel
fast Is the direct result of Orangeism-
it is merely the outward expression of
the feelings of the lodgemen
We do not believe that Mr.. George
Wyndham really desires to know any
thing Of the country for whose freedom
his noble ancestor bravely offered up
Il gallant life. His one idea is to sever
his connection with ireland as credit
ably as possible in the eyes of those to
whom he looks for future political pre-
Torment. He has now realized that. in
MIR. Massingham's words, che can be
on no more than bowling terms with the
Irish people''-and it is Mr.. Wyndham
who will do the bowling.
But if he cares for novel and USE
full experience before the time comes
for his ignominious departure from our
shores. we make him a free present OF
suggestion. Galway and Mayo have
no further use for him. There are no
spare cheers in the West just now for
a purveyor of honeyed words. But the
North is yet n terra incognita. On the
twelfth of July the Orangemen of Bel
tast will hold their annual demonstra-
tlon. Few in the city by the Lagan
Know our chief secretary. If he cares
to court that privacy which was so
dear to his heart when he sneaked out
OF Ballaghaderin at sunrise one cold
May morning, he can easily secure
favorable position in the neighborhood
or Carlisle Circus, Belfast, on the next
twelfth of July, and see for himself
that Mr.. John Rednond's statement
was absolutely correct, and that "the
disreputable fringe" upon whom the
riots are conveniently fathered, and the
great, Important. and philosophical
party" are Synonymous. He will see
from fifty to eighty thousand men and
inflamcd with the hellish pas-
sions Of higotry and hatred. Scenes
such rs Plutarch never witnessed dur
ing his stay in pagan Rome will meet
the eyes Of the dandified editor of the
old Greeks works. a six hours visit
to the city Of Belfast on the twelfth of
July would make plain to the meanest
intellect the source and the cause of
the periodical outbmsts of frenzy and
mad passion which astonish and shock
the civilized world
The Orange Society today is what 1t
was in 1906 and 1893. Times have
changed, but Orangeism, fashioned,
nurtured, and subsidized by landlord
ism, changeth not. In spirit and in es-
sence 1t is the Orangeism of Carhamp-
ton and the Wexford "Yeos." The
cowardly brutes-not boys and girls of
seventeen and eighteen, but bearded
men inspired by Satan-who strove to
drive the poor Catholic workers into
the Lagan at Musgrave's dock, would
as cheerfully have taken their parts in
the wasting Of Armagh or the tiendish
cruelties Of "Tom the Devip were
they to the fore in 1903.
The Orange dog-days are approach
ing; and when the rivet- throwers and
wreckers from the Queens Island re-
tire to their lodges after a saturnalia
Of violence, they will clink their glass
es to the continued prosperity of Mr..
great, important, and
public-spirited party" If, as seems but
too likely, that marvellous patience of
the Catholic population of Belfast
which reused Mr.. John Redmond to
Indignation, is still more cruelty tested
during the coming weeks, Mr.. George
Wyndham, chief secretary for Ireland