The Irish standard., 1905-10-28
Irish Leaders Should Remember the Long
~%4nPeriod Of Chaos Which Followed as'1
the Parnell Trouble.
ireland Seems Destined to Suffer Still More
From Needless Disunion Among
Its Own People.

of Car in strangling and poisoning
the public opinion Of the country,
Next week we shall divulge the meth
DDS by which the magnificent pros
TO ruin and bitterness-how everybody
concerned in the Land Conference or
in the passing of the Purchase Act,
or who showed any readiness to help
us toward Home Rule, was picked out
for jibe and insult and hunted down
with an unquenchable fury-how the
plans for turning the Purchase Act to
the best account for ou. people were
countermined by the now avowed de
termined campaign launched" against
the program of Mr.. Redmond and his
colleagues-how the "far-stghted pol
icy" was sacrificed under terror of the
threats Of the advocates of the "un-
wise and shol t-sighted policy"-and
how Mr.. O'Brien, when, after two
he claimed the @sim-
pie right of submitting to the country
arguments for returning to a wiser
program, had his words suppressed by
sailed with loathsome charges Of dis
sension and hostility to pledge bound
party by the very men who had torn
the pledge to tatters and by their dis
sension- -mongering ruined the working
of the Purchase Act and robbed the
country of half it's intended blessings.
The country will yet cry shame on the
attempt to degrade a great national
issue of this kind into a vile man-hunt
for being true to the "far-sighted pol
icy" to which country and party two
years ago pledged themselves by every
sacred vow.
Finally, we will show how-without
, dissension and without dissolving a
pledge bound party but, on the con-
trary, by restoring the value and bind
ing force of the pledge-we may even
yet, by calm appeal to the judgment
sighted policy" and the "unwise and
short-sighted policy" repair the havoc
that has been wrought in the National
cause, amend the Purchase Act in all
necessary particulars, achieve great
measure of justice for the laborers,
and make the question of Irish Ma
tional self-government once more liv-
ing question by re- establishing the hon
or and good faith of Ireland and her
leaders in the eyes of England.
Michael Davitt, on being asked by
the Limerick Executive of the
! United Irish League to assist at a
friendly conference between Messrs
O'Brien, Redmond, Dillon and himself
to settle the matters in dispute, re-
piled in parts as follows:
Il desire to say that I do not look
for any good results from such con-
ference. I shall, however, gut no OBJ
| y
l am quite willing to eliminate my
own personality from what you call
the misunderstanding and to abide by
! whatever Messrs. Redmond, Dillon and
O'Brien may arrive at if the same is
submitted and approved of by the
coming National Convention.
I'm fact, there is no need for my
presence at such a meeting. The pol
| icy in which Mr.. OBrien is SO violent
lily opposed is not my policy. 1t is
more Mr.. O'Brien's, Mr.. Redmond's
| land Mr.. Dillon's; it is what Mr.
O'Brien strenuously advocated for
years previous to the adoption by him
of the line of action which had it's
birth in the Land Conference. It is
the policy for the alleged violation
! of which Mr.. Eealy was expelled by
Mr.. O'Bren's efforts from the Irish
Party, the policy Of unity Of action in
the National Organization and Par
liamentary Party, and of the disciplin-
airy provision of the party pledge.
Il have stood by and pleaded for
the old as against the Cancellation
! ?o..icy for the past two years, and the
country is, as you know, overwhelm-