The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-08

DOonbeg meeting (cheers), and have
suddenly become alive to the force of the
commandant-Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor's goods CHEERS and laughter).
l should not be surprised II after this
second blast Of trumpets from the United
Nationalists Of West Clare you should
see the walls of other land grabbers
strongholds around Labasheeda tumbing
down like the walls OF Jericho (cheers).
OF course, in strictly peaceful and
tisurative manner, because let the grab
bcrs make no mistake about it-cithcr
this league will have to be wiped
out or the land grabbing will
have to be wiped out in Clare
(grcat cheering). The land-grab-
Der has Il perfectly legal right TO MAKE
his life as miserable as lie chooses
llaughter). He has Il perfect right to sec
how much comfort of profit he will set
by combining with the landlords and the
Orange emergcncymcn against his own
kith and kin, and against every prompt-
"
on the other hand, we know we'll that
III every country and in every class. from
the czar of Russia down to the Irish
grabber, and you could not so much low
er (groans and laughtcr), every man
must sooner or later bow his knee to
public opinion. If the land-grabber had
all tho army and NAVY and vclunt nnrr of
England at his back, he could not resist
the final victory of public opinion in
every case where there can be no doubt
about the justice of the peoples action,
where the people have nothing in the
way of violence or crime that they need
blush for, and where the people are de-
,termined to call Il spade a spade and Il
grabber a grabbcr (cheers), and to haunt
him night and day., in fair and market,
OH road and street, and with the over
lasting remainder of his shame and OF
his crime against his poorer fellow
countrymen Cloud checring). In the he
ginning OF this movement we raised that
issue distinctly with the government in
West Mayo. We said four hundred
union greater than nll other trades
unions put together, and in our comhina-
tiOn We intend to use against every grab
Der and every enemy of the people every
right of picleting blacklcgs and of os-
tarcising blaclilcgs which the law of
England allows to the trades unions of
England (chccrsl; ana If the government
mean to make war upon that right of
combination by all means let them fire
away even in their own coercion courts
(rhccrs). That was the position on
which we offered them battle. At first,
apparently, the government accepted the
challenge They Hooded the country with
extra police, they proclaimed all public
mcl tngs. They hludgconrd people for
threatened us with instant prosecution.
and with some mysterious blow "r other
that would surprise us. Well, nothing
would surprise me about the stupidity of
English rule in Ireland 0anehtcrl, on
ccpt. perhaps, if so cocksurr gentleman
as Mr. Gerald TalfOur should hay" Wis
dom enough not to follow his brother
Arthur into !, policy of MitrhclStown
massacrcs, and orders not to hesitate to
shoot (eroans). We will see about that
hereafter. But as Il matter of fact. it
was not VIC but the cocrciOnsts that got
something that surprised them nightly
cloud cnccrs). 1t is the police systc IN Of
Dublin Castle and not We that are stand
ing in the dock at the present momrN
(chccrs), and as for the prOclnnlntions
and blrdgconings and prosecutions. Mr..
Balfour suddenly dropped them as
if he got hold of a hot poker
daughter and chccrs). and the Unit
cd Irish League is pursuing its
program steadily and placihly with so
much success that in one of the parishes
that, could name for you in West Mayo
only one man could be found for love or
money to NOW the hay of any graZicr or
gr;bbcr (chccrs), and even the one black
sheep has rcpcntcd and taken his depart
ure cloud cheers, and the last news !
hear from Mayo is that the grazicrs and
grabbcrs themselves were signing a re-
qusiton to the congcstcd district board
begging of them to buy off The landlords
and themselves and to restore the lands
TO the people cloud chccrs). What is the
secret of that extraordinary change OF
front? IL is, of course, that these gentle
men know that this United Irish League
means fight (chccrs); aye, and that we
court fight Uond cheers, and that the
more opportunities they give us for
showing up to the United States what
English rule in ireland means. the more
gladly we will pick up the gauntlet
(Chccrs). Every branch of this league
will he and is deliberately intended to be
q center of disturbances and of war
against landlordism and English rule in
all its shapes cloud checrs). We do not
expect to play at bows without getting
rubbers. Our position is a perfectly
frank and plain one. Whether Mr.. Bal
four cocrces or whether he does not he
will be helping us alike in the fight for
ireland (checrs). He can take his choice.
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