The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-09-18
THE ULSTER APACHES
A FIT DESIGNATION
For the Orange Rowdies Of
the North Of Ireland Who
Recently Assailed Inoffens-
i've Catholics in a Brutal
Manner as They Peaceably
Wended Their Way on
Sunday to Divine Worship
in City of Portadown.

Sunday to Divine Worship
in City of Portadown.
Under the caption Of "The Ulster
Apaches," Mr.. John P. Sutton the
able and fearless editor Of the Chicago
Citizen. pays his respects in the fol-
lowing scathing style to the Orange
niscreants who infest. the North of
Ireland:
Tho Orangeman in Ireland is saw
age, ignorant brute, with record for
devilish ruffianism unsurpassed by the
Turk in the lands subjected to Ma
fometan rule. There is a difference
indeed, but it is in favor Of the Turk,
The Turk is brave; after his fashion
he is honest; his ferocity is imbibed
from the precepts Of his religion.
which tolerates no creed but that OF
Mahomet; and teaches that all who
refuse to accept the Koran are inf1deis.
enemies Of God whom it is meritorious
to STAY. The Orangernan is coward
ly cur, Sinking into dark places with
his tail between his legs when faced
by men. He is ferocious only when he
presumes on the helplessness Of his.
prey, and on the too frequent display
Of weakness at times connivance If
the authorities. who are supposed tn
guarantee public peace and protection.
The Turk proclaims openly his ihtol-
erance, and his shibboleth IL "ths'
Koran or the sword" The Qrangenaan
sspFefsss4s ia. sbA q rbeliever-i in the doc
tranes Of. Jesus Christ, and declares
himself to be the champion Of civil
and religious liberty. In the name
OF Christ, and in the name Of civil
and religious liberty he has committed,
crimes which the Englishman. Will
liam T. Stead, editor Of the London
Review Of Reviews, has denounced as
unsurpassed by the worst atrocities If
the Turk in Armenia. We are yet
in the activities of life, and we have
heard from victims and from eye wit
nesses the story Of Orange crimes in
wexford. Venerable old ladies in
formed US that the reason the women
and children accompanied the insur
gent forces, like the Menapians en-
countered by Caesar, was to be near
their kindred, as they had no other
protection. They told us how dung
heaps were left, standing in the yards
for places of shelter into which women
crawled to hide themselves from the
passing Orange yeomanry. A fine
white haired patriarch; a Mr.. O'Neill,
a corn broker Of waterford, in our
childhood related to us how. when a
mere boy, he was 1ogged, half-hanged
and left for dead before his own door,
because he would not divulge the hid
ing place Of his sisters. The Sioux
on the warpath and the Apache in
the wilds Of Arizona were brave if
they were merciless; but their savage
ferocity never surpassed the bestial
cruelty and brutality of the Orange
, hordes in Ireland when they thought
their skins were safe. The coward il
I always cruel. When Pitt, in order to
carry his scheme Of legislative union
between Ireland and England, deter
] mied to adopt q terrorizing policy,
Wexford was selected as the county
where this deviltry was to be inaug-
!. urated. 1t was given up to the mercy
Of the Orange yeomanry. A. M. Sulli-
van thus describes it.: "All the hor-
rors of free quarters and martial law
were let loose on the county Atroci-
ties that sicken the heart in their con-
temptation filled with terror the homes
of that peaceful and inoffensive peo-
pie. The midnight skies were red
dened with the flames Of burning cot
tages, and the glens resounded with
shrieks Of agony, vengeance and de-
spair. Homes desolated, female virtue
made the victim of crimes that cannot
4 be named. the gibbet and the triangle
erected in every hamlet, and finally
4 the, temples of God desecrated AMI
given to the torch, left manhood in
/ Wexford 20 choice but that which to
/. its eternal honor it made. Well an
bravely Wexford fought that light.
4 II waS wild riish <o arms of a for.
tured peasantry. unrrepared, morgan
ICED, unarmed. Yet no rrishman neci
hang his head for shame when men
speak Of gallant Wexford IN ninety