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Show IRISH PATRIOT DEAD HONORED IN CARL0W Statue Erected to father Murphy, Murdered by English Soldiers in Rebellion of '98. Michael Davitfs Address. (Dublin Freeman, Aug. 5.) Tullow. which was the place of the brutal murder mur-der of Father John Uurphy and his faithful tol-lower, tol-lower, John Gallagher, by the soldiers in 'O'v was the scene on Sunday of the unveiling of a monument monu-ment to those two martyrs for Ireland by the Uev. P. F. Kavanaugh. in the presence of an immense concourse of people. The day was beautifully fine, and bands and banners and contingents from tho counties of Carlow, Dublin, Wicklow. an.l Wexford, and even representatives from Belfast attended to make this act of national reputation. The Tullow committee and the local sculptor engaged. Mr. 'James Walsh, have reason to be very proud of tho successful result, of their work. The statue spirited in design and extremely well executed. Tho inscription on the pedestal, both in English and Irish, Ir-ish, records that it was '"Erected to the Memory of Father John Murphy, BuIavogue. Co. Wexford. Wex-ford. Priest and Patriot, and his faithful follower. John Gallager. who was most cruelly and barbarously barbar-ously put to death by Fnglish soldiers on the Square of Tullow in 1708."' The Great Southern and Great Western railway, in addition to their ordinary train. ran a special, and over two thousand people were by this means conveyed in good time into Tullow, Tul-low, while thousands came in brakes, or on cars, or on foot from tho surrounding districts. 1 1r roadways leading into the town were spanned with arches, and nearly every house was decorated. A huge procession inarched out to the spot where Father Murphy was arrested, and then back to the Square, the spot where he was murdered, being now indicated by the beautiful statue. Rev. P. F. Kavanaugh. O. S. F.. unveiled th-" statue amid cheers, and delivered a short address on the lessons the monument taught. Michael Davitt Received With Cheers t "Mr. Michael Davitt, who was received with grc;'t cheering, said: After the. instructive and exhaustive exhaus-tive address of Father Kavanaugh I feel snrcyon v. will not expect nu trespass too- long on your patience. As a matter of fact he has left me practically prac-tically nothing to say; he has covered the whole ground in his beautiful deliverance, and all that f can say to you in my few remarks will only traverse the course he has already gone over. Wo have assembled as-sembled here today to do honor to one who fough' and fell for Ireland. This fine monument is a testimony tes-timony of your reverence and affection for his memory, and. is erected on the spot where England's vengeance strangled him to death. They savagely killed his body, just as they massacred and murdered meu, women, and children in thousands in the same year for the same reason; that is for their love of liberty in a land wherein that is made to be a crime under English law which is lauded and advocated as a virtue by the same England in every laud where British rule holds no sway (hear, hear). v Father John Alurphy. the Catholic priest, gave his life freely for Irish liberty, just as the Protestant Henry Joy McCracken nobly sacrificed his for rho same cause. (Applause.) The national impulse for freedom came from Ulster in and the union of north and south in that memorable year had a common and noble purpose in a bond of patriotic fraternity which was sealed with Catholic and Protestant blood alike in the greatest of human enterprises en-terprises the struggle for national liberty. (Applause.) (Ap-plause.) Protestant and Catholic fought then a-i Irishmen for Ireland, and. were not divided as they are today in rival camps; one side more or less for Ireland, but still the other more or less on the side of the same enemy who executed Father Murphy and McCracken a hundred and seven years asro. (Hear, hear.) These and others were done to death then, and many more since, by the same foe for t he-same he-same devotion to a great right and a noble ideal, but their spirits still live in the memory of thnr countrymen, and say to us today, that it is in a bond of service and sacrifice for Ireland and liberty that a true union of north and south can alone obliterate ob-literate all. Sectarian Differences in Irish Public Life. There are those among ourselves, and many of th-m, who say that monuments of this kind are out of place; that they serve no practical puinoe. ; and represent a useless waste of people's money. We know thii species of objector wry wel!.' He is a man more liberal with his criticism than with his coin. (Hear, hear.) Xo claim or cause can be good enough for him to support. He is generous oni at fault finding, and the movc'rien-, that wouil have to depend for practical help upon him, would never amount to the value of the proverbial row f pins. What every civilized pooplo and nation do. in recognition of unselfish patriotism, is nor. wrung in us to do also. Monuments and memorials are erected in almost every land in honor of those who have deserved well of their country and their race, and we, in common with other peopL, the English among the number, are only obeying the impulse of cur better nature of gratitude ?.nd of national duty when we raise a modest meiuoris?! like tnis to ilis name and memory of one who- inspires and leaihes us still, through the splendid lesson of his supreme sacrifice, to hope and strive for Ireland's welfare. (Cheers.) All honor then to the nationalists nation-alists of little Tullow and of Carlow county for erecting this monument in our day. (Hear, hear.) Many more towns have done likewise, while others, including Dublin, have so far f itiio I to carry out projected memorials of' this kind. Dublin ought in this respect to feel ashamed of its apathy or indifference. indif-ference. It has a population, counting suburbs and surrounding towns, of hear 400,000 people. Two-thirds Two-thirds of those are, at least, professing Nationalists. National-ists. Let me assume that fifty thousand, or one? man in every eight of the entire population, would wish to see a national memorial erected , in the capital of Ireland to Theobald Wotf ' Tone and th; men of '98. worthy of the city in wHc'.i the lend in spirits of that movement died at th-? .InuwU of t'.u'ir enemies; all these fifty thortsam; would Lave to do (Continued on P-aje 5.) IRISH PATRIOT DEAD HONORED IN CARLOW (Continued from Page 1.) would be to deprive the revenue of England of two-pome two-pome each week, in so much less whisky, porter, tea, lv tobacco, for about two months ovit of twelve, to provide the sum of over 3.000. (Aprh;u-e ) It would, in fet. cost the fifty thousand Dublin Nationalists Na-tionalists little or nothing to erect this, ov a more costly memorial, if they could only scho-jMhem-j selves up to a little self-denial of this kind, the loss attendant on which would fall entirely upon the exchequer of the government responsible for he I continued misrule of this country, and the physical and moral results of which would be of undoubted benefit to themselves. (Applause.) Center of Fault-Finding Nationalism. I am tempted, my friends, to say this much about Dublin here today for several reasons. I am not aware that Dublin Dub-lin contributes anything worth talking about just t now to any national movement or purpose. If offers no monetary support to the Irish party or to the United Irish league and cannot, therefore, plead the generosity of its aid in one direction, as an excuse for leaving the foundation stone of the Wolfe Tone monument as bare of superstructure today as it was severiyears ago. (Hear, hear.) Dublin is, as we know, the great center of fault-! fault-! finding nationalism. (Hear, hear.) It is always j ready to teach Ireland its duty and to sermonize our people on all and every occasion. In fact Dublin Dub-lin will perform anything and everything for Ireland Ire-land that will cost nothing but talk,, and will go on paying its ten thousand pounds a week to the English exchequer in the consumption of absolutely needless drinks and luxuries, while begrudging the price of a bottle of porter a week for a couple of months on the part of each fire-eating Nationalist as a contribution to the funds of the '98 memorial committee. v There is one other matter, my friends, upon which I wish to say a few words before sitting down, and they are somewhat relevant to this occasion. occa-sion. You know, of course, what England's army did in Irleand in 1798. We need not repeat the-tale the-tale of outrage on women and children, or burnings and of infamies, or murders and brutalities that are recorded even by English testimony against their own officers and soldiers. No tale of Turkish military ruffianism that has ever been written approaches ap-proaches that of, England's doings in Ireland in "98 for the devlish inhumanity of its crimes and outrages. (Applause.) Very well. Let us suppose that a Russian army say, in Poland acted in a similar manner burned hospitals containing wounded Poles, killed young and old indiscriminately indiscriminate-ly in a wanton riot of savage bloodshed would English politicians or writers advise Poles to join Prussia's armies and, if necessary' to Russia's pur-poe, pur-poe, to turn their arms against the cause of Poland Po-land s freedom ? Not one solitary Englishman would be found to counsel any such act of craven, degrading treachery. On the contrary, the people of England would laud to the skies the self-e-specting Polish patriotism that would spurn so slavish a service. Finest Regiments in Czar's Army. I came home a few months ago from a visit to Russia through Finland. Finland, as you know, had its own national diet or parliament until about a dozen years ago, when the present emperor, under evil advice, suspended the constitution of the Grand Duchy. Mark what happened. Up to that time the finest regiments in the czar's army were those of Finland. At the siege of Plevna the brave . and hardy sons of Finland covered, themselves with "glory. They were the pride of Scobeleff and of Russia's foremost generals. Where are they today in Russia's Manchurian armies'? Listen. I was told in Helsingfors last February that not one solitary soli-tary son of Finland can be found today in the ranks of Russia's army. Twenty thousand young men left Finland when its liberty w-as taken away, and out of their country they remain until that freedom shall be restored, as restored, I am happy to believe, it will be in a very short time. (Hear, hear.) Why should any Irishman join the English army? (Hear, hear.) Can any honest, self-respecting countryman offer a solitary reason why the same army is or ought to be one iota less objectionable to young Irishmen than the Russian army is to the men of Finland. (Applause.) Why, my friends, decent English artisans will not enter their own country's army. In Englandit is quite a rule in the management man-agement of respectable public houses not to serve the uniformed Johnnies with refreshments, owing to the disrepute in which they are held. For every reason, therefore, that ought to influence young Irishmen to avoid a degrading and anti-Irish sei vice, they are called upon to let England find her own soldiers in her own country with whom to carry out infamous crimes like that of the South African war. (Applause.) Every 'man who enlists in England's service from Ireland today is a miserable miser-able creature, who virtually volunteers to cut the throat of his own country's liberty, and to do the dirty work of those who say and believe that we Irishmen are not worthy of the rights which every civilized race claim as the first and highest blessing bless-ing and privilege of every nation. , (Applause.) When Irishmen learn to emulate the manly spirit of the Finlanders and let the army of their foreign rulers severely alone, believe me the time will have -"arriveVl when England will.be willing to take her hands off Ireland, and for the peace and welfare of both nations allow the Irish people of north and south, as Irishmen, and not as rival sects' or sections, sec-tions, to rule their own country without foreign in-tTrferencp in-tTrferencp of any kind. ( Lud cheers.) 1 - |