The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-13
LAW SUFFICIENT FOR ALL PURPOSES
None But Incompetent Politicians Would Resort to the
Use of Coercive Measures to Obtain Any
More Convictions.

In a recent speech in the British
parliament. a Tory member. Earl
Percy. made a. violent onslaught OH
Ireland which elected cheers from tho
Opposition benches. In reply, MI. Biz
rell, Chief Secretary for Ireland. who
was received with general cheers, sa1cI
in part:
of course have no means of kno n
ing what may be the feelings of 9TH
CIR members OF this House, but | at all
events am sincerely glad that this
much talked of and advertised ameuu~
n,ent has been at last introduced. F'tQ'
months past have been arraigned o.,
hundreds of party platforms and In
obedience to orders of party organizes
tions (hear, hear, and cries of "Oh")
Il have been arraigned by ,he most
charitable for high crimes and mis-
demeanors against the State. as one
whose hands are stained with blood AMI
whose cu,7scIellcs -is soiled with muir
der (laugfiterJ. ana man who looks
supremacy on, Indifferent to life, neg
lcctful of property, callous to- human
suffering. and watching society rush
ing headlong downhilI to ruin and dis
pollution. l have not, ! am hound t>
admit, been able to derive much salts
faction from the two rival hpyotlloses
which have been invented to account
for this hideous phenomena NaughteD.
J. have been described as callous
cynic, wholly Indifferent to what hap
pened either to man or beast in Ire
land. Other persons have found it more
charitable to attribute my inaction to
state Of coWardice -noral, mental,
and physical which has reduced me
so low in the scale OF humanity as act
ually to- be beneath the contempt of the
right honorable and learned gentleman
of Dublin (Ministerialist laughter and
Nationalist cries OF Hear, hcar"). On
the surface Of this torrent OF abuse
there is at all events one ray OF hope,
inaslnuch as all these orators at tho
close Of their harangues assured their
audiences that tho House Of Commons
would not meet for q single day before.
rising in their majesty and wrath and
dragging forward the vliain Of tlls
INV -,
OF this quaking coward, this mass Of
nerveless ineptitude, to the wrath of
the whole House of Commons (checrs
and laughter). / confess l derived this
much satisfaction, that they cannot do
this without at all events affording Inc
the opportunity Of saying a word or
two in my own defense. 1 have had
to wait until another amendment drop
ped from I know not where dealing
with Ireland comes before us for dis
cussion. The critics Of Ireland are al.
ways ready to offer that unhappy coun-
try choice before the drug Of coel :.
cton, bitter, familiar and ipeffectual,
was to be thrown down her throat. She
was to be tempted, like the mother OF
mankind with the fair enticing frllits,
of Tariff Reform Cloud Ministerial
cheers and laughter). If she had fol-
lowed that high example, and. yielding
tc the temptation, given hon. members
opposite the votes they had wanted
dare say this amendment, somehow OF
other, would have disappeared (Min.
isterial laughter and Opposition cries
Of protest).' am very glad that 1t has
at last been moved. We have heard d
powerful and eloquent speech from the
noble lord. It was we'll conceived AID
we'll arranged, but 1t was not very dis
t:nctively Irish, nor did it exhibit any
very close knowledge-(Nat
cheers)-either Of the actual facts OF
of the state of the law (rencweG Ma.
tionalist cheers). He has SAID Some
rather harsh things about me. He viii
forgive me II say that from his point
OF view and from that OF his frienGs
the, case would have beer better on;
f7,1ated "a 1.-THE hon. and gallant mem.