The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-27

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-. Depew said:
zs..h..r Affords me more pleasure
- % Be 50 rece1sen " ny 1e..yN
- lrsshmen. Laughter The
ss Z man gets 10 heing totally
4 l<s - move he boasts Of his youth.
1 80 nearer he gets 70 the frsnk
= orchestra chairs Laughter.
~ friend Grady, whose oratory
] - ....~ssed me for q quarter Of cent
-. tser~hfer1, spoke as only he can
~ ~ said he had TO 60 away:
- filled 70 remind ron that
- IL began 1t was midnight
!.Izs - sfoppcd. f4aughter-l And
~, ~ s-xfraordfnary seif-deniaI. due
..s.ss a. his friendship for rne. yoss
y u. s,,reerunce and the Iosz OF the
~ - 81 his speeah. lIaughter: ]
49, hen al my life meeting with
1870 "a great causes, but never
80 pstient martyr a. he. even
- IN vine here tonight to sup
~ temperance element in the
1872. Laughter. For %
IT. 4 - been my pleasure and
= ,.rnocd TO Ireland al dinners
$3.50 ~ r,;sn3ly Sons OF ST. Patrick.
q ri. eSGf 81 this. my twenty-first
=. ~, 1kjch marks my majority
u f3.skmau, / reply to this toast
~ r6r instesd. Great Laugh
~ hundred and twenty years
tL.l ffeh ancestor Of mine came
pei hat makes me q naturaIfxed
flaughterl, and as an
i.~x I French and . Dutch ances~
H.: 5s.s. about 100 years before, am
~ - spesk periodically at every
ssssssrl eclebration. I1aughtev.g
fsI ~ Patrick,s Day we adopted q
- a he New York Central road Of
1870 two green flags at the front of
Z sssir,-nr5 unconscious tribute TO st.
$500. but Ireland in the yard
sssr1e1 york at our expense lIaughtes
|sss1 e1.ed 1t the trains - they shot
~ n he depot, and the foreman said
q Z companion, Moike, what does il
ssere ~ sWeIl," said he, ..f1I tell
- THAT Il names. The boss has
sfen the flag which Mayor Hewitt
~slId not permit to stand on the city
fsH and has put it on the end II
svsfv train, ard he's going to run for
srs11dent. sure lLaughterj. But
1ira for the aspirations OF the yard
- ranger didn't like him a. well as
iSe yard. Ernewed laughterl. I
Wo6k with this freedom, gentlemen.
eosuse my commission as minister to
ISrIand has not yet rescued me, but
b 3 On the way. Laughter and APP
r1eusej.
Ireland has felt for hundreds OF
voass that hope sprang eternal In the
Imam breast, but on this st. Pat
49, Day she sees the fulfilment Of
~ hope and the results Of her aspira-
fous. Applause. She unifies In
kGrbelf the spsrit OF that song to which
6rn,ies have marched TO victory. tledi-
euted 20 that martyr here TO liberty.
od John Brown: her patriots bodies
M molder in the ground, but her
ou) goes marching ON. tAppIause.l
Waiting the Irish in their ordinary
r.; seeing their ordinary poverty and
~ hopelessness OF their ordinary out
|ook, fair-nainded man inevitably
secognixes the unwisdom OF forgetting
Ikat under other conditions these men.
~ Of life, intelligence, hope, never
1mpairing, bubbling with humor, In
1iinct with love. pure, moral, virtuous,
ring only the conditions which
hall make them patriotic. may de-
VlIop into the worthicst and best Of
cilizens; and he says "These are the
people who ought to be Free Loud
applause.
heir delicious humor il never
rlouded. no matter what distress they
have 10 undergo. You don't under
Ifand the capacity Of Ireland for home
RUE until you have seen the girl on
ne highway, EarefOosed, bareheaded.
md yet with the CLINT OF sunshine in
her eve, the touch of health and beauty
on her cheek, her glorious raven tres
ses hanging down her back, her soul
as pure Is the heaven above her. She
il home ruler. gentlemen. and every
man who mafries her finds II out.
(Laughter)
Eight years ago, at all social enter
tainments In England, / met no home
rulers. They were regarded as
dangerous forces" in politics. / used
to say. why are they not here at
your tahles2n The reply was. Be
cause there Is no table in England ct
which home ruler Of distinction can
sit. Last summer there was no table
1t some OF the most conservative
houses at which q home ruler was not
an honored guest. tApplause.l
Earl Spencer Iapplausel. who had
been a lord-iieutenant of Ireland.
found, was by conviction and CONVEX
sion home ruler, aud he dared social
ostraeism and declared his opinions
manfully TO the British world. AT
Hombourg he told me that the one
thing which prevented home rule in
England. was the failure of frishmen
% make good citizens in Americai
lGroans.l ! said, Permit me to
anderccive you. There are % 900 men
n my employment officially, OF whom
0,Ooo are Irish Iapplausel. and the
common testimony OF all my subor-
dinases Is that they are the best APP
planse.l The Molly Maguires, r.
told him, were not the result OF an
outhurst Of Irish feeling against the
NV, but an organization created under
peculiar circumstances and embracing
~ nationalities. | also told him that
NE mnrderers melted to crime by that
organization were hanged through the
nstrumentaiity of an Irish lawyer and
ey the verdict of Irish juries lap
piaaseI. and that the Chicago an
sfchists, one Of whom was an Eng
amman, were put down by Irish POI
hes. Applause.
Earl Spencer said, IF these facts
we're known, home rule would soon be
brought about" said. LET them
g, and refer not only 10 me, but 10
sfery honest American that lives. =
loud applause Ii Is plain, gentle
pen, 10 all the world that ireland
seets only the constitutional con-
e'uons fer home rule, for in advance
sne has found her leader in Charles
cRnart Parneil. Applause
farnellism and Crime will be the
somedy of history, and "pigotism and
sniamy" will be the resurrection OF
swat nation. Loud and prolonged
applause.
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