MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHY ON HOME RULE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHY ON HOME RULE.

Liverpool, September 15. Ma. Justin M'Oarth? leaves for New Yorl to-morrow on the Brittanic. The occasion of his pretence here was used by the Young Ireland Society to have him deliver ar address. His confrere, Andrew Cummins, member for Roscommon, presided before ac immense and enthusiastic audience, HOME RULE STRIDES. Mr. M'Carthy's reception was even affectionate in tone. In the coarse of an address lasting an hour, he said, "the Home Rulers had made remarkable strides, such as no political cause had made within hit memory of public life.. When Mr. Parnell same into power, there opened up an entirely new chapter of history. The Irish struggle for legislative independence, after being a small body fighting against a great body oi the Commons, had risen to a position floating on the rising tide. Success was within their sight. It was a question hardly ol years, but of months." GLADSTONIAN AND RADICAL SUPPORT. "They had now to assist, guide, and lead them the greatest Englishman of modern times, the most eloquent of English orators, the most gifted of English statesmen. Behind his back came the great English Radical party and a great mass of workingmen, the true democrats of this country. It was now a test question between the true Radical and the sham Liberal." SUCCESS ASSURED. " What were their views upon Home Rule ? Nothing could intervene between the Irish members and success unless some strange, unparalleled, and absolutely fatal mistake, for every influence that could sustain and fight for a cause was sustaining and fighting for the Irish national cause. Only some mistake of their own could mar their chance; and, please Heaven, they would make no mistake. A REASONABLE REQUEST. " They were asking nothing that Englishmen themselves would not insist on having, if they were placed in such a combination with a different country. They were tired of being the enemies of England, and sick of hate between one country and the other. Lord Salisbury's party were not long since actively engaged in making preparations to bring Home Rule forward, and he would not be surpriied if that party brought in a comprehensive measure of Home Kule for Ireland ; but, while he was willing to support any good measure, he should rather see it left to Mr. Gladstone to crown the work which, in advance of all Englishmen, he had practically and earnestly (undertaken. HIS MISSION. "I am going to the United States, but not upon any political mission. I had heard, however, that educated Americans did not believe in Home Rale. I shall try to find them out,, And on my return be able to give a list of them in a very small compass. No one knows more than Ido how much the cause owes to the patriotism and devotion of the sons, of Ireland in all parts }f the world, and especially in the States, a feeling engendered by the conviction that )ur caQse is the cause of civilisation, enlightenment, progress, and humanity, and that it could not under God's providence possibly fail of succcss."

A vote of thanks was cordially supported by David Duncan, one of the M.P. for this city, a shipping merchant. Mr. M'Carthy was escorted to his hotel amid great cheering.