The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-11


Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs.
O'Connor occupied the frat box to the
right OF the platform. The list OF Vice
Presidents contained .smong others, these
names: Hugh ]. GIANT, Grover Cleve-
land, Levi ?. Morton, Gov. Hill, Charles
A. Dana, William II. Evarts, William @.
Whitney, Gen. William T. Sherman,
Chauncey NJ. Depew, William B. Grace,
Joseph H. Choate, Carl Schu1z, White.
law Reid, Father McGlynn, John A.,
Cockerill, of the World, Roswell p.
Flower, Daniel Dousherty and Thomas
L. James.
A few minutes after s o'clock, Messrs.
O'Brien and Dillon walked on the stage.
This was a signal for loud and entiu-
elastic applause. ,,-
THE GUESTS INTRODUCED.
Tho chairman OF the evening, Gov
ernor David B. Hill, was then introduced
and was received with cheers.
"FELLow ClrlzGNs:-When your COM
mittee requested NC to act Us presiding
officer on this occasion,I regarded it rs
much duty as a pleasure to accept the
honor. l am here tonight, more by my
presence than by my words, TO testify
my interest in the cause so
ably espoused by the distin.
guished gentlemen whom We are proud
to welcome. [Cheers. Wherever there
can be found liberty-loiing people,
these honored representatives will find
acordial Welcome. [Cheers.1 The cause
Of Home.rule engaged in for many
years has not been successful. A few
years more of agitation, a few years
more ofstruggling and We have no doubt
it will succeed. Our sympathies are
American sympaties, md our money is
our own, and it is ours To dispose OF as
We please. [Cheers
The cheers that greeted Mr.. Dillon
demonstrated better than words could
describe the feeling Of the immense au.
dience toward him. He stood silent for
several minutes, while his admirers
shouted themselves hoarse. Meanwhile
the strains OF the band playing the
"Star Spangled Banner" was all but
hushed. &
"The errand," said Mr.. Dillon, "for
which we have come here tonight, is to
appeal to the people of America to
assist the Irish people to attain the
right to make their own laws and to
administer the same. 1t is for these
that we have made bold to ask the free
American people to give us their aid.
We have been deprived Of what you
ladies and gentlemen enjoy bounti-
fully-liDerty. 1t has been wrcs.od
from us by brute force and
tyranny, conducted upon most gigantic
scale. Oppression and tyranny has re-
duced our population to four and half
millions Of people. No amount OF cor.
ruption has been spared to keep our peo.
Pile under the heel OF oppression. Who
will say that Ireland is not justified in
appealing Tor aid from a free and liberty.
loving people, when We arc struggling
for liberty against such terrific odds.
-.: IRELAND's CONDITION.
Ireland to-day is governed in op-
position to the wishes OF ive.sixths OF
lis inhabitants, and the Tory Govern.
ment holds 10000 bayonets TO aid its
oppressive laws. Americas army, I be.
lieve, numbers 25. 900, yet 10000 bayo
nets are used to keep the people quiet
in Ireland, which is about equal in size
to the State of New York. Under this
rule the extraordinary phenomena
occurred Of q universal decrease in pop.
ulation aud wealth throughout the
! whole OF Ireland, while in every other
civilized nation on the globe the popu.
lation and wealth increased by jumps
and bounds. The people can now look
for famine in Ireland every six or seven
years, and this in a country
whose soil and climate are the
best on earth. Semi.starvation
exists there always. The land.
lords have gotten oppression down as
fine as art by keeping their people on
such verge OF starvation that the least
: failure OF crops, such as occur periodical.
ly in other countries without serious re.
suits. occasion in Ireland famine and
starvation. This year $l0O, O,000,0 600 worth
OF food will be shipped from Ireland,
and its own people left to starve. Col.
Charles Gordon, after visit to the
south OF Ireland, said he would give
cl, 900 to Lord Hantly or any other En.
glishman il he would live in some OF
these novels for year. i;
The speaker next alluded to the form.
alton Of the Land League in 1850. eve
have made our people more than a
match for Balfour and the London
Times. Loud groans.] All gtEis has
been accomplished against cppres.
sion Ai.-:4and thedi incarceration
OF i&i5 our leaders7ohsior talking
to their constituents, and against a police
system which you muy understand when
l tell you that in 1865, when Ireland 3
population was {. 100000, the police cos!
200 900 pounds. Now, with the popula.
ton at four and one.half millions, the
police cost l SOC. 900 pounds yearly" S
William O'Brien followed. He said
he had reason to know that every e1'
preston Of fsympathetic American opin.
ion il welcomed by many OF the people
OF Great Britain, who have been made
favorable to our cause through the great
influence OF Mr.. Gladstone. Cheers. ]
"We come here, not for begging fund,
but for fighting fund. [Cheers. ] We
want to fight this system that has made
the famine, and we want to crush it."
Mr.. J:J. O'Donoghue, then announced
that Euseue Kelley had subscribed
$1,000; lie himself would Hubscribe
$1,000; Major John Byrnes, the railroad
operator, would subscribe 1000 yeal
for five years, and ex.Mayor Grace woult
also subscribe $1,000. Mayor GRAM
subscribed 81 1000. Many other subscrip
tions from SlOO down were made. The
Secretary Of the parliamentary funt
announced that the total amount sub
scribed was, receipts from door 81 1000
subscriptions in hall $50, 900. Mr.. Eu
gone Kelley was appointed treasurer o
the fund. ~ ,sSje
Drowned While Skating.
VAUDEVILLE MiSS., Nov. 10.-Frea
, die Morgan and his playmate, lat
named Bennett, while out skating thi
. afternoon broke through the ice ant
were drowned. 1t seems that Benn ct