Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — Finerty Differs from Davitt. [ARTICLE]

Finerty Differs from Davitt.

Chairman John F. Finerty, in the course of his speech, said Mr. Davitt had misconceived their pupose. They wanted them [the Irish in Ireland] to take all they could get and look for more. Did England or Mr. Davitt suppose that they would thrust any policy on them? If there was any way they could annoy England—keep her awake nights—they wanted to do it. He approved of what Mr. Davitt had done and of what Mr. Parnell had done. Said Mr. Finerty: Wo are glad to see Mr. Davitt here as the representative of that dear old country that gave us birth. Great God, gentlemen, we don’t want them to accept dangers that we don’t want to share. Our Christ said : "He that denies me before men, him will I deny before my Father in Heaven.” Some of our leaders denied us in the House of Commons, but we won’t deny them. However we may differ in opinion, the glorious gospel of unity in aid of Ireland shall prevail. They should be aided with our swords and our pens, or in any other way we can help them. I shall be prepared for compromise when every selfish word shall be atoned for by England. Charity is grand, my friends; forgiveness is great, but England is not yet in sackcloth. We have forgotten that Gladstone was a hypocrite, a Pbarim e. Absolutely we no longer groan for the Earl of Spencer. Spencer has repented, my friends. He is a sheep, but still he is a kind of a black sheep. Great heavens, gentlenu n, it is impossible for us to stand under that flag and listen to those mild doctrines that Mr. Davitt gives utterance to! It will not always be in the power of England to dictate terms to Ireland. God grant the hour may come when in some broad line of battle our soldiers may he able to wipe out the stigma of the battle of the Boyne. Some of us may never see it. We are getting old, some of us. Let us hope that Ireland will never cease to resist. It is for this we think and toil, and our only hope is to lift up our flag, to establish a republic which will be presided over by a Parnell or a Michael Davitt. “I thought, Miss S., that you hated that flirty minx; yet you went up and kissed her.” “So Ido hate her, and that is why I did it. Look at the big freckles on her chin where I kissed the powder off.”