The Irish standard., 1892-05-07
HEALY ANSWERS.
Why the Chief "Secede1 Would
Refuse a Fair Representation
to the "Pledge-Breaker
AVERY FORCIBLE ARGUMENT.
In Reply to T. ?. O'Connor's Liver
pool Speech Favoring Recogni-
tiOn Of the RedYnondites.

tiOn of the RednOndites.
T. p. O'Connor addressed his constit.
uents Of the Scotland Road electoral
district Of Liverpool last month, and
gave his reasons for desiring reconcil-
iation of the two Irish factions before
the opening of the coming campaign.
Il am," said he, "for policy Of conciia-
tion, of kindness, of fair and proportion
ate representation to those Of our coln-
trymen who have differed from us over
this leadership Of Mr.. Parnell." Next
day Tim Healy replied to O'Connor III
speech delivered at Dublin, from which
we give the following extended extract:
HEALY's REPLY.
would iik- to say one word with re-
gard to Il speech that was delivered yes
terday by T. 2. O'Connor in Liverpool.
MIR. O'Connor laid down great number
of propositions in regard to cur attitude
as to the Kome-Rule bill and the Liberal
party, with which I am il cordial agree
ment. But he went on to make sug-
gestion in regard to reconciliation in IRE
land on the basis Of recognizing our op-
ponen,s as what he called a separa e
party. Now think it right-as far as L
am concerned--at the very earliest op-
portunity, SO far as my voice, vote and
opinion are concerned, to say that my
voice, vote and opinion will be irrevoca-
bly, cast against any such policy as that.
The position whicn take up is this
and the one I have from the start taken
ND, aud from which I see no reason to de-
parts that the Irish party were bound
by solemn pledge, which, pledge, ana
not Mr. Parnell, was the clamp Of the
union OF the Irish party, and that il that
pledge had been obeyed-~no matter what
leader FELL was deposed or removed, the
irish party would have remained solid
and unbreakable. And [ attach, for my
part. more Importance to the necessity OF
obeying that pledge than the mainten-
ance of ten thousand leaders like Parnell
and the cardinal principle of difference
between us is this, that, in my Judgment,
once you recognize factional or schis-
matte party as entitled by the utlerance
OF some shibboleth or principle to break
away from the bond of union OF the
party, that moment the entire rivets of the
constitution of the Irish constitutional
movement have been burst asunder;
they have been pulled out, and every one
of us is entitled to set up his own opin-
ion and his own Judgment just as much
as the schismatics.
Now. it is said that we should reccg-
nize the pledge breakers because of the
Waterford election. So far from taking
that view, in my opinion, incidents OF
the Waterford election should only nerve
us to further efforts to put down the
pledge-breakers. And if We are asked
for the sake of avoiding turmoil, unp:eas-
antness, and disagreeable scenes, and fric-
tion of that kind, to submit to the erec-
tion into separate party" OF our oppo-
nents, say that that moment you may
say good bye to any hope of maintaining
discipline or unity. The position OF these
gentlemen the Parnelites] is this: They
say we are not as strong Nationa]ists as
they are; that We have in some way for
feited, not the confidence Of our constit-
uents, but that We do not maintain the
same high ideal of Irish nationality.
Gentlemen, that is all bunkum. The
ideal OF Wolfe Tone, of Robert Emmett,
Of Mitchell, and Martin was an Irish re-
public, and anything less than what EN-
met, Fitzgerald, Wolfe Tone. and Owen
Rowe, and these men-anything less than
they worked and died for is of necessity
q compromise. To tell me that man is
attaining ne rer to the principles of Tone
because he has the privilege of paying
police, or because he can appoint Re
movable magistrate, instead of being q
citizen of an Irish republic, that, say,
dust into the eyes of the Irish
people. Therefore, I say, on the ground
of principle, that the moment these gen.
tlemen go into the House of Commons
and take the oath of allegiance to her
Majesty, and to work, not for the attain
ment Of separation, but for an extra par
1 sa, that everything that flows
and follows from thatis a question of de-
gree and is not question Of principle,
and that these gentlemen have just as
much and as little Of the principles of
wolfe Tone and Emmett as I have.
A voice And less
lIr.. Healy i put i no higher. I wish
toI put IL On the ground Of equality.