The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-08-24
AGNl ADDRIBs.
8sspaseh sof Chris 4. GaiIaH her. atl the
G Irish PlonIc at Ogden's
4 Grove, Chicago. Ga
8WaAT IRELAND NEEDS is FoReE.
Eloquent Summing Up Of Tho Gausos That
Hava Kept she Green ls!a In 3..
y; the. Background.

the most excellent and eXhllaratlng de-
scription. The leading feature OF the
occasion was the magnificent address de-
livered by Chris A. Gallagher, OF TINS
city, some Of the more prominent por-
tons of which are here reproduced:
To-day we have assembled not to glory
in the victories Of the past, but TO gird
our loins for future battle.
.'Well may the Irish national heart re-
joice. After degeneration OF trial, after
test as crucial as history ever recorded
the vacillating, enervating and emascui-
ating policy OF agitation has proved g
will-o'-the-wisp as atful, fatuous and
futile as ever beguiled the dreamy fancy
Of youth Or the senile creduiity OF par
liamentary automaton.
"The Irish people today are repudiat-
ing agitation as g. poisonous and noxious
narcotic worse than the evils it pretends
to alleviate It is true there was a time
during the period Of agitation when some
concessions were granted the people OF
Ireland, but they We're not the, result Of
any moral awakening upon the part OF
the English government.
1.-THE only people misled by agitation
were the Irish PEOPLE. The English gov
eminent recognized years ago what the
world has been forced to admit. That
mere agitation itself is poWerless. 1t
prevails only when it is the shadow of a
substance, a reflection Of a, power able
to enforce its demands. Tt was not to the
convincing logic Of the parliamentarian
but to the determined stand of the Irish
paa!onaHsts or physical force party that
stood behind Parnell and held up his
hands in the strength OF battle that the
English government listened.
sParnelI recognized the silent, potent
force that gave life to his demands.
Gladstone, with the sagacity of years and
the lesson Of experience saw the forces
narshalled behind Il placid exterior de-
ternined on the point Of attack, knew
the weapon to use, found a Brutus to
strike the blow. Lucifer has never been
wanting in emulating disciples even to
this generation, and though Ireland is
free from snakes her soil is sometimes
cursed with the migrate, reptile worse
than the Shiny species because it stings
the breast that warns it into life.
eff there be any trait of meanness.
among Irishmen it is carefully cultivated
in the dollhouse OF English cunning and
skilfully nurtured to it's greatest possible
prodE ctiveness. Petty jealousies sordid
ambitions, egotistical pride were insid-.
iGusIy injected into the Irish parliament
airy party, until the only spirit OF unity
was a common desire to depose their
chief that their several aspirations might
indulge the vain hope Of being his sue
cessor. And the man who marshalle
the forces of Ireland as nc leader
had dared to hope, this man who
faced the.intellectual dictator Of world
and made him dread in secret the man
whom the public eu1ogized--this man
was struck to the heart by the very men
who but for him would have slumbered
in the obscurity from which he elevated
them; in the house of his friends, In the
hour Of political triumph this man was
stung to death, and all that an English
premier might remove the only man
among the leaders OF Ireland who could
read his soul and mind and dared beard
the lion In his den.
Eat Glassnevin they laid him at rest;
they did more, they buried in his grave
ell that was vital OF Irish agitation. Pill
the fire Of that spirit. can not give voice
to the tongue that pleaded g nations
rights, nor life 10 the arm that would
have maintained that demand with the
flash OF steel.
Thomas Davis was right when he
said: Agitation is one means of redress,
but it leads to much disorganization,
great unhappiness, wounds upon the soul
of country, which sometimes are worse
than the thinning of people by war
"Gladstone never favored Irish indie
pendence, and he never advocated Irish
home rule through an honest desire to
helpaIreland; he sang it's praises simply
i11, t~ fhtAT >IHI
into g. soporjfic. stnpor that under the
promise OF English sympathy he might
the more easily seduce them from the
path of national independence.
"Iow well he succeeded Ireland knows
her sorrow. / believe am yoicing the
sentiments of thousands Of Irishmen
when I say that believe it would have
been better for Ireland had Gladstone
never advocated home rule; better had
she depended on her own children-bet-
ter, Thousand ti1nesH hetter, had an
Irishman never entered an English par
lament to lift up his hand to heaven
and invoke the record OF an oath which
to an Irishmans must be self-degrading
under any and all circumstances. 5ls%4
There has been contributed by the peo-,
Die In America, for the benefit of Irish
Landlords, money enough to have equip
ped an army. And what has Ireland to
show for it?'
Here Mr.. Gallagher illustrated by an
ecdotes the filtility of the Irishgnarlia-
mentary party. the result Of their dis
organized conditions and the utter hope
lessness Of obtaining any, substantial re-
dress through agitation. Proceeding, he
said:
RI We must look to Irishmen and not to-
English cabinets; for redress; we must
reverse the fatal policy Of the. past TWEEN
ty years Of forever hold our5peace. Are.
we always to sit in the shadow of our
chains and sigh? Have we nothing for.
each recurring anniversary but q change
of lamentations? Shall we meet but to
add one more year to the period ct our
tinaction and despair? Better, q thou
sand times better, that we blot ont avery
national Holiday. than meet to lift our
heads among free and independent peo-
pie only to weep and beg for a sympathy
chat our inertia deserves not.
Who would be free, himself must strike
the blow. N s.
4 4 81 am tired Of seeing Ireland the mem
dicant of the world. With soil rich in
,productiveness, she soWs that others
rlay reap. with a climate bracing end
5itlFigorating the poisoned air of famine
sweeps her children into the trenches
The wool Of her nocks clothes not her
st,ss;as her tie Craze upon her ii 1sides