Show t i HENDRICKS ON IRELAND 1 I Au Eloquent Speech by the Vice f President Oil the Wrongs of the Green Ilc INDIANAPOLIS September SAt the Parnell meeting held here last night VicePresident Hendricks loke j as follows fol-lows Always whatever zna be her condition i condi-tion Ireland will find devoted and steadfast stead-fast friends in the United States This is no contest between navies or betwomi armies but one for tho establishment of I good government in Ireland And very j I specially do I enjoy participating and joining with you Irishmen and Irishwomen Irish-women in expressing the sentiments you express on this occasion What shall be the government of Ireland For many years it has not been a controverted question ques-tion that Ireland has been dealt hardly by It is known the world over that Ire land from the days of Henry L until this hour has not had fair play from Great Britain On the contrary she has been denied the rights equal citizenship mid has been despoiled of her lands Every Irishman here tonight and everyJrish man in America is a protest against the bad governing of England toward Ireland Ire-land How is it that you are here haying hay-ing left almost THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LAND IN THE WORLD Perhaps no part of this globe is more at tractive than Ireland You are here because be-cause you could not get good government in Ireland Fortyfive years ago the population l of the Green Isle was yuuuuuu or peoplea large population for a country only the size of Indiana and today after a lapse of fortyfive years that population is only 5000000 a loss in less than half a century of 4000 000 of peoplealmost an entire half of i the entire population gone from Ireland I I know the famine of 1843 had much to do with this but the bad government and cruelties by her landlords have done more than famine and pestilence to depopulate de-populate the beautiful isle 1 would say it is a serious matter when a man or woman chooses to leave a home that has been the home of their forefathers for many centuries And when on account of bad government unjust laws and a I cruel system of tenantry there has been driven away almost half of the population I popula-tion the question WHATS TO UK ONE Comes up It cannot remain always this way The landlord who draws rent cannot can-not always enjoy it in Paris and London I think the day of tyranny in every form is to pass away and that tho day is soon to come when all men are to be blest I with a good Government and just laws This fall there are 100 Members of Parliament Parlia-ment to be elected from Ireland and Mr Parnell expects that of this number his cause will carry eighty or Jeightyfivo so I that when Parliament meets there will be of the true tried and reliable friends of Ireland at least eighty members They will gO to Parliament for the uurnose of I assisting the right of local selfgovern 1 ment for Ireland What a beautiful sys tem that will be They will get it from I you Irishmen in America One hundred years has established theact that local I selfgovernment with respect to local affairs af-fairs is the true system of government in I this world i TIlE GREAT TROUBLE IX IRELAND TODAY IS LAND I Where there is trouble with lands in I any country the trouble is exceedingly I great Much has been done in Ireland to make better the condition of the ten I I ant but the land trouble still exists and i it must be regulated It must be regulated regu-lated as we regulate such matters in Indiana I In-diana by legislators from the soil No I question can arise between landlord and tenant in Indiana that is not regulated by our legislators so Ireland must have local l I selfgovernment It is not reasonable that in London the relation of landlord I and tenant in Ireland shall bo fixed ItS It-S ACAINfeT KKAcsON AND JUSTICE 1 that such a practice should permanently prevail When men to be elected by the friends of Ireland come to Parliament it will be to say as one man local selfgov eminent in Ireland You are asked to help in this election There is to be no mistake in this election There will be no shams no frauds Ireland is tremcml ouslyin earnest Before any man is nominated nomi-nated he is to give a written pledge to sit and vote and act with the members representing rep-resenting Ireland and favorable to Irelands Ire-lands cause Mr Parnell is a very great N1reai leader and I believe he is going to lead his countrymen to triumph and success This is i what I hop to seeIreland to he governed by a written constitution iu which Parliament will be restricted as our I legislature is by the Constitution of tho State WILL IT NOT DE A GRAND SIGHT when in the City of Dublin there will I meeta Constitutional Convention to forma form-a Constitution for Ireland I observe that Mr Parnell favors only one branch one parliamentary body He is afraid of a House of Lords perhaps but he could have as we have here a Senate in its j stead and thus bo saved from the errors 1 and faults of legislation I do not know of anything that would give me greater pleasure than to attend that Constitutional i Constitu-tional Convention in Dublin Great cheering I want to live until that time Let us come back to the great question which lies at the foundation of government j govern-ment The question of the rights of the people to make their own laws and that I no other power has a right to make laws 1 for them You remember where we stood 100 years back You remember in the I 1 I Declaration of independence we assenen I the right of men to govern themselves I That is i TIlE GREAT FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF AMERICA and is the one now being applied in Ire I I lauds cause to which you are to give your sympathy and support The right of man to govern himself and to abalish laws that are inimical to his welfare is the principle that was asserted at Bunker I Hill and in glorious triumph at Yorktown I |