The Irish standard., 1909-04-17
o'HRlEN ON THE CONTINENT,


o'eRlEN ON THE. CONTINENT.
Having rendered his resignation and
closed the office of the Irish People,
VIM. o'Brien and his wife left for the
continent, where, they will remain in
seclusion away from the worry and
turmoil of Irish politics. The "All for
Ireland League. is dead and buried,
and the United Irish. League has UNI
disputed sway In. all parts Of the ISL
and. After reading letter from Rev.
w. .Lillis, G., Co., Macroon. a strong
supporter Of his, VIM. o'Brien sud-
denly made up his mind to drop the
organization Of, his new. league and
resign from parliament. He ad-
dressed the following letter to his
constituents: 4ls LIS
Fellow Countrymen-Recent devel-
opments-notably the detection Of no
less than .iye Cork NJ. P.'s, including
my own colleague in the representa-
ton of Cork City-make it. impossibls
for me to continue further to press
my views upon.-a, country apparently
unwilling. or unable to hear me. and I
shall vacate my. seat in Parliament at
once. I have done ALL. that it.: was
possible for one. man to do. The mass
es Of the people of the County and
City Of Cork, 1 am sure. know, how
grateful I am for. their Interchangeable
fidelity: l'ays 10 reproaches for the
poor pSple Of the rest of the country,
who have been acting in tragic ignor-
ance of what they are doing.
Your faithful servant. ~
i. :. ,WILL1AM o'BR1EN.
The Cork Examiner, which had been
the friend of 9,Brien until he became
a disturber; Of unity. published the
foregoing letter and declared that the
decision Mr., p'TB srten had arrived at
was the wise,s 81 lagANa most patriotic he
could adopt. ss:Thsre is no Nationalist
in Ireland said the Examiner, that
will not regard Mr.. o'Rrien's retire
ment at this 1uncture,, as one Of the
not least worthy. acts. Of his great and
distinguished career, Too bad that
rim Heaiy 60 could a. not! follow the !. exam
pie Of VIM. o'Brisn and retire from
parliament. After casting aspersions
upon the Irish parliamentary leaders
in the case of Cream vs.. Devlin, before
a police court Ii, Dublin, Tim Healy is
not worthy of rsesppresssshting any county
Of Ireland in tie London parliament.
Those who elect him are blind to their
own interests. After attacking the
Dublin convention, which he did not
attend. and stigmatizins the A. O. H
as Molly Maguires,'' as X. G. he de-
serves fat berth from the Tory gov
eminent as soon as it comes into
power. T. P. o'connor is justified in
referring to "the brutality Of Healy's
language" in the Devlin case, and the
manner in which he conducted himself
in his lawyers gown for the amuse-
ment Of 1reland's enemies caused the
spectators to hiss oBrien as he left
the police court every day. for o'Brien
was the man who hired Healy for hi.
prosecution of Devlin. The Irish par
ty long ago repudiated aealy, and his
constituents in Longford should call
for his resignation, and send a man in
his place. who will take q pledge to
work and vote with the National par
ty both in and out Of parliament
Healy is man Of great ability and
would be of great benefit TO Ireland II
he could be restrained from INDUCING
his vituperative propensity at the ex-
pense of the Irish party, but evidently
he cannot be induced to work in har-
mony with his colleagues.
william o'Brien did well in resign
ing when he no longer could consci.
entiously approve OF. the Birreli bill a.
accepted by John e. Redmond on be-
half Of ireland. At some future time
William o'Brien may return to public
life and render valuable service to his
country. Everyone has a kindly feel