The Irish standard., 1912-10-05
VERY PLAIN TALK
BY JOHN DILLON
Tells Orangemen that Signing a Doc
ument is Not Enough to Over
come Ireland's Will.
The Only Argument of the Men of
Ulster is the B.udgeon and Boot
and Iron Nut.
Ireland Has Overcome Obstacles
Far More Formidable Than the
Orange Opposition.

AT Il great mass meeting in kclls,
County Meath, on Sunday, Sept. 10,
John Dillon delivered an address which
evoked enthusiasm from 10000 Hon.
Rulers. He said in part:
The men of Meath have had expert
cnce more bitter than any men, even /"
Macedonia under the Turk, for never in
the history OF civilized man has sucl,
devastation been wrought on IL land
singularly blessed by the hand of God
(hear, hcar). We want Home Rule.
and we will have it in spite OF the
hundred Unionists OF Meath lSreat
chcering), and the first use we will
make of it is to multiply on the fer
tile lands OF Meath the homes of :he
children of Meath (hcar, hear). We
are not afraid of argument agains:
Home Rule, but the men of Ulster
dare not listen to argument. Their only
argument is the bludgeon and the boot
and the iron nut. Clear hear.) Let me
at the outset say q few words about
this great campaign in Ulster. We arr
told by responsible statesmen across
the water that the only obstacle row
in the path Of Home Rule is the solemn
determination Of Ulster. / would ask
you first to observe the fact that there
was no disturbance in Ulster until
| there was frequent Indictment by Eng
lish unionist statesmen. II took a
long time and a great many speeches
from Mr.. Bonar Law and Co. daughter
and Groans) before they succeeded in
stirring up the vile passions of rclig-
| ious bigotry which had been dormant
for some time in that province. I'ney
never thought in their reckless and sell
Isll campaign what would be the con
sequences to the I'rOtcst;,nts of the
south of Ireland if the brutality they
invoked in Ulster were copied in the
South by the Catholics. God .6rnid
they should (chccrs). Our people were
built Of different material. We would
| tate the saVagcry and the brutality Of
Belfast (chcers), but these men never
thought of that, and they openly and
lor purely selfish motives invoked the
| Well-knOwn methods Of the Ulster
{ Orangemen against the Nationalists
and Catholics Of Ulster.
! 1t took a long time to stir. up The
forces of religious bigotry, and ! say
1 here deliberately that no man ever
engaged in ireland, or in any other
! country for that matter, in Il more dis
graceful and scandalous campai sn
/ (Cheers) The people of England were
told from a hundred platforms that tn"
! temper of Ulster was one of high a3l
stern resolve, and that they were pre-
pairing themselves, under the influence
OF the nObest feeling in defense of
their lives, their property, and their
civil and religious liberties, for civil
| war, with IL full sense Of responsibility
and with the loftinst purpose. But when
these Indictments came to be tralls!at- :
ed into action in Belfast we find that
| their idea Of civil war was to attack
their Catholic fellow countrymen
where they We're at least ten to one
that is what the Orangeman considers
safe odds (cheers)-- and by savage
! ill-trea tmcnt and brutal intimidation
to prevent the Nationalists, whether
they were Catholics or Protestants,
from earning a living by workin, at
their trade (hcar, hear). ] desire ia
! draw your attention to this remarkable
fact that up to the present hour
and ] have no doubt it will continue
throughout the whole of the campaign
! 7-the disturbances are confined to dis
tricts and to places where the Orange
men can count in majority of at least
are equal to the O1angemen, or nearly
4 equal to them-and l would not mind
facing them even two to one-there Is
peace, and it is only where the Orange.
i men are five to one or ten to one tha,
you find these brutal disturbances
(hear, hear).
II That is the Orange idea Of civil wa,
(cheers), and that is the action into
which the language Of Mr.. Bonar Law
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