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Show No Danger to A. 0. H. IT IS really too bad that any attempt was made by the active promoters of the United Irish Land League to have their organization endorsed by the A. O. H. at the Denver convention. It was certainly not good politics, in view of the fact that Irishmen are divided di-vided upon the plan of physical force and the plan of parliamentary campaign. cam-paign. So long as they are divided, what real good is accomplished in making an organization like the A. O. H. go on record in favor of the Land League by a bare majority, all the time the great minority feeling that their convictions have been stultified. A vote of endorsement, unless it is unanimous or nearly so, is not a vote of endorsement. It cannot change the convictions of a single member who voted in the negative. Where was the sense in the hot debate de-bate over that resolution? It lost, and the physical force men carried the day. What satisfaction do they derive from the victory? Their vote will not injure or help the cause of Ireland one iota. But the mischief lies in the spectacle of a disunited lot of Irishmen, and this spectacle goes to England's satisfaction. satis-faction. The Irish are a great people. They are reckoned good politicians, especially es-pecially when they mix up in American Ameri-can affairs. But when it comes to Irish politics, they don't know when to hold their tongue. Always somebody some-body turns up with a proposition which he thinks is patriotic and springs it upon a body of men whom he knows beforehand will fight it. Materially the proposition has not the value of a pinch of snuff, but when it gets men to wrangling and those same men threaten the destruction of the order which rebukes the proposition, then a mole hill assumes the proportions of a mountain. We are pained to observe in some of our exchanges some bitter reflections reflec-tions on the A. O. H. for turning down the Land League. These newspapers forecast the destruction of the grand nrdpr hv roasnn nf ttiaf vnto C,i, prophesies are silly. The A. O. H. will continue its mission of "friendship, "friend-ship, unity and charity," and remain as before divided upon the questions of physical force and moral suasion. One member may go to his Robert Emmet assembly and another go to his league meeting and the two meet together to-gether as brothers in the grandest society so-ciety of Catholic Irishmen in the world. Out upon your evil prophesies! Long live the A. O. H.! |