The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-08-24

by the Cabinet that they were rot
serious. The same Cabinet inflicted
upon thousands of women a tax for
insurance purposes without allowing
them any voice as to how they would
be taxed. Upon special subjects
which concerned their sex they MAIN
tained they had better right to be
heard than they had received. They
maintained and insisted that until the
promise so often made to them was
kept no minister Of the Crown should
have peace or ease. Further, they
said that Parliament never listened to
the voice OF any unprotected class un-
til outrages and crime had proved the
seriousness of the demand. There
was not upon the Statute Book of
England Il single Act dealing with
measures of what he might call 4
revolutionary kind until the momcn-
tuln OF disorder had produced the pas
sage OF the measure.
Upon this night of July last these
women came hither because the Prime
Minister of their country WAS visit
ing Ireland They thought that IN
view OF the fact that at the instance
of Mr.. Asqulth no less than sixteen
Irish members changed their votes on
the franchise question. In other
words. sixteen men who last year said
1T was right that women should have
the franchise this year voted it was
volving moon. 1t occurred to these
ladies to come to the country which
was the home and focus ana heart OF
agitation to hear the Prime Minister
talk; and the criminals in the dock
heard the Primo Minister refer to mon
like Parnell and O'Conncll and hold
country.
Mr.. Asquith was surrounded by
torch hearers and welcomed by an or
ganizaton called the Ancient Order Of
HiberniHns. which hoasted that it was
a lineal descendant OF RibbOnnlen,
and just as criminals like OConnell
were now honored with statues be-
cause they won, so in the same wav
tho lineal descendants of the Ribbon
men were honored by being the guard
| of honor OF the Prime Minister of
| England. They had only to turn to
the statute passed in their own life
time, which rendered every man who
surrounded him that night. had he
| lived in 1879, liable to a cell in Kill
mainham Jail. When horror was ex-
cited by the speech of his learned
! friend, 1t was well in this country to
remember the past.
"And now," said Mr.. HcaIy. ".hny
are the friends of Mr.. Asquith An!
! today" he added. "it is that society
which appoints the Lord Lieutenant,
which appoints the Attorney General,
which appoints the Crown Prosecutor
in Green street" Uaughter)
Mr. Justice Madden--You will, in
your own good time, come to the evil
dcnce
Mr.. Ucnly-I will. my lord. He vas
showing the jury that when the hands
of horror were thrown up at the acts
for which Gladys Evans was charged
it was well, after all. to remember
what the past of the country was. anu
by what means the liberties which VIC
! now enjoy were achieved, and the fur
ther liberties, which were to be ex-
tended to us--by what means Land
! Acts and other Acts had been passed.
| And it was for following in the foot
steps Of these successful criminals -
| If they lked-followng in their foot
! steps at a long distance that these
ladies. whose acts had excited so much
condemnation from his learned friend.
stood in the dock.