, 1886-05-26
IRISH
Friends of Ireland Assemble
in Chicago.
Extensive and Destructive
Forest Fires.
Oleomargariue and Chicago
Equally Slippery.
Ten Thousand Friends of Ireland
Assemble IN Chicago.

4Cll VI
Assemble In Chicago.
CHICAGO, May 25.-Fully 10000
friends of home rule in Ireland were
present tonight at a meeting held in be-
half of that cause. The platform was
occupied by Governor Oglesby, who was
CHOSEN chairman of the meeting. and 300
vice presidents, among whom were judges,
congressman and ministers Of all denom-
nations. The decorations were Ameri-
can and Irish favors blended.
The governor was greeted with enthu-
siasm and spoke briefly. Alexander Sui
Ivan followed, and in the curse of his
remarks said: This meeting is in some
respects a novel one for Irish Americans.
AT last we can find some good words for
some Englishmen. We can hardly real
ize ourselves how strangely our voices
must sound when they formulate ac-
acknowledgements to the British premier
who but 2 few years ago tried to govern
Ireland by coercion. by bnckshot aud by
cuuchNOfluRt dS htuutn uhlpo oO
graphically said, to impri-on an ijea.
Both officers and men in the Anglo Celtic
conflict are strangely c~ommingled on the
battlefield. Who have changed places?
Not the Irish; no, they stand where they
have stood for centuries, whether in
peaceful debate or in warlike struggle,
always for Ireland's right to govern Ire
land"
Sullivan was followed by other repre-
sentative Irishmen and other well-known
citizens of Chicago in brief addresses.
Sullivan then presented resolutions OF
which the following is the substance:
Ten thousand citizens of Chicago in
mass meeting assembled, with Governor
Oglesby of Illinois in the chair, unani-
mously declare hat the people of Ireland
have their heartfelt sympathy in the en-
deavor to secure the restoration of a ma
tive parliament which was taken from
them by bribery and fraud. We con-
graduate the Irish people on the sagacity,
courage and fidelity which their great
leader and brilliant and patriotic associates
prosecuted the nations cause. We on
demn as unworthy our age and civilization
the unholy attempt to array brothers and
fellow citizens against one another he
cause of religious differences. We be-
lieve the minority IN ireland have no rea-
son whatever to doubt the perfect good
faith Of the majority. We assure the
great English premier that the browning
act of his great political career won for
him the respect and admiration OF the
American people. We congratulate him
on the conscience and courage which
quoted and strengthened him in the face
of taunts and insults to confess the errors
of his country and to lead in the path of
reparation and justice. The present par
lament may reject his wise counsel. He
may not live to see its fruits enjoyed, but
he will always be remembered in his rela-
ton to the liberty of Ireland as Chatham
is remembered in his relations of the lib
erty OF America.
We denounce the atrocious calumnies
of the Tory press, which charged the Irish
American citizens of Chicago with the
responsibility for the recent outrages of
the Anarchist element. 1t is the same
press which rejoiced when it thou hit the
American union was destroyed. Its flu
ture assaults mon Ireland or America
should be considered for what they are
worth by the American people and their
press.
The following message was unanimous
" approved and ordered sent to Mr..
Gladstone
CHICAGO, May 25, 1856 To Mr
PuneN, House of Commons, London -
Chicago citizens, IN mass meeting as
sembled, request me to express to Mr..
Gladstone their appreciation of services
rendered by him to liberty and humanity
by the introduction of his bill to restore
legislature and independence to Ireland
His ability to overcome prejudice, to view
fairly and broadly the present unnatural
relations of the English and Irish people,
and his manifest desire to undo wrongs
and remove dissensions which caused the
%ueighboring islands to live in hatred and
warfare. do honor not only to his head and
his heart, but also to the nation and the
age of which he is so conspicuous a citi-