Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-26
ST. PArR1cK's DAY AT MENDOZA.
ADDRESS Delivered by N. Hagaertv. MarcI,
~. 1881.


ADDRESS Delivered by NJ. Hagaertv, MarcI,
II, 1881.
FELLOW CIrIzENs-We have assembled here
to-day to commemorate Ireland's patron saint,
and in no manner can the day be more beft-
tingly celebrated than to cooperate in further
ing the work which was conceived by the great
patriotic martyr, who is now the recipient of
English prison hospitality.
If you desire to form an idea of an English
prison life, read O'Donovan Rossa's prison
experience. What is an English prison? It's
an instrument of slow torture, h1thier than a
hog pen, and disgrace to any so-called civil.
lied nation; fabricated, as was the famine of
1S47, which spread its gloomy pail over the
land, and converted it into a vast sepulchre,
fabricated to goad the Irish into submission
and crush out their nationality, for political
prisoners, (who are Irishmen and no others, }
have to undergo process OF such refined
brutality as would bring the blush of shame to
the most despotic-ridden people in the world.
The history of the barbarous nations, be-
fore civilization extended her humanitarian In
fuence, can put forward no such revolving
parallel, and the only crime under heaven for
which they are shut out from the
light of liberty is their strong affection for
their fatherland.
humanity, 80 vilified and base, SO totally
destitute of the attributes of manhood as not
to feel the throb of prtriotism and nourish It's
sacred fire? It started into existence with the
creation. The prophets were imbued with it,
Daniel stood on an eminence which overtopped
the ancient city of Jerusalem and contemplat.
ing Its destruction wept over its ruins. 1t Is
universal religion which binds the con-
sciences of all alike. The patriot is unselfish
1r INN h,1f fha IN
who has no patriotism has no generous senti-
ments and is of no more use to society than
corpse.
The idea of forming land league was first
conceived by Michael Davitt. 1t has already
assumed large PROPORTIONS. Its spread is i'm
mense. It is tree whose branches span the
globe. Its inspiration has seized on the sym.
pathies of liberty.loving men everywhere and
enlisted them in its favor, and In no country
material aid, manifested itself more than in
the grand republic Of this broad land.
From ocean to ocean, enthusiastic meetings,
as though actuated by some magical agent,
suddenly sprung up, and resolutions were pas
sed sympathizing with the oppressed and
down.trodden. The trumpet of alarm was
sounded in the green isle, and its vibrating
echoes were waited to Columbia's hospitable
shores.
The home secretary for Ireland, apprehen-
sive of the extent the land league was assum-
ing and fearing that her majesty would be boy
cotted, redoubled his efforts as to organizing
the spy brotherhood, and by augmenting the
police and military forces turned the country in
to an armed camp. The government, from
fright or otherwise, was forced into labor,
and by the manipulating skill of the old mid
wife, Gladstone, brought forth the coercion
bill.
Some among you may not understand what
the coercion bill means. This abominable
bill passed through both houses of
parliament, needless to say by large major
tiles in each house, and under some of its pro.
visions those around whom the slightest sus-
picion of disloyalty gathers are torn away
from their families and cast into prison with
out trial, there to remain until it seems fit to
the judiciary hirelings of the government to
exer else this privilege, which remains dor
mant for seven years or more, in proportion
to the magnitude of the offense. 1t is com.
plete suspension of liberty.
Thank God we live in a country where
no such barbarous law would be tolerated;
where a man is esteemed as man.
where he can, on easy terms, acquire owner
ship of the land he cultivates and become alb
solute master thereof, to dispose of 1t as he
thinks proper, where universal suffrage, a
privilege which is guaranteed to citizens un-
der the constitution, elevates man to the dig
nifty of human being, and there are none who
should be more enthusiastic in uplifting their
voices in favor of such privilege than IIish-
American citizens, for reasons which are well
understood.
In quick succession after coercion came the
passage of the arms bill, the substance
of which is this: That subjects
who are not propped up by certificates from
two justices of the peace stating that they are
safe men to carry arms can have no license for
that purpose This bill was run through
probably in the interest of humanity, if mot
safe to carry arms" would imply that they
were unskilled and awkward in the manage
ment thereof and might, per hazard, shoot
themselves.
Landlordism is fruitful source of untold
woes and hardships to the peasant What is
this landlordism? 1t is an institution of the
feudal ages of an aristocratic bent, and prldes
itself on the remoteness of Its origin. Its
baneful influence is felt, especially in the hum
BILE home of the industrious tenant farmer.
Its voracious appetite absorbs the fruit of his
toll, crushes out his vitality (but never his ma.
tionality) deprives his agonized wife and help
less children of the means of subsistence,
holds them down with the leaden heel of op
preston and preys on their vitals.
Under the present system the tenant can
never become the owner of the soil he labors
in fee; it is just as possible for one of you to
turn the Mississippi back to its source, and
the bill which the government contemplates
introducing as to betterlng the land system in
Ireland is already doomed and will be defeated
by the "sleepy lords" who are themselves
members of the landlord fraternity.
There is no record in history showing that
Justice was praticed toward the Irish since
their country was first traitorously handed
over to the English government. Has any
one ever heard of such phenomenon? Read
the history of the siege Of Drogheda and its
surrender. Men, women and children num-
bering 10000. were ignominiously slaughtered.
They surrendered on condition of receiving
quarter, but were accorded none. The treaty
of Limerick was not sooner signed than its
provisions were riddled and trampled under
foot. Burke was the champion friend of
American rights in revolutionary times. The
moral force Of his eloquence was widespread,
nevertheless it was the superior military force
and the justice of their cause that achieved in
dependence for the Americans and wrung it
from their persistent foe, under the leadership
of the patriotic Washington.
Grattan and Curran in eloquent appeals
raised their voices in favor of their op-
pressed countrymen. They were the
guardians of their liberty in The Irish parlia-
ment, "watched over it from the cradle, and
accompanied its corpse to the grave" The
generous-souled Emmett was sacrificed to the
immortal ghouls at the altar of expiation,