The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-11-02

iuNdfiaply receive Ill C1CnOllc portions
of Ireland at the hands of Catholics
can we not offer cordial sympathy
and respect to those who are their
co-religionists and our fellow citizens /?
REDMOND ON HOME RULE.
Address Made Before Leaving for the
, United States.
In Il speech at Dublin about a
month ago, John E. Redmond, leader
of the Irish Parliamentary party,
said of Home Rule: ?,
I'VE accepted Mr.. Gladstone's Bill
in 'S6. We accepted his bill in 1898.
; We accepted them honestly, avowed-
~, as compromises; but we accepted
/ them honestly, and we were willing
to work them honestly, and as far as
rested with us to make them settle
ment of this National legislative
question. But we always regarded
these proposals as what I might call
the low water mark of our demand.
1t is not for us today to consider
what our duty towards it will be.
When Home Rule is next proposed
it will not be in answer to any object
appeal from us. 1t will be proposed
by some English party, and for my
part, l care not which.
ut will be proposed by some Eng
lish party for their own sake, for the
sake of England, for the sake of the
English parliament, for the sake of
the British Empire. And when that
proposal is made it will be time
enough for us then to consider wheth-
er it can be accepted as an honest
compromise or not; and say that
when Mr.. Asquith declared that laid
down at Waterford in so many words
! what it was we would take and what
it was we would refuse, he was under
Il delusion. 1t is no part of my bus
mess. When the occasion arises l
will deal with it.
Now, Acknowledged, believe
me, 1 know that saying this 1 am
more sanguine than many of my col
leagues, but I express my own opin-
ion. l do not belive we will have
very long to wait before some such
proposal is made. And in the mean
time what we have to do is not to
trouble our hearts with discussing
what particular form of Home Rule
we desire, what particular form of
Home Rule we will accept, but what
what we have to do is to organize
and to drill our people. What we
ought to do in order to hasten that
day i'll Parliament and out of Parlia-
ment is to attack the Eng
lish government of Ireland in
} all it's departments, to expose
to the world all it's departments, to
expose to the world all it's iniquities.
and by every means which are open
to honorable and Christian men to
make English government methods in
this country as difficult and as danger
GUS as possible.
"The more we rely upon ourselves.
the less we rely upon any English par
lament: the more we disregard the
public opinion Of English-governing
classes, the more we fight against the
Adjudication of Ireland; the more we
cultivate purely Irish public opinion.
as Duffy said in the old days 'racy of
the soil,' the more we teach our people
to hate and despise and defy the Eng
fish government in Ireland-the sooner
we will get home rule for our country.
Every sane man knows that we will
never get self-government for Ireland
either through love or sense of JUS
tice in Great Britain.
'After all, in saying that. 1 am not
attacking the English people, because
if you consider it in an impartial spirit
you will see that there is work enough
and more than enough, of a purely
English character for the English par
lament, and the great majority of Eng
fish members of parliament, being only
ordinary human beings, give prefer
ence to those things which concern
themselves. We will get nothing from
the goodwill nothing from the sense
of justice of the English parliament
or the English people. We will never
get self-government for Ireland except
by a sense of necessity felt by them.
Now, how can we create a necessity,
how can we compel the English people
to put their own concerns OH one side,
to apply their minds and hearts to
the consideration of this Irish Ques-
ton? My belief is that it can be done
in only one way, and that is by drilling
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