Evening journal., 1888-09-15
HOME RULE MEETING.
To Raise q Fand for PAruell's Prosecution
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! To Raise "a Fand for PArnell's Prosecution
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Fitzgerald.
A meeting viii be held tomorrow at
the A. O. II. rooms, Seventh and Market
streets by the friends Of Charles Stuart
Parnel and Irish Home Rule to aid the
fight now being made by Home
Rulers against the London Times
owen ]. Hession, the state dele
gate of the Irish National League of
America, viii call the meeting to order
Mr. Hession recently received a letter
from John Fitzgerald president of the
league, which calls the friends of home
rule everywhere to the support Of the
irish cause The letter is given in full
below:
OWEN j. HEssIoN, ESQ, STATE DELE
GATE, DELAWARE. RE.-DEAR SIR: Owing to
the refusal of the Salisbury cabinet TO
grant the Irish members of Parliament
an investigating committee to examine
into the truth of the charges made
against them by the London Times. and
owing to the evident collusion between
the members of the cabinet and the pro
prietors Of the Times in drafting the
Royal Commission bill, which brutal
the British House Of Commons. II
would be absurd to expect an impartial
verdict from tribunal so constituted
The royal commission can have but one
object, and that is to evade Investigation
into the authenticity Of the Times letters
and to screen its proprietors and their
friends in the Cabinet from the punish
ment that strict Justice should accord 10
forgers and moral thugs.
Mr.. Parnel seeks from a Scotch iury
the justice that could not be obtained
from the British parliament, nor from
London courts liable to the interference
Of corrupt officials Armed with unan.
swerable evidence Mr.. Parnell asks a iury
OF honest Scotchmen to convict the
proprietors Of the Times Of uttering
forged letters and of attempting by
such criminal means to destroy the
regulations of honest men. Great issues
hang upon this trial A verdict against
the Times viii cover with deserved in
fanny the eowardly and murderous cabi-
net OF Lord Salisbury and disgust every
man not altogether blind to decency with
a government capable of descending to
measures so unutterably vile to defeat
its political opponents
10 prevent that result and its attend
ant consequences the Golfers of the Lon
don Times win be supplemented by the
secret service money at the disposal 6f
the government and no means that can
safely help to defeat the ends Of Justice
will he lett untried by this cabinet so ex
perienced in all the darksome ways abhor-
rent to honest men. In such
critical position Mr.. Parnen
must not be left to ightunaided
The Irish race must not permit
their leader to fail in his efforts to Sc
cure fair hearing Of his eausa for
mere want Of funds to carry on what
must be an expensive suit. Ii is our own
cause he is lighting 1t is we, who
through him are assailed by this com
oinatien Of neriurers and forgers and ii is /
incumbent upon us TO stand Loyalty by
him and give him that financial sup
port which the circumstances NAV de-
mand- a Parnell defence fund should Be
inaugnrated in every state without DELAY.
The need is imperative and the funds col
lected should he remitted promptly to the
Key )r. q Reilly at Detroit Mich Ii is
a cause that appeals not only to Irish
men, but 70 every man who believes iii
the good American virtue Of fair play. II
is case of honesty against corruption
backed by Engands treasury. and Mr.
Parnell's triumph will be the avant cour-
Ter Of still greater triumph when this
cabinet Of murder, forgery and perjury
will be driven from power to make way
for honester men. Yours very faithfully, |
JOHN FITZGERALD,
President |. n. L. A.