Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-02-11

not one of these. l have preached un-
der every contingency, and / have again
and again declared my intention to
abandon the cause of repeal if a single
drop of human blood were shed by those
who advocated the measure | made the
same principle the basis for the move
ment in favor of Catholic emancipation;
and it was by rigid adherence to that
principle that conducted the movement
to a glorious and triumphant issue.
at is my boast that Catholic enamel
patton and every achievement of my po-
litical life was obtained without violence
and bloodshed: and is 1t fair, ask you,
that YOU should be called upon at this
hour of the day to interrupt man who
has laid that down as the basis of his
political conduct, and who at no period
of his existence was ever known 10
deviate from that maxim Is it right
that men of honesty and intelligence
should be called upon to brand now as
a participation in conspiracy the man
who has been preaching peace, law and
order during his whole life, and has in
variably deprecated and denounced the
idea that the objects of his political life
were to be attained by an appeal to vio-
lent means? l belong TO Christian per-
suasion with whose members it is a
principle of doctrinal belief that no adj
vantage to church or state-no, not even
Heaven can be sought to be attained at
the expense of any crime Whatsoever
that no sin is to be justified or palliated
by any amount of advantage, however
enormous, that may possibly be obtained
by its commission.
81 now come to the evils of the Union,
and would look to every honest man to
exert himself for its repeal. Would it
not cure the odious evils of absentee
ism2 1t was calculated by an able man
that S45, 100000 year pass out of this
country. The railway commissioners re-
duce it to $50, 900, 600 Take the reduced
amount, and ask did ever a country
suffer such an odious drain of 800, 900, 000
of absentee money-$S0, 900, 900 raised
every year in this country not to fructify
it, not to employ the people of the coun-
try, not to take care of the sick and
poor or desolate, but 10000, 900 are
trausplanted to foreign lands, sent
there, but giving no return, leaving pow
erty to those who enriched them. Take
$3.50, 900, 900 for the last ten years--look,
now, at $500, 900, 900 drawn from this un.
happy countryside it for the next six
years. Can you, in conscience, encour-
age thiss There is a cant that agitation
prevents the influx of capital. What is
the meaning of that? We do not want
English capital; leave us our own
$50, 100000 and we shall have capital in
abundance. We do not want that left
handed benevolence which would drain
the country with one hand and let it in
niggardly with the other.
"There is another item which exhaust:
the resources of this country, and that
to the amount precisely of $40, 900, 900 an
nually. In the last year it was as low
as 5000, 900, but whether the one or the
other it is drawn out of this country
never to return. There is, again, the
woods and forests-that department re-
ceives 1870, 600 a year out of Ireland IN
quit rents, etc. How was that expended
for the last ten years. Between the
Thames tunnel and to ornament Trafal
gar Square. We want an additional
bridge in Dublin. Why have we not the
1870 900 for that purpose? Have we moi
as good a right as that il should be ex-
pended on Trafalgar Square, If we had
the Parliament in College Green would
that $4,000 be sent to adorn a square
in London
There are other evils attending this
continued drain on the country. re-
member the work of Mr.. Young, po-
litical economist, who journeyed in Ire
land in rs, who in speaking of the in
crease of population accounted for il
by the never failing bellyful of potatoes
they had all bellyful of potatoes-and
to that he attributed their increase. But
is this the case now? Has not the coun-
try sensibly declined? Is not even one
meal OF potatoes treat and a treasure;
according to the evidence Of the commits
sioners Of poor law inquiry the peo-
pie are now in rags. Was this my lam
guage1 No, gentlemen, appeal to your
selves. Are they not reduced to misery
and wretchedness; frittered away by PEE
riodical famine, and there were six or
eight since the Union; there was relief
from England while provisions were in
quantities transported to this country;
provisions were in the country while the
people were perishing with hunger, but
these provisions were exported from the
country. Let me tell You that the popu-
lation commissioners report show the
aggravation Of the evil. The gentleman
who made the report is a military officer
Capt. Larkham--a man of science, Of
integrity and of honor. He reports the
state of the population to be this: That
30 per cent. of the tpwn and city popu-
lation were in abjecI poverty. and that