The Irish standard., 1902-10-18


tralia he had been engaged in spread
ing the faith of which he was such a
champion, and in aiding with kind
words numbers of their people who had
chosen Australia as the land of their
adoption, seeking there the living
which they could not ind in Ireland
Whenever an Irshman landed in Aus
tralia he found Il friend in Cardinal
Moran. (Applause)
His eminence then signed the roll of
honorary freeman amid enthusiastic APP
plause. Then, amid renewed applause,
the Lord Mayor presented the Cardinal
with the certificate of the freedom of.
the city.
Cardinal Moran, who, on rising to
address the council, was enthusiastic
ally cheered, said in the course of his
reply: 1.-The factions and the prejudices
and the passions that so bitterly sep
arated class from class in olden times
are gradually disappearing; and the
day no longer seems far distant when
all the sons of Erin ut home and
abroad will be found linked together
in the bonds of friendly union, untlinch-
ing i'll their resolve that their mother
land shall renew her ancient fame, and
thus achieve the destiny which Provi-
dence has marked out for her, to be the
happiest and most prosperous and
withal the most enlightened and most
virtuOus island of the Western world.
And, now, take q glance ut the public
opinion of the country ut the present
hour.
Three important questions seem to
command the popular attention-that
is, first, in the matter of university
education, the right of the Catholics of
Ireland to perfect equality with the
hitherto privileged non-Catholic de-
nominations Gapplause); secondly, the
enforced sale of their holdings to the
tenant farmers; and, thirdly, the right
of our people to self government, such,
at least, as it is enjoyed by the Cana
dian Dominion or our own Australian
Commonwealth. In regard to all these
measures, am heartily in sympathy
with the popular sentiment.
Some of our friends beyond the
Channel will regard such demands as
arbitrary and unconstitutional, perhaps
even as revolutionary and unreason-
able. The opinion, however, of our
English friends in such matters cannot
bring with it much weight, nor should
it for Il minute lessen the ardor of our
representatives in their endeavor to
secure those all important and essential
measures.
MANY great measures of justice have
been secured during the past fifty
years, but You will find that every one
of them was branded by public senti-
ment in England just as are our
tional and revolutionary and unreason,
able.
''Irislmen We're officially declared to
be revolutionary when they clamored
for Catholic emancipation; they We're
/ denounced as unconstitutional and ull-
: reasonable when they demanded
: Church reform, title reform, educ;l-
tiOlml reform and land reform.
| Nevertheless, now that those meas
4 ,rrs ofjusticc have been placed Oh the
II Statute Book, there is not Il sane man
D in England but will confess that the,
il were most just and conformable to thu
II dictates of common sense.
t For the same reason am contidrn
S that the measures to which | have re
e ferren, and which are now so bitterl,
|, opposed, shall one day be accepted ID,
o the Parliament of England. and sllaI
II be found perfectly c0nformnble to til
y laws of equity no less than to the die
re tatCS Of common sense.
III II may he permitted to Illustrate Will;
le | say 10y IL recent legislative elnlctmcl
to OF New Zealand. \ measure was intr,
q, duced by the government, of which til
ss Right Hon. MIR. Seldom is Premier, f,
the enforced sale of the close land
IL The measure was denounced by il
IS opponents as unjust, hostile to all Il
ii, traditions of Britishcrs, and aiming
in deadly blow at the rights of priv;
er property. Nevertheless, the nlcasu
'3, was adopted by Parliament and passt
ce into law. What has been the result
ip- All PARTIES concerned have already Il
III, ceptcd the measure as most useful III
Ell hcneticient, and even it's most rabid o
lis poncnts have been forced to confe
nut that it has conferred untold BLESSING
tic upon those who opposed, no less tn,
lie on those who advocated, this tru
int democratic measure.
TOr ''ReasOning from such premises,
ed contend that we should not be disco
raj ccrted when measures which seem
Ia us of public utility are rejected 10y t
ar public opinion of England. Men ev
raj of the best intentions in the sister i.
fail to understand our manner Of thil
ng, ing, and acting as they fail to real
ut our interest
Ian John Stuart Mill has written
Ella England that there is no other civil
the Ell nation which is so far apart FRI
i'll Ireland in the character of it's histo
[lss or so unlike it in the Whole consti
ties ton of its social economy; and no
tel therefore, which, If 1t applies to l
or land the modes Of THINKING and M