The Irish standard., 1892-09-10

sending Protestant representatives to
Parliament, as long as they would sup
port the national aspirations? You will
find it is not SO, but that on the contrary
IA large number of the popular heroes
have all been Protestant, such as Swift,
Grattan, FLOOD, Wolfe Tone, Robert EN-
met, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, John
Mitchell, Smith O'Brien, Butt, Parnell
and score of others. Has the munich
pal vote in Roman Catholic towns shown
a tendency to keep Protestants out of
office? Again, the record says tNo." In
Catholic Cork you will find often Prot
estant Mayors and Protestant sherifs
selected. Not long ago, out of the e.
440 emoluments paid to public officials
in Cork, el,S4O went to Protestants.
Apply the same test to Dublin, and you
will find that $4,000 goes to Protestant
officials, out of the total of G6, 400 sala-
ries paid to chief officers. There have
been fifteen Protestant mayors in Dublin
since 1850, twelve in Waterford since
1e45, thirteen in Limerick since l84l.
The facts which ! have quoted may be
dry and stale, but they need repeating,
and repeating, and repeating. (Cheers).
Lord Rosebery says that the way to win
any constituency at the present moment
is to rub in Lord Salisbury's speech.
Yes, rub it in-Qaughterl--rub it in by
all means, and rub in these facts, too, to
show how unjustifable would be resist
ance or rebellion. {Cheers).
There is another aspect of then Irish
question which has not been given it's
due Importance in this country, and that
is the far-reaching effects which it's set
| Element will have on the Irish question
! in America, as it effects the relations be-
tween the United States and ourselves.
(Cheers.) We came back from America
last year deeply impressed with this side
of the question. We had occasion to see
great deal of the Irish, both in politi-
cal and in non-political way, for we
we're endeavoring to gain their support
in scheme whereby We might properly
represent the small industries at the
coming great exhibition at Chicago, and
to gain for them fresh impetus. This
object, which, I may say in passing,
promises to be very successful-(cheers)
drought us into contact with Irish men
and women of wealth and position, and
gave us great insight into Irish-Ameri-
can feeling. OH Home Rule questions.
And what do we find? In every state, in
every city, we find scores or hundreds Of
Irishmen who had left their own coun-
| try years ago because of the expressions
and misgovernment of the English ma
! ton. They land in America, and almost
Immediately receive the full rights of
citizenship, and they make such grod
ure of those rights that they become a
power, such power that their vote is
the coveted possession of all parties. But
what holds them together? Is il not
simply love Of their old country and q
hatred Of the country which they believe
is expressing her? And therefore those
who deem it necessary to count us their
foe deem it necessary to say those hard
things of England, and SO embitter that
good feeling which is rising up between
ourselves and our daughters beyond the
! hot In tn -
anti English feeling? Already a great
difference had taken place since the an
nouncement of Mr.. Gladstone's policy
we saw great difference. last year from
what prevailed five years ago when we
were in America. But the fulflment of
that policy is needed in order to make
things altogether right. (Cheers). We
had ample opportunities last year of see
ling the Irish in America, both politically
and n-politically. We found in some
parts of the country the Irish-American,
who was never satisfied with anything
but policy of entire separation and per-
petual i'll will and hatred to England.
Again and again was contrary express
sion made to us, but never more empha-
tically than at dinner given to Lord
Aberdeen by the newly formed Irish
Federation of America. There speaker
after speaker-some Of them ex-Fenians
said something to this effect: ''Tell
the people of Ireland we will stand by
them to the end. Tell the people OF
England that we will not desert our
brethren until they have that self-gov-
ernment which we deem necessary for
their well-being; but tell them too that
the self-government which we want for
them is the self-government which we
enjoy in our several states. We want
nothing more. We know full we'll all
the value of strong federal government.
We do not seek separation from Eng
land. We think it would be not at all
for their good that they should be separ-
/ atad. hut we are longing to see the Irish