The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-14
THEY cHRERED pARNELL TO THE ECHO.
A Great Meeting Did Him Honor in Lon
don Last Evening.

A Great Meeting Did Him Honor in Lon
don Last Evening.
The tremendous ovation to Mr.. Parnell
at st. James Hall, Piccadilly, London,
last evening" must be the cause of much
qualification to the friends of Ireland in
America. 1t was impossible for the great
hall to hold the crowds that wished to be
present, and the enthusiasm of those who
were fortunate enough to gain admittance
was uncomfortable.
Mr.. John Morley, speaking as the rep
reSentative of Gladstone, made great
speech, in which he riddled the thin de-
fence of the I1gles-that it had been mis-
led-and showed the malice behind it.
When Mr.. Parnel1 rose to speak his
greeting was as cordial us good will and
the power of human lungs could make it,
He was obliged to stand with glistening
eyes for many minutes, while cheers.
shouts and singing shook the rafters. His
speech evolved applause at every period.
In his peroration he summed up the case
as folloWS:-
l think we are entitledEto ask all think
ing, reflective men and women in England
to consider this:-Is it right that the
future and the liberties of Ireland should
be dependent upon q casual publication
of a forged letter by the Times on the
morning of great divisionY (Cries of
"Nop') 1t has been admitted on oath by
the manager of the Times that the pub
hcation was purposed to affect the divi-
sion. (CrieS of ''ShameP)
Here Mr.. Parnell related story which
he had heard of man convicted of joining
in revolutionary movement, not unjustly
perhaps, but man made bitter by recol-
lections of the famine period and days
without food; a man who recollected
having seen his mother carry q dead
daughter two miles on her back to bury
her, and who had seen her return from
the sorry funeral only to find her remain
ing daughter dead, when she had to per-
form the same office again.
"That,o - said Mr.. ParneIl, sis the history
of many men who are denounced today as
dynamitards and Fenialis. And although
from every point of view we condemn
violence and illegal, unconstitutional ac-
tion-from the point of view of the inter-
ests of Ireland from the point of view of
morality and hope and confidence in the
future-yet sometimes we cannot help
thinking that after all there has been much
in the lessons that English misgovernment
has taught Ireland for generations to
Justify or excuse the actions of these rash,
hot-headed men-(cheers) )-men who, de-
spairing of Parliamentary agitation, los
ing, and justly, all trust in their Irish
representatives who so repeatedly had be-
trayed the constituencies which trusted
them, turned to criminal methods as the
only hope for the future of Ireland.
ssBut it is an honorable thought which
I feel tonight, that since the introduction
of the great measure of 1885 Ireland has
definitely turned her back upon all these
base. hopeless and desperate courses that
she is confident that in the ways of the
constitution lie her safety. and that, under
the genius and guidance of that great and
devoted Englishman, Gladstone-(p
longed cheers with the new hope that
has come into all our hearts and breasts, the
day of ultimate freedom for Ireland cannot
be long deferred. We are now on the eve
of a great popular upheayal IA movement
which will not subside until you have en-
abled your great leader to carry through
the Legislature Of the empire measure
which will give Ireland all legitimate con-