The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-02

was all forgotten in the warmth of the speaker s
eloquence No sound heard Throughout an hour
and quarter save the speakers voice except when
ardent enthusiasm could longer restrain applause
Of which real outbursts were frequent. The names
of Charles Stewart Parnel Michael Davitt and
William Ewart Gladstone were signals the most
enthusiastic applause and every mention of the pro-
gress OF the movements for the betterment of Ireland
brought forth such of sentiment to show
that the wrongs of Ireland not to the audi
generous number from ogden, Park City and
Eureka among the listeners.
The meeting presided by Judge ". L.
Maginness of Ogden who was introduced by Joseph
Geoghegan. Judge Magnness in introducing the speak
en- referred to the termination of the in the Orient
and the efforts of the American people for peace
Throughout the world. He closed with tribute to Mr.
Redmond, and spoke feelingly of his suferings for
the cause Ireland
Mr.. Redmond said in part:
has been said that the subject of Irish politics
never introduced to any American audience, but we
at home in Ireland feel that this is a mistake. We
feel that may enlist the. sympathy of the Irish
people in this land and of the wrongs suffered by
Ireland
Since passed though your city twenty-five years
ago great the changes which have come into
the fortunes of Ireland that even her country
men who have left her shores do not realize their
significance. At that time Ireland in the midst
of such campaign of determination and such reign
of tyranny no other country has ever known. Her
people driven from their homes, her industries
were destroyed, and the country seething
of miserable, struggling people, fighting the
terrible wrongs which oppressed them. Today the
people are practically masters of the situation,
far as the land ownership goes They in a fair
way to again become the land owners, and within
measurable distance of the time when they can say
ireland is free
Ireland has had two great, intoerabe wrongs
against which contend-the denial of the right TO
national seIfgovernment the terrible injustice of
the land tenure system. Many gallant struggles have
been made for the cause of Ireland According to her
opportunities land has fought valiantly for
her liberty than Ireland has sacrificed more
lost more or suffered more. The struggle made has
compared favorably with any struggle made for the
cause of liberty That these attempts have failed is
due the overwhelming conditions of oppression and
tyranny. They have failed because ireland de-
pved of every of resistance; and following the
notable struggles of AS '67 it seemed that there
ray of hope for the cause till God sent to her
with the love of Ireland and liberty and justice
in his heart Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell.
He it who established band of Irish patriots
who afraid to proclaim to all of England that
they in the British parliament for the sake of
Ireland and to see that England should allow Ireland
at least share of the rights of which she robbed
d hundred years ago. Parnell gathered around him
the strongest men for right and justice-nen who
would show the British parliament that the cause of
Ireland not dead and that they would use their
in that parliament for the betterment of that
cause. Thus it was that these eighty men were en-
camped in the British parliament hostile band.
The result was that every newspaper and every man
power the British side denounced the demands of
Parnel his followers with the aid of the
become the owners Of the land they titled He showed
the existing system of land the result
of Engands confscation of the lands. He showed
that many of the landlords had title to the land
from which they drew exorbtant rents and unjust
taxes. And for these demands Parnel prosecuted
with fury hardly conceivable. Irelands representa-
tives imprisoned again and again for this. They
denied the right of free speech and accused of
high crimes
But all that English ingenuity could devise was
enough kill their patriotism and destroy their
cause, and the fact that only within the past few
years the English parliament and the English people
conceded the very things for which they fought
and that Englands king has signed the act allowing
Them proves that their demands We're just and
sonabe.
The progress of these steps has been unique. The
attempt carry the plan to enable the tllers
Of the soil to regain their land was made in 1885, when
The government appropriated $4,000 900 sterling for
that purpose. AS result $1,000 farms were reclaimed,
the land was improved there increase of pros
oerity great that the end of five years second
appropriation made, with the same results in its
district the significant feature of it all
hat of all the $4,000 farmers helped there were no
iefauters showing that the Irish tler of the soil
honest. The payments were made to the government
n every case, and this by men who, under the land
enure rule, had refused pay unjust and Ubiquitous
demands
AS result Ireland can point today to farms valued
1t hundred million dollars purchased ana transfer
tlers of the soil under the provisions of the
and act And so the of the Irish national party
II parliament have to think that generations
yet unborn will open their eyes Ireland freed
rom the curse of alien landlord and alien rule
1t has been said that Ireland has made no industrial
forts, yet no reasonable familiar with the con-
litions of land tenure be surprised at industrial
conditions in Ireland. Her people, harassed with the
perpetual struggle for rent, had yet no security in
heir holdings The more they worked the more they
lad to pay. Their best earnings their least were
aiken by alien landlord, who knew nothing of their
condition and cared less Yet we have reason to think
hat with this struggle ended we shall industries
which land is fitted springing up, and renewed
Mercy, renewed hope and renewed enterprise on
very hand. You in this great land of liberty must
NOW that matter how happily your people may be
ituated in your great fields of industry, Irishman
an be happy anywhere as in the green isle which
Tod has given him for home, and not for province
# the British crown
The huts in which the common people once lived
AVE been replaced with decent homes and where ten
ago ireland had voice in the election Of
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