The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-22
FAILED TO RAISE $4,000.
IRISHMEN AT O'CONNOR RECEP-
TION GIVE S2I,I5O.

Tay Pay Appeals for Aid for the Homeland
and an EfTOr 10 Made TO Beat the
Philadelphia Record Three Other
visiting Members OF Parliament Speak.
The reception given 7. p. O'Connor and
he other visiting Irish members Of Parlia-
ment by the United Irish League in Car
negie Hall last night was noisy and enthu-
siastic. An effort was made to exec ID the
$780, 600 collected in Philadelphia last week
for the cause Of the Irish party in Parlia-
ment.
Justice Martin J. Keogh was chairman Of
the meeting. With him on the platform
sat Michael j.. Ryan, president of the United
Irish League of America: Mgr. Mooney,
Vicar-General OF New York; Mgr. Lavelle OF
| st. Patrick's Cathedral, Col. Duffy OF the
Sixty-ninth Regiment and his staff in full
uniform. and four Indian gentlemen. The
Indians, 80 the chairman explained
attended the meeting to represent the
sympathy OF oppressed India for Ireland
fighting for political freedom.
T. p. O'Connor, Edward Blake, Thomas
j. Kettle and Richard Hazelton, all M. Ps.
and members Of the Irish party in Parlia-
ment. spoke. Tay Pays address was
largely a review OF the betterment that
had been made in the economic conditions
of the Irish people since he was a boy.
He assured his listeners that with the
abolition Of the landlord system and the
consequent Improvement in the material
things that make for good living Ireland
had now only to throw of the political
shackles that have fettered her.
Parliamentarians do not draw pay, he
explained, as they do in this country, and
the labor that is dom by Irish champions
in Parliament has to be lone at great
sacrifice. As q consequence money was
needed to advance the cause OF home rule
in Commons, and / 1was money, O'Conno
freely admitted, thai he wanted most night
now.
Tay Pay was followed by Michael J.
Ryan, who delivered a whirlwind speech
that touched the ready enthusiasm of his
listeners as we'll as their pursestrlngs
Philadelphia had raised $50 900 in one hour,
he said, and New York should do the same
and go that city one better.
Within fifteen minutes after Mr.. Ryan
a finished his speech between $751; 600 and
$40. 900 had been collected from the audience
and 1t looked as IL before all the returns
were in Philadelphia would be outdone. A
partial list OF the contributors and the dona-
lions they made follows:
P. F. Collier. 81. 900; James Butler. 81 900
Bourke Cochran, $3.50; certain residents
OF Brooklyn, 5000; Peter Mcdonald. $500;
Patrick Gallagher. $500; P. A.. OFarrell.
$500; John Mitchell. $500; Michael o. B.
Dalton. $500; Archbishop Farley. $3.50;
Sixty-ninth Regiment, $3.50; the Rev. DR..
Brann, 500; John E. Milholland. 500;
Cork Mems Association. slOO; Mayo Mems
Association. Slo0; Brian Boru Association.
$500; Samuel Adams. 500; Stephen NoFsF-
This is one occasion where the women
may VOTE" said President Ryan while
men were passing through the hall with
the hall took Mr.. Ryan at his word and
dropped in their donations. The reading
OF the names Of the contributors was 40
oompanied by a constant roar OF applause.
Father Ducey threw two envelopes from
n rHS contained $50 from an Irish
American and the other $50 from an Ameri-
can" Father Ducey's own contribution
was 500.
Justice Keogh came to the front Of the
stage Just before young Richard Hazleton,
M. p, arose TO speak n to great applause
announced that so far the amount subscribed
at the meeting, most Of which had been
paid in cash or by check, was S2l $50.
That $3.50 is a nest egg which s to grow
into the second $40, 600" said Mr.. Ryan,
and there was more applause.
During the evening. T. p. O'Connor
handed to the reporters the following state
ment, which he also read in the course
of his address on the land question:
At this point / must make q correction OF a
r~eport-which did not appear, however. In
all the local papers-which tn pure inadver-
tence I am sure does not represent what ]
said in a speech in Brooklyn last night. ]
did not state that in q short time President
Roosevelt would say something on the Irish
question which may make possible the realza-
ton OF Irish hopes. II l had made any such
statement I should have said somethingfoI
which l had no warrant.
What 1 did say was that the English masses
and the Irish masses both reverenced him
as the man who had made peace between
Russia and Japan; that both regarded him
as a friend, and that the day might come
when It would be ready to welcome him az
one Of the mediatOrs in brinRing to an end the
day Of lamentable estran gemen between
the Irish and English people.