MR REDMOND'S TWO VOICES

Evening Star, Issue 14319, 18 March 1910, Page 3

MR REDMOND'S TWO VOICES

.Mr W. S. Lilly writes to the editor of "The Times' from the Athenaeum Club »a follows: In your issue of this morning Mr Redmond is reported as having said on Friday at Rathmines:—"They in Ireland were not asking for what was understood in England as Separation. They were asking simply that in the government. of their purely Irish affaire the public opinion of Ire-laud should be supreme." I find, however, that at a meeting of the United Irish league held in New York on August 31, 1904, Mr Redmond said: "If it were in my power to-morrow by any honorable means to altsolutely emancipate Ireland I would do it. I would feel it my duty to do it. I believe it would be just as jwssible for Ireland to have a picsjierous and free separate existence as ;i nation as Holland, or Belgium, or Switzerland, or other small nationalities. And if it were in the jiower of any Irishman to bring that result about to-morrow by honoi'.ible and brave means, )>c w< u! ] lie indeed a coward and a. traitor to the traditions of his race did he not do s')" 1 quote from the rojwt in ihn ' Fireman's Journal' of September 21, ]£o4. And the came newspaper m its ■: sue of June 24, 1907, represents Mr l!edmo:id as having eaid at New Ross mi the previous day : "Wo, from this County Wexfji'.l, su.d. therefore, this message to Kngian I —Wo

tell her that we, Wexfordmmi, to-day hate her rule just as bitterly as our forefathers did when they shed their blood on this spot. We tell her that we are r.is much rebels to her rule to-day as our forej father's were in '98." " r j Quite in accordance with fh* sentiment,; i thus vigorously expressed 'e the o.ec:nration made by Mr Redmond last September at Waterford in a speech, which <k tibfles-.s many will remember, that he and hi.? friends "upheld the same principles as tin; men who had associate*] with Captain O'Mcagher Condon in working for the freedom of Ireland." "The men associated with Captain O'Meagher Condon in working for freedom of Ireland " were Fenians : and it may not bn amiss to quote frcm the official report of the Parn?U Commission (Vol. IX., p. 329) the Fenian Oath. It is as follows; "I do solemnly swear that-1 v.ii! do mv best to establish the n.riona-I i'.deper.ocrc'e of Ireland, and I will b°ar tru- allcgtaro' to the supreme council of the ]r:sh Rimblican Brotherhood a"i! ffovcrnmc'it <<i the Irish Republic, and implicit!.' ci,-.-,- >i,,Constitution of the Irish Republic atid all my superior officers, and I will preserve inviolate the secrets of the. Organisation." : The object of the Fenians wnsundcninhiv the establishment, of an Irish. RepuHiV | utteily independent of the liriiisii Crown. I How is it possible to reconcile Mr Rc-d- ---' mond*s declaration at Rathmines with hi. other assertions which I have cited.'