The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18
The Old Mountain Lion of the Southwest
Roars Majestically at His
Strange Remarks.
Denies That When His Tongue is English
the Heart of an lrishman
Must Be English.

, and when the tongue is English the
heart must needs be English" deny
both the former and the latter, because
they are both utterly untrue. In my
last letter 1 asked the Father few
questions which he has carefully ig-
nored, and 1 will repeat them now.
There are several great prominent
criminals in history whose names have
been damned to endless infamy. One
of these is the Count Julian, who led
the Islamite Arabs into Spain and con-
demned his country to nearly 800 years
Of perpetual war. Another is Benedict
Arnold, who sold the passes of the Hud-
son to the enemy; thank God, without
benefit to them or injury to us; and an
other, the vilest of all, was Dermot Nc
Murrough. 1t is unnecessary to repeat
that he could talk nothing but Irish.
Now, does Father Henebry insist
that this arch traitor, this adulterous
brute who coveted and stole his neigh
boris wife and brought the first Anglo
Norman robbers into Ireland to main
tain him in his unholy lust, had an Irish
heart? Does the Father insist that the
caitiff ours who grovelled in the dust
before the savage Henry Plantagenet,
and kissed his hand i'll token of fealty
to him, had Irish hearts? Will the
Father claim that the base-born kings
and queens 1rish," who bartered their
paltry souls for English gold when the
heroic chieftains Of the land were wag-
ing deadly war against the filthy Sultan
Henry VIII. and the tiger-hearted Eliz-
| abeth, had Irish hearts? Does the
Father claim that the infamous Jimmy
O'Brien, who could talk Irish glibly,
and use it for purposes of worming
himself into the confidence of the glo-
rious rebels Of '9S, only to sell them to
the bloody myrmidons Of Dublin Cas-
tie, had an Irish heart?
"Oh, for tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason like deadly blight
Comes DER the councils of the brave
And blasts them in their hour of
might. ("
If these vile verminy had Irish hearts
God save us from such hearts. Now
for the charge that "When the tongue
is English the heart must needs be Eng
lish also" If 1 could ask my country
men throughout the world what patriot
of modern times is most fondly, most
tenderly, most passionately loved, and
whose memory is cherished as a sacred
thing, the unanimous voice would ex-
claim Robert Emmet, and he could not
speak word of Irish. What speech
has done more than all others to keep
alive the holy fire of Irish patriotism
and independence? That one which
closes with the deathless words which
will live long after the last Saxon rob-
Der has been chased into the Irish sea,
and will be inscribed on the pillars of
the coming Irish republican senate
house in letters of virgin gold.
"When my country takes her place
among the nations of the world, then
and not till then, let my epitaph be writ
ten" All, my dear young martyr,
what base ingratitude it is to say that
the Infamous McMurrough had an
Irish heart, and that you, whose holy
blood was shed to the last drop for our
fatherland, had an English one. 1t is
possible that one man may say YES"
but like thunder rolling through storm
laden clouds tens of millions of Irish
tongues will answer No! No.! No!!!
When the rich Irish blood flowed from
dozen gaping wounds in the BODY of
the last of the heroic Geraldines, did it
| flow from an English heart because he
spoke in the enemy's tongue: Thomas
| Davis tells us that
"Still it is the PEASANTS hope upon the
Curragh's mere
| They live who'll see ten thousand men
with good Lord Edward here.
SO let them dream till brighter days.
when not by Edwards shade