The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-12-24
ROUTING Of
ULSTER 0RANGEMEN
Threats of Using Force Against
q Home Rule Parliament
Are Numerous.
The Same Element Threatened to
Kick Victorias Crown Into
the Boyne.
History Shows, However, That They
Go No Further Than to
Make Threats.

The Unionists of the North of Ire
land have injected an element of hui
NOR into the election campaign in
which the people OF the United King
dom are involved, says the Philadel-
phia North American. A meeting Of
delegates from every County in the
Province was held in Belfast, and de-
nunciation of Home Rule was as We
hement as it was uniquely grotesque.
Some years ago a clergyman in this
same Ulster, and at meeting of pro-
test on somewhat similar lines, de-
clared that if the bill for the discs
tablishment of the Irish Church, then
pending in Parliament, were passed,
the Protestants of Ulster would kick
the queens crown into the historic
River Boyne.
That bill was passed by Gladstone,
and yet there is no record of the i'm
perial diadem being removed from the
Tower of London and treated with the
contumely indicated in the reverend
gentlemen's threat. In fact, no overt
act against the monarchy or the gov
rnment was attempted and the Prot
estants of Ulster, more liberal and
more sensible than many Of their
clerical leaders, simply accepted the
inevitable and set about reorganizing
their Church, with the result that it
is now more powerful, if not more
prosperous, than in the days of its
pampered and bloated ascendancy.
But the mock heroics of the mill
tant pastor of the days of disestab-
lishment were the veriest pretense at
belligerency compared with those of
another clergyman at the Belfast
meeting. Upon his initiative, reso-
luton was agreed to pledging the I'm
ionists of Ulster to pay no taxes i'm
posed by an Irish Parliament or to
obey its laws, and it was further re-
solved that a sum of $4,000, sub
scribed at the meeting, be appropri-
ated for drilling Ulster regiments to
take the field when Home Rule bill
is passed, and drive the whole British
army-horse, foot and artillery-into
the Irish sea.
This is. serious, indeed. Kicking
Queen Victoria's crown into the
Boyne, although an act of disloyalty
and discourtesy, would not have been
treason, while this proposed massing
of a $4,000 army of disgruntled I'm
ionists against the might and majesty
Of British domination in Ireland is
treason and revolution and lese ma
jeste combined. In the palmy days OF
the Land League Parnell, Davitt and
other leaders were imprisoned for is.
suing the "No Rent Manifesto" and
the League, declared illegal, was sup
pressed. What will the executive in
Dublin Castle do in this case? Ar
rest the belligerent clergyman who
thus proclaims treason from the ros-
troops to garrison the cities of the
i north and employ the torpedo boats
and destroyers of the English navy to
thwart any and every attempt at gun
running? Not bit of it, we imagine.
The Lord Lieutenant and his Chief
Secretary will simply laugh at the
opera bouffe resolutions of the Belfast
conclave and kill with ridicule what
was conceived in bluff and bombast
pure and simple.
Those who know Ulster as the cita-
del of ascendancy and the cradle of
religious intolerance in Ireland, will
attach NJ significance, much less
4 weight, to the vaporings of Belfast
mob. Noreform for Ireland was ever
attempted in which they did not show
their teeth in opposition, but, as bark
ing dogs seldom bite, they never ex-
ceeded the limit of fantastic threat
OF course, this does not refer to the
Protestant tenant farmers of Ulster,
who are, as rule, intelligent and lib
eralminded, though somewhat con-
servative.
Ulster Farmers Not Anxious.
To the respectable and educated
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