The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-11-20
The Dignity of Impudence

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the landlords, who sold their estates
sooner than submit to the power Of
the League"
Meanwhile, as setting to the COM
edy, Aberdeen himself, who was popu--
larly supposed to grow warts on his
neck so as to economic in collar
buttons, sold kittens at the Viceregal
lodge and picked up stray Jumps that
dropped from the carts delivering
coal, while he locked the carriers for
their inefficiency.
And still her ladyship talked. Her
effrontery was unabashed even When.
1t was charged that the Castle Jewels
had found their way into her family's
keeping more directly than the Crown
intended. But there was no matter
for surprise in this; she had preached.
good food, well-ventilated homes, free.
dom from overexertion as cures for
tuberculosis in Ireland, while she
knew that every cent of the salary
that her husband drew came from the
poverty of the people, She knew that
the exact correlative of every dinner
given by her to sycophants in Dublin.
Castle was starving family in q.
Dublin slum. She knew that a coun-.
try with a population of four and a.
half million, impoverished by English
rule, could not be healthy while it
paid her 100000 a year, and five
times as much more to the judges and
officials who guarantee her security,
1t may be that she selected San
Francisco in which to speak about
her work in Ireland, not because it is
5000 miles away from the scene Of
her activities, but because every meet
ing she held in Dublin was packed by
plain clothes policemen whose ex.
penses she wished to save the Irish
taxpayer, and every time she travelled
abroad not railway bridge, level
crossing or point of vantage along the
line on which she travelled, but held
uniformed policemen awaiting the
special reserved carriage in which
her ladyship prepared press inter.
views preparatory to curing the con-
sumptives. And these uniformed po-
licemen, who had previously got their
instructions by special code wire, had
also to have their expenses paid out
of the pockets of the poor, through
the medium of the Secret Service.
fund.
She outraged every Irish sentiment
by making her plant husband adopt
the title of Marquis of Tara, until even:
the English press protested against
this upstart insult to the proudest
traditions of the people on whom the.
Aberdeens lived, and suggested in de-
rision that the Aberdeen modesty
should not be shocked at adopting the.
title of Lord of Sinai.
She ruined the lace industry in the.
Irish converts, and all but finished
the work of her predecessors in ruin.
ing the Irish textile factories by sedu-
lously spreading abroad that Irish
products were the work of consump.
tives. and as such likely to carry con-
tagion. But, of course, her purpose
was good.
The salary she drew from Ireland
nearly twice as great as what the
President of the United States re-
ceives, $75,000-was jealousy boarded
for future use in Scotland, and if one
Independent judge were allowed to sit
on Dublin bench interested witnesses
would prove how Her Ladyship &C.
quires and restocks the Aberdeen
wardrobe.
In the Aberdeen train, theft, i'm.
morality, race suicide and suborned
justice have come to Ireland, and
parasitism and sycophancy
been propagated, all in the campaign
against disease which is more preva.
lent in Aberdeen's own country. and
which would be practically unknown
IN ireland but for the rule which the
Aberdeens represent.
But If Lady Aberdeen were a pure
souled and generous philanthropist.
instead of an impudent political soup.
er; II she were as sincere in her ef-
forts to help Ireland as she is treach-
erous with her own political friends:
II she sought to eradicate one Irish
evil instead of endeavoring to exploit
ireland in the interests of England:
1t she, who is contemptuous even of
the hmelight except it brings gold,
could for one moment get the least
altrufsm in her calculating and au-
oac1ous character, she would under
stand why now more than ever the
irish people say to her and to Eng
land:
Damn your concessions and YOUR
our country we want.
grown up sons and daughters, with
me shame attaching to families
through the fgnominy of divorce. To
advocate divorce is to advocate the