The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-25
JOHN DILLoN's SPEECH.
Delivered In the City Of Boston Last
Sunday.

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spoke as follows:
1--WE have come to this great city
and to the United States of America
to appeal with confidence in the strug-
gle in which we are engaged in Ire
land, because we can look with hope
to the people of this great nation for
sympathy with any race l.l;l. is fight
ing the battle of freedom. (Applause.)
"And we come mere with additional
confidence for the reasons which have
already been stated by MIR. Redmond.
First of all, because we are the dele
gates of Il united people, and without
repeating to you the argument and the
proofs which he has so we'll given of
that fact from this platform here to.
night. l challenge any man who is in
clined to question that fact to bring
one atom of proof before our people in
America that we are not the accredited
spokesman of united nation. (Ap-
plause.)
''rhe second ground on which we
make this appeal with confidence to
the Irishmen, to every man and woman
in this country who has drop of
Irish blood in his or her veins, is be-
cause the United Irish League and the
Irish national party in he Louise of
commons is at this time the only body
of men which is giving any trouble or
anxiety to the British government in
Ireland. (Applause.)
''And without entering for moment
into any question or controversy as to
the desirability of the rival methods
for carrying OH the struggle for Irish
liberty, claim that the men who are
on the firing line and the men who
are troubling England's government in
Ireland are entitled to demand the
support Of every Irishman who loves
his country. (Applause)
'Who, if not the members of the
United Irish League ut this moment,
are troubling the British government
in Ireland? Who can doubt it? Who
questions it? Point to any other body
OF men who are suffering at the hands
of the British government?
Il say today III Ireland, if it were
not for the united movement, this most
Infamous government which has dis
graced mankind in modern times,
would be pursuing its experiments
upon our nation untroubled and undis-
turbcd in it's course.
1--WE use such weapons us we have,
and ! claim we have proved them 10
be in the last % years cifectual weap-
ons. We have thrown ourselves across
the path of that government and con-
WINGED it that we would never submit
to be controlled by it.
GAS Ireland is, we have succeeded
in making the British government in
that country an exceedingly difficult
job. Aye, and we have proved to Eu-
rope that the Irish race cannot be gov
erned against their will. To-day in
Europe, and in America, too, the great
thorn in the side of England, now
that they have for the moment got rid
Of the Transvaal, is the Irisfmen, and
without the United Irish League 1 tell
you the British ministers would slceo
a great deal more peacefully than
they do today. Uaughter.)
at used to be the boast, the unchai-
lengcd boast Of the house of commons
that it was the mother of parliaments
and that it set an example to all leg
islative assemblies ir the world of the
orderly and peaceaGlc conduct of
business, and I remember the DAYS
when the British, the pharasaical press
of England, used to TEEN with crit
icisms of the Austrian relchstag and
the French assembly. ...
but we never hear any. criticisms
now, because the house of commons
has ceased to set an example for legis-
lative bodies Of the world, as it has
been disgraced by the spectacle that
it exhibits to the world of being oblig-
ed to muzzle the Representatives of a
nation whom they have sought to
trample and whom they can never per-
NIT to enjoy the right of free consti-
tuition.
81 claim support with confidence
from this platform from every Irish
man throughout the United States of
America and every sympathizer in the
cause of Ireland. We seek to bind
no man as to the future, we do not
seek to fctter the enthusiasm of any
man who desires to follow in the
glorious footsteps Of the leader of the
Beers and who attempts to lead his
country to freedom and to strengthen
that movement with every means Mt
his command. applause,
"Thirdly, we ask with confidence
for the support, not only of our own
race, but Of all Americans who are
true to the traditions Of their own
history. am amazed that all Amer
leans are not true to the traditions of
their own history, for I have heard
Americans myself lately in England
expressing their horror Of our breach
Of law.
''Of course YOU never broke the law
in Boston or the United States Qaugh-
teri. but appeal in confidence to all