The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-10

| AhS Spce1hci was Sidu, ne Stit, JudL Juc cii-
| forcement act had been passed. Persecu-
ton cannot hinder but will hasten the day
when the distinct nationalityof Ireland will
be recognized. While the act was vicious,
and detestable, denying the right of trial
by jury, free speech and the liberty of the
press 1t IS intensifylng the feeling for home
rule, and is emlnently fitting the Irish peo-
| pie for self government which the speaker
| predicted they will have in year or two.
The policy Of the coercion act is to force
| Ireland into overt acts, but her statesmen
know the object of the Tory government,
and intend TO rest upon their conStitE tional
| rights, and before long they will be able to
manage their affairs in their own way.
THE LAND QUESTION.
The speaker took up the land question,
and he said that the question is often asked
why the people don't pay rent, and why
! they refuse to give up the land to the land
! lord. The land system of Ireland he added,
| is the worst in the world. No tenant, even
in Turkey, could be thrown penniless and
| starving into the highway. The real rogue
| in Ireland is the landlord. The tenant re-
| claims bog, or makes a bleak mountain
side fertile at his own expense and the
landlord steps in when this is done and puts
up the price OF rent sometimes 400 per cent.
Eviction in Ireland means starvation, the
poorhouse or emigration-the evicted tenant
the man." he said, who works the land to
enjoy the fruits of his industry. We want
feeling of possession TO engender feeling
of security. The land is the only source of
a living to the Irishman. lfeiected he can
not find other land as can be done here in
America. Irish lands for Irishmen, to be
purchased on reasonable terms, the tenant
to be the owner of the few barren acres he
has enriched
The most important question, Sir Thomas
said is whether the affairs of Ireland will be
regulated by q Parliament of foreigners
The Irish cause will he fought for until the
system so disastrous to the prosperity of
Ireland is wiped out, and the laws of Ire
land are made by her own people.
HOME RULE AT HAND.
He believed that home rule will come in
two or three years at the furthest. 1t may
be given by the Torys, but Tory can never
be depended upoo. The party promised
home rule and it gave coercion. When the
Liberal Unionist crutch is knocked from
under it then it may give home rule. If
not by the Tory government then, the
speaker said, a new Parliament will be
elected. When this tory government falls,
honest men will come into their own He
expects another general election this sum
mer and Mr.. Gladstone will be returned,
The speaker said that he had talked with
bllb bllb COLLECTS ana UIe
mechanics and they favor home rule for
Ireland. When they get chance to vote
they will vote for Mr. Gladstones policy
The NOnconformists want to disestablish
the Church of England, and they will help
swell the friends of home rule
The speaker concluded by explaining that
the Irish members of Parliament are hold
ing aloof from all entangling alliances,
ready to cOalesce for but one obiect-the
distinct nationality of Ireland. He compli-
mented the people of this country on the DO
sition they have taken for Irish liberty and
he said, IF it we're not for the strength that
we have behind us in America our cause
would not be as bright as it is to- day"
At the conclusion of his remarks the band
played Wearing of the Green,n merging it
into Dixie" and the applause from Or
chestra, galleries and stage almost drowned
the music.
GEN. JACKSoN'S WORDS.
Gen. Jackson, in introducing Mr.. Sutton
waxed eloquent and his imprisoned bursts
of sentiment were loudly cheered He said
that those familiar with our own recent
history cannot fail to have a fair apprecia-
ton of the sufferings of Ireland. 'Thanks
be to God, our sufferings belong to the past
but not so far in the past as to deaden our
sympathies for Ireland. Is it not natural for
us to sympathtize with Ireland in her strug-
giles against British tyrannyl On what part
of the globe has not blood been scattered in
resisting the tyrannies of monarchy. The
time must be rapidly approaching when
the rule of Kings and Emperors will receive
the condemnation of mankind. When that
expression is heard it will be the supreme
one, the God-given life of nationality.
is the creation of God. A
nation is entitled to so much of home rule
as may be necessary for its life, and he who
hole &c.
God"
MR.. sUTToN's SPEECH.
Mr.. Sutton made poetical alluson to
the poor Irish girl on the beach of the old
sod, $50 years ago, waiting for the South
wind to Dlo SO that her lover could cross
from France, and take her from a land of
tyranny. Ireland to-day is listening to the
south wind that bore across the sea the It'd
ings that here where Jasper gave his blood
for liberty n monument has been reared.
The seeds from the tree of liberty here have
been waited to ireland, and vigorous sap.
ling has generated, and Mr.. Sutton believed
that it will come to full fruition.
The American people who are
for liberty in ali lands, and
the American press which had heralded the
true story of Irish wrongs, will foster the
germ from the Tree of Liberty. The speaker
does not believe that the cause will fail,
but, in the language of Robert Emmett,
Ireland will become "a great and indie
pendent Irish nation,n such as Emmett died
for. Mr.. Sutton's speech was not lengthy,
but it was delivered rapidly, earnestly, and
was replete with eloquent illusions to the
Irish cause, to which the audience responded
by frequent cheers.
Gen. jackson, in introducing the last
speaker of the evening, read an extract
from Mr.. Robinson's famous speech in Con
gresS July II, 1867, on reconstruction, which
seemed to bind him to the hearts of all
Southern people. The reading was enthu-
siastcally cheered, and Gen. jackson re-
marked that if every mans heart over
flowed with such noble sentiments it would
make no difference what party governed in
the land.
'RICHELIEU" RoBINsoNs SPEECH.
Seldom has any one received such an ova
ton i'll Savannah as the gray haired orator.
whom Mr.. ESmonde described as "the old
man eloquent" 1t was fully five minutes
before he was allowed to speak. The an
plause would subside only to break out
again even more enthusiastic than before.
The memory of a kindly voice in the dark
days of reconstruction, lifted up in the halls
of Congress in behalf of n stricken people.
seemed TO find vent in cheer after cheer.
Mr.. Robinson was visibly affected The
luster of the young orator who had crossed
the sea to speak for Ireland was not dimmed. |
for he joined as heartily in the band-clap-