The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-12

hand over all the powers Of Dublin
Castle to the very men whom Dublin
Castle then as now was putting forth
all its strength to calumniate and
crush; and who would have believed
that within those six short wears John
Dillon (loud cheers) would receive an
address signed by the whole Liberal
party of England. on his release from
prison (cheers); and who would have
predicted, and this is the most marvel
lous thing of all, that we, wild Irish
men, rebel Cork men, that we would
be telling the Irish people, as we are
telling them with truth from our hearts,
that the English people have only to
say the word today and our quarrel
with England is at an end forever cloud
cheers). l say to you that the
day OF victory is coming (cheers),
and say 1t all the more freely because.
like the men listening to me, I never
took up the Irish cause because it was
winning cause, but because it was a
cause c'nsecrated by centuries OF suf-
fering and of glorious failure. CHEERS
I am 10 worshipper Of success, but
neither do I undervaiue success. 1
don't undervalue the victory that IS
coming, for believe it will bring sun
shine and happiness into the homes of
the Irish poor. and that it will bring
peace and plenty into this old suffering
land Of ours (cheers). We have still a
FIGHT to make. but I tell you it is im-
possible to mix with English people
without knowing and feeling that our
day has come. [che ers). Wehave only
to stand to our guns (cheers), to hold
our ground like men. and think the
widest tlelusion that ever entered the
brain OF our opponents is to imagine
that they have only to stave off the gen.
eral election for year or two and we
will fall to quarrrelling and grumbling,
and out of mer3 childishness and wear
mess we will pitch mp the battle (laugh-
teri which seven centuries have never
succeeded in eradicating (cheers). No,
we have the most glorious hopes and in
centives that ever nerved men to vic
tory {cheers). "'The friends we've tried
are by o,l1 side" 1t was only the other
night in the House of Commons that
heard our good friends, Tim Heaiy
(cheers), Thomas Sexton (cheers). r.
r. O'Connor {cheers), that heard theLn
hammering away at the enemy with all
the Cid eIodunce, and all the old wit,
and with all the glorious gifts that
make their colleagues SO proud Of them
(cheersl And I cannot help thinking,
and 1T is a most inspiring thought, that
every man that came down here six
years ago to help US fight the Mailow
election that Providence has spared
thern all. (cheers). They are all alive
to-day, (cheers). They are al as
united as ever, and they are all as bound
together as ever. (cheers). In former
movements in Ireland nnhappily after
a period of high hopes there used to
core a crash and and a sound stagger-
ing blow, SO delivered bv the Govern
ballad-"The boys were all scattered
and bate, y and exile and imprisonment,
and disuniOn scattered them to the four
winds of Heaven, never t. assemble
again under the same old flag. Our
boys now are neither scattered nor bate
cloud eheers). We have had crash after
crash in our movement. We have had
Coercion Act after Coercion Act until I
forget how many there are. Still they
are gone. and here we are still. tcheers).
Under the same old flag and under the
same great leader, aud the old COM
rades around us united more closely
than ever bv discipline that nothing
can break, and by loyalty that moth
ing will ever sever. (cheers). There
is no traitor nor dissentient amongst
them. icheers). Above all Ireland is
blessed in her great lead ar. cloud
cheers) Beyond all men living Charles
Stewart Parnell has succeeded in i'm
pressing every Irishman throughout the
globe be he moderate or be he an eX-
treme man, has succeeded in impressing
him with the confidence that we have
in him steady band at the helm and
that whatever is in the power of man
to achieve for Ireland, Charles Stewart
ParnelI is the man to do it. loud cheers).
We have never had such a leader,
and never had leader such an united,
so devoted. so generous and so brave as
the united Irish race throughout the
world to-day tcheers). 1t is easy to
win battles when you have soldiers
ready to face death like our glorious
comyade John Vaudeville. cloud
cheers). 1t is easv to WIN battles and
break down the Balfours and Judge
Boyds. (Groans and laughter.) It is
easy to deal with gentry of that sort
when we can count upon the heroic
and indomitable spirit of men like Tom
Moroney. (Renewed cheering). It is
easy to trample down Coercion under
our feet, when we can reckon upon the
glorious devotion of men like Father
Kennedy and the indomitable noun
taineers from Duhallow (Great cheer
ipg). This is the spirit that has brought
our movement from its humble begin
ninRs at Irishtown to the gigantic in
f1uence it possesses to day in shaping
the fate of this whole Empire. We are
fighting to turn race Of crouching
slaves into the owners and rulers of the
land, we are fighting to convert g land
OF famine and of desolation into land
of plenty and of industry and of free
dom. (cheers). We want to secure that
the homes of ireland shall never again
be haunted by the horror Of hunger and
of eviction. We want to bring some
ray of happiness and comfort into the
humblest cottage home in Ireland.
(cheers). We want that the humblest
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