Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-04
BURKE COCHRAN Talks
Irish. Americans Meet in Chica.
60 to Protest Against Eng
lands Coercion Laws.
Burke Cochran, Lately Returned
From London, the Orator..
Saw Redmond.
Irish People Own Neither Their
Land Nor Their Govern.
ment.

Irish Americans Of Chicago at the aud
itorium last night to protest against the
correction laws in force in nine counties
of Ireland was perhaps the largest dem
| city. Bourke Cochran was the principal
| speaker, and when he began his address
about 5000 persons Joined in the APP
plause that greeted him. Crowds
thronged the avenues outside. disap-
pointed at being unable to gain admis-
sion.
!. Special Importance was attached to
Mr.. Cockran's pronouncement as he
| has only recently returned from Lon
don, where he conferred with John Red
mond and other leaders of the Irish
movement.
Mr.. Cochran said in part:
| Coercion, as applied to the Irish peo-
pie, is the exclusion of that people
from the exercise and enjoyment of civ
ilized government. 1t is the suspen-
sion of the ordinary law and it means
| the government of the people by extra
ordinary law. The ordinary law is the
law that civilization has adopted for
\ the protection of life and property and
| the encouragement of industry. Any
other law which civilization has rejec-
| ted is not conducive to these ends. The
| object of civilized society mainly is to
compel men to settle their disputes by
peaceful methods. That is the dis
| tinction between civilization and saw
a Hoe re- n ion fac nv,
means of war; civilization by arbitra-
ton. Now in Ireland the government
accuses an Irishlnan of some act which
1t may consider in opposition to. or a
criticism of, public measures. He is
tried, not before any impartial court,
but before removable magistrates
magistrates removable by the govern
1nent itself, so the accuser and the
Judge practically are appointed by the
same forces. Similarly every other ele-
mentary law of human kind has been
denied the Irish.
1.-THE Irish question is often said to be
too difficult for the ordinary man to
understand, butt is the simplest Dues
ton conceivable. Ireland is the only
country in which the people neither
own the land upon which nor control
the government under which they live.
The Irish question arises from the de-
mand of the Irish to control both their
people and their land, while the English
government denies the right and en-
deavors to stitie the demand. 1t is a
dual question, alien ownership of the
land and alien ownership of the govern
,ment; these are the Irish grievances.
The Irish have shown their indus
trial capacity, not only at home in wool
manufacture, the raising of cotton and
sheep and in the linen industry, but
they have shown their Industrial spac-
ity in every country in which they have
gone and IL this be the case under adj
verse conditions at home and in foreign
lands how much more then would it be
shown in their own land, owned gov
erned by themselves. They certainly
would be able to restore in Ireland the
prosperity they have achieved In other
countries.
Their demand is based on justice,
and If there is any one truth taught By
the unbroken history of mankind, it is
that a question of justice cannot be set
tied until 1t is settled right; demand
based upon justice must be settled soon
err or later. Whoever delays justice suf-
fers most when finally justice is done.
I'm a speech by Lord Salisbury re-
Gently tribute is paid to the power of
public opinion. 1t is the divine will
that nation of Influence and power
shall exercise that influence and power
for the welfare OF mankind. If the
American in their right shall rise up
and say the Irish cause is just ireland |
will be restored. AS Americans we
cannot but believe that Providence has
that the American people shall
be the instrument thru which justice
shall be accomplished that its principles |
Of right and justice may be acknowl-
edged thruout the whole world"