The Irish standard., 1893-04-08
Prot. Brophy on Gladstone.

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p. Brophy, Of st. Louis college, New
York, at New Haven, Conn, on March 4,
on the life and deeds of Robert Emmett,
he referred as follows to Mr.. Gladstone
and his new bill for an Irish Parliament:
Some sixty. five years ago there sat in
the great hall OF Elton college in England
party Of 500 students who had gath
cred to commemorate some event of col
lege history. In the course Of the ban
quet and whaaGhilari'y was at its height,
some QUE n Posed ribald toast and
called upon the assembled students to
rise and drink with him to the vulgar
sentiment. Instantly all were on their
feet but one. One young man there
was who turned down his glass and re.
fused to rise. Hoots, jeero and yells were
powerless to shake his high resolve.
Calmly he withstood the storm of ridi-
Guile, of jibes and jeers, the solitary one
in that great throng with sufficient man
liness and grit to prefer principle to
popularity. The young student Of that
eventful night is now on the verge f the
grave. He has reached the highest
round in the ladder of fame; he stands
among the foremost of the statesmen Of
the world; 10 his official career he has
made some cruel mistakes. Like Paul Of
Tarsus, he was once persecution; but
like that repentant apostle, and with The
frankness Of a mind truly great, he has
acknowledged those mistakes anu now
makes herculean efforts to undo the blum
ders of the past That young student
who for the sake Of principle, manfully
withstood the jeers and gibes of that col
lege mob, holds the power of Great B l.
tam IN his hands to-day. He has fear
lessly proclaimed that, with Gods help,
his last ears on earth shall be devoted
to retribution for Ireland's wrongs, and
he calls upon Ireland's sons the world
over to stand by his side till the enemy
is vanquished and the victory won! True,
his measure is not all that we desire;
true, it is by no means what justice de-
mands and what patriotism would accept
az a tinality, for no man nor body of men
can barter away the liberties of a nation.
But, my countrymen, I believe in ''cut-
ting the CAD nearest the threat" l be-
ieve in giving breathing time and recu-
peration to the victim, believe that the
measure is the best that Mr.. Gladstone
can force through parliament at this
time and under present conditions, and I
believe, in my soul, that the man incurs
fearful responsibility who would put
barrier in the way of the realization of q
measure the great majority of the Irish
people hail with such delight, and to
which they look forward with such high
hopes. @
My countrymen, to heed the call Of
that grand old man, to take an indepen-
dent position beside the English, Scotch
and Welsh advocates of Home Rule for
us and for themselves, to be an ally in
the cause of freedom, is no denial or
abatement of Irish rights; for we are all
agreed that the old spirit must be ever
kept alive; that there must be no accept
ance of the shadow for the substance,
that the old flag must be kept forever to
the fore, that there must be no abandon
ment of one jot or little of the God-given
inalienable right of the Irish people to
be governed by their own laws, made by
their own representatives, in an Irish
parliament, and upon Irish soil. 4
In the rotunda of the capitol at Wash
ington there is a group Of statuary.
placed there by the Fathers Of the Re
public as warning and 9 lesson for the
generations to come. There stands the
giant Hercules, with body bent, arms
stretched, and every muscle strained in
the vain attempt to break across his
knee bunch Of slender reeds that are
tightly bound together. At the giants
fe=t sits little pratt]ing babe, gleefully
breaking with his tiny fingers the reeds
WulCE3 WA0u uAlG0u, AOU ovoA UAC 6A0AS
Hercules could break or bend
O, my countrymen, what world Of
wisdom for us in this artistic group!
Our people, taken one by one, are at the
mercy Of every petty satrap. Bind them
together with the cords of patriotic at
lection, and ali the Balfoprs in Vic
toria's realm can no longer hold them
beneath the heel Of the oppressors. i
know there are difficulties to overcome;
but, my friends, whore there is q will
there is always way.
An Ignorant Editor.
The editor of the Peoria Journal re-.
sembles Lange of the Duluth Scandia IN
his writing Of English composition.
Bishop Spalding recently said OF the
Peoria editor: You write fairly well with
Your SCISSORS, bnt when you take q pen
you create panic among nouns. verbs,
napoeitions. af1iectiyeA adverbe, parti-