The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-27

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Moore, could not be surpassed for
beauty of word painting. AS he spoke
the picture was brought "ividly to the
minds eye of his hearers whose hearty
applause but i'll expressed their keen
appreciation.
In his opening remarks Mr.. Redmond
said that he came here for an object
not political for he made no appeal for
any political party in England, Ireland
or America, but he came to make a
broad appeal to the American people to
do honor to one who was not only
great Irishman but a great man, one of
the men whose names live impershably
on that roll of fame made up of men of
all nations of the world who have cham
Npioned the weak and the afflicted and
lifted aloft the standard of freedom in
every land. He said that an appeal of
this kind could by no possibility be
failure in this land of generous in
stinets and noble emotions. ParnelPs
achievements were the property of low
ers of human progress and liberty in
every land He recalled how Parnell
took up the work dropped from the dy-
ing hand of O'Connell at a time when
a period Of trouble, oppression, misery
and political apathy had fallen upon
Ireland and when it seemed that all the
native energy of the Irish people was
destroyed For rs years Ireland had
waited with alternating hope and des-
pair for the coming of some man suf-
ficiently fitted by God and nature to
take up O'Connells work. The enter
ing of Parnell upon his public career
and the attending circumstances and
conditions now matter of history were
referred to. The constitutional move
ment under the circumstances was
the only one open to Parnell was suf-
fering from the discredit thrown upon
it by quarter of a century of cowardly
work of Irish public men. At that time
the gallant effort of the Fenian broth
erhood had been suppressed in blood
and it required a man of more than or
binary grit to face difficulties such as
those but Parnell did face them and in
three years entirely revolutionized the
entire political world Of England and
Ireland. Young and inexperienced and
without the gift of fuency he was not
only in a minority when he entered
Parliament but was in a hopeless, min
ority among the 102 Irish members,
having only six with him. In 1879 when
he started the Irish Land League there
was not to be found in the world a peo-
pie so poverty stricken as the farmers
of Ireland, although agriculture was
the one industry of the country.
The farmers held thir land under the |
most barbarous tenure that ever was in
the world. Here was a country that liv-
ed solely by agriculture and in 1879 less
was obtained from the land than in |
any other country of Europe 1t was the
land system that destroyed all enter
prise and effort of the people. If the
farmers produced more from the land !
than it had produced in the past, the |
rent would be increased under threat of |
eviction, which to that people meant alb
solute destruction as they could turn
to nothing else but agriculture and I'M
less the evcted farmer had the means
to emigrate q pauper was made. The
Irish then were the most poverty
stricken people In the world. In three
short years Parnell abolished the sys-
tenn root and branch and in 1881 sue
ceeded In passing an act which at once
destroyed the right of the landlord to
eviction and exacting exorbitant rents.
It gave the people protection in their
homes, encouragement to industry, and
since the passage of that act the land
8 better cultivated and the people are
'or the most part happy and contented
n their homes Mr.. Redmond referred
% the passage of the measure under
which a farmer could obtain from the
state the value of his holding at fair
ate of interest and to be returned at
,asy payments. Under that, instead of
paying one hundred dollars year for
ent. the farmer can buy the land by
paying only $50 year. He said: I'VE
IRISH people have never based our de-
nand for independence of Ireland upon
reed 1 believe that if Ireland had
greed to. live under the English flag