The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-03-28

which with ali the Irishman's faults
shows him possessed of more vitality
than any other race in history, made
claim upon tie English Government
to help him drive.out the landlord
garrison from Ireland, and enable him
to be the owner as we'll as the tiller OF
the soil.
While the present Chief Secretary
for Ireland, CAPTAIN Wyndham who
comes of genuine fighting Irish stock,
his grand uncle on the mothers side
being the arch and %impenitent rebel,
Lord Edward Fitzgerald who died in
prison of wounds inflicted by a coward
named Major SIR: and while the under
secretary, Sir Anthony Mcdonnell,
who is of equally good fighting Irish
stock, himself a Catholic and a Home
Ruler. and while John Redmond,
splendid, self denying patriotic soul
that he is, and Davitt and Dillon,
and all the rest are entitled to their
need Of praise, we should not lose
sight of the fact that when all is said
aud done, the chief factor in bringing
about the condition of affairs which
enabled an English conservative gov
eminent to introduce such a measure
as the present Irish Land Bill. next
to the Irish people as a whole, we must
not lose sight of His Majesty, King
Edward VII, (who has his faults, and
they are grave ones,) but who was in
tensely DESTROYS of being able to say
that he is responsible for righting the
wrongs of centuries in so far as English
Government in Ireland is concerned.
He was and is anxious to prove to the
world that in his day and reign, he, by
his influence has helped bring about
such change in the feeling of the Irish
towards the English Government that
he can go to Ireland as freely as he
could to Scotland; that he could visit
Galway and Cork and be welcomed as
heartily as he might be in Glasgow or
Coventry.
In Ireland for more than twenty years
the desire for actual separation from
England has been losing ground, and
the idea of being a part, an integral
part, of Great Britain, sharing equally
In its burdens and blessings has grown
and made rapid Roadway among the
more thoughtful, and among the most
patriotic elements of the Irish in Ire
land.
To be sure some reactioneries in this
country were against that, but for my
self 1 have always contended that it
was and is for the Irish in Ireland to
say what they want; whether or not
they desire to remain With or be aloof
from Great Britain, and then that we,
the Irish in America, if we see fit to help
them, good and we'll, but if not, at least
not to obstruct or discourage them.
To be sure we are unable at this time
to pass deliberate judgment on the
merits of the land bill. Its full text is
not yet accessible to US in this country,
but I, at least, as an Irishman born and
still proud of not being ashamed of that
fact, can and do thank God that l live
to see the dawn of the day when the
landlord garrison in Ireland is about
to disappear forever.
From private sources | knew thai
while the Chief Secretary, Captain
Wyndham, was making apparent des
perate effort to stamp out the nationa
spirit in Ireland; still no nan more
than he admired the stubborn, dogged
determination with which the Davitt's
billions. Redmond's, Healey's, Rus
sells and others. kept alive the patriot
ic fires on the Irish hearthstones, ant
the undying desire for self government
in the breasts of the Irish in Ireland
When in Chicago last winter in
friendly visit and chat with Michae
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present session of Parliament practic
ally such a bill as Wyndham has intro
duced would be presented to the Rep
resentatives of His Majesty's subjects
thank God for n other fact; Dis
tinctly l remember Of the brutal Lon
don Times saying in substance: 9TH
Irish are gone with a vengeance. Ii
twenty five years an lrishman in Con
nemara will be as rare as a red Indian
on the shores of Manhattan" | reckon
the Irishman is still in evidence il
Connemara although it has Jared rathe
badly for poor Lo, both near to AM
far from Manhattan.
The passage OF the present land bill
will mean the disappearance OF politi
cal and national strife between th'
Irish and the English. They may still
have their differences to be sure; blu
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