Perhaps the most damaging comment on th is episode is
that of Mr. Arthur Walsh in a letter to the Times of Thurs- day. Mr. Walsh points out that the article in McClure's Magazine is quite consistent with the Daily Express interview, but wholly at variance with Mr. Redmond's desire, expressed during his present visit to America, for the complete separa- tion of Ireland from British rule. Thus the Irish World for October 8th contains a full report of his speech at the Buffalo
Convention, in which he uses the following language :- " Without freedom all these great concessions [national University, &c.] are practically valueless, or at any rate such value as they do possess is to be found in the fact that they strengthen the arm of the Irish people to push on to the great
goal of national independence I have come here to-day to America to ask you to give us your aid in a supreme and, I believe, final effort to dethrone once and for all the English government of our country."
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