The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-12-28
No Truth Whatever in Assertions Made
That Ireland is Now in State of
Lawlessness and Crime.
With the Generous Aid From America. Onlv
aSmall Amount is Yet to Be Raised
For Parnell Memorial.


Parnell Monument Committee should
not he very difficult, says Timothy j.
OConnor in 4, cablegran to the st.
Louis Globe Democrat of Dec. 81.
The Irish people in America. have
given the whole race a stimulating
lead--if stimulus were wanted. Out
of their generosity they have provided
for the cost of the statue and all the
bronze ornamentation for tho monu-
ment, together with the plans and
specifications. the amount Of tho con-
tract with ST. Gaudens heine s25.000
It remains for others to furnish funds
for the erection OF the masonry and
not less than $4,000. A magnificent
site has been secured for a, magnificent
work, the last from tho hands or
sculptor Of Worldwide fame, and il is
due to the memory of Parnell and to the
artistic taste of a city rich in examples
of the sculptors art that the masonry
and architectural work should be
worthy this great figure and The site
dedicated To il. In the autumn of 1899
a national monument to Mr.. ParneI in
Dublin. After some time a small conf
mittee was formed, under the presi-
dcnry of the lord mayor, MI. Daniel
Talon and this committee proceeded
to solicit subscriptions and To obtain
a site from the Dublin Corporation for
the erection OF the monument. The
foundation stone of the monument was
laid at the top Of O'Connell street, out
side the Rotunda, on the 9Th of C,cto-
bcr 1899. The statue itself Ia eight
feet high.
Speaking at Cardiff Wednesday. Mr..
John Redmond, NJ. r., snid il had been
his good fortune during the autumn to
address great gatherings of Irish people
in every province in Ireland, and he
had never during his lifetime seen the
people more united and more aroused
and determined to push on their cause.
The disappointment that came upon
ireland in the failure of the Irish Coun-
Gil bill, instead Of depressing their peo-
pie, had still further united and aroused
them. Even the soinblance of disunity
which their critics in England had been
able to discover in the recent past was
passing away, and he believed that in
return to Parliament absolutely united
in it's ranks. They would go to Parlia-
ment TO demand homo rule. Their duty
would be, next session, to make 1t plain
to the Liberal party, as they had made
It plain to other liberal parties in the
past, that no remedial legislation could
settle the Irish question. Recently he
had been reading absolute nonsense in
the English papers on the question Of
what was called cattle driving, and at
tempts that had been made by news pa
pers to write of ireland as being In a
state of ]awlessness and crime. He
asserted that by comparison with Eng
land, Scotland, and even with Wales,
ireland was in p. state of perfect i'm
munity from serious crime. The official
criminal statistics bore him. out
Everywhere he went In Ireland he
found the jails shut up, jalls where
some of them were enterta incd in days
gone by. His old Jail in Wexford was
shut up; 1t had been handed over to
the County Council, and that body did
not know what to do with it. Being
in Wexford u few months ago he was
amused to find the walls pIacarded with
these words: Spend two days in Jail"
When he inquired into the meaning of
the words he learned that a meeting of
the Gaelic League was being held in
side the Jail. Jails everywhere. all over
the country, were being shut up. He
asked his hearers not to blame the
Irish people for the alleged outrages
until they found out whether they had