The morning news., 1890-11-11
A BIG RALLY FOR ERIN.
THE MEETING AT NEW YORK NETS
THE CAUSE $4,000.

Messrs. Dillon, O'Brien, O'Connor and
Sullivan the Speakers of the Even
ing Gov. Hill Presides at the Meet
ing-The Meeting Full of Enthusiasm
as Well as Generosity.
NEW YORK, Nov. lot was an enthu-
siastic audience Of more than 5000 people
that greeted the distinguished representa-
tive Of the Irish parliamentary
party at the immense Metro
politan Opera House this evening.
When John Dillon stepped out on the plat
form the galleries, orchestra and boxes
Wed in thunders of applause. The irish
party were escorted to the platform
by Gov. Hill, Mayor Grant, Recorder
Smyth, DIR. NJ. B. Wallace, Amos
j.; Cummings and Joseph J.
the meeting formerly to order and
introduced the president of the evening,
David b. Hill. Gov. Hill said it has been
said that the public influence of this coun-
try ought not to be expended with such
active interest in Irish affairs. This is the
sentiment of but few, and not the opinion
of the vast majority Of our people.
[Cheersl Our sympathies are Ameri-
can sympathies, and our money is our own,
and it is ours to dispose Of. The
welcome which we extend to these gentle
men tonight will not be exceeded any
where in this great country. New York
city extends welcome TO them, and the
great Empire state, which | have the honor
in part to represent, tenders a sincere and
hearty welcome.
Gov. Hill then introduced John Dillon as
the first speaker of the evening.
OBJECT OF THE VISIT.
Mr.. Dillon stood silent for several min
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hoarse. "The cause" said Mr.. Dillon, "for
which we have come here tonight isto
appeal to the people of America to assist the
Irish people in the right to
make their own laws and to ad-
minister the same. and % assist that
people to arise from the unparalleled and
formerly unheard of system of oppression to
which they are now subjected. The rights
and privileges that the Irish people. with
your assistance and support seek to attain,
are those that made this glorious country
what it is to-day. 1t is for these that We
have made bold to ask the free American
people to give us their aid.
There may be those who say that
Americans have no right to interfere with
the affairs of another nation, but we feel
justified in making this appeal because our
liberty has been denied. We are deprived
of what you, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy
so bountifully. 1t has been wrested from
US by brute force and tyranny, conducted
on most gigantic scale.
ERIN's LOSS OF POPULATION.
Oppression and tyranny has reduced our
population to 800, 900 people. No amount
| of corruption has been spared to tread our
| people under the heel of oppression. Who
says that Ireland is not justified in appeal
ing for aid from the free and liberty loving
| people, when we are struggling for
liberty against such terrific odds.
He who would deny us sympathy
is unworthy to be called a citizen of this
| great republic. During years of the rule of
our enemies in England ali the immense
patronage and powerful machinery of the
unionists were put into operation. Through
out these four generations of unionist rule
| frequent attempts to secure home
| rule were made, but all were un-
successful, and those who took an
| active part on the nationalist side,
| as is e notorious fact, forfeited all chance
| of life. They were crushed and driven into
exile or out of the country. Finally. under
the new franchise vote, Ireland got repre-
senta tion, whereupon all rights were denied
them, and things were reduced to level
below that of despotic Russia.
RULED WITH THE RAYoNET
Ireland, to-day, is governed in opposition
to the wishes of five-sixths of its inhabitants,
and the tory government holds AZ, 900 bayo-
nets to aid its oppressive laws The American
army, l believe, numbers $4,000. Yet
10000 bayouets are used to keep the people
quiet in Ireland, which is about equal in
size to the state of New York. aud all this
because the Irish people are apt to rule
themselves. Under the rule of the Unionist
party, the gallows and prison cells were
control of Ireland than they
had. That rule was shameful,
humiliating and disgraceful. IL caused
famine to be an institution Of Ireland re-
duced its people to rags, misery and degra-
dation. and under this rule the extra
dinary phenomena occurred of universal
decrease Of population and wealth through
out the whole of Ireland, while in every
other civilized nation on the globe popula-
tion and wealth increased by jumps and
bounds. This is the noble work that party
has to point to after eighty-six years OF
power.
FAMINE'S RECURRENCE.
The people can now look for q famine in
ireland every six or seven years. and this
in a country whose soil aud climate are the
best on earth. Ii the true state of affairs
were known in this country your hearts
would be wrung in sympathy for that
much-opDressed people. Grim starvation
exists always. The landlords have gotten op-
people on such verge of starvation that
the least failure Of the crops. such as occurs
periodically in other couptries without seri-
Gus results, occasions in Ireland famine and
starvation. There is never a year but there
is food enough raised IN Ireland to feed its
people, but it is shipped to England, and the
Irish are left to starve. This year
1 COO, 900, 900 bushels of good food will
be shipped from Ireland and its
own people left to starve. Col. Charles Cor
don, whom the E 1glish government all but
canonized, on letter which he wrote to the
London Times in 1880 after a visit to the
south of Ireland said that the people there
were broken down and desperate, living in
semi-starvation and in novels which the
English land owner would not use for his
cattle house. He added that while he was
not rich man he would give 81 900 to
Lord Bentlv, or any other Englishman,
if he would live on one of these novels for
year.
FORMATION OF THE LAND LEAGUE.
The speaker next alluded to the formation
of the land league in 1880. This was formed
by body of young men at its head. and
was carried on and fostered despite the fail
ures of similar movements made in 1S4S
1867, and those of Charles Gavan Duffy
and of the tenants rights party. In the
new movement the promoter knew Of these
failures and the causes that led to
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