The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
B0UCiCAULT ON IRELAND.

Dion Boucicault, the famous
dramatist who passed through here
on the Mararoa the other day, had
u very successful tour in the Colo
MES. At a reception in Auckland,
he spoke MS follows in reply to an
address. His speech is interesting
as the utterances of IN Irish heart
upon Ireland:
Mr.. Boucicault said he need not
tell them that that meeting had
taken him entirely by surprise, and
what few words he might have to
say were those that rose to the top
of his heart. They were the effu-
sions of very grateful feeling, born
in him from the very first moment
that he set his foot on Australasian
soil, when he felt that there was
beating in it big Irish heart. He
met it on the shores of Sydney; it
had accompanied him to Melbourne
and back to Sydney again, and
throughout the whole Islands, until
at last, when he was about to take
his leave of them all, he found it
warmer and more bursting forth
than ever. They had asked him
something with regard to the rela-
tions of Ireland and England, and
he wished to tell Homecoming
straight from Ireland and Great
Britain, and America, which was to
a very great extent Incorporated
politically with England, because
the two countries felt with one feel
ing and beat with one heart-to give
them the assurance that the great
bulk of Irishmen in all those coun-
tries-the men of wit, the men Of
brain, and the men of standing-had
never had the smallest, the most re-
mote, desire to separate from Eng
land. They were not what were
vulgarly termed Odd FOOLS"
They knew they were partners with
Great Britain & Co., the greatest
firm, as dealers in civilization, that
the world had ever seen. Ireland
would be the greatest fool in the
world if she sought to declare her
independence of the greatest firm
the world had ever seen. There
were few blatant people who would
make themselves very conspicuous.
They abounded in New York, in st.
Louis, and they abounded in Ireland
and England, but they were not to
take the opinions of those jackasses
as the real feeling. Their utter
ances got into print; they were
descanted upon by the newspapers,
which took them up and made the
most of them-and why? Because
it was very good subject to descant
upon, that such a thing existed.
These people were the mere COM
munists of their country-they had
no heart, no brain. The Irish
looked upon them as fools. Free.
dom of speech was allowed; there
fore let them speak on as they
pleased, but they represented moth
ing. He came to Australasia through
the United States, the Oldest child
and had now come to visit the
youngest child of the old country
He found the same institution here
as in the United States, although i
might be called by another name
he went to England and fount
precisely the same thing called b.
another name. Royalty was there
1t was 40 years now since thu
greatest woman who ever presided
over human destinies began to rul
the English nation. AT the presen
moment, if there was plebiscit
of the thinking, reading, civilise'
peoples of the world, if they wer
to be taxed for their opinions as tt
which was the greatest human bein!
in the world, all arms would b
pointed to Queen Victoria. (Cheers.
She had steered the nation durin
the last 40 years-perhaps the mos
| NOlCunlC III UuS WOiiS . hhouOiJ
wisely and we'll, and kept hersel
standing there as an object of re
spect for the world at large. Th
: Communist Of France, the Interna
! tionalist of Germany, the Nihilist
of Russia, and the Fenians of hi
own country pointed up to her, an
acknowledged her to be the grea
!; object of worship of the world. III
l had come across to the Unite
: States, and what did he see? Fifty
five millions of people, and in travel
!. ling about he had never seen
policeman or q soldier. He ha
never seen the practical means
which the peace Of the country VIZ
< sustained. He came through Franc
i and saw nothing else; he saw the'
e means cropping out in every dire
n ton; he saw the country ruled, al
S ruled by visible physical power. I
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