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Show . ; J - . QUEEN" VICTORIA'S VISIT TO IRELAND. The Aged Sovereign Is Accorded a Cordial Welcome by a People Who Have Been Cruelly and Shockingly Shocking-ly Persecuted by Her Government. CWritten for The Intermountain Catholic) Ireland is chivalrous. She always re-Fpor-ted womanhood. Therefore, it is ; not surprising that Victoria. Queen of England, should receive a cordial and respectful welcome on reaching the fc'iores of the Emerald isle. j John Henry Farnell. M. P. brother of the late Charles Stewart Pannell, is the city marshal of Dublin. In that apacity he has custody of the keys of the city. v,hi.-h were formally pit-sen t-r t-r 1 to the Queen on the occasion of the I if sertation of the corporation address. Properly, it was Pamell's duty to pre- I ' t the keys, but he notified the lord J .ayor that he must provide a deputy. I The iHsarer of the civic sword of Dub- 'n James F. Kg an, who was released -n-m p:-im four years ago, to which 1 had been sentenced for life for al-' al-' - d complicity in a dynamite plot; 1 ut a.s he was really a victim of the i-nts of the British government he -.'s i demanded relief from duty at the royal ceremonial. Mr. Egan is a man 'r high personal character, and Fpent ' f vc-ral years in New York, where he hfs many friends, both among Irish Nationalists and others. Egan refused 1" hand the, sword to th Queon. and in ' later to the public he explains his J osition a.s follows: "I will yield nothing to any Irish-ro'in Irish-ro'in in respect f"r the individuality of ''i- aged lady, but I cannot join in any ' - t of public courtesy toward the head "f a state which has tried me upon '-iH'-ges that were false and sent me to tuffej- for nine years in English dun-p.-ons the state that still marks r-T- wivh the degradation of a tickel-of-j- -tve man." It is over fifty years (just think of i J': a half century) since Her Gracious I i Ma. u sty last visited Ireland. Yet ev-fry ev-fry few months he found time to make htttie excursions into Frame and Italy; V to recreate herself on the Continent. j But poor old Ireland, with her hills j . and her valleys so green, of which the ipoet so sweotly sings, had no charm fi t her. Even the famished condition of the ' people, their awful suffering, shakled i with penal laws, aroused not her sym- pathy. , But when England needed soldiers, Fhe was glad to have the half-starved, S despised youth of Ire-land to join her I ranks in an unhoiy war. I And in recognition of this service of I Ireland to the Empire, Her Majesty 1 deigns ,to visit the little island and throw a few- flowers at the people. It's all very funny. While this official act of Quec-n Victoria Vic-toria may be considered condescending by come, yet the Irish people, the wond I ' ' ' over, will be all the mores intensified to gain what belongs to the fatherlands-freedom. fatherlands-freedom. The old fight is f?till on and "the entrenchment en-trenchment of liberty shall be the grove." INSULT THE SHAMROCK. Queen's Visit Regarded as an Insult to the Irish Race. Editor of Dublin Freeman's Journal: Sir The daily paper of March 8, 3 MO, informs me that the Queen intends to visit Ireland early next month. I learn, too, from the paper that it was in '49 that she first visited Ireland, and the paper says it m curious to recall re-call that "in those days as in thet? we had reason for trouble about matters of state." I learn, too, from the paper that the shamrock, the wearing of which has! hitherto been a punishable offense In the army, is now to be worn in the ranksi on, St. Patrick's Day in her Majesty's Irish regiments. I learn, too. from the paper that in order to place Ireland on a military equality with England and Scotland, her majesty majes-ty is pleased- to consider the advisabil-itv advisabil-itv of creating a new regiment, to be called' "The Lrish Guard," and another page of the sanie paper gives an an-alvstis an-alvstis of Buller's loss.es. THE IRISH SOLDIERS IN THE FRONT. THE ENGLISH IN THE REAR. The following is a nummary of the above list of losses in Natal among General Buller's forces between Feb. 16 a.nd 27: The; initial letters represent killed, wounded and missing: K. W. M. 3st Bn. R. Irish Fusiliers -ilt ITfi 22 1st Bn. Connaught Rangers 10 ins S 2d P.n. Roval Scots Fusiliers.. 17 62 2d Bn. Roval Dublin Fusiliers .. 14 t IS 2d .Bn. Roval Irish Fusiliers.... 11 fx 2 Rifle Brlcade 3 ."2 3 Kinar's Roval Rifles 1 2 2d Middlesex . 1 2d Somerset L. I 1 Cape Mounted Rifles 1 2d Bn. Roval Fusiliers 3 1st Bn. Welsh Fusiliers 1 8 1 1st Manchester Regiment 1 IT IS FROM IRELAND THAT ENGLAND ENG-LAND HOPES TO GET SOLDIERS SOL-DIERS TO DEFEND AND EXTEND EX-TEND HER EMPIRE. This lis-t. which is typical of all the lists of killed and wounded which have been published since the beginning of the war, seems to show that the English Eng-lish coldier is less prone to risk his life ort the battlefield than thv Irish and Scotch soldier, and tales from the Indian In-dian border point even more directly to an inequality in the bravery of Saxon and Celtic troops. But the Celtic Celt-ic troops have been decimated by Bqer bullets, and the places of the dead men have been filled. England's present need is great, never was England's need ho great as now, and in her great need she turns; to Ireland, and it is from Ireland she hopes to get her soldiers to defend and extend her commercial ENGLAND'S TRIUMPH MEANS THE USHERING IN OF A NEW VANDAL AGE. But the Irish people are not in sympathy sym-pathy with the materialistic idea which England is forcibly imposing upon Europe; Eu-rope; and. with the res of Europe, Ireland views with terror the coming of the new Vandal age now to begin when the "English Hag shall be the most valuable val-uable commercial asset in the world,' and all art and literature shall be blotted from the world, for man's inveterate in-veterate deisire of beauty is rising up everywhere in Europe against England. Eng-land. In Ireland the lead-ers of the extreme ex-treme Js'ationalists have advised the people against enlisting iu profane tM.tttt X ' - fi ' X I I : ' I X , ARCHRISHOP WALS1S vu&UU ARCHBISHOP WALSH, AT PRESENT IN ROME. FOUND THAT LORD MAYOR PILE HAD PUT HI8 NAME ON THE COMMITTEE OF DECORATIONS FOR THE QUEEN'S VISIT WITHOUT HIS ASSENT. THE-f f ARCHBISHOP TELEGRAPHED HIM THAT THIS WAS AN IMPERTINENCE, AND ORDERED ITS REMOV--f 4-AL. OTHER PUBLIC MEN WHOSE ASSENT PILE HAD ALSO ASSUMED DID LIKEWISE. Press Cablegram a From Dublin. a caus, and enlistment has greatly declined, if it has not practically ceased, in Ireland. Yet we hear of the creation of a new regiment to be called the Irish Guards! And we hear that an order has been issued commanding the shamrock shall be worn on St. Patrick's Day by all ranks in. Her Majesty's Ma-jesty's regiments! And. at the same, moment' we hear of Her Majesty's intention in-tention to visit Ireland after an absence ab-sence of fifty years. REDMOND'S "CHIVALROUS HOS- PITALITY." In the face of such circumstances as these it seems strange that Mr. Redmond Red-mond should have plighted the National Nation-al Party to receive the Queen, with "chivalrous hospitality." It seems to me that if we consider the 'military circumstances of the moment that he speaks of the reception we yhould give the Queen in somewhat exaggerated I terms. That England's aged and venerable ven-erable Queen will be received with po- ppMBppp! limn IUMWIHIHJJ1IIII.J JUIIIIIW I .J 11,11 1. I IIIIW.IJI i IHW ."P liteness. even by the Fenian Party,: goes without saying. Irishmen, have been noted as much for their chivalry i to women as for their bravery in bat- j tie, but it seeinif to me that I A CHILL POLITENESS IS THE EX- TENT OF OUR OBLIGATION TO ! THE QUEEN UNLESS WE DECIDE; TO FORGET THAT THE ENGLISH NATION STILL REFUSES US THE RIGHT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT, i AND IS STILL RESOLVED TO 1 MAINTAIN A FRAUDULENT 'TAXATION 'TAX-ATION AND MANY UNJUST LAWS. -, At some other moment the chivalry j of our race might enable us to remem- ber the admirable woman behind the !' Queen of an alien race, which has op- ; pressed and pillaged up, and which still oppresses and pillages us, and which still refuses us rights which it dare nor refuse to any of its1 colonies. But the reason of the Queen's visit is mandfest. If it were slightly disguised we might be tempted to forget, many things-things things-things which it would bo treason to 'forget for more than a moment: but the reason of the Queen's visit is clearly clear-ly political. VICTORIA COMES AS A RECRUIT-SERGEANT RECRUIT-SERGEANT TO IRELAND. She "comes to do the business which her recruiting sergeants have failed to do; she, comes with the "shilling" between be-tween her forefinger and thumb and a bag of shillings at her girdle. It will be contended that no such intention inspired inspir-ed her visit, maybe, but that is not our affair. Certain it is that if our leaders do not intervene the result will be disastrous dis-astrous to the national cause. The w-earlng of the shamrock, the creation of a regiment of Irish guards, above all, the presence of the queen in Ireland are undoubtedly bribes to Ireland to abandon the national for the imperialistic imperial-istic idea. "Whenever Ireland is united behind any man or any idea England comes with her hands full of bribes." THE COMMAND THAT THE IRISH I REGIMENTS SHAL LWEAR THE i SHAMROCK ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY IS SO EXTRAORDINARY AN IM-i IM-i PERTINENCE THAT THOSE WHO ! ADVISED THE QUEEN TO ISSUE 1 THE ORDER CANNOT KNOW THAT THE SHAMROCK IS AN EMBLEM ; WHICH CAi ONLY BE WORN BY ! IRISHMEN WHO BELIEVE THAT IRELAND IS A NATION WITH A ! SPLENDID DESTINY TO FULFILL. We are proud that the Irish soldier j faced death with less fear than did the j English soldier, but we have no voices I to cheer our few countrymen who will return from fighting to bring into bondage bond-age like ours a race so valiant as ours. Not. indeed, that such extreme measures meas-ures of bondage are thought necessary for the Boers. My daily paper says: 'It is not proposed to govern the Transvaal Trans-vaal as we govern Ireland; we shall grant them some such measure of self-government self-government as we grant to our colonies." colo-nies." And this in the same number of the paper that announces the sovereign's sover-eign's visit to Ireland. IRISH REGIMENTS MUST BE ORGANIZED OR-GANIZED TO SAVE ENGLAND'S RIDICULOUS EMPIRE FROM DESTRUCTION. DE-STRUCTION. But to come to the. point. England is plighted to the imperial idea: it has become her destiny as it became Napoleon's Na-poleon's after Aur.terlitz. There can he no turning back now. "Come what may," has become England's motto; and to carry on this idea to the world's end soldiers are England's need as they were Napoleon's. She needs soldiers to fill up the gaps that Boer bullets have made in Irish regiments. She is about to conquer the Transvaal and will need an army of at least 30.000 men to io!d it. They cry is "Soldiers more soldiers!" sol-diers!" But the English soldier is degenerate; de-generate; the lean hound hunts better than the fat. and the man who run? England's ridiculous Empire has sent the Que-.m to Ireland to recruit. The recruiting sergeant's mission is not in accordance with the Queen's age nor her desire, but she is possessed of such a high senr.e of sovereign duty that she bent herself to the state's emergency. IRELAND'S OPPORTUNITY NOW. We shall know in Ireland how to honor the fortitude of this woman without becoming the dupesvof our admiration. ad-miration. . The) Boer war and the need of Irish soldiers have given us an advantage ad-vantage in the game we are playing against England. Shall we be quick to at Westminster has failed to obtain-, seiize it? Parliamentary representation representa-tion at Wetmlnster has failed to obtain self-government from England: BUT IF EVERY IRISH LAD WILL FORSWEAR ENGLAND'S SHILLING, AND IF EVERY IRISH LEADER ND EVERY IRISH NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OR-GANIZATION WILL MAKE NON-ENLISTMENT NON-ENLISTMENT A UART OF THE IRISH IR-ISH PROPAGANDA WE SHALL BEGIN BE-GIN TO DIG IN THE CLAY OUT O WHICH THE FEET OF THE COLOSSUS COL-OSSUS ARE MADE. Our time is- surely now, and no shilling shil-ling should be found missing from a bag which hangs at the Queen's girdle. When England realize that the price of Irish eoldiers i-s National Government Govern-ment in College "Green the price w-ill be paid. By chill politeness we shall make this -clear to Her Majesty the time i" one for chill politeness, not for "chivalrous hospitality." There will be time enough for that when the purloined pur-loined millioris have been returned aud our parliament restored.' For the carrying carry-ing out of thifl scheme of chill politeness polite-ness others will be able to supply the details better than I. IT SHOULD BE MADE PLAIN TO VICTORIA THAT OUR NATIONAL RESOLVE TO SEPARATE OUR-, OUR-, SELVES FKU MENGLAND'S IX- i FLUENCE IS UNALTERABLE I have but one suggestion to offer. Turning again to my daily paper I learn that "when the Queen landed at the Cove of Cork the inhabitants, with one voice, invited her to change its name to Queenatown." It peema to me that it would be well if the inhabitants would now summon a meeting and decide de-cide with one voice to change the name of their harbor to whatever was its original Gaelic name. And it would ritill be more to the point if the Kingstown Kings-town corporation would quickly decide to brig back the old name Dun Leary, which commem.orared the name of an. Irish king, and which wa changed in 1813 to commemorate the name of an English king, of whom every one i ashamed. If th'.s be done, the first thing that will meet the Queen's) eye will be a significant sign of national restive to separate ourselves from English influence. in-fluence. I am, dear. sir. vmirs faithfully, GEORGE MOORE. 92 Victoria e-'treet. London, S. W. |