Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-30

/ you wouldn't DeieNe what IL IS
pullin' down papish cathedral and
gettin' paid for it,"
But your America very soon works
wonders with our Orangeman. A
militantly Irish and devotedly Cath
| ole organization, the State of Della
ware Ancient Order of Hibernians,
recently had the Orange grand mas
ter and his fellow officers of the Or
ange order as their guests Of honor
at the annual banquet. And the Off
GERS of the Hibernian order in Pitts
| burgh were the guests of the loyal
| Orange lodges of the Smoky City at
their 18th of July picnic. (For here
the reformed brethren consider ii
happier to commemorate King Will
| lam in hams and clans than in guns
and drums).
In the course of my last season
lecture tour over this country a Mr..
Sanderson (good nance, writing to
engage me for a lecture in Texan
city. where he had risen to promi-
nece. said For 1t will be pleasure
to me to greet you as a north of Ire
land man-even though we do not
dig with the same foot. / am from
Ballymena and have made my for
tune in the dried apple industry
here"
In reply l said it surprised me to
find a Ballymena man devottng his
life to the apple. What WAS the mat
ter with the orange? I told him that
as / was already six months from
home 1t would almost sound sweet
to a homesick papist to hear the
Pope cursed again. SO 1t would be
particular pleasure to me to
be with him. He answered me
promptly, with solemn north of
ireland gravity. assuring nae that
he had not cursed the Pope since
six months after he had left Bally-
mena, that he had no longer any love
for the orange above other fruits and
that he was now as good a home
ruler as was the Pope.
In the course of many lecture tours
over the United States 1 have found
that the American atmosphere has
the same effect on almost all Orange
men.
We have two types of Orangemen at
home-the indecent Belfast type, com
mon to Belfast and the corners of less
ambitious northern towns, and the de-
cent country type. The Belfast
Orangeman, who always realizes that
he is the bulwarl1 of the Protestant
faith, attends his church regularly
thrice in "a lifetime-at baptism. mar
riage and burial. In the cause of that
faith, which he leaves to the more
;eisured and less worthy to practise,
he is willing to sacrifice everything.
even life itself--his neighbours life of
course.
He is the man who in workman s
dress in the gallery of q theatre
raised down cabbages, curses and
aged eggs to the unfortunate fellow
who PLAYED the friar In one of
Shakespeare plays. He will I'M
questionably fight If home rule comes.
He will fight if anything comes. Or
he will fight if nothing comes. He'll
not use the Anticipated arms imported
from Italy, either. He's Il man whose
picture of heaven is pocketfull of
iron nuts, the shelter of side street
and a papist procession passing The
! ebellion he launches will last as long
as the supply of nuts, bolts, kidneys
and whiskey holds out.
The decent country Orangeman is
q very different type. He is warm
hearted, kindly, lmpulsive and fine
fellow in every way. Like all Orange
men. OF course, he right heartily
hates the Pope and when he gets Il
glass of whiskey tries hard TO make
his holiness. even as far off as Rome.
hear his opinion of him. He is very
human, however.
At the battle of Scarva," where
sham battle of the Boyne is fought
every June 10, and where King James
is annually slaughtered on the field
to satisfy the multitude and his fol-
lowers ANONYMOUSLY routed. it hap
rened once that a wag got hold of
King James and his officers just be
fore the battle, gave them a good
glass of VIII skey apiece and then sug-
gested that as they were such fine
looking fellows it was a mortal pity
they'd have to show the white feather
and run before the likes of Davy
Johnson cKing William and his
rabbe. On that day history was
gloriously given the lie King Will
lam and his Dutchmen flew SO fast
and far that had Sieve Donard not
stopped them they wouldn't have
halted TIL they We're in Holland.
The country Orangemen hates the
Pope and poetry, to be sure, and at
tends tay parties tbunworries) several
times every winter to prove 1t. The
tay party is the Orangeman's strong
est weakness. In America I was
asked many times whether the Or
angeman would fight. knowing the
Orangeman as | do, the question al
ways provoked my explosive laughter
But | have this to say, that il there
should arise a contingency that would
either push or pull the country Or
angeman to the field of glory / would
engage single-handed to capture the
whole army-privates, colonies, gem
erals, bag and baggage, arms and
ammunltion-if you gave me the use
of country schoolhouse by the gate
Of b. hlf al
tea and a trainload of buns with
plenty of currants in them. The re-
suit would be not rout, but de-
bac!c.
Among the arguments put forward
by those who disputed the claim of
the non-Catholic portion of northern
ireland to monopoly of Ireland's
thrift and prosperity | haven't vet
seen this one, which settles the mat
ter. The north of Ireland Catholics.
who were driven to the mountains
and barren moors that King Jamies
countrymen might fatten ON the rich
loans and holms, are today at a most
astounding rate walking into their
own again-galloping into it rather.
Derry, where about 150 years ago a
Catholic dared not be found after cur
few, is today half Catholic. The
thrifty and prosperous Protestant
farmer and country gentleman is and
has been melting away at a most
alarming rate during the last gem
Grafton or so, while the shiftless,
thriftless Irish has been purchasing
his fine houses and broad lands with
red gold, which, though probably sup
piled by the Pope, is found most ac-
ceptable. The Catholic is coming
down from the mountains and coming
back from the moors and CONNER
cially and agriculturally is displacing
the once wealthy and scornful Scotch
irishman, so-called.
] have never yet seen this argu-
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