The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-01-11
ON COERCION.
. Charles Stewart Parnell
Speaks on it at Not
tingham.
He is Royalty Received at a
Meeting Held in Al
bert Hall,
And Tells Some Plain
Facts About the
Government.
Landlords as Well as Moon
lighters Should Be
Controlled.
The Protestant Minority
Talk Is All for Po-
litical Purposes.
The Irish Catholics Are
The Irish Catholics Are
Not Intolerant or
Bigoted.

Mr.. Parnell delivered an nd.lsess M
the evening Of Dec. IL at Albert hail,
IN Nottingham, which the readers of THE
IRISH STANDARD cannot but appre-
ciate. Like the lectures and the SER
mons Of the late Father Tom Burke,
Parnell's addresses are always welcome
reading to this student Of Irish litera-
tu1e. A crowded house greeted him
and it was some time before cheering
and waving of handkerchiefs had COM
pletely subslded. On being introduced
by the chairman, Mr.. Parnell said:
Mr.. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen,
Ineed hardly assure you that the recep-
tion with which you have honored me
will rank amongst those which / shall
chiefly treasure during my life (cheers)
Believe me, such greetings as yours
will do more to keep the Irish people
within the Constitutions (hear, hear),
and the rash ones from the perpetration
of crime. than all the twenty wears of
coercion (hisses) promised when he was
last amongst you. We have had three
years of his coercion (shame) We have
had six centuries of it before he came,
administered by much stronger men
than Lord Salisbury. Lord Salisbury
has given us too little coercion. He
ought to have given us more or none at
all daughter have never argued
that it is impossible to govern Ireland
by pure coercion any more than it is
impossible to govern any other country
by pure coercion thear, hear); but have
always maintained that YOU cannot
simultaneously rule by coercion and
under Parliamentary system. If you
established pure desp0tlsm and took
away the Irish representation, and went
on for twenty or thirty years admins
tering equal justice to all classes, then
perhaps you might succeed. If the
Irish landlords were controlled with a
firm hand outside the law and the Con-
stitution, while the moonlighters of
Kerry were equally controlled, that
would be equal justice, and that might
succeed. But you cannot succeed by
the kind Of mixture that is going on in
Ireland at present under Mr.. Balfour.
MIR. BALFOUR's MISTAKES.
Now, the present Chief Secretary is
Teckoned BY his supporters to be very
able man. I am disposed to think, as
one who has not taken part in this
struggle in Ireland since Mr.. Balfour
went there, that he made about as
niany and as large mistakes as it was
possible for anyone to make in the
time (cheers). He made the first mis-
take-he and his Government between
them = when he rejected the bill for the
relief Of Irish tenants, which had the
honor to bring before the House of
Commons in the autumn Of 1885. He
made the second mistake in the follow
ing session, WREN, after having been
forced bY the Plan of Campaign (three
cheers for the Plan) to bring forward a
hill mod delled on the; lines Of mine re-
\ Sscted in the session before, he left out
revision for the arrears and restora-
lon az eYicted tenants (hear, hear. ]