The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-23

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etory of the terrible affair is elsewhere told
No one can read it without seeing that Gus
ter's bravery outran his caution. 1t was
fair Highland the Indians won. There was
no ambush-no trickery.
p. }. SMYTR'S SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT
lJennings' letter in New York World
An event which does not often happen
in these days has occurred since I last
wrote to you. An unknown man has
Jumped at once to fame and honor, and that
by single speech of about half an hours
length. His name lie P. J.Smyth, he comes
from Ireland, and he is member of the
House of Commons. There was debate
on Home Rule, dull and stupid, when this
Mr.. Symth stands up from a back seat and
speaks his little "plece." Before he gets
half way through the Prime Minister has
turned to him with an attention he rarely
seems to bestow on any member. The
whole House is Silent and astonished, and
when the speaker sits down general and
prolonged cheers break forth, and the ora
tor finds himself the lion OF the season.
Did be, then, speak as an Irishman in favor
of English rulef Far from it-he de-
nounced Home Rule, only because it did
| the absolute separation of Ireland from
England. Surely, it must be admitted that an
English audience will give O man fair play,
when even what would be deemed a half
disloyal sort of speech is received with an
applause which evidently startles the
speaker, and lifts him at once from obscu-
rity to fame. The Times declares that the
speech recalls the "pslmist days of Irish
oratOry." Everybody says the same. 1t lie
to be hoped that some of the English mem
bers of the House will now study the style
of this Irish gentleman, and then perhaps
it may be possible to understand what they
say. What with The affections of the pre-
sent day, and the drawing and mumbling
and chopping of RS and ing's Ito say moth
ing of hey which go on, the English lang
uage as spoken in England is fast becoming
uniutelligible. The women are the worst
they try to outvie each other in affected
pronunciation as they do in pulling back
their dresses. Let us hope that Mr.. Smy tn
will help to Danish all this disgusting hum
bug from the House of Commons. OIL
course there will be great curiosity to hear
him again. He has been five years in the
House, but never distinguished himself be-
fore. His manner, ! am toid-for did not
have the luck to bear the speech, was far
FROM good, and he was very nervous. Yet
he carried everything before him. It'll the
old story-a man who has any message to
deliver to the world, and can deliver it
with earnestness and force, is sure to com
mahd hearing. He has only to hide his
time. Mr.. Snyth has now the bali at his
feet, and it will be interesting to see what
he does with it.
The Irish papere, however, take quite
another view of Mr. Smyth's performance.
AS a sample we quote this from the Nation
1t not at all surprising that the anti
Home Rule speech of Mr.. P. j. Smyth
should have received the warmest eulo-
gums from the imperlalist press and the
imperialiet majority in the House of Cons
mons. The speech was thoroughly impe-
rialist in tone, argument and in point of
view. The frat half of it was SO, avowedly
and explicitly; the whole oft was SO in prac-
tical effect. Had the speech been read out
TO a listener as the delivery of Mr.. Disraeli,
or Lord Harrington, or Mr.. Roebuck, or
Sir II. II. Beach, no suspicion of it's author
ship would have been suggested by single |
phrase OF sentence in the fret half, except |
indeed, the preliminary penitent admission |
that in 1874 the speaker had committed the |
concluding part of his Rpeech-that in
which MT. Smyth affects to pose as q Re-
pealer, pure and simple-needs but few
verbal changes to be brought into perfect
appropriateness to imperialist convictions.
Mr.. Smyth threw off by stiguatizing MIR.
Butts motion as unfortunate" ridiculed
Mr.. Butts proposed select committe as " a
coroners inquest" and as a device for
" shelving the question" He condemned
the Home Rule leader for not throwing his
into the form of bill, /" the
only FORM" said Mr.. Smyth, Gin which he
could set forth plainly and iptelligibly, the
nature, the extent, and the grounds of his
claim" Other members of Parliament, who
have to convince or conciliate an adverse
majority, may be permitted TO proceed by
resolution or by the Inquiries of a select
but all who have to further the
cause of Home Rule must proceed; accord
ing to this Irish patriot, by a bill, cut and
dry in all it's minute details, BID as to excite
the maximum amount of danger of miscar-
riage. Then he took up the cuckoo cry, re-
futed a thousand times, that Home Rule has
never been defined.
REFORM AND REPAIR.-Our we'll knovn friend
s. Bradley, Esq has removed from his old quarters