The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10
FRIENDS OF OLD IRELAND.
The Meeting Last Night of Advocates of
Home Rule for the Irish People.
The Course of Gladstone and Parnell Heartily
Indorsed-The Speeches of Judge Turpie,
Charles l.. Holstein and ]. B. Maynard

The meeting last night at Dickson's Grand OPP
era-house, called to express sympathy with Glad
stone and Parnell in the bills that are to be to-
day presented to Parliament for the relief of
Ireland, was not as largely attended as it should
have been. owing to a failure to properly adver
tise the meeting. and TO give speakers sufficient
notice to prepare themselves.
| The meeting was called to order by Maurice
Donnelly, and Mayor Denny was chosen chair
man. On taking the chair the Mayor said,
while he was not on the programme to make
speech, he was glad to express the sympathy he
| felt In the measure now being agitated
across the water and that no one who does not
approve of the measures introduced by Mr..
Gladstone can be lover of liberty or Of justice.
Judge Turpie was the first speaker of the even
| ing. He said the United States was the home of
| home rule and home-rulers and that here the
principle of government of the people, for the
people and by the people had been applied in its
fullest sense, down to the least political atom,
| the town and the township being based upon the
cardinal maxim of the belief in mankind for self
| government. Since the formation of this Re-
public, the idea has greatly extended of the right
| of people of every country to form and regulate
| their domestic institutions to suit themselves.
| he palO glowing L1lDute TO the irish love Oh ITO
/ erty, and said that whenever the arm of tyranny
| and oppression has been raised to strike blow
against human rights, the voices and hands of
| Irishmen have been found lifted to prevent
| punish its preparation, and for that reason he
| had deemed it unlawful to cherish the thought
| that such race should ever remain the subjects
| of political injustice. He described the land
| troubles at length and speaking of the disestab-
| lishment Of the English Church in Ireland said
| twenty-five years ago that was not thought to
| capabQ of
| done and under the same leadership that
| which now carries forward the two measures to
| be read tomorrow to-day The church was
| disestabshed, and the whole church. with its
| great dependencies sunk out of sight-van-
| ished and left scarcely a ripple upon the
| surface to mark her existence. Why may not
| secular properties be disposed of in the same
| manners The government once owned the lands
| in Ireland. She now proposes to again become
| the owner, and to sell them to the people who
| live upon them. The Irish homestead may
| stand the American homestead, and they
| who plant gather the increase of the harvest.
| This is the munifcen5 provision of the land bill
| now pending before the British Parliament
| Some English statesmen say this measure will
not pass and be carried into oper
| alton without a great expenditure of
| money. But it may cost more not to
| do it. Think of the vast sums expended every
| year in support of the military and civil system
in Ireland. Take those sums and apply them in
the extinction of these ancient feudal land titles,
l
| the lifetime of single generation.
| There is a manifest propriety that the land
| bill and the bill for the establishment of indie
| pendent legislature should go together. There
| is political necessity which demands that they
| should be debated, discussed and passed at the
| same time. They are politically inseparable A
| man cannot do much about ruling his
home unless he owns it. The people
| who own the lands of country will make it's
| laws, and will largely control it's action Mr.
| Parnel and his associates have never been enc
| mics of the English government, but have al
| ways detested the manner In which that power
| was administered. Let us invoke the divine
benediction and the sympathy of freemen every
| where upon their efforts.
| Judge John A. Holman, who was on the pro-
| gramme for speech, came forward and, while
! heartily in sympathy with the cause, said there
was no occasion for him to make a speech after
| the eloquent utterance they had just heard
| Hon. Charles L. Hostein said he wholly
| unprepared, not having known that he would be
| called on, and in brief speech spoke of the
bravery of the liberty-loving Irish and hoped
| their cause, which was one of justice, humanity
and right. would speedily triumph.
| Letters were read from Congressman Bynum,
expressing his inability to be present, and from
| Hon. w. H. Calkins who said it was with ex-
| ceeding regret that he sent the note announcing
| his inability to come, the cause OF his absence
| being severe and distressing cold.
The last speaker of the evening was Colonel j.
| b. Maynard, who, in beginning his remarks,
| said that he had never been admirer of the
| British government in its dealings with any
other government or people on the face of the
| earth. After showing the great extent of terri
| tory covered by her possessions he said: Yet
| with such an empire, so grand in area and out
line England's rapacity is not yet satisfied, and
| she pines for more. To the ordinary mind it
would appear that England had reached a
| grandeur of elevation and bigness, of
| her and prompt her to be just and generous.
Yet to-day her mighty Parliament would be
| thrown into confusion if Yankee should catch
a two pound Goldfish six feet on the wrong side
of the treaty line in her Canadian waters; and
| the whole British constabulary in Ireland would
| regard it not less duty than pleasure to run
down an Irish PEASANTS last pig to pay the rent
| of his potato patch, and then, if there was
mainder of shilling unpaid, evct the starving
| family, tear down the howell and leave the vic
TINS of British domination to perish by the
| roadside
cit is said that Victoria, Queen of England
| and Empress of India, wept when Barnum re-
! moved Jumbo from the sacred soil of Britain.
| The Queen evidently saw in Jumbo, the
magnificent beast, much that reminded
her of England's greatness and English
the world, the most powerful Jumbo, aroused,
could trample down all who opposed him.
| Greedy to the last degree, it required more to
| satisfy him than any other beast wild or do
mesticated. And his trunk. more peculiar than
anything else, could pick up pea or pull down
palace with equal facility. But the latter end
| of Jumbo ought to a warning,
| by reminding England that of late
forces have been set in motion which will as GER
tainly limit her power for evil as that locomo-
| tive knocked the breath out of Jumbo. Enrolled
| for the admiration of mankind know of none
better calculated to inspire faith in the ultimate
triumph of right than the attitude of the friends
| of Ireland o-day." He paid warm tribute to
| Gladstone and Parnel, and concluded with Low
| ellis lines
When deed is done for freedom
Through the broad worlds aching breast
Runs thrill of joy prophetic
Trembling on from east to west;
And the slave where'er he covers
Feels the soul within him climb
To the awful verge of manhood
AS the energy sublime
OF thu Centuries hurst fnlI.h Hess