The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-18
URGES PEOPLE
TO STAND FIRM
John Dillon Tells Irish Farmers
Land Will Be Theirs if Home
Rule Triumphs.
He Deprecates Critic SIN Put For
ward by Those protesting to
be Nationalist.

Dublin, Nov. 11.-Replying to a
number of addresses from various
public bodies presented to him
Portumna, county Galway, John Dill
Ion, NJ. p, deprecated the criticism
put forward by Irish newspapers
processing to be nationalists in re-
gard to the approaching home rule
bill Mr.. Redmond and mis- colleasu
he said had been challenged as to
their authority to speak on behalf of
the Irish people. If they were not
trusted by the p"+ionalists of Ireland
at this critical ur of their history
how could Mr.. w. lmond, their accept
ed leader, conduct the negotiations
that We're being carried on?
Are Helping Enemy.
Every man in Ireland who chal-
lenged, or sought to undermine, or
conveyed the impression to British
ministers that Mr.. Redmond did not
|speak with authority on behalf of
the nationalists of Ireland was doing
ibis level best to destroy the power
of their leader and his efforts to OBJ
tain satisfactory terms on the home
rule bill. The people had selected
men to lead them, and every man
was bound, in duty to his country,
to do everything in his power to
strengthen their hands and support
them during these critical times. The
time would come when the bill would
be published and then all Ireland
would be entitled to pronounce their
judgment, as they were allowed to
pronounce judgment in the case of
the councils bill. In regard to the
latter bill, the Irish party was hamp-
cred in its efforts to obtain better
terms owing to people outside claim
ing authority to speak for the coun-
try.
At meeting subsequently held, the
chairman announced that he had re-
ceived a letter from Shaw Tener,
agent for Lord Clanricarde, stating
that Lord Clanricarde had intimated
through him to the congested dis
tricts board that he was prepared to
receive and consider reasonable Of
fer for his property. The board, in
i1of ho1 or fa1 ho
they were prepared to make that Of
fer to Lord Clanricarde within
month.
MT. Dillon said that thirty years ago
he went to Portumna at the request
of Michael Davitt to raise the banner
of revolt against the cruelest land
cursed with. The struggle had been
long and marked by much disappoint-
ment and suffering, but who was the
winner now?
| AS sure as tomorrow's sun would
rise, so sure would the land of Clan
ricardo pass to the tenants and their
children, and the tyranny under which
their fathers had groaned for many
generations would disappear from the
land of Galway forever. Lord Clanri-
carde would get fair offer, and they
would give him week or SO to con-
slider it and then if he rejected it he
Dillon) would not come down to ask
them to keep the peace any more.
The best plan, at that moment, to
promote and expedite the transfer of
the land was by organizing the coun-
try to push on the national cause of
home rule, because if they once got
it into the heads OF the Irish land
lords that home rule parliament
would be sitting in Dublin in the next
two years they would be tumbling
over each other to SELL Those who
were charged with the administra-
ton of native parliament would
not be disposed to go beyond justice,
and the landlords would not get the
prices they got in the past.