The Irish standard., 1901-11-02
Reasons Why They Should Now Help Their
Kindred in the Old Land in
Freedoms Cause.
The True Facts of the Situation Will Be
Placed Before the Americans
by Three ENJOYS.

froundly asserted that the Irish In
America are forgetting not only
hatred for England which England
once feared. but that love for Ireland
and devotion to the cause of her free
dom which We're sources of strength
and courage to the Gaels mt home dur
ing every national movement since
1S4S.
The English writer asserted that
this is SO, aud he rcjoiccd. We be-
licve that ho is--cvcn as the majority
OF his countrymen-;l disciple of Ana
MAS.
\ That the old passionate, heart -mov-
ing love should wanc somewhat, and
that the all-absorbing interest in what
concerned the mothcrland should less
en-, were only natural consequences OF
the bitter disscnsons at home. Too
far removed from Ireland to appreci-
ate even such causes of quarrel as did
exist, and utterly incapable of under
standing the character of the insdious
elements of mischief now happily
eliminated which kept honest men di-
vidcd for long years after the time for
peace and unity had arrived, our kim
drcd in the great republic could only
cry out, IA plague on both your hous-
cS' And they cried out So and left
| u ~ M In
own fortunes. Perhaps all this was
for the better.
Ireland has done so. In Il few short
years the hnncful effects af ten years
of ulcensing disscnsion have been OBJ
litrratcl-SO far Hs Irlshmcn could ac-
c"mpllsh the blessed work, because
much of the loss is irrcpnrablc But
there are no longer two political
houses in Ireland for friends to
curse ana boycott. There is one
mighty national organization, more
widespread. and more potent because
more democratic, than either the Land
League, which drove lnndlOrdism to
the verge of the grave into which we
now mean to thrust 1t, or the National
League, which would have won an
Irish parliament as surely as the ris-
Ing OF the sun tomorrow were it not
: for the tragic events of 1S0O-1S01,
And supported by that great organi-
zntion is a party which may well he
referred to as a unit. so firmly are
It's members banded together, so close
are the bonds of cOnradeship and
brotherhood which bind them in the
battle for Ireland against all odds.
When the Irish beyond the ocean
fully realize the altered circumstances
no English scribe will ever again dare
pen so ''back and bitter a lie" as the
cool and impudcnt assertion that the
children of the Irish parents who yet
linger on at home, and the children
and grandchildren of the men and wo-
men who, with wrath at their hearts
as red as the flames from their humble
roof trees, sailed across the Atlantic,
ruined and robbed by England and
AI"SiAh" ShIIlSoI I'LL uuyS gone ny,
are now Englnnd's admirers-that
they forget 1.-The deep debt so long
due to their country's tyrant, and
that they heed not any longer how
fares the old land or what may be the
fate of their brothers and their cous-
ms who are fighting with their backs
to the wall this last great battle for
the right of one of the worlds bravest
ana Oldest races to live in the fair
island bestowed by Gods providence
on their fathers at the dawn of his
tory.
Many weeks ago, in an article over
Mr.. William OBrien's name, the Irish
People plainly indicated the character
of the assistance which the Irish ma
tion at home expect from their kins.
men in America. For the material
aid, so long denied, Ireland will be
truly grateful. But the Irishman or
the Irish girl in New York, or Boston.
or Philadelphia, or Chicago, who de-
clines to pay for passage ticket"
costing "a to Is, and who thus com.
pels an intending emigrant to remain
at home, does service to Ireland which