Show VICTORIAS opportunity the statement has found its way into the published news reports and apparently with semiofficial semi official sanction thit that on the ot occasion gaston of the royal marriage in logdon next month queen victoria will liberate the irian cans confined for years ye are in english Oun dungeons geons it is to be hoped this is ie true tier ner majesty has much to gain ind by no possibility could she lore loe any anything thing by such action in ED saying we this we have ro reference to th tb rt wards gardnor or punishments of political ii lie le or the achievements or failures of pronounced palis anshiN but solely and altogether to thai hal higher and greater impulse which proceeds from the heart and appeals to the soul in some respects great britain stands exactly where it did a century ag anu and most is ie this the case regarding rega ruing its treatment t of many baby of its political offender its advanced and civilized christianity has driven anti semitic bigotry well nigh tut cut of existence exle tence while permitting auti anti celtic prejudice to vegetate undisturbed disturbed in the oil where it has been growing and taking deeper rout root as time advanced for or a dozen generations it is this that has made gladstone Glad etoina s task taek such a monstrous one he dared not press or even initiate measures for the relief of the ers era because to do so loulu be at the present critical juncture of affair to prejudice the cause now dow so near a successful outcome and lu in which the prisoners themselves must be as aa deeply concerned conan ned as aa they are in their personal situation queen victoria Vic torii can release them and escape censure and she he could not characterize the sunset ot of her brilliant life with an act more becoming to her as a woman more gracious and just and Christian lib as a sovereign on decoration day a mass maes meeting of citizens cit izene bodei the auspices of the association was held in san ban francisco at which many thins things appropriate prop to the oc caplon capion were said and done the speeches were in a tone of moderation yet animated and expressive that if f the chairman frank mccoppin was particularly able he deemed it fitting that on such ouch a day when we were commemorating the valiant dead something should be done for the living jiving dead in english bogdish prisons further on be saiu said it to is the intention I 1 believe to ask president cleveland to inquire into the trial conviction and imprisonment of hose prisoners who were found 0 guilty alty of offenses offe against the english political o laws because they were born indre in ireland to i no reas reason on why we should r relinquish e our care of them they are said to be guilty of crt crimes mels often the political action of irishmen are considered as crimes by englishmen and the only crime thise these men have been guilty of is the crime of patriotism this will probably be the last meeting called in this city in the interests of ireland in short time there will be no reason for irishmen to hold bold meetings for irishmen for I 1 assume that they will soon have a government of their awil own and be no longer mendicants mendi cants before the world congress congressman m in maguire made a more lengthy and decidedly eloquent speech saying among other things we are not here to glorify their deeds in the cause of irish liberty because the fight to is being won on constitutional grounds the cause for which they suffer is the cause of i ibe be irish race it is a cause which has commanded the admiration of the civilized world and has at last been v vindicated h d ted by the better judgment of the e english people it is in a cause to which h ich gladstone Do donnelly nhelly grattan gratian parnell ru 11 davitt bavitt and other othar great irias irishmen m and englishmen have loaned the I 1 luster rot ot their genius to accomplish the end which is bist fast approaching but the glory of tho the victory will be dimmed if we leave those patriots t to suffer in english dungeons dangeo n a it is in a harsh commentary on the engh english b prison system that three ont of twenty one political prisoners have died and three have lost their reason as a result of their imprisonment into such a condition the united states government hasa has a right to inquire it is hoped and believed that the necessity of an I 1 ii by this gov will be obviated by the action of the abe queen herself as previously stated surely it would detract in no respect from the general joy which it is expected will pervade britannia on the occasion or of abe union of duke george and princess may to know that the prison doors ot of men whose anse were more political tha crinitt al have been thrown open and that they once more breathe the air of freedom |