Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1887-11-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BRADT-avow, who was received with lend cheer. .ing,-naid he did not propose to follow the speech of Lord Cress, recently delivered in West Hartlepool. •Lord Cross was an estimable gentleman, and an able man on anything he understood. (Laughter.). He would, therefore, confine himself to replying to the 'people who ought to tinder' stand what they were talking about. (Hear, hear.) The hen: gentleman then dealt at length with, Mr Balfour'e Birmingham speech. The , chief Secretary-far Ireland. he said, complained that the. "plan of campaign " was supported and kept alive by boycotters. Well, he was • against boycotting, and had a good many reasons for being against it. (Hear, hear, and applause.) He had been pretty freely boycotted himself, and was not going to petite a weaplon that had been used so effectually against himself and his • family. (Hear, hear.) But he would ask—Where,when, and bywhom was boyeettintinvented ? It was no‘invented by the Land League, by Mr Parnell, nor even by Daniel O'Connell; it was not invented by the White Boys, nor the Peep-o'-Day Boys, but by the respectable English Tories. (Hear, hear.) They had evidence of this iu statutes passed by the old Tories, which, although repealed, were still upon the records of the country. (Hess, hear.) Did not they forbid marriage with the Irish peasant within .the .pale and without, and made the solenaniaing of such a marriage by a priest a capital offence? Was not that boycotting? It might be said that that was a long time ago, but, unfortunately, crime bore its fruit through many generations, and the example then set by the Tories of the past was only being followed to-day. (Hear, hear.) After boycotting their trade by allowing nothing to land in Ireland which did net first come through England, they then went in for religious boycotting. They made marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant illegal, and if performed by a Catholic his property and his life were at the mercy of the people. It was not 'murder to kill him. This law enabled an honest Protestant to pay his debts to a Catholic without paying them at all. (Laughter.) If an honest Protestant got into debt with a Catholic by borrowing or buying, all he had to do was to offer the,Catholic the Oath of Abjuration, which he could not accept, and that was as good as twenty shillings in the pound. (Laughter.) ,li it was proved he had refused the oath he was compelled tO fly the country, and his property was any man's. He was gifen a limited period 'in which to leave the country; he bad to travel at a certain pace or speed, although there were no railroads then, and was compelled, by going daily up to his hips in the -sea, to prove that he had dune what he could to find a ship, to take him away. That was boytotting with a vengeance. , (Applause.) The ills of Ireland were too chronic to be cured in a day. (Hear, hear.) They were of too old a growth, Cud even if they had Home Rule to-morrow he did not envy the lives of the men who should have-to apply the measure. (Hear. hear.) But Home Rifle was opening the door to the Irish p krle to cure Irish wrongs, and that was the only way they could ever hope to see an improvement in that country. (Applause.) The very fact that when the House of Commons passed a measure, tutd added at .the end of it, " This shall not apply to Scotland or to Ireland," showed that these countries needed different legislation. (Applause.) /n conclusion, Mr Bradlaugh made 4. touching allusion to the part played in this great question by Mr Gladstone, who stood, he said, head and shoulders above the pigmies by whom- be was surrounded. (Load and prolonged cheering.) Ireland would accept tees from his hands with thankfulness than it would from the hands of any other statesman whom they thought might be moved by fear. 4Loud applause.) Mr Gladstone needed all their strength, sympathy, and support to assist him in his great work. (Cheers.) He would suggest, therefore, that the meeting , pass a resolution of sympathy with the Irish people in their struggle for liberty, and with Mr Gladstone in his great and gran work. (Loud cheers-.)—Mr W. It. OWEN, Who WWI loudly called for, then moved a resolution to the above effect, which was seconded by Mr G. H. BASSES, and carried unanimously, the meeting terminating with cheers for Mr (31adatone and the Liberal party.—Copies of the resolution are to be sent to the borough member, Mr Thos. Riehardson, Lord Salisbury, and Mr Balfour.  of-I+  PIVATrCAL A'rTACICS CIN ENOL/Sil