The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18


Emmett Guards, d. j. Sullivan.
Rice Zouaves, Captain Draper.
Roman Knights, Aug. Winch.
Carriages with Orators of the Day.
st. Stanislau's Society.
Ancient Order Hibernians.
st. Patrick's Total Abstinence Society.
Citizens on Foot and In Carriages.
1t was after 8 o'clock before the meeting
In Tomlinson Hall was called to order by
James III. Deery, who spoke of his regret
that Governor Hovey, who had been Sc
lected to preside, was unable to be present,
and then introduced as the first speaker of
baltimore. now a resident of Indianapolis
The audience was large, but there was, dur
Ing much of the time that Mr. McFee was
delivering his address, which was really de-
serving close attention. hum and buzz of
voices and moving about in the corridors
that at length grew to such an extent that
he was compelled to call upon the
presiding officer to enforce quietness.
Mr. McFee, in beginning his speech, said
that it should gladden. in a particular man.
ner every .Irishman and every friend of Ire
land to celebrate this. ST. Patrick's day.
To-day the most powerful newspaper on
earth stands confessing the guilt of the
basest libel known IN the history of journal
ism. Its shame is the shame of the nglish
governments; its disgrace is Irelands glory.
Not the allied force of a partisan tribunal
and an exhaustless treasury could over
come the mastery defense of Parnell, and
Ouc uioSldCc VI luc lilltS Is Uu6 logical III
dex to a triumph of the Irish cause before
the next Parliament.
The orator said he could not dwell on the
return to life of Ireland and her heroes, of
the struggle of Grattan and Flood culmin-
ating in an independent Irish Parliament,
of OConnelPs resistless logic and poetic
eloquence winning Catholic emancipation,
of the profound craftsmanship of Burke, of
the ability of Curran and Sheridan-their
struggles and achievements are a part
n NhA
brave men Of 17as failed. The be
freedom-worshiping followers of Smith
OBrien, of Mitchell. of Meagher in 1913
were decreed to be felons but their influ-
divine direction to lead the Irish hosts, not
with a sword but with all the weapons of
modern legislative struggles. Freedom
flung into the air the dust of Emmett and
OConnell and from it sprang Charles Stew
art ParnelL The madness born of in
human wrongs is soOtlIed to calmness by
the serene determination of Ireland's great
leader. impetuosity turns to deliberatiOn
and the craving for physical warfare yields
to the determination to make the battle q
political one. Public opinion-not the
opinion of theorists, nor of philosophers
nor of social reformers-but the opinion of
plain people of those who stand in the
ranks and shed their blood when their
country calls, wiser than any man or set of
men, public opinion is the weapon which
will force the government of England to
do Ireland Justice. England can heap
wrong on her subjects but she cannot defy
the the public opinion , of eth, the world,
tell the world that England will do Justice
to Ireland. Just as certain as public opin-
ion has changed the government of Eng
land from monarchy till now it is gov
eminent by committee of the House of
Commons, just so certain is public opinion
awakeningth people of England to sense
of the wrong done to Ireland, and it is the
duty of America, by her moral influence, to
hasten the happy. result. 1t is un-American
not to be sympathetic with Ireland.
The speaker continued that Ireland asked
but the first right of every free people, the
the right to make her own laws. The laws
of England are English, rejecting the
though enacted by the same Parliament,
every Scotchman knows, are Scotch; but all
the world knows that not a single statute
governing Ireland is Irish. There is represen-
tati0n given Ireland in the English Parlia-
ment, but her representatives are outnum-
bered three to one, and the laws enacted
are in no respect q reflection of the peO-
pies will. History and the nature of the
two people show that never can this wrong
be righted seve by an Irish Parliament
opinion was surely guiding justice to Ire
land. The advance has been slow, but il is
as sure as slow. The heart of the world is
growing tenderer to human wrong, and the
continue her persecution of down-trodden
Ireland. The great Gladstone has torn the
veil from the eyes of his countrymen. They
will now look at the Irish question in all
its truth; upon her wrongs in all their
enormity. The descendants of men who
followed John Hampden, who wrested
Magma Charta from a tyrant king, who
have made their Constitution grow till
now an Englishman is really free as an
American-such people will do justice to
Ireland when they appreciate her demands.
In the vista of the near future an Irish
College Green; there will be Irish
judges from magistrates courts to the
highest court of judicature administering
Irish laws Ireland for the Irish shall be
realized. No longer shall the heel of the
landlord crush the Irish heart. Ireland
may remain part of the British empire, but
her sons shall be free; free to enjoy the
earnings of their toll; free. to love their
native land; free to push forward 10 the
achievement of the results which their in
dustry, genius and bravery must effect.
The next speaker was Father Dowd, who
spoke of Ireland as she was before the
coming. of st. Patrick. and of the glorious
things his ministry had done for Erin. He
said that Ireland had not been peopled by
the barbarians of northern Europe, but by
Ph9nicians. or people of the East. who al
ways had some spark of civilization. The
mythology of Ireland, unlike that of north
ern Europe, did not include the worship of
Odin or Wooden. but was the worship of
the sun, moon and stars. showing
that even IN her ear hest history
her religion was higher than that
of her neighbors and that her mythology
was from the East. She is alone, too, in
the way she received the word of God;
Palestine crucified the son of God; Greece
and Rome and other lands killed the
martyrs, while Ireland received the word
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