The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

known not as the Irish National party.
but as the Queens garden party. This
Is not n personal question. it is not Il
question of this section or that sec
tion-all the sections are tarred with
the same brush.
Let me say that in my opinion the
organizers Of this meeting have done
the wise thing as well as the manful
thing in not beating about the bush in
their resolutions, but in doing what
the speaker of the House of Commons
does whenever there is any trouble
from his point of view, and that is
by naming the honorable member
My friends, 1t would be vely much
easier for you and for me to steer
clear Of these unpleasant topics-it
would be easy enough to confine our
selves to safe generalitics. but unless
these topics We're straightly and stern
ly dealt with in free public meeting
like this, really we might all as well
go up to the castle yard and sing
Rule Britannia" and forget that there
ever We're such men as Wolfe Tone or
Robert Emmett who died for Irish lib.
erty. l have no personal objection
to these gentlcmcn--I believe Lord
Mayor File Is a very able man. But
when n Nationalist lord mayor earns
a baronetcy by persuading ignorant
Englisllmen that he represents The
people of Dublin when he falls down
In worship before the mur.lerers of
Roer liberty, and when IL Nationalist
member for Dublin or for Sligo so
licits the whip of the Tory party for
an invitation to meet an English
Queen-if such things were to br
lusllcd up and to be passed over in
silence in this aSsemblagc Of the peu-
pie of Dublin, what could Englishmen
conclude but that the Queens visit
had succeeded in accomplishing Eng-
lands work, and that the people them
selves were consenting parties to the
degradation of their representatives.
don't suppose these gentlemen were
fully conscious of what they were do
ing. But what they wer doing. be-
yond all manner Of doubt, was selling
back into the service of England two
of the most powerful strongholds over
which the people had succeeded in
setting the green flag flying after
many year of hard STRUGGLE mean
The strOnghOlds of the Dublin cOrpOrA-
tion and the parliamentary repre-
sentation of Dublin and selling them
back to England without an atom of
justification, from the point of view Of
public advantage, because you will
recollect all that we were promised If
the English Queen were not hoOtctl
through the streets Of Dublin. There
were all sorts of mysterious winks
and hints from high quarters as to
what was III store for us; we were to
get perhaps n national Parliament or
II Catholic university If we were good.
At the very least, Lord Mayor Pile
was TO have his Dublin boundaries
triumphantly passed by the Tory ma
.jOrity as the price of his abasing him
self in the gutter.
What has come of 1t all? England
has treated her Irish slaves as slaves
will always deserve to be treated.
The Tories Of ltathmines and Penn
broke have proved more powerful
than all Lord Mayor Piles gcnu-
Elections; and, so far rs the public
cause is concerned so far us the cause
Of Ireland is concerned, absolutely
nothing has come Of all this slnvish-
ness except Lord Mayor Piles title
and Mr.. Cnrew's court sword. 1t Is
the lesson that is taught by every
page Of Irish history; all that has ever
l,een won from England has been
won, not by crawling bcggars, but by
unninching men. My friends, you
would have been spared all this sla-
vishncss, and all this selfshness, IL
twelve months ago you had in Dublin
an united organization of the people,
such as, please God, we are planting
deeply and permanently here today.
Even within this last week you have
had striking illustration of the
magic influence of an organized peO
pie. DO you suppose that you would
have had as large n vote against the
electric light syndicate Mt last Mon
days meeting Of the corporation only
that this meeting was pending In the
park today? If the w0rkingmen of
Dublin had not set to work to organ
ize this league and summon this meet
ing l am afraid the syndicate would
have had n smoother task in inducing
gentlemen of the corporation to
change their opinions, and you would
have this great city bound hand and
foot under the sway Of this extraor-
binary coalition Of wealthy capitalists
and rotten politicians.
"When in America" says Success,
"the Irish poet, Thomas Moore, was
presented to President Jefferson. He
was amazed to finC the author Of the
Declaration of Independence sitting
in a homely costume, comprising slip