The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-04-27
Perfidy and Mendacity
In High Quarters
Home Rule Situation in ireland and
Austrian Emperor's Letter Show
That Lying Pervades Seats of the
Mighty.
cOSTERMoNGER CRAFTSMANSHIP
OF BRITAIN WILL LEAD
TO TROUBLE.
clemenceau Applies Short, Ugly Word
To Emperor Charles Of
Austria.

(From Catholic Standard and Times
The fiend that "lies like TRUTH" the
demon who gives the word of promise
to the ear, to break it to the hope
that particular devil, Mephistopheles,
he is called by Goethe-would seem
to be the presiding genie at the Cab.
met Councils of the British Scratch
Government called the Coalition ever
since it was indicted into office, and to
inspire its action. Does the British
Government desire to go down into his
tory with the same degree of obloquy
as the kaiser's? Shall it carry on the
name which Napoleon Bonaparte fast
ened to it's predecessors a hundred
years ago-"perfidious Albiorl?" It
makes solemn treaty with it's tor
tured victim - the Poland of the
Seas" the Niobe of nations, depop-
ulated, disensanguined ireland and
then hangs it up to dry" on the Off
chance, seemingly, that some lucky
spoke may be driven into Fortunes
wheel, as it spins down the hill of
Time, to favor the chicanery and So
phistry of Ministers. The game now
about to be tried is not new to the
students Of international history. 1t
is the refinement of sardonic cynicism.
10 offer concession of penitence, in
the shape of measure of justice, on
the one hand, and with the other a
measure of iniquity, in the shape of a
Coercion Act.
Costermonger Craftsmanship.
Such was the beginning of "Con-
Citation for Ireland" when Glad
stones extinction of the Protestant
Establishment" in Ireland provoked
an emeute among Irish Professionals
and rush among them to get up q
Protestant Home Rule Association as
token of the quality of the loyalty"
of which they had been constantly
boasting since the passing of Pitts Act
of Union. AS Asquith broke his pledge
on Home Rule by his surrender to
the Colonels who declined to lead
their troops against the Ulster gun
runners, while the Irish Nationalists
who tried the same game were shot
down in Dublin streets, so Lloyd
George, in the shameless betrayal per-
petrated in the face of the whole
world, was answered by a meteoric
uprising of indignant young literary
men, which was instantly stamped out
in blood in the streets Of Dublin, and
by the Imprisonment of hundreds of
others and trials by court-martial and
deportation of many others to English
prisons. This uprising deliberately
and cold-bloodedly caused by the alb
solute REIMBURSEMENT of duty by the
"faineant" Government, in regard to
the "Colonels" and the Ulster rebels,
the "loyalists," as they boosted they
were), is utilized by cynical maligners
here, among us, to prove the charge
that 1rishmen are constitutionally I'M
fitted to govern their own country, so
quarrelsome is their natural DISPOSE
ton. Now, as a means of securing
their physical aid in the field the pros
pect of Home Rule Government is
again dangled before their eyes, &C.
companied by CONSUMPTION Law
right away. We have stigmatized the
craftsmanship" which tries to bam-
boozle high-spirited nation and peo-
pie with such despicable lures as of
the Costermonger variety or the "old
clo'" sort. It is in our opinion unfit
for decent national men and women,
or any place outside of Bedlam. ( So
much for one "Seat of the Mighty"
now for the second.
clemenceau Applies Short Ugly Word
to Emperor Charles.
Two Emperors-"Arcades ambo"
(despots both) are before the whole
world as duellists with rapiers and