Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-18
THE LECTURE ON 1RELAN

Turner Hal was filed to its capacity last
night to hear an address from Rev. DR..
Boylan, Of Ire and, on "Ireland and Psrnell.
w. A. Henry presided and made the opening
remarks, and gas followed by 81. j. Mohan.
DIR. Boylan. who is speaker with a good
delivery, an Impressive manner, much wit
and has the art of attracting his auditors to
him, said his suppose was to tell Irishmen of
the ireland of to-day. 1t is the same beauti.
fol land SO ma ~ of his hearers remembered,
but 1t has upoiit the burden of greattrouble,
and that is heisland difficulties and the issue
with landlordlm. He pronounced the farm
ing class the heart of Ireland. Upon the
yeomanry resi- yoke the British Govern
ment has plac ID there, and that is landlord.
ism, and Of that the Irish would be
freed. The speaker believed Parnell to
be true to Ireland. and that he would
lead the peopl, out of their difficulties. He
referred to O(pnnor and his iabors, and who,
being true TO principle and Ireland, kept
laundering at the throne until the conces-
sions he asked were at last secured. Parnell
is just as ear aest and just as sincere, and
will succeed ard march to victory or to death.
The land Of IRELAND, he held, was for the
Irish people; God never gave the soil to be
owned by tie fsw-it is for the benefit of all.
1t had been sought to prejudice the priest
with the Irish peasantry, but God. who gave
the priest his lower. would protect him while
battling for just cause. He did not believe
the Irish Lend League had missppropriated
penny of the funds intrusted to it. Ireland
was waiting now to see what England would
do with the Land Reform BILL" If she
gives the land to the people, all will be
well; il not the struggle will continue, and
In the end the land must be divided into
small holdirgs, for no country can prosper
where the soil is owned by the few. When
small landed proprietors were dispossessed
IN Greece. and the lands put into large hold
ings, Greece, from land OF prosperity, be-
day knowledge is spIe aiding, school houses are
increasing in number, and these forces have
shook hands with the sgitators OF the land
question in the great moral battle now wsg.
ing there. The priest and the minister stand
shoulder and shoulder in that agitation for
home rule. The work will not carry on itself;
it must be supported and it is. and perseyer-
ance will win success. The Irish people are
able to carry on the conflict, and will not give
it up until they achieve victory, and have
their own Parliament, and stand where they
did in 1882 In eighteen years thereafter the
population of ireland increased from 3, 0O0,-
900 to 100000. The people proved their
ability to govern themselves. and those years
were prosperous ones. The Irish love Ireland
for her beauty of scenery, her commerce and
industries. and because they never can forget
the land of their birth and even though they
may BIS dazz'ed by the splendors of this land
Of their adoption, the Irish here still love
her. The speaker paid glowing tribute to
the American Republic, and congratulated
the Irish in the United States on their good
fortune in living in land of lihertv and of
homes, and said that their kinsmen on the
ether side of the ocean will not give up the
contest until they can cheer for their own as
the land of the free.
At the conclusion of tie address, which
was over an hour in length, J. A. Baillargeon
and Miss Cooley each entertained the audi
ence with vocal music.