The Irish standard., 1901-03-16

brutality is ingrained, and he and that
worthless creature, the bulldog, go
growing through the ages side by side.
This trait, which puts him out of
sympathy with humanity, is shown
alike in his individual and his nation
al conduct, in his serious work and in
what he calls sport, in his disposition
to trample upon women and upon ev-
cry other weak thing incapable Of
making successful resistance.
He drove the French women from
the Canadian meadows of Grand Pre-
with as little ruth as he sent the say
age to prey upon the women of Penn
sylyania on the banks Of the Susque-
hanna, and as he drives the Boer wom-
en- to-day out into the wastes of the
Transvaal.
After the French maid had defeated
him on the field of battle and saved the
land Of her fathers, he burned her to
death in the market place of Rouen.
There was one living in 1856 who re-
membered to have seen the human
heads that adorned the gates of Tenn
pie Bar, and the barbarous customs of
Ashantee still appealed to the tastes
Of the people Of the English metropo-
lis down almost to our own time. An
iron spike driven through the defence
less skull of Cromwell fastened it to
the top of Westminster Hall.
AS in 1914 he burned the house of
President Madison and the capitol at
Washington with its archives, books
and papers, so to-day, with like graft
fcation and futility, he burns the
home of De Wet.
He confined the Emperor of France,
the greatest military genius Of modern
times, perhaps of all time, on wild
island and slowly badgered him to
death. He began his rule in Cape Col
ony hundred years ago by killing the
descendants of the old Dutch settlers,
and only now is he reaping his har-
| vest.
What is the story to be cleaned from
the records Of those countries which
have already enjoyed the advantages
of English methods of civilization?
The thirteen American Colonies were
| lost by abuse and want of judgment,
and they have thriven ever since. Can
ada, with like soil and waters and op-
portunities, refused to join them, and
who, since the time Of the French Jes-
uits, has ever heard of Canadians in
war, in statecraft or in literature?
Two hundred years ago the Barbados
and Jamaica were important colonies,
maintaining profitable trade and at
tracing more attention in the books
of the time than New York or Penn
sylvania. To-day they might as well
be obliterated from the map.
In the early centuries Ireland sent
from its great schools the learned d.
vines who converted the heather of
the continent to Christianity. In the
very late times the Irishmen who
come to America equal in their ac-
tivities the best of any race, and be-
come orators like Henry, lawyers like
O'Conor, and presidents like Jackson.
Under the rule of England it is land
Of boys, novels and wretchedness,
without ambition and without achieve.
ment.
The dark races of India depend for
their subsistence upon raising opium
with which to pervert the Chinese, and
themselves perish for want Of bread
What has it profited any of these to
become part of an empire which seeks
to gain the whole world, if they have
lost their own souls? We may well
benefit by their example.
The Beers, then, are fighting moi
alone for the Transvaal nor yet fol
Africa, but for us and mankind.
And that man, be he high or low, ii
. authority or out of it, who through SUI
pineness, want of foresight or socia
Establishment from contact will
courts, in any way, seeks to commi
our people to the aid Of English king
craft in this most unrighteous war, i.
trying to retrace the steps of Ameri
can history and undo the work of JOIN
Dickinson and George Washington
J and is belying the principles of our in
situations, to the lasting injury of til,
: country.
, SAMUEL w. PENNYPACKER.
| presiding Justice of the Court O
, General Sessions, Philadelphia, Pay
FATRER PATRICK HART