Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-11
IRISH PATRIOTS.
RECEPTION TO DILLON, O'BRIEN AND 0THRRi
At NEW YORK.
-Four Thousand Persons Hear The Story Of Ireland
Cpprassion,-GOvernor Hill PIesides-A Fight
ing Fund" Of Over Thirty Thousand Dol
lars Sub cribed in a Shor. Time.

before has the Metropolitan Opera
House held such an audience as IL did
tonight, when the Irish Societies of the
City OF New York gave public recep-
tion to the Irish representatives, Messrs.
O'Connor, O'Brien, Dillon, Sullivan,
Harrington and Gill. There were about
1000 people in the house. Broadway,
from the Hoffman House at Twenty
fifth street to the Metropolitan Opera
House at Thirty-ninth street was
thronged with crowds who waited pa
tiently for an hour to see the distin-
guishcd Irishmen pass on their way TO
the meeting. Many of these people had
tried to purchase tickets for the demon
stration but were turned away.
Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs.
O'Connor occupied the first box to the
right of the platform. The list of vice.
Presidents contained, among others,
these names: Hugh j. Grant, Grover
Cleveland, Levi p. Morton. Gov. Hill,
Charles A. Dana, VIM. NJ. Evarts, Wm.
c. Whitney, Gen. VIM. Il. Sherman.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, Wm. K. Grace,
Joseph II. Choate, Carl Schurz, White
law Reid, Father McGlynn, John A.
Cockerill, of the World, Roswell F..
Flower, Daniel Dougherty and Thomas
l.. James.
A few minutes after o'clock MeSsrs
O'Brien and Dillon walked on the stage.
This was a signal for loud and enthuSi-
astic applause. The chairman OF the
evening, Gov David Il. Hill was then
introduced. and was received with
cheers. lie said: Fellow citizens
When your committee requested me to
act as presiding officer upon this occa-
sion | regarded it as much duty as 4
pleasure To accept the honor. ! am
here tonight, more by my presence than
by my words, to testify my interest in
the cause so ably cSpouscd by the dis
tin yuished gentlemenwhom We are proud
to welcome. Cheers. Wherever there
can be found Il libcrty-loving people
these honored representatives will find
cordial welcome. Cheers. The
cause of home rule engaged in for many
years has not yet been successful. a
few years more OF agitation, few
years more OF struggling and We have
no doubt it will succeed. Our sympa-
thes are American sympathies, and our
money is our own, and it is ours to dis
pose OF as we please. Cheers.
The cheers that greeted Mr.. Dillon
demonstrated better than words can de-
scribe the feeling of the immense audi
ence toward him. He stood silent for
several minutes, while his admirers
shouted themselves hoarsc. Meanwhile
the strains of the band playing the
star Spanglcd Banner" were 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 hav,
been deprived Of what you ladies anC
gentlemen enjoy bountifully-liberty
II has been wreSted from us by brute
force tyranny, conducted upon mos
i .isa-+ie eeoIo. oppreseion opd tyrenn:
have reduced our population TO four an'
a half millions of people. No amour
Of corruption has been spared TO keel
our people under the heel of oppression
Who will say that Ireland is not justi
fed In appealing for aid from free anC
liberty-loving people, when We are
struggling for liberty against such ter
rife odds?
ireland to-day is governed in oppo
sition to the wishes Of live-siXths OF it,
inhabitants, and the Tory government
holds 10000 bayoncts to aid its opprcs
siyc laws. Americas army, believe,
numbers $4,000. yet 10000 bayoncts ar,
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 a universal decrease in pop
ulation and wealth throughout the whole
of Ireland, while I'm every other civl-
lized nation on the globe the population
and wealth increased by jumps and
bounds. The people can now look for
famine in ireland every six or seven
years, aud this in a country whose soil
and climate are the best Oh earth.
Scmi-starvation exists there always.
The landlords have gotten oppres-
sion down as fine as art by
keeping their people on such verge OF
starvation that the least failure OF
crops, Such as occurs periodically in
other countries without serious results,
occasions in Ireland famine and starva-
tion. This year 500, 100000 worth Of
food will be shipped from Ireland. and
its own people left to starve. Col Chas.
Gordon. after visitto the south of Ire
land. said he would give 1000 TO Lord
Bantly. or any other Englishman, if he
would live in one of these novels for
year.
The speaker next alluded to the form
alton of the Land League in 1850. 1--WE
have made our people more than
match for Balfour and the London
Times. Loud groans. All this has
been accomplished against oppres.
sion and the Incarceration oil
our leaders for talking TO
their constituents and against a
police system which you may under
stand when tell you that in 1865, when
Ireland's population was s,500,OOO, the
police cost 100000, Now with the
population at four and one-half millions
the police cost FL, POO, 900 yearly"
William O'Brien followed. He said
he had reason to know that every eX-
preston of sympathetic American opin-
ion is welcomed by many OF the people
of Great Britain, who have been made
favorable to our cause through the
great influence OF Mr.. Gladstone.
ICheers. We come here not for a
begging fund. but for fighting fund.
ICheers. We want to fight this Sys-
TEN that has made the famine. and we
want to crush it.
Mr.. J. J. O'Donoghue then announced
that Eugene Kelley had given 81, 900, he
himself would subscribe $1,000, Major
John Byrnes. the railroad operator, would
subscribe 81 900 a year for five years.
and ex-Mayor Grace would also sub
scribe 81, 900. Mayor Grant subscribed
81 900. Many other subscriptions
from 500 down were made. The Sec
retary of the Parliamentary fund an
nounced that the total amount sub
scribed was: Receipts from door $1,000;
subscriptions in hall $4,000. Mr..
Eugene Kelly was appointed treasurer
of the fund.
Hog Cholera in Ohio.
.SoscfqI telegram 10 he Register.
COLUMBUS. o., November l0.-The
state Board Of Agriculture is alarmed
because of a violent outbreak OF hog
L.lor, in oil tho central counties or