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Show Redmond's Warning. To a big audience of his countrymen, in Chicago. Chi-cago. John E. Kcdmond, Irish Nationalist, uttered : this warning: 'Our race is slipping from its moorings it . is dying. If we are passive and inactive. Ireland will cease to be the home of the Celt. There are more old men and little children anil fewer young- men and women in that island than any other country on earth. The death of the race can only be warded off by acting in the living present. "We must not neglect rn opportunity." ; Then he made this prediction : "We shall seize our opportunities. Before the oldest man in this audience is dead, Ireland will' have won a good measure of self-government."- Mr. Kcdmond declared he wanted to take back to Ireland with him $.0.tt00 subscribed by Irish-' Americans. Following his plea. Chairman John F. Finerty announced that sympathetic Chicago'-Irishmen Chicago'-Irishmen already had subscribed tf-LfUO. . ' . '. - Kesolulions were adopted declaring that the "certain, fixed and positive "demand of the Irish people is and forever shall be 'Home Kule for fre-knd.'" fre-knd.'" It. was explained that by "home rule" was meant the vesting of the government of Ireland in a. parliament par-liament assembled upon the soil of Ireland independent inde-pendent of alien influenced |