The Irish standard., 1897-03-20
Timothy Harrington Gives the
People Some Very Plain
Talk.
He Signs for the Days of the Old
Time Leader and Regrets the
Present Conflicts.
All Should Enter the Ranks Who
in Any Way Can Help
Along the Cause.

Timothy Harrington, NJ p, ad-
dressed the Redmondite League, in Dub
lin, Ire, on the 23d ult.
He entreated cessation Of those fool
ish and unfounded stories of the ap-
preaching triumph of the Independent
Tor Parnellite) section of the Irish Ma
tionalists at the next election, and de-
nounced the wrong of using the name of
the great departed leader as the shibbo-
ieth OF discord.
We quote:
1T was all very we'll to say that the
Irish cause was winning-another gem
eral election and we shall win. When
Mr.. Redmond was returning from Amer
lea the other day, he was presented with
an address of welcome at I'hurles. That
was the first evidence for four years
from the town Of Thurles of any support
for the National movement. 1t was a
strong Parnellite town, and they were
cause. Since April. 1894 not a penny
had they given to the Nationalist ex-
ohequer. Not one meeting of the Ma
tional League had they held-not one
word of encoura cement except that all-
dress they presented the other day. He
would take another town in the same
county, the town of Tipperary-from
which for a long period they had re-
ceiyed no support. He would also take
Nenagh, where the majority of: the peo-
pie were Parnellites, and they had got
nothing from them for four years. Not
a meeting had been held there Of The Ma
tional League-no evidence on which
they could rely to carry them on to vic
tory. With regard to the towns of Cashel
and Carrick- on-Suir the state of things
was precisely the same. He would take
two towns in the county Kerry-Tralee
and killarney-which had not sent
penny to the Home Rule fund-no mes
sage of encouragement or sympathy.
And he would take Kildare aud New
bridge. which were strong Parnellite
centers after the split-not one word OF
encouragement from them. He might
circularize them week after week and
day after day but he could not get half
dozen OF them to hold g meeting; and
yet they were told to keep the banner
floating Then he took Roscommon
town--not a single penny was sent up to
get them to give any encouragement Or
the Home Rule fund. and he could not
support. OF Galway, a strong Parnellite
town, he had to say the very same. He
was not going to say that those towns
had changed their politics Or had gone
over to their opponents. The friends of
their opponents were not giving the lat
ter much encouragement either. The
fact was that the people were heartily
sick of the present state Of things-they
saw the national movement making no
progress.
He saw by a letter the other day tina:
Mr.. Corbett, M. p, said the Independent
party should hold on, that they would
win at the general election, and if not
they would win at the general election
after that. What were their prepara-
lions for a general election? Let them
not be carried away by exciting phrases
Of this sort. If they were to fight the
battle let them see that they were
properly armed. Suppose they were to
have general election-and he was not
quite sure it might not be precipitated--.
they had eleven memb bers, and, so far as
he knew, he knew only one out of the
eleven who would be prepared for under
taking the expense of fighting his own
seat. To fight these ten seats a sum Of
$4,000 would be absolutely necessary and
If they had the $4,000, how much more
would they want as a reserve fund to
fight their oppoue ueIts? Where was the
use of men talking nonsense,-menw who
had not felt the pulse OF, this movement
as he (Mr. Harrington) had the oppor-
tunity of feeling it? Where was the use
of talking wild nonsense-saying tue In
dependent cause is marching on to vic
tory when the fact was that it was
Slipping further and further away from
the position it once held? If Mr.. Par
hell we're alive he would be the last man
to count on him (Mr. Hsr1.ington) as
likely to depart from his principles. He
was breaking no confld fldence-he was but
revealing a fact which must shortly en-
gage the public mind in Ireland when he
! told them at this moment Mr. Parneil's
mother was n tenant by sufferance under
the bankruptcy court In the home where
he was reared, and that she Was abso-
lntely - need nf The necessa Of lilsa