Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-02-28

N people well Cl&u anu CHeeTlul anu
happy. This would give to the
true heart from abroad who had
contributed of his means to enable
Ireland to redeem herself from
poverty and thraldom a rich re-
turn for his generosity. Again
thanking the committee for their
kindness, amid the hearty applause
of all present he resumed his seat.
TUrnverein Hall was crowded
last night by an audience largely
composed of people not Irish or of
Irish descent who had gathered
there to hear the vital issues
which are now agitating Ireland
from the center all round to the
sea discussed by Thomas Power
O'Connor, the gifted young irish
orator and Land League member
of Parliament.
Lientenant-Governor Mansfield
presided over the meeting, and in
troduced Mr.. O'Connor in q few
appropriate and happy remarks,
during which he took occasion to
compare the present condition of
Ireland with that of the United
States in 1915. He hoped for an
| issue of the struggle as happy as
that which had characterized our
own, and he trusted that the Irish
people would yet live under insti-
tutions as free as those of the land
of j. fl 'rson He then called up IN
Mr.. MeGarry, one of the Secreta-
ries, TO read the lst of officers of
the meeting, which We append:
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Hon John g Downey, Hon Eu-
gene Meyer, Hon V e Howard,
Gen George Stoneman, Hon J J
Ayers, Hon r T del Vale, S Nc
Kiplay, Rev M Richardson, Rev
Ii McNamee, Rev P Verdaguer, 3
M White, Col j F Godfrey, Hon E
Evey, Anaheim; E F spence, J D
Lynch, john z Moran, Jne S
O'Niel, b Cobp, A w Ryan, o G
Weyse. K Staere, ] Mutually, NJ
iced, w IS Moore, G Scheiffelln, J
q Bower, B Chandler, Geo Kerck-
huG, Mascarel, Jacob Kuhrts J
M Griffith, w Fl Workman 2 G
Tonner, Pomona; ] de Barth Shorb,
A Lothian, DIR Il Nsdeau, P Ganee,
J Noel, q Jacoby, B A Yorba, r
Molony, w r Rowland, III King,
ID Desmond, Jno Burns, DR. 2
Widney, DR. S Griffin, e e Hew.
itt, Rev P Cooney. Rev P Fisher,
Rev P w Dorsey, Rev Father
Smythe, J Bodkin, Orange; P III
Downing, Wilmington; e F de
Cells, j A Mitrovich, Downey; DR.
Mcfarland, Compton; J E jack
son, A w Potts, A Briswalter, N
A Mcdonald.
Secretarles-D M McGarry, T J
Cuddy,
Lieutenant-Governor Mansfield
next presented Thomas Power
O'Conn0r, nj. Z. To the expectant
audience there doomed above the
footlights the form of handsome
young man whose age could GER
tainiy not be more than thirty
three or four, who was somewhat
above the middle height and of full
figure, whose contour of 0ead de-
yeiops u greal deal Of intelligence
combined with combativeness, and
whose whole face speaks of roguish
good humor and latent energy.
Mr.. O'ConnGr has a strong mirth-
loving face, which leads the audi
ence to expect tho alternate sailiss
of humor and pathos which corrus.
cate during his speeches. Take
him for all In all, hs realizes Lee
ver's picture of "fhe Man for GAL
way
We will say at once that it is i'm
possible for US to give anything
like n satisfactory epitome Of his
speech. He spoke for fully two
hours, WAS at all times interesting
aud spirited, was often both elo-
queat and witty, and it would re.
quire about thirteen columns of the
HERALD in BREWER to give his
speech Id full. We must perforce
eoutent ourselves with presenting
but faint outline of his address,
aud shall preface it with few
words of what answers to the "ar-
gument' in 8 play.
| There was but one of Gladstone's
three Fs which amounted to any,
thing, and that Was the "fair"
rent clause. 1t was hard for any
one who had not been raised in
Ireland to knew the difficulties
which attached to q just consider
alton of this matter. The Land
League had wrung this concession
from Mr.. Gladstone and the Land
League only could give it any APP
pearance of efficacy in practice.
Back of Mr.. Gladstone and his
three "Fs" was the organized land
lord class of Great Britain and Ire
land, which comprised most of the
House of Conn aud all of the
House Of Lords. But for an in ,es-
SAINT and sustained Land League
agitation in Ireland the Court es.
tablished to carry out the flair
rent" part Of the three f conces-
sions would quickly yield to this
landlord coercion and that feature
of the pretended relief would have
been worse than mockery. How
grieyous were the tenant wrongs
could only be understood by exam
pies. He mentioned that of ten.
ant whose rept in 1862 was seven
pounds, but who had been COM
PEELED to see it increase to G33 in
1870, when Mr.. Gladstore's first re-
lief bill was passed. That had
proved to be O failure, which was
confessed by Mr.. Gladstone him
self when he introduced the pres.
ent measure, which will prove
equally abortive. AS TO tho mo
Rent part of the Irish agitation,
that WAS simply the answer of
Irishmeu To the suspension OF all
law in Ireland, and it was only re-
serted to when the writ of hapsas
corpus had been suspended. Par