Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-08
1reiand.s Canse.

CrOyvdeCl-A Number of Addresses~-A |
 Spirited Demonstration.
 A large mass meeting was held last evening at Peck's Grand Opera House, called to ex- press the indignation felt at the late proceed ings in the British Parliament with reference to the Irish cause. It was also in aid of the Irish Land League. Before seven o'clock people were vending their way to the hall from all directions. The officers of the meeting were as follows:
 Prssident-Lynde Harrison
 Vice Presidents-Dexter R. Wright, Samuel James Reynolds, Frank Hermance, O. T. Driscoll, l.. N. Blydenburgh, Adolph Asher,
 T. J. Fox, Hugh J. Reynolds, Paul McCus- ker, John H. R. Rembert, Bernard Reilly,
 Peter Lynch, James Gallagher, Thomas R.
 Dunn, Michael Eagan, Edward M: Graves.
 Philip e Hugo. Captain L. o'Brien,
 Bart. Healy, Frank E. Craig, A:
 Heaton Robertson, Edward Hamill, Edward
 Mccarthy, Major P. Maher, Daniel Doyle.
 Benjamin Moves, Michael Dillon, Patrick
 McKenna, Michael Healy, Thomas J. Kenne-
 dy, Patrick Doyle, William McGarrell, Will
 liam F. Shannon, James Reilly, Michael
 Fahy, Captain Frank Tiesing, Captain Thomas O'Brien, John Waddock, James P. Lan-
 ders, John F. O'Keefe, Frank P Phlegher, James T. Mullen, Charles F. Bollman, Pat
 rick Maher. Rev. Fathers Labor, McGivney, Fitzpatrick, Slocum, Carroll, Cooney, Lar
 kin, Mulholland, O'Connell, Sheffrey, Cole
 man, Rev. MT. McGiffert, Rev. John c. Col lins.
 Secretaries Patrick O'Connor, John Kill
 bride, Thomas Campbell, John J. Sullivan, L. F. O'Brien, James Phalan, Felix O'Brien Michael Burns John Reilly, John c. Maher
 James F. Tukey, John Carmody, Lott J. Cunningham.
 Judge Harrison opened the meeting with spirited address which was frequently ap- plauded.
 Following Judge Blydenburgh delivered an
 address also warmly received.
 Judge Samuel A. York was next called out and spoke of the issues which had been
 treated also by the gentlemen preceding him. He spoke of the entailed estates and the diff | culties hampering the occupants of the soil. The landholders were not in sympathy with
 the occupants of the land, but pushed them | caring only to get their rent. Americans
 sympathized with Ireland. They loved free
 dom and wanted freedom in Ireland. All de- | sired the utmost freedom that was consistent ] with the public good. We believe every la- borer should have chance to rise. As 8
 mere question of State policy alone it is the ! best policy. Take our country. Place the l lands under great land owners. Suppose all | the land in towns around New Haven to be | owned by one man in New York, another in Philadelphia, another in New Orleans. What ! condition of affairs would result? Should we ! have prosperous villages and communities growing up all around us? No. It seems to
 me the people would gravitate to 8 part of 1 the world where they could get fair show.
 In the last 250 years Ireland has not been | treated as she desires to be and has suffered
 great wrongs, and it is no wonder that man ! like Parnell (applause) seeks to help his | countrymen to obtain that liberty we ali prize.
 MT. Harrison introduced Mir. Michael Egan,
 of Fair Haven, as the next speaker. MT. Egan before proceeding to address the | large assembly, took good and deliberate \ drink of water This act awakened applause ] and laughter and Mir. Egan settled down to
 business with everybody in good humor. He
 said Ladies and gentlemen, do not see why
 am called to speak where there are trained speakers and lawyers Gaughter.) I re- member, Mir. Chairman. that when I was
 boy had to leave school and go to work to help pay the landlords who went over to France or Italy and had good time spend
 ing the money had earned and ought to
 have been educated with. (Great laughter
 and applause. Gentlemen, it is true that Eng
 land has done everything to crush the Irish race and deprive them of what justly belongs
 to them. We all know that Ireland used to
 be great country for learning and that the
 English broke up all that system and
 hunted the schoolmasters like wild beasts
 We all know there was time when if man
 sent his children across to France to get
 them educated he had his property taken
 away from him; also that children were off, fered bribes to tell of their fathers, were of fered their fathers property to tell against them, and thus did England try to divide families and break UT harmony in families. Mir. Egan now related a story where an
 Englishman who heard an Irishman tell of what he had suffered, and the reply the Eng
 lishman made. The Englishman asked why did they shoot landlords. The reply was that they did not shoot any but the very worst. The Irishman then said had first cousin who went and reclaimed a waste piece of bar ren land, taking it away from the sea. He made fine land of it. He mar ried wife who brought him e4oo. This money he put into the land and i'm
 proved it. By and by the landlord came back from his travels and big hotel bills, and looking at the land says, what nice land you have made. That is my land. What says the poor man, your land? You can't mean it I took it from the sea. Oh, the land lord says, that is nothing, it is my land and he took it. and the man had to leave it and all his wife's money sunk in it, and he went poor and hungry and broken hearted. Didn't
 he shoot the landlord asked the English man. No, replied the other who was telling it. We'll, said the Englishman, he ought to
 have shot him. That's all I've got to say. There are few who hate to commit murder more than an Irishman. But suppose your
 crops fail and you have only what will keep
 your hungry children from starving, would
 you give it to the landlords? (Many voices
 shouted no emphatically.) Well, that's what
 Parne1 (great applause) is trying to do, try
 ing to give bread to the hungry and just rights (Great applause.) MT. Egan pro- ceeding said England must yield something to Ireland. The Boers are boring her on one side and our folks on the other. Great ap
 plause and laughter.) I said some time ago that would never die till Ireland is free. I believe as much as I stand here that Ireland will be free before I depart my life. (Ap- plause.) Now I ask you to subscribe some thing to- night to help on this agitation in Ireland You know money is necessary. All these people out of employment must be supported. America will help them. We helped fight for her, and thank God for America, we will fight for her aga1n, and may America grow every day more and more. With few other words the speaker closed
 stirring address next followed from MT. Parsons, of the Register.