The Irish standard., 1904-11-19

made their rare and fruitless landings
upon the coast of Ireland.
AS the centuries have rolled slowly
by Ireland has suffered and rebelled,
and she suffers and rebels to-day.
Other countries have forgotten the
national spirit that made them hate
the conqueror. The fighting nations
Of the world have been dividing up the
earth's surface. India, with its hum
dreds Of millions, has become English.
Canada, Australia, lands from the
north to the south pole and all around
the equator have bowed to British rule
and in few years have forgotten that
they were independent.
But Ireland, after more than seven
hundred years of English oppression,
is still Irish, and always will be Irish.
To-day the English, with their land
bill, the distribution Of Irish land
among Irish farmers "a distribution
made, by the way, at the expense of
the over-taxed Irish), are trying to do
with pretended kindness that which
they failed to do with Cromwelrs mur-
ders, with packed juries, with corrupt
judges, with brutal police and the most
complicated system of persistent ty-
ranny that ever cursed noble people.
England hopes now that she may do
by appealing to the Irishman's self
interest that which she has vainly
tried to do during the past centuries
by appealing to his fears.
But England will find that what she
couldn't do with bullets, swords and
the gallows she will not be able to
do with pounds, shillings and pence.
If you can't frighten a man, you can't
buy him, and vice versa.
A well meaning, blundering idiot,
sent by the English to rule in Dublin
Castle Gt was Balfour's ninny brother,
if we are not mistakenly, thought that
he would be Britishly tactful and
create Irish love of England all in a
summers afternoon. Instead of hav-
ing the Irish and the English troops
drill separately, he had them all drill
together, in the shadow of the hated
castle, and his great stroke of genius
came when he ordered them all to sing
the national anthem, "God Save the
Queen" in sweet, harmonious accord.
1t was soon noticed that there was
something wrong about the singing.
The English were singing "God Save
the Queen" very nicely; the Irish, with
good strong lungs, were singing very
loud, ireland was Ireland when Eng
land was a pup, and Ireland will be
Ireland when England's gobbled up"
That's the way the Irish have been
singing in their hearts for a good
many centuries. And they will sing
that way good many centuries from
now, or until they get what they want
1t is splendid and most useful task
undertaken by Mrs. Green, the bril-
liant scholar and sincere patriot. Her
profound studies of national feeling,
her thorough understanding Of the SEN
timents that have actuated the people
of her native land, must give the great
est possible value to the work that
claims all her devotion.
1t is glorious story that she has to
tell, beautiful story of wonderful
people that have resisted all oppres-
sion, and, while keeping patriotism
alive at home, have furnished soldiers
Of liberty, orators, statesmen to the
rest of the world. Mrs. Green has
been received with the honor that her
talent and her task demand by repre-
sentative Americans-by presidents Of
colleges, of Harvard, Columbia and
others, by bishops and archbishops
representing the Irish people in this
country, by our ablest thinkers and
public men. It is to be hoped that
these will, without fail, secure the in
PRODUCTION into our public schools Of
her history of Ireland, thus giving to
the children of this country true idea
of the race that gave us so many men
whose names are associated imperish-
ably with the American nationality.