The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-09-13

where am writing these words one Of
these fire eaters from the United States
called a conference of few we'll
known Irishmen, several years ago, to
consider the state of the country. For
tunately, they suspected the goou faith
of the gentleman ard refused to at
tend. Unfortunately, he did manage
to. entangle a number of less sus-
picious because less intelligent men,
and he succeeded in sending them to
British iails fer terms of years. That
he was plying his nefarious occupation
as an emissary of England f.. L many
years under the gllise of an Irish pa
tliot of the most radical stripe IS
pretty certain.
There We're doubtless many other
emissalies or spies Of England in or
ranks. holding official positions so as
to enable them to furn sh their en-
ployer authoritative information, de-
serving high-priced remuneration, but
their services not being required in
public, they remained concealed like
carefully masked battery, maintain
ing at the same time telephone COM
munication With their paymaster. L
have no doubt whatever that at the
present moment England has a paid
emissary in every camp and conclave
Of Irish secret conspirators, wherever
they may be. more especially in the
United States.
The hideousness of such knavery
consists in the disunion, doubt and
suspicion which they propagate among
Irishmen. They are doing tlre subter-
ranean work Of England's sappers and
miners. There is only one touchstonc
or test by which to appraise true pa
triotism. That touchstone is clearly
| Indicated in the oath, or pledge, of
every national organization since Tone
| founded tine United Irisllmen in 1893.
The pllraseology may differ, but the
spirit of the test is always the same,
viz: the promotion Of love, harmony
and kindly forbearance among all
Ilishmen. In that spirit the United
Irish League was foum.eu few short
years ago. At it's birth the country
was rent with factions, helpless, al
most in despair. Today there is sub
stantial unity, hope, courage, and a
fierce fighting spirit aroused. All this
is the work of the League. 1t antag
onizes no mans or no organizations
work for Ireland. 1t pats Thomas
Wallace Russell, M. P, on the back,
and bids him "God speed" as he works
to compel the landlords to sell out their
interest to the tenants. 1t cheers the
Congested Districts Board for planting
several thousand small farmers on the
land Of Mayo as the owners thereof,
and urges it to continue such work in
every section of Ireland. 1t recognizes
the good features of the Agricultural
Board and Technical instruction and
Cooperative Creameries, and app1auds
and s,lstains the noble Gaelic League
in it's fundamental effort to establish
an Irish Ireland to supersede the n.y.
brid community that now exists with
in the four seas of Ireland. Unless all
signs fail, the approaching winter and
spring will witness trial Of strength
between the United Irish League,
which will be suppressed, and the gov
ernment. The latter would be delight.
ed to have some color Of a lretext for
shooting the people. 1t would afford
much pleasure to the brutal, sodden
masses that made London drunken
disgrace over Mafeking, to be let loose
in Ireland as their forbaars were in
1893.
am not unmindful that Miss Maude
Come declared some years ago in va.
rious places that England could not
trust her Irish soldiers, but the state
ment was only a figment Of the imag-
ination. not a statement of fact. Eng.
lands Irish soldiers have always
proved themselves reliable pirates in
every quarter of the world, and that
they would do so in Ireland is proved
by the constabulary, recruited from