Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-08
THE LAND LEAGUE.
Interesting Meeting, Cooperating with
the League In Ireland, held in st. Paul
Last Evening.

Interesting Meeting, Cooperating with
the League In Ireland, held in st. Paul
Last Evening.
To the active and Jealous gentlemen who
have at heart the interests of their oppressed
countrymen in Ireland, no happier thought
could have been conceived than that which
found expression in the magnificent demon
stration given under the auspices of the Land
League for the benefit of the "Parnell defense
fund.-" at the Opera house last evening. The
demonstration was immense in point of num-
bers and the highly patriotic and pleasant
character of the entertainment. Stirring and
eloquent addresses were received with mag
netic effect and applauded to the echo. In adj
dtiOn to the distinguished speakers OF the
evening, abstracts of whose remarks eau only
be printed, the programme was delightfully."-
varied with vocal and instrumental selections.
The meeting was opened by Mr.. c.. M.
MacCarthy, president of the st. Paul Land
League, who alluded in eloquent terms to the
nature and scope of the work undertaken and
already SO successfully accomplished by the
leagues of the United States and Europe. In
this connection high tribute of respect was
paid to the disinterested efforts of Michael
Davitt, the Inauguration of the campaign
against landlord tyranny, and to whom is due
the honor of having originated the first land
league. A just compliment was also paid to
the great agitator, Parnell, whose name elected
great applause.
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. MacCar-
thy showed that between the years 1S49 to
1852, there had been 252 900 evictiOns, and
that in single year 5000 persons had died
of starvation and suffering consequent upon
being evicted from their homes. To the I'M
paralleled good accomplished by the Land
League, was attributed to the misrule, tyranny
and oppression of the landlord system, and the
reuniting of the Irish people.
Following the opening address, Won Snppe's
charming overture "Poet and Peasant" was
rendered on the piano by Miss Neatly and Mr..
VIM F. Markoe. The selection was executed
in pleasing and artistic manner, and was
greeted with applause and flowers.
The appearance of Hon. Ignatius Donnelly
on the platform at this Immature was greeted
with rounds of deafening applause Mr.. Don
nelly was introduced to the audience in a few
we'll chosen remarks by the chairman, who
spoke of him as ever the friend OF the down.
trodden and oppressed under all conditions OF
life,
In commencing his beautifully fervent and
eloquent address, Mr. Donnelly said that it was
held that wrong had no rights and that the
present agitation in Ireland was simply the eX-
preston of the people of their desire for q
republican form of government.
The struggles of past generations for re-
ligious freedom, the abrogation OF slavery,
and the efforts to do away with the irksome
bondage that prevailed under the regimes OF
the old aristOcracy, were graphically depicted
In abiding to the high plane occupied by
humanity in these days of advanced civlllza-
ton the speaker compared the retrOgressive
spirit of Ireland to a fossil among the nations
Ireland, he said, had been decimated by star
walton, pestilence and suffering caused by
tyranny. A touching picture was drawn OF
the appalling suffering caused by the cruel
tyranny and despotism of English land
lords
The miserable condition of the Irish people,
he said, was Gods indictment of the English
legislation of to-day. In abiding to the man
ner in which the Irish nation had refrigerated
Mr.. DOnnelly cited statistics showing that in
1915 the population of Ireland was S25, 000, COO,
while in 1875 it had been reduced to 5,309, 900.
Edmund Burke's terrible denunciation of the
land owning aristocracy of England was cited
and the ills of Ireland were traced to English
legislation, which Sidney Smith had said could
be traced like a wounded shark in the water,
by its blood. Il
The brilliant career of Chas. Stewart Parnell,
whom the speaker said the hounds
were now tearing at, was alluded to, and the
eulogy paid to the noble agitator drew forth
electric applause. The address was brilliant
in figurative speech and poetic diction and
was conclued amid shouts OF applause.
The song beautiful Isle of the Sea-"
Thomas delicate production, was then rem
dered by Miss Gooden. The young lady pos
sesses a clear, sweet voice, of moderate range,
and she sang the selection in a very pleasing
manner.
wM MARKOE.
VIM. Markoe, Esq, was introduced by the
chairman as one OF the first and ablest land
leaguers of st. Paul. His appearance was
greeted with applause, and he followed with Il
most logical, able and convincing address.
His speech happily blended humor and pathos
with the most mastery grasping of solemn
and unanswerable truths regarding the suffer
ing arising from landlord misrule and tyranny
in Ireland
In his remarks Mr.. Markoe vindcatea the
archbishop of Casual from expressing con-
demnation of the proceedings of the Irish peo-
pie in connection with the agitation in Ireland,
who had said that the conduct of his people in
the past was sufficient guarantee of their
good conduct in the future. The horrors of
the situation, as existing under landlord mis-
rule and the despotism to which the people
were subjected, was adverted to and the speak
er took occasion to eulogize the character and
works of Mr.. Parnell, whom he characterized
as statesman, and held up as the ideal gen.
tleman. A very clever compliment was also
paid to Mr.. Dillon. Continuing his remarks,
Mr.. Markoe said that the whole system of
tyranny seemed to consist in species of social
ostracsm. In speaking of terrorism, the
speaker said that there had been terrorism in
Ireland ever since the Briton put his damned
foot upon its soil.
The only difference, continued the speaker,
was that where the wind of terrorism for
merly blew from England it now came from
the other direction. Instances were given
of the frightful tyrannies of eviction and the
inhuman atrocities of the system. As prac-
ticed by the cruel Earl of Leitram and the
Marquis of Lansdown, the speaker drew a
graphic picture of the most revolving and
Shocking atrocities which did not halt short of
assassination. The speakers remarks were
interrupted by frequent laughter and ap-
plause, aud the speaker closed by drawing an
allegorical picture of the spirit of war,
where spirits emaciated, spectral and blood
stained were marching with solemn tread to
spur to activity the oppressed children of Ire
land to shake from their country the chains
of the oppressed A touching and eloquent
picture was drawn of suffering Ireland and
through the vista was pictured the radiant fig
ure of hope.
The entertainment was here pleasantly diver
sified by the rendition of a patriotic song, en-
titled "When Erin Shall Stand, by Miss Emma
Haggerty, who sang in so charming and ac-
ceptable manner, that she was called out for