The Irish standard., 1897-01-09
NEW IRISH MOVEMENT GROWING.

The uprising Of Irish landlordism
against the excessive taxation of Ireland
by the British government to which we
referred last week, is growing with re-
markable rapidity and spreading to the
furthest ends of the country, says the
Catholic Standard and Times. There was
a general representation of this new
movement and focusing of it's objects
in a great meeting held at the Dublin
Mansion House on Monday. All shades
OF political and religious opinion were
there represented, and exalted represen-
tatives of Church and party spoke in ad-
yocacy of making united demand upon
the government for an equitable re-
adjustment of the financial arrange
ments between the two countries, nay,
even for restitution Of what ireland has
already paid in excess of her lawful
share The lord mayor presided over
the meeting, and among those who ad-
dressed it were Lord Plunket and Most
Rev. William J. Walsh, the Protestant
and Catholic archbishops of Dublin.
Among the other orators were Tories,
Unionist Liberals, Catholic Wings like
The O'Conor Don, and Nationalist M.
P.'s Of the various factions. Resolutions
were adopted formulating a plan OF ac-
ton in the coming session Of parlia-
ment and demanding that the govern
ment remedy the financial injustice to
Ireland.
The latest advices describe the whole
country as aflame with this new issue,
to such an extent indeed as to recall the
time of Grattan and his volunteers de-
manding parliamentary independence.
We hope it is of happy augury that this
is the first time in century that the
Catholics and Protestants Of Ireland
have been united to anything like such
an extent and we hope the union will
be as successful now as it was from l782
to 1895, the year in which the ill-starred
Orange movement was organized. Pres
ent indications are indeed to this CT
feet, one dispatch saying that "every
day brings the names of new. Tory no
blemen or great landlords who have talk
en- the field against the government,
while the names of those who nave been
induced to proclaim their loyalty Ito the
government) are few and far between .
1t must have been powerful wave, in-
deed, that swept cautious politician
and an evicting landlord like the Earl
of Dunraven into such movement; yet
the other day, prior to the Dublin meet
ing, as Lord Lieutenant of the county of
Limerick, he himself actually called an
indignation meeting of the people of his
county. And at the meeting, held in
the city of Limerick on Tuesday in res
ponse to this cali, Lord Dunraven him
self presiding. language was used by
landlord orators, standing side by side
with Bishop O'Dwyer and John Daily,
just as emphatic as were the words
spoken by Lord Castletown at Cork.
And not only are these meetings held
in rapid succession. but the Tory news
papers are increasing in the intensity Of
the feeling they express, especially i'll
their indignation at the brutal tone of
the Times and some ether London
dailies. The Nationalist orators and
organs In the press are observing a pru-
dent reserve in the presence of this
strange phenomenon. While cordially
identifying themselves with the move
ment, they allow their new Tory allies
to take the most prominent part in the
meetings and to shoulder the RESPONSE
bility Of managing them. "This policy" :"
says the correspondent to whom we have
referred above, "has already, borne some
Fcurious fruit in the form, Of volunteered
Tory declarations that the way is be-
ing cleared for union Of Irishnaen on
many other subjects besides taxation.
and it, seems not. unlikely. that before
the anniversary Of 1898 comes round
there vii: l,e another such fusion AS
there was then. There are, indeed.
/ EIrishnea san gline enough: to say that
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