The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-12

by the United Irish League of ireland.
| Measured by any test that can be APP
piled by human mind to human IN
! deavor. il is unquesuonably the Ma
/ tional Organization Of the Irish Peo-
( pie. Absolutely adhesion to one opin-
/ ion or TO one man by all the inhab-
itants of Il country is humanity impos-
sible. Differences Of opinion must eX-
I list between men as to the claims or
rights Of individuals for leadership
and to the justice and the wisdom of
4 nearly every measure proposed by
| human mind. We hear men proclaim
that the Irish people should be as ont
and that from out their Serried ranks
there should never come discordant
note. Such condition is not ideal, for
it would mark the dead level of de-
spair-and certain it is it is human
~ impossible. 1t has never existed in
amy political movement or character
lied any people struggling for free
dom.
4 will not venture as | might, to
point to present day proofs in our own
land (America) but in the time that
tried mems souls'-let me remind my
fellow citizens of all degrees that dur
ing the entire period of the Revolu-
tionary war New York City was in
continuous possession of the English:
that the British forces entered in tri-
umph the then capital of the infant
republic, and that their entrance was
welcomed by the wealth and fashion |
of the keystone colony; that two
years after the Declaration of indie !
pendence the French minister report |
ed that not one-fourth of the people |
favored the new government that
the now most treasured names of
q.,-.- Il, -
were then denounced as 'autcaSts'
and rebel agitators:' that of all who !
died amid the SHOWS of Valley Forge, |
the name of but one soldier is known: |
that the great Washington, whom we |
now idealize. was then the object of |
continuous calumny; the wicked con-
spiracies having for their object his |
overthrow, proved nearly SUCCESSFUL; |
that even as President, years after the |
Revolution. he was repeatedly burned |
in effigy; and that in our own day it
took the bullet of the assassin to make
England speak with respect of the !
mighty Lincoln.
Humanity is the same everywhere,
and the heart of mn pulses his hates.
his passions, his ambitions in Ireland
as in America. But this can be written
today of the Irish people: Notwith-
the Groupings OF 1ndleNOleuCe
which we see all round and about US;
the assassions of
character who in Ireland and America
aim their poisoned darts at our lead
ers and our cause; Notwithstanding
the wickedness of assault which, be-
cause personal, seems fiendishly ac-
centuated-our people have shown
to be a grateful race, and
in this crisis in their history have
demonstrated themselves to be prac-
teal determined, and worthy of lib
erty, for unswayed by prejudice. the
most malign; needless of appeals to
their special interests; regardless of
influences from any and every quar-
-er; they have rallied to the support
Of the Irish Pledge-bound Party and
is superb leader with fidelity and
generosity unexampled since that glo-
'ious day thirty-one years ago. when
n Straide, Mayo. Michael Davitt pro-
claimed the conquering doctrine of
The Land for the People
The Irish people everywhere are
united and practically solid in sup
bort of the National cause, and the
'ause is, therefore, marching on with
bright hope and prospect of speedy
-ictory. Journal.