Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-14

IRELAND's CAUSE.
London Tenders Grand Ovation TO
Parnell-Morleys speech
LONDON March i3th.--St James Hall was
crowded with people this evening. anxious fo
hear Parnelfs speech. Parnell received an
ovation; he expressed his gratitude therefor.
and said he felt sure his country men in Ireland.
America and Australia would be equally glsd
on hearing Of this reception. He would not
enter into the details of the charges and alleya-
tons against him. He had not had his last saw
on the subject but he wished TO n serve his last
word for the witness box and the House of
commons. The Commission had been SCAN
The hall was handsomely decorated With fsgs
and notices.
MoRLEsss OPENING ADDRESS.
In opening the meeting Chairman John Nor
ley said he had never seen so great meeting as
this, nor one on behalf of a nobler cause .I
bear N esssge," said Morley, from the great
Chief, who, despite his years, would have at
tended had he not been entreated to spare him
self He would not spare himself, OF his own
Tree WILL because he sees the time is rapidly ap-
proaching when we shall cautiously and deiib-
erstely, step by step, but surely. unfslteringiy
and untiinchinely. get to the bottom of these
Irish proceedings. The resolutions which our
committee have framed express the deliberate
Judgment, the deep feeling, and the stern, reso-
lutte and deliberate purpose of great party
WHICH, las uOl YET taken I'D CAllS-
without carrying it through l do not want to
understand Mr.. ParnelPs presence tonight as
binding him and his friends and countrymen to
our party. ParnelPs first duty is to Ireland He
has no right TO think of our parties except in
relation to Ireland. l look forward TO the day
when-still remaining the first of Irish leaders
and statesmen Parnell will be able to partake
and to draw united Ireland to partake in the
great fabric of free government of an empire of
which we are striving to make Ireland an in
tegral and incorporated united, reconciled and
equal member. tCheers.
whether the Tories or Liberals carry home
rule, there is one glory of which they can never
can deprive u.s. The Tories can never deprive
the Liberals OF the glory of being the first to
soothe ish distrust, extinguish British preiu-
dice and extend the right hand of fellowship
the first to speak TO Ireland in accents of man.
hood and 70 show her that we are resolved to
act upon the principle of doing to others as we
would be done to-" [Cheer i
THE DEBAUcHED TIMES
Referring to the Times case, Mr. Morley said .
"A more scandalous betrayal OF a great trust
has never been made by great journal
more desperate exhibition has never been made
of blind, headstrong, reckless and malevolent
political passion. Loud cheers. Before many
days the Commons will be asked TO pronounce
what the Times has been gnilty of-probably
will not do SO. the Opposition will.
[Cheers.l The publication of this false
and malicious libel on the morning
of division constitutes aggrayation of offense
and punish. r. Hearr' "Hearr'I There win
be other forms of retribution. The Times that
great Jupiter that does indeed forge thunder
bolts laughter and cheersl is much less i'm
portant than her Majestys Government If the
Ministry had possessed a spark OF that austere
neutrality which ought to belong to a Govern
meanest, most virulent and vindictive partisan
ship, 1t would have stood aloof, and left the
newspaper to prove charges which it ought
never to have made If it had not the proofs y
AlNf Tr1l thA ar3v,.ae e.xFA
torney-General Webster, which, he said, would
be discussed in Parliament on Monday, and de-
nounced the assistance given by The Govern
ment to the Times. The honorable customers
of the Times were mortified and chagrined be-
cause an honest man had cleared himselfo
their infamous charges, and they were base
enough still TO hope that something might be
found out The home rule controversy turns
upon the question whe ther these wealthy
classes, represented by the Times customers. so
greedy and ferocious for calumnies against Ire
land, are fitted to make laws for Ireland. 1t is
monstrous that the House of Lords shsuld have
a decisive voice in such matter and Parnell
no voice at all. In his peroration Morley re-
minded his hearers that the whole matter rested
with the nation, and triumph depended upon
each one making himself a center for right
ideas.
PARNELL's SPEECH.
Parnell was unable to speak for several min
utes when he stood up owing to the volley of
cheers. When quiet was restored he warmly
expressed his qualification, and went on to
speak at length. In the course of his remarks
he said:
II will not enter into the detail of the charges
and allegations made by the Times, but
speaking generally, / want TO know why
If these charges and allegations had any
foundation, the Government of the country
did not take them up themselves and investf
gate them to their source by the machinery at
their command, and if they wanted special ma
chinery why did not they construct it with the
power at their command? When were these
charges first started? 1t was at the very mo-
ment when Lord Carnarvon was inviting us to
confer with him on the future Government
of Ireland, and as new constitution, (for
these were his words in opening the con-
yersation) was to be given to Ireland
establishing her Parliament That wss
one of the reasons why this business of
unearthing crime was left to amateurs laugh
teri and pretty mess they made of it. why
again, when Lord Carnarvon was driven from
office owing to the failure of his colleagues to
carry out the pledges he had given US. with the
charges strengthened by the proofs of forged
letters. did not the Government undertake the
job? Why, again, did not the Government, in
stead of lighting behind the petticoats of the
Times, say boldly: We think these matters
worthy of clearing up, and will ourselves appoint
a tribunal for the purpose? But no.
they had recourse to every subterfuge and
dodge. Indeed, they pretended that they had
established a Commission to enable me to dis
prove the letters, but they SO carefully framed
the terms of the Act that the Times was enabled
TO compel us to appear in Court, day after day.
for nearly six months-for fifty two actual
sitting days of the Commission-while every
charge. every allegation devisable by the cupid
ity and ingenuity of informers and Jail
birds against everybody but themselves, was
brought forward and investigated, until at
length they approached the letters most un i'll
ingly, and gave us for the first time an oppor-
tunity. The skill of Sir Charles Russell and the
other gentlemen was promptly used for expos
ing that which-without disrespect to the Judge
] shall venture to say-waS one of the most
scandalous wastes of public time and money
ever Insulated in the guise of a judicial
investigation. lCheers. Why do our political
opponents go to all this trouble to attempt to
thrown diseredit upon the representatives of
Ireland; and necessarily upon the cause they
because the people of England rot being in
contact or connection withand not understand
ing the real wishes, thoughts and aspirations of
the people of Ireland, did not appreciate the
true situation. 1t is comparatively easy to lead
them ast7ay on any political question in Ire
land.''
Coming down to the question of a Govern
ment for Ireland, Mr.. Psrnell said: 1.-THE. land
question, for instance. iSonly one example of
the bungles every English Government males
in the attempt TO rule ireland from Westminster.
do not say that the land question is an Irish
question, but bring 1t forward as the most sali-
ent point of the unfoftnnate incapacity of the
English Parliament to do justice to Ireland
Referring to the history of the land question.
the speaker proceeded: /" You Englishmen and
women ought to reflect when you read Cd; the
forcible resistance, in some eases, by Irish
tenazats against szed force, that il is atrtal
resistance because il amounts to such resist
ance a fly might make to an elephant about
to- crush 1t undeD its foot" (CheeTs and
laug hter.
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