The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-21
Miss Maude Come Stirs Enthusiasm
in the Patriotic Irish Residents of
Kenosha Thursday Evening.
TIME is RIPE FOR REVOLUTION
Irish Joan of Arc Makes an Impassloned
Appeal to the Irish of Kenosha TO Aid
in the Great Struggle For Liberty.


! Thursday and lectured in the evening
before crowd of four hundred Irish
Isympathizers at the Rhode opera
house. During the afternoon Miss
/ Come and her companions were at
the Grant House and, they were given
a royal reception by the Irish people OF
the city.
It is not hard for those who attended
the lecture Thursday night to see why
England fears this little lrfshwoman
more than a regiment inRarms, or why
i she has been called the Irish Joan OF
| Arc. Never was there more pictur-
esque personality than has this fair
rebel against the existingggovernment
of Ireland Tall and stately, she car
ries herself rega1ly erect and shows
that she is descended from race OF
kings. Her eyes are big and brown
and her hair a mass of. wonderful red
gold that shines likes halo about her
| face. Her voice, vibrant with feeling,
easily won her hearers before she had
fairly started on her lecture. Her
manners declare her to be a cultured
| gentlewoman, and for this reason she
/ is no ordinary revo1utionist that is go
| ing from one country to another tell
| ing the story of Ireland and her wrongs
and prodding the loyal sons of Erin to
rise in their might and throw aside the
hated yoke of England.
| In her lecture Miss Come made no
secret of her mission, but launched out
with a denunciation of the English
government and the woes of Ireland.
| In the words of the fair speaker, the
| burdens that had been heaped on the
Irish people for SO many years were all
rehearsed again, and the people telt
that the cause of Ireland must be one
that was worthy of their sympathy.
| In part Miss Come said:
eve have reached great crisis in
Irish history. The Boer war has
shown England's weakness and has
given new hope to Ireland. If a hand
full of Beers could hold the English
army at defiance for months as they
have done, what might not the 3,OOO,-
900 of Irishmen, urged on by the cen
fury of oppression, and the belief that
daily grows stronger among them that
the one, the only hope for the future
| lies in fighting for liberty. We missed
our greatest chance last year, when in
her hour of peril England recalled all
her army from Ireland but 5000 miser-
able little mi1itiamen. But we had
been putting our faith and our money
1 into parliamentary representation and
we were not ready to seize the moment
when it dawned. But another such
will not find us empty handed. All
over Ireland today and among the
Irish who have settled in other coun-
tries there is felt this new impulse Of
hope, and when the time comes every
man with drop of Irish blood in his
veins will be ready to answer its de-
mands."
Then Miss Come went on to show
how faith in rights to be secured
/ through parliament is gradually weak
ening, and said that it took such an in
cident as that which occurred recently
when, though Redmond had claimed
! that the Irish controlled the house of
commons, the Irish members were
thrown out because they wanted to dis
cuss the educational tax on a fair
basis.
"It's only force that will settle such
matters,' she said, mo nation has
ever yet won it's liberty except by
fighting for it and Ireland must fight
for hers"
''It was only last December that
they stopped enc of my meetings." she
said, ''the first time in fifty years that
such thing has happened in England
where even anarchists may speak
We were advertised to speak at GER
tain hall in Liverpool, and word came
to me that morning that the hal
would be closed and guarded. They
put 500 mounted and foot police abou
the building, but we went down into
the Irish quarter Of the city, and lelt
:, an open-air meeting until that, too
,, was broken up by the police sent on
by the authorities. 1 don't think thu
police wanted to modest me, and there
! was no particular trouble, but when W.
:. could not go on with our program thu
people carried me on their shoulder
= for two blocks to where my carriag'
was waiting.
ireland, during Victoria's reign,
she said, "has been reduced from 5000,
900 to 100000, and of that numbe
half are Unionists and thus traitors
, and every year $4,000 Irish people emf
y CRATE. In fifty years there will be n
: nation left, and the English policy Q
: determination will have been com
;, p1ete1y successful. We have for thirt.
years tried parliamentary agitation
If we had spent our money on arms
and not on breath, Ireland would b
free today"
e Miss Come spoke of the work tina
:. has been carried on to prevent Irish
O men from en1isting in the British army
:; saying that $4,000 had been kept from
; doing so in the past year.
: "If you can keep $4,000 men from
S fighting for the enemy it's as good a