The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-25
IRELAND,s STRUGGLE REVIEWED

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 The audience which greeted the Hon.
 T. D. Sullivan. ex-lord mayor of Dub- lin, was very small, but 1t was as large as could be reasonably expected in such weather. The rain came down in sheets and continued without intermis- sion all the evening.
 Mayor Sargent introduced Mir. sul- livan in few choice remarks.
 MT. Sullivan said: must thank your mayor for his most extreme kindness in coming here on such an evening for the purpose of introducing me. I wish him many years of enjoyment of the esteem which he has won among New Haven's citizens.
 | The matters of which I intend to speak relate to the course of political events of fifteen years. The condition of the Irish people has greatly im- proved during my own recollection and I am glad to say that 1t is continuing to improve. I am glad to say that there is an opportunity in very short space of time of the satisfaction of every claim to which the Irish have a right.
 There has been a system of landlord ism in Ireland by which the people of Ireland were subject to the will of the landlord. There has been a system of eviction by which the landlord could eject the tenant of land at will. But there has been change in this but it was not because of the softening of the landlords heart. No! The Irish had the courage to protest against this sys- tenn and to resist it, and they did to the best of their ability until man was found in England who espoused their cause. You all know to whom I refer. You all know that I allude to the noble, the wise, the just, the great English statesman, William Ewart | Gladstone.
 MT. Sullivan referred to the laughable indignation of landlords at seeing their tenants attired in something besides rags. He told of one instance of a member of parliament, A w. Russell, who opposed one of the land bills This man had seen the daughter of an evict- ed tenant with fringe on her forehead and high-heeleds boots It turned out that high-heeled boots were as cheap as low-heeled ones and that the fringe was her hair.
 '"The Irish tenants saw that they must act. They organized and resolved that no one would take the farm from which another had been evicted, but would let it be idle. Then came action by the sagacious English statesmen (and there are many of them). These men saw that something must be done. But the English are a conservative people. They patched a little and re- paired a little, with the result that the condition of things has been much im- proved. But 1t is not perfect nor any, where near perfection. We will con- | tinue until we have changed the nature of things, and that time is approaching fast and it's speed is increasing as it hears. I have travelled through the length and breadth of England, and I know that the cause of Ireland has a hold upon the stalwart English work ing classes and that its eventual suc- cess is assured.
 '"The act of union has been the cause of strife and real disunion ever since it was enacted. The Irish people expect and demand the restoration upon the reasonable conditions which will re- store good and friendly feeling. T believe in universal friendship. I believe in peaceful and friendly settle ment of all matters of dispute. The English cannot stand before the world 1 with the blot of Ireland's condition on their banner. They cannot claim to be a liberty-loving and fair-minded people until they have fairly treated Ireland.
 "We have had coercive acts year af- ter year. They were not called by that name They were called acts for the better protection of property, and such as that. These acts were passed, how ever, only for a limited time. But the tory government of Lord Salisbury de cided to do away with the necessity Of this repetition. They passed one to last forever. They passed an act which made it a crime to. do anything which offended an Irish policeman. The trial by jury was denied In several cases. All who attended those meetings and spoke were arrested and tried by a magistrate who had decided to convict us before we were tried. a8
 'In that way the tory policy was fought out to the end. We never sur-: rendered, but kept our flag flying. The English began to get ashamed of the crimes that were being perpetrated in the name of England.
 "The liberal party was returned to- power and by the union of liberal Eng lishmen, Irishmen, Scotch and Welsh. And the house of lords rejected 1t with scorn and contempt. But the house of lords had done that before and they had to change the4x tune. Tn this case the house of lords will have to retrace5 its footsteps and gracefully accept the home rule bill. st
 T have referred to the house of lords Who are they And what are they? They are the relics of an ancient and barbarous custom They are heredita-