The Irish standard., 1915-09-01
THE IRISH STANDARD

by and still Home Rule seems as re-
mote as ever. Some of us thought
that a miserable few Orange bigots
in the north of Ireland should not be
allowed to hold back Home Rule
Some years before the war we
thought that this very act on the part
of England did not bode we'll for the
future of Home Rule, but we were
told to hush up, that we did not know
what we were talking about. Time
passes and in the formation of the new
English ministry we see the traitor
Carson, the man who threatened a
revolution if Catholic Ireland was
given Home Rule, given a prominent
post in the new ministry, and still we
are told we must keep silent. We
must keep silent in the face of the
fact that our people at home are on
the verge of starvation, with prices
of provisions trebled and quadrupled,
and the young men thrown out of
their positions daily so that they may,
all the more readily, face the only al
tentative left to them and join the
English Army. We must keep silent
when our dear mother country is fac
ing years of high taxation caused by
a war with which she has nothing to
do; we must keep silent while some
of Our people at home and
abroad want to hand over dear Dark
Rosaleen our greatest sorrow, our
greatest joy, and our greatest pride to
a nation that has grown great not on
her own prowess and bravery but on
the proves and bravery of her colo
mics.
Is it generally known among our
people here that the recruiting SER
geant in Ireland today was never
more active, and never more pernic-
ious in the means he puts forth to
entrap our poor deluded Irish youths?
We need not go back to the past for
grievances, we have plenty of them
today; we need not weep for the con-
dition of Belgium nor be lead away
with the English made slogan Ere
venge Louvain." Our own country
is more in need of defence today than
she ever was. Let us not be led astray
by English censored press dispatches
or syndicate letters from the pens of
renegade Irishmen who have sold
their birth-right for the mess of pot
tage. There are many young men
coming from Ireland at the present
time whose people would rather see
them dead than don the uniform of
an English soldier, and who are being
sent out here to escape the coming
CONSUMPTION. These young men will
tell a different story of conditions in
Ireland today where freedom of
speech and act is only name. The
writer receives letters from the old
land regularly. They tell far diff
ferent story than the story told by
syndicate writer's. We are told that
the Catholic Church has more free
dom under British rule than under any
other; this may be true as admins
tered any other place excepting Ire
land. A great many, no doubt, will
be surprised to know that the Penal
Code is still in existence in Ireland,
proof of this will be found on page
81 of a little booklet called the "Crim-
inal History of England" by Patrick
Ford, the late editor and founder of
the Irish World of New York. 1t is
there stated that as late as 1913 GER
tain rich man in Cork died and left
quite sum of money to the Cister-
clan Monastery at Mt. Mel1arey in
the County of Waterford. The courts
ruled that the monastery was not en-
titled to the bequest as the Penal
Code was still in existence in Ireland
which prevented any one from leav-
ing money to Catholic institution.
I will be asked, what has all this
to do with the hyphen? 1 hold no
brief to defend any hyphen except
ing my own, and why l crossed the