The Irish standard., 1919-05-10
Speeches Delivered by Rev. Fr Dumphsy of ST. Paul
Hadager of New York City, the Regular Meeting Monday
ing April 28th Stass Hall.


tion OF Ireland by hideous means.
India is 5000 miles off from the coast
of England-India has a population
that exceeds the population Of Eng
land, and once the people of India
stand up, GOOD NIGHT TO ENG
LAND!"
We, they say, have no right to say
anything about the British, because
we are prosperous. They tell you we
are prosperous and only pay tax of
Z shillings, OF $3.50 per capita every
year for annual maintenance, but
they neglect to tell the average an
nual income per capita. The average
annual income per capita is $3.50,
SLIGO is the average amount Of
tax per capita. What remains, $3.50,
and on that man has to maintain his
life 365 days; he has to- educate him
self and his children and seek little
comfort If he can. This is prosperity
the same kind of prosperity they have
given to Ireland. They say they have
given US peace. What kind of peace
are they trying to bring about in the
world? What kind of peace have they
given us-a piece of the graveyard.
Have you seen graveyard? You
should 60 to India. My heart cried
when the story was told by Reverend
Father Dumphey.
Only during the last four months
of 1918 India lost six million human
lives from Spanish influenza. Think
of 1t. You are reading in your papers
in this city Of the havoc raised in my
country. Dead bodies and NO place
to cremate. The dead bodies are not
yet removed from the homes and Just
think of it. Why should Spanish in
fiuenza take six million lives, and has
1t not taken proportionately the same
number of lives elsewhere. The only
reason is that the people are poor. I'm
abject poverty, which has been left
to them since the British Beneficent
Ruler came to that land; that explains
the reason for poverty and explains
the reason Of starvation and death
which has taken toll unimaginable.
They lost during this war. 7,354,OO0
according to the Liberty Loan, human
lives during this period, but they new
er gave any details on the lives that
were lost during the same period in
India. They lost 2S,7OO,OOO in the
same period-did you know it? Was
1t possible for you to know it? When
such huge British propaganda was
carried on in this land, it was i'm
possible for you to know these
things, and we are trying, as far
as possible, to let you know few
facts and figures, not because want
to create or to start any fire in your
hearts, for the fire is there already, but
because by telling you these things
and by kindling that fire furthermore,
l want to create sense of duty in
your mind, not only to the people Of
IRELAND, but to the people of other
oppressed nations as we'll.
l have in my pocket letter re-
ceived from my people from India to-
day, telling me that the Lord Chan
cellor telegraphed England that the
people are dying for want of food, and
yet he says they tell him they need
this for Mesopotamia. What kind of
Peace are they trying to bring about?
What kind of Justice, and If they in
sist on establishing that kind of JUS
tice and Peace, there will be no JUS
tice and Peace of that kind they issue
in India. 1t will be the issue of the
H1NDOO, plus the IRISH against ENG
LAND, and want to, under the name
of my countrymen, appeal to you, the
Sympathizers OF lreland-the people
who are ready to die for Ireland's
Independence, l appeal to you in the
name of humanity to extend that sym
pathy to those across the Ocean, to
extend the hand which is ready to
guard the Irish Humanity in Ireland,
and your duty will not end only by ex-
tending your hand and by giving
little sympathy, no, your duty will not
end then. Your duty will end when
the world is safe for all peoples who
are oppressed, and then and then
alone will your duty end, and then the
good Lord will bless you, and you will
get the sympathy of these millions of
souls who have already paid the price.
They call us Pro-German, Bolshe-
viks. Socialists, and they are also
ready to call us Pro-Irish. My friends
am neither Pro-German, am not a
Bolshevik, nor am l anti English, be-
cause humanity is living there the
same as here. 1t is the Autocratic
power that holds, that controls, that
creates lust of money and power and
controls. The people are practically
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