Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Healy were the chief speakers at
an open-air meeting of the All-for-Ireland League at Mitchels town on Sunday. Mr. O'Brien observed that the Redmondite Party had killed the Land Purchase Act of 1903, and, since the Liberals had come into power, had so botched and mismanaged the whole business that if the Home Rule Bill could pass in its present shape it would expose them to the risk of leaving three out of the four provinces in a state of bankruptcy, with the other province in open insurrection. The present disaster might have been averted if Lord Lorebarn's peace proposals had been f rankly accepted by Mr. Redmond. Still there were hopes that he was
beginning to realize that the blundering of his advisers had brought them to a parting of the ways when either an immediate and above-board peace conference or a general election in a few months were the only alternatives.
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