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Show I 44 4-44- 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- 4-f : fflonument to: Parnell 4- . -4 4- -4 4.M444 44444444--44444444444444 44t44444t I The movement for a monument to the late Charles Stewart Parnell, in which Lord Mayor Tallcn of Dublin and Jchn E. Reelmond, M. P.. have ccciie from Ireland to interest Americans, Ameri-cans, was given, great impetus Sunday night at a largely attended meeting in the Academy of Music, New York. Almost Al-most every Irishman of local prominence promi-nence was present, including Richard Croker, ex-Mayor Patrick Gleason of Long Island: Judge Morgan J. O'Brien presiding. The decorations were significant. Over the proscenium were the colors of the South African republic and the Orange Free State, the green flag of Ireland and the historic his-toric colors of the City of Limerick. Tiie boxes were draped in American and Irish iiags. The lord mayor and Mr. Redmond were escorted ' to the academy by the Now York fund com mittee and by the officers of the First and Second regiments of. Irish volunteers volun-teers of New York. The alienee received the names of the distinguished visitors by standing up and cheering for some moments. As the cheering began to subside, someone some-one called out, "Huriah for Oom Paul." The sentiment was a. popular one, and the Boer leaeter's name was cheered again and again. Lord Mayor Tallon said in part: "I havei to appeal to your generosity feir a two-fold project. The ancestral hemic of the ParneTls will be sole! in the judge's cetirt at Dublin on the 3rd of November. It was the home of a family fam-ily which has for generations furnished fur-nished patriots to the Irish lace. The estate is to be sold, owing to the .way in whien Parnell sacrificed his estate in the national struggle. We as-k you to assist us to secure that historic Avondale to be preserved for the Par-nells. Par-nells. "Our second object is to erect a statue in Dublin. It is only right that a monument should be elected in the capital cf the nation that Parnell served so long and lived so well to perpetuate the fame of his s-uceess and achievements, and to inspire future generations of Irishmen and to enkin-die enkin-die their patriotisni." John .Redmond told' of Parnell's lifel and achievements and spoke of the plans of the Dublin monument com-1 mittee. He said the committee in Ireland Ire-land was composed of every section of I the national party. He mentioned the! name of Justin McCarthy, at which here were prolonged cheers. Baskets were then circulated and it is estimated that over $10,000 was collected. col-lected. Richard Croker gave SoOO; Bourke Cockran, ?30C; Mayor Van I Wyck, $100. Twenty thousand dollars j will, it is said, buy the Parnell homestead. home-stead. Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAeioo, the blot speaker, said that the "eloquent baskets" were the best response re-sponse to the eloquence of Mr. Reelmond. Reel-mond. Lord Mayor Tallon thus spoke of Parnell to a New York reporter: "Yes, ineleed," said thi lord mayor. "He was the greatest of all Irishmen. His land-act of 1SS1 and bis land purchase pur-chase act of 1S85 finoiiy resulted in rooting the Irish people on the land of Ireland. Homesteads are now becoming the property of the people. It was he. . l ; X x i " i : -j '4-4-4-4-4-4--44-4-4- -t0?1? ART AENELL. ! , : : j -oo, who seourei a franchise of the J whole Irish race. He was a man. of indomitable in-domitable will. He was not at all I eloquent. In that respect he was strangely in contrast to the Irish char-ae char-ae ter. He was sharp and cold as steel I in cY-bate; no rhetoric. His was the greatest intellectual achievement . of all. For the past ninety-nine years Ireland has sent representatives to the British parliament, but only during Parnell's time did an Irishman become a maker and unmaker of ministers. He was commonly railed in Ireland 'the uncrowned king.' The greatest Englishmen Eng-lishmen of the time Gladstone "and Lord Salisbury adopted Parnell's policy and preached his doctrines, for they saw that he was able to-dictate, terms to them with eighty vote3 at his control. The English parliament is called the 'mother of parliaments,' and yet the present parliament scarcely bears any resemblance to what it was before Parnell's day. He smashed the English parliament between 77 and 'S4. He was only 46 years old when he died, having done all of his- work between be-tween 30 and 46 years of age. I believe he died because of his relations with a lady, and the talk it caused. It was the old story of. Mary Queen of Scots and Anthony and Cleopatra. His relations re-lations with her were made grounds for an attack against him by his enemies, ene-mies, and he died almost immediately afterward. In any other country that would not have affected his career. If President McKinley, for instance, was in the same situation it wouldn't hurt him, would it? Parnell died loved by the whole Irisli people." y 1 |