The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-10-02
Tay

Written by the late lamented Father
Phelan, editor of the Western Watch.
man.
Won't somebody tell Tay Pay he is
wasting his wind? He is not influence
ing Irish opinion in America. True,
Irishmen love laugh. But Tay Pays
effort to make glorious victories out
of British defeat is extravagant hui
NOR.
Tay Pay was once q Fenian sympa-
thizer; but he is converted. He be-
lieves in jails and redcoats and police.
men and the punishment of evildoers
and the British Empire presiding over
the operation. He has seen great
light. Oh! the foolishness Of those
youthful excuses when men sang "A
Nation Once Again" and "Who Fears
to Speak of Ninety-eight!
Home Rule Protected by British eayo-
nets and Buckshot.
Tay Pay is an advocate of Homo
Rule for Ireland. but such Home Rule
as is consistent with the revised au-
thorized views of an adopted English
man of conservative habits, such
Home Rule as it will not hurt Ireland
to carry around-such Home Rule, in
fact, as that excellent stepmother,
the British Constitution, will keep her
eye on and protect from all harm with
good British bayonets and buckshot.
Tay Pay has tried very hard to be
useful to the British Empire. He has
encouraged his former countrymen to
recruit. He has sent buoyant mes.
sages across the Atlantic when Eng
land was glum. He has kept us in
formed about the good points of Bonar
Law, and above the feverish enthu-
siasm in ireland over the attitude of
Mr.. Redmond, and about the almost
miraculous tact, energy, diplomacy
and craftsmanship of his friend Mr..
Asquith, and about the deadly deter
mination of the British bulldog, and
| about the hilarious fashion in which
Tommy Atkins enters the army; and
as to the harmonious union existing
between England and Ireland he has
boldly flung down the gauntlet with
the immortal challenge: Outs separa-
bit?
A Good stepson Of Great Britain.
Tay Pay has other claims upon the
gratitude of the British Empire. He
has been good stepson in the past,
albiet not always. The British EN-
pire signifies its appreciation by con-
ferring titles; SO it has given him a
title. 1t has called him "Tay Pay
a truly British compliment in which
the circumstances Of his early Irish
upbringing are delicately remem-
bered.
There are, however, in the epistles
of this ardent optimist certain things
that are hard to understand, as when
we discover in England the loving
protectress Of small nationalities and
the exponent of broad tolerance that
in this hour buries all unkindness, or
as when we find that her war is q
holy war, and that Irishmen are eager
to defend and to perpetuate the Brit
ish Empire. But when he tells us In
his latest message that England enter
tains IAN outwardly cold but inward
ly burning hatred" of Germany, we
think that Irishmen generally will un-
derstand what it is to be the object
of England's outward cold but inward
ly burning hatred. There is nothing
doubtful or obscure about the meaning
of that. Neither does it require illus
tration from books of history. The
manner in which England the other
day took to her heart of heart the
miscreants who threatened to rebel If
Orange ascendancy in Ireland were
interfered with is beautiful example
of what England really means when
she processes affection for Ireland.
For be it known England does love
the small nationalities: also the
King of the Cannibal Islands loves
little children.