A SPEECH BY MR FORSTER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6307, 29 April 1882, Page 5 (Supplement)

A SPEECH BY MR FORSTER.

A cable special to the New York Herald from Tullamore of March. Gth says: —Mr Forster made here to-day a very important speech to a crowd assembled outside the hotel. He said the reason he had undertaken a personal tour was to see whether the stories which came to Dublin Castle were exaggerated. He was very sorry thafche found them to a great extent true. Mr Forster continued- ''But there is one want among the Irish people— namely, the determination to stand against the majority around them or even against a noisy and violent minority. Those who commit outrages are broken down men and violent reckless boys. Whether you stop them or not! it is the duty of the-Government to'do so It is_ especially my duty to stop them. The instigator of outrages will have several powers to contend with—namely, the Irish Government — though, perhaps they think they can defy that — also tho Imperial Government and the people of Great Britain. But they have a stronger force tht force of Ged's law, which says that the man who tries to injure his neighbours. —(A Voice interrupting: "That is the landlord.") The speaker : " There may be bad landlords, but that does not excuse the burning of bouses, the torturing of animals, the kfflinsr of men."-(A Voice: "Who did that but thesoldwrs and police?"). "I call on you to dowhat you can to stop these things," ho continued. Let me say one word about theEnghsh people. There is no ill feeling in England towards Ireland. We know that you have been a miserable and Vjpdlvgoverned country ; that the English Government of past days has done many cruel and vazny very unjust things to Ireland, and has allowed many more things to, be left undone. We wish to uado that an? make you as prosperous, rich, and powerful aa ourselves. But m view; of these terrible outrages, we liaj-d.lv know how to do so. I will conclude with tlie words I have often read j i ff ye Ir?,! aud>' words which sometime! end letters telling me I must have a bullet through my head or go to a place wanner than wei are in now. I say, God save Ireland, too, but from the man that makKs that threat. God save Ireland from cruel men, grasping landlords, rack-renting landlords, dishonest tenants, and raidnight marauders. God save Ireland from pestilence that walketh at noon and the terror that stealeth at night. And I heiieve God will save Ireland, for, with all her faults, the amount of virtue among the Irish people, the love of country and of family which are abiding \irtues that do much to" save a country, will enable God's laws to be respectecU"

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