The Irish standard., 1901-11-16
The Irish Parliamentary Leader Explains
the Object of His Visit to
the United States
His Compliments to Chamberlain ELECTED
Prolonged Applause from the
Great Assemblage

With characteristic enterprise the
Irish World of last week gave n vcr-
ly the Irish cnvoys ut Carnegie hall,
New York, on Sunday evening. Nov. 3.
1t engaged an expert stenographcr,
Mr. j. GrattAn Grey. former chief OF
| the lIanSard staff in the Australian
| parliament, to take every word that
dropped from their eloquent lips, lnd
well did he perform the important
duty assigned him by our est amcl
contemporary. We give The following
passages from John Il. Rcdmond's
magnificent address:
Our object in coming here is three
fold: First, to proclaim to you, as l
have cndcavorcd to do already, that
there is n united lrtsal people at home
cloud c!rcring) Secondly, to explain
to you the policy which these people
have unanimously decided to pursue
under the circumstances of the mo-
mcnt, and, finally, to say to the Irish
people of America that If, after full
consideration and in Difference to 1hr
view of a united country at home, TIL v
f,r lni
they ought to support it; but also to
say this, whether they approve of that
policy or not, whether the Irish people
are left alone and unaided out of their
poverty, deserted by their brethren
throughout the world to carry on This
latest movement against English rule
or not, we MT home are disciplined
enough, and strong enough, and earnest
enough to carry on that movement our
selves, and that we shall do so. cloud
chccrs)
Now, ladies and gentlemen, what is
the policy of which I have been talk
ing? How do we propose in The Irc-
land Of today to advance the National
question, thr National cause? Well. |
the answer is very simple and will con-
tain no new or lmilcard OF specific for
the remedies of ireland. Our policy is
to make the government Of Ireland by
England, in every department of that
government, In parliament and ont OF
parliament. difficult, dangerous, and,
please God, impossible. prolonged
chccring.)
How do we propose to do that? Well,
the first agency upon which we rely is
the new National organization, the
United Irish League. That organiza-
tion is the llncal successor of the Land
League. 1t is founded upon the same
principles; 1t advocates the same pol
icy, and to some extent at amy rate it
is led by the same men.
'Ihc Land League held the view that
no successful effort for Irish freedom
could ever he made so long rs the
great mass OF the Irish people were
bound by the chains of the English
land system as scrfs at the feet Of the
English garrison. The Land League
believed that the best and most direct
way to national freedom for Ireland
was to lift up the mass Of the Irish
people from the position Of scrfs In
their own homes into the position Of
free men: and those short-sighted
people who are apt to complain that
the goal of Irish freedom Is still far
from us, ought to remember what the
Land League achieved for that class,
who. with their wives and children,
constitute almost nve-siXths of the
whole population Of Ireland. (Cheers.)
The Land League attacked the Eng
lish garrison: 1t broke the back Of Irish
landlordism. 1t deprived Irish land
lordism of that right of caprlcio,1s cvic-
ton. the exercise OF which in the past
drove 50 many Of your own fathers
and mothers, or grandfathcrs or grand
mothers from the soil of their birth
and of their affections. The Land
League lifted load Of unjust rent off
the tenant-farmcrs in Ireland: and If
It did not fully succeed, we'll, we have
taken I'D the work and our program Is