The Irish standard., 1896-03-07
IRELAND SHOULD DO
Faction Squabbles Will Keep the
Land Ever in State
Of Misery.
The Country rlore Distracted To-
day Than 1t Has Been in
a Century.
A. Great National Conventions
Appears to-, Be the Only
Practicable Remedy.

Practicable Remedy. a
Many fierce storm assailed the cause
of Ireland in the recent centuries. she
weathered them safely. The present Diff.
ficulties are apparently trivial in COM
parison to past trials. But this seeming
llittleness only lies on the surface. just
as traveller walking over Swiss glacier
can stride across a fissure in the ice two
or three feet iii width but perhaps a thou
sand feet in depth, SO, too, the present
! iangling turmoil il Ireland may seem to
some to be sonnet ming of little consequence
but it is not so.
! We men of Irish birth or Irish by blood,
living in England. do not regard the diff
ferences in Ireland as trivial. The pres
ena writer can only speak Of what he
| knows and of what he honestly believes
| TO be true, when he makes this assertion,
| that ireland is OH her trial before the
| IRISH in England. Ireland has been tried
! in America already, and with this result
that the American Irish, far more nl-
merous than the Irish in Ireland, have
ceased to send their hardearned money
| to support that grand old cause which is
| en&wined in their very heart-strings-the
cause of their motherland. Does this arise
| from, apathy? Most ass1lredly not. 1t
| arises from a certain feeling Of despair
at the dissension in Ireland itself. They
are weary and d.sgusted at the meaning
| less party cries-at the foolish, nay Grim
! inal Indifference amongst the leaders CT
public opinion in ireland,
If. there Was genuine difference i'll
principle, doubtless they, like ourselves III
| England, would take sides with what we
and they believed to be right, and would
| soon 1e1norselessly crush out Of existence
| what we believed to be wrong. but at
present there is no difference In principle.
| We. the Irish iIl England, have a healthy
! and strong belief in sound, wholesome,
J open, constitutional agitation. We see
| more clearly even than the Irish liz Ire
| land or in America the insane folly of
any other course; and we are becoming
restive at the present outlook in Ireland.
We have our own domestic questions
labor, educational and social. For the last
twenty five years we have placed our OWE
interests In the second place. The cause
of Ireland always stood first. We fought
for it and voted for it. We are not a
wealthy body, like the Irish in America.
They could send, as they have done, f3.0W
in ONE week to help on the CAUSE or ire
land. We could mot send as many hun.
dreds twit:hstand.ng all their wealth
if the battle in behalf of the Irish cause
is ever to result in victory we shall win
it even more than they. They may give
money. We cam give more. We can give
votes Ireland may stand solid as a wall
Of iron England can keep Ireland crush
ed if il peases-as it has pleased England
for MANY long year--that is il England
casts a solid vote. But in our modern
civilization England can never more cast
"a solid vote for amy length OF time on
the same side Labor and capital are In
antagonism. Here the Irish hi England
come in, and sell themselves III the open
market to the highest bidder. VINO Will
redress Irelands wrong? @
That party shall have their votes: and
consequently place and power. Bit does
from it. There IS no use in pursuing the
ostrich policy of hiding our heads IN the
sand and shutting our eyes to facts OF
which the whole world is conscious. There
are at present three parties in Ireland
each with a following more or less nu1ner-
GUS. This question may be asked In All
seriousness Do the Irish in Ireland ex-
peot us. the Irish in England, to stand
with fo. ded arms doing nothing until they
see fit to patch up their q,tarTels and allow
ourselves here to remain pressed down
with our own local grievances? We have
borne up to the present many heavy
local burden that we might cast our votes
as body in behalf of Ireland. II ever
there was a safe truth it is this--~that the
Irish cause will be won In England by y
the Irish in that country rather by the
the Irish in Ireland or America. We are
nearer to the source Of power, and by our
votes we can strike a deadlier blow. We
are alarmed and dismayed at the present
outlook. Not that the W'raagling Of Mr.
Redmond Mr. Dillon and Mr.. Heaiy
cause, any fear. No; they are simply
specks OF foam on the mighty wave OF :
Irelands cause It is because each OF &
these gentlemen speaks with a power be-
hind him that we feel disheartened. 'Ille u
internecine strife Of the leaders would
not last Wenty-fOur hours II there were " 4
united Ireland in existence. The people
themselves are disunitsd, and that is what
oppresses as here. Is there no remedy!??s
Must Ireland stand accursed for ever
through this evil of d:ssension? Are the
Irish in Ireland going to bid us TO remain
here political helots in their service al
ways, Gladly and proudly we have borne
Irelalfd'ts s. banner for the past generation.
VIII our children do the same? MAJ,
without looking too far into the future,
will the present generation OF Irish people
in England go on as they. have doneY i
Thev will never cease to be Irish a feet-,
ing, and will continue TO afford all the
ass: stanee in their power, but signs Y are s|
multiplying ON every side that i the pres
ent insane division ontinues the Irish. ifAss3
England will strike out Their own cQursea
and fight for t1ler own hand, relegatin
the cause Of ireland 10 a second pla ace ssSa
sever out Of every ten voters OF the lrsslssE
iii England belong to some la1or pfg11tzFa
ton or another. young Labor
wrecked the III loeral party latass
(seeneraE election BefoTe the next
thin king men sieye l1Ilsss