The Irish standard., 1919-08-30
By x. c., in True Witness.

I'VE want no hyphenates In Amer.
ica!" That was the cry that arose
during the late war. 1t was dinned
from press and pulpit, morning, noon
and night, into the ears of all Amer
leans who we're born or whose parents
were born anywhere outside of the
United States.
We who belong to the great major
ity of the population of the United
States that drifted to American shores
since the year 1910 from Ireland, Ger
many. Bohemia, Poland, Scandinavia
and Italy, were insolently told that we
must drop the national appellation
that denoted our ancestry. We must
become Americanized, and cut out of
our hearts every natural affection for
our original home and kindred, and
wash from the tablets of memory the
history and traditions of our racial
stock.
The Enemies Of Washington.
There was one notable exception to
this general rule, and that was the
hyphenate who called himself a Brit.
ish-American. He was privileged. In
the days of the Revolution, very
large section of the New England
self-proclaimed founders and pre-.
servers of civil and religious liberty
were very loyal to King George and
the Government of Great Britain.
The real patriotic Americans, large
portion Of whom were of Irish blood,
called these Puritans loyalists Tories,
and in the vigorous language Of the
time bade them take themselves to
Hell or Halifax. The majority of
the Tories escaped hell, for the time
being and reached Halifax. A
few passed over to England, but most
of them settled in Canada, and to their
credit, being ignorant of such modern
moral and intellectual progressiveness
as divorce and birth control, they in
creased and multiplied.
They became known as United EN-
pire Loyalists, and monopolized every
i job in the gift of Canada's colonial
government. They were to Canada
what the Unionist gang in listers
northeast corner are to Ireland. Can
ada asked for Home Rule, and they
Iroared and threatened just as the Or
range faction does in northeast Ulster
If they were not permitted to govern
Canada, and hold down every job in
sight, the French Canadians would
persecute the poor Protestants of Can
ada, and the country would be taken
over by the United States.
! After many years of barren agita
tion, a rebellion quenched in blood
many executions, and imprisonments
without number, England reluctantly
conceded self-government to Canada
It brought Canada what self-govern
ment brings to every civilized people
the blessings Of progress and pros
perity. One of its beneficial effects
was the roofing out from their posi-
tions Of ascendancy the United EN-
pire Loyalists, who had been for gen
erations feeding on the public reve
nues.
A swarm of these descendants OF
original American Tories, finding the
new Dominion of Canada uncongenial
to their peculiar creed, settled in the
United States republic, which their
ancestors tried to strangle at its
birth.
Whenever you find man who pre-
tends that he cannot sleep at night
owing to his anxiety to save the coun
try from the control of the Vatican
and the Jesuits, trace up his genealogy
and in nine cases out of ten you will
find he came from Canada, whittier
his Tory ancestors were chased by
the Putnams, the Ethan Aliens, the
! Sullivans, the O'Briens and other New
England patriots when patriotism and
treason had the same meaning IN
America that they have in Ireland to
day.
An Insidious Propaganda To Under
mine America.
Using the same leverage Of theil
common religion, their common Ian
guage, and the absolutely false claim
i OF common h1OOd this ecrudascence