The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-12-16
The Irish Gould Cut Out Five and One Half
Million Of This Tax BY Avoiding
the Use Of All Liquors.
lrishmen Are Punished Daily For Writing
Their Names on Their Own Carts
In Their Own Language.

we can't have a donkey race in Ire
land, by the way, but the strains of
God Save the King" are expected to
mlngle with the uplifted voice Of the
When the comforting of degrees was
Just finished, and Jose had taken his
place at the great organ, a great body
of students (patriotic young Irish fell
lows) made dash for the organ gall
lery. climbed into it from all sides.
| chased the good musician for his life,
I'm their ears, ran from the desecrated
| their robes and sticking their fingers
| hall. The London Times, in pom
derous editorial, calls upon the senate
of the university to do their duty
Save Ireland" At which the good fell
lows of the university, gathering up
| ana lifted UP their voices in the sing
ing of the national anthem, God
| firmly and promptly in this grave
| outrageous proceedings without even
| an attempt to mete out censure and
punishment would be degrading to the
| university and humiliating to every
| loyal ana self-respecting man amongst
those responsible for it's rule"
| 1t is not without justice that bonnv
| Scotland has been celebrated us an
| economic housekeeper. The Nelson
celebrations created a great furore
| throughout the empire. Scotland en-
Enthusiastically waved its claymore and
| tossed its bonnet high in air to the
great mans memory; and it forward
ed Its total subscriptions to the Nelson
| celebration fund-twelve shllings and
sixpence! Not hastily will Scotland
part with her bawbees. Sister England
has been tempting her anent her sub
scription, and Scotland takes care to
point out that, nearly forty years after
Nelson fell. the Trafalgar Square
monument was incomplete owing to
the funds of the committee being in
| adequate to carry out the original de-
sign The retOrt is good; still, it is
poor compared to what it might have
been had Scotland pointed out what
was the fact, that the completion of
the Trafalgar Square monument was
effected by money procured from a
| Russian czar.
The Christening tone of the present.
| day press was the subject of lecture
the other day by a great public Eng
llshman. He did not know that at the
| time he was speaking a Canadian
paper was lambasting the English pub
lie for celebrating the presence of
German prince as rear-admiral of the
royal navy" The Times, which, in the
eyes of John Bull, is the great model
of everything that is respectable,
could, when 1T chose, talk with all the
likeness Of a fish wife, when Nc
Caulay and Lalor Shiel We're made
priVy councillors. The great news
paper of respectable 1Cnglishmen said
| 'hat ticy were llafuly nt TO I'LL the
vacancies created by the lamented
death of her Majesty's two favorite
monkeys" When the address, Wind
sor Castle, appeared on a letter that
McCaulay afterwards sent to his con-
stituents, the Times suggested that
"it must have been written from the
Castle Tavern Windsor; and from the
most proper part there-the tap"
When Queen Victoria was about to
marry Prince Albert, the Times thun-
dered that England had already a
sufficient intimacy with the bankrupt
dynasties> Of Germany, whose subjects
were about to shake them from their
crumbling thrones"
AS it is seditious today for an Irish
man to print his name in his own lam
guage upon his cart-men being pres.
emily fined and imprisoned therefor
so 1t seems to have been seditious in
Ireland, in former days, to use Irish
terms in reference to royalty. Th-
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