The Irish standard., 1888-01-28

Mr.. Balfour. [Groans]. Since that
night I have seen many bayonet
fash around me, I have heard many a
bold changing, and I have spent, /
don't deny it, some lonely moments of
struggles and sufferings. [Cries of
sShame!'] But what has it all profited
Mr.. Balfour? [Groans.] Is it he or
We are the victors tonight? loud
and prolonged cheers. A voice: I'VE
make him present of his victory
Cheers.] All that sound is not the
sound of a beaten army. Let Mr.. Bal
four lgroans] go around the country
with a lantern and point out to us a
single one of MIR Harrington's 1000
branches that he has suppressed
[cheers]; let him point out single
combination under a plan of campaign
that he has broken [cheers]; let him
tell us, let him give us the name of any
one newspaper That he has silenced );
let him produce one rackrenter Or land
grabber that he has made easy in his
mind. [Cheers No; I say here to-
night that he and his acts are arrant
frauds and abject failures. [Cheers.
A voice HIS acts won't kill you.'
Cheers.] He is a Cromwell. l will
tell you what he IS he is Cromwell
in plaster of Paris. Laughter. A
voice: And a King Billy i'll cement.
Laughter and cheers He is a Crom.
we'll in newspaper war. He bears as
much resemblance to the original as
bottle OF weak vinegar does to a bottle
OF Old Tenn. Laughter. He is as like
Crom we'll as his owl little book, Phil
osophy of Doubt is like the Bible
with which old Oliver used to GO out to
battle. He may go on. We never dis
puted that he may go on lmprisoning
as many of us, just as he likes.
Cheers ! He may 60 On with his pal
try policy La voice: He has not beaten
you, anyhow'-cheers] of attempting
to blacken and defile the representa-
tives of the Irish people [cheersj in the
eyes of the English people. tell him
tina be is already found out and baf
fled, [Cheers.] think the policy that
l may call Mr.. Balfour's bread and
water cure [groan>] is already found
ont to be one of the biggest impostures
that WAS ever pawned off on the Brit
ish public. 1t is at one and the same
time an outrage and fasco, and I
believe that before the world
is much older the honest English
masses will rise up and shovel thas in
famous act off that the statute book
that it disgraces and will send Mr..
Balfour back from his mission to the
Hot1entots and philosophic doubts.
The job of dragooning Ireland is not
quite so easy as he and his noble uncle
imagine"
Notwithstanding Mr.. O'Brien's he.
roic desire to appear ''happy under the
circumstances - Mr.. L. Z. Gill, M. E.,
cables under date Of Jan uary "a from
Dublin: ''Lsst mig 1t a repr sentative
of the Freeman called on DR.. Joseph
Kenney, Nj. F., in whose house aud
under whose care Mr.. William O'Brieu
now is, and had conversation with
him relative to tn e health of his dis
tinguished guest. DR. Kenney said
there was no doubt that the terrible
mental and physical strain through |
which Mr.. q O'Brien passed, had left its |
mark, aud that although, under the |
stimulus Of the excitement of the popu
lar ovation. OF which he Was the cen
ter, Mr.. O'Brien VAS able to speak
with vigor It Dublin. it was merely "a
spurt and it had been folio wed by SO !
we're prostration, neeessitsting Mr..
O'Brien's confinement to bed during
Saturday and the greater portion of
yesterday. DR.. Kenney stated em-
phatically that a period Of rest, COM
bined with the greatest care, is abso-
lutely essential to Nj. O'B'isn's resto-
ratioA.'