the Green Isle liberty to govern herself. Or perhaps it might
have been regarded as a matter of retaliation for the suffering and
indignity which the sons and daughters of the Green Isle had
encountered for years. I do not know anything about it and
therefore shall not refer to it.

"Now, gentlemen, I have got an unpleasant duty to perform. I
realize the fact that when we step upon the narrow walks of the
city of the dead we are treading upon sacred ground. He who speaks
of a soul departed in any other than words of commendation had
better weigh well the purport of his language. Human charity is
ever willing to bury with the bodies of men all the evil which they
do, and remember only their virtues. That is commendable. That is
right. Yet, gentlemen, I say I have a painful duty to perform
because of certain expressions made by my client during the life of
the man whose soul is now in eternity, and in order that I may
protect his life I feel that I am justified even in censuring the
conduct of the man during life, who has passed into eternity. The
man who supposes or has supposed that Dr. Cronin, while here on
earth, was an angel in disguise, is very much mistaken. Now, is
that hard to say of a man who is dead? I hope you do not
misconstrue the purpose for which I have stated it, or the object I
have in view, but because my client has given his opinion while Dr.
Cronin was alive. I have a right to give it so long as my client is
alive in order that he may live, and that my language may be
understood and justified in every regard. Whether or not this is an
illegal organization, whether or not the dynamite policy existed as
stated by Judge Longenecker in his opening argument, whether or not
the purposes of the organization are to send dynamite to England
and there to destroy human life and the lives of men and women and
of children, as my friend says, I know not, but if that was the
object of the organization the most active member and the promoter
of the society and the purposes of the organization was Dr. Patrick
H. Cronin.

"To that statement I emphatically object," said Judge Longenecker.
"We wanted to prove the reverse of that, and that Dr. Cronin was
expelled because he bitterly opposed the dynamite doctrine, and we
were not allowed to do