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Show "THE BAD DROP." "James McKinley, a Perthshire Scotchman, went to Ireland in 1691 as a soldier in William of Orange's army. He fought in the battle of the Boyne and afterward settled in Ulster on confiscated con-fiscated land. His son, David McKinley, McKin-ley, was born in Ulster, but at a comparatively com-paratively early age came to America. This David McKinley was the great-great-grandfather of President McKinley." McKin-ley." Commenting on the above quotation from the New York Sun, the Irish World rises to remark that William of Washington has the same "bad drop in him" as had his namesake of Or-ang9. Or-ang9. Four years ago Mr. Ford, the editor, held an entirely different opinion. opin-ion. He had the blood of Mr. McKinley- analyzed and the analysis showed to the readers of the Irish World that it was the genuine simon-pure, aristocratic aristo-cratic blue of Ireland. But that was at a time when the poor working man was threatened with having his "dollar reduced to a fifty-cent valuation," and as Mr. Ford is not only the Irish World, but the American Industrial Liberator as well, he could not stand for that Accordingly, he supported Mr. McKinley, while the Freeman's Journal, which he also controls, endorsed en-dorsed the candidacy of Mr. Bryan. A change, however, has come over the spirit of the great Irish editor's dreams, and he thinks that William McKinley is just about statesman enough to be master of an Orange lodge in Belfast, and, he adds, had the family remained in Ireland that would be about the job he would be "holding down" today, "one of the rank and file who amuse themselves so frequently fre-quently by cursing the Pope, wrecking Catholic churches and insulting and assaulting Catholic priests and nuns." Mr. Ford continues: "But, though William's ancestry did not give him the chance of taking a hand in such con genial work in Ireland, he has not been altogether shut out from opportunities in a similar line. What William of Orange and the Plundering Scotch Mc-Kinleys Mc-Kinleys who followed him did in Ireland, Ire-land, William of the White House and his Anglo-Saxon supporters are doing today in the Philippine islands robbing rob-bing and slaughtering Catholics guilty of no crime but fighting for freedom of their native land, while in the good, old Belfast Orange style and spirt he (McKinley) has carefully excluded Catholics from the "Americans" sent officially to Cuba and Porto Rico both Catholic countries. "This, of course, is natural enough. McKinley of the White House is a worthy wor-thy descendant of James the robber of two centuries ago, who helped to rob the Catholics of Ulster, and took his share of the swag. William of Washington Wash-ington is true to his ancestry. The bad drop is in him." |