Meantime Mr. W. O'Brien had invaded County Mayo, Mr. Dillon's
county, and addressed two meetings of the " All-for- Ireland" League on Saturday and Sunday. At Ballina he suggested the appointment of a jury of honour, six men from each side, to settle the responsibility for the dissensions of . the last seven years. He was prepared to prove to the hilt that Mr. Dillon and the Freeman's Journal bad been engaged in a secret conspiracy against. Mr. Redmond and the great majority of his colleagues, and that be (Mr. Dillon) was the destroyer of the national policy of conciliation which had been endorsed in every form by the party and the country. At Crossmolina on Sunday Mr. O'Brien said they had nominally a Home-rule Government in power with a majority of a hundred, but that Government had not given one word of definite undertaking even to introduce a Home-rule Bill. A resolution was unanimously passed warning the liberty- loving people of America that Messrs. Redmond, Devlin, and T. P. O'Connor, who were about to start on a begging-tour in America, were directly responsible for preventing land- purchase in Ireland, and using the money subscribed in the United States to stir up racial and religioui wars between the Protestant minority and the Catholic majority in Ireland.
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