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Show UNITED IRISH LEAGUE. Six Thousand People Assemble in Carnegie Hall. New York. Sept. 20. Six thousand persons per-sons .gathered in Carnegie hull tonight to do hmor to the memory of Robert Emmet, Em-met, under the auspices of the I'nited Irish league. Great enthusiasm was displayed dis-played throughout the evening. Among those present were Mendez Capote Ca-pote of the Cuban senate and General Menocal of the Cuban finance committee. Tomas Estrada Palma. son of the Cuban president, was on the platform with his American wife. Young falma was introduced intro-duced and acknowledged the honor with j a brief speech. "1 can only offer my sympathy and that of the Cuban people to the Irish nation in its oppression." the Cuban said. "1 hope some day that Ireland will take ItH place among the independent nations of C:e world along with my own beloved count rv." William Temple Emmet, a great-grand neohew of the Irish martyr, was present, as was Theodore Wolf Tone Maxwell. grandson of Wolf Tone. The members of the family of Thomas Addis Emmet were also present. Rev. Charles McCready presided. A cablegram from Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, dated Warwick, England, was read. It was as follows: "Congratulations on centennial. Wish I could be with you. Have searched Dublin for Robert Emmet's resting place, but so far have failed. I do not despair, it mav be in accord with Emmet's wish that his grave will be found only when his enitauh shall have been written. Lei us work for that dav." In a speech eulogizing Emmet. Robert Emmet O'Donnell offered the resolutions of the meeting. The resolutions called attention to th- land bill victory, and thanked the United Irish league for its work in that direction, and pledged the sympathy and active support of American Irish to the fostering of the principles of Robert Emmet and the fruifTon of his ideals. The vote was taken by rising. The oration or the evening was made by John F. Finerty of Chicago. American president of the United Irish league. The three things that caused the failure of Emmet's rising, he said, were carelessness, careless-ness, treachery and inebriety, and he added: "Any Irishman who. on a mission for his country, gets drunk deserves to be shot "It is a mistake to suppose that the dying dy-ing requeset of Emmet that his epitaph be not written until his country was Independent In-dependent has been altogether literally obeyed." he continued, "because no epf-though epf-though Emmet perished, he was succeeded succeed-ed on other lines by leaders like Daniel O'Connell. who won the Catholic emancipation eman-cipation and the abolition of tithes: bv John Mitchell. William Smith O'Brien and the Fenian brotherhood under Kick-ham. Kick-ham. Luby and O'Leary, and by Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Davitt and John E. Redmond. "Ten letters constitute the name of Robert Emmet and of this Catholic emancipation eman-cipation forms the first; the abolition of tithes the second: disestablishment of the English -church the third: the extended franchise the fourth: the first land bill the filth: the Ash burn land act the sixth; the establishment of the land court the seventh; the establishment of the county councils the eighth, and the passage r.f the iand purchase bill, the latest enact ment, the ninth. There remains' but' one more letter ty be written, and that is the nationil independence of Ireland, and 'that is bound to come and cannot io long delayed." Charles R. Devlin. M. P.. representing Galway in place of Colonel Lynch, the I Irishman sentenced to life imprisonment because he fought with the Boers against England, was the last speaker. "Mr. Devlin spoke on contemporary English Eng-lish politics. When he mentioned Jo3eph Chamberlain's name the audience hissed. "As one of. your papers said today." Mr. Devlin said, "Chamberlain was riding rid-ing for a Tall and he got it. Chambe--lain got his fall and he will never if: again. And the reason was that he ue-nkd ue-nkd Ireland her rights. Lord Rosebery resigned and he has never risen again. We have seen the last of Chamberlain." |
