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THE LEAGUE CONVENTION,
The large, number of Irishmen and
ilieir descendants "who have assembled
in convention at Chicago this week to
perfect a systematic line of action for
the future government of the Irish sym
pathizers in America affords incontro
vertible proof that the enthusiasm which
has always characterized the workings of
the national cause in this country is not
on the wane, but decidedly the contrary.
We have no hesitation iu saying and we
say it without fear of contradiction that
never in the history of this cause, which
should inspire in the heart of every hon
est irishman a desire to advance its in
terests, has so much enthusiasm been
manifested.
Many people who ready the daily tele
grams—which are manufactured with
malice aforethought! by emissaries ©f the
British government and hurled broad
cast throughout the land—believe that
the officers and delegates of the National
League are endeavoring to imitate the
mythical Kilkenny cats, and are liable
to fight until nothing remains but
chaos. Such is not the case, however.
A difference of opinion may and un
doubtedly does exist on certain minor
details, but this will in no way affect the
advancement of the cause as a whole.
All thiy palaver about a certain, sec
tion of the convention advocating tho
.free use of dynamite against the British
Government is absolute foolishness. No
sane person iu Ireland or America to-day
for one moment imagines that anything
could be possibly gained by the adop
tion of such a foolhardy policy, and we
predict that no such a sentiment will
ever be expressed in the convention.
Prom the present aspect of affairs we in
cline to the belief that harmony will pre
vail tiironghout the meeting, and that a
•wider and more extended view of t-he
situation will b3 taken in the future than
in the past. No other inference can be
drawn from the President's address.
WHIOH "WILL IT BE
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The- other day in Chicago Mr. Red
mond remarked thet. the remainder of
Mr. Gladstone's life was consecrated to
the securing of Home Rule for Ireland,
and that when the'opportunity came,
Mr. Gladstone, if living, would conduct
a second campaign xn the interest of
self-government
for Ireland with all the
vigor which characterized his recent
great effort in that direction. This
riew should command the profound at
tention of all coiic^ent and earnest
•workers in the Irish ca^se. In bringing
about this result all their energies
should be put forth. Iu it, we believe,
'lies the great foundation of success. It
is scarcely probable that such an ob
servant and reputable statesman as Mr.
Gladstone would have so inseparably
linked himself to a cause, though nght
ous in the extreme, had met with so
many reverses, if there was not hope for
its ultimate success. It is either Home
Bule or coercion with the Salisbury
government. If the former, the glorious
aim of the Irish race will have been
achieved if the latter, it must inevit
ably result in the overthrow of the Tory
government at no distant day, the re
sult of which will be the returning to
power of a statesman who has conceived
the noble idea of making Home Rule for
Ireland the terminating act of his long
and useful political career.
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ME. DAVITT'S IEISH POLICY.
The arrival of Mr. Davitt in America
may be said to have begun the cam
paign iu this country in the interest of
the Irish cause. To him the people of
this country will look for an explana
tion of the condition of afiairs in Ire
land at the present time and her chances
of success fn the future. At this junc
ture the opinions expressed by Mr.
Davitt should be given due weight.
The success which has attended the
Irish cause so far can be credited to a
great extent to Davitt and Parnell, and
now that these gentlemen have got it so
far advanced it would be a great pity
that anything would be done to har
rass them in carrying it to a successful
issue. Therefore harmony should pre
vail in the ranks of the Irish people iu
America.
Some idea of the interest taken in
Irish matters can be formed when it is
stated that fully 15,000 sympathizers
with the Home Rule movement attended
the meeting at Ogden's Grove, Chicago,
on Saturday last, to hear Mr. Davitt ex
plain the situation. The meeting was
presided over by Ex-Congressman Fin
nerty. On the platform were Mr.
Alexander Sullivan, ex-president of the
Irish National League, Patrick Egan,
president of the League, and Matthew
P. Brady, John Boyle O'Reilly, and
others.
Mr. Davitt's appearance was greeted
with •tremondoua cheering. -After re
capitulating some of the circumstances
which led to the defeat of Mr. Glad
stone's measure of Home Rule in Par
liament, and the rejection by the Eng
lish electorate of the appeal which he
made against the decision, the speaker
said in relation tV the. progress of the
scheme of self-government for Ireland
"The progress of the Irish cause must,
therefore, not be judged by either an
optimist or pessimist estimate of Mr.
Gladstone's Home Rule scheme. The
institution which ruled Ireland ten
years ago is hopelessly doomed to-day.
The greatest of England's statesmen,
the prime minister who imprisoned 1,000
land leaguers in 1881 has brought for
ward a measure in 1886 which, if car-,
ried, would have made some of those
"ex-suspects'' the practical rulers of Ire
land. Not only this, but a majority of
the English Liberal party, with a mil
lion and a half British voters, have en
dorsed this remarkable change of policy^
on the part of Mr. Gladstone, Scotland
and Wains, by the voice of their elector
ate, and the British colonies, by that of
their press, sustain the proposal which
would institute in the government of
Ireland an Irish parliament for Eng
lish coercion while Ireland itself, in
stead of being what she was ten short
years ago, is practically master of her
own destiny within her own limits, and
stanas to-day the subject of constant at
tention and discussion and sympathy
with the entire civilized world. Our
movement in Ireland has to rest upon
two principles of such unquestioned
right and such universal application
that it is bound to win more and more of
external moral support if we will only
continue to shape and control our ef
forts in such a way as will compel the
dictates of reason in every right-thinking
mind to earnestly wish us success—not
only for our own sake, but in the inter
est of univeraal justice. The entire fab
ric of human liberty stands upon the
foundation of industry, right and na
tional freedom—the natural right of man
to obtain access to and command of the
resources of the land of the country for
the sustenance of himself and family,
and the right of the community to gov
ern itself in its own way so as best to
promote the moral and intellectual well
being of its people. To repel these
rights is an insufferable tyranny to
vindicate them is not only a human duty
but a divine iujunction and among the
struggling nationalities of to-day ours
has the proud privilege of contending in
the vanguard for these inestimable
rights, striving to win for ourselves the
privileges enjoyed by nations which tri
umphant liberty has made peaceful and
conservative,
while we are asserting for
others these claims which may relieve
them, from the struggles and sacrifices,
which we have had to undergo in a
ceaseless contest of a century's duration.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is some
thing like the position to which the Ire
land. of to-daj has advanced its cause,
even against forces fifty times more for
midable than those which ever repelled
the efforts of any other European na
tionality for while the sword has inva
riably been the weapon by which sub
ject races have asserted the right to rule
themselves, Ireland has traveled thus
far on the road to national autonomy by
means exclusively moral and paoific,
though confronted in all her endeavors
by one of the greatest military power
and most unscrupulous empires in the
world."
Mr." Davitt, with the modesty which
characterizes the man, did not ascribe
the success, so far achieved, to the lead
ers, but attributed it rather to the Irish
National League, but at the same time
he considered that Mr. Parnell and his
followers were entitled to the forbear
ance and patience of the people. Again,
the speaker in referring to the policy
which it was moat advantageous to pur
sue, and the one that some impulsive
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enthusiasts would desire to pursue, said:
'Ardent, minds, inspired by lofty
ideas of liberty, which they.have the
privilege of enjoying in the concrete
here in America, are pardonably prone
to think us too timid and too concilia
tory in our methods of working out the
destiny of Ireland. It is only fair, how
ever, that they ahould look at our diffi
culties, as well as our opportunities,
while remembering how vastly different
it is between winning liberty against all
these overwhelming odds and saying
how such liberty ought to be won.
The situation Ireland at the present
moment ia such as may draw largely
upon this patience and forbearance
which I ask from my countrymen in
America. Mr. Gladstone's defeat has
handed the government of Ireland into
the hands of its landlord garrison. To
impulsive and unreflecting minds this
might seem like the complete defeat of
our policy and overthrow of our move
ment. Impatient enthusiasts may be
induced to affirm that sterner means are
now required, when pacific ones have
apparently failed, and that an England
which has rejected a moderate measure
of Home Bule will never consent to re
consider her verdict unless induced to
do so by other than constitutional meth
ods. This, emphatically, is not the be
lief of the leaders at home. They are
neither disheartened or dismayed at the
reverse recently sustained, nor do they
believe the methods employed in this
constitutional fight to be either blunted
or impaired, while resolute hands and
cool heads are still at the front, deter
mined to face again an enemy intoxi
cated with temporary success. What
the Tories will try to carry out while in
power can be easily inferred from the
tactics by which they ]iaVe obtained
power. They will continue to play upon
the political feais and religious preju
dices of the English people. Just as
Ohurchiil ineited the Orangemen of Bel
fast, to riot and bloodshed in order to
convince England how hopeless it would
be to attempt to preserve law and order
under Home Rule, so will the govern
ment of which he is the practical leader en
courage the Irish landlords to evict and
harrasa the tenant class of the country, in
the hope of driving the people into such
a state of disorder and violence as will
enable Lord Salisbury to introduce a
coercion bill for the suppression of the
Irish National League. It is by a policy
as infamous as this—by means so de
testable-—that the present landlord
rulers of the British empire believe
they can strangle the cause of Irish na
tionality. But they are destined to fail
even more signally than Foster's meth
ods of buckshot and wholesale imprison
ments failed five years ago. The ap
peal which was addressed to the fanati
cism of the Orangemen, of Belfast by
Churchill has had an unexpected anti
climax, The loyalty" /which has
manifessed itself in the murder of Cath
olics, policeman and English soldiers
has horrified most Englishmen, who
were told how peaceable and law-abid
inga class that was which was opposed
to Home Rule. The civilized world has
also passed its verdict upon the ruffian
ism which has reduced a prosperous
Irish city to the state of terror and
"p~Al
disr
order in which it ia now. I am confi
dent that the kindred policy now about
to be initiated by evictions and landlord
terrorism will have a similar result, and
that the cause of Ireland will emerge
from this coming ordeal with brighter
hopes and more universal sympathy
than it has yet possessed. You have
generally held up your hands in the
fiercest struggle which has won for your
birthland the sympathy of the world in
its fight for freedom, and you are repaid
in the consciousness that without your
aid our success would not have been so
signal,"
THTBniFAST"EIOTS,
Every day or two a fresh report of
rioting in Belfast, the most intolerant
city in the world, reaches us, and at last
the catie out of the bag, and the blame
is laid in the spot to which it justly be
longs. The Orange fanatics of Ulster
do not appear to have heard that Ran
dolph Churchill, who openly advised
them to commit murder, has grasped
the bauble of his conniving ambition.
The object for which he -instigated these
riots has been secured, and he and his
murderous conspirators should intimate
to the executioners of their sanguinary
plots that there is no further need of
their assistance.
THE DYNAMITE EUGBEAE.
The London Daily News says that the
chief interest in the Chicago convention
centers in the fact that the Irish dele
gates have resolutely set their faces, not
only against dynamiters, but against
violence in any shape. It would be in
teresting if the Daily News would point
out one particular instance in which any
of these delegates ever countenanced the
use of dynamite. England has suffered
more at the hands of her own people by
dynamite than she has from the Irish.
In the majority of instances in which
dynamite has been used against Eng
land it was by English workingmen, who
endeavored by this means to break the
shackles of serfdom by which they were
chained down. But it matters not to
John Bull Ireland will have to take
the blame under
any
cumstances.
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-IT is said that the Queen's speech
will be a brief one. It is about time
some one "choked her bff ."
AMONG the best friends of THE
IRISH STANDARD are the ladies, who,
we are glad to say, also take a deep in
terest in the cause which this paper ad
vocates.
FKOM preseut indications it would
appear that the day when the present
British federal system of misgovern
ment willbe a thing of the past is near
at hand. The demand of Wales for
self-government leads us to this con
clusion.
THE prophesy of President Egan has
been fulfilled. That gentleman said:
"I look for the largest and most impor
tant gathering of the friends of Ire
land at the approaching convention
that has ever come together on this
continent.
ME. JOSEPH BIGGAK is a plaiu
spoken, but truthful man. His asser
tion last week that the Mayor of Bel
fast, who has shown an undue leniency
towards the Orange rowdies, should be
placed in the dock would be a move in
the right direction.
MICHAEL DAVITP intimates that Mr.
Gladstone will visit Ireland in Novem
ber. Ireland is just yearning io show
the great commoner how his efforts in
her behalf are appreciated, and we are
pleased to hear that she will have an
opportunity of tendering him the en
thusiastic reception to which he is
justly entitled.
WOLSELEY has refused to make any
recommendations for the Victoria
Cross to soldiers who distinguished
themselves in the late Soudan war,
which leads us to the belief that there
is some shame left in that monument
of military egotism, arid that the con
quering of El Mahdi was not a pro
nounced success.
-IT is reported, with what truth we
are unable to state, that Ottawa, the
staid old cauital of the Dominion of
Canada, forwarded $1,500 to the Ulster
Orange vulture# to advance the villain
ous objects of that murderous associa
tion. We hope to be able to chronicle
later on that this is a mistake, as we
would be rry hear that any person
or persons in the United States would
so far forget iheir duty to God to openly
assert their sympathy with murder.
THE descendant of Cut-throat Castle
reagh's advent as viceroy of Ireland,
says a recent despatch, promises to give
new life to field sports in the sister isle.
Ifis Lordship intends to fill the vice
regal stables with a splendid hunting
and racing stud, and unless his pro
jects are interfered with by a hostile
peasantry, following the hounds will
again become one of the chief amuse
ments of the Irish gentry. This means
that His Lordship will revive the old
3ystem of trampling down and destroy
ing the crops of poor farmers without
giving them any remuneration therefor.
We'll see.
A PLEASING and noteworthy in.
cident has occurred in connection with
the Gladstone testimonial fund started
by the New York World. Mrs. Par
nell, the aged mother of the Irish pa
triot, called in person at the office of
the World, and left a check for $25 for
the fund. *'Ionly wish I could give
you more," the grand old lad} said,
"for I believe that in the next struggle
the good cause must win. Much de
pends on letting Mr. Gladstone know
how thoroughly his efforts are appre
ciated by liberty-loving people the
world over."
IN an old Boston newspaper, the
Columbian Centinel, of June 6,183-5, the
following notice is to b6 found: "In
New York, on Sunday morning, in
Grace Church, Hon. Mr. Parnell, of
England, to Miss Stewart, daughter of
Commodore Stewart, U. S. Navy."
From this it would appear that at even
so early a date as 1835, this country
was afflicted with that horrible
scourge, Anglomania. What snob dared
to write "of England," after the
name of Parnell, the son of the pa
triotic Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Mr.
Parnell was the father of the present
famous leader of the Irish nation.
LIEUTENANT HENJT, who is owner
and commander of the British yacht,
the famous Galatea, that is to contest
with the American vessels for the
"America's cup," is an Irishman, and is
said to possess all the best attributes of
the race. His father, Counsellor Henn,
was, for many years, recognized as the
"Father of the Irish Bar," not only
from his long legal standing—he having
succeeded Holmes, the friend of Em
mett and the defender of John Mitchell,
on the retirement of the latter, but also
for his ability as a lawyer, in criminal
cases. Singular enough. Counsellor
Henn, though a thorough Conservative,
was too much of an Irishman to ever
get promotion beyond the silk gown of
a "Queen's Counsel," and he was
passed over by successive governments,
while men of inferior ability'were put
into the highest judicial positions.
Counsellor Henn's practice, however,
was sufficiently remunerative to ren
der him independent of all govern
ment "patronage," and to the end of
his career he retained, as the only title
he cared for, his position as- "The
Father of the Irish Bar."
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Parisian Novelties
IN
DRESS GOODS
AND COSTUMES
And will place them on our counters ON MONDAY. W Many of the?t
come in single patterns only, and will not be duplicated this season.
Dress and Wrap Trimmings.
Our Trimming Department is now replete with all the LATEST NOVEL
TIES for the Fall Season, comprising
Jet Gimps, Jet Ornaments,
Jet Graloons, Jet Edgings,
Jet Fringes, Jet Headings,
And Jet Fronts, Colored Bead Ornaments,
Gimps, Edgings and Headings,
Moss and Tape Trimmings, Cords,
Cord Trimmings, Wood Edgings,
A ml JSew nations to Match the NEW 1}HJSSS OODS„
GREAT AUCUST CLOAK SALE
Having Received Our First Purchase of
EARLY FALL AN I) WINTER
Cloaks and Wraps!
Which we are now prepared to show, and to make room for the largest as
sortment of FALL AND WINTER CLOAKS ever brought to
the Northwest, we have decided to have a
G-PLAJSTO
CLEARANCE SALE
Of our surplus stock, and invite attention to the following
Prices:
Suitable for Fall and Winter wear, in both heavy and light weights, in black
and all colors. Full line of size3 in desirable shapes, made of the following ma
terials: Diagonals, Cheviot, Camel's Hair, Jersey and Boucle Cloth, offered in
five lots, as follows:
Lot I, Formerly sold at prices ranging from $4 to $6,
choice of this lot at $1.00 each
Lot 2, Former prices $5 to $IG, Now at $2 each
Lot 3, Former prices S6 to $12, Now at $3 each
Lot 4, Former prices $8 to 15, Now at $4 each
Lot 5, Formerprices $10 to 20, -Now at $5 eacii
3D OJJJSK-A.3ST S
In Black and Colors, ivtih Far and Astrachan Trim
mingt in all lengths:
Lot I, Former prices $8 to $14,
Lot 2, Fanner prices iOto 16,
Lot 3, Formerprices 12to 18,
NEWMARKETS AND ULSTERS
Lot 1, lightweight, former price $3, Now $1 each
Lot Light and Heavy Weight,
former price $3 to $10, Now $2 each.
Lot 3, Light and Heavy Weight,
former price $7 to $12, Now $4 each.
Russian Circulars
With Astrachan and Fur Trimming.
Lot 1, Former price $10, This sale $5.00
Lot 2, Former price $13, This sale $6.50
Children's Cloaks!
In all sizes and qualities, at prices reduced in proportion with above
goods.
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