The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-12-30

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wolves At last he started up with
relief from the asonies composition
always cost him, and. lighting his
cigar. cried: Now. Justin. it's all
over except the peroration. What shall
1t be-" I'm afraid. Parnell," was the
prompt response, lit ought to be a
quotation from Grattan: I watched
over the cradle of Irish Liberty, and
now l am following it to it's tomb 4"
Our author vouches for the fact that
to the last the relations between Par
nell and Mccarthy continued to be
such as to redeem the horrors of that
time of mad and savage misunder-
standing. Il have related elsewhere
that the last time I ever saw Parnell,
after all the ferocious strife of the
Kilkenny contest, he came up to me.
in company with Mr.. Mccarthy in the
lobby of the House of Commons.
Why said l, who should ever have
expected to see this trio meet to-
gether?' Yes said Parncll, With one
of his softest smiles, Justin and
have been over to the City together
about the Paris Funds, to the admira-
ton of all beholders'"
1t is evidently Mr.. O'Brien's opinion
, that the greatest practical service,
next to the example of his own unself-
ish life, which Mr.. Davitt rendered to
the Land League movement was that
movement the enormous revolutionary
force of Mr.. Patrick Ford's famous
Irish American newspaper, the Irish
World. No man and no newspaper
was ever the subject of wider misun
derstanding or more savage calumny
than Mr.. Ford and his organ. The
prevalent English belief that he was
the paymaster of the Land League and
dictated it's policy is an absu-dity
which could only have imposed upon
the credulous public that was taken in
by Richard Pigott's forgeries." Our
author AYERS that the great bulk of the
American subscriptions to the Land
League and its successors came from
people who heartily disliked the eX-
IRENE opinions originally held by Mr..
Ford. Zone of England's fatal mistakes
about Ireland is to suppose that the
mass Of the Irish in America are either
revolutionary minded or irreconcilable.
1t is only outbursts of irreconcilability
in Englands own press and parliament
that give the Irish American revolu-
tionists their force. Nay, Mr.. Ford
himself and his journal, ever since
Gladstone proved the possibility of re-
conciling Irish national aspirations with
the British connection, have been the
most consistent advocates of a reason
able international settlement upon
which Gladstonian craftsmanship could
have counted in its most sanguine
dreams" Elsewhere we read that the
effect of the Irish Worlds teachings in
1S79-S0 was all the greater because
there was no considerable journal in
Ireland at the time which gave the
| Land League more than Il spaslnodic
and half hearted support. William
O'Brien, for his part. is certainly dis
| posed to place the influence of the
Irish World higher than that of either
meetings or speeches, in parliament
or out of it, in giving the first strone
impulse toward the agrarian revolution
| which has since shattered all the tow
ers and ramrarts of Irish landlordisnl
into the dust"
| In our authors opinion. the man who
forged the thunderbolts Of the Irish
World was scarcely less remarkable
than his paper, and remarkable all the
more because his modes;y and tlcitur-
nifty have kept him unknown outside II
narrow circle of enthusiastic friends
"A small, dingy, silent man, With the
| ttlfclGSS, SOIl lldl, We ll''Se' Wv pC.tl "
and husky voice and deep, earnest eyes
! of the late Joseph Cowen, but wlthou,
a spark of that orators wizard gift OF
speech, and shrinks from the platform
the only man that ever exercised any
| considerable influence over the Irish
race who has never made a public
speech, and shrinks from the platform
as from public pillory. He is a type
of the solemn self immolating, re-
morseless, yet intensely religious ma
lures, to be found more frequent!
among the revolutionists Of Russis
than of Ireland; whom you might ex
pect to see either recommended TO-
Qualification as a saint, or blown vi
by an Internal machine fired by hi!
own hand in a cause which for hin
has the sacredness Of religion" Mr.
O'Brien may we'll challenge cortra
diction for the assertion that any on
Of half a dozen English journals o
eminence, which 1t might be easy t.
name, has done more to create blind
ness and bad blood between the two
races than the Irish World in its bit
terest hour. 1t will, perhaps, still NOR
astonish some Americans, as we'll a
many Englishmen, to be told, as GU
author tells us, that to Mr.. Patricl
Ford, more than to any other man, ex