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man who wants to bear arms, that he should pay a licence of $2.50 a year to the revenue, but nobody — Dublin Castle or anybody else—has the power to prevent the carrying of arms by anybody in Ireland."
Read the Clan-na-Gael American-Irish circular of 18th December, 1885:—
"While our objects lie far beyond what may be obtained by agitation, a National Parliament is an object which we are bound to attain by any means offered. The achievement of a National Parliament gives us a footing upon Irish soil; it gives us the agencies and instrumentalities of a Government de facto at the very commencement of the Irish struggle. It places the Government of the land in the hands of our friends and brothers. It removes the Castle rings and gives us what we may well express as the plant of an armed revolution."—Special Commission Report, p. 116.
In the Irish World of 8th June, 1907, an article appeared by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet in defence of the use of dynamite in Ireland. To it Patrick Ford added this significant comment:—
"I am in entire agreement with the views expressed and the conclusions reached by Dr. Emmet himself. I am also in sympathy with the United Irish League and the Irish Parliamentary Party, so admirably led by Mr. John Redmond." (See Spectator, 22nd Oct., 1910.)
"What are our motives and objects?" said Mr. John Redmond in the United States, 14th November, 1901. "First of all our ultimate goal is the National independence of our country. I say in its essence the National movement is the same to-day as it was in the days of Hugh O'Neill, of Owen Roe, of Emmet, and of Wolfe Tone—to overturn the foreign domination in our land and put Irishmen in charge of their own affairs. The object is always the same, and if we are working by methods, that seem slow and ineffective to a free and armed people, our critics should remember that people
