The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-08-10

The English are nation of thieves
and liars. They have grown rich by
robbing and swindHng other peoples.
They rob Ireland, rob India, rob China,
and want to rob South Africa. When
the tactics of the shoddy manufactur-
ers are exhausted, highway robbery is
their resort. They go to war with
China to extend the opium trade, and
with the Beers to steal the gold mines
And they are not content with rapine,
but must try to cover all with the
hypocrite's cloak. Nothing is so In
grained in the Anglo-Saxon as hy-
pocrisy. And this is only one form
of lying in which he habitually in
dulges. Another is the vile trick of
slandering and maligning those who
oppose him, and those who are the vic
tins of his robberies. This contempt
ible trait is in full evidence in the
press, the pulpit and the Parlia-
mentary halls of England at this hour.
OF course, this lying imposes on no.
body but the English themselves.
They are only too anxious to believe i'll
Of their antagonists. But the outside
world has learned that the use Of SLAM
Ter is one of the special characteristics
Of John Bull, and they despise him
accordingly. It is unnecessary to re-
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have slandered them for centuries.
When emigration through famine was
forced on Irish people they found Eng
lish slanderers at work before and
around them in the United States.
They look back through series Of
so-called historians and find falsehood
and SANDER Systematically resorted
to to excuse English atrocities. In
fact, three centuries ago the English
policy was the same as it is now,
writes 'W. M. c." in the Irish World.
The progress and conduct Of Eng
lands greatest war has been revela-
ton Of England's character and Eng
lands decadence. Everything in
South Africa favored the English.
Their antagonists were cut off from
the sea and all sources Of military
supplies. The Beers were few in num-
ber, scattered over a wide territory,
totally unused to military discipline,
and but newly supplied with an made
quate store of modern arms. They had
no general plan of campaign and no
commander in chief, so that combined
operations were impossible. They had
imperfect means Of communication
and were in presence Of black terror
that might have overcome them
through native revolt. Above all,
they were actuated by sincere and hon.
orable motives in warfare that pre-
vented them taking advantage of their
opportunities to damage the enemy to
the greatest extent. They might have
changed the whole result of the war
by destroying railroads, blowing up
the mines and invading Cape Colony at
the outset. They often refrained from
pursuing beaten foe and from taking
legitimate reprisals for injuries done
by the enemy. But, however the war
terminates-and it has now lasted
twenty one months-the Beers will
hold place in history superior to
Spartan, Swiss or any other small
but brave people who fought the nu-
merous hordes of an invader. If they
do not conquer, they deserve to con-
quer. And the horrible and atrocious
methods resorted to by the Unspeak-
able Roberts to compel submission will
forever and indelibly disgrace the
name Of England and of Edward the
Seventh.
But what one has to consider now is
the striking proofs of the national de-
cay Of England. The first proof of
this is the glaring want Of principle, of
humanity, of Christianity and of honor
Of the whole nation. They embark in
an unjust war with the most squalid
Of motives. Nothing could be viler
than the underlying rationale Of their
war-the stealing Of gold mines. Some
years previously the Free State was
juggled out Of the Kimberley district