The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-18
IRISH LEADERS
NOW IN BOSTON
Came Over to Attend Meeting OF
the League.
REDMOND is ENTHUSIASTIC
BELIEVES A BETTER DAY WILL
SOON DAWN FOR IRELAND.
REDMOND is ENTHUSIASTIC

u OSTON, Oct. lion the steamship
ID New England, which arrived
from Queenstown and Liverpool
today, was John E. Redmond, NJ. p,
chairman of the Irish parliamentary
party, and president OF the United
Irish league; John Dillon, NJ. p, for
East Mayo, and Michael Davitt. Their
arrival has been long looked forward
to by all Irishmen. as they are to
address the members of the United
Irish league. which will hold its nation
al convention in this city, beginning
Saturday night.
Mr.. Redmond, In speaking of the
present conditions in Ireland, and of
matters relating TO the United Irish
league. said:
The United Irish league is the rul-
ing power in Ireland today, as truly
us ever the Land league was. The
government played into our hands by
the coercion policy, and now the coun-
try is aroused. We are on the eve OF
the settlement Of the Irish land ques-
ton, and after that national self-gov-
eminent will speedily come TO Ire
land. The Irish party now in the
house of commons is the only real OPP
position in the English parliament, and
1 believe the day is near at hand when
il will have the controlling influence
in Great Britain. Hundreds of Irish
men are imprisoned under the coercion
TACT without receiving any trial by
jury. But nobody cares for imprison-
ment under those circumstances. The
more the people are attacked the high
er their spirits rise
The only comment Mr.. Redmond
made on the forcible expulsion of John
! O'Donnel, M. p, from the house of
commons a day or two ago, and the
REIMBURSEMENT of Patrick A. Nc
Hugh. NJ. P. was that IL showed that
/ the opposition to the English govern
ment in the commons is, as usual, led
by the Irish party.
| Edward Blake, NJ. p, who has been in
/ Canada John +. Finnerty, the national
president of the league, and Patrick
/ Egan, General James r. OBeirne and
! Patrick Ford of New York arrived here
tonight and joined the ENJOYS.
| Mr.. Redmond will be compelled TO re-
/ turn to Ireland almost Immediately as
/ the serious condition OF affairs in the
/ fight between the league and the gov
eminent demands his presence. II Is
Z
/ remain long enough 10 address the New
/ York meeting in the Academy of Music
Sunday evening, Oct. 26. and the Phila-
/ deiphia meeting on the following night.
Most of the New York, Chicago, ST
Louis, Philadelphia and Pittsburg dele
| gates will reach here Sunday. New York
| IS sending about 100 delegates and Chi
! cago seventy Philadelphia will send
nearly 100 delegates and all the other
large centers will also be strongly repre-
scented.
In the course of an interview tonight
Mr.. Davitt said that he was pleased al
what happened In the house of com
mons Wednesday. He said he had never
seen the spirit of the Irish people as II
| exists today surpassed at any stage II
/ the struggle of the past thirty years
! LandlOrdism. he said. is doomed. and
with that destroyed national self-govern
ment IS sure 10 come.
l Mr. Dillon said he believed as his two
two colleagues did, The change which
has come over the national spirit in Ire
land in two or three years. he said. Il
remarkable. The people were determined
TO keep up the battle. and he is satisfied
that II is the government and not th'
people who will go down TO defeat.