The Irish standard., 1900-10-13

despair he kept up his heart and his
courage; and, tell you, 1t required
stout heart to Keep up courage dur
ing the last ten years. Many man
has grown faint, and many man has
said to himself, why should not at
tend to my own business? What has
Irish politics brought to an honest
man? What has it brought to all the
honest men of the. past but poverty.
neglect, ruin and death? And many
man b said to himself: I'LL attend
to M At, affairs
"Md2oc :@ee aid to himself: I'll
no longer'et b. 'Rese people be-
cause the force ~zs1 "'ng against
them.' William u t never
faltered even for an h. .ers), and
when stood in the Rotun. =, as many
of you around me did, in that great
hall where were summoned century
ago the volunteers, who demanded and
won the liberty of Ireland, and saw
that nearly every district in Ireland
was represented by its best citizens
and its stoutest Nationalists, and tru-
est Irishmen-when 1 saw that great,
united, powerful enthusiastic gather
ing-as fine as ever met in the Ro
tunda, could not help turning around
to look at William O'Brien, and say.
There is the man reused Ireland; it
is the greatest work William O'Brien
has ever DONE cloud cheers.]
"Then, it is said, it is all very fine,
but it is William O'Brien's League.
In the sense that it was William
O'Brien's genius and courage and pa
triotism that laid it's foundation stone,
it is William O'Brien's league, but he
only laid the stone. The people them
selves built the dwelling Cheers. 1t
is in the hands of the people now.
There never was freer, more demo-
cratic, there never was less 'bossed'
organization in the whole history Of
IE1S1 ulOVelutulS NcAcWCO SASCAS/.
"Here in this county, in this divi-
sion, your branches can meet together.
You need not ask u word of anybody
in Dublin OF elsewhere. You can
choose any man of your own free
choice within the league. How can
it be called the league of Mr.. O'Brlen!
Mr.. Chairman, it is the league OF the
people, and it is the people now that
have the right and control, and the
next party in parliament will be the
peoples party. (Hear, 1lear.)
'The nation that is enslaved while
having the power to free itself de-
serves to be scorned and desplsed.
81 have proved to you conclusively
that it is within the power Of tile peo-
pie Of Ireland now to forge a weapon
for the next parliament which will
penetrate the vulnerable side of the
alien government by which we are
ruled. After twenty years Of parlia.
ment, I declare today, as my solemn
conviction, that, in spite of everything
they have done to put down our power,
the Irish party in parliament, il hon
est and united, can make the govern
ment of Ireland impossible, and force
a measure of self-government for Ire
land from even a hostile ministry OF
Tories. (Cheers.)
But the weapon must be forged
strong and true Don't make mlser-
able kind of pike, that will stand no
hard work, and that will break in the
hands of the man that tries To use 1t.
Do not have factionist representatives,
who will go one on one side and an
other on another.
"Haye men who, as in the old days
of Parnell, when the moment came for
decision in the House Of Commons,
voted in the one lobby, anxious only
for one thing-that their weight should
be on the side of Ireland and against
the side of Ireland's enemies. l have
gone up and down the country now. l
have seen much Of the country. I do
not deny some remains Of the old apa-
thy are still left. I do not say as yet
this organization has reached the great
power and influence of the organlza-
tions that have preceded it; but say,
taking the time which has elapsed ana
the circumstances with which 1t has
had to contend, that this organization
has made more rapid advances than
any other organization that preceded
it. I believe in my heart this organlza-
ton opens the path Of liberty to the
Irish people, and, having said this, l
leave the cause of Ireland with conn'
dence in the hands of the ever true
and patriotic people of the Kings
county," loud cheers)
+ A dispatch from New Haven, Conn.,,
reads as follows:
Attorney James P. Bree of this city,
national secretary Of the Ancient Or
der of Hiberians, has left here to In
yestigate the seizure by the Canadian
government of a package of literature
relating to the proceedings of the last
national convention of the order, which
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