The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-10

stituencies, so as 70 provide a safeguard for the
preservation OF the country, too. We require
sagacious and upright men, without whom the
party, instead of winning tho national battle,
would run very greet risk of losing it.
shall now go further q little. / have already
spoken of the past and of the immediate future.
and shall ask you to accompany me for a
moment to a little beyond that, to time when
Ireland, having prudently and sagaciousy Sc
Iected her eighty or eighty five representatives,
shall have sent them over to the battle. and, as
We all hope and believe, the final battle What
Will be the new Programmed 1t has been the
custom to include a number of measures IN
addition to the great measure of all, the restora-
ton OF an Irish parliament the concession OF
legislative independence. We have had resolu-
tons about land acts, franchise acts, municipal
acts laborers acts, and so forth, ali pointing 10
the belief In our minds, as those who are pri-
marty responsible for the drafting of our
programme, that it would be necessary for us to
pay attention as we'll to remedial measures-in
TACT, that there would be time to pay attention
to remedial measures before winning the final,
and great, and ultimate measure of all. AL
| though that cannot be described as putting the
cart before the horse yet hope that it may not
be necessary for US in tho parliament to
devote our attention to subsidiary measures, and
that it may be possih'- a.
, --dmme and q platform with only one plank.
ana that one the plank Of national indie
pendence. feel convinced, comrades that our
great work and our sole work in the new Parlia-
ment VIII be the restoration of our own Parlia-
ment. And when we have obtained IT, what
VIII be its functions and what will be its
powersl We shall require our new Parliament
to do those things which we have been asking
the British Parliament co do for us. We shall
require them to develope the Healy cause of
the land act; to abolish evctions, landlord op-
preston and rack-rentng to make every tenant
farmer the owner of his holding upon fair terms
we shall require that power to do this shall be
given to our Parliament. We shall require our
new Parliament to secure to the laborers a
share in the heritage of the land and
comfortable homes. We shall not then have
to depend upon the hating action
OF ex oficio boards of guardians. We shall re-
quire our own Parliament to build up the indus
tries OF Ireland; to see that not only the agri-
cultural laborers, but the artisans, the working
men, and the mechanics of the towns shall be
enabled to live, and thereby we shall endeavor
to keep our own people at home, to afford profit
able employment, to look after the educational
interest of the youth of Ireland and to train
them up in the way they should go, both from a
religious and national point of view. We have
therefor e, a great work before u.s. both in the
English House OF Commons, for awhile, and also
in the Irish Chamber, and I hope that we shall
not have a House Of Lords to cumber u.s. But
undoubtedly at this time are entering upon a
most important and serious part of our mission
because 1t is a most critical part. May the next
party contain. if possible, still greater elements
vi enersy, sagaclCV, honesty ana courage as that
which fought through the epoch which has just
expired May find colleagues as generous to
Their leader and as loyal to each other But it
is the people of Ireland whom the result of
this struggle generally depends
believe the next body of Irish members sent
to Westminster will be we'll chosen; that they
will fight, and that they will win their battle, SO
far as they can win it. But it is undoubtedly
upon our people at home that the main burden
rests. 1t is they, and they alone who can now
defeat the Irish cause. If they maintain the
fixity of purpose and the union of the last FIVE
years no power on earth can resist them. I
confide in the judgment and in the patriotism of
our people. and In the new electorate believe
they will net be found wanting; that the great
masses now brought within the constitution will
do their duty to the fullest extent. therefore
feel assured that the next Irish party that will
be assembled will be the last in the English and
the first In the restored Irish Parliament. Loud
chaar9 /