The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-03-16

expended his fortune in the effort to
deliver his country from the yoke of
England.
Ellis attempt to emancipate Ireland
from the terrors of English rule was
the last spark enEindled to revive the
smoking embers left of that immortal
effort which marked the struggles of
the men of '9S. His unapproachable
talents and the immense fortune at his
disposal We're alike devoted by him to-
ward furthcring that cause to a sue
ccssful issue. He was no agitator nor
rampant demagogue, clamoring for the
plaudits of the multitude, as some who
nowadays are airing the grievances of
their oppressed country; but he was
practical soldier of liberty, endowed
With great intellectual gifts, all of
which he made subservient to the pur-
pose he sought to accomplish. His
methods We're the methods of the
brave, who. seeing a great evil
enacted to obliterate the freedom of
the country, set himself to controvert
the injustice by the only method
which has ever succeeded in uplifting
the oppressed and setting the despised
in the exalted sphere Of freedom"
Following Mr.. Kennedy's remarks
OH Emmett, he took up portion of his
famous lecture relating to his term of
Imprisonment in an English prison.
Mr.. Kennedy began by reviewing the
struggles Of Irishmen in centuries gone
by. Though the nineteenth century
seems barren of those great efforts
characteristic Of the past" said he,
''yet even in our own day bands of
Irish patriots have appeared upon the
arena of our country and laid down
their lives for Ireland in the field, the
scaffold and the dungeon. Since the
English first set foot upon the shores
of Ireland no century has passed with
out the Irish disputing in deadly con-
flict the usurpation of their rights by
English marauders. We, too, have
been living in high hopes of seeing Ire
lands sunburst unfurled to the breeze
and participating in the glories Of our
struggle in defense of the old cause,
but. unfortunately, those who We're ex-
pected to create the day lacked the
decision and squandered an opportu-
nifty which has since kept us in
state of doubt and perpleXity."
The speaker then took up the causes
which led to his arrest and imprison
mcnt on Marcel, %, 1883, in Cork.
The combined vilainy and ingenuity
OF Dublin Castle and Scotland Yard
were arraycd against us, while the
most diabolical designs We're forged
and sworn to by the satellites from
those lens of government creation"
cried Mr.. Kennedy in burst of pas
sion.
Mr.. Kennedy told in graphic Ian
guage the fortunes which he and his
fellow-patriots We're subjected to in
prison. San English prison." said he,
'is the most homogeneous habitation
that man has been doomed to occupy
Here the spirit of freedom is held In
suspension, which stiles every i'm
pulse of the will to torture and die"
The small grains of comfort and
hope which the prisoners were per-
mitted to indulge in were related in
detail by Mr. Kennedy. "But the
backbone of our consolation" contin-
ued he, "and peace in the midst of tur-
MOL was that we were under test for
the cause of our country and it's OPP
pressed people and that all the vile
efforts of English tyranny could not
brighten us; no, nor buy us, which we
knew would receive the commentator
of our country, an article more pre-
cicus to us than all the gold or the hol-
low thanks Of our country's oppres-
sors.
"Since I have regained my liberty"
concluded Mr.. Kennedy, II have re-
ceived many flattering proofs of pat
riotic recognition, but in the midst Of
these congratulations 1 do not forget
old Ireland, knowing she is still shack
led by the yoke of England, and my
mind is ever busy to devise the means
and utilize the resources which mod
crn genius has placed within our reach,
and by another resistless effort burst
those chains that bind us. But our
action must not alone be suggestive;
it must also be practical. During my
most bitter moments, when the fog of
the coast envelopcd the prison and
chilled to the marrow and the yoke Of
servitude. CALLED the heart, there re-
! manned this consolation to cheer us
!! on, that all the might and wealth
which our proud and vchgeful enemies
boast of could not force Nor buy It's
to dishonor our coihtry or our cause,
and the dear hope of living to avenge
the wrongs of centuries. Should occa-
sion again place me in similar posi-
ton in defense Of that cause am sure
1t is needless to assert shall act with
the same degree of firmness and fidel-
ity."
Mr.. Kennedy's remarks were fire.
quently interrupted with applause,
and as the speaker sat down great