The Irish standard., 1908-10-10
Redmond Reviews the History of the Past
Four Years and Says Promises
Have Been Fulfilled.
Home Rule is Certainty, 1t Were a Sac
riege to Believe Otherwise, Declares
the Leader. ...

The Irish ENJOYS, John e. Redmond,
M. p, the Irish leader, with Joseph
Devlin, M. p. and John Fitzg!bbon,
chairman Roscommon County Courcil,
arrived in Chicago Wednesday,, Sept.
80, and were met by a committee Of
tho United Irish Societies and .scort-
ed to the Auditorium Annex.
Mrs. John E. Redmond, who is ac-
companying her distinguished husband,
was taken in charge by a committee OF
Chicago ladies. During the dsy the
guests were driven around the city
and shown it's various points Of i.,,e"-
est. The public reception took place
on that evening at Orchestra hall,
which was filled to overf1owing by an
enthusiastic audience. Every box was
crowded with the wealth., fashion and
beauty Of Chicago, says the Chicago
Citizen.
After the guests of the evening had
taken their places on the stage, Capt.
j. 7. Cahill, president of the United
Irish Societies, briefly called the meet
ing to order and turned over the chair
manship to Hon. Medill Mccormick.
After brief speeches complimentary Of
the Irish race, and Of the splendid
work accomplished by John E. Rcd
n1ond and his colleagues-madc by
Assistant Corporation Counsel Emil e.
Wetton, representing Mayor Bussc.
who was unavoidably absent, Hon. Adj
1ai e. Stevenson, and the chairman,
Mr. Medill McCormick-Mr Redmond
addressed the vast audience.
AT the outset he paid a most elo-
quent and feeling tribute to the late
Col John F. Finerty, whom he de-
scribed as one of the truest and abiest
sons Ireland ever had, and on, who
for twenty-five years had been his
warm, personal friend. The applause
Of the audience greeting this tribute
was long continued. Mr.. Redmond
then continued:
-Four years ago spoke to you peo-
pie Of Chicago from this platform. At
that time I asked for your moral and
material support and made you prom
ises of practical results in return. You
gave me the support, moral and mater
ial. Now am here to prove t, you
that I have kept my promise.
when spoke here four year; ago
coercion was in full force in ireland.
Trial by jury was abolished. Free
speech was suspended. The leaders o:
our race lay in English prisons for no
other crime than that of loving their
country. And, above all, there was in
trenched in power in England a party
pledged to oppose home rule or any
thing approaching it or leading to it.
Anu LHlS purity uOAA q AAoJoAtSS W S'S>
$50 votes in parliament.
81 promised to drive that govern
ment out of power, to put an end 70
coercion in Ireland, to make percepti-
BILE advances toward home rule. never
to lower for an instant the national
flag, and to win, while struggling for
nationality, great ameliorative' reforms
to better the conditions of the Irish
people in Ireland.
Tells Of Keeping Pronisss.
Il have kept my promises. That
government was defeated twice, both
times on Irish questions-first OF the
teaching of Irish IN the schools OF Ire
land, and the second time on tho land
lord question. They have been driven
from power and the liberal party ID
strongly intrenched in their pla"e.
With their fall from power coercion
went from Ireland-not for the time
being but forever.
"Never again will an English gov
ernment dare to attempt to govern Ire