The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
WHAT THE LAND
LEAGUE STANDS FOR.


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lish or Scotch or a British Ireland, bu
the Irish of the island will have dis
appeared from the soil that we love
NOW, we believe that by disciplinlnt
our people in the United Irish League
py hghtins landlordism in every par
ish in Ireland, that we will at one anC
the same time make English rule diff
ncult dangerous and in the end impos
slpIe; and also keep the remnant of oul
race at home, rooted in the soil from
winch their forefathers were driven II
the past by the ruthless hand of per-
secution and oppression.
can any man truthfully lay his hand
on his heart and deny that that is the
great work tending directly toward the
! achievement of that ultimate goal on
! which all our hopes and aspirations are
| set-namely, the triumph of our ma
tional cause? And 1 ask with some
! confidence, can any Irish-American,
| whatever his views upon other mat
ters be, refuse to give his aid TO a
movement of this character? Cloud
cries of No" and cheers)
q @ %
Now, that is the first agency on
which we rely in our effort to strength
en- and push onto success the ma
tional cause. The second agency
for making English government OF Ire
land difficult and dangerous and inn
possible, is by the action of an indie
pendent and united Irish party in the
center of the British citadel, in the
English parliament.
Now, 1 claim with confidence in any
assembly of Irishmen in the world that
the record of the present Irish party
last session is something to be proud
of. Let me take one instance. and l
am reminded of it again by your elo-
quent chairman. Were it not for Ire
land not a single voice would have been
raised last session in the English par
lament in protest against the Boer
war.
Who was it that fought and by
every means in their power opposed,
thwarted, obstructed the vote of
every single penny of money for the
Boer war? Who was it that exposed
the infamies before the gaze of the
world of the concentration camps
where innocent Boer women and chill
dren have been subjected to atrocities
before which the cruelties of Weyler in
Cuba sink into insignif1canCe? Who
was it that denounced before the gaze
IF Europe. denounced in the very cit
.del of English power, the murderous
idli6iHSS ny IDIlllSIl OIllCCIS VI DIdNe
men whose only offense was that they
we're captured with arms in their |
lands fighting for their country? |
Great cheers)
1T has been said, and, indeed, L |
hink your chairman almost limited it |
himself, that in taking this course we
made some great sacrifices which were
likely to injure the cause of our own
ountry. All, ladies and gentlemen, the
ause of Ireland is the cause of JUS
ice, humanity and liberty. And that
ause can never be injured by Ireland
landing forth as she did through her
representatives. last session in the Eng
sh parliament, as the defender of JUS
ice, humanity and liberty in every
and. cloud cheers.)
For my part, [ believe that perhaps
he proudest boast of the Irish race in
ne future of freedom which we believe
before it will be that in this dark
our, when she herself had perhaps on
he surface so much to gain by being
0nciliatory to England, that she
lought only of the broad interests of
lstice, humanity and liberty, and
lat in materialistic and selfish and | '
age, Ireland at any rate s
as able to prove, as your chairman {
as said, that she is an idealistic ma S
on devoted to high ideals and sep t
'ated by wide gulf from the modern
aterialism of the civilization of other Y
atoms. prolonged cheers)