The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-22
IRISH M. P.'S WARMLY
 RECEIVED IN NEW YORK
RECEPTION AT CARNEGIE HALL BY THE UNITED IRISH
 LEAGUE.

T. IF. o'ConnOr Draws Pathetic Picture
 of the Former Irish Harvest Man and
 His Efforts to Earn Living-Proph-
 esies That Within Ten or Fifteen
 Years the Land Question Will Have
 Disappeared COrrects Published
 Statement of What He said Concern
 ing President Roosevelt.
 New York, Oct. 2.-A reception was rendered T. P. O'Connor and his asso- ciate members of parliament from Ire land, Edward Blake,, Thomas J. Kettle and Richard Hazleton, at Carnegie hall tonight by the United Irish league. Supreme Court Judsuc Martin c. Keough was chairman of the meeting seated with the visiting members of parliament were Michael J. Ryan, pres ident of the United Irish league of Philadelphia, Mgr. Lavelle, and others.
 Mir. OConnor was warmly greeted. He said he recognized that those pres ent had right to ask him what his party had been doing for Ireland. Many of them, he said, had seen two different Irelands one, within the memory of some was an Ireland of slaves. MT. O'Connor then told of the slavery of the Irish people as he knew them as d boy. To-day, he said, one- third of the soil of Ireland was owned by the Irish tenantry.
 Most of the men could not have lived, said MT. OConnor, had they not been able to cross to England and earn money working in the harvest fields. He then drew most pathetic picture of the Irish harvest man and his ef- forts to earn a living.
 To-day, he said the men formerly slaves walked like free men in a free land Within ten or fifteen years MT. O'Connor said, the land question will have disappeared, and then with clean, comfortable and happy homes, the old Ireland will be thing of the past.
 The English government, he said, was preparing sme sort of home gov ernment for Ireland, which would be presented at the next session of parlia- ment, but what it was he did not know. However, he added, they would accept nothing but an Irish executive respon- sible to an Irish assemblage only
 MT. OConnor said he was in America to obtain moral and material support, and that the moral support was needed as much as the material. Mir. O'Connor also said during his address;
 At this point must make q correc- ton of a report which in one respect, am sure. does not represent what l said ill a speech in Brooklyn last night, did not state that President Roosevelt would say something on the Irish ques- tion which may make possible the re- alization of our hopes. If l had made any such statement I would have said something which I had no warrant
 What I did say was that the English masses and the Irish masses both con- slider him as the man who made peace between Russia and Japan, and that both regard him as friend and that the day might come when they would welcome him as one of the mediators in trying to end the day of lamentable arrangement between the English and Irish people"
 Mr O'Connor closed with spirited appeal to the American Irish citizens to assist in this critical moment of Ire lands history.
 President Michael J. Ryan, of the United Irish League of Philadelphia, made vigorous appeal for funds for the Irish cause. MT. Bryan told how the members of parliament not only served without pay but were compelled to bear their own travelling and election expenses. MT. Ryan then announced several contributions and called for oth- CTS. Subscriptions ranging in amount from $25 to $1,OOO were immediately forthcoming until the total reached more than $2O,0O0.