The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-03
COX DONS THE STRIPES.
NO PROTEST MADE AGAINST
DOING PRISON WORK.

Lord Ripon and MIR. Morley Extended
the Freedom of Dublin-Each Makes
a Speech Donuncietory of the Tory
Policy Before an Enthusiastic
Audience at Night.
DUBLIN, Feb. 2.--NIr. Cox, NJ. T., who is
in prison at Limerick, put on the Jail dress
without protest and went to work in the
prison yard chopping wood and doing other
labor of ordinary criminals He was visited
to-day and was found in a cheerful mood.
The teuantry on the estate of the Count
ess of Kingston have expressed themselves
satisfied with the terms offered by their land
lord, who agrees to allow 20 per cent.
reduction in rents, to pay all the costs and
to reinstate the tenants who have been
evicted,
GIVEN DUBLIN's FREEDOM
At meeting of the corporation i'll the
Central Hall of the municipal buildings to-
day the freedom Of the city was conferred
upon the Marquis of Ripon and John Nor
ley. Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan occupied the
chair, and many members of Parliament,
Mayors and members of various city cor
pOratlons were present.
The Marquis Of Ripon, in thanking the
corporation for the honor, assured them
that the object Of the British Liberals was
TO see that Ireland was accorded at the
earliest opportunity full recognition of its
real and legitimate political aspirations.
! There was a growing conviction among the
masses of England i'll favor Of home rule
for Ireland
Mr. Morley also expressed thanks to the
corporation, and said the freedom of the
city was bestowed upon the Marquis OF
RipOn and himself because they represented
great political cause and the advancement
of great constitutional reform movement
in Ireland. There would be no peace in
Ireland until the que tion was settled, and
| the sooner it was settled the better.
Eight persons have been convicted at
Kanturk, county Cork, of attending
meeting of suppressed branch of
the national league and sentenced
to two months Imprisonment at hard
| labor Five arrests have been made in
| Donegal for odenses under the crimes act,
and more are expected.
MEETING AT NIGHT.
This evening Leinster Hall was speedily
| filed to its utmost capacity. Ex-Lord
Mavor Sullivan presided Messrs Davitt,
Redmond, Hcaly, Plimsoll aud a large
number of Parnellite commoners were on
! the platform The audience rose en- masSe
! TO greet Lord Ripon and Mr.. Morley. Mr..
| Sullivan opened the meeting with a short
address, and read letter from Arch
bishop Walsh, who is now in Rome,
apologizing for his absence. f. Dwyer
| Gray, NJ p proposed resolution
welcoming the visitors on behalf of Ireland
and expressing thanks to the Liberal party
| for its effort in furthering the Irish cause.
| The resolution was carried amid great en-
thusiasm. Lord Ripon then addressed the
meeting. Upon rising to speak he was
loudly cheered. He thanked the audience
| for the cordial welcome extended to Mr..
Morley and himself.
PERFECTLY HONEST.
He wished to be perfectly honest, and he
must therefore remind them that he had BE-
| longed to a government that had voted
coercion for Ireland, but had come to see
that there was no hope in such measures.
He thanked God, however, that he had
never supported a permanent coercion bill.
Ireland had now the great party of England
on her side, and the time was near at hand
when her hopes would be crowned with
success. He therefore appealed to them not
to allow violence to goad them to commit
crime. which would be foulest treason to
the Irish cause. The opponents of home
rule had searched the records of the
past and had dragged up every
possible crime to dishonor Irishmen.
They had made sweeping charges and
uttered gross and foul calumnies that could
only emanate from losing side. The prac-
tical answer to these men was for the IRISH
people to keep their temper and
wrest from the hands of their foes the
sharpest weapons they possessed by show
ing peace and tranquility in the land.
He wished to assure English and Scotch
| Protestants that there was not the slightest
reason to fear that the Catholic majority
would interfere with the just interests of
Irish Protestants, because if there should be
any unjust interference, those who had
| given home rule would take it away again.
MORLEY WARMLY WELCOMED,
Mr. Morley met with a warm welcome.
| He said the reception given them was a
| fitting sequel to the extraordinary demon
etraton of Yesterday The home rule ques-
ton, he said, was rapidly approaching a
crisis. The only fear was that they might
| forget that IL was one of their own country
men who had started the movement, and
that Irishmen in the main would have to
carry it through. The governments policy
| was n pitiful and cruel farce and had utterly
| failed to discourage the commission of out
RACES. It benefited neither landlords nor
| tenants II was SAID that the Liberal party
| would fall to pieces over the details of their
| scheme, but he did not fear any such result
I
better off for the Tory policy. If the ten
ants were the dupes Of agi ators, it seemed
| to him that the landlords were the dupes Of
Lord Salisbury. Their property was being
eaten leaf by leaf like an artichoke.
laughter They we're in a toboggan, aud
when they get to the bottom their friends
would tilt them out. Laughter and
cheers He was not in fa-
vor Of any socialstic extirpation
of property He believed that an Irish
Parliament would he the last to agree 10
any such thing In the heat of the strugg
desperate men doubtless used desperate
language, but that would cease hen the
struggle cooled. He agreed with Lord
| Ripon that there was no danger Of religious
persecution. With regard TO the question of
admitting men like Messrs. Parnell and Dill
lon to the Irish government, he thought that
! If they were good enough TO inspire policy
they were good enough TO execute. II.
| [Cheers.l Their policy was TO make one
Ireland united and happy. II that policy
was dream, he Tor one was very proud Of
it, Both speakers briefly addressed an
overflow meeting outside the hall, and were
enthusiastically greeted.
! HARKINs' STRANGE STORY.
| LONDON, Feb. 2.--In the trial of Callan
aud Harkins to-day, at the close Of the evil
dence for the prosecution, Mr. Callans
counsel admitted that he was an associate