The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-26

hear. il would like To- know then when thlsel 4
wi are served with an eiectmenlt f 2 Nj
rent after the election, what sort Iof an
excuse 1T will be for y ou VIII ether II
will be a good defence in the quarter
sessions court that You are al loyal a man a
llaughter) and in favor Of the 1ll ii Integrity
Of tie empire daughter and that YOU 1la
voted for Capt, Wax well renewed
laughter.) n
q Believe me, the landlords have not
given you anything that has not been
wrung from them by agitation, and
they never will They were asking for
the votes OF the farmers, but there is
not a small farmer in Tyrone that
would have a vote to day if the Tories
had their way. They could not stand !
the notion Of having one Of their own 2
small tenants OF laborers having az
much political power as they had them g
selves cheers They voJed tooth and and
nail against giving the new franchise
to the small farmers and iaborers5 OF
Tyrone. and now that yon have the
votes III spite Of them, they have tl 1.e
#audacity to ask the farmers votes TO
prop up landlo rdisna and 70 Cypress and an
impov erish the tillers for q tiRae longer
The landlords know right well That i y
they have not q leg to stand upon.
What is the substantial question at is
Ssue;2 1T is whether the tenant farmers a 2
Of Tyrone are OF are not satisfied with
their present rents and present condi-
ton lhear, hear, and cries of \ VIZ are
not.s' Very well, if you are not, are re
you satisfied to trust to Capt. Maxwell
and the landl ords, or are you, on the
other hand, going to trust your fortunes ?
to the party that has already brought
land lordism to it's knees? Loud cheers
Are you going to trust the party who
are perfectly independent Of English sn
parties and Of English ministers, and
whose business in ghe House Of Com p
mons is to exact the utmost farthing
and oppose every legitimate demand Of
the people. No, tha landlords know
well that upon the land question they
might IS well ask q flock Of sheep to
vote for being bntehered az TO ask the
tenant farmers of Tyrone to vote for gu
emergency man. Applause, Fhsy
know right well that they have never
done anything to deserve the gratitude
Of the farmers in the past OF to deserve
their votes id the future.
What is their gane2 They know they
cannot meet us on fair issues, and 50
they raise The miserable cry Of bisotFy
and the dishonest cry Of separation in
order to make you forget that You have
such things as rents to pay. This sec
tartan question which the landlords are
trying to raise is a clever and cunning
trick to odWink the honest farmers Of
the North Of Ireland ] know myself
how hard it is for any man to shake off
all at onee the Impressions that he has
formed from the siaae Of his childhood,
and do not expect that the rotestant
and Prespy terrain farmers should all at
once come over to ear side in politics.
u do not expect, at all events uatil the they y
know US better an!as until they q an
0;p, T rpt's ia ridiculous
are the ISLANDERS upon us and our prias
cipIss that are poured into their ears by
the. landlord and their lirelings. All I've
ask is that they judge rs, not by what
the landlords say of us, but by what they
see of us, and by what are the results oS
our movement. We can point to ten
thousand proofs that the passion OF
seetarian and religious bigotry is par
ticularly foreign to the Irish hsaft,
and that the Irish people abhor it. It
is sixty years since Catholic enaancipa-
ton was passed, and the worst enemy
Of the Catholics cannot say that where
they are in the overwhelming maj ority
they have been guilty of any act of
bigotry. a voice jeremiah Jordan.)
On the contrary, these are the very dis
tricts in which the. people are scrupu-
lousy careful not to offend against the
susceptibilities of others. Somebody
reminded me just now Of the name of
Jeremiah Jordan.
I happened to be at the Clare conyen-
ton, where there were as many as four
teen local candidates proposed. each
having substantial claims, but the mo-
nqent we mentioned that Mr.. Jordan
was Northern Protestant that mo-
ment The fourteen candidates, one after
the other, gave way, the whole conven-
ton gaye way and with one voice the
Protestant Nationalist from the North
was chosen as representative. loud
cheers; The same thing has taken
place fos the last foAr weeks at eonyela-
ton after convention in Munster, where
Protestants were selected unanimously
by the priests aud people. { dc not be-
1ieve that anyone who ever joined the
ranks of the people went back again or
had cause to regret it. Instead of a
disqualification being caused BY ones
being Protestant it was the brightest
feather in his cap. Go into any cabin
In she South of Ireland, and three-
fou1ths of the pictures on the wallis
were the portraits OF Protestant pa
triots from the days Of Grattan, and
Wolfe Tone and Robert Emmett loud
cheersl, down tosthe Frotest ant Charles
Stewart parnen. tCheers.a Protestant
patriots are the heroes and darlings Of
the Irish heart, It vas Protestant and