The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28

and. consequently, that agitation VIII
continue and will probably be a prominent
feature of the coming political campaign
in Ireland. In this movement, fortunate
ly, all Irishmen with the exception of a
few in Belfast are united, and there is a
general determination TO press for the last
farthing due to the country. Even BeitaSt
seems at last to be coming round TO, the
general view. That city has hitherto kept
aloof from the financial movement be
cause It thought that 1T discerned In It
something of Nationalism and "Popery"
combined: but II is getting rid gradually
of the ridiculous idea
The Gladstone statue project as / an
ticipated, has been, as it were, nipped in
the bud The corporation on Monday
unanimously refused TO grant site for
a statue to any Englishman in the streets
of Dublin till a suitable monument had
first been erected to Charles Stewart
Parnell Not only was this decision come
to unanimously, but there was scarcely
any discussion about 1t. This was rather
strange, in view of the fact that there
are several anti-Parnellites in the corpo-
ration, and that the anti-Parnellite jour
nails had for several days tried tried to
work up an agitation In support of the
English proposal, the Independent alone,
the organ of the Independent or Parnell-
lite party, denouncing 1t. The explana-
ton, of course. is that Dublin is over
whelmingly Parnellite, and that we are
soon to have a general municipal cleo
ton. The anti-Parnellite journals, or
rather one of them, now threatens an
agitation to reverse the vote of the cor
poration, but that threat is mere bun
combe. An agitation for such purpose
could not be gotten up. and could not
be maintained in Dublin for single day.
1t would be regarded as q fresh anti
Parnellite campaign, and however that
might fare in the provinces, II would
lish Liberals, of course, If one may judge.
from the comments in the English Lib
eral press are wild with the Parnell-
ites.N But they ought to have known
what would happen, and have refrained
from inviting the rebuff they have re-
ceived. Their present behavior is re-
garded as a fresh attempt to dictate to
irish Nationalists in a matter which
Irish Nationaiists alone.
An interesting ceremony took place in
the City Hall on Saturday last when two
ebp f. Red ass were Ne p on besaf
the Irish Ladies' Association of New
York to the veteran patriot. John
o'Leary, as the chairman OF the IS Cen.
across to Mr.. Redmond In substitution
for the presence of Irish-Americans who
would have been present In person this
TRULY designed, and will be prominently
borne in the Wolfe Tone procession on
Monday. Interesting speeches were made
on the occasion by MI REDMOND ana Mr;
caused great satisfaction in the Nation.
alist ranks. But, needless to say, the
Irish people, and the Dublin people espe-
Y,
will not permit the Irish
American invasion, to which they have
been looking forward since the opening
of the year. I may add here that the
accounts which have reached us of the
sufferings of Irish and other American
soldiers at Santiago deeply stirred public
feeling Not a few Irish-American OFF,
GERS are reported to have succumbed to
yellow fever whose names had been IA
miliar one way or another in this coun-
try and it is hard to realize that they
have passed away. The consolation, of
course is that they have died under the
Stars and Stripes. fighting in the defense
of human liberty.
Now that the centenary Of '9s is being
Kavanaugh, o. S. f., OF Cork, on the
Insurrection, is being largely read. 1t was
first published some years ago and had
an extensive sale, but it now, Of course,
Is being read more widely still. 1t is
work of painstaking research, and of
high literary merit. Father Kavanaugh
is by nature, instinct and family fitted
to be the historian of 98. He is a grand
nephew of Father Michael Murphy, who
was killed at the battle of Ross in that
year, and inherits his ancestry's patri-
otto devotion. AS a man and as priest
he Is universally esteemed In Cork.