The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-09-25

quadrupled the population of this
island upon which England insisted on
keeping her claws.
The following figures, certified by
the government OF England, show the
number of male inhabitants in Ireland
seventy years ago and now:
Ulster (1S4), l,lS6,19o; Ulster
Q91D, 77O,S62. Munster (1s41), L.
2os,971; Munster u911), $4,000.
Leinster (1s41), s6S,747; Leinster
(191D, 5S2,967. Connacht QS41), 7O7,-
842; Connacht (19lD, 312,OS9.
From this the seditiously inclined
and all who have, to the insecurity of
English rule in Ireland, learned the
first four rules OF arithmetic will be
able to deduce that it has been neces-
sary to the English government in Ire
land to destroy more than one-third of
the men in Ulster and Leinster, and
more than half of the men of Munster
and Connacht during seventy years of
peace.
Imagine Mr.. Ponsonby permitted to
sell this information while recruits for
the Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Leinster
Regiment, the Munster Fusiliers and
the Connacht Rangers are urgently
needed to sustain the power that has
swept four of every eleven Ulstermen,
four of every nine Leinstermen, four
of every seven Connachtmen, and
seven of every twelve Munstermen out
of Ireland.
We CLEAN from Mr.. Ponsonby and
Mr.. Ponsonby's predecessor in the
Blue Book publishing line that these
Irish refugees, for whom no England
and no West Britain wept, fled from
the flag which Irishmen are now ap-
pealed to to uphold. From the period
of the Union until that of the artifi-
ical famine, IS per cent Of the Irish
who went into exile chose to go to the
British colonies-only per cent of
them making for the United States.
The Triumph of the Flag over Ireland
from 1841 EDWARDS revolutionized the
mind of the Irish emigrant. He fled
to the United States to get away from
it, fact which has had some bearing
on it's fortunes.
Ulster, which our truthful neighbor
has always represented as the good,
pious law-abiding, pro- English party
of Ireland, and, consequently, as riot
ing in progress and prosperity, had in
1841, just 2,227,152 people on its soil.
In 1911 it had 1,5S2,S26. 1t is calcu-
lated to breed sedition in Ulster to
permit Mr.. Ponsonby to retail official
returns to this effect across his re-
spectacle counter. Some day, despite
the Ulster Unionist Council and the
Belfast Press, the Orangeman will get
to hear about itEhnd begin to think.
And the effort to dissipate the dawn
of reason in the Orange mind by as
surfing it that after all it was only the
Papists who were exterminated will be
seriously hampered by the injudicious
disclosures in these Ponsonby Blue
Books. Happily for England there was
no religious census of Ireland taken in
1S41, but we discover these figures for
1884:
Irish Protestant Episcopalians
(1S34), $4,000; Irish Protestant Epis-
copalians u9lD, 576,611. Actually
missing, 275,453.
Irish Presbyterians (1s34), 642.356;
Irish Presbyterians Q91D, 440,525.
Actually missing, 201,731.
1t was essential to England to wipe
out one-third Of the Episcopalians and
one-third of the Presbyterians as we'll
as Onehalf of the Irish Catholics in
the lifetime of the old men amongst
us. One out of every three Irish Prot
estants have been in the last seventy
years extinguished from his country by
English legislation. To make ONE
lettes one must break eggs. The fact
that the number of Professionals in Eng
land has nearly trebled IN the same pc
riod Is one that we submit to the Eng
lish authorities in this country, is like
ly to make Irish Protestants reflect if
they are allowed to realize it. And
we know of nothing more dangerous
to the security of English government
in Ireland than that the people of Ire
land should be induced to reflect. For
years the parliamentary party has,
with superhuman devotion to the
cause of the Loaves and Fishes, gal
lantly succeeded in preventing them
from indulging in any reflection on
their countrys position. But now
there is daily increasing danger
through MIR. Ponsonby.
For instance. an Episcopalian school
boy, getting hold of the census returns
and the 1884 figures, might work out
that the number of Episcopalians in
Ireland today should be 1,550,0OO and,
finding that instead the number is but
$4,000. start furiously rejecting as to
the wherefore and the why of the dis
appearance. Or a Presbyterian stu.
dent of divinity, coming across the
pernicious Blue Book, might extract
therefrom in one minutes arithmetical
calculation that the sum total of the
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