The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-08-30
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL SATURDAY. AUGUST 80 1890.

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other was the cry that Home Rule
meant Rome rule. Well. these were
both very plausible cries, and bewildered
and misinformed as the English electors
were at the last general election, these
cries undoubtedlY carried. all before
them. [Cheers.] But these cries Of
separation or of Rome rule will never
again gain the credence Of any English
constituency. and for this simple rea-
son. that, as I will show you in one mo-
ment. Lord Salisbury [gToans] land
his nephew have now confessed by their
own. words, and by their own deeds,
that the cry Of separation and that fear
of separation is q chimerical and hypo-
critical CRY. and have confessed that if
ANYBODY has invited Rome rule in Ire
land or Malta-[hear. hear]-it is not
the representatives Of the Irish people
5-lhear, hear but it is the Tory gov
ernment- cheers who sent Sir Lin
torn Simmons to the Vatican to i'm
ploTe the power Of Rome to come to the
assistance Of the baftled and beaten
coercionist regime Of Mr.. Balfour.
[Cheers.] 1t is not we, but it is the
Tory government which for the past
four years have been intriguing to in
vite and to invelgle the College of Car
dinals to meddle with the civil liberties
of the Irish people. Hear. hear.
When Bishop O'Dwyer of Limerick =
[groans] I'VE do better with him than
hiss him, assure you -we answer him,
we meet him. [Cheers.1 When Bishop
O'Dwver Eliminates his DEGREES against
the, most beloved leaders Of the Irish
people and against the combinations Of
the Irish people. Mr.. Balfour 1s.the first
man to stand up in the House Of Com
mons and to back up Bishop O'Dwyer's
pretensions, and Irish landlords and the
Orange newspapers are the only aux
iliaries that Bishop O'Dwyer can fnd
from end to end of Ireland. Hear,
hear. We Irish Catholics love our
faith more than we love our lives.
ICheers.] Idon't hesitate to say before
the great audience Of English Protest
ants that in any hour Of trial we claim
that We should assert Just as steadily as
Bishop O'DWyer the liberties and the
freedom and the rights Of our religious
convictions just as freely as We accord
liberty and tolsration to the people 81.
any creed IGhaers.l It is no matter of
pleasure to refer to these things. The
feelings of the Irish Catholics have
been panied and lacerated for the last
four years bv the repeated attempts of
the Tory government to degrade the
spiritual authority of Rome by endeav.
oring to enlist it among the agents for
coercing and exterminating the Irish
people. it's q bitter trial to US. it is a
torturing thing to Us, but we are con-
soled for it all bY this one thought that
the events OF the last four years have
eliminated forever the element Of re-
liglous bigotry from the Irish question,
have silenced forever the knaYish par
rot-cry of Home Rule being Rome rule,
because there is no man living now
who doubts that the Irish people are
just as capable Of defending their civil
liberties against the dictates Of men
like DR.. O'Dwyer as against the coercion
act of his friend and apolog!st, Mr.
Balfour. Groans[ And 1 think it will
be very hard to get any English consti-
tuency for the future to tolerate that
disgusting old bogie about Home Rule
in Ireland when thev know that it pro-
ceet1s from a Tory government who, all
the time that they are beating the drum
of Orange bigotrY In Belfast, are send
ING Sir Lintorn Simmons crawling on
his stomach to Rome to degrade, to in
suit the authority Of the Pope by invok-
ing spiritual administrations for Mr..
Baltour on his political deathbed. in
the dying hours Of coercion and oppres
sion in Ireland. [Cheers.] Very we'll;
that is objection No. 2 disposed Of. and
disposed Of by Lord Salisbury's own
embassy to the Vatican. Now, I have
referred to the third CRY, and wish |
bad the strength to deal with it at as
much length as I should desire, because
undoubtedly to every man who values
the unity and the greatness Of this vast
empire, the CRY of separation is far and
away the most influential and powerful
OF all, Well, during the last four years
the English people have come to know
one another. and do know one another's
minds, and venture to think that the
English people are now pretty we'll con-
vlnced that there never was more IL
lusory, 9 more dishonest. a more unreal
affair than that notion about separation.
[hear, hearl that the Irish would be
lunatics to think OF it under Home
Rule arrangement. and that, even If
they thought Of it OF desired it. q Home
Rnis Parliament would be as helpless
TO eff6st separation as to pull down the
moon ous Df heaven. But l do not ask
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