Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-04
A RALLY FOR PARNELL.
5000 IRISH AMERICANS IN MASS
MEETING AT CHICAGO.


of the Contribution by Chicago of SIO,-
600 for the Election Fund-Alexander
Suilivsn's SpeeOh Received with Wild
Enthusiasm.
CHICAGO. Oct. 3.-A mass meeting held
at Battery D armory tonight, for the pur-
pose OF raising funds for the Parnell cam
palgn, was we'll attended, probably 5000
persons being present, among whom was
quite sprinkling of ladies. When the
object Of the meeting was stated by the
chairman the enthusiasm of the crowd
found vent in prolonged applause and
cheering. A prominent feature Of the
occasion was the speech of Alexander
Sullivan, ex-Presdent of the Irish
National League of America. Mr.. Sulli-
vans appearance was greeted with cheers
and his speech received like recognition,
in which Mr.. Sullivan gave the reasons
why the Parnelltes refused to support the
Liberals in the late Parliament, as fol-
lows:
Although the meeting was called by and is
| composed of men who need no explanation of
Parnells policy, We are aware that some of
! our fellow citizens, VINO do not closely follow
politics la Ireland, ana who sympatnise with
what they believe to be the legitimate aim OF
the Irish peOple-sef gOVeFnment-dOubt
whether Parn Ii is prudent in his attitude to-
ward rival English parties. For this reason,
/ Mr.. Chairman, / propose to discuss briefly
I why ParneN punished the Liberals.
Americans are liable to think that the
Irish people owe fealty to one British
party more than to another, and that they
| owe some special obligation to MIR. Gladstone.
/ Remote from the scene of conflict, they feel
| the spell majestic intellect always casts
! upon contemporaries, and IN the just admira-
ton which generous minds pay to age and re-
| nOwn. they forget it was this most eminent of
/ Liberals who, few years ago, was so short
| sighted as to predict the disruption Of the
! American Union, and so defclent in the NOR
| allty OF genuine Liberalism as to rejoice in
the imaginary consequences OF our ruin.
| Americans should not accept concerning
Ireland the opinions OF man who
declared that in the conflict between a slave
| holding olgarchy and free representative
government the South was fighting for free
dom and the North for power They are
prone to estimate the historical relation of
| the British Liberals toward ireland by ora
torical professions. The Irish people, whose
lives and destiny are In the issue, must judge
! Liberals and Torres alike by their acts. In
| political literature there IS nothing more aus
| pclOus and enttcing than the promises which
the Liberal party have made to Ireland.
| When we scrutinize the performances that
have followed these promises little is found in
them that is not Intellectual or brutal The
Irish parliament was abolished by force and
fraud in 1900. Since that time
TWO GREAT ACTS OF REMEDIAL LEGIs-
TION
have been passed The first gave religious
liberty to three -fourths OF the Irish peO le.
That was the deed OF the Tories. John Bright,
the most piOus and the least practical OF Lib
erals, only repeats the Tory minister who
passed the bill, when he says il eXtOrted
by the threat OF civil war. The second vas
the disestablishment Of the Irish church. Mr..
Gladstone, the Liberal minister who accom-
plished IT., has publicly confessed that it was
done under the menace OF Fen anism. Thus,
we find the account OF the British parties
Traa lss Il Is1
people under No obligation to either.
There is the land legislation. That is 10 lie
classed as simply Intellectual. The land ques-
tion in Ireland IS not settled. EvlctlOns,
which Mr. Gladstone pronounced death sem
tences, proceed uhuer his land act and all Its
amendments AS atrOCi0usiy as ever. Land
lOt ds and tenants are in the same plight that
they nave been in for Two hundred yea s. aud
they will remain IN that plight until the Irish
/ nation becomes both landlord and tenant of
Ireland. If tho Liberal laud legislation has
been Intellectual, the Liberal mode Of govern
ing ireland has been brutal. For what shall
ireland thank Gladstone and the Liberals?
For course of practical tyranny, compared
4 with which the oppression OF the American
colonies was benign paternalism? For de-
stroying all personal liberty2 For imprisOn-
ing, in profound peace, without warrant, a
Thousand reputable citizens Of both sexes. IN
Guiding the highest leaders OF the people?
For not bringing them face to face with their
| accusers, even before packed jGrles ana par
tisan judiciary? For finally opening their
them without even informing them
or the world OF the crime OF
which they were charged, and without
even the poor reparatIOn Of an apoiOgyi For
taxation, on their accession 10 power after
the great famine in 1871, exceeding by 52 per
cent. the exorbitant burdens laid by their
Tory predecessors For presenting the Irish
landlords with millions OF money, extorted
sometimes by military force, from the Irish
tenantry IN the name Of "A state rcligiOny For
using other portions Of this fund, the Irish
church surplus. TO carry the people away
from their own land to poverty in other
cOuntries2
WHEN THE TORIES IN OFFICE PROPOSED
COERCION,
the Liberals opposed IL. When the Tories in
Office proposed compulsory emigration. the
Liberals opposed IL. And now. when the re-
cord is mace up. they are found TO have ap-
piled coercion more UNANIMOUSLY than the To-
ries, ana 10 have carried out compulsory emf
grafton until population exceeding 500, 100
is reduced 10 4Q0),000 within 40 years. Forty
years ago JohnBright cited an official report,
/ showing that ireland could maintain twice
and denounced the Tories for
policy which, be said, had cost IN Ireland
the loss Of more lives than England had caused
In any OF her wars. out OF office, he de-
nounced coercion and compulsory emigration
in the same breath. Four years ago, no Office,
this truly good Liberal voted for coercion,
and % this day compulsory emigration Ia
part OF the Liberal scheme for governing ire
land. What debt, then, do the Irish people
l owe the British liDerNlhf inelr hOtsteu leE-
slation has been Intellectual. Their mode OF
government has been brutal. The nstru-
ments Of the government In Dublin nave been
shown to he moral monsters, who. In the ee-
cuslOn Of DubHn Castle, lived lives as vie as
those led by their arlgtOcratlc brothers IN the
gilded dens OF London. IL was John Bright
him-e who, when out OF ONCE, told the irish
people, less than twenty years agO, ''if your
1906 Irish members were for the most part
agreed yOu IA ght do almost anything You
| hke.n The Irish people have taken tne Lib
oral at his word After the next general
election the irish representation in Parlia-
ment will be for the most part agreed, aud
they win do anything they like. The Irish
people owe nothing 10 either English party.
From the abolition Of the Irish Parliament %
THIS day. neither party has made any o)nces-
sion 20 the irish people except under The in
nuence Of fear. An they want ig TO De quit
Of both and 10 restore their own Parliment In
their own national capital.
10000 LISTENERS.
Before Mr.. sullivan had spoken a dozen
sentences his audience had swelled 70
fully 10000, and during the evening hum
dreds ofpeople were turned away from the
doors, every inch Of standing room inside
being occupied. Following Mr. Sui
liyan were several other speeches.
judges Moran, Tuly, Prendergast aud
ex.COngressman John Finerty, each
speaking earnestly upon the subject for
which the meeting WAS called. The en-
thusnsm exhibited by the audience was