The Irish standard., 1902-10-25

Where you will be welcome, and let
them have it?' GIaughter)
Il have said, Never (Applause)
SO long as l have a drop of bloo.1 in
my veins, and so long as my voice can
prevail in any sect on Of my country,
never will l be party to IL surren.
der of the ancient birthplace of my
race to the Saxon oppressor Who has
prosecuted us and lorded it over u.s.
sit is a craven and coward adj
vice (Applause) Our fathers fought
them before; we will fight them to the
end. And, please God, with your hep,
tic help of every man throughout tie
world who loves liberty, we Will dive
the Cromwellian crew from the | ely
soil of Ireland. Enthusiast. nl,-
Eluuse)
But let me add to all those claims
which we now make to the support
OF our people in america Il further
claim, and l desire to emphasize this,
because it was point not touched
npcn in Mr.. Retlmond's speech 1t is
OF Importance.
We are not fighting in Ireland aiono
The battle of Ireland. l claim, and It
is Il large claim, but [ make It With
confidence, that there is no organized
lody of men today in the VOID Who
are so conspicuously fighting against
the detestable doctrine Of impariall ;m
and the arrogant claims Of organized
capital to exploit humanity. Zap
piauseD
I'VE are fighting the battle OF all
the smaller nations Of the world and
their claim to exist and own them
st !vesland not to be devour"d Ivy the
s"eat empires that are sprlnging up
OH all sides.
1.-The doctrine-and l am sorry 10
lind it obtained some slight focthold
in Americans that small nations are
TO be despised. Their day is over and
the world now is to be given up 10
certain great imperial races, who
trample under foot in their mad career
all the great principles of the Chris
tian faith, and Of human ethics, long
anterior even to the Christian faith,
and claim they are justified in crush
ing the small nationalitieS of the
world.
''In other wOrus the doctrine is this,
that the people of the earth are for
the future to look upon themselves as
existing for the lenetit of govern
ments, instead Of the reople. That
doctrine is to be put on the shelf and
treated as ancient history. Against
that the Irish party has fought with
persistent and noble courage. They
stood up for the Bopr republics in the
Transvaal, although bread hints were
given us that if we would not hamper
the government, enormous things
would be done for Ireland, and we
were warned that we were in danger
if we stood up for the Beers.
yet in spite of all this. i'm spite of
brides and of threats, we stood up for
liberty and we had 10 hand in that
shameful and disgraccful war of ag-
gresson. I say deliberately and 1
speak of what l know, that had it
not been for the existence of an indie
pendent organized party of Irishmen
in the British house OF commons, the
Irish would have been held equally
guilty with England for the iniquities
of this war, but owing to our action
in the house of commons an Irishman
today in France in Russia, Austria or
Germany. is free from danger and is
welcomed as friend of liberty. Gap
plause.)
I'VE stand for the rights of small
nations. When we look back ut tie
great steps which have been taken in
human progress, we observe they have
been taken generally by small nations,
like the republic of Greece, the Dutch
republic and the Swiss republic. Gap
plause.) Even America its Ii made it's
great struggle for liberty when its
population numbered but three mil
lions, population less than that of
Ireland today, and yet it is to the lead
ers of that small scattered people that
we look back today when we want to
arouse enthusiasm in any great cause
Of humanity. (Applause.)
1--WE are obliged to come here for aid
because we are denied the ordinary
means of agitation and progress in our
own land. We have not free discus
sion. We have not free press. We
are people totally disarmed. We are
people watched and lampered. No
man can possess firearms without per-
mission, nor can any one Of lis adj
dress public meeting without gov
eminent note taker and police consta-
bles being in attendance.
"Our property is confiscated and the
right Of trial by jury is abridged or
abolished. We have famine and pow
erty in land which is blessed with
plenty and the generosity of Amer
lea has again and again helped us to
stand an artificial famine. God ere
ated there land of plenty and the
flmines of Ireland one and all have
been unnecessary, the artificial pro-
duct Of landlordism and British mis-
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