Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-09-03

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letters from the limbs of our motherland,
and, placing on her brow the glorious
chaplet of liberty. And be 1t further
Resolved, That the unselfshness dis
played, the sufferings endured, and the
great sacrifices made by Wolfe Tone and
the United Irishmen in their efforts to
restore Ireland to her rightful place as a
free and independent Sovereign State
renders it the manifest duty of all free
dom-loving Irishmen, irrespective of
creed or class, to facilitate the work of
speedily erecting this memorial to their
memory and we therefore appeal with
confidence to our countrymen at home
and in exile to promptly and literally
subscribe to this great national project.
He said the great gathering assembled
that day to do honor to the memory of
Wolfe Tone showed that the spirit of ma
tionality was not dead. He was glad to
be amongst them that day, and he would
be glad to see union amongst Irishmen.
Irishmen united would be sure to conquer
against any foe.
Mr.. John Meagher, Bathurst, Austria
liza, who was loudly cheered, seconded
the resolutions. He said the Irishmen in
Australia never forgot the people at home
in Ireland. In all Irish movements there
was no doubt but that the Irish in Aus
tralia were always at the front. There
was no movement which would be for the
good of Ireland but wonld find support
| from their countrymen in Australia. All
sections, high and low, were with the
people at home, and the Irish national
movement receives in Australia the bless
ing of the Protestants as we'll as that of
the Catholics and the members of other
denominations.
Mr.. Gellingham, Transvaal, South At
RIGA, who was loudly cheered, supported
the resolutions. He said he could assure
them that Irishmen in South Africa were
heart and soul with the people at home in
their struggle for freedom.
The Rev. Father Supple, of Boston,
said it was great pleasure to him to see
such body of young Irishmen gathered
together to give expression to their stead
fast devotion to the cause of Irish free
dom. The people of America knew what
it was to fight for liberty, and they knew
also what the acquisition of that glorious
gift of God was. He hoped the lessons
of this day would remain implanted III
every one of their hearts. Wherever
Irishmen were, all over the world, they
would follow the principles of Wolfe
Tone, whose memory they venerated.
Irishmen united could conquer the world.
"Unite for your affairs and fires,
Unite for the green graves of your sires,
Unite for God and your native land"
Professor NOUS, of the French deputa-
ton, said he desired to thank them on
behalf of the Irishmen of France for the
reception accorded to him. He would
remember it all his life, and he felt the
deepest gratitude to those who honored
him in such manner, and he could as
sure them that they had the best wishes
of the French nation.
Mr.. w. B. Yates said he desired to say
4 few words on behalf of the Irishmen III
| England. This immense demonstration
had been held at very momentous time
in Irish history. England had persuaded
herself that Ireland. discredited by dis
union, was about to submit (cries of
"Never"O. England had persuaded her
self that she could settle the Irish ques-
ton with handful of arms. They had
answered England by that great demon
stration today. She was no longer de-
ceived she knew Ireland cherished the
same spirit still. This movement had
come from the people themselves. When
the leaders were not at the helm the peo-
pie came forward and steered the ship
into safe waters. This movement sprung
from the hearts of the people, like smoke
from the inextinguishable fire Of patriot
ism which burned within their hearts
forever.
The resolutions were then put and
carried.
Mr.. John Dillon, M. p, said Fellow
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stand on this spot was a man cast in he
roic mold. He was a man who, from
his earliest boyhood, by the intuition o.
his genius, took wider and deeper grasI
of the problem of Irish politics in his day
than did Grattan, Flood or Charlemont
Born a soldier and statesman-born in
this city of Dublin in the year 1903; he
died at the hands of his enemies in 1898
on the l4th of November, so that at the
hour of his death he was only a few
months over thirty-fve years of age anC
yet, brief as that life was, it was life
filled with glorious effort for Ireland fol
who can name in the long annals of tn,
patriots of Ireland one man who has don,
more for his country than Theobald Wolfe
Toner He has left from that brief life al
example to his countrymen which ha
, animated generation after generation o
, young Irishmen to tread in his footsteps
and which remains to this day mighty
influence, fighting for all that is noble il
/ the Ireland of this day. In 1871 Tom
| wrote his first pamphlet on behalf of tn
Irish Catholics, and when he wrote tina
pamphlet it is reported in his life that h
i. lid not Lrou one Catholic II, Tra1oud an,