The Irish standard., 1888-06-02
TRANSATLANTIC NO MORE:
The Irish Worlds Famous Correspond
ent Has Gone to Join the
Great Majority.
fH0S. MOONEY, THE HISTORIAN.
His Efforts and Struggles On Behalf OF
HIS Down trodden Couu-
trymen.

HIS Down t1odden Coun-
trymen.
The irish World Of May 26 contains
the following concerning the Death O
Trans Atlantic"
On the third Of this month OF May. il
the town Deppe, in France, our reveree
correspondent, Trans Atlantic, - in ths
Goth year Of his age ended his earthly
career.
Ninety years ago! That brings US back
to che tin.e when George Washington
was President Of this Repnblic and
Thomas Jefferson WAS Secretary OF
State, when Napoleon Bouaparte was
First CoIAsul OF France, when Robert
Emmett was yet Il college student, and
TEN Moore and Lord EYron were hardly
known in literature.
Many and great changes have since
swe,,t over the face Of the world. The
long struggle Tor Irish liberty has taken
on various phases Glattan and tie
Irish Parliament, O'Connell, the Men
OF as, the h'enians, Butt. AND Parnell,
all-ail but the last--have come and
gone. In the lifetime OF Trans AT
lantlc" the population Of Ireland has
risen from Eve million 10 eight million
and raore and fallen again to FIVE mil
lion ard less. But amid all the changes
"Iraus. A. tlantic" ever remained true
to the cause ct ireland. He travelled
the world round, but wherever he went
he was always al, Irisofnan.
Perhaps 10 more intense lrishman
has ever lived. The Irish cause, in
every conceivable form, was tho uiti-
mats; object Of all his deVotiOns. In
deed it is hardly an exagger;atlon TO say
that il was his religion. Irish history,
Irish antiquities, Irish architecture.
lcjsh music, Irish industries, the Irish
Home Rule question, The Irish Land
question, ali that is implied ia the words
lrlst Nationalisn found i'll his pen-~an
instrument that never rusted in id!e;l6ss
"a champion ardent, chiyalrous, brave,
slzilfu!, and loyal 10 the last. ZOE this
cause no labored when some Of us wers
ia Dur cradles, and long before most of
us were born; for this cause until he
ha,! reached The patriarchal age OF
ninety-until the other day-he con-
tinued to work with a yigor OF intellect,
all enthusiasm, and a skill that very
fsw men OF thirty can Justly
boast.
Aud this cause which TRANS At,
lantic" 50 eloquently advocated with
his pen he always, always with gener.
osity surprising his financial ability,
supported with his purse. The very
first contribution which Mr.. Parnell
ever received in aid OF the movement
which he has SO admirably conducted,
and to guide which may God long spare
him, was All offering from ''Trans-At~
lantic;;' and MIR. Parnell himself, to bis
honor be it said, was the first to make
generous mention OF the fact.
''Trans- Atlantic" was worker as
well as 3 writer. He never disported
in distractions. All his ideas took a
practical turn; and once an idea was
conceived within him he nursed it.,
warmed it, fashioned it, and then, when
it was we'll developed, he sent it out
into the world to fight for the poor and
the oppressed and to do brave battle
against some great wrong. The Irish
agrarian movement, which resulted in
the Irish Land League, owes more to
"Trans-Atlantio" than TO any other
man living or dead. into that moye-
ment The Irish Wolld threw itself with
all the energy it was able to command.
That energy manifested itself in the
"Spread the Light work. Every week
10000 copies of this paper were sent to
do missionary work across the sea.
Every cabin in the island was ablaze
But the impulse to that work was the
effect of the inspiration derived from
''Trans-Atlautic. We, and all the rest
of US who have labored in that cause,
are but the children and scholars of the
grand Old man who has just made his
exit from this mundane sphere, and
proud we ought to be to acknowledge
our relationship to him. In lS75-Years
before the Land League was dreamed
of-''Trans- Atlantic" in one of his
weekly letters to The Irish World, in
this touching passage, apologized for
;oko r
question:
II hope and beg that you may forgive
me for sending you my weekly sermon
on the land question. l know and I
feel that the people of Ireland Will yet
own the land they shall cultivate.
When that day arrives request that
some Of you who survive me will write
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