Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-24
UNABASHED O'BRIEN.
He Shirks Not an Atom of
Responsibility.
Boards THE LION IN HIS DEN.
Parnell Sharply Defines the Policy
of His Party-He is Hopeful
of Home, Rule.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

ent at the session of the Parnell Com
mission to-day. The cross'examinatior
of William O'Brien was continued by
Attorney. General Webster.
O'Brien declared that United Ireland
his paper, worked according to constitu
tional methods, and advocated nothing
but peaceful means to attain the ends
sought by the Irish Parliamentary party
O'Brien admitted the authorship oi
an article declaring the chairman of the
committee selected to receive the Prince
of Wales on the occasion of his visit to
Ireland would be hunted from public
life. He vehemently exclaimed he has
been, and "rather than allow English
men to be deceived by show of sham
loyalty, ] am resolved to tell them the
truth"
O'Brien said that personally he never
had spoken disrespectfully or Extensively
about the Prince of Wales. No people,
he declared, ever suffered more for
loyalty than the Irishmen, none profted
more by protestations of loyalty than the
people who opposed them.
If it was clear that England would
not satisfy the aspirations of Ireland, and
if there was any rational chance of sue
cess, an attempt should be made to rebel.
He declared the London papers were
more responsible for the actions of the
dynamite party than either Finerty or
Ford. But for the views those papers
expressed, 81 600 would not have been
collected in America for the use of the
dynamiters.
O'Brien explained that when he made
the speech in which he used the words,
1--WE are in a state of civil war, tenn
pered by the scarcity of firearms" he
was exasperated by his expulsion from
the House of Commons, and spoke
under intense feeling, caused by the at
titude of the majority of the House
against the Irish members. He de-
clared that if any people ever had a right
to rebel, the Irish people then had that
right, if there was chance of success.
Attorney General Webster said "You
only objected to the rebellion because it
was hopeless"
O'Brien-'sIn the circumstances of the
time, unquestionably, violent language
could not have further infamed the
peoples minds against England. Their
minds had become like lightning con-
ductor when the air is charged with
electricity"
O'Brien justified certain articles writ
ten by him and printed in the United
Ireland to illustrate the brutal argument
that, because the English people num-
bered 30,000,000 and the Irish people
4 600, 900, the English were entitled to
do as they liked.
Attorney General Webster quoted
from an article in the United Ireland
headed "Allen Larkin and O'Brien hon
ored by their Chicago kindred" and
asked 1he witness whether it referred to
the Manchester murderers.
O'Brien replied, "Not murderers, but
men engaged in open warfare who shot
a policeman by accident.
The Attorney y-General-"Was shoot
ing at the police in van at Manchester
legitimate warfare ?''
O'Brien-"It was not criminal. Men
who openly take risks to release their
comrades are no more murderers than
anybody here. They acted from the
highest and noblest motives"
Attorney. General Webster, holding up
paper-'Do you see the heading,
Allan Larkin and O'Brien honored by
their Chicago kindred p /"
"O'Brien-"Yes, and the article was
written by me-"
The proceedings were here interrupted
by cries OF "hear, hear"
Attorney General Webster - sWhy
those hears?"
Presiding Justice Hannen threatened
that If order was not maintained he
would have the courtroom cleared. He
said he understood that O'Brien did not
consider the shooting at Manchester MUIR
der, but he wished to remind him that
the Court did so regard it.
O'Brien said that he and Redmond had
invited Ford to be present at the Chicago
Convention. As proof of the change in
feeling wrought by Gladstone, O'Brien
cited the fact that Ford seemed to regret
harmless. This concluded O'Brien's tes-
timony.
LONDON, May ga deputation from
various Irish municipal bodies to-day
presented to Parnell an address congrat.
ulating him upon his success in disprov.
ing, before the Commission, the many
calumnies that have been heaped upon
him. Parnell replied that he was sure
the Irish municipal authorities would
continue to use their privileges not fol
purpose of the disintegration of the en-
pire nor for upsetting the authority of the
Queen, but for obtaining realization O.
their legitimate aspirations. He had
never doubted, that the falsity O.
the forged letters would ultimately be
shown. He would rather have gone
to his grave with the stigma of the letter.
upon him that have submitted his coun
try to the humiliation of the ordeal which
it was proposed to place upon it as al
accompaniment of the inquiry into tn,
authenticity of the letters. Right hat
been transgressed under the pretext O
inquiry into crime. A political issue hat
been laid before men not competent t,
give fair decision. He had never con
templated the failure of Parliamentar,
action. If convinced of its futility, b.
and his colleagues would not remain il
the House OF Commons twenty.fou
hours. He believed in the near realiza
ton Of their hopes.
LORD DUNRAVEN'S BOAT.