The Irish standard., 1904-09-24
John Redmond Reviews the Work of the
Irish Parliamentary Party Since
its Organization.
1t Has Dominated for twenty-five Years
the Whole Life of Parliament and
English Politics.

lell. lie said: I have come to see tha
man who had made John Bull listen.'
prolonged applause.) The ars+
achievement of the present parliamen.
'ary movement which had it's Begin
ning with the Independent portv NJ
Parnell was that it arresed he alton
tion OF the world and made England
listen, and the next achievement wos
tllat 1t won the right of the franchise
1or the people, and through our eyer.
,lons' the mass of the Irish people oh.
'a'ncd the right of the parliamentary
vote. And the very moment tbev oh.
t'ined that right, they sent porno,,
back to the house Of commons not
with 20 pledged men, but with se out
of 1O3 '''
Now, Indies and gentlemen r. ia
easy after the lapse of years to mini.
'''l|e these things, but nobody, no man
WHO IS conversant with the progress
ana triumph Of democracfcs in otbor
lands, can fail to recognize how great
was thnt achievement of winning for
'he irish people the right of the fron-
chise, the right of the vote for nor,,o-
mentary election.
"ell' having won that for the poo. =
p'e' what was the next achievement or
'hat party? Those of you who are old
enough to remember Ireland, remem-
'er with heart burning and probably
WIN Shame and humiliation, the bobi.
'atlons Of the laboring ponu,ot,on n
'hat country. You remember the timo
you left Ireland where the agricu,turo1
'''"orcr was living in squalid hovo,a
unit for the habitation Of humon h.
'hss' and those of you who have nor
seen ireland but have been born hore
OF Irish parents, have, I know often,
times felt bitterness Of spirit whom VA,
nave read or have heard words snolon
1 describing the mud-walled cabins
where the beasts and the little chill.
dren were occupying the somo roo,,,
ma haDitations so squalid that that poI.
"ht Englfshman, General Gordon. aft.
u VISITING some of the poorer parts of
ireland declared that after nm exnor,-
ence In every part of the world he had
never seen habitations for human he,
'hes so poor and wretched. /!
well, thank God, the fret oro,.
achievement of this Irish party oftor
'md become strengthened by the in
FUSION Of new blood as a result ~ tho
extension Of the franchise. wo. +ho
passage of law forced through tho
i'nellsh parliament by us, PROVIDING
for the destruction of those hovcls md
the creation in their place Of cloon,1
and decent habitations for the ,ohor.
ing population. $'o''
And today there are close unor
2o'ooO Of those cottages scottorod ~,
over Ireland, every one Of them y me-
ament to Parnell and his moveman+
All over Ireland those who travel thero
today will see, in place of those horo,s
winch used to meet the eye, clean1y
"'' oeceht cottages, with their little
mower gardens in front and their nero
ol 'and behind. the home of industr,.
Gus and happy laborers with tbo,r
wives and children"
W.T. hedmond described the old sys.
TEN of landlord rule in local oro,n.
and continued:
GTVoI1
Wel'' few years ago the 1r,sh
parliamentary movement at ono h,o,r
swept that system out of existence
''pp'a"se) and put in it's stead y eroo+
SSstem of local self-government where
~ a'I these local affairs, all the taxo.
''"n or the people, are governed and
administered by bodies called conn+r
councils And these county councils
are elected today by the mass Of tho
''e"pne , IN every county in Ireland
we were told that the mass ~ o,,.
reputation were unfit to govern them
serves that they were either 50 unod,
e''ea or so vicious, or so light-heoded
or so stupid that they could not ha
,''tr''sted with the management NJ onv
.ue''' ahair' no matter how small Wei,
tie TEST has been applied Tboso