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WHO GOULD HAVE DREAMT IT
The Changed Attitude of the English
People Towards Their Irish
Brethren.
A
VERY HAPPY
CONSUMMATON
To a Feud That 3as Existed for Over
Seven Hundred Years Between
the Two Peoples.
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Who could ha ye dreamt it? Scarcely
a year ago there was not cn the world's
broad face two people who knew each
other less or hated each other more than
the people of Great Britain and of Ire
land the hatred of the ignorant and
bartled tyrant on one side and an un
conquered victim 03.1 the other. To-day
the two people stand side by side in a
resolute struggle against a common foe. have beaten coercion to the ropes.
Never has the world seen a nobler ex
ample of generous forgiveness on one
side and courageous atonement on the
other. Time was that we here in Ire
land fought for revenge as much as
liberty. The memories of a thousand
wrongs were in our hearts, "and free
dom if achieved without veDgence, we
believe, would be ought." Blessed are
the peacemakers, said the God of Peace.
The benediction is His in a superlative
degree who has made peace between
two peoples. The two democracies
have at length looked each other
squarely in the face and grasped each
other houestlv by the hahds. The Eng
lish people realize at last that they have
been made the tools of a savage and
sfelfiish class for the oppression of their
brethren of labor aud are filled with
righteous indignation against the ty
rants that have so long disgraced their
name. It is the story over again of the
malicious dwarf who set the two giants
fighting, aud wounded and plundered
them "When they were exhausted by the
conflict. The giants have shaken hands
now, and the dwarf had better look to
himself. It is not the union of the peo
ples of England and Ireland that the
Unionists desire, but their disunion.
They are to be chained together that
they may fight. Enslaved Ireland has
been a bar to England's progress free
Ireland will be an example and an en
couragement. Landlords and capital
ists trembling for their selfish monopo
lies in England, are anxious to main
tain their outworks in Ireland. It is
for this savage Coercion Aqt and the
swindling Land Act are designed and
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combined. The English people, it was
hoped, would play the part of the en
slaved elephant who is taught to beat
his struggling brother into submission.
What are this pitiful drove of lords and
landlords who constitute the Coercion
Government and their tale without the
might of the English nation at its back?
Mr. Gladstone has established the sov
ereignity of the people, and they know
their own power. The present battle is
more England's battle than ours. The
grand old Liberal leader has nobly said:
"In my opinion, the rejection of this
Bill is more needed by England tnan by
Ireland. For Ireland it is a question of
suffering, and she knows how to suffer.
For England it is a question of shame
and dishonor, and to cast away shame
and dishonor is the first business of a
great nation." We are not afraid of
coercion over here in Ireland, "We
have been through it all before—eighty
six times before." Eighty-six times we
The
eighty-seventh and final round is not
likely to make us nervous. In the days
of our tribulation we ..have learned the
stern patience hich ^tfiiles at tyranny.
We must win any way,, and we know it.
But it was a most worth waiting for
our liberty.to have the English people
side by side with us in this last conflict.
When Gladstone's voice rang 'out the
battlecry—"Justice for Ireland."—clear
and strong at the last general election
it was as the trumpet of the great angel.
The people of Scotland aud Wales sud
denly awoke and flocked to his stand
ard. The great masses of the English
democracy ranged themselves in line.
But on the brains and hearts of a few
the nightmare of the centuries lay
heavy. While they vet hesitatingly
rubbed their sleepy eyes, half blinded
by the sudden light, the opportunity
wras lost. But only for a time. No
man in his senses doubts the final issue
now.. We can scarcely bring ourselves
to regret the temporary defeat which
has put the good will of the English
democracy to the proof. The English
people are not merely willing to free
Ireland, but to fight to the death for her
freedom. AH England is on flame with
fierce indignation at the savage wrong
sought to be perpetrated in their name
by our enemies and theirs. Mass meet
ings everywhere, vehement denuncia
tions everywhere throughout the length
and breadth of working England.
From half a million English throats at
the ••lossal gathering at Hyde Park on
Monday the death knell of the Coecion
Government was sounded. In that
loud thunder a new era was proclaimed,
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by the Crusaders,
even as the tables of the law were de
livered on $Iount Senai. Balfour the
weak kneed, and Smith the stolid,
stand aghast at the storm they have
raised. Mr. Smith (who, we are apt to
forget, was our Irish Chief Secretary
himself for an hour) manifestly looked
on his little Bill" as a purely commer
cial transaction—a Bill to be drawn by
himself, backed by bis friends, and
duly houored on presentation by the
British Parliament and public. It
seemed such an easy matter, as Mr.
Chamberlain once pleasantly put it, for
thirly million to crush and trample
four millions under their feet. It was
never dreamt that the thirty millions
should revolt asainst their part of the
pleasant program. Messrs. Smith, Bal
four, and Chamberlain are not cast in
the heroic mould of the tyrants of the
old days. They have nothing in com
mon with them except thek cruelty.
They are not enamoured of coercion nor
of the hurricane of popular indignation
which coercion has evoked. But they
see nothing else for it. Their Bill is, as
Lord Randolph Churchill declared
{even.Lord Randolph speaks the truth
sometimes, though rarely) is the last
frail barrier against Home Rule. Re
treat or advance are alike impossible
for the Tory Government, still more
impossible for their treacherous allies.
Either way, red ruin stares them in the
face. They are stuck so deep in the
mire that tliey may as well strive to
move forward as go back. The Coer
cion Bill is but a broken reed, and they
know it, but they have nothing else to
lean to. They cling to a rotten straw
in their desperation, because they feel
already the dark waters of dissolution
closing round their heads. For us Irish
it is a new phase in the old, old fight we
have waged untiringly through the cen
turies. We have fought when hope
seemed madness we will not falter
when victory is assured. We have held
our own against desperate odds to-day
the odds are all upon our side. The
English people are with us and the
English leaders.. Grattan and O'Con
nell never flashed their souls out in
more magnificent appeals for Irish free
dom than Gladstone and Morley. ''The
time was," as John Morley exclaimed
in his glorious speech in London:
"When the Irish people, when the
Irish peasant saw no light on the hori
zon save that which shone upon him
across the floods of the great Atlantic
but now he sees a new light nearer
home (prolonged cheers). He looked no
longer westward alone. He looks east
ward too {renewed cheers). He sees a
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beacon of hope and of sympathy from
England which will not be put out
(cheers). This ill omened measure,
which we have begun our campaign
against to-night (cheers), is a measure
for dashing out his beacon light. It
will fail (renewed cheers). The light
will still shine."
Ay, truly the light will shine, Eng
land has taught at last the reflection of
the great glow of freedom which gleams
so brightly across the Atlantic, and the
old form of tyranny in that new light
stand bare and naked trembling at
themselves. The bitter feud cl seven
centuries is drawing to a close. Eng
land aud Ireland should be friends, and
will be in the good days coining. This
battle waged toge her in a good cause
will cement their friendship more than
a thousand treaties. It may be the
year which has opened with coercion
will not close till it has seen two gener
ous nations:
"Whose homes the great God set
So dose together in the circling sea,
Jfo longer slave and tyrant, but free friends'"
shot oTaForancewian.
(Continued Prom First Page.)
KFor
the love of God, don't ask me,"
he,said, imploringly.
"For the love of God I shallask you,"
she replied.
And in the face of that gasping
breath, and those dying eyes, he could
not refuse. But he left Ireland de-
parted for America on the day after her
interment, and, with a little sod of the
earth from her grave in bis bosom, he
went iiito voluntarily exile because he
could not trust himself in the same
country with the vile murderer, Mul
rennan.
Mulrennan was acquitted. Orange
men were the jury, an Orangeman the
judge, and the Catholics, though indig
nant, were scarcely surprised—they
were too familiar with so-called British
justice.
Mulrennan, too, went to America.
Strange chance brought him to the
frontier, and stranger chance made him
one of a Government exploring party.
The party was attacked by Indians.
Mulrennan, though wounded, escaped
but only to die within a couple of miles
of a settlement, and to be found stark
and half devoured by wolves by another
governmental party to which Brady be
longed.
Enough of Mulrennan was left to be
recognized, and Brady, despite his pro
mise to Kitty, felt a sort of savage de
light in knowing the man had met with
some sort of violent death.
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the Grand, Saturday, June
WHITE
Resolutions of Condolence.
At a late meeting of Branch 217,
Catholic Knights of America, held at
Catholic Association hall, this city, the
following resolutions of respect were
adopted to the memory of Capt. Patrick
Daly:
WHEREAS, In view of the loss we have sus-
tain(i1
totJie decease of onr friend and brother,
the late Capt. Patrick Daly, and of the still
heavier loss sustained by those who are nearest
and dearest to him: therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is but a just tribute to the
memory of the departed to say that in regretting
his removal from our midst. we mourn for one
who was in every way wort hy of our respect and
regard.
Resolved, That we sincerely condole with the
family of the deceased on the dispensation with
which it has pleased Almighty God to afflict
them, and commend them for consolation to Him
who orders all things for the best.
Resolved, That this heartfelt testimonial of our
sympathy be published in THE IBISH STANDARD
aud a copy sent to the family of our departed
friend and brother.
ED. F. SCAXLEN,
DENXIS HEALY,
so. J. KELLY,
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SPORTING NEWS.
John P. Clow has challenged Pete
No-
Ian, of Cincinnati, to meet him in an
or 10 round glove fight to occur in thif.
3ity for $500 a side.
The winners of the Maryland Jockey
Club spring races at Baltimore Tuesday
were Brittanic, Queen Elizabeth, Suit
or, Dry Monopole, Panama.
Martin Schoyer, of this city, arid Max
Blooster, of St. Paul, played a series
of
31 games of 15 bali pool Tuesday nighv
for $200 a side. Blooster won by a aeorf
of 10 to 13.
Charles Moth defeated Col. J. II. Mc
Laughlin in a mixed wrestling contest
at Duluth Tuesday night. It is claimeu
that the contest was decided by tin,
rank decision of the referee.
NORTHWESTERN NOTES.
MINNESOTA.
The railroad commission will visit
Mankato June 3.
Tramps arrested at St. Cloud will have
to work on the street.
Fred Ilulzman, living 8 miles west of
Fairmont, dropped dead from heart
disease in Sherburne Monday.
A fire at Glyndon Monday destroyed a
blacksmith shop and the houses of E.
P. George .and .W, Bangs. Lose,
$3,600.
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