The Irish standard., 1904-05-28
King Edward Has Inflicted Another Souad
Of Knights Upon Ireland, Already
Beniehted Enough.
But the Tories Refuse to Remove Stioma
Placed Upon Political Offenders
by the Coercion Act.

"A comical incident happened the i,
other day OH board the Cunarder
which bore from Queenstown to New
York the eighty or ninety young men
and women who went to represent
ireland at the st. Louis exhibition,
says Seumas NIacmanus in the New
York Sun. A few nights after leaving
Queenstown the usual concert was
held, the chair being taken by Il.
w. Rolleston, Irish revolutionary and
present holder Of a position under
Sir Horace Plunkett's department of
agriculture.
The York street band Of the Dublin
Workmen's club lent its services to
the concert, and as the entertainment
was about to conclude Mr.. Rolleston
announced that "the band Of the Dub
lin Workmen's club would now play
God Save the King" Much to the
modification Of Mr. .Rolleston and tho
horror Of the kings good, loyal Eng
lish and Scotch subjects present, the
leader Of the band promptly replied:
"Faitll, and the band of the Dublin
Workmen's club will now do nothing
of the sort. The band Of the Dublin
Workmen's club" the loaded added,
"will now retire."
And the band retired. Mr.. ROLES
ton, reformed revolutionist, wanted
the boat to sink, but the boat did not
These boats are very wooden things.
Something of Il sensation has been
created by the publication here of the
PersicO-Alanning letters. In the troub-
lous days of the Land League, at the
time Of the issue of Parncll's "No
Rent" manifesto, the late Pope, nag
gcd by secret ambassadors from Eng
land, sent Mgr. PcrsicO to Ireland to
| find out the true state Of affairs there
The Roman Catholic hierarchy View
cd the coming Of Persico with suspi-
cion. They thought that he came to
prove the case of England. The sus-
picion, not merely of the hierarchy.
but Of the people Of ireland, after
n short time grew to belief; and the
belief was to them certainty, when,
after Mgr Persico had pursued his i'm
vcstigations for some time in Ireland.
the Pope issued the famous rescript
against the plan Of campaign. dcclar-
ing 1t immoral, and calling upon the
bishops to dcnouncc it forthwith.
Mgr Persico was then the most
abused man in Ireland. 1t is true the
bishops, with single exception, ig-
nored the rescript, and the people,
knowing we'll that it was n question of
politics. not morality, said: "Our re-
ligion from Rome, but our politics
from home," and pursued their plan
Of campaign as quietly as circum-
stances and the government would
permit. 1t is safe to say that poor
PcrscO got more bad prayers than
good, then.
Now at length the memory Of Per.
sico is cleared. The United Irishman
Of Dublin (thc most vigorous paper
and far and away the best, if the
youngest, paper in Ireland has un
earthed the correspondence which,
when Persico was in Ireland, passed
between him and Cardinal Manning
which correspondence shows convinc
ingly that the poor mans heart was
with Ireland and Ireland's struggles
that he came to Ireland determined
despite British menace, to do her JUS
ticc in the eyes Of Leo KILL, and that
despite suspicion and abuse he stead
lily stuck to his intention; but at 'ev,
cry turn he was foiled, owing to the
English Vaccinations which were pro
cecding at Rome-intrguing maneuv
ers. either for or through Tor BOTH the
Duke Of Norfolk and Sir Thomas Har
ingtOn.
,, PcrsicO laid the Irish case before
his holiness in it's true light; but the
Duke of Norfolk and his satellites
chcclimated him at every turn, which
elected from the Pope the famous but
useless rescript. The United Irishman
pays touching tribute to Persico's