The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-14


have said on the floor of the English
parliament.
Il say, in its essence, the national
movement is the same today as 1t was
in the days Of Hugh ONeil of Owen
Roe, of Emmett, or of Wolfe, dare to
overthrow the foreign domination in our
land and to put Irishmen in charge of
their own affairs The object has al
ways been the same, and If we are
working by methods that seem slow and
ineffective to free and an armed peo-
pie, our critics should remember that
people must labor with what they have
at hand. Whether the freedom of Ire
land is attained by moral suasion or
physical force, what difference so long
as 1t Is achieved?
when we say we are working on
peaceful lines, it is because they are
the only means at our hand, and we
believe 1t is possible for us, If we can
not reach the ultimate goal, we can at
least go a long way toward the free
dom Of our country. We are near, far
nearer than most people imagine, to
| the achievement of that object
Here in this free land you have a
population of $4,000, 000 In Great Brit
ain and Ireland there are half as many
as that, and If you take all the de-
tendencies of the British empire, the
| population is much more than that.
England is trying to govern all these
dependencies and at the same time her
own affairs at home by the same gov
erning body. Here you have your ma
tional congress and your state govern
ments yet England is trying to do all
this legislation for so many different
peoples by one body. That can not
last. The English parliament has
broken down. All that is necessary to
stop the parliament on any other
question is to have some great impe-
rial question like a war demand at
tention."
A man In the gallery interrupted
with: 1.-THE Beers didn't break them
up"
Mr.. Redmond continued: 1.-THE Beers
are doing a great service to America
and Ireland If America can get her
own terms on the Nicaragua canal it
is due to the resistance of the Beers.
We have to thank the Beers in Ire
land, for my friend in the gallery, the
Beers have given to England in par
Lament and in South Africa more than
she can do.
II don't want to deal in vague gem
eralities, but | tell you we are near
the time when England, to save her
own parliament from the contempt and
VI HCI bWn DtODiCf VIII give
Ireland a free Ireland parliament We
don't have to ask for it, All we have
to do is to thwart England in her own
matters, and the day Is coming when
England will give us an Irish parlia-
ment.
IF after a free parliament is OBJ |
tanned, the Irish race desires to go |
further, if any of us are alive, we will |
not be the men to stand in the way.
We nj in p1rT 1itrne m oraf HING Z
practical l have been in the English
parliament 20 years and / want the ,
Irish cause advanced. l want to see
before I go down to my grave. an Irish
parliament sitting in Dublin on Irish .
affairs If we don't get that, the
remnant of our people will disappear
altogether and ireland will become a
Scotch or an English isle:
When the Irish people Of America
understand we are united and we put
before ourselves a business like. prac-
teal policy, we will get assistance to
push that policy to success. The work
of the national party is not confined
to attaining an Irish parliament. We
believe in making the government of
Ireland difficult and impossible. To do
this we believe in removing the land I
letters from the limbs of the people
and in roofing the Irish people as OWL
ers of the soil and in wiping out land
lordism from the country.
There is the land question in the
west Of Ireland where there are con
gested districts. These are the poor
est in Ireland. The people are hUidled
in such numbers they cannot get a
living off the land and they exc out
an existence by fishing and by receiv-
ing money from relatives in America.
That is a horrible state of things but
the superficial English statesmen say
the remedy is further emigration.
Within a stones throw of these dis
tricts there are vast tracks of fertile
land where thousands and thousands
of acres are put together for the bull
locks and beasts who have taken the
place Of man.
I'VE believe in taking these lands from
the little handfuls Of rich graziers and
in dividing them up among the people
whose fathers and grandfathers own
ed them. We propose to take them as
they are and to pay these men full
market value for them. That is not a
visionary project. Some of these es-
tates have already been purchased and
are being divided but the flaw in the
act which allows this to be done is that
it must all proceed on a voluntary ba-
sis. They cannot force these landown-
ers to sell their lands. We propose to
compel them to sell their lands, either Il
by a law passed by parliament or max
ing public opinion so strong it will be
an unwritten law Probably the I'M
written law will be tried first.
What I want to see is the people
united in the United Irish League.
Then they will compel the breaking up
of these vast grass lands. The unwrit-