Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-18
HELP FOR PARNELL.
Enthusiastic Meeting i'm His Support.
THE STARS AND STRIPES AND EEIN's GREEN FLAG
ENTwISED,

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| ESTwISED.
Sympathy for Parnell and detestation for the
London Times were the sentiments which
swayed the large and enthusiastic mass-meeting
OF Irish-American citizens held last night at the
| Bjou theater. The nucleus of the gathering
was the energetic I. M. Healy branch of the
land league. The principal object Of the meet
ing was to raise funds to aid Parnell in his
struggle with the 'Thunderer." A large num-
Der OF ladies were in the house. and their pres
ence added to the enthusiasm which is always
so prominent feature of assemblies where the
Star and Stripes are intertwined with the folds
OF Erin's green flag.
Seated upon the banner-decorated stage were
| Senator Stewart, of Nevada; ex-Representative
| "Rlchelieu" Robinson, of New York; ex-Gov.
| Price. OF New Jersey; Representatives McAdoo.
foran and Lawler. and number of prominent
| citizens
The meeting was called to order by the pres
ident of the T. NJ. Healy branch, Patrick Ward,
and after briefly stating the object of the meet
ing MIR. Ward introduced
| SENATOR STEWART AS THE PRESIDING OFFICER
for the evening. Mr.. Stewart succinctly re-
lated the history of Ireland's wrongs and Eng
! lands misgovernment of the Green Isle; the
great struggle now going on in England be
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| of the tyrannical tory government. He refer
| red to the lately-defeated extradition treaty,
and reasserted his decided views in opposition
| to that document. Parnell was eulogized as
| the man who Is devOting his life to an attempt
| to harmonic England and Ireland and make
them friends-sOmething they never have been
| under the present system of government.
When the Senator concluded his remarks
kilograms were read from Secretary J. P SUIT
| ton and Father O'Reilly, treasurer Of the Irish
| lpauua LOFT Of bv for
the Irish cause from Representatives S. ]. RAN
dali and S. S. Cox. The organization Of the
meeting was then completed by the
ELECTION OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS:
| Vice-presidents, Senator ID. W. Voorhees,,
Representatives Samuel J. Randall, VIM. Coggs-
well. B. F. Shively, Amos Cummings, William
f. Mason. and Jacob Yost; E. w. Fox. Fred.
Douglass, Harry West, Chris. Heurich, Isadore
| Saks, Frank Hume. William FORSYTH Thomas
J. Luttrell, James l.. Barbour Frank P. Madi-
gan. Thomas Kirby, II. Walker Tucker. j. J.
| Flanagan. Morris Murphy, n. II. Shea, George
E. Lemon. b. j. Coyle, James Fullerton, and
| II. p. Gilbert; secretaries, John Delahunty
| Joseph Tanning. and John H. O'Brien: treas
| urer, p. j. Mcintyre.
Ex-Gov. Price, L. E. Hayden, NJ. T. Burn,
and James Linsky were appointed a committee
| on resolutions.
REPRESENTATIVE FoRAN's ADDRESS.
| Representative Foran then addressed the
meeting, and he talked eloquently on the prac-
| teal side of the problem under discussion. He
appealed for funds The need of the moment
was money. not oratary. The great hit in Mr.
! Forans speech was in his reference to the fact
| that there was local self-government everv-
where in the Uuited States except in the Dis
] trict of Columbia. This condition of affairs
was only allowed to continue. he said. because
there is so much liberty all around that no one
here thought of the loss of his own.
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Americans from the charge that they were
more devoted to Ireland than they were to the
/ United States. No people assimilated more
easily with Americans than did the Irish and
| Irish love for America had been written in
! letters of blood.
| THE RESOLUTIONS
framed by the committee were then reported
| by Ex-Governor Price and were unanimously
and enthusiastically adopted. They are as fol-
| lows:
Whereas the people of Ireland. supported by
| the best men of England are making an heroic
| fight for self-government, material prosperity.
and free speech against the tory classes of
| Great Britain. and
| Whereas this contest has been conducted on
the side of the tory party and the privileged
| classes in a cruel. unjust inhuman and savage
way. regardless of popular rights, advancing
civilization, free speech and legitimate, consti-
tutional agitation allowed in all other parts of
Great Britain. save Ireland. to the indignation
| and disgust of great masses of the English peo-
| pie as we'll as of all true Americans. and
Whereas these tyrannous classes whose
| only instruments are jails. gibbets. and iron
handed suppression, fearing above all things the
! enlightened and just condemnation of man
kind in other nations. have undertaken by a
| partisan commission, hired perjurers con-
! vlcted felons. professional Adventures, and
disappointed politicians to blacken the fair
fame and good name of that sterling patriot,
| Chas. Stewart Parnell, his co-workers, the
Irish party in parliament, and their English
allies, by far-fetched and transparent false
| hoods and the republication of speeches,
! opinions, and events long known to the public
| and which Parnell and his party are in no wise
responsible; therefore. be it
/ ResOloed, BY us. resident citizens Of the
| national capital of the United States and
sojourners therein, in mass meeting assembled
that We heartily condemn the cruel injustice
being done to Ireland and her people by whole
! sale eyictions and imprisonments, and declare
| anew our sympaties with the home-rule move
ment, our entire confidence in Charles Stewart
Parnell and his followers, disbelief in the lies
and perjuries given in evidence before the for
! geries commission, and We pledge to those grand
and good men, Gladstone and Parnel. and the
Irish people our moral and material support in
the future as in the past, and assure them of
the hearty goodwill of the American people
who wish success to them and their just cause.
The closing speech made by ex-Repre-
sentative "Rlchelieu" Robinson, whose reputa-
ton as tail twister i'll ordinary to the British
lion" has never been ecipsed.
Contributions in cash and promises to pay
had been coming in all the evening. and when
the meeting ended the totals footed up to the
amount of several hundred dollars.
The McMillin Tariff Bill.
POINTS FROM THE ACCOMPANYING REPoRr-AN