m'glynn

Updated: June 18, 2025

Dillon in Ireland in 1888 the incompatibility of these propositions, and of that programme, with the teachings of the Church. Upon receiving the instructions of the Propaganda in August 1882, Cardinal M'Closkey sent for Dr. M'Glynn, and set the matter plainly before him. Dr.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

It did not concern the Propaganda that these propositions ran on all-fours with the policy of the Irish Land League established by Mr. Davitt, and accepted by Mr. Parnell. What concerned the Propaganda in the propositions of Dr. M'Glynn at New York in 1882 was precisely what concerns the Propaganda in the programme of Mr. Davitt as mismanaged by Mr.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

From language like this to the attitude of Father M'Glynn in New York, openly flouting the authority of the Holy See itself, is but an easy and an inevitable step. Neither "Home Rule" nor any other "Rule" can exist in a country in which men whose words carry any weight are suffered to take up such an attitude.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

This was an abominable abuse of a constitutional power, but it was not "confiscation." What Henry George proposes is confiscation, as Dr. M'Glynn plainly sees and courageously says. What he proposes is that the State shall compel the annual rental value of all land to be paid into the public treasury, without regard to the question whether the State does or does not need such a sum of money.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

Obviously in such a case as this the "war against landlordism" is simply a war against property and against private rights. Priests of the Catholic Church who not only countenance but aid and abet such proceedings certainly go even beyond Dr. M'Glynn. Dr. M'Glynn, so far as I know, stops at the confiscation of all private property in rent by the State for the State.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

M'Glynn advocated the plan of Henry George, he advocated at one and the same time the immoral seizure and confiscation of the whole income of many persons within the protection of the Constitution of New York, and the overthrow of the Constitution of that State and of the United States.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)