The Irish standard., 1906-11-03

There are but two parties i'll Ire
land-the Irish people and the Eng
@lish, Garrison. To tighten her hold on
the life of the Irish people-to keep
them in subjection-to keep them poor
Nand uneducated and miserable, that
gfffay may serve her interests better
sand their own the worse, England
keeps this garrison in our country, says
:san Irish exchange.
! The garrison is divided into two sec
stions--civil and military.
The military garrison consists of an
armed police force, lodged in every
village throughout the land, of a
standing army of train soldiery and
q navy-all, unfortunately, largely
nanned by renegade Irish who have
taken English money to betray their
country. >,-'-''s''''7 ,-F1 ''-'- t' -q
s England has always sought to get
the young men of our nation into her
police force, her navy, and her army.
,Tfley make soldiers second to none in
the. world, and by enlisting them in
her service she not only fills the ranks
of her own fighters, but takes away
the young men and the strong from
\ Ireland and leaves this land weak and
defenseless.
It. was necessary to weaken Ireland
that England might be strong, and with
,diabolical ingenuity she has depopu-
lated our country and filled the ranks
Of her fighting men at the same time.
This policy was not started yester-
day, but before the fathers of our
fathers were born it was working bit
ter ruin to our country.
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1915, the ad-
,visers of Henry VIII. urged him to
make conquest of Ireland.
They told him that if Ireland was
: ssubdued and the king could call out
Its soldiers to do his bidding, then no
him as they had often done before.
An Irish army would thus force the
English to bear all the injustice and
cruelty and heavy taxes imposed by
their own sovereign.
More than that, they said that the
armies of Ireland would conquer Scot
land and compel it to be always in
!; obedience to the king of England.
Thus, when the Irish had lost their
freedom they were to be used to de-
stroy the freedom of others.
And there was to be a yet greater
\ gain to Henry Will, for the Irish army
would then serve to conquer for the
English monarch great Empire
abroad, so that when he had subdued
4 France and overrun ell Europe he
should die Emperor of Rome, so said
the mperialists Of that day.
Twenty ty-seven years later, in 1912,
Henry obtained the title of king Of
Ireland by exactly the same means
that the union was proclaimed in 1900.
He remembered the dream of a military
empire, and his first act was to order
over ian army from his new kingdom.
1hree thousand soldiers, very large
iipfce In those days, were ordered to
: the Scotch war. A second army was
paraded in st. James Park before the
Londoners on its way to cross the
channel with the, king, for the con-
quest of France. Brave 1nen they
were. mo better gunners than they
I be- tanned all of them that they do
not lightly abandon the field, but bear
4 the brunt to the DEATH" There had
yrSbeen seven years. war and slaughtering
Mn ireland since the death of Silkden
Thomas, Earl Of Kildare and in the
ssyhry month that the soldiers crossed
le elhe Channel. there We're rumors in Ire
lind that the son of SiIken Thomas
D;as coming from France with an army
I rs help the Irish. It was with infinite