The Irish standard., 1905-11-11

Rome, N. u, Oct. 12 1905.
can Europe Or America furnish two
more contemplate hounds than the
writer's of the foregoing letters, Self
confessed renegades. towards and
liars! What noble American c,t,,an.
they will make!
we have been all our life as pro-
houncedly Irish in feeling and senti-
meht as anyone could be. We have
never furled our flag, hidden our colors
Or denied our political hatred of Eng
land either as an Irish born man or an
american citizen. and some of our very
pest and truest friends, next to orr
own race, have ever been Americana.
ot English origin. Germans, Hebrews
Poles, Scandinavians. Frenchma. .,a
even some English, Welsh and Scotch.
VI course we have met some bigots.
'oo' OF all races, in America, but thew
afe small minority, certainly NOT
numerous enough to make even pulling
dastards like Erie" and "Crom-A-
Boo.' afraid to be Irish.
If any charge can be s,cco,sf,,,,,,
established against the Irish element
IN the United States, it is that thew
nave not sufficiently asserted them.
serves up-to-date, as an Irish element
potent Tor good in this great American
commonwealth. If the Red Indians
ruled this country-if the Red Indians
owned IT, as they once did-there
h'lght be drawn a distinction between
Inc native American" and the emf
grants. or descendants of emigrants
VINO nave supplanted them. But the
truth Is, the Red Indian has been dis
possessed and does not rule eve, nm
the reservations assigned TO him ana
his, and all other breeds or ,o,, T..
ported here. whether far back Or to-
"'y' are on an equal footing, cxcept
'hc Asiatics, who are politically rc-
S'rlcted. Most Of us speak the Eng
''sh language, 1t Is true, and our civil
aZation and laws and literatur. arr
olten, enormously, dubbed English
o"' 'he language is polyglot tongue,
h'chcd from every known dialect. nn-
c'eht and modern; our constitutio. ,s
mainly modelled on that of tho old
states of Holland; our sta,utorv ,.,,
are almost purely native to this so,,
''thoush we also use the so-called
English common law, stolen from tho
toh'ans or borrowed from the German
tribes, called Angles" and "Saxons"
ana our literature, like that OF Eng
ahd itself. owes much to Irish. Scot.
t1Sh, French, Italian, and Tcutonic
genius. So also in the realms of art
and arms. Ireland has given her full
contribution OF learning and talent
ana valor to her ungrateful enemy.
England, and to her glorious FOSTER
mother. America.
None but an ignorant. besotted
eodiorsaken clown like Erie" or
Crom-A-Boo' need be ashamed of his
irish name and origin. Did the
wretches never read anything Of the
history of their native country and
their race? Why, even Macaulev and
froude, the one a renegade Cclt and
the other an inveterate Saxon. and
both haters of Ireland and her people.
nave done full Justice to the genius of
inc Irish race: and how can those Dub
lin boobies, who disgrace the intelli-
gence of the beautiful. If widowed.
capital of Ireland. expose their base
ness and littleness as they do?
The late Senator Thomas Il. Bavard.
OF Delaware, who, in spite of his
French name was a worshiper of Eng
land and the English, said once at a
public gathering, commencing on the
abuse of the Irish, "The race has Its
faults, but remove the names of Irish
men and their sons from our roll of
statesmen, orators, warriors and he
roes, and how scant would be the mus
teri" Nothing truer was ever said,
and 1t was said, too by q man who
much preferred the English to the
Irish, both socially and politically.
The Irish on this continent should
assert themselves more and sustain
The men and the journals that fight
their battles against the bigots and
fanatics, the "Erles' and the "Crom-
a-Boos." They can never be too
thankful to the Irish World and its
fearless editor, Patrick Ford; to the
Boston Pilot founded by Patrick Dom
ahoc, edited successfully by him and
John Boyle O'Reilly, and James JEFF
frey Roche. and now by another Dona-
hue, the son Of the founder; to the
Irish American, edited for years by r.
]. Meehan and now by him and his
son; to the Irish Standard, edited by
he O'Brien brothers of Minneapolis;
o the National Hibernian. and we
will add, although it may seem rather
obtrusive, to the Chicago Citizen.
There are other papers, too that
nave done good work in this line. but
they are not exclusively Irish in tone.
We allude particularly to the Catho-
&c Union and Times Of Buffalo, N. T.:
he Catholic Sun of Syracuse, N. z;