The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-06-26

them. Even their leaders say Let by
cones be bygones.' Let the Irish for
get Drogheda. let the Irish people for
get the babes on the bayonets. the
people who were burned In the
churches. our fathers and mothers and
ancestors driven down like dogs into
sewers. oppressed as no other people
were ever oppressed, and yet men will
have the impudence to say that we
will be satisfied with Home Rule
such as his gracious Majesty's Govern
ment will be pleased to give U.S."
After reading the remarks of Father
O'Donnell in the Journal. Globe and
Post of Boston. the officers of the
United Irish League and representa-
tive members thereof issued an open
letter to Father O'Donnell in which
they said in part:
The fight for Irish Nationality con-
Quoted by the leaders of the public
Parliamentary movement in Ireland.
since its foundation by Charles Stew
art Parnell and Michael Davitt in 1879
has never been and is not now one Of
"cheap politics." 1t has been the strug-
gle Of Nation for freedom.
In that struggle the children of that
Nation as practical men and women
have been compelled to take into &C
count the conditions by which they
were surrounded and the possibility, Of
waging a successful contest That
they have succeeded is apparent from
the numerous and great reforms which
have been won in the interval stated
and the bright promise existing today
of the speedy securing of broad
measure of National Self Government.
It. may be that in .statesmanltlsc
minds the fact that more than three
hundred thousand Irish tenant farmers
have become owners of their own hold
lngs; that fifty thousand neat and
healthy laborers' cottages have been
erected throughout the country, eacn
with an acre of land attached at the
merely nominal price Of about Is cents
week; that more than two thou
sand evicted tenants have been re-
stored to the homes from which they
were driven by ruthless landlords; that
National University, after a CEN
fury Of struggle, has been won for Ire
land. and that upward of 100000 900
has been wrung from the British
treasury to carry out reforms in Ire
land. may be regarded as cheap poll
tics" but if so Ireland, and . indeed
other countries. could stand a good
deal more of that kind Of politics with
out being seriously injured. "
We regret to notice that in your
speeches either in Boston or in Ire
land you do not seem to be aware that
any such gains had been made, so far
at least as mention of them would in
dictate. The men who have come te
America from time to time as delegate.
Of the Irish people have not lied as tt
conditions there, nor have they sough1
nor wanted charity from anybody eth,
err in America or Australia. They came
to ask the people of their race an.
other friends of freedom to strengthen
their hands in an unequal contest TO
National and political rights against
powerful and wealthy nation. +.
Charles Stewart Parnell, John Red
mond, John Dillon. Michael Davitt, Ed
ward Blake, T. P. O'Connor, Cap,
Donalan and Joseph Devlin are not tn
type of men who either need or de
sire charity from anybody. And ever,
man of them has in turn declared wha
Parnell himself declared in Boston 3
years ago, that 1relands last ;appea
for charity had been made to anybod,
and that her appeal thenceforwar,
would be for the means to wiring he
rights from an alien government. Tha
is the effort in which the men VIII
have been delegated by Ireland t
visit America from time to time hav
since been engaged, and we are gia
to say successfully.
Your statement therefore, the
men have come, here who were 1hypo
critics who lied Gus to get our. money
is contrary to the facts. You hav
yourself on public platforms advocates
side by side with some of them, tha
same policy on more than one occasio
and expressed your PLEASURE at bein
enabled to do so. You have likewis
contributed to the funds. which the
have been obliged to seek in order this
the. National struggle of tho sIrish, pee
Pile. may be maintained until it ~
crowned by success. -.
Inasmuch as the published report !