Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
TALES FROM IRELAND
Coffin at Wake Contained Only
Some Shavings.
VIEWS FROM JOHN REDMOND
Sharp Comment on Proposals to Quit
Parliament.
SOME SIGNIFICANT LANGUAGE
A Recapitulation of the Work Of the
Irish Party in the Past Twenty
Five Years.
SOME SIGNIFICANT LANGUAGE

| Special Cabegram to The Star
DUBLIN, September 21.-An extraordi-
| nary story comes from Youghal, County
| Cork. A young man named ODonnell, who
| had been an inmate in a charitable institu-
| ton there died few days ago, and ar
rangements were made for his interment at
Ferrypont County Waterford. A coffin
was ordered and forwarded to the institu-
| ton. Next morning the relatives removed
| 1t to the young mans former residence
| carrying 1t all the way on their shoulders.
| Remarks were frequent from the pallbear-
| ers about the lightness of the coffin but as
| the young mans Illness was protracted IL
was concluded that he had wasted away.
| Some hours after the coffin had been de-
| posted at his house a relative, who had
| not seen him for several years, expressed a
desire to see his face. The desire was OPP
| posed, but in face Of persistent request,
the lid of the coffin was allowed to be I'M
screwed All attending the wake had
gathered round to take last view OF the
| body but to their establishment quantity
of shavings was all that was to be seen.
AS soon a. the parties recovered from thelr
shock the empty coffin was taken back TO
Youghal and in the institution from which
1t had been taken the corpse still lay. Inc
funeral party then returned with the body.
Mr.. John REDMOND, IN d IettfE " tiio
town clerk of Wexford borough council.
thanking them for proposing to CONFER the
honorary freedom of the borough on him.
speaks Of the relations between the parila-
mentary party and Sim Fem, and says:
| The absurd pretense that the best way OF
forwarding the national cause is TO WIFI
draw the national representatives from
| parliament-that is to say to dlsfranchlse
| Ireland to throw away the weapon by the
use Of which all the victories Of the past
twenty-five years have been won FOR the
| freedom and prosperity of the people, to
| leave all outstanding Irish questions, NOT
only home rule, but education, finance and
| land reform to the exclusive management
| of the Ulster unionists-this policy has
been condemned and repudiated in unmis-
| taxable fashion by Ireland. Its advocates
have not dared to take the verdict Oh the
people in any part of Ireland
No New Policy Needed.
| Later Mr.. Redmond says: 1T has been
said that a new policy is needed. l have
! tried In vain to find out what Outside the
discarded abstention policy is meant by
| this cry. The only new policy have seen
| mentioned is Sir T Esmondes brilliant sug-
| gestion that we should ask the government
| to give us home rule by letters patent as In
| the case of the Transvaal a simple and
| simple minded policy surely. But ne
| stacle in the way in the shape OF the act
| of union. There Is, however. doubtless IN
| some places confusion and doubt' no mat
| ter how engendered. Take for example,
| the position In North OXFORD mat positioii
cannot remain as 1t is.
"Sir nomas Esmonde has repudiated and
denounced the policy Of the Irish party
He has .een calleC upon oy ina. par ~ 90 90
| to allow the electors to decide the issue
| raised He has not done so. he has now
| announced that he is willing to act with
| the party or any set of men who put the
national question in the forefront. Thls
won't do. Is he or is he not member of
| the Irish party. bounu SO long as ne Is a
| member Of the party to accept the pol no
and decisions Of the majority or MS col
| leagues and to sit, act and vote with
| themT There is no such thing as a CON
| ditionap member Of the party. Even Tor
Sir r Esmonde such a select class INSIDE
the party cannot be created If he Is to be
a member of the party he must De on an
equality and nothing more, with every
member of it. $50
nificant words: II have no doubt or mis-
giving about the future. The country Is
behind the Irish party. and the Irish party
will do its duty to the county country. me cran ann
and the cynics, the doubters, the Welt
recognized professional crIucs have all had
their innings for the past few weeks Ihey
will get their answer from every quarter or
Ireland before the harvest Is saved.
Appeal to League Branches.
Mr.. William Redmond, NJ. P. has sen the
! following letter to the league branches in
East Clare: II trust that your branch will
| lose no time in afflliating with the central
organization in Dublin. At this time, when
so much criticism Is being directed against
the Irish party, it is the duty of the people
to strengthen the national organization, be-
cause whatever the party may be Will de-
pend upon the unity and the organization
of the branches of the U. /. l..
"I am exceedingly anxious that East
Nov hnr,16 ha n L
would appeal to you and the other branches
| to come into line with the rest OF the coun-
try and support the recognized organiza-
| ton of the people, the United Irish League.
"As to the criticism which Is so freely
being directed against the Irish party,
can only say that l consider IT undeserVed.
The Irish members have faithfully repre-
sented the people for the last twenty-five
wears and as result l believe the
farmers, the laborers and the townspeople
can point to many great and benenclal re-
forms.
twenty-five years ago the people were
slaves upon the land. Today they fast
becoming, on reasonable terms I hope. the
owners Of the soil The iaborers were much
neglected in days gone by, but, as a result
of the Irish party's action bill is now the
law of the land which Will enable thou
sands of decent cottages to be buiit Tor
them. The jewellers in towns nave achleVed
some security through the town tenants bill
of last year, but still much remains to be
done for the artisans and workingmen OF
| the villages and towns.
The Work Of the Irish Party.
while it is true that we have not sue
ceeded as we anticipated in winning. so
far a fair measure Of home rule, 1t is only
right to remember that we now enjoy the
government Of county councils instead or
the sway Of the old grand juries.
81 cannot understand the man who would
attempt to deny that much has been
achieved during the past twenty-five years.
/ consider that the Irish party is entitled
to a fair need of credit. but at the same
| time l freely admit that everything that
has been won, or will be won, rests entirely
with the organization and the united pee
pie at home. Unfortunately at the pres
| ent time as far as 1 can see, the Irish peo-
| pie have no stronger weapon at their hand
| than united and independent representa-
| ton in parliament. If there were a better
Of what w I