The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-14
st. James Hall Packed by an Audience of Dis
tinguished People, Who Greet the Irish
Statesman with Enthusiastic Cheers.
Parnell Delivers Speech in Which He
Vigorously Attacks the Government.
And Mr.. John Morley FOrcibly Assails the
''Times" and the TOries-The Pope and the
Washington Universary-NOtes by Cable.
IN HONOR OF PARNELL.
Great Meeting I'm st. James Hall-Speechei
by Parneii and John Morley.

iOus to hear Mr.. ParnelPs speech. Mr.. Nor
ley presided. The committee in charge
were compelled, yesterday, to suspend the
issue of tickets for the meeting. The hall
was handsomely decorated with flags and
notices. Among the inscriptions were;
Freedom for England and Ireland;;n mo
coercion, no forgery, no SANDER" Human
ity, union, justice, peace, liberty" On
shamrock-entwined fiagstaffs was pict-
ure representing Britannia. with her left
arm enc1rcling Ireland's waist, and an eagle
overhead bearing the motto, Peace and
good will towards all men," Among the
prominent men present were a. j. Mundel-
la, Mr.. Shaw-Letevre, II. III. Fowler, James
Stansfeld. H. II. Asquith, w. B. Rowlan,
Arnold Morley, and many Parnellite men,
bers of Parliament. Mr.. Parnell was un-
able to make himself heard for several
minutes when he stood up to speak, owing
to volleys of cheers, the singing of Hes
Jolly Good Fellow" etc. When quiet was
restored he said:
''! cannot attempt to describe my gratifi-
cation and delight at the reception given
me- Such evenings will do more for the
union than twenty centuries of the firm
government of Salisbury and Balfour. /
am sure my cOuntrymen throughout the
world will be equally hOnored with me by
your reception of their cause. / prefer to
draw lessons from passing events. This
great meeting is assembled to protest
against the petty and malignant meanness
of Mr.. BalfOur's government In Ireland.
The In chairman expressed no hope tt that would
must be pardoned for saying nothing. But
it is Legitimate to inquire whether there is
not something rotten in a system of govern
ment which cOmpels the ostracism from the
1O3 Irish members. That is one of the first
results of seven centuries of firm govern
ment, much firmer than we are ever likely
to see ;. again--a government under
%aich Sat 1t foTasd ony eers assryy
man. and not to prove them, to enable
the Lord Lieutenant to have him beheaded.
Fortunately, there cannot be such things
nowadays. What, then, has been one of
members, from the very necessity of our
position, are unable to take that share in
the duties'of government which is one of
the natural and justifiable hopes of all men
entering Parliament If we violated the
pledges upon which alone we obtained the
trust of our constituencies, namely, that.
we should refuse to accept place or Office
for ourselves or others from any English
government as long as the just rights of
Ireland were not conceded. were we so
base or mean, we should fail to find single
constituency to re-elect us. Well, then, is
1T not matter for inquiry why Mr.. Bal
four cannot govern Ireland two years with
out imprisoning twenty-four Irish members
unknown to your law in England-mainly
for speaking and writing in the newspapers
We now come to anotherq question. will not
enter into the details of the charges and
allegations made by the Times, but, speak
ing generally, / want to know why, if these
charges and allegations had any founda-
tion, the government of the country did
not take them up themselves and inyesti-
gate them to their source by the machinery
at their command, and if they wanted spe-
cial machinery, why did not they construct
1t with the power at their commando They
had all the machinery in Ireland they re-
quired for the detection of crime, and es-
pecially constructed for them by Parlia-
could have obtained it, When were
these charges first startedY When
was :, the command first given
10 the 10rger and purJurer to
obtain or invent evidence which would re-
suit In putting us, on trial on. criminal
charges, the punishment for which was
servitude for lifef 1t was at the very mo-
ment when Lord Carnarvon was inviting
us to confer with him on the future govern
ment of Ireland, and as to a new cOnstitu-
tion-for these were his words in opening
the conversation-which was to be given to
Ireland, establishing her Parliament. That
was one of the reasons why this business
OF nnearthing crime was left to amateurs,
again, when Lord Carnaryon was driven
from Office, owing to the failure of his col
leagues to carry out the pledges he
had given us, with the charges strength
did not the government undertake the ioba
And you must remember this-nO single
matter subStantiated by the Times was un-
known to Lord Carnarvon and Lord Sails
bury when they entered into their negotia-
tions with us, so they could mot plead ignor-
ance. Why. again. did not the government,
instead of fighting behind the petticoats of
the Times, say boldly, We think these mat
ters worthy OF clearing up, and will our
selves & I appoint p q tribunal p for the purposef
proceedings, and we shall ourselves prose-
cute the parties who may be found, in the
result, worthy of prosecution That
would have been a government worthy
of Englishmen. (Cheers.l But no; they
had recourse to every subterfuge and
dodge. Indeed, they pretended that they
had established the commission to enable
me to disprove the letters. But they SO
carefully framed the terms of the act that
the Times was enabled to compel us to an
months-fOr tiftystwO actual sitting days of
the cOmmission-while every charge. every
allegation devisable by the cupidity and
ingenuity of, informers and jail-birds
dSoiucO CNCiy pOuy ctsc Dub ourselves was
brought forward and investigated, until at
length they approached tire letters most
unwillingly and gave us, for the first time.
an opportunity. The skill of Sir Charles
Russell and other gentlemen was promptly
used for exposing what, without disre-
spect to the judges, | shall venture
to call one. of the most scanda-
lous wastes of public time and money
ever instituted under the guise of judicial
investigation. tCheers.l Why do our polit-
ical opponents 60 TO all this trouble TO at
tempt TO throw discredit upon the repre-
sentatives of Ireland, and necessarily upon
the cause they represent and their alliesl
| Well, think the plain answer is because
this country, being remote from Ireland,
the people of England not being in contact
or communication with and not understand
ing the real wishes, thoughts and aspira-
| tions of the people of Ireland, it is compar-
| atively easy TO lead them astray on any po-
| litical question in Ireland. The Tories
| know that they cannot humbug you on one
| of your own questions, so they allowed
| their domestic and imperial policies. cues
| tions you understand fully, to be swayed
by those prudential considerations to en-
able them To avoid q vote of censure ON
| any English-Scotch and imperial natter
but not so with Ireland. They can humbug
| at least they have been able up TO the
| present-and hoodwink you upon an Irish
| question with the utmost facility. So il
| happened that the Tory party, which. in
| Inv ha n,.fh aG~ II n