Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-23
HOME RULES FUTURE.

NJ. ". Gannon's Views on the Hopes of the
Emerald Isle.
There is probably no one among those
prominent in this country as opponents
OF the cause of home rule in ireland who
has more admirers in Rock Island than
M. V. Cannon, formerly of Davenport.
and now of Omaha. Mr. Cannon spent
several days in Rock Island this week
on his way home from Chicago, where
he delivered notable Grafton at the Og-
den Grove picnic. Speaking OF him On
the same occasion a Chicago special
says:
Statements likely to attract wide atten.
ton were made today by the Hon. NJ V.
Cannon, president of the Irish national
league of America. In an interview
President Cannon. speaking OF the
American Irish of Gladstones assurances,
said:
Our whole idea, and the limit of our
idea, has been to place Ireland in the
same relation to the imperial government
that Illinois or Nebraska holds to the
American government. We will never
rest while opr mothers graves are trod~
uSh W oioNSo. bO ouly CouSO vi tuC I'LL
rest of our people is this Irish question,
and once it is settled, we will blend with
the American people and be heard of as
two, free France six. free Italy four, and
Germany six
"DeMsistre says that English liters-
ture for three centuries has been a contin-
Gus conspiracy against the truth. The
facts show today that this is true. The
stage Irishman is no longer recognized
as the type OF our race, with the whisky
bottle in his pockets and his dhudeen in
his hat. We are on the threshold of the
Irish nation, let US cross it and Irish
Amercanism will be heard of no more"
Asked about the split in the ranks of
the American Irish, Mr.. Cannon turned
rather quickly npon the inquisitor and
said:
The Parnellites aud the anti>Parnell-
ties form the nuclei for the two parties
that will naturally appear In the Irish
parliament. The church did not display
hostility to Parnell until his lieutenants
betrayed him, and until after Gladstone
had written his historic letter. The
young manhood of Ireland resented the
idea that their leader should be dictated
to by British minister, and in his own
language thrown to the wolves by those
who sought his Obstruction in the per-
jured Times commission. Here you have
The basis of the Irish parties of which
there will be two. Free America has
q separate nationality no.more. / will be
glad for my boys sake when the incubus
of foreign duty has been removed. We
are Americans who must take thought of
our kin beyond the sea. The duty lies
upon us all the more urgently because
England has, not content with starving
our people out of their historic home,
followed them here with lies end ISLANDERS
that too many people receive. We are
glhbeted and pilloried as the buffJons of
the earth. We can leave it to our Amer
lean friends if the caricatures are Just.
"You mean the fight on Alexander Sui
Ivan. Well. l want to tell you one
thing that the papers do not know. MIR.
Sullivan is accused of the misappropria-
ton of $780, 900 of Irish money. In my
position. it has been necessary for me TO
learn all the facts, and I shall only say
this: Written receipts have been shown
to me for every penny that even went
through Alexander Sullivsn's hands My
judgment is that when Ireland gets home
rule it will be due to the fact that Alexan-
der Sullivan has Observation-Disclosures public
opinion, and that he, and he alone. made
it fighting force in international poli-
tics. He is, in my judg-
ment. more than any other man the maker
of the Irish nation of 1892 From the
time that he, backed by the Irish opinion
of this country, went first to President
Arthur, we began to succeed. The fruit
is now almost in our hands. But we
would be ungrateful and treacherous if
we did not acknowledge, heartily, wholly,
the services of the man who. more than
any other. made this result possibilit y"