The Irish standard., 1900-10-06
ARRAlGNs THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
A Police Reporter Taking Notes
of His Utterances.
DRIVING TIE ENGLISH OUT OF erin
Excoriates Those Who Took
the Queens Titles.

At recent meeting in the Phoenix
Park, Dublin, William O'Brcn, the
undaunted Irish Nationalist, spoke in
part as follows:
take it that what every man here
wants-eXcept possibly our trici!ds Of
the police battalion underneath mc :
well I'm not sure but if we cOul !
read their secret hearts even they
might not be an eXception--Dut ut all
events what YOU and l WANT ut"vr
all other things is to bundle English
rule out of the country. AS tu the
means by which it is to be done that
is altogether question of what
means happen for the moment to be
the most practical. If those means
and methods do not transgrrss the
laws of God, l for one care very lit
tie what other laws they may trans
gress. Therefore it is that whGn we
ask the Nationalists of Dublin to give
fair play to this movement we Go so
wholly and solely because This league
happens to be the best means avail
able, for the moment mt all events, to
make our English rulers uncomtort-
able in their robber lair in Dublin Cas-
tie. We do not ask any mali to re-
nounce whatever other opportunities
of freedom England's difficulties may
present us with. English ruln in Ire
land is so bad-you know what II
means; population forever drcre,S-
ing, pAuperism increasing, G.O0O.N)O
a year of admittedly unjust taxation
wrung from those who remain, our
native race barred out from higher
education and from every position OF
power in tho government oi their own
country-Inglish rule is SO bad and so
ilrlefensible; and now l am going to
make Il present to the police reporter
of something worth his taking down.
say that English rule is y" indie
fensible III the sight of God and man
that according to every principle of
the law of nations our people would
he justified in chasing the English
out of this island, bag and bnggnge.
What is wanting is not the jus:ilic:l-
ton, but the guns and artillery, to do
it. Therefore I hold that the fllntla.
mental fact of this Irish struggle Is
that we are ut war with English rule,
just as truly as IL we We're in IL posi-
ton openly to take the field, and that,
failing better weapons, it is the duty
of every Nationalist to hnrass and
torment the English garrison, to hold
10 truce or parley with them. to make
them feel every day Of their lives that
they are living in hostile country,
and to make English queens and lord
lieutenants and pnrliaments under
stand that the only thing they can 10
to please Ireland is to clear out and
to give up the impossible task Of
manufacturing us into Englishmen.
On the other hand, there are gentle
men who, no doubt, labor under the
impression they are still Irish Nation,
alists. and their whole business in
life seems to be to break down every
movement or organization that could
make things unpleasant for our Eng
lish rulers. Their idea of driving the
English out Of Ireland seems to b"
that we should never say n word that
could Jar upon the feelings Of the gen
tlemcn from England or Scotland who
are good enough to come across to
rule us and to rob us. Our English
rulers are to lie on beds Of down and
beds of roses in Dublin castle-that is
the new national gospel. The repre-
sentativcs Of Irish nationality nre only
to approach them in court livery and
cooked hats. We are to poster them
no longer about Ireland's liberties,
but only about knighthOod or a
barOnetcy, or n card for the Queens
garden party, or about organizing a
banquet in honor of Sir Edward Car
son, the cOercionist. And when there
is nothing else left for England to
plumber us of, we are to sink upon our
knees and thank her for stealing the
very shamrocks from the Irish fields
to- steep them in the hearts blood Of
the gallant people in the Transvaal
That is really and truly what we are
coming to. If the things that some Of
the representative men of Dublin have
been doing for the past few months
were to 60 on unchecked and unchal-