en, and as American
citizens, and to protest against these rights being domineered by
foreign influences and conspiracies. We have also come here for one
other purpose, and that is to protest against any influences of
church, nationality or societies being interposed between the great
criminals guilty of the assassination of Dr. Cronin and even-handed
justice, and to demand in the name of the civilization that this
gory spot upon its robes shall be covered by the mantle of stern
justice.

"We are not there to sit in judgment on the Irish people, but rather
to ask them to sit in judgment on their petty leaders, and in
impeaching these I do not reflect upon that great Irish leader,
Parnell, than whom there are few purer characters in modern
history. Is the fame of Ireland so great that it can afford to
condone murder? Are the Irish servant girls to have no protection
against those who play upon their sensibilities as a matter of
business.

"When the history of this epoch is being written this bloody
assassination will appall the historian. Shall he write that
Ireland's sons and daughters were so jealous of their honor that
they hurled the traitor to it from his false position, or shall he
write that Irish prejudices were so strong that even gory blood did
not look bloody red?"

Several other addresses were made. C. G. Dixon, a prominent labor
leader, spoke for the working classes, Dr. G. Frank Lydston for the
medical profession, Louis Nettelhorst, a member of the Board of
Education, for the youth of the city, and Frank Adams, Member of
Congress, touched upon the crime in its national aspect. The singing
society rendered Frech's exquisite song, "Suess und Ruhig ist der
Schlummer," and an original poem, entitled, "Cronin, the Martyr," was
read by H. E. Bartholomew. After this the resolutions prepared by the
Personal Rights League were presented. They read in this wise:

We, as citizens of the United States, residents of the cosmopolitan
city of Chicago, in mass meeting assembled to do honor to the
memory of a fellow-citizen, Dr. P. H. Cronin, who, because he
advocated that which seemed right to him, we believe to have been
the victim of a conspiracy concocted for basest purposes, and
appalled by the monstrous cruelty of his murder, we declare:

1. That from the facts so far m