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

We shall ourselves be responsible for the
proceedings, ana we shall ourselves prose-
cute the parties who may be 1und in the
result worthy of prosecu ion.' That would
have been government orthy of English
men. [Cheers. But no; they had recourse to
every subterfuge and dodge. Indeed, they
pretended that they had established a com
mission to enable me to disprove the letters.
But, they 50 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 commissicn-whilee every
charge, every allegation devisable by the
cuDidity and indignity Of informers and
Jail birds against everybody Ell but
ourselves, was brought forward
and investigated, until at length
they approached the letters most unwlll-
ingly and gave us for the first time an OPP
portunity. The skill of Sir Charles Russell
and other gentlemen was promptly used for
exposing what without disrespect TO the
judges, shall venture to call one Of the
most scandalous wastes of public time and
money ever instituted under the guise of a
judicial investigation. CHEERS
REASON OF THE TORY INFAMY.
"Why do our political opponents go to
all this trouble to ATTEMPT to throw dis
credit upon the representatives OF Ireland,
and necessarily upon the cause they repre-
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answer is, because this country, being re-
mote from Ireland, the people of England
not being in contact or communication with,
and not understanding the real wishes,
thoughts and aspirations of the people Of
Ireland, it is comparatively easy to lead
them astray on any political question in
Ireland. [Cheers. The tories know that
they cannot humbug you on one OF your
own questions so they allowed their domes-
tic and imperial policies, questions you
understand full well, to be swayed by
these prudential considerations to en-
able them to avoid a vote of censure
upon any English, Scottish or imperial mat
ter, but not so with Ireland. They can
hum bug-at least they have been able to
up to the present-and hoodwiak you upon
an Irish question with the utmost
facility. So it happened that the
tory party which, in 1885, by
the mouth of Lord Carnarvon, promised US
an Irish parliament in 1SS6-'87, turned
round and renewed their policy of coercion
and produced forged letters as proofs of the
criminality of the Irish members. [Cries
of "Shame."] | think we are entitled to
ask all thinking. reflective men
and women in England to consider
this: Is 1t right that the future
and liberties of Ireland should be dependent
upon the usual publication of forged letter
by the Times on the morning of great
j
mitted on oath by the manager of the
Times that the publication was purposed to
affect the divisions. [Cries of "shame. "
Now let us come to the question of the
government of Ireland.
THE LAND QUESTION.
"The land question, for instance, is only
one example of the bungleS every English
government makes in an attempt to rule
Ireland from Westminster. do not say
that the land question is an Irish question,
but bring it forward as the most salient
example Of the unfortunate incapacity of
the English parliament to do justice to
Ireland"
Referring at length to the history of the
land question, the improvements made by
tenants and the fact that the occupants had
built their houses, the speaker proceeded:
you English men and women ought to
reflect, when you read of forcible resistance
in some cases by Irish tenants against an
armed force, that it is not real
resistance, because it amounts to such
resistance as a fly might make to an
elephant about to crush it under foot
[Cheers and laughter But when you hear
these things you must reflect that, after all,
these people are being expelled from homes
they built themselves and which are their
own property, although toe law has not yet
efficiently protected that property. You
must see that it is sometimes not in human
nature to endure and stand this provoca-
ton as passively as we de-
sire they Fshould for the sake of
the future of their country, and that some
times their manhood revolts and they strike
a blow in their own defense"
A SPECIMEN OF SUFFERING.
Here Mr.. Parnel related story which he
had heard of men convicted of joining in
revolutionary movement, not Justly per-
ban hrtta htrr
tions of the famine period and of days with
out food, a man who recollected having seen
his mother carry her dead daughter two
miles on her back to bury her, and had
seen her return from the sorrow of the
funeral only to find her remaining daughter
dead, when she had to perform the same
office again. THAT" said Mr.. Parnell, lis
the history of many men who are denounced
to-day as dynamiters and fenians, aud
although from every point of view we con-
denim violence and illegal, unconstitutional
action-from the point Of view of the in
terests Of Ireland, from the point Of view
of morality and hope and con-
fdence in the future-sometimes we
can't help thinking that after all there
has been much in the lessons that English
misgovernment has taught Ireland for gen.
erations TO justify or excuse the actions of
these rash, hot-headed men. [Cheers1
Men who, despairing Of parliamentary
agitation, losing, and justly, all trust in
their Irish representatives who so repeatedly
betrayed constituencies which trusted them,
turned to criminal methods as the only hope
for the future of Ireland. But it
is an honorable thought which
feel tonight, that since tie Introduction
of the great measure of 1886, Ireland has
definitely turned her back upon all these
base, hopeless and desperate courses, that
she is conf dent that in the ways of the con-
stitution lie her safety, and that, under the
genius and guidance of that great and de-
voted Englishmau, Gladstone prolonged
cheersl, with the new hope that has come
into all our hearts and breasts, the day of
freedom for Ireland can
not be long deferred. We are
now on the eve of a great popular up
heavel movement which will not subside
until you have enabled your great leader to
carry through the legislature of the empire
a measure which viii give Ireland legiti-
mate control over her own future, her own
interests and her own welfare without any
shadow of harm or i'll to your own great
Mr.. Parnell resumed his seat amid loud
and prolonged cheering.
The government has abandoned the idea
Of prosecuting Mr.. O'Brien for conspiracy.
NEW HAMPSHIRES LAWS.