Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-23
O'BRIEN's examination.
He Admits Having Written Certain Ar.
ticles Published i'm "U nited lreland.''

LONDON. May 23.-Mr. Gladstone was present
at the session of the Parnell commission to-day.
The cross-examination of Mr. Vim. oBricn Was
continued by Attorney-General Webster. Mr.
o'Brien declared that Unitcd Ir,iG,.d his paper,
worked according to constitutional methods
and advocated nothing but peaceful means to
attain the end sought by the Irish parliamentary
party. He admitted writing article which
had been printed in United Ireland. in which
it was stated that Queen Victoria was only known
in Ireland by her scarcely doccntly disguised
hatred of ireland and by her inordinate salary
He also admitted having written another
article declaring that Earl Spencer would be
the last strong Englishman who would attempt
to rule Ireland by barbarism, paid perjury,
butchery and the use Of the sacred rope. iIs
admitted the authorship. also of an article de-
clarlng that the chairman of the committee
selected TO receive the Prince of Wales on the
occasion of his visit TO ireland would be hunted
from public life.
HE DON'T WANT SHOW OF SHAM LOYALTY.
At this point Mr.. o Brien became excited and
vehemently exclaimed: Il have been. and
rather than to allow Englishmen to be deceived
by show of sham loyalty | am resolved to tell
them the truth"
Continuing, Mr.. O'Brien said that he person.
ally had never spoken disrcspectfully offon-
sivelv about the Prince of Wales. No people.
he declared. ever. suffered more for LOYALTY
II. ana none prOuttu more bN thtlr
protestatlOns of LOYALTY than the people who
oppressed them. Ii II was clear that England
would not satisfy the aspirations of ireland,
and If there was any rational chance of success,
an attempt should be made TO rebel.
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DYNAMITE.
The London papers, the witness declared,
were more responsible for the use of dynamite
than the efforts of Messrs. Finnerty and Pat
rick Ford. But for the views the London
| journals had expressed IL would have been inn
| possible TO collect 1000 pounds in America
| for dynamite. The articles in JTited Ir,idHd
| referring to the queen and the Prince of Wales
were. In the witness opinion, justifiable when
| they were written. but he did not consider them
I justifiable in the present state of rela-
/ tlons. British rule as then administered
was hateful. When the Prince of Wales visited
| Ireland. which visit was arranged by the
tories with the hope of crushing ParnellisIn.
| the Parnellites resolved for party purposes not
| to make IL an occasion of trouble. Hence
| the camness of the Irish press in
commenting on the royal visit The affair was
| allowed to pass without trouble until the Lon
| don Times declared that the visit had crushed
! Mr.. Parnelfs power in Ireland. Then" said
the witness. Il thought II desperately necessary
| to show that this assertion was a mistake"
The encouragement referred 10 n speech Of
| Mr.. O'Brien's, in which he said I'VE are
in state of civil which is tenn
! pered only by the scarcity of crimes"
due to evaporation at his expulsion from
! the house of commons. He spoke under strong
feeling and with keen appreciation of the
| fearful hatred felt by English commOners for
| Irish members of parliament If il was ever
right to rebel" said Mr.. U l}rien. 1.-THE Irish
people then had that right, If there had been
any chance of success"
WHY HE OBJECTED TO REBELLION.
Attorney-General Webster--'You only OBJ
iected to rebellion, then, because it was hope
less?''
Mr.. O'Brien.-"Under the circumstances at
that time. unquestionably."
The attorncy-general then referred TO the
Manchester murders. and mentioned Messrs.
Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien as the murderers
OF the police killed in the riot at Manchester.
Mr.. O'Brlen-"They were not murderers, but
were engaged in open warfare and shot the
policemen by accident"
the eattorney-general-'Is shooting police
man legitimate warfare?"
Mr.. 0'Brien-''It was not criminal in this
case. Men who openly take risks TO release
their comrades are no more murderers than
any one present here who would have acted
from the noblest motives"
The witness then stated that he wrote an
article in which he said that the martyrs,
Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. were honored by
their Chicago kindred. This statement was
greeted with rousing cheers from the spectators
present.
Presiding Justice Hannen thereuDon threat
ened to clear the courtroom if such a de-
monstratiOn was repeated. He reminded Mr..
OBrien that the court regarded the Manches-
ter shooting as murder. and the men who were
hanged for the crime murderers. The at
torney-general then declared that he had I'm
lshed the cross-eXamlnation of the witness, and
U Brien was allowed to leave the stand