Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-05
A Great Gathering in Chicago in Aid
OF the Parliamentary Cam
paign Fund.
Alexander sullivan Speaks Upon the
Course Adopted by Parnon and
the Action of the liberals.

u.s." spoke as follows
Although the meeting was called by
md Is composed of men who need no ex-
of Parnel's policy, We are
ware that some of our fellow citizens,
Who do not follow politics in Ireland, and
who sympathize with what they believe
10 be the legitimate aim of the Irish peo-
pie sclf-govcrnment--d doubt whether Par
nell is prudent in his attitude toward
rival English parties. For this reason,
Mr.. Chairman, | propose to discuss
briefly why Parnell punished the Liberals.
Americans are liable to think that the
Irish people owe fcalty to one British
party more than to another, and that they
owe some special obligation to Mr.. Glad
stone. Remote from the scene of con-
fict they feel the spell Il majestic intellect .
always casts upon contemporaries, and,
IN the Just admiration which generous
minds pay to age and renown, they for
get that it was this most eminent of Lib
erals who, few years ago, was so short /
sighted as to predict the disruption of |
the American union, and so deficient i'm |
the morality of genuine liberalism as to |
rejoice in the imaginary consequences Of /
our ruin. Americans should not accept I
Ireland the opinions of man
a slave holding oligarchy and free repre-
sentative government the South was
fighting for freedom and the North for
power. They are prone to estimate the
historical relation of the British Liberals
toward Ireland by oratorical professions.
The Irish people, whose lives and
destiny are in the issue, must Judge Lib
erals and Tories alike by their acts. In
political literature there is nothing more
suspicious and enticing than the prom
ises which the Liberal party have made TO
Ireland. When we scrutiniZc the per-
formanccs that have followed these prom
Uses, little is found in them that is not
Intellectual and brutal. 2 &C Irish parlia-
mcnt was abolished by force and fraud in
1900. Since that time two great acts of
remedial legislation have been passed.
The first gave religious liberty to three
fourths OF the Irish people. That was
the deed Of the Tories. John Bright, the
most pious and the least practical of
Liberals, only repeats the Tory minister
who passed the bill when he says that
it was eXtorted by the threat of civil war.
The second was the disestablishment of
the Irish church Mr.. Gladstone, the
Liberal minister who accomplished it,
has publicly confessed that it was done
uGdcr the menace of FenianiSm. Thus,
we find the account OF the British.
parties with the Irish people bal
anccd, and the Irish people
under no obligation to either.
There is the land legislation. That is to
be classed simply rs Intellectual. The land
question in Ireland is not settled. Evic-
tions, which Mr.. Gladstone pronounced
death sentences, proceed under his land
act and all its amendments as atrociously
as ever. Landlords and tenants are in
the same plight that they have been in for
200 years, and they will remain in that
plight until the Irish nation becomes both
landlord and tenant of Ireland. If the
Liberal land legislation has been incffec-
tual, the Liberal mode of governing Ire
land has been brutal. For what shall
Ireland thank Gladstone and the Liberals?
For course of practical tyranny, com
pared with which the oppression of the
American colonies was benign paternal-
ism? For destroying all personal lib
erty! For imprisoning, in profound
| peace, without warrant, a thousand repu-
table citizens of both sexes, including
| the highest leaders of the peopleI For
not bringing them face to face with their
accuscrs, even before packed juries and
II partisan judiciary For finally open
| ing their prison doors with sneaking kew
and dismissing them without even in
forming them or the world of the crime
of which they were charged, and without
even the poor rcparation OF an apology?
For taxation, on their accession to power
after the great famine of lS47, exceeding
by 81 per cent. the eNorbitant bur-
dens laid by their Tory predecessors?
For presenting the Irish landlords with
! millions of money, eXtorted sometimes
by military force from the Irish tenant
\ ny in the name of state religion! For
/ using other portions Of this fund, the
Irish church surplus, TO carry the peo-
/ pie away from their own land to poverty
in other countries?
When the Tories in Office proposed
coercion, the Liberals opposed it. When
the Tories in oAlce proposed compulsory
emigration, the Liberals opposed il
And now, when the record is made up,
they are found to have applied coercion
more UNANIMOUSLY than the Tories and to
have carried out compulsory emigration
until population exceeding eight mill
ions is reduced to four millions within
forty years. Forty years ago John
Bright cited an official report showing
that Ireland could maintain twice her
.
nonnced the Tories for policy which he
said had cost IN Ireland more lives than
England had lost in any of her wars
out of office, he denounced coercion and
compulsory emigration in the same
breath. Four years ago. in Office, this
truly good Liberal voted for coercion,
and to this day compulsory emigra-
ton rs part of the Liberal
scheme for governing Ireland, What debt,
then, do the Irish people owe the British
Liberals! Their boastcd legislation has
been Intellectual Their mode OF govern
mcnt has been brutal. The instruments
OF that government in Dublin have been
shown to he moral monsters, who, in the
seclusion OF Dublin castle, lived lives az
vie as those led by their arstocratic
brothers in the gilded dens of London.
1t was John Bright himself who, when
ont of Office, told the Irish people, less
than twenty years ago, . II your 100 Irish
members We're for thp most MARI nurnnd