The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-12-11

OF grievances that Ireland endured and
OF crimes that England had committed
| against her and he defied successful con-
tradiction of his indictment. Great ap-
| plause) He indicted England on the
authority Of history, not by the flights
| OF fancy. Her rule in Ireland was a sue
cession of wanton massacres, broken
! pledges, violated treaties. artificial fam
ines and plaques of death coming with
black, outstretched wings in the wake of
| famine. (Sensation). He accused Eng
land of 100000, victims of starvation
and typhus, from 1886 to 1850. He ac-
| cused her Of the deaths of myriads who
| flying from her accursed sway, had whit
ened the bottom of the Atlantic with
their bones! He accused her of tie s.
100000 victims OF eviction and of the
100000 emigrants who had fed the
Irish shore within fifty years. (Sensa-
tion). Did they wish fresh evidence Of
this murderous disagreement: They
had 1t at their doors. Let them go down
to the Victoria Bridge in their own city
and see beside it the humble monument
raised by laboring men to the 5000 Irish
victims of the ship fever who were
buried there in those awful years Of
famine and exodus. Taken from any
rational standpoint. English rule in Ire
land was an ignominious failure, and
were the Irish satisfied with it, they
would deserve to be considered towards
and spaniels. Great applause). 1t was
impossible for men to be ''loyal" to
such a system of misrule. 1t would be
crime against the dignity of manhood.
(Applause).
Finally, Mr.. Finerty described amid
profound silence. the execution of the
Manchester martyrs. and dweit upon the
courage OF the victims. But their blood
he said, had not been vainly she'd and
though, TO add to the horror of their
doom, their murderers, not satisfied to
wait on the slower decomposing pro-
cesses of nature, had FASTENED their
physical humiliation by burying the
bodies in quicllime. in graves dug in
unconsecrated ground still they could
not destroy the spirit that animated the
heroes to rescue their leaders, and that
spirit was abroad throughout all the
world, wherever an Irishman, true to
his country, his race and his self-re-
spect, dWelt that night. cloud and pro-
longed cheering). Yes, in old Ireland
in free America, in Canada, in Aus
traia. in New Zealand, in the Repub-
lies that grew to grandeur under the
Southern Cross, Irishmen that night
were celebrating the heroic memory of
the men who died for liberty, sur
rounded by swarming enemies, with the
heart-born cry of God Save Ireland."
on their dying lips. Enthusiastic cheer
ing) A cause that produced such con-
fcssors of the faith of freedom could
never die. C'Hea'r" and loud applause).
They, those martyrs, were the, cheval-
iers of the Irish working peoplc-they
had facead death as bravely rs the Ger
aldines the Emllets and the Russells.
Cloud Cheers) They were the last, up
to the present. of long line of martyrs
whose blood was the seed of liberty
England called them rebels, but so also
had she called Wallace whom she slew
and Bruce who bafIled her So had he
Blvarian designated TIofer, who died
for Tyrol, and Austria. Kossuth, who
strove for Hungary. But their cause
lived after them, and so did that of the
Manchester martyrs. prolonged cheer
ing)
After the address MIR. Finerty was
banqnetcd at the st. Lawrence Hall no.
| tel, and speeches were made by several
| prominent Irish Canadians