The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-14

never been made by great
journal. GCheersl inore ueSper-
made of blind. headstrong, reckless,
maleyolent political passion. loud cheers.
For two wears great journal circulated
throughout the length and breadth of the
land what its own counsel now admits to be
as gross a libel as was ever written of any
public man [Cheersl
TO BE BROUGHT UP IN THE HOUSE.
Before many days the House Of Commons
will be asked to pronounce what the Times
has been guilty of, probably a false and
malicious libel. If the government will not
do so, the opposition will. [Cheers.l The
publication of this false and malicious libel
ON the morning of division, with the OBJ
ject of influencing that division, constitutes
an aggravation of offense which even this
government is bound to notice and punish.
T'Hear, hearnl There will he other forms
of retribution. The TinleS-that great Ju-
piter that does indeed forge thunderbolts
daughter and cheers)-is much less imDor-
tant than her majestys government. What
attitude would the ministry have adopted
when the charges were first made il they pos
sessed any self respect or any sense Of i'm
partially? That which they did in con-
troyersy involving a great political issue
and in the face of such deadly charges.
''The Times made the charges either on
evidence it already possessed or without
evidence. If it made charges on evidence
already in its possession it did not need the
government TO help it. If it made the
charges. without evidence, it was the gov
ernment's business to save it from the ex-
posure it deserved. CHEERS. If the min
istry had possessed spark of the austers
neutrality which ought to belong to
the government, if it had possessed
anything but the meanest, most virulent
and vindictive partisanship, it would have
stood aloof and left the newspaper to prove
the charges, which it ought never to have
made if it had no proofs"
Mr.. Morley severely censured the conduct
of Attorney General Webster, which, he
said, would be discussed in parliament Mon
day, and he denounced the assistance given
by the government to the Times.
THE TORY PARTY's PART.
He said he could not, however, help pro-
testing against the Times bearing the whole
fury Of the storm Of denunc!ation that
came from tory politicians, clubmen, pF1m-
rose danes and others. The Times was de-
nounced, not because it had published
the most gigantic and most Infamous
lie of the country, but because it
had failed to prove that its charges were
true. The Times knew the dainty taste of
It's customers, and had pampered it. Now
these same honorable customers were
mortified and chagrined because an honest
man had cleared himself of infamous
charges, and they were base enough still to
hope that something might be found out.
WHAT 1T ALL SHOWS.
GAN this shows y continued Mr. Morley,
''that Mr.. Parnell was right in being slow
to commit his political fortunes and fame
to a London jury. The home rule con-
troversy turns upon the question
whether these wealthy classes, repre-
sented by the Times customers. SO
greedy and ferocious for calum-
MES against Ireland, are fitted to make
laws for Ireland. 1t is monstrous that the
House of Lords should have adhesive voice
in such matter and Mr.. Parnell no voice
at ALL" In his peroration Mr.. Morley re-
minded his hearers that the whole matter
rested with the nation, and that the triumph
depended upon each ones making himself
a center for right ideas. "If we do this"
he declared, ''the time is not far distant
when we shall see the false image with a
front of tory brass and fest of discomfort
clay trampled in the dust under the feet of
the honest citizens of England, Scotland
and Ireland" loud cheers.l
PARNELL's WELCOME.
Mr. Parnell was unable to speak for
several minutes, owing to volleys of cheers,
the singing of He's jolly Good Fellow"
al cannot attempt to describe my gratifica-
zion and delight at the reception given me.
Such evenings will do more for union than
twenty centuries of the firm government
QaughteI) of Lord Salisbury aud of Secre-
tary Balfour. | am sure my country
men throughout the world will be
equally honored with me by your
reception of the cause. | prefer to
draw lessons from passing events. This
great meeting is assembled to protest
against the petty and malignant meaunessas
of Secretary Balfour's government in Ire
land. The chairman expressed the hope
that / would he privy councillor. On that
point must be pardoned for saying moth
Ing. But it is legitimate to inquire whether
there is not something rotten In the system
Of government which compels the ostracism
from the affairs of your empire of eighty
six Of the 103 Irish members. That is one
of the first results of seven centuries of firm
government, much tirmer than we are ever
likely to see again. [Cheersl A govern
ment under which it was only necessary to
get up forged letters against a man, and
not TO prove them to enable the lord lieu
tenant to have him beheade1. Fortunately
they can not do such things nowadays.
ONE OF THE RESULTS.
"What then has been one of the results Of
that systems That we Irish members, from
the very necessity of our position, are un.
able to take that share in the duties of the
government which is one of the natural and
justifable hopes of all men entering parlia-
ment. If we violated the pledges upon
which alone we obtained the trust Of our
constituencies, namely, that we should re-
fuse to accept place or Office for
ourselves or others from an English
government as long as the just rights
of Ireland were not conceded, were we SO
base and mean, we should fail to find sin
gle constituency to elect us, Then, is it not
a matter for inquiry why Secretary Balfour
cannot govern Ireland two years without
imprisoning twenty-four Irish members of
parliament as common felons for offenses
unknown to your law in England-mainly
for speaking and writing in newspapers?
ICries Of 'Shame!l We now come to an
other question.
THE TINES CHARGES.
II will not enter into details Of the charges
and allegations made by the Times but
speaking generally, | want to know whv. if
these charges and allegations had any f5un-
dalton, the government OF the country did
not take them up themselves and investi-
gaze them to their source by the |
machinery at their command, and if they |
wanted special machinery, why did not |
they construct it with the power at their |
commando They had all the machinery in
ireland they required for the detection OF |
crime, especially constructed for them by |
parliament. II they wanted extra power |
thew could have obtained il Whom vvara