Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-01
GLADSTONE AND HIS BILL.
A Big Mass Meeting OF Ireland's Friends
In New York Cables an Encouraging

a B1g MaSb meeting Oh lreinnuS
In New York Gables Encouraging
Message to the "Grand Old Man."
New YORK, March 27.-A message
was cabled to William d. Gladstone
Sunday night by the National Fedora
tion of America pledging him their
most vigorous support i'll his efforts to
carry through the home rule bill and
expressing alike the sentiments of the
thousands who had gathered at the
academy of music to indorse this ac-
tion and the tens of thousands of Irish
men throughout America who are loyal
to their motherland.
The message was as follows:
1--WE, the citizens of New York, in mass meet
ing assembled, tender you our heartfelt SYM
pathy in your efforts to achieve for Ireland the
long-soughtfor measure of justice which we
trust God will enable you to speedily carry to
q successful termination, and we pledge you our
vigorous and continued support through the
struggle. THOMAS Adds EMMETT,
"MoRGAN j. O'BR1EN,
JOHN BYRNE"
The audience could have been no more
enthusiastic il home rule were a thing
of the present. Congressman Bourke
| Cochran, who made the principal adj
dress, spoke in such hopeful strain
that his hearers were kept busy shout
ing approval of his well-rounded pc
riods and seconding his fnely-put mo-
tions for the support of the Gladstone
bill. Then the prominent persons in
the audience put down their names for
n proposed subscription of S50,00O to
help the measure along, and big sum
| was realized.
Mr.. Cochran said in part:
| t., ,fI ;gl,
| ship has there been triumph so great as that
| of William Ewart Gladstone. 1t was not u
| triumph of blood, entailing tears and suffering,
| but 9. triumph OF peaceful statesmanshp,
glorious with the promise of freedom;
IL was not conquest of ter
ritory, but a conquest of hearts We
are not assembled here to discuss the measure,
but to voice the approval of the whole civilized
world on the measure which Gladstone has
proclaimed and which the English people have
decrecd shall be accomplished. Tonight
meet to indorse the policy of emancipation
which has been substituted for the policy of
| oppression,
england has at last awakened to the feeling
that the moral law is binding on u nation as
well as on an individual No one can violate
the conditions of nature without suffering the
penalties. ENGLAND has abandoned the policy
Of violence, the last chapter in the long, sad
story has been written, the informer and the
hangman no longer the exponents Of Eng
.ands policy to Ireland the Jail and the gibbet
have ceased to play part in the struggle. God
has at last vouchsafed an answer to the petit
tions that have gone up to the throne.
The liberty which Gladstone has restored
the Irish will guard as sacred Inherit
ance. Forgotten are the injustice and the op-
preston of 200 years; forgiven are the wrongs.
They were inflicted by the masses of the Eng
.ish people. The injustice of the classes has
been repaid by the masses Standing to-
night upon the threshold of independence Ire
and has vengeance to be assuaged in
blood. She looks forward to a future radiant
, with glorious promise, n future of peace and
,, prosperity, of intellectual and commercial de-
L yelopment u future wherein the decaying cities
= shall spring into new life, deserted harbors
shall be filled with the nrgosies of nations,
, where the smoke of happy homes shall be as an
!, incense to a beneficient God"
Maj John Byrne, Noah Davis and
DR.. William H. Wallace spoke also.
and John Jerome Rooney read a poem.
, The governors of Virginia, New York.
Washington, Mississippi, Missouri,
. Massachusetts, Vermont Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arkansas, Wis
consin, Connecticut, Delaware, Min
nesota, Maryland and Michigan sent
!, messages of sympathy with the move
ment for the freedom of Ireland.
: A dispatch to President Emmett
: from Justin Mccarthy evoked en-
thusiasm. 1t was as follows:
1--WE learn with gratitude of the efforts
: of yourself and the federation to help forward
e the Irish movement. Enectually continue
~ the work you did by timely assistance
. at the general election Gladsto tones home
rule bill will pass the commons, but only by the
e unremitting attendance of the Irish party
# The movement needs the prompt and generous
l. support of kinsmen and friends to offset the
desperate efforts of wealthy and powerful enc
o mics combined against Ireland. Greeting ant
success to your great meeting on behalf of tn,
Irish party. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, 4