New-York tribune., 1879-12-06
APPROVAL OF IRISH AGITATION

SOCIALIST MEETING IN THIS CITY-ME PAENELLs ;
COURSE COMMENDED.
A massmeeting OF Irishmen. Germans, Frenchmen
and Others discuss the II sh land and labor questions
was held In Gcrmania Hall last evening, under the aus
pices OF tile soclastc Labor party. Charles sotheran
acted Ms cairma and spoke the dow ntr0ddcn 1rsh
at some length He referred the oppression which ne
charged England with having exercised toward lhc
Irish. They had suffered other race had
letter II OH Patrick Ford Editor OF The Irish Wo'fd
was read in which regretted hts inability To be pres
cnt "The battle that is going on in Ireland, he
wrote 's limited by geographical lines or The Ties
of nationality. but is one that deeply concerns all
humanity involving the essentials OF man's rlght
TO live upon the planet and the free en
joyment of the that are necessary
to tho maintenance OF that life. The
agitation in Ireland should be OF rejoicing the
world oycr for every success OF The landlordridueh
Irish people is successful blow for dsInheried hui
manity. and you do well thus TO encourage them The
English oigarchy may mprison the agiators who SOW
the truth. but they cannot kill the Idea"
John svInton paid high compliment 10 the character
and work of MI Ford and In the course OF his remarks
said "Land and liberty Ia Mr. Parncls cry lApplau'e'I
Glad am that ireland taken this platform, FOR sue
has thereby placed herself among the nations of pro-
grrss W. have right ia discuss this question: oecse
Daniel OC0uucll took an active part ia me saver s
tatiun Let us return the compliment by potrsi-
ing against the rent-slayery on Ireland We
land Suffers for there Is only side to IT, Mr. Par
neis course is not that of an incendary but ne asks
that the laws which render such sad state OF Affairs
possible ne stricken from the statute books. Mr.
Parnell's methods are 1u'iolous, auu VIII p..Da-
bly, yield good result. n the lrish people
should rise IN their might Hbd cftr &c
auce to yr9nts should not sTit'cs TS,oh sne sra
told by the blue books IA England, II you VIII sec we
growth OF pauperism The stories OF Mthar Young
semble The stories that come from Ireland By an act
of agraran legislation all this was changed lot fIahce
and il OF record that the life OF the peasant
was thereby ieu gthenet fifteen wears. lArrduse J
Similar legislation In the English Parliament woulu
give 90 nal relief to rcand MI Paheil iSa man OF x
,elnI education and OF fine ly-& uah VINO accoIu-
irc 10 Jphn Morley. has achieved unparalleled deeds
No man In Europe surpasses HIM il ua;iy greatness
In conclusion. the speaker said why, look ~ the
Emerald Isc. rich and coaely; look AT the trdgtuN OF
Ireiand-the Tragedy Of Man upch INA. lsle behoid
tiic tragedy - II goes on. nOwc hungry ngufSs
stalking around. the ragged families shyerng In their
LOyes The tOi-worb victims Of rach-Irn III thc DeuS
hundreds of thousands of tnen wa.uS III presence oi
The blCaicd lords OF the soil. Who's" least j IN the cna
nel-house OF their own creating For ag-s mas ihis
asflv tragedy Of Ireland beed IN progress uyoh bJl
T,ucr,id III. of the sea but II be approach
Ing its ana II VIII cu, Tor sure lDr u hp lil 'n
extern iuailon OF the Irish pcope, Int IN e doo oi
pcsoiutious were aioncd unanimously ~ which sym
pathy WAS ex tended to the Irish tenants Ihc rcso.u
lions maintain that the ii'h cause was lust that tbe
land laws fatal 10 the lie Ui lretanN; that W.
Parncil deserved every encOuiaecm nt ana tia ~ M
arrest for sncaking IN defence Land and Liberty
Dr. Adohh DOEaI spoke nj sCmc lergth, alter which
Henry Appleton said that The cry " Lana ana l'ctty
was The ghost that would haunt every capitalist who
passed the hall The lahori;g men, ne sad were an OF
one race and that OF slaves Aneica ne thnGhi
was las cnnIn ,uto the condition or Ireland Oh ac-
cornt .. erasrlng nature ot he capitalists The
ene press of the United states was 'hc enemy Oh hS
working people. Tie papers were ""hS" ny c"F''"i-
The meeting closed after Osborne wdrl had spoken.