Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-30
GLADSTONE AND HIS BILL.

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A Big Mass Meeting OF Ireland's Friends
In New York Gables Encouleging
Message to the .Grand Old Man,
New YORK, March 27.-A message
was cabled to William E. Glads tone
Sunday night by the National Fedora
ton 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-
ton and the tens of thousands of Irish
men throughout America who are loyal
to their motherland.
The message was as follows:
"We, the citizens of New York, in mass meet
ing assembled, tender you our heartfelt SYM
patty in your efforts to achieve for Ireland the
long-sought-for measure of justice which we
trust God will enable you to speedily carry to
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 if 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 we'll, ounded pc
RODS and seconding his fnely-put mo-
tions for the support of the Gladstone
bill. Then the promi .ent persons in
the audience put down their names for
n proposed subscription of $50, 900 to
hal oil u;
was realized.
Mr.. Cochran said in part:
''Never in the history Of English statesman.
ship has there been triumph so great as that
of William Ewart Gladstone 1t was not a
triumph Of blood, cntailng tears and suffering,
but triumph of peaceful craftsmanship,
Glorious with the promise OF freedom;
it 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
decreed shall be accomplished Tonight we
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 a natiDn as
we'll as on an Individual No one can violate
the conditions Of nature without suffering the
penalties Enslan has abandoned the policy
of violence, the last chapter in the Ions, sad
story has been written. the informer ami the
hangman are 10 longer the opponents of Eng
lands policy to Ireland. the Jail and the gibbet
have ceased to play part in the struggle God
has at last vouchsafed an answer to tie petit
lions that have gone up to the throne
The liberty which Gladstone has restored
the Irish will ever guard as a sacred Inherit
ance. Forgotten are the injustice ami the op-
,0fS {,<x
They were inflicted by the masses of.tbe Eng
lish people. The injustice Of the chsses has
been repaid by the masses Stsnding to-
night upon the threshold Of independence Ire
land has no vengeance to be assuaged in
blood. She looks forward to a future radiant
with glorious promise, a future Of peace and
prosperity, of intellectual and commercial de.
velopment, future wherein the deay ing cities
shall spring into new life, deserted harbors
shall be filled with the argosies Of nations,
where the smoke of happy homes shall be as an
incense to a benefcient God"
Maj. John Byrne, Noah Davis and
DR.. William E.. Wallace spoke also,
and John Jerome Rooney read 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
the Irish movement Effectually continue
the work you did by timely assistance
at the general election. Gladstone's home
rule bill will pass the commons, but only by the
unremitting attendance of the Irish party.
The movement needs the prompt and generous
support of kinsmen and friends to Offset the
desperate efforts OF wealthy and powerful ene-
mics combined against Ireland. Greeting and
success to your great meeting on behalf of the
Irish party. JUSTIN MCCARTHY