The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-02-13

disposed TO submit to their condition
pcaceably, but to resist by arms
was hopeless. They took desperate
means that never succeed, but who
could wonder that men in despair
should do so? As scripture says,
oppression will drive even n wise
man mad. Long before Parncll was
heard from the Ribbonmcn and
other organizations were active and
blood marked the years rs it has
not done any year of the present
agitation. The Irish parliamentary
party came on the scene under cir
cumstances not paralleled in the ex-
pericnce of any public men. They
had a people who from long expert
ence believed that ordinary means
of redress were closed TO them.
Many of them sacrificed their homes
to send men to Westminster to beg
for relief. They saw these very men
sell them for the gold of England
which was poured out without stint.
The party had two courses open to
them. One was TO do nothing but
let the determination of their race
90 on unchecked. The other was
to make one last effort to save the
remnant of their people. Their
party had to win the confidence of
Ireland for an attempt to secure
help from Parliament. AFTER ten
years of this struggle the position of
affairs was that the people were not
any longer at the absolute mercy of
the landlords, and the time was past
when thousands of people could be
sent to prison for no crime. Now
the people arc iirmer seated on the
land of Ireland, but little more
is required to be done. While so
much had been done, yet \ far
greater work had been achieved,
whose majesty could not he under
stood outside Of Ireland. 1t was IN
the speakers day hard to get the
people to take any interest in the
polls. After these ten years they
had succeeded in winning the peo-
pies faith to their constitutional
methods, they had secured the adj
hesion of the people to their cause
without recourse to arms or violence.
They had attached to their views the
great body of their countrymen in
the United States and Australia,
gaining for Ireland's four and half
millions the support Of the eight
and half million Irish of America
and the million of Australia. They
; had led Irishmen TO hope in the etil-
cacy of reaching the hearts of their
English brethren, until now an Eng
lishman is welcomed on an Irish
platform and an Irislman on an
English platform, They had in ten
/ years largely removed feeling of
, hatred between the two peoples
, which had existed for eight CEN
, turtles. Mr.. Dillon here apologised
for the time he was taking, but was
urged by calls from round the table
to proceed. lie said they had sue.
, ccedcd in winning the sympathies OF
, the great bulk of the English
4 Scotch, and Welsh people. One OF
e their greatest distractions was the
E campaign of faisehoods supported
e by wealthy enemies, so that the con
s test had become, in Mr.. Gladstone.
h phrase, 4 fight "between the masses
: and tho classes" Mr.. Dillon tol(
t how this campaign had been waget
: against him in his tour of the Colo
t MES, the daily papers before every
G meeting containing dispatches, many
t of them false, designed to prejudice
G the people against the cause. Ont
# agent had received $4,000 and hi
It expenses to follow them up. Bu
O against all that he might say he hat
o travelled through England and fount
It that the working classes VINO Opposed
# their greatest enemies, the priv
e legged classes-the common peopl
IS who gained the repeal of the cor
!, laws-were warmly in their favor
J. They would give Mr.. Parnell o
It himself as good reception as Mr.
q Gladstone. lie referred to the cas-
v Of Tipperary as an appalling lnstanc
d Of Irish wrongs, where the peopl
Ic were forced to abandon the tow
81 every stone of. which they built, bu
" the amount Of trouble the peopl
: now endured was nothing to wh0
ir their ancestors had to undego, an
" that without any hope OF relief
q The struggle was now drawing near
G. glorious termination. II was
ID struggle in which all was fair an
ID honorable, to which those who CT
70 gagged in it would look back wit
he pride. II anything was wanted
q encourage the Irish people in the
&c distress, it was in the bond of SYN
S, pathy that he had found girdlin
T. the earth. Wherever the Englis
70 flag floats there are people who:
r hearts beat in sympathy with TIL
S. cause of Ireland. Mr.. Dillon 8,
Id down amidst loud and prolOnge
re applause.
y, Mr.. L. A. McInerny in a grac
ill full speech proposed the health
c. "His Majesty the King" He rea
to a letter from the Chamberlain, Co
it G. W. Macfarlane, expressing b
en- command His Majesty's regret
mt not being able to join in the rcccl
e. ton to the guests of the evening
NJ 'rho nrnnopar ralotoI tka Eipu,c T.