The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-12-11
IN HIGHLAND kits.
Seumas MacManus Is Back from tho
Emerald Isle,

Seumas MacManus Is Back from tho
Emerald Isle.
Who hasn't heard Of Seumas (Shame-
usl MacManus, the writer of Irish
stories in the abominable brogue Of Ul-
ster-a brogue far less euphonious than
that used by Dooley in his talk with
Hennessey?
Well Seumas is back from Erin
where he went with Matthew Cum
mings last summer. for though living
in America, Seumas Is president OF
trie." He claims his wing is 5000
strong. At the conference in Dublin
he said 1t was 1000, which is ten times
more than it really was at the time.
Nobody seems to know how strong it
is numerically, because the wing has no
records OF any kind to produce. Well.
Seunas is back once more from Erin
Go Bragh, dressed in Highland kits.
Under the heading OF "Seumas in Err
ror," the Milwaukee Catholic Citizen
refers editorially to this knighterrant
as follows .&
Seumas MacManus is among us
again. This time he is appearing in
kilts-true Sim Fein. realism. begor.
There are two factions of the A. O..
H. IN Ireland, "the main body" under
the leadership OF Joseph Devlin, NJ. p.
with Il membership of forty or fifty
thousand; and an offshoot or dissident
faction, eight thousand strong, under
MacManus of the kits.
The indianapolis News (Nov. 22), in
forms US:
More than fifty candidates were in
itiated into the Ancient Order Of Hi
bernians at st. Josephs hall yesterday
afternoon. The county president, B.
A. kavanaugh, presided, and J. W.
Kenny headed the degree team. Just
before the closing of the degree work
Seumas MacManus reached the hall
and was introduced as president of the
A. O. II. Of Ireland He received an
ovation from all present.
"Mr. MacManus made a brief ad-
dress to his brother Hibernians, ex-
plaining Hibernian conditions abroad.
81 ealting on present day conditions III
Ireland, he said he desired to call par
ticular attention to the fact that the
three most important concessions
granted to Ireland during the last CEN
tury were granted when there was no
Irish party in the house Of commons.
These acts he named as the Catholic
emancipation act Of 1929; the law re-
pealing the Tithes law in 1S41 and the
law disestablishing the Protestant
church in Ireland in 1869.
"Mr. MacManus explained that the
younger men and women Of the Ireland
Of today, believe in effort on the soil
of Ireland rather than effort in the
English parliament"
If the A. o. II. of America is stand
ing neutral in Irish politics as it's
Clan-na- Gae' officials profess, this in
stance hardly proves it. Here on an
occasion Of solemn degree work q
speaker is introduced who attacks the
Irish Parliamentary party and belittles
it's record; incidentally seeking to con-
vince his audience that Parnell was
fool to waste time in parliament and
O'Connell accomplished nothing in his
chosen arena of activity.
The three achievements for Ireland
that Seumas MacManus mentions were
not, as he intimates, won without par
liamentary leverage. 1t was the Glare
election-thc actual sending of O'Con-
nell to the London parliament-that
brought the agitation for Catholic
emancipation to a successful climax.
The other legislative reforms men,
toned by the killed historian (the
Tithes act and stablishment),
were promoted by strong and patriotic
1rishmen, active and urgent in parlia-
ment-OCo Connell with his band of
faithful followers forcing the Tithe
act, and John Francis Mcguire, M. p,
in 1868, precipitating the debate in the
house of commons which brought
Gladstone up to the issue Of Discs
tablishment 4 ~-s-S