The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-19

by a man in Europe day or two ago as
follows: III you don't release lyman you
will" Here the mans speech broke OF,
but the stop was significant. He added:
IF you allow him to be extradited into
England wrongfully and unlawfully then
take the consequences.
''Irishmen must learn to talk like that
German, or whoever he was" continued
the Judge. "Work is what you want and
determined warning to those people
that if they don't release those prisoners
something may drop, and l don't care a
continental what drops"
This warlike declaration of the speaker
was greeted with cheers.
James G. Neaion suggested that pub
lie indignation meeting might do some
good in letting the Irish people know all
over the world that their country men and
were up and doing; but he was not sure
whether that would be enough to justify a
public meeting.
The public meetings of the past had ac-
complished but little good. At present
money was needed, and not speech
making. He suggested that there should
be no delay in extending the needed aid,
and that the chair should appoint one
person for every irish society in the State
TO form an executive committee.
Thomas Zimmerman spoke of what he
called 1.-THE Infamous, the awful hypocrisy
Of England, who, through Lord Russell,
had deprecated the horrors of war and
suggested arbitration"
Gladstone came in for slap. The
speaker said that the grand old man"
whose heart was now bleeding for the
Armenians, had not lifted finger during
the last ten years to alleviate the suffer
ings of the tortured political prisoners in
English dungeons.
Mr.. Bannerman contrasted the easy
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Irish prisoners. "Yet Jameson" said
the speaker, event in with band of ruff
fans to invade the homes of a peaceful
and industrious people, who had made the
African desert blossom as the rose. This
dog, this infamous fellow is well treated
in prison.
alt is time to stop talking. We have
become ridiculous in the eyes of the world
because of too much talking. We are a
nation OF takers. Let US talk no more
This Irish whine has been going on too
long. l feel that l owe an apology TO my
country for taking any active part at all in
Irish politics."
Mr.. Bannerman concluded by saying
that he had met Charles Stewart ParnelI
in New York City, and found him to be a
unique character and man well quail
fed to inspire confidence. He had fol-
lowed Parnell during his life time, "and
Parneh was crushed by the Irish people
at the dlctatlon OF an Engllshman.
Secretary Stafford. read a communica-
ton from NJ. P. O'Connor advising that
the facts of the late dynamite scare be in
vestlgated, and the alleged discovery of a
dlabolical plot by Irishmen to murder the
Queen of England and to commit other
horrible and meaningless atrocities with
the object of showing the nature and pur-
pose of the so-called dynamite plot, so
that the Irish revolutionists might be set
right before the American people.
The writer was convinced that when the
true history of the matter became known
it would be found that the plot was
Matched in Scotland Yard and not in the
brain of P. J. lyman. The thing smelled
too strongly of Guy Fawkes, in the
writer's opinion, and was lacking in the
meritorious quality of originality.
while l cannot characterize too
strongly the man who would sacrifice the
lives of human beings not engaged in
warfare l would say that in com parison
with England's cruel treatment of her
political prisoners the deed of the dyna-
inter becomes a meritorious act"
The chair was authorized to appoint an
executive committee of fifteen at large
and one from each Irish society in this
State.
The meeting adjourned until next
Thursday evening.