The Irish standard., 1888-06-02
MEETINGS IN IRELAND.

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THE IRISH STANDARD has already
expressed it's own opinion upon this
burning topic of the day but in addition
to the able and conservative address OF
Michael Davitt at Liverpool, which is
reproduced on our first page, we consid-
er it our duty to furnish Our readers
with the following utterances of the
Irish leaders, as cleaned from the New
Y ork dailies:
Tim Healy in q speech at Waterford
twiJted the Pope with working his own
Plan of Campaign when the Sardinians
grabbed his territory and with boycott
ing Victor Emanuel.
immense meetings were held last
Sunday throughout Ireland to endorse
the resolutions Of the Irish Catholic
members of Parliament on the Papal
rescript. William O. Brien, NJ. P, ad~
dressed the enthusiastic assemblage in
Limerick. The meeting took place not
withstanding the letter Bishop
O'Dwyer of Limerick addressed to the
Mayor, characterizing the agitation as
one directed against the Pope. The
clergy, however, were absent, bat sew
eral sent letters of apology and SYM
pathy. Resolutions indorsing those Of
the Irish Catholic members were adopt
ed. William O'Brien, of Limerick,
charged Bishop O'DwYer with supply
ing copies of his manifesto to every
Orange newspaper and with not send
ing a copy to the Mayor, to whom the
manifesto was nominally addressed and
who discovered it in the newspapers.
Mr.. O'Brien declared that there never
was anything falser titan Bishop
O'Dwyer's assertion that the National
lists were agitating against the Pope.
In Kildare Mr.. Dillon addressed
a monster meeting. The clergy were
absent, but letters of sympathy were
read. Mr.. Dillon condemned the letter
of Bishop O'Dwyer. and said that with
the exception of Bishop O'Dwyer, and
perhaps one or two other Bishops, the
hierarchy of Ireland were with the peo-
pie in their great struggle. He claimed
for the Irish people the greatest free
dom for their political action. They
would take their religion from Rome
but not their politics. AT a National
League meeting in Bray Sunday MIR.
Michael Divitt said: "Irish Catholic
laymen are no more bound by the Pope's
views or decisions outside of purely
doctrinal matters than they are by the
views or command of any other foreign
potentate, and the day on which they
would be cowardly enough to submit
to far worse kind Of political subser-
yiency than that against which we are
fighting in Our national movement we
would write ourselves down before the
self governed nations of the world as
being too slayish in disposition to
merit the enjoyment of liberty and too
recreant to the independent spirit Of
our political ancestors to be worthy Of
anything else but the contempt Of free
men," AT Waterford, Wexford, and
Clonmel meetings were also heldSunday
aud the resolutions indorsing the Irish
members adopted.
The special correspondent of the
Freeman wires from Rome under date
Of last Saturday night: Ellis Grace
the Archbishop Of Dublin left Rome
this afternoon on his return journey to
ireland. His Grace looked in good
health and spirits, Notwithstanding the
labor and anxiety through which he
has passed for the last three or four
months. A. large number of friends
had assembled at the railway station to
bid his Grace an affectionate farewell
and to wish him safe and happy re-
turn to his flock His Grace will make
some stops upon the way, but expects to
be in Dublin in the course of four
weeks.''