What right have we to ask for ourselves what we deny to another?
The bludgeon at meetings is a blow struck against heaven. Those who
will not argue or reason are recreants against humanity, and are
prowling back again on all fours in their minds to the brute. It
matters not in what holy name men war with violence on freedom of
thought, whether in the name of God or nation they are enemies of both.
We are only right in controversy when we overcome by a superior beauty
or truth. The first fundamental idea inspiring an Irish polity should be
this idea of freedom in all spheres of thought, and it is most
necessary to fight for this because the devil and hell have organized
their forces in this unfortunate land in sectarian and secret societies,
of which it might be written they love darkness rather than light for
the old God-given reasons.
X.
Whenever in Ireland there has been a revolt of labor it too often finds
arrayed against it the press, the law, and the police. All the great
powers are in entente. The press, without inquiry, begins a detestable
cant about labor agitators misleading ignorant men.
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