River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-03-30
GLADSTONE AND HIS BILL.
A Zig Mass Meeting OF freland's Friends
In New York Gables Encouraging
Message to the Grand Old Man."


A Zig Mass Meeting OF freIand's Friends
In New York cables an Encouraging
Message to the +" Grand Old Man."
New YORK, March 27.-A message
was eabled to William T. Gladstone
Sunday night by the National Fedora
ton of America pledging him their
most vigorous support ia his efforts to
carry through the home rule bin 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:
I'VE, the citizens OF New York, in mass meet
ing assembled tender you our heartfelt sym
paihy in your efforts to achieve for ireland the
long sOughtfor measure Of justice which
trust God will enable you TO speedily carry 10
a successful termination. and we pledge you our
vigorous and continued support through the
struggle. THOMAS Adds EMMETT,
MORGAN j. O'BRIEN,
JOHN BYRNE"
The audience could have been no more
enthusiastic il home rule were 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
RODS and seconding his finely-put mo-
tions for the support of the Gladstone
bill. Then the prominent persons in
the audience put down their names for
proposed subscription of $50, 900 to
help the measure along, and big sum
was realized.
Mr.. Cochran said in part:
''Never in the history Of English statesman
ship has there been a triumph So great as that
of William Ewart Gladstone. IL was not a
triumph OF blood, entailing te2rs ana suffering,
but triumph of peaceful craftsmanship,
glorious with the promise of freedom
il VAS not conquest Of ter
rit0ry but conquest OF hearts. We
are not assembled here TO discuss the measure,
but 10 voice the approval of the whole civilized
world on the measure which Gladstone has
proclaimed and which the English people have
decreed shan be accomplished. Tonight we
meet 10 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 a 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 are no longer the opponents Of Eng
lands policy 10 Ireland. the Jail and the gibbet
have ceased to play part in the struggle. God
has at last vouehsafed an answer to the petit
tons that have gone up 10 the throne
The liberty which Gladstone has restored
the Irish will ever guard as a sacred inherit
ancc. Forgotten are the injustice and the OPP
psession Of 100 years; forgiven are the wrongs
They were inflicted by the masses OF the Eng
fish people. The injustice OF the classes has
d linz
night upon the threshold OF independence Ire
land has no vengeance TO be assuaged in
blood She looks forward 10 n future radiant
with glorious promise, a future OF peace and
prosperity, OF intellectual and commercial de-
yelopment a future wherein the decaying cities
shall spring into new life, deserted harbors
shall be filled with the argosies of nations
where the smoke OF Happy homes shall be IA an
incense to a beneheient God"
Mai John Byrne, Noah Davis and
DIR. William L. Wallace spoke also,
and John Jerome Rooney read n 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:
I'VE learn with gratitude Of the efforts
OF yourself and the federation to help forward
the Irish movement Eiectually continue
the work you did by timely assistance
at the general election. Gladstone's home
rule bill viii pass the commons, but only by the
unremitting attendance of the Irish party.
The movement needs the prompt and generous
support OF kinsmen ana friends 20 offset the
desperate efforts Of wealthy and powerful enc
mics combined against Ireland. Greeting and
success TO your great meeting on behalf Of the
irish party. JUSTIN MCCARTHY