The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-11-09
THE IRISH LEADERS, VISIT.

colleagues, Z. A. McHugh and Thomas
O'Donell, arrived in New York last
week. and were the recipients Of a
magnificent ovation from their exiled
countrymen in the American metropo-
lis. Among those who welcomed them
to Columbia's hospitable shores were
General James ]. O'Beirne and L. st.
John Gaffney of New York, ex-Con-
gresham John Il. Finerty Of Chicago,
John J. O'Callaghan of Boston, and
John McCluslley of Philadelphia. There
We're also seventy representatives of
Irisll-American societies, including the
Clan-na-Gael, the county organizations,
the A. o. H, and the Daughters of '9S,
ut the pier to shake their hands and
bid them welcome to the United States.
The Irish ENJOYS were enthusiastic
ally cheered on landing. Mr.. Redmond
responded in short address, in which
he feelingly referred to the death of
President Mckinley and said the peo-
pie of Ireland had been touched with
profound sorrow by the assassination.
When his attention was drawn to the
dispersion Of a meeting of the United
Irish League in Mayo, in which his
brother, William Redmond, John
| O'Donnell and another member of par
lament We're badly beaten by the con-
stabulary for uttering seditious Ian
guage, Mr.. Redmond said: "Every
Irish organization worth it's salt is Sc
ditious. The more coercion there is
in Ireland and the more women and
children there are trampled upon and
dubbed, the better it will be for the
advancement of Irish liberty. When
things are going smoothly it is bad
thing for Ireland"
In the course of his address Mr.. Red
mond denied that he~4lad ever said
that the separation of Ireland from
England was not desirable or possible,
aud declared the report to be utterly
untrue and absolutely inconsistent with
every statement made by him, in and
out of parliament, during the past 20
years. He referred to the Boer war,
to the reduction of Irish representation
in parliament, and to the unity which
ROW exists among the Nationalist of
ireland.
On last Sunday night a monster
meeting was held in Carnegie hall I'LL
der the auspices of the Amalgamated
Irish societies of New York, the Irish
Nationalist club, and the New York
Irish League William McAdoo, for
mcr assistant secretary Of the navy,
WAS chairman Of the meeting, and Will
liam Temple Emmett acted as secretary.
The latter read a letter from Bishop
Clancy, Of Elplrn, who is on visit to
this country, and who said that the
present Irish parliamentary party is
worthy of the entire confidence of the
Irish race, both here and at home.
The longest speech of the evening
was made by Mr.. Redmond. Having
alluded to the death of Palmell and the
loss sustained by Ireland in his disap-
pearance from politics, he said in part:
"Nly object in coming here is, in the
first place, toiproclaim the unity of the
Irish people at home; secondly, to ex-
plain the policy which these people at
home have unanimously adopted; and,
finally, to say to THE Irish race in
America that if they approve Of that
policy, they ought to support it, but
that whether they support it or not
whether the Irish people at home are
left in this crisis of their country's his
tory to carry on this struggle against
England without the aid of their
brethren throughout the world, or not,
we at home are disciplined enough to
carry on this movement ourselves, and
at amy cost we shall do So
If we mistake not, the Irish race in
America will not disappoint Mr.. Red
mOllM and his companions. Many Irish
Americans lG,ve lost confidence in the
plan Of fighting England by constitu-
tional methods: but the great majority
OF them know that at present the
claims of Ireland cannot be argued eX-
cept with the tongue. The time may
come when al opportunity Will he pre-
scented to the Irish people to demand
their rights of sclf-government in a
different way. but until that time az
rivcs it is the sacred duty of the sons
of Ireland in America to stand be-
hind their Kindred in the old land and
render them every encouragement III
the plan they have adopted for the en-
termination of landlordism and for the
acquisition of the land for the people.
AS we understand it, the Irish en-
voys have come to America for the
purpose Of organizing auxiliary branch
es of the United Irish League, and not
to get money for parliamentary agita-
ton. In order that emigration from
Ireland shall be checked it is necessary
that the landlord system be abolished,
and THAT the big ranges over which fat
cattle and sheep now roam, to fill the
capacious nav Of John Bull, be brok-
en- up for cultivation by and for the
tillers of the soil who have been driven
into the moors and mountains to exc
out miserable existence, or been
| forced to leave for foreign lands to