The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-01

address in full is as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: 1 have come
nearly a thousand miles to join with
you in this magnificent demonstration,
1 rejoice with you in it's OVerWhelm-
ing success, and L earnestly trust that
the harmony which now pervades all
| Irish organizations and the unity of
purpose that animates them will for
ever continue. Our people are con-
fronted by conditions as grave as ever
| menaced them. In Ireland the race is
wasting away. During the reign of the
present ruler. although Scotland and
Wales and England have largely in
creased their population, that of Ire
| land has been reduced one-balf. Arabic
land that would support in plenty
human life is being converted into
sheep walks, and the people who once
| titled the soil have been driven as ex-
| lies into foreign countries. The frac-
| ton of the people that remain are
| taxed inordinately to pay the eXpen-
ses of an empire that destroys them.
| The civil rights which Americans hold
so dear. of free speech and a free
press, of trial by jury of their peers,
! of peaceful aSSemblage to protest
against iniquity, and the right to bear
arms are denied to the Irish people
| The English common law exists for
| them but in theory. During the reign
! of the present queen coercion acts
without number have been passed,
sweeping away all the ordinary forms
of law and clothing the representa-
tives of a hostile government with ir
| responsible power such as is only sup
posed to exist in the deSDotisms of
Turkey or of Russia. Although within
the British empire there are more than
thirty colonies or states with depend
emf laWmaking bodies. Ireland and In
dia of all her dominions are deprived
of even the forms of government,
and it is a sad commentary upon her
rule that in each of them misery and
want and shame have been the badges
of her sway.
From England there can be no hope
of the granting of justice to Ireland.
Gladstone's fruitless appeal to the con-
science of Englishmen afforded ample
demonstration of the futility of ap-
peals to the reason of the rulers; but
during the present year Lord Salisbury,
with brutal frankness, has accentu-
ated the position of the English peo-
pie and has announced that self-gov-
eminent for Ireland is beyond the pale
of consideration" He has challenged
And their answer to his gage of battle
has been the suppression of faction,
their reunion the world over, and
their lining-up for the death grapple.
Men not OF our race and to whom
the history of Ireland is a sealed book
wonder at the intensity of Irish feeling
and are amazed that year after year
our people gather in their great meet
ings and seize upon occasions like this
To rn1a Il 10 hot
seems to them a hopeless cause.
The undying faith is indeed marvel
Gus, but the intensity of the strong
feelings that inspire the Irish people
to action in this land of liberty is the
legitimate result of England's terrible
rule. The history of that rule in Ire
land is the blacklist spot in the annals
of men. No crime ever committed by
any savage conquerer in Asia or Africa
but can be surpassed in brutality by
the fiendish acts of the English SOL
diery upon the Irish people. Wholesale
massacres followed their every inva-
sion. Old and young, the feeble and
the strong, women and children and
men alike fell victims to the butchers |
Over the land her ruthless soldiers |
swept with fire and sword, and time |
and again her Spencers, her Montjoys, |
her Pelhams. her Cromwells boosted |
and ashes" From out the armory of |
her hate her Henrys, her Elizabeths, |
her Georges, her Victorias have drawn |
their every weapon. To man-made |
famine, the exile ship, the scaffold, the |
dungeon, to secure our physical eX-
she has added crimes against |
the mind, the conscience, and the in
tellect of the people of Ireland that af-
ford no comparison with aught else for |
ioI 1I; l.-I-
Ireland SurpasseS human comprehen-
sion. To educate the Irish youth was
by law treason to England. To minis
ter unto the people by their chosen
priesthood was punishable by death
BY legislative enactments one by one
the people were robbed of their manu-
features and their industries. Foreign
trade was prohibited. Forbid to read,
forbid to plead, disarmed. disfran-
chised, imbecile," pitiless. Want went
hand in hand with hopeless despair
Unframed unskilled, deprived by law
Of every opportunity to cultivate the
brain or hand, the people were driven
to the soil for sustenance, and when
the signals came for their periodical
exile to foreign lands the mass of the
people set foot in the new countries fit
only for the lowliest employments. But
her barbarity to the Irish did not end
when our fathers landed upon foreign
soil. No; her hatred followed them
wherever the exile ship carried them.
Her libelerS have made them the sub
ect of caricature the world over. To
Justify her brutality to them, every
vice, every failing has been distorted
Ind magnified and chronicled to the
world. She has arrayed against them
brutality, ignorance, and prejudice.
She has made more terrible their
struggles for livelihood. She has plant
ID in the pathway of their honorab BILE
ambitions and hopes for progress every
obstacle. She has aroused through the
propaganda of her press agents, who
ind shelter in the offices of nearly
very great newspaper, the vilest pref
ldices. Sometimes the antipathy to the
IRISH race, that England carefully fos-
cred, has taken form in the burning
4 churches, sometimes in the business
II social ostracism of the individual, ,
nd always in the determination that
10 one of them shall hold political cleo 1
i've offices. In self-defense Americans ,
f Irish blood have been compelled to ;
axe counsel together and form organ .
cations like those under which this ;;
reat demonstration is held TODAY :
Their membership therein in nowise :
etraets from their duty to America. :
heir hopes, their interests. their am
itions are conferred here Time and !
gain, from the day when the news u,
pread through London that CORVALLIS ;
ad surrendered and the bitter cry t,
Tent out from parliament that Amer :
"a has been lost through the Irish '
UT race has demonstrated its unfalter-
lg devotion to this land of their hearts =
ope and love. The existence of these
examinations has been an absolute ne :
esslty. They have enabled the Irish J
ace to surmount the barriers in their
athway and to break down race ha- q
eds, and today, no longer penned I'D :
the little island, which she has SO -
ten made charnel house. our race
lat she has ntto,.ad 80 Ii