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KJSisrrtroicY irish American.
ONWARD.
A Grand Demonstration in Gal
way Addressed by Will
iam O'Brien.
Connauirlit Is Now In a Condi
tion to Defy Castle Op
pression. Miles After Miles of the Most
Fertile Land ns Depopu
lated n Sahara.
CONFESSED ROBBERY OF IRELAND
A demonstration remarkable for the
unanimity and the enthusiasm of its pro
ceedings was held under the auspices of
the United Irish League at Monivea,
about five miles from Athenry. National
ists of different parties, who have been es
tranged by unhappy sectional differences
during recent years, were present, and
the spectator from outside could not fail
to be struck with the genuine enthusiasm
and national spirit which thrives among
the rank and file of the people, and
which if it animated a movement ex
tending over the whole country would
sweep it on inevitably to a great national
victory.
Mr. William O'Brien, who was the
principal speaker, was received with
prolonged cheering and waving of hats.
He said: Men of Galway, I am not
much surprised at anything as to the
progress and the success of this United
Irish League, but I confess I am sur
prised, and most agreeably surprised, at
the size, the extent and the enthusiasm
of this gathering in this depopulated
district. Within another month or two
we will have a regiment of united men
encamped in every parish of Galway and
of Connaught. From proofs that I get
every day of the power of this League,
and of how it is dreaded by every enemy
of our people, I do not hesitate to say
here deliberately that if the other pro
vinces -were only as well organized as
Connaught is at the present moment the
Irish cause would be as strong, the power
of the people would be as dreaded, as
united and supreme as ever it was iu
the days when the Land League was at
the zenith of its fame.
In this province we have solved the
difficulty which apparently paralyzes
the energies of Munster and of Ulster
and of Leinster. Without bothering our
heads about Parliamentary quarrels, we
have, by the mere grit and determina
tion of the people, built up an organiza
tion of the people, built up an organiza
tion as united, for all practical figthing
do if tlioco rarhamentiiT)? nig
sensions hart never Deen nearu 01 wesi
of the Shannon. And, as invariably
happens when the country's blood is up
in the thick of the battle against alien
landlordism and alien rule, we have all
genuine Nationalists, Parnellite and non
Parnellite priests and people welded sol
diers together once more, and the peo
ple have a power at their backs against
which all the influences of landlords and
graziers and grabbers, and all the foul
play of Dublin Castle are as helpless as
the raging Atlantic billows are against
the iron headlands of Connemara.
Judge Gibson, indeed, tells us the law
will be too strong for us. I deny that.
It's the people that have always proved
too strong for the law, and have beaten
bad laws down, and wiped them out of
the statue books. Every Irish struggle
of this century proves what I say. It's
the law that has gone down every time,
and been condemned and set aside, even
by an English Parliament. The law will
be too strong for us will it? That is
exactly what O'Connell was told at the
time of the Clare election. But he defied
the law, and knoeked the law into a
cocked hat and emancipated the Catho
lics of Ireland. It's the law that has
always been in the wrong in Ireland, and
that has always been in the long run van
quished the moment a united people
meant business. When the Land League
began there were Judge Gibsons to tell
us that the law would be too strong for
us, but before a year was over the land
act of '81 was passed, and the law which
made tile landlords of Ireland as absolute
masters of their tenants as the slave own
ers were of the Southern niggers was
abolished and relegated to the museum
of historical monstrosities with the in
famous penal laws.
We were told in the plan of campaign
time and again that the law would be too
strong for us, but six months after Lord
Salisbury swore that the judicial rents
must never be altered we had the land
act of '87 making ducks and drakes of
the law which produced the plan of cam
paign agitation. In March last again
Mr. Malachy Kelly threatened us in
Westport that the law would be too
strong for us, and the result of that
threat is that nine months afterward the
United Irish League, which was then
confined to three parishes, is now spread
into every county in this province, and is
blazing away like a house on fire. We
don't deny the power of the law is for
the moment on the side of the people's
enemies. We don't deny that for the
moment they are strong enough to pro
claim us, and assault us and imprison us
to their heart's content.
They have the batons and the bayonets
and the landlord Magistrates and the re
movables and the jury packers. But the
law that turns the policemen's batons
against us today may make the people
the policemen's masters tomorrow. That
is the law in England, and sooner or
later it will be the law in Ireland, as
surely as the mountain rivulet sooner or
later will find its way into the sea. Let
us have no more of thig slavish doctrine
that we are to accept bad alien laws.as if
they were the unalterable laws of God,
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The Tory government pretend that they
are governing Ireland on constitutional
principles, and the very first of their
constitutional principles is that the law
must be whatever the people want to
make it.
And as they wont listen to the Irish
people in the ordinary way in Parliament,
we have got to make them listen in an
extraordinary way here on the hills of
Ireland. And the result has invariably
been in every Irish struggle, and the result
will be again, that it is the people who
will be in the long run the victors and
the lawmakers, and the hirelings who
are at the service of the landlord-made
law today will be just ns zealous in the
service of a people-made law tomorrow.
The law of England may be strong, but
there is a law of nature that is stronger
still, and it is the first law of ndfture that
this beautiful and fertile land of ours
was created for the sustenance of the
people, and that the men of Connaught
must not be driven to the degradation of
begging the world for alms while there
are half a million acres of the richest
lands in Europe lying half idle at their
doors for the convenience of a handful
of graziers and bullocks. The thing is
unnatural. It can not last.
The instant that Englishmen fully uti
dcrstand this question our victory is won.
Unfortunately, it takes not only a surgi
cal operation, but an earthquake, to get
the comprehension of anything Irish into
the skull of England. But I defy any
humane man to travel through this very
district in which we are assembled with
out going home absolutely convinced
that the programme of the United Irish
League is an irresistibly jus one, and
that the present state of things Is opposed
to every law of God and nature,
Between this and Atheny, and away
again toward Clare, Galway and Head
ford, there are square miles after square
miles of the most fertile lauds as depopu
lated as the Sahara desert, inhabited only
by the shepherds and their dogs, and in
the county where you have all this
glorious laud going to waste you had
even within the present year at least
twenty-five thousand people depending
upon the chanty of the world to save
them from starvation.
In God's name, are we a race of mice,
and not of men, that we should lie down
and die like dogs, simply because an
ignorant foreign law for the moment
sanctions a state of things of that kind?
To hear well-fed placemen like Judge
Gibson talking, you would suppose that
we were looking for something utterly
revolutionary, diabolical and impossible.
Why, you have only to take up any
Blue Book of the Scotch Land Commis
sion and you will read as one of their
common-place, everyday proceedings that
the tenants of a congested district come
in, as you might do here, and say: "Our
holdings are too small to live, and here
is a sheep farm or a deer forest of two or
three thousand acres in the neighborhood
that would give us ample holdings," and
immediately the Land Commission take
up the deer forest or sheep farm without
the leave of landlord or of grazier and
pnrnsl.it mit among the- pfoplr. ..What
brand of inferiority is there on the people
of Ireland that they should lie down and
die in a land of plenty any more than
they do in Scotland?
We don't propose to despoil any man
of his honestly got property, whether he
be landlord or grazier. We say: " Your
treasury, on the confession of its own
eminent experts, is plundering Ireland of
two millions and three-quarters of money
every year. Very well; use some of that
money, although it is Irish money, in
squaring accounts with the landlords and
with the graziers, but your first duty as
a government is the safety and the exist
ence of the people," and when the people
insist upon obtaining that means of exist
ence in the land of your birth I defy all
the power of England to put you down.
You are fighting for a very mighty
prize, nothing less, as I have described
it, than the replantation of Conuaught.
No man ever entered upon a campaign
that was better worth the labor and the
risk. Let this League spread like a forest
fire from parish to parish. Form your
executive in North Galway as quickly as
possible of six elected delegates from
every branch, utilize to the utmost the
irresistible weapon that the new County
Council will place iu the people's hands,
go around to the graziers, and get from
them in black and white how far they are
willing to co-operate in bringing pressure
to bear on the government to settle this
question oil just and reasonable terms.
By and by, before the meeting of Par
liament, we will have a great Provincial
Congress of all the representative men
from every constituency in Connaught,
and we will formulate our demands. We
will then give the Government every
possible fair play if they apply them
selves honestly and on a really states
manlike scale to find a remedy. The
Government themselves know and
acknowledge what is the remedy and the
only remedy. The only difference be
tween us is that the Government propose
to do in a few centuries what we insist
can be done within as many years. By
all means let us be as moderate as possi
ble until we see how far Mr. Arthur Bal
four redeems his promise to Mr. Michael
Davitt next session. But it is just be
cause we arc moderate now that, if there
be any treachery or tinkering on the part
of the Government, all the world will
justify us next spring if we have to de.
clare war on the whole system of eleven
month tenancies in Connaught.
Let them not say they were not warned
in time, but we will do it, and will have
this thing out. We will throw a couple
of hundred thousand acres idle on the
hands of the landlords, and will treat as
an enemy of the people every man who
touches one of these grazing ranches with
a forty-foot pole, and if a couple of years
of education of that sort does not make
the landlords and the Government as
anxious for a settlement as ourselves,
then the first year of potato failure and
of famine that conies again it certainly
won't be my fault if the landlords and
the Government have not to encounter a
universal uprising of the small holders of
Connaught that will teach the landlords
and the Government, once for all, that
it's the people, and not the bullocks, that
must be the masters of this land, and
that there can be no peace, ought to be
no peace, and will be no peace in Con
muyjht until the bountiful provision that
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the world for alms,
CHILDHOOD'S CHARMS.
I placed my boy in the barber's chair,
To be shorn of his ringlets gay,
And soon the wealth of his golden hair
On the floor iu a circle lay.
'Twas a trifling thing of daily life,
And to many unworth a thought,
Too small a theme 'mid the toil and strife
Of this world's changing lot.
But the ringing cut of the cruel shears
To my heart strings caused a pang,
For they changed the child of my hopes
and fears
With the scornful tune they sang.
My thoughts were bent on the little cap,
And the curls that round it twined
Like golden clasps with which to trap
The sunbeam and the wind.
No uiorc shall I sec the flying curls
As my homeward steps I wend ;
Another stage of his life unfurls
Where youth and childhood blend.
So when from the chair he stepped at
length
He stood with his artless smile,
Like Samson shorn of his locks of
strength
By Delilah's treacherous wile.
Thus, one by one, will vanish away
The charms of his childish life,
And each bring nearer his manhood's day
With its scenes of toil and strife.
God grant that my lease of life may last
Through his changing years of youth
Till the danger rapids of life are passed
And a Samson stands in truth.
FINANCIAL REDRESS.
The All-Ireland Committee has passed
a resolution approving of the suggestion
made by Mr. John Redmond that a con
ference of the Irish members of the
Houses of Lords and Commons be held
in Dublin at an early date to take into
consideration the present position and
prospects of the financial relations ques
tions and the necessity for taking some
practical steps on the subject. The reso
lution also declares iu favor of a conven
tion on a subsequent date of delegates
from all the branches of the Irish Finan
cial Reform League, with a view to
further action. In the meantime the
League will continue by means of public
meetings the endeavor to still further
rouse public opinion on the question.
One will be held in the Mansion, House
on January 4 and a second in Balfast on
the 20th. Such meetings can not fail to
be productive of much good. They will
demonstrate that on this question at least
the country is practically united, and
that neither old feuds nor present politi
cal differences will hinder the co-operation
of all clasess in the movement for
redress. But something more than this
is wanted. A definite plan of action
must be decided on. No Government,
whether Conservative or Liberal, will
grant anything to Ireland in response to
the most eloquent and argumentative ap
peals from the platform. Such a plan,
well De left to tlve Irish members of all
shades of opinion. They have already
found it possible to work together on the
question in the House of Commons, and
they must all see that if it is to be further
advanced a new line of action must
be taken. It would be a very gratifying
and at the same time significant fact if
they assembled in Dublin to consider
what this action is to be. It would
serve to bring home to the Government
and to the English people that this is re
garded by all, whether Unibnist or Na
tionalist, Catholic or Prolcstatit, as a
national question which it is the duty of
every Irishborn man to press to a solu
tion. The proposed convention, which
would bring all classes together, would
also be a significant fact the importance
of which no Government could afford to
ignore, for its decision would go forth
with authority and would be loyally
acted on throughout the entire coun
try. In order that the decision should
have all the more weight an effort should
be at once made by the committees of
the different branches of the League to
increase the roll of membersip. Not
much, we fear, has been done in this
direction lately. The All-Ireland Com
mittee having made the proposal for the
conference of the Irish members of both
houses of Parliament their own, we hope
to hear in the course of a fe v days that
measures have been taken successfully to
bring about the conference. The All-
Ireland Committee may be depended on
to do all in its power to make the con
vention thoroughly representative.
BLUFF WON'T WORK.
From the Dublin Independent of a late
date we clip the following, which may
be read with interest, as it comments on
a live topic: Saturday's Spectator con
tains an article on the Nicaragua canal
which is hardly calculated to strengthen
the entente cordial between England and
the United States, not to speak of ce
menting the "ties of kinship" about
which so much good ink has been lately
spilled. "We and the AmericallS,,' says
the Spectator, "agreed some forty-eight
years ago that a canal should only be
made and controlled by the two powers
acting together and in no case by either
power singly. Thusif we choose we can
no doubt veto the making of the canal
and prevent the Americans doing what
they so much want to do. The people of
this country have, therefore, to consider
whether they will or will not veto the
canal?" Hoity, toity? but "We, Our
selves & Co." are growing highly import
ant these days. Uncle Sam will doubt
less feel obliged that the Spectator has
condescended for this once not to use its
veto power and put a stop to America's
progress with the Nicaragua canal. It
might, perhaps, be as well if the
Spectator and other equally obtruse
Cockney journals should get it into their
heads that United States is not Japan.and
that attempts to bluff that country out of
the spoils of war simply won't work.
People who denounce the stage should
remember that the minstrel is never as
black as he is painted.
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ing. JOHN J. M'GRATH,
His Sudden Death Came as a
Shock to His Friends
and Relatives.
John J. McGrath's death last Saturday
came as a great shock to his army of
irienus umi reimives. up nnn nmv hph
sick for about a week, having caught a
cold, which developed into pneumonia.
He was for several years a letter carrier,
and on leaving the Government service
he went into business for himself at
Eighth and Oak streets, but lately has
been a partner iu the firm of Delaney &
McGrath, at Seventh and St. Catherine,
where he was doing a successful busi
ness. Mr. McGrath was born and raised in
this city, and has long been an active
member of Division -1 of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, the members' of
which testify to his many good qualities
and kind heartedness. He leaves a loving
wife, who sincerely mourns his loss. His
funeral took place Monday morning from
the Dominican church, the exercises be
ing conducted by Rev. Father Logan,
who delivered a very touching sermon, m
which he paid many tributes to the good
traits of the deceased.
The remains were followed to St. Louis
cemetery by Division !, A. O. H., and a
large number of sorrowing friends. The
pall-bearers were Messrs. Thomas Brown,
James Ross, Will Reilly, Daniel Mc
Auliffe, John Baker and Will Delaney.
At the meeting of Division 4 of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians Wednesday
a committee composed of Messrs. Thomas
Lynch, Harry Brady and M. J. Walsh
submitted the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God
to take unto Himself one of our time
honored and zealous members, John J.
McGrath, and, while we humbly submit
to His holy will, we do not the less mourn
for our departed brother; therefore be it
Resolved, That it is a juit tnbnte to
the memory of the deceased to say thai,
in regretting his removal from our midst,
we mourn for one who was in every re
spect worthy of our esteem.
Resolved, That we sincerely condone
with the family of the deceased in their
affliction, and commend them for conso
lation to Him who orders all things for
the best, and whose chastisements are
meant in mercy.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
spread on the minutes of this society,
published iu the Kentucky Irish Ameri
can, and a copy sent to the family of our
departed brother.
Resolved, That five masses be offered
for the repose of his soul.
MEETING WITH GREAT SUCCESS.
Don Lorenzo Perosi, the priest-com
poser whose sacred music has made a sen
sation in Italy, is only twenty-six years
of age and for four years past has been
director of the choir at St. Mark's inVen-
ice. His oratorio, " The Resurrection of
Christ," has just been performed in the
Church Dei Sauti Apostoli at Rome under
his own direction, with a large choir and
orchestra, with brilliant success. Most
of the Cardinals and Ambassadors to the
Vatican were present. Another oratorio,
"The Resurrection of Lazarus," has
been performed at the Costanzi Theater.
The Pope gave special dispensations to
priests and monks to attend the perform
ance, as it took place in a theater.
