The Irish standard., 1888-06-02

+. ter Of politics. (Applause). Now
was here that their grievance came il
; from his point of view, and it was tn
public and political character given t.
the communication, presumably in
tended to serve a. nonpolitical purpose
which justified and demanded free dis
cuasion Of its tendency and ultimate eff
feet. (Applause). He had 81 very sin
cere conviction that The appearance q
this very same condemnation OF tht
Plan Of Campaign by Rome at this par
ticular time had added three months IL
John Dillon's sentence. (Shame). HE
did not say OR believe or imply thai il
was intended to have that effect, but he
knew something Of the mean, crawling
creatures who occupied the benches in
Ireland. (Applause) He knew how
ready they were to take q hint from any
quarter whence they thought influence
could be exercised upon the minds of
the Irish people, and he believed that
the magistrates who tried John Dillon
gave him that severe sentence Simply
because they felt that they would curry
favor with and give satisfaction to those
that had issued the edict against the
Plan OF Campaign. (5ha.ne). He would
prove AMI show why he had come to
that belief. Mr.. VIM. OBrien had re.
Gently been tried for the second time
for the high crime and misdemeanour
|tlaughter) Of preaching the principle OF
the Plan Of Campaign and daring to ads~
dress a public meeting: and yet, al
though that was his second offence, and
although he had proved himself in legal
language to be hardened criminal
Qaughter), he received but three months.
Yet they would admit that he had ad
yocated and worked for and pushed the
Plan OF Campaign with ability as great
anG energy as powerful as even Mr..
Dillon himself had done. {Applausel.
Possibly the reason was that Mr.. Dill
Ions trial came after the seeming yer
dict against him from Rome, and that
was the reason why the hard. hearted.
mean-n1inded magistrates .gbo tried
him had given this outrageous sentence.
tHear, hear). What he had said with
reference to this unfortunate rescript
did not point out the mischief which
might result from it. (Hear, hear) 1t
would be asked by many Irish National
ist Catholics why was this kind of hos
tility always reserved for Irish Nation
alists and Irish National movements?
(I{ear, hear.) He had never beard of a
lescript being issued against coercion,
cloud applause). He had never heard
that Cardinal Monaco had ever ad-
dressed letter or q document to the
English Government protesting against
the crime of eviction. (Hear, iiear).
He had yet to learn that their Church
dignitaries who were i2rdonahly anx.
ious about the morals Of the Irish people
had addressed any remonstrance to the
Irish Catholic landlords about the
crimes and scandals they had commit
ted in robbing the poor Catholics of Ire
land Of their homes. their earnings, and
their chances of livelihood. (Applause)
The poor, they supposed ought to be the
special object of the Church's care
| (hear, hear), yet the poor in Ireland
could be robbed OF their homes, their
earnings; they could be shot down Like
dogs as in Mitche|stown; priests like
Father McFadden could be sent ttt
prison for daring to stand by the rights
of Gods people; yet no rescript, nc
pronunciamento, no document came
from Rome indicting the authors OF
those crimes. (Hear, hear). They had
a right as Irish Catholics and he said
it with all respect-to ask the reason Of
what he called this partiality (hea.-
hear, and loud cheers). He thought
they we're entitled to something more
than these periodical attacks from
Rome. (Applause). Why, people un'
acquainted with Irish history Judging
only from rescripts like that OF
which he was speaking, would be
justified i'll coming to the conclusion
that the Irish people as nation were
hostile to the Catholic Church and the
Catholic taith-judging, as he said,
from the frequency of these attacks on
their political and national aspirations.
Were they opposed to the Catholic
Church ? cloud cries of :'no. .no.'0 II
they were opposed to the Catholic
Church where would be the Catholic
Church in England (''nowhere'). where
would be the Church in Scotland (''no-
where'), or in Wales (''nowhere"), or
| in America (''nowhere''), or in Aus
tralia ("nowhere''), or wherever the
English language is spoken (SNo-
WHEREBY He said the time had come
when Irish Natlonalists were justified
in addressing language of that kind to
those, whoever they might be, or how
eyer high their position, who seemed to
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