The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-03-18
Not Necessary to Go to Europe, He Plainly
i Asserts, to Discover the Characteristics
of Irish Patriotism.
Erin's Sons Never a Party to That Frenzy
Which Strives to Overthrow tho
Capital and the Altar.

discover them. We can all read for
ourselves what manner of men were
those noble-hearted Irish soldiers who
fought in our Revolutionary and Civil
wars. Read their unspeakable BRAY
cry in those terrible and sanguinary
struggles and then judge for yourselves
with what undying fealty they served
your country's cause. America cannot
soon forget them for their devotion to
her In the hour of need. The unpreju-
diced historian, as he seeks after the
footprints of Irish soldier exiles here.
cannot help letting fall tear Of graft
tude when this overpowering fact is
borne In on him, how the brawny sons
Of Erin leaped to the forefront in every
encounter where our honor and liberty
were at stake, with an ardor and
magnanimity so peculiar to the race.
They are sleeping in their coflnless
beds amongst us, aforementioned it
may be, in these days of peace, never
recurring to our memory except when
we hear the schoolboy recite to us the
brilliant encomium bestowed OH them
by the Father of our Country.
Let their ashes be Mt rest! Let them
sleep Oh undisturbcd in their graves
of glory, brave-heartcd Americans! In
jurc not their immortal honor by any
abuse slung ut their compatriots resid-
ing amongst you! But if ever it should
become fashionable here again to re-
vile our prosecuted racc-as unhappily
was more than once the case in the
past-rsc! rise! from your hallowed
mounds, o! shades of a Stark, Sullivan.
Moylan, Barry, Sheridan and confound
the miscrcants who dare to tarnisll
your names with want Of patriotic de-
votion to your adopted country.
The more we reflect on the conspic-
uous services rendered by our country
men to this republic the less likelihood
there Is that we will become enamored
of that sensclcss and bascless theory
Of Anglo-SaXonism. always labored
under the impression, and do so still,
that England was always very hostile
to us as a nation, and to support that
idea l recall to mind the famous "Ala-
bama" incident during the Civil war,
and the sympathy of the English peo-
pie with Spain during the Spanish
American war. Yet we are told conf
IDENTIFY that it is to our English blood
and energy that our progress as
nation is owing.
We Irishmen are not Jealous Of the
good work accomplished by any na-
tionality here. We gladly acclaim the
nobility Of character of those sons of
France, Germany and Poland who con-
tributed such material assistance in
every trying era Of our history. But
to exalt the superlative merits Of the
Anglo-Saxon race is something which
needs good deal Of substantial proof.
Let us not think, however, for mo-
ment but that theory of that kind,
senseless though it be, leads to wrong
conclusions and soon we might
find vast number of Irish
Americans throwing aside all
their old-time Irish leanings and
trucking to that sentiment, possibly
convincing themselves that after all,
to become good American citizen, it
is necessary to be fostered in the Eng
lish ideas of propriety and not those
crude sentiments which we inherit
from cur fathers who came from Ire
land.
To those who wish to discard their
Irish sympathies, hoping thereby to be-
come better American citizens, would
say, let me show you the examples of
men who We're resolutely true to the
cause of the home country, yea rebels
in the eyes Of England over there, new
rrthcless became here men whom you
would gladly look up to for guidance
in the way Of patriotic duty. Those
men were the young Ireland patriots.
The Young Ireland movement arose
in Ireland in 1S4S and had for its OBJ
icct the sundering Of the legislative
tie that binds ireland to England. To
understand well this Young Ireland