Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-16
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE
ey THr CELEBRATED eHAunest
brpEW
Review Of The History OF the DEAD
Statesman What lie Accom-
plished for His Country.
W l"lsgfArh 90 me NENst
CHARLIE. srEwAnr ptNNELr.
'hAnnee, Depew Eaiagises she Lst.
Irish Leader.

'hAnneey Depew Eaiagises she Late
Irish Leader.
NEW NuRN, Nov. i5.-servlces In
The mumuty n the late Charles stew.
art Psrncll were held tonight In the
Academy N Music. Chauncey Drpew
wa the rulogist. Delegation from tho
IRISH societies VI New York were ON
The platform and representative from
Philadelphia, Boston, New Haven
aud bridgeport paid tiibutc by their
presence.
Tho orator was greeted with earnest
applause. The following are extracta
from tue Oration; owe are hero 10
gay tribute 20 tho memory Of man
who made an indelihlc impression up
on hia times aud performed lncalcu.
lablo services Tor his county" said
Mt. Depuw. DIN this audience are
lHyhmcn NJ all croeis aud widely d.
versnnt vlcwH ON questions affecting
ireland, who for the evening and this
occasion lay aside their antagonlsnis
and plant Hover upon the grave OF
one Of tho most eminent Of their race.
'Iho weakness aud errors OF great Lead
oss are an inscparsblo part OF the els.
mrnta which Affect their fortunes
while llving, but, when they are dead,
the sum VI their services 10 thuir people
IA their monument. a career crowded
with battles, prosecutions, imprison.
monts, defeats aud trIumphs, concen.
trailing IN one individuality the hopes
aud iuals, the passions and resent.
menlH ola nation for centuries, could
not cnd without leaving behind con.
Iovor-ius which time and oppD ftunity
alone can heal"
The speaker then reverted TO Iro.
lands turbulent history before the bs-
ginning VI tho present century, at
which time the history Of modern
Ireland begun. After the war aud
devastation In other European coun.
tries, there followed peace, rucupers-
Ton prosperity. "lTeland f0Tms "A
solitary exception 10 tho benuficcnt
power ofpoacc. Her story IL tho para.
dox of nations. When most at rest
she has suffered the most misery"
These results, Mr.. Depcw held, were
due ~ what Gladstone recently
characterized ~ Centuries of wrong.O
"Forms OF selfgovornment. without
the spirit OF liberty, work greater In.
! Justice than absolutisnn. The nutocrat
can bo forced 10 listen to tho cry VI his
people, hut whom they arc mlsrepre-
sento'ii OF not represented nj all, In tho
Federal Congress, they have no voice.
There wn no possibility of the I'm.
pcfial Parliament bearing, knowing or
caring for the wrongs or aspirations OF
Ireland until Parncll compelled pgriia-
ment 10 hear and know aud care. Par.
nell had neither oloquence nor genius,
but he possessed the tireiess energy,
the grasp OF his surroundings and tile
dlrcctness u aim which command the
business senateH " our day.
"In a representative government
composed Of different States IN. pride
OF empire, the feeling ~ nationality
/ will always combine the united force
Of the whole against the effort OF any
| part ~ violently disrupt the State,
While the fight lasts anu the fever Of
nationality Is on they will be blind and
deaf 10 the Just demand OF the dissatis.
/ fled member. A necessity Of "a dis
/ affected AID injured commonwealth Is
"a competent and incorruptiblc leader,
and united and loyal rupreseniatlo "a
In the Federal con gross.
at thehout when the prospect was
the darkest, aud tne Irish were
despalTing OF their cause, there appear.
ed upon the field n champion who pro.
seniod mons Of the eKternal Of hcroism
OF leadership. No herald trumpeted
| his coming, no applause greeted his
arrival. His comrades had not noticed
his presence, Tho enemy was no.
Awar. NJ hlH existence. Ho dlslikei TO
| speak, aud, whenever possible, avoid
ed the forum and tho platform. Hut
hc was 10 effectively voice the de-
mauds aud principles which had taxed
the resources Of the greatest orators ~
nation Justly famed for cloquencc.
| lie WAS cold, undem0ustratiye, self
pOssessod, imperturhahlc, yet lac be-
came the Idol Of the most impul-lyu OF
people"
Mr.. Depew followed Parneil through
his work NJ it- inception, when, with
/ ouly three who dared TO follow, ne Mt.
tRckcd 900 and odd en,renched in the
forms and traditions Of centuries. No
meas urc shall pass until the demands OF
| Ireland are granted, was his battle cry.
Tho uniismayed aud unruflled leader
stood with his little band across the
path OF public business, demanding
Justice for ireland. lie baiiied states
men who had led the House oi Com
nous for generations ny showing them
that they could neither stop nor sus.
pend nor eTpel, for he was acting
strictly upon their own rules.
Parnell's confinement at kilmAin.
ham Jail, his release upon his own
terms, and his triumphant return 10
the Commons were recalled. His de-
feat OF tn, Gladstone ministry was re-
viewed. "fhc conversion OF Gladstone
10 home Iulo for Ireland" said Mr..
Depow, "is the most momontous event
In English politics OF our great gener-
alton. He wont 10 defeat and out Of
power on tho issue and rs steadily kept
Il as rest Of iaith.'
The closing Of tho Grafton was In
ia tee terms.
at was parnell's task aud fame that
DO brought together i,O0O,O00 Of his
c0untrymen who had been Tor goners-
lions torn by bitter feudr among them
selves, and then converted thirty mill
lions Of an allen race and faith in tho
confederate states OF the empire 10 sao
the Justice Of his course and join in
demanding Of tho Imperial Parliament
that Ireland should be granted, for
her domestic affairs, self government
and homo rule. As the rays OF tbs
morning sun for coming ayes psneirats
the shades OF the cemetery Of Glssne.
yiu aud glance from the tomb Of o.
Council, the liboratOT, 10 the monument
| VI Parnoil, tue dsliyorer. may they