The Irish standard., 1889-08-03
LET those who scorned the fountains rill,
Now dread the torrents roar.


last few years we have warned the
landlords that they were only dealing
with the advanced guard of the grand
army OF Irish nationality; they were
only dealing with few men upon a few
estates and in few counties IN Ire
land. That advanced guard has been
more than a match for them with all
their powers of coercion at their backs.
For the last three years we have sue
cessfully defed them, and baf1ed them
and thrashed them.
A Voice-And we will again.
Mr.. O'Brien-A Aud now they have the
supreme folly, these men, to bring the
whole united Irish fighting line into
action against them-the whole strength
OF the Irish race, from our incompara-
bic leader, Charles Stewart Parnell
{cheers), who has never known defeat,
to the millions, the faithful millions,
who are in his ranks throughout the
world (cheers) From these hills in
Tipperary to the far away cities in
Australia where men are to-day pouring
out their sympathies and pouring OUT
their money for this fight IN response
to the ringing appeals Of our grand and
noble ambassador, John Dillon (cheers).
[ don't think it would be tjudicious for
me at this moment to say more. l will
only say this much, that we are on the
eve of combination which will, l
believe, be the death blow of the infer
nal system against which we have been
warning for many years. You in Tip
perary have, and / most gratefully
acknowledge it, risen to xhis occasion
like the fearless and ehearted men
that always believed the men Of Tip
perary to be. You have done your duty.
A Voice-We would to the death.
Mr.. O'Brien-Yes, l believe YOU
would to the death (cheers) l believe
that you will do your duty upon the
lines which the greatest man of the
irish race will point cut to you and
sanction, and l believe you will make
it clear to Mr.. Smith Barry and to Mr..
Horace Townsend (groans) that Yon
will make them feel to their hearts
core, i. they have got any hearts to be
touched
A Voice--Very poor ones.
Mr.. O'Brien-They have pockets
which answer for hearts (laughter), but
that you will make these men feel that
the men of Tipperary and the men of
the whole Irish race, come veal or come
woe, will stand or fall with the Pom
sonby tenants Cloud and prolonged
cheering); that YOU will make them feel
that the battle Of the one set of tenantry
is the battle of the other; and that from
this day further they will have to face
once more the united strength Of the
Irish people and of the Irish race.
not merely on this estate, not
merely in this district, but the wide
world over, until we have made the last
breach in the last rampa1ts of landlord
ism (cheers). hope in very snort
time we will be able to place bef're
the people and before the English
people the lines upon which this new
Tenants Defense League ought to 90,
[ hope that possibly the Irish leader
may be in position to tell you per
sonaly in my place (cheers). We wont
be in much difficulty as to the lines,
because Mr., Balfour has pointed them
out to us himself (laughter). He has
announced to us himself that If he were
an Irish tenant he would combine with
his brother Irish tenants, and for the
first time in Our lives we are going to
take hint from him and follow his
example. He. MIR. Smith Barry, and
Colonel Saunderson have every one
defined the rights of combination of
the I,ish people. The landlords them
selves have been idiots enough to set
US the example and give us a model.
They have mocked at our proposals OF
peace. They have :ejecte1 ! arbitration
in any shape or form. very well, they
never will hear of arbitration again
from US except the arbitration of the
English electors at the general election
(cheers), and 1 would risk my head upon
it this moment that with the Irish
people at our backs, as know you to
be, when the verdict of these elections
is delivered, when the verdict of these
arbitrators is given. that the landlords
and their children's children will have
reason to rue the day that Smith Barry
and his syndicate embarked upon their
cruel and wanton and insulting designs
against the homes and liberties of the
Irish people. cloud and prolonged cheer
ing).
'I dons't say marriage is failure" "
said Adam candldly, as he sat down on
a log just outside the garden OF Eden
and looked hugrily at the fruit at the
fruit on the other side Of the wall; .sbut
if had remained single this wouldn't
have happened.
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