The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-01-27

many groups of phenomena are seen
to relate to the same fundamental
principles. The balance of divided
functions, described above, is noticed
in industrial economics as the division
and combination of labor. 1t is the
essence of every effective military or
ganization. Even unit so small
as cavalry squadron conforms to it
Although here all training seeks to
procure the maximum of cohesion for
single attacking line, yet each troop
is within it's proper scope autonomous
and self-contained, and each drills and
dresses by it's own center guide and
troop leader. 1t is only after this
first indispensable stage has been es-
tablished that the superior grouping Is
attempted, and it is only because the
larger formation becomes possible.
Who has not heard of the glories Of
the Union Brigade at Waterloo? How
often has it's fame been proclaimed
as an example of unionism! Yet,
there never was a body which was
more essentially federal in Its charac-
ter. Each of it's three regiments, the
Royals, the Inniskillens and the Greys,
was organized separately, under its
own officers, with it's own interior
economy, and with its own traditions,
upon a national basis, and then, and
not till then, combined together.
1t is not intended to press the anal
ogy too far. But to what a monde
script and unwieldy mob would a gen.
eral have reduced that noble brigade
who had sought to eliminate the prin-
ciple of nationality into one single
mass of relocated cavalry officers!
To march with the movements Of the
ever-growing world, to stand the strain
of an ever tenser competition, 1t is
vitality necessary that we, like our
most formidable rivals, should know
how to combine the fullest expression
Of national and local aspirations and
activities with the strongest frame
work of imperial unity. We can do it
if we try, and we can do it now.
AS the latest century unfolds the
whole world to our eyes, the larger
syntheses are revealed. We see the
four consultations of the human fam
lily which, measured in terms Of ener-
gy and force, realized or latent, are in
the ascendant-the Russian power, the
Yellow races, the Teutonic alliance
and the English-speaking peoples.
There is no solution Of political
question which would give more un-
affected pleasure than the grant Of
Home Rule through all the self-gov-
erning dominions of the British EN-
pire. We need not, as Lord Salisbury
in his last great speech reminded us,
expect that the vast developments
which the mind foresees will take
place within the compass Of our own
short lives. But still it must always
be a guiding star Of British states
manslip, not only to federate that en-
pire but to draw nearer in bonds Of
friendship and association to the peo-
pie of the United States. We have
seen, even in the last IS years, very
great and good changes take place,
altering sensibly the point of view
from which the two nations regard
each other. The reconciliation of the
English and the Irish peoples is all
that is needed to still the last voices
Of an antiquated hostility. The road
to the unity Of the English-speaking
races, with all that carries with 1t,
is no doubt long one, and we cannot
see the end of it. But 1t is an open
road, and an Irish Parliament, loyal
to the crown, and free to make the
best Of the Emerald Isle. is assuredly
the first milestone upon it.
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