The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-06


1utionary Party Speak to Large
Audience in st. Thomas College
Hall-They Believe in Preparing
to Fight England at the Very
Next Recurrence Of an opportu-
nifty, Such as Was Afforded by the
Boer War.
st. Thomas College hall was crowd
ed to overtlowing last night, to hear
Miss Maud Come and Major John Nc.
Bride. the champions of the Irish
Revolutionary party vino are touring
America 20 win sympathy and Sub.
stantial assistance for the cause they
espouse. The audience was as enth,is-
iastic as 1t was large, and the speeches
In consequence were accompanied
throughout by applause that ut times
could be truly termed tumultuous. Iis-
pecially was this true during Major
McBridc's recital Of the deeds of his
Irish brigade in the fight against the
British in the Transvaal, and his de-
clarations that thousands of just such
men as so badly bothered the British
In South Africa, were ready Ia repeat
their deeds for Ireland on Irish soil.
With Miss Come there is no minclng
Of words as TO how she would bring
about the redress of Ireland's griev-
ances. Her platform can be COM
pressed into the. one word, "war." AS
briefly outlined in the interview she
accorded a Tribune man Friday. and
given at length in her address last
night, Miss Comes plan Of campaign
Is this: Have the Irish prepare for
active warfare and. when next Eng
land becomes eInbrOlcd in a war with
some big nation, let the Irish swoop
down upon what remnant of the Brit
ish army may be left in Ireland. drive
It out. establish u government, and
then. as an ally of the British enemy.
whoever 1t may be. demand that the
guarantee of Ireland's freedom be
part OF the treaty of peace.
This. of course. is taking for granted
that England will be worsted. Miss
Come and her partisans are confident
this will eventuate. They argue that
England is shown to be weak and that
any good.sized nation. with the aid
of the Irish, can bring her to her
knees.
AS she put it in her address last
night "If 10000 Boer farmers are
more than a match for 900 British.
what could not a big government ac.
complish against herr"
EICtJyrS THE ,ruJNc
Miss Come is almost denuciatory In
her tratment of the parliamentary
movement. mo people ever won free
dom from a tyrant nation except by
fight" she declared Arms, not
breath. will free Ireland. If she is ever
freed"
The reaction against the Parla.
mentary movement has already set in,
she said. AT the last elections, not
over Onehalf the Irish voters took the
trouble to so 10 the polls. and the
supporters of the Parliamentary party
cannot secure large meetings anywhere
in Ireland.
Ireland, she said, Is in immediate
and desperate need of help. During
the reign Of Queen Victoria the popula-
tion was reduced one-half, or from
s,COO000 to 4.50O,0O0. and nearly 2.0OO.-
600 OF these died from famine. though
their country would be a country ot
plenty If it were not for the economic
conditions brought by lIngland's pol
Icy o. dnnationaliZlnG the island to
make ii refuge for her own surplus
population. Over 100000 people We're
driven from home in the name OF
England's gracious queen.
Miss Come told some narrowing
tales Of evictiOns and famine suffering
witnessed by her own eyes. and said:
"All this time there We're eighty Irish |
Nationalist in the house of parlia-
ment. Day after day they talked about |
the Irish famine and after all their |
talk the only satisfaction they received |
was this comment of Balfour: DO you
expect us to furnish champagne for !
Irish peasants? Gladstone was prime |
Morley was Irish secretary.
and the Liberals We're in the majority |
with the aid of the Irish vote.
ireland has no time to waste on |
talk She cannot afford to lose another |
opportunity like that of last year, when |
the whole British force in ireland, out
side OF the constabulary. consisted of |
only 5000 militia. recruited from the
scum of English cities. and neither
physically or morally fitted to be SOL
diers. But we We're not prepared, be-
cause for thirty years we had depended
on breath. instead of arms.
"ln Parnell We had a wonderful |
and he had almost un-
limited financial aid from this country,
but what was accomplished? Next to
nothing. The few amendments to the
agrarian laws We're secured by the
Land league when the Revolutionists
We're at its head and when an irish
landlords life was not insurable. Rents
have been reduced, II is true, but this
was due to the fall in agricultural
prices. and. as the prices fell in greater
proportion than the decrease in rents.
the Irish are worse off than before"
REDMOND CONSIDERED.
John Redmond the leader of the
Parliamentary party, came in for some
rather sarcastic treatment at Miss
tonnes hands. She quoted from one
lf his speeches, in which he declared
hat the Irish Nationalists were in IA
position To control and initiate legisla-
ion, and then described the recent epi-
sode In the house of commons, when
he Irish members We're carried out
bodily by the police for attempting to
control and initiate legislation"
Speaking of the charges made against
Ter i'm the Irish World, that she Is SOW
ng dissension among the Irish, Miss
tonne said she was misunderstood Ma
ional unity, she declared, does not
mean. necessarily, identity OF opinion.