The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-10-06
Confidence In Irish I A{ssz
Convention Increases
ORANGE AND GREEN BEGINNING
TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.
Attitude of America Decisive Factor
in Public Opinion-An Exemplifica-
ton Of the SPIRIT Of Sein Fein.
(From the Tuam Herald.)

(frOIn CQ0 luam l1GralQ.)
The Convention was undoubtedly
winning it's way into public favor
and confidence. Every hour that
passes strengthens it's hold, solidifies
its position and brightens it's pros
poets. 1t is being recognized on al
most all sides and in almost all quar-
tiers as the only way out of the pres
ent political deadlock in this country
the only road out of the bog we are
floundering in. 1t is regarded as a
kind of lightning conductor capable
of attracting and of rendering harm
less the many dangerous elements in
the more or less surcharged electrical
political atmosphere. There are in our
midst young men who are capable of
great service to their country, but
who cannot yet be got to see the
perlls OF their extreme opinions when
carried too far. Their honesty of
purpose only renders their action the
more dangerous and their policy more
! ineffective. They may be got to see
| facts and recognize the reasonableness
and attractions of a constitutional set
Element that unites all classes of Irish
men in a common aim and object,
the uplifting of their country and the
setting it on it's feet again among the
nations Of the earth of self-contained
and prosperous part of wide eX-
tending Empire that today typifies and
stands for the best form of European
Democracy. The Convention is I'M
doubtedly commencing we'll, and it has
already created for itself an atmos-
phere of mutual trust and confidence
| amongst the hitherto two great divided
political parties in this country, which
If the spirit of federation continue to
grow in strength will be undoubtedly
the means of bringing about a salts
factory and enduring settlement All
Europe in sense, and certainly Amer
lea, is anXiously watching this expert
ment in self-government now being
enacted. Here we have, for the first
time in history, really Irish body
called together by England and COM
prised of representative Irishmen.
Orange and Green, North and South,
have met and are first engaged in UNI
derstanding each other and then as
result arriving at common basis of
agreement. But one party alone
stands aloof from the assembly, the
Sein Feiners. While their abstention
is to be regretted they may in the end
by supporting the work of Cancellation
help to do their part as BELTS sound
patriots and sensible Irishmen who
are genuinely anxious, as they are,
for the peace and progress of their
native land. If they see the Conven-
ton approach the problem of settle
ment on broad national basis and
propose the solution of the problem
on those lines the Sein Feiners are
not going to stand out from helping
on such a glorious work of national
cancellation and regeneration.
The attitude of our tried and trusted
brethren and friends in America is
one OF eager expectancy and hope.
They wish that Ireland may soon
and entirely settle it's own domestic
constitutional difficulties, and then
close its now sadly sundered ranks
and join the great Democracies of the
world in their glorious struggle for
human freedom. The big heart of
America-the freest and most adj
vanced Republic the world has ever
seen, is stirred to it's very depths by
the liberty sitting attitude of Ger
many, it's dark purposes to strange
human freedom and subject all Euro
pean peoples to vile military auto.
cracy. America sees Europe in the
throes of a death struggle with giant
power determined on crushing out
every semblance of Democratic right,
and seeing the great issues at stake
America is entering the conflict armed
like giant to defend the Right
1t knows Ireland has grievances and
it wants those grievances to be rem
edied. It wants those wrongs of CEN
turtles to be redressed. America sees
however, that Ireland has now given to
it the welcome opportunity of rem
edying those matters if it only wisely
avail itself of the offer given. The
great Republic looks across the Allan
tic and sees Ireland sundered and torn
by internal dissension, but it also
sees that Ireland is given a great
chance of ending all this. It sees that
it has put into it's own hands an
instrument and a means of effectively
doing so. America recognizes that
England for the first time has taken no
part in the intended settlement, that
it actually is allowing Irishmen the
unprized chance Of putting their own