The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-05-07
By a Revelation Made in
a British Magazine by a
Retired Detective.
Confesses to Have Written
Forged Letters Against
the Nationalists.
Ireland Then Administered
Under Reign of Terror by
Bloody Balfour."

"Bloody Balfour."
Two very exciting questions are now
occupying the attention Of the House
of Commons, of Ireland in particular,
and the people of these islands in gen.
eral. Irish politics seem to be more
emotional than the cold business prop
ositions attributed to Englishmen.
That Englishmen have in the House
of Commons displayed any aptitude
for business few would be hardy
enough to maintain, for whereas
duty has lain before them plain as
pike-staff, the Liberal leaders have
for weeks been treating us to vapid
constitutional disquisitions, writes Col.
Arthur Lynch, M. p. in the st. Louis
Republic.
With the Irish, and in sall affairs re-
lating to Ireland, we come into a diff
ferent atmosphere-an atmosphere
more charged with electricity, more
tropical, more stormy. All this must
at base be due to something tempera-
mental.
First, with regard to William
lsO,Brien. That gentlemen has been in
dulging in some great tomahawk-
throwing. From recent speech of
his at Cork 1 Gull few flowers of
rhetoric. He speaks of John Dillon,
F, the same John Dillon. to whom he
dedicated his book, when We Were
Boys" in these terms: "Unfathomably
beneath contempt" "'Degenerated from
all the decencies,' Makes an appeal
to the lowest instincts of the lowest
creatures and "Loathsome vulgarity."
All this in the first paragraph. fE
| Would that It were possible to con-
duct our affairs without these accom-
paniments. I am reminded of an old
Fenian friend, the late John O'Leary.
He had q long patriarchal. beard, a
bright eye, keen, critical faculty and
occasionally when one Of the COM
pany was propounding a political Wild
cat scheme, John O'Leary would wait
till he had finished and then, with his
eyes as sharp as gimlets and with a
high pitched voice, he would break
in: "But in the name Of Heaven, what
good will all that do to Ireland?"
And reading of these denunciations
say in turn: "What good will that
do to Ireland?"
! It may well be asked what good can
/, mutual recriminations at any time dc
for Ireland. At the present moment
when by virtue of the evenly matched
forces Of the English parties, ireland
:, has the balance Of power, it is espe-
cially unfortunate that the strength OF
the Irish party should be diminished
by these internal quarrels, and the
spectacle they afford to the enemy.
4 That Ireland has quite enough or
her shoulders in making headwas
against external obstacles has beer
made abundantly clear by the revela.
tions of Sir Robert Anderson dis.
cussed this week in the House of Com.
mons. These refer to matters thai
happened twenty years ago, but thu
principle that inspired them remain.
active today.
Briefly, the history is this: During
the height of Parnells power in Ire.
land, and when 1t looked certain tha
everything was tending to home. rule
a series of articles appeared in Tht
London Times under the heading
"Parnellism and Crime" These ar.
ticles were written with manifest ven.
ON and party spirit, but they wer,
also written with the power Of on,
who knew, who could "dot the rs" ant
who could quote chapter and verse To-
what he said, even when his view wa,
most distorted. The articles reache,
their elimination when Parnell wa
accused of encouraging, or at least ap
proving, of the assassination of Lor,
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burk
in Phoenix Park.
The charge was based on lette
/ alleged to have been written by Parn
/ ell, but which was forged by a. a3certail
Piggott. whose education was 9
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