The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-12
Morning Star and Catholic Messen ger.
INV ORLEANs SUNDAY, AUGUST la 1877.
THE IRISH IN ENGLAND AND THE IRISH
POLICY.
EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES OF PARNELL,
BIaGAR AND o'coNNoR TOWER.

EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES OF PARNELL,
BIaGAR AND o'CoNNoR POWER.
During the last week of July the above
named gentlemen, who have 30 distin-
guished themselves in Parliament recently,
visited Liverpool and Manchester, and ad-
dreased immepee meetipgs of their coun-
trymeu.
In Manchester
MR.. BIGGAR
described at length the constitution of for
mer Parliaments, and said that the sympa-
thies of the members were mostly with the
rich as opposed to the people. In the aver
age House of Commons there was not much
earnestness, tenacity of purpose, or strong
conviction; they simply did what was
Them little trouble, and what eatisfied their
constituents. If the Irish party had been
true to ethemselves-if they had said /" We
are in favor of certain things for Ireland,
we think these things can be carried by
determined action, and we shall subordin
ate every consideration of personal COM
fort, of standing we'll with hostile audi
ence, of pleasant and social parties with
whom we come in contact, whether En-
glish Catholics or Protestants"-theyw would
- long ere this have got snch things as Irish
men wanted and would have (cheers).
Irishmen must take care to fill their con-
stituencies with men who would work for
those ends. They had failed to carry
measures which they thought would be for
the benefit of Ireland, supported though
such measures had been by sound argu-
ments and facts, and one of the reasons
for that failure was because the. prejadices
of the assembly was against them. Another
reason was because the House of Commons,
as q rule, would not hear argument. The
Irish people should say to their represen-
tatives, '.Don't you do as you have been
doing-going to evening parties and dinner
parties, and entirely neglectipg your duty
in Parliament" IL the Irish members did
their duty they would not require to OBJ
struct, and to push the forms of the House
to anything like their limit, and they would
get what they pleased. On the 3rd OF July
q determined fight was made against the
voting of large sum of money at late
hour, and the result was fight which the
Irish party won, and in which they covered
themselves with glory. The practical eff
feet of that was that Mr. Butt had been
enabled to get day for the discussion OF
his University Education Bill, when pre-
viously he had never been enabled to get
any concession from the Government. If
the whole sixty Irish Home Rule members
were in earnest they would be omnipotent
and could do what they liked In the
House (applause).
MR.. PARNELL
said at the close of the last session he and
Mr. Biggar had determined to show by
what two men could do how much could be
done by sixty if they would act indepen-
dently and bravely, having true percep-
ton of the responsible position in which
they were placed. They had not, however
done one-tenth part of what they might
have done, by the advice of their leader
and the meeting was to guard itself agains,
eupposipg that they were in any way to
measure what they had done by what they
might have done during the present ses-
sion if their hands had not been tied. II
was a remarkable thing that for the first
time in the history of Irish members they
had succeeded in everything they had un,
dertaken (applsuse). They had beer
charged with obstruction by English mem
bers. He did not fear the charge of OBJ
struction (applause), and he thought the
time would come, and had come, when the
Irish people would have to consider whether
their representatives should not next ses
sion enter upon deliberate and persistent
course of obstruction of English measured
-(applause)-so long as English states
men and Englishmen continued to obstruc
and nullify all their attempts on behalf o.
Ireland. He thought they might have ex
pected from the managers and directors o
English newspapers, who assumed to oc
cupy high intellectual position, some bet
ter knowledge of causes and effects thar
was shown in charging them with obstruc
tion. He said deliberately that they hac
never obstructed, or under any circumstan
ces endeavored to obstruct, the proper
transaction of business Of any kind. Those
present might ask: "Why don't you OBJ
struct their business 2" They only desired
to show that they had the power to do suct
things if they wished. Their action hat
been very simple. 1t had been basec
upon a careful observation of parliamen
tary methods and occurrences during three
years of study. They had seen that NJ
measures interesting the English pecpl
were passed without full discussion ant
examination of their various parts. Unfor
tunately they had no opportunity of de
voting their exertions to measures for Ire
land because no measures had been pu
forward for Ireland by the English Gov
ernment (shame). During the past ses
sion Ireland had exactly three quarter
of an hour of the time of the Gov
ernment, Scotland had had exactly 6v
Observation-Disclosures England ha
all the rest. In that way he explained VIII
they did not act upon Irish questions; bu
they did the next best thing.-they acte