The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-17
In a MadhouvIsse.


MIA. He prayed INCREASINGLY, but not
once2did he refer to his thirteen years
of living death in the British prison form
which DR.. Gallagher and himself have
just been liberated. The former is now
a raving maniac at Amityville, L. l., and
Murphy, unless he shows marked signs
of improvement will soon be in the same
condition, says the New York World.
The hospital authorities refused to dis
cuss Murphy's condition, and even Prof.
Northrup, one of the leading physicians
at the hospital, was denied admission to
the .deranged man. It was thought that
State Examiners Fitch : and Wildham
would make an examination of the men
tai condition of Murphy yesterday, and
that he would be formally committed to
Amityville by magistrate, but this was
not done. DR.. Fitch called in the morn
ing, but did not make any formal report
in the case. He left town in the after
noon. and when he returns it is probable
that both he and DR.. Wildman will COM
plete an investigation.
The absence of any record concerning
Murphy on the books of Bellevue was
looked upon as rather peculiar, and the
rumor that he was taken away early in
the morning by DR.. Fitch in a. closed
carriage greatly excited some Of his
friends who were interested in his
case.
Both Superintendent Murphy and DR..
F. w. Robinson, in answer to the ques-
ton as to whether or not Whitehead or
Murphy was confined in the insane pa
yilion, stated positively that he was.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon DR.,
Brannan, the visiting physician, called
and saw the patient, but refused to give
out any information concerning him.
For time during the day Murphy was
in prayer with a Sister from St. Joseph's
Hospital. He appeared to be greatly re-
lieved when she appeared and prayed
fervently. For a short time after her
departure he was calm and said very
little, but it was not long before he was
again in the midst of his religious raw
ings His attitude at times was cringing
and covering, and occasionally his old
suspicion, that some one was trying to
poison his food, would take hold Of him.
His eyes would light up with extreme
brilliancy and then the expression would
die out again as he resumed an attitude
of prayer and called upon his Maker to
succor him in his hours of misery.
His friends believe that with proper
care he will be brought around all right
aud will yet recover his shattered mind.
Others are not so hopeful. Patrick j..
Cody. treasurer of the Amnesty Fund,
in an interview said:
IT am not surprised that Murphy is
insane. When met him as he came OH
the boat he impressed me as man In
a very serious condition metally. No
man can come from British prison
after having served thirteen years un-
der the brutal guards, without showing
the terrible strain both in mind and
body. The system of treatment is
enough to shatter the strongest constitu-
ton. It is life of grinding, brutal, mer-
CHESS oppression, coupled with kicks,
starvation and horror.
Nothing is being left undone in this
country to swell the Amnesty Fund so
that the families of the other ten prison
ers and those already released will want
for nothing, and the prisoners them
selves will be given enough money to
begin life again as soon as they are per-
mitted to see the light of liberty. About
$4,000 has already been distributed in
Ireland. and there is about $4,000 left
to carry on the work. We expect to
gather at least $4,000 more this coming
year.
'There will be melting next Monday
night at Greenpoint, the former home o.
DR.. Gallagher. Ex-Congressman J. D.
Fitzgerald, of Boston, John Curtin Kent
ex-Congressman Magner, and j. F. Egan
will speak on that occasion and tell OF
the horrors of British prisons. William
Lyman, president Of the Irish National
Alliance, will also be on hand, and we
look for a very enthusiastic meeting.
The Nation and Young Ireland Party.
1t was then that party, hitherto compar-
atively obscure, flashed forth as
the guiding light of the Irish
people. The sudden setting OF
O'Connell's sun, in the political firma-
ment, brought clearly before the view q
constellation, hitherto darkened with ex-
cess of his light. A new act opened in
the drama of Irish history, writes James
McNamee in Donahue's.
The men who afterwards became known
as the young Irelanders, had hitherto
been simply Reporters, followers Of
O'Connell and ardent admirers of the grand
old tribune. They were not, nor did they
desire to be, separate and distinct party
in Irish politics. Drawn together by afin-
ity of youthful tastes and sentiments, their
special, self imposed task was to purify the
Irish political atmosphere, from the mean
ness and corruption with which it had long
been tainted.
Educate, that you may be free" was
their motto. They would have their peo-
PIE educated in the national history, tastes
and feelings They taught that the people
should be less reliant on leaders, and more
reliant on themselves; that those who as
pired to be their politica, chiefs should seek
to direct them by appealing to Their reason,
not hurry them on by arousing their pref
udices. Week after week, these doctrines
were taught in brilliant prose and spark
ling verse, in the columns Of journal
started n 1912 for the especial purpose of
voicing the sentiments Of the Young Ireland
Party This journal, which exercised a
greater influence over Irish thought and
telling than any newspaper before or since
was the wor.d-famed Nation founded by
Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Osborne
DAVIS and John Blake Dillon.
II 4 Many Of the Nations tenets were utterly
abhorent to the ttOld Ireland" or o. Conne,-
lite party Their dread of what they styled
the vohltionary', teaching Of the Nation,
combined with illconceaied jealousy Of its
influence with the people, was fast urging
on that fatal schism, oh was to rend INTO
two hostile actions, the national forces.
There were especially two articles in the
Young Ireland creed which more than all
the Others brought about the Qua>,ell with
5OEonnell. ,sT heir triumphant assertion is
among the best services rendered by these
ID men to their country. These important
doctrines were, the union OF Catholics and
nsEa i,tal sfflfa III FOR rights