St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-13
IIsfSH NATIONAL LEAGUE,
Mr. McCuilOch, Formerly am NJ. p.
Delivers an gutorpst5ur sf76rass

Mr. McCuilOch, Formerly nn NJ. p.
Delivers an Interesting Address.
An adjourned meeting of the st. Paul
branch of the Irish National league was
held i'll Crusaders hall last night, presided
over by Hon. P. Fl. Kelly, for the purpose
of arranging for delegates to attend the
great meeting at Chicago OH Wednesday
next. After the business of the meeting
had been transacted the chairman
introduced Mr.. McCulloch, late NJ. P. for
Glasgow. who addressed the meeting in an
hours speech upon the fight for home rule
and the prospects of its success in the near
future. The gentleman's address was full
of information, concise, terse, logical,
brstling with truiSms and replete with
sound common sense.
He had recognized in Mr.. Parna I'll, when he
had but three followers in pariiamant.a great
leader. He then eulogized Mr. Gladstone
saying no cause ever had a nober advocate
with greater fund of Information; no party
had chieftain such with gifts of oratory
who was so skilled in diplomacy, nor
with courage and energy greater
than his, and he believed to-day that
his equal is not to be found on earth.
The misfortun was that Gladstone's knowl-
edge of the men around him was not com.
mensurate with his knowledge of men and
things and policies generally. The speaker
had never thought Chamberlain would have
proved a traitor to the cause of liberty
Chamberlain who the people had begun to
look upon as the future leader, as Mr.. Glad
stones successor, but personal aggrandize-
ment was too strong for him. and in his weak
ness he broke up the Liberal party and ruined
the bright hopes of the Irish nation. For
Lord Harrington there was excuse. He
was honest and had always expressed a dis
he (Mr. McCulloch) could not nut admire
him for his honest eonssteucT. John Bright
again, VINO had given to Great Britain I'M
taxed food, had done his best to withhold
freedom from Ireland after years of advo-
cacy on it's behalf. He could ONLY under
stand it from the fact that in his old ege the
bugbear of disintegration had frightened
him. His influence had told however
most seriously, but he hoped that he
would yet be brought TO see the
mistake he had made. In speaking Of Goshen
he said the description given of him by Sexton
struggling and kicking behind the money
bags portrayed him exactly. The German
Jew, representing race who had for years
been under the. ban of disfranchisemeut to
labor to keep struggling men from gaining
their emancipation. But. said the speaker,
although combined circumstances were
AGAINST HOME RULE,
self government for Ireland is an assured
fact in the very near distance. He had every
confidence in the ultimate result. for there
were in the British house of commons to-day
313 voices for Irish freedom. Scotland Ire
land and Wales had given their unmstakable
vote of tool in favor of home rule.
He next reviewed the methods used to bring
about the union, and contended that home
rule would not end in disiutegration. There
is noccase in history, he said, in which con-
cession led to dissolution, but the opposite re-
suit was always the case. He showed
Of
1878 was in the fact that it provided for rent
fifteen years ahead, and he thought ulti-
mately Mr.. Gladstone's land purchase scheme
or some other akin to it would be adopted. He
spoke in the highest terms Of this
bill stating there was more astuteness
and wisdom than appears on the surface
appeared. He would not, he said, be at all
surprised if some night Lord Randolph
Churchill should introduce colonial govern
ment bill affecting England. ireland, Scotland
and Wales alike, following the policy of the
late Lord Beaconsfeld with his reform bill