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It will be no worse.

Won't it?

Can you imagine

the length he'll go to

When the world knows him

for what he is?

Have you thought

of the misery

He'll put on you

for your part in it?

Willie coming to me

for favors is one thing,

But Willie publicly

branded malignant is another.

Do you think

Ill leave you to him?

Katie, isn't this

what we've always wanted?

Freedom for you-

For us to marry?

Not like this.

Perhaps not,

But if you wanted something

as we wanted to be free,

You don't question

how it comes,

You take it when it comes.

Charles, Im afraid.

Notwithstanding

the splendid services

Rendered by Mr. Parnell

to his country,

His continuance at the present

moment in the leadership

Would be productive of consequences

disastrous in the highest degree

To the cause of Ireland.

What does it mean?

It means

that Mr. Gladstone

Demands Parnell's

resignation.

Since when

has Parnell done

What Mr. Gladstone

told him?

He'll not resign on

Mr. Gladstone's say so.

But he will on ours!

Will you give at him?

You don't dare.

I'd like to see the man

That will stand up

to Parnell and say,

"Get out, we're

through with you."

It's what we're here to say this night.

It's what we're

going to say.

It's not.

Not while Ive got

two fists to stop you.

Here, here, here.

He promised us home rule

right here in this room.

Where is it now?

The dream that

it's always been,

Still mocking us.

And who lost it for us?

Gladstone.

No, Parnell.

Gladstone will give it

to us still,

But not with Parnell

as our leader.

Would you trust

your country

To a man with whom you

wouldn't trust your wife?

This is a political war

we're fighting.

What would you think of a soldier who

would stop in the middle of a battle

To inquire of the general if he had

broken one of the ten commandments?

A soldier's private life

doesn't affect his fighting.

A political leader's does.

He has no private life.

He's not

the first man

To be lead astray

by a woman,

Nor the last.

Why didn't he

defend the divorce?

Tell me that.

Because he couldn't!

That's a lie.

Well, I say Mr. Gladstone's

absolutely right.

When Parnell

failed to defend,

They say people started sending

telegraphs from all over England

Telling Gladstone

that Parnell must go.

I've never set up to be a particularly

moral man or anything like that,

But when it comes to

stealing another man's wife,

Well, that's where

I draw the line.

He ought to be hounded

out of the country.

You haven't seen him

since the divorce, have you?

No. Why?

He looks ill, Mr. Davitt,

Very ill.

Yes?

Mr. Davitt.

Mr. Davitt, could I

speak to you for a moment?

I don't think

you and I have anything

To say to each other,

Mrs. O'shea.

It's about Mr. Parnell.

Least of all about him.

What's going to

happen to him?

The party will stand by him, won't they?

Mr. Gladstone can't make him

resign if they stand by him.

They still believe in him,

don't they?

Don't they?

Listen.

He will go down

in history-

The history of Ireland,

As the man who sold his

country for a lighter love.

He has sold us,

Sold our birthright

for a woman.

I tell you,

Gladstone is right.

Parnell must go.

What is there in men

that makes them unable

To forgive their own

weaknesses in others?

It's not that.

They made a god of him.

And he's proved himself

a man like them,

That's all.

Can you, too,

not forgive him?

He was a god to me, too.

You shouldn't have

come here, Mrs. O'shea.

Campbell.

Sir?

Katie.

Charles,

forgive me.

I had to come.

I had to see you.

Come in.

Charles,

do you hate me terribly?

Hate you?

For doing this to you?

Katie, you haven't

done anything to me

But bring me the happiest

moments of my life.

But this letter

of Gladstones-

Means a fight,

that is all,

And you know Ive never

been afraid of that.

And with you beside me

I never shall be.

Excuse me, sir, but Mr. Redmond

and Mr. Healy have returned.

Thank you, Campbell.

You must go now.

The party's

meeting here.

I'll wait from my home.

It may be late.

However late,

please come tonight.

However late,

Ill come.

Good-Bye.

Gentlemen.

Gentlemen!

Mr. Parnell.

Good evening, gentlemen.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Mr. Healy, did you

and Mr. Redmond succeed

In getting an interview

with Mr. Gladstone?

We did.

In that case,

we are ready for discussion.

In a public letter,

Mr. Gladstone demands

my resignation.

Putting aside what right he or any

other Englishman has to dictate to us,

I replied to him through

Mr. Healy and Mr. Redmond,

Telling him

that if I am no longer

Acceptable as leader

of the Irish party,

I will resign at once...

If he will give us

his assurance

That he will continue to

support the home rule bill.

Gentlemen, Mr. Healy and Mr.

Redmond have just left him.

I haven't talked

with them.

Mr. Healy, will you tell us

the result of your visit?

Mr. Gladstone assured us

of his heartfelt desire

That Ireland should

have home rule.

Will he support it?

Did he promise

it to you?

He told us our first business

was to choose a leader.

Did he promise you

home rule?

He said that when we have chosen

a leader he would assess the-

Mr. Healy, did he promise you home rule?

He did not.

How could he so?

How can he traffic

with a party

Who's leader has disgraced

them and their country?

When the whole world

points a finger of shame

At the man who is

representing Ireland,

What favors

can we expect?

Favors!

Since when has Ireland

asked favors?

It's rights we're asking

and rights we'll get.

And who will

get them for you?

Who forced the English

to consider home rule?

Who is the one man among us

who can force them?

Is Mr. Parnell the only

man who can face Gladstone?

That was a fine fight you

put up tonight, Tim Healy.

You let him

run all around you.

That's about

the size of it.

Why is Mr. Gladstone so

anxious to rid us of our leader?

Because that leader

is the one man

Who can give orders to the

house of commons, to the English.

Will you sell him now

to keep their favor?

Then I ask you, what

will you get in return?

Home rule, that's

what we'll get.

Mr. Healy,

do you really think that?

Do you think that Mr.

Gladstone or the liberal party

Is burning with

the desire to free Ireland?

I should say not.

I wish I could be

so trustful.

I can only remember

the struggle we've had

To get the alliance

we have today.

There's no alliance anymore.

It perished in the stench

of the divorce court.

He's right!

Gentlemen...

This disturbance is useless.

The issue must not be

clouded by personal hate...

Or loyalty...

Nor, I beg of you,

by moral scruples-

Yours or Mr. Gladstone's.

Ireland's welfare must be

your sole consideration.

If you think you can fight

Mr. Gladstone without me,

That is for you to decide.

But don't sell me

for nothing.

If you surrender me,

it's your bound and duty

To secure value

for the sacrifice.

I have a parliament

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