Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-08-21
SENATORSADDRESS
IRISH -AMER|CANS.
Ti!Iman Urges Them to Take
John Bull by the Horns
and Humble Him.
MASON SAYS THEY ARE LOYAL
Challenges Any One to Show ceIt
In the Ranks Of the Anarchists
Declares His Attitude Toward
Beers Has Caused Ostraeism.

Chicago, Aug. 1S.-"We want to
fight against this tyranny by physi-
cal or moral forces. Stick together.
arouse public opinion and make a
fight for it. Pull together and you
will win."
This was the advice given by
United States Senator Benjamin r.
TiEman of South Carolina to Irish
nationalists assembled in annual pic
mic. Three thousand people, gathered
in Oswald's grove, Fifty-second and
Halsted streets, Endorsed the senti-
ment with their cheers.
"The Irish are like a team of
horses" continued Senator Tillman-
They are prone to pull in zigzag
manner. One pulls and then the
other. If you, the Irish-American, and
the Irish Of other countries, contrib
ute your moral forces and your ply
steal forces the question of Irish in
dependence would be solved as soon
as you could pull together. Take
Johnny Bull by the throat and force
him to his knees.
Urges united ACItOH.
God did not make Ireland slave to
England any more than he made the
thirteen colonies slave to the same
country, and some day Ireland will
throw off the yoke, as did those brave
men of 1776.
Il don't see what can become of
this agitation for Ireland in America
uriess some action is taken. Back
your resolutions up with action. I
think that England should be made,
Forced to feel public opinion in every
possible way. She has no longer the
right, nor never had, to put Ireland
under the heels of English landlords
and mobiles and grind her to DEATH"
Attack on Redmond.
John Mack Sullivan of New Haven,
Conn, at the evening meeting, at
tackled the purposes of those who are
content to fight Irelands battles in
the halls of parliament, as is being
done by John Redmond.
what a spectacle the Irish people
would present to the world" he de-
clared "if they at last become united
in duplicating England for money
and a crumbi With history such
as no conquered country on earth can
boast of, it is an unthinkable PROPOSE
ton.
Is Against Weakness.
How long would that nationality
have lasted had we kissed the, hand
of the conquerors, as this latter day
convert to constitutional agitation
would have us do, and meekly depend
on their generosity for permission to
live?
"o'Connell failed, and, as his sue
cessor, John Redmond will fail. Con-
stitutional agitation has always been
a failure. The present one will fol-
low those which have gone before.
The Redmond government will fail"
Senator Mason Talks.
While aggressive action was advo-
Gated at Oswald's grove, the United
Irish Societies, assembled in the old
Sunnyside park, Endorsed the work of
joan Redmond and his followers in
parliament. United States Senator
William Z. Mason was the principal
speaker here and was given a rousing
welcome.
mo nation is good enough to gov
ern another nation without its con-
sent" said the Senator, a statement
that brought the crowd to its feet.
y Irish Are Loyal.
Mr.. Mason said the Irish-Americans
you ever hear of an Irishman turning
an anarchist" questioned the speak
er. There is not a case on record"
He said that when he had de-
nounced the Boer war on the senate
floor at Washington after he had been
criticised and had been made the butt
of ridicule, he could go to just two
places. To his wife and children and
to his Irish-American friends.