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Show THE CATHOLIC PRESS ON THE BOER WAR. i Up Spion Kop with 20,000 men Great Warren marched, and th?n marched down again. Boston Pilot, "What is the meaning of all those H's. lying around?" arked the king of Hades: " "this is not a Napoleonic palace, pal-ace, to be spangled with monograms." "Beg your majesty's pardon," said the First Lord Chamberlain, a deceased relative of Joseph of Birmingham: "the letters were dropped, by the las-t arrivals arriv-als from South Africa. There has been another English defeat there." Boston Pilot. ,$ We are pleased to note that the Irish parliamentary representation decided on the opening day of parliament to act together and to act as a unit in pressing their claims against the English Eng-lish parties. "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." This union of Irish forces will be one of the diili-culties diili-culties the English ministry must face. England is in the bog up to her ankles, an-kles, but she is in head first Cleveland Catholic Universe. t The real test of a soldier's physique 1st his power of enduring the fatigues and hardships of a campaign without losing his spirit. Some queer stories have leaked through regarding the utter ut-ter exhaustion of some of the English regiments after a few hours.' fighting under a hot sun. These stories must have been unpleasant reading for the English public. That there are men in England who are physically a match for the Boers we don't deny; but these men, for the most part, are not in the army. Will they go into the army now, or will they be made to?--Ch!cago New World. Patrick Ford in the Irish World pays: English 1-ecruiting sergeants and apologists apol-ogists affect to wonder why the Irish people should curse and deride England in this her hour of sorrow. They wonder won-der more to note that the Irish, a Catholic Cath-olic people, should sympathize so ardently ar-dently with the Boers, who are Protestants, Protest-ants, and who, s alleged, persecute our co-religionists and deny thern all civil and political rights. The charge against the Boers is not true in the sense the EngKsh apologists would have it understood, un-derstood, 'and if it were true it would not be relevant. What Protestant government gov-ernment in the world has not persecuted perse-cuted Catholics? In what country in the world today, where Protestants' are in a majority, do Catholics in all respects re-spects share to the full in the righta' ind. privileges enjoyed by Protestants? There is none. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Den-mark, Germany and England are in evidence? In all those countries Catholics Cath-olics have been persecuted. In all those countries there exist today restrictive laws affecting the equal rights of Catholics. Cath-olics. And the same is true of America. Of the thirteen original colonies there was ! only one colony that granted full religious re-ligious and political rights to all its citizens, and that colony was Catholic Maryland. Catholic Maryland was the one and only home of reiigious liberty then in the land. The persecuted Episcopalian Epis-copalian fled from the intolerance of Protestant Massachusetts, and the outlawed out-lawed Puritan fled from the intolerance of Protestant Virginia. Both found shsl- tpr nrvr? frpfrlnm t r evprricp tiipii- rliffpr- ent religious opinions under the Catholics' Cath-olics' roof. But the Protestant refugees, like the snake in the fable, when they were made warm and grew strong and lusty, stung the hand that saved them. They demolished Liberty Hall, repealed the laws granting equal religious rights to all, put double taxes on Catholics, excluded them from all civil and political politi-cal offices, and made Protestantism the legal religion of the colony. Needless to say, all the other colonies were run on the same Protestant and anti-Catholic plan. John V. Twerty in the Chicago Citizen Citi-zen : General Buller is new the test whipped man in the world; but he is egotistical enough to think of "trying it again" that 5.3 to capture a ko-pjie "by surprise," and find the Boer suna so trained upon it that their cannon- J eers can shoot just aa we'll in the dark j as by daylight. England, for the last j t'hree months, has drunk the cup cf i military humiliation to the dregs. Division Di-vision after divieicn left London, and sailed from Fortsmuoth. amid roar.s of acclamation from the English -masses. The defeat and death of General Sy-mons Sy-mons is now an old storv; so also -3 the headlcng flight, eans- bagg'age and "kit" of General Yule from Gieneoe tj Ladysmith. The world hasn't forgotten forgot-ten Sir George White's. . losis of two battalions at the beginning cf the long eiege which, it must be admitted, has manfully maintained, a.s becc.mea a brave, but misguided, ."cicn of "the warrior race." Whether White escapes or is made prisoner, he has ceriainUr j maintained the honor of his arms. which is more than can be said cf other British commanders, including Me-thuen Me-thuen and Buller. Both of the latter ha.ve acted like madmen under the sting of defeat. Gatacre has never showed! his head rfnee his first cra ving reverse; and. French would seem to have become demoralized, in spite of his partial succet.-e.n at the outlet. The only BritMi officer, beiside White, Who has mada a record is Badcn-Pvv-ell, at Maf eking, who seerr.a to be a devil-may-care sort of chap, quite of the Harry Lorrequer cr Jack Hinton style. We admire a good soldier, no matter what army he may fight in, and eo, evidently, docs the Boer officer, who sent Colonel Powell the following message, mes-sage, enclosed 'In a shell: "Dar Powell: Pleaee don't drink all the whisky in your quarters. Leave some for us when we get in." |