The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-19
O'BRIEN AN
RECEPTION TO tn
ISIS AT NE

OF Home Rule Tor
New Yor
The Irish ParliaI
here this Afternoon
Grand Central ID,
j: j. ODOnohua
others They WI
Hoffman House,
served, "A reception was ~
Hill arriving from Albany i'm
ticipate. When the party
Metropolitan Opera House al
fully 5000 people had congregac~.S
Governor Hill presided, and among the
vice presidents were Grover Cleveland,
Levi l.. Morton, c. NJ. Depew.
Mayor Grant, William NJ. Eyarts,
Charles A. Dana, General Sherman
William.C Whitney, Leon Albeit, VIII
liam X. Grace, Warner Miller Carl
Schurz, Noah Davis, Whiteiaw Keld,
John A. Cockerill, George Jones, Oswald
Ottendorfcr, j. /. c. Clarke, Edward L.
Godkin, Collector Erhardt, Postmaster
Vancott, o. Il. Potter, Hamilton Fish,
Jr., j. j. Coogan, Colonel Cavanagh,
| Norvn Green, and Elbridge Il. Gerry.
Governor Hill, who was introduced as
the American champion Of home rule,
was received with great applause. The
Governor cordially welcomed the dele
gates 10 the city and State. John Dillon
was then introduced amid an uproar OF
applause. He spoke in substance as fol-
| lows:
The cause for which I make this APP
peal TO the public OF America is one
which must commend itself 10 every
free citizen of America. 1t is the claim
of the Irish people TO make their own
laws--a claim TO liberty and common hui
manity. They claim those rights and
privileges which have made this country
what il is to-day
In 1855, when 1913 Irish members were
sent TO Parliament, eighty-five OF them
were sent TO support our cause, ana now
the English Government insists on gov
erning our country in the face OF the OPP
position Of these eighty-five men. They
will deny these rights for which your
fathers fought They would reduce the
country TO the condition of Russia and
place her under the rule of landlords
! Misses and bowls.
We can say for the defense of our
party that during the last ten years En-
! gland has not been able To buy any one
| OF our number In 1850 we undertook
! % make an effort TO free our people, and
to-day we have placed i'm the hands of an
unarmed people "A mighty power We
! have made them more than match for
Balfour and his men. For ten years we
have been struggling. and twenty-five or
| our men have been prosecuted and inn
prisoned, but not one OF them has com
mtted an act for which he would be i'm
| priSOned in one of your States.
We have been subjected TO a police
system the like Of which is not found on
this earth. We will soon have a police
man 10 every citizen. When ] am home
! in Ireland am never without an escort,
! for my every step is watched. |. for my
] part, will never make an appeal for fam
! inc relief do appeal that the people
! will stand by us in this struggle
struggle TO destroy the perennial source
! OF famine, and set up in the Dublin Cas-
tie a government that will represent Ire
! land and Il government that will chase
/ from our shores that specter of famine
| and degradation. Mr.. Dillon was greeted
with prolonged cheers, and then Gov
/ ernOr Hill introduced William O'Brien,
/ who said:
We Irishmen never forget that there has
I always been one great nation that has SYM
/ pathy for rs. In every struggle you have
desired To assist us. and the instinct of hui
manity has caused you TO extend your
blessings To n country bound to you by so
many ties i have reason to know that
every expression OF American opinion eXer-
/ cises a growing influence over the opinion
l
Of the English people. Here you are hon
ored and respected. but we come from a
country where 5000 prisoners have been
/ treated like hogs
In "a few months the vast masses will be
I standing in the shadow OF famine at which
Mr.. Balfour has ijecred. We come for a
/ fighting fund. The landlords blight and
the Dublin Castle blight are worse than any
famine blight. The cid country OF Ireland
is crushed under wheels of oppression. We
have said we would never beg again for a
famine. We are fighting for our people,
and IL should be the pride OF every Irishman
To see that We are not defeated. We have
challenged Mr.. BalfOur TO name any in
stance in which he has been entirely sue
cessful against US, although he has perse-
cuted Us at every step.
A collection was then taken for the
cause. 1t was announced that the re-
ceipts Of the doors were ~ .OCO. SubscriD-
tons were called for and they swelled
the total receipts Of the evening to about
So, 900. The following were some Of
the largest subscriptions: Eugene Kelly,
$1,000; Joseph O'Donohue, 81, 900; Major
John Byrnes, $1,000; William r. Grace,
81 900; Mayor Grant, 81 .O00 Henry Me-
Aleenan, 81 900; Henry ID. Purroy, $500;
w. BOurke Cochran. $500: Governor Hill,
500: Colonel William Brown, 81 900.
Thomas u. OConnor was also received
the attempts of Balfour to suppress the
Irish cause. The Americans were now
striking the final blow. He predicted
that the accounts Of to-night's neeting
would be read all over England and Ire
land tomorrow, with Joy i'm the latter
place, but with fear in England. The
Irish, he said, had built the Notifications
OF Irish liberty and the Americans were
adding the pinnacle OF success to their
efforts at home.
Resolutions indorsing the cause OF
home rule and denouncing the policy OF
the tory government toward Ireland were
adopted. They concluded as follows:
Resolved. That believing home rule-the
granting o. local self-goyernment-is the
only guarantee OF peace To England and
prosperity To Ireland, we bid godspeed to-
William +. Gladstone and Charles Stewart
Parnell In their endcavors 10 settle on lines
OF equality and justice the problem that
centuries Of force have utterly failed To
solve and we pledge them our active.
earnest, unfaltcring support until the
struggle is over and the battle won.