The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-05-21

the curse and the character of the
whole social system as deeply as you
do in your country. l want to know
am I, as representative of these people,
cal fables told from these benches in
the interest of the distillers and land
lords, while my constituents and the
people are to be robbed of all these
beneficent advantages which we hope
to secure through the agency and op-
Grafton of this budget? (Cheers.)
There are children in Belfast who go
to work at o'clock in the morning
and work till 6 o'clock at night, with
wizened faces, old before they even
know what it is to be young, for IS a
week. They work and toll, and work
and toll, and it is recorded that on an
average they die at 80. They are not
to count. You must take pensioners,
who now have earned their pension
by arriving at the age of 20, and re-
fuse pensions to those who are pre-
vented at present by the poor law dis
qualification, in order that the margin
may be given in an extra years pur-
chase to the landlords. (Nationalist
cheers.) Why do not some of these
eX-democrats, who exhibit all this pas
sion for the distillers and the land
lords think of their better and nobler
days when they fought for the peo-
pie? (Chcers.) There is a generation
rising up in Ireland who are tired Of
all this humbug; there is a genera
ton rising up in Ireland who will new
er be satisfied with hysterical shriek-
fngs of played-out politicians, and who
are not going to be led by lords and
mobiles. (Cheers.) The Irish democ-
racy are enlightened and educated.
They know what they want and they
are determined to have it. I believe
that this budget proposes to give them
some Of the things they want; and,
when the judgment Of the people is
taken on this budget, it will be un-
equivocably In favor of it.
The biggest question; -ns~f-lave stat
ed, is the question of the House of
Lords. (Cheers.) We believe there
is only one alternative to the course
which my honorable and learned friend
has taken, backed up as he is unani-
mously by his colleagues. We must
either in the politics of this empire
join with these gentlemen (the oppo-
sition) or these (the ministerialists).
We cannot carry any great cause to
the triumph by ourselves. Are we to
join with men who have stained the
statute book of England by their OPP
position to every genuine reform that
has been introduced by every states
man who has ever been friendly to
Ireland? Are we to take the side of
the democracy of England, who have
warm hearts for Ireland in the hope
and in the belief that when the great
policy Of national pacification is COM
pleted, when Gladstone's life work has
been crowned with success, an eman-
cipated democracy in England will
help to emancipate the democracy in
Ireland. (Cheers.) I say this is not
the millennium, but it is the triumph
we hope to see, and it is the policy
Ireland wishes to carry out, and the
policy which will receive the mandate
of Ireland when we appeal to our con-
stituents. The honorable member for
Cork talks about forcing a general
election. What has he to complain or?
Does he not want to bring us. over to
Ireland and beat us? Gaughter) We
are forcing the impeachment We
want it to come, and the sooner that
impeachment is brought the better.
tell him, and I tell the House, that
when that general election takes place
whatever changes there may be in the
vicissitudes of party fortunes in this
parliament in Great Britain, the Irish
parliamentary party will come back
stronger and more powerful than it
was before to assist you in destroy
ing the Juggernaut which is crushing
down the hopes and aspirations of all
people who are passionately animated
by a desire for social reform, and to
bring about peaceful relationship and
contentment to the two peoples, and
progress to the interests of the democ-
racy.
The visiting dinlomat from opo of