The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-19
WELCOME TO IRISH LEADER
HON. JOHN E. REDMOND, M. F., AT
 THE HYPERION.

lA G h AAlO0s Audience Filled the Theater and Cheered the Speaker to the Echo-Spoke on s.Ths Revolution of -Banquetted at the Tontine at the Close of Lecture--Many Well Known Citizens Present.
 Ireland's foremost orator and states- man, John F. Redmond, member of the house of commons from Waterford City, Ireland, was welcomed to this city last evening by a large and sym pathetic audience. Nearly all the seats in the Hyperion were occupied, while on the platform with the speaker were many of the most prominent men of the { city. The names of the vice presidents have been already published in this paper Seated on the left of the sepaker was Mayor Farnsworth and on his right Colonel John G. Healy temporary chairs man and Colonel Norris G. Osborn per- manent chairman of the meeting.
 Colonel Osborn made a brief speech, introducing MT. Redmond. As the lat ter arose to speak the audience in the theater from the orchestra to the far1l- fly circle broke into tremendous ap- plause. It was but the first installment of the applause that followed the speaker throughout his lecture. MT. Redmond possesses the personal ap- pearance. voice and power of graphic description and impassioned utterance Which mark the popular orator. Before beginning his lecture he expressed his qualification at being in New Haven and at having had the opportunity to visit Yale, whose representatives he re- called having met at the centenary celebration of the University of Duhlin.I
 The announcement of the subject of his lecture, "The Revolutionary Period ill Ireland One Hundred Years Ago,sss was received with great applause, as Were also the names of the leaders in that revolution, Robert Emmett, Theo- bald Wolf Tone and others whom the speaker had occasion to refer to in his lecture. Among the reasons given by him for speaking on the subject were that he had known and associated with men who had had a hand in the revolu- tion, had always lived among the scenes of it and counted among his ancestors those who had fought for Ireland's lib-- erty at that time. T have been taught to- regard" said he, every one of these scenes as memorial to heroes, and nearly every sod as a heroes sepulcher. It would be impossible to deal with th6 revolution in all it's details in one lec- l. ture. It would require series of lec- lures, and that the subject be divided into four or five different heads. Un- der one of these would come the ever memorable effort to gain independe denrA for Ireland by the aid of Franc. It iS no place to discuss the wisdom or folly of the three attempted invasions and their successive failures. The honor of bringing the French to the aid of Irs.- land belongs to the young patriot Theo- bald Wolfe Tone. Overcoming all 5isfi- culties he went to France, ingratiated himself into the good graces of atiiss1 tiie French directory and at last got them to dispatch large naval force to Ire- land. A storm scattered this fleet. so3 that but small number of them reached the coast of Ireland. AS the commander was ordered not to land his forces until all the vessels should arrive
 
 vasion came to naught. Wolfe Tone was on board one of the vessels that reached the coast He endeavored with but without avail, Among the relics of Wolfe Tone, treasured by his granddaughter and great grandchil- dren, who are now living in New York, saw the other day the proclamation hi hoI ~+ time, proclaiming independence for Ire-l land.
 Undaunted by this failure. Tone se- cured the fitting out of two other naval expeditions. A small force from the first of these landed, but after a gloIi- ous struggle was obliged to abandon the attempt. The third naval expedition was scattered by a tempest. One ves- sel on which was Tone himself was captured by a fleet of English vessels after fierce struggle. Tone, who was in French generals uniform. was made known to the English by per- fdious schoolmate. He was loaded with irons. heaped with all manner of indig- mites and taken to Dublin, where he met his death."
 The speaker said the origin of the< reVOlullOn was 10 pc lOuLO III eTIdttuii Ss efforts to secure an Irish parllament.s When Gfatton and his followers aban- doned this movement in despair in 1791' the Society of the United Irishmen was formed by Wolfe Tone and Emmet. both protestants. The falsity of the charge frequently made that the. revolution was a papal one is shown. by the fact that 106 out of 162 of the leaders in that revolution were protest ants and only 56 Catholics.
 The speaker then showed by quota tions from the letters of Costlereagh and Cornwallis how the English gov ernment had purposely precipitated the revolution before it was ripe in order that it might the more easily suppress it. This revolution was put down in the most cruel and relentless manner The speaker then detailed some of the bar barities of the English troops and sew eraI instances of heroic devotion and suffering by patriotic Irishmen. The orators closing words were what lesson to posterity is there in this revolution which failed? It failed, but the men who fought in it failed endeavortng to shake off an intolerable tyranny It has been we'll said: "They never fail who die in great cause" Tle mem ory of the patriots of 17eS is of price less character. Some of us may see the