Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-28
THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE.
The Object of the Organization Clearl.
Stated

The Object Of the Organization Clearly
Stated.
The league was formed for the following OBJ
jects:
First-To put an end to back-renting, evic
ton, and landlord oppression.
To effect such radical change in the lane
system of Ireland as will put it in the power
of every Irish farmer to become the owner, OF
fair terms, of the land he tills.
The means by which it proposes to achieve
these results, are: Organization amongst the
people and tenant farmers for purposes of self
defence.
(2), The cultivation of public opinion by
persistent public exposure of the monstrous
injustice of the present system, and of its ru-
inOus results.
81 A resolute demand for reduction of the
excessive rents which have reduced the Irish
people to state of starvation.
(4) Temperate but firm resistance to oppres-
sion and injustice.
Irishmen in America can give most effectual
aid, first by enlightening American public
opinion as to the working of the landlord sys-
tenn, and by exposing. through the American
press, the expressions and outrages which are
practised on the tenant farmers of Ireland.
Secondly the immense moral influence
which their support exerts on the people at
home, encouraging them TO be steadfast in the
struggle, and not to give way to despair.
Thirdly contributing sufficient money to
enable the league to carry the movement in
Ireland on scale such as is necessary to in
sure success.
Up to the present, through want of money,
the league has been obliged to conine Its Ope-
rations chiefly to a few counties. The pur-
poses for which the funds are needed, are chief
ly two.
a. To enable the league to spread its orga-
nization throughout the thirty-two counties of
Ireland.
a. To enable the league to afford protection
to those who are evicted for doing its work.
Already the league has been obliged to under
take the support of the families of the men
who were recently sentenced to Imprisonment
for resisting eviction in one of the famine dis
tricts.
The league appeals to the Irish in America
to aid it in this great work, and with their as
sistance it will undertake, within a short time,
to destroy that fabric of Irish landlordism
which has for so many years been the curse of
our common country.
(Signed,D JOHN DILLON,
On behalf of the Irish National land league.
No. 80 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK, April 8, 1880.
To the American people:
The land laws of Ireland constitute mon
ster grievance in that country. Under system
the government valuation on which all public
taxation is based, it is impossible that the til
Ter of the soil can gain from his labor, skill or
capital, even bare means of living 80 that in
periods of partial failure of crops famine as
now must be the result. Under this system too
the insecurity of tenure rendering eviction
easy, is a prevention of the full development
of the resources of the soil, the tenant knowing
that Improvements mean increase of rent OF
dispossession. The existence of absenteeism
drawing out of the country 5000, 900 pounds
sterling, annually, without the expenditure of
any portion thereof among the people who help
to earn it, is another of the evils complained
of.
These are in brief the wrongs to be remedied,
and the order and manner of the remedy are
briefly but pointedly explained by Mr.. Dillon
in the foregoing address. Believing in the JUS
tice. humanity and patriotism of the objects
and purposes so set forth on behalf of the
executive of the Irish National Land league, the
Irish National Land league of New York city
pledges its hearty cooperation and support to
the movement in Ireland, in the struggle
against landlord tyranny, and in defense of an
outraged and long-suffering people. And we
confidently appeal to our fellow countrymen
and to the justice and liberty loving citizens
of all nationalties, for aid and sympathy in the
endeavor to assist the people of Ireland to up
root and destroy that accursed parasite, the
body and soul destroying system of alien land
laws, which overshadows and devOurs the
lands prosperity, blights and withers tbs
labors and energy of the husbandman and is
the root and seed of poverty, pestilence and
famine. w. B. WALLACE Pres.
JOHN KENNY, Sec'y.
Irish National Land League, New York City
The above have been adopted by the Land
league of st. Paul. which will hold it's next
regular monthly meeting on the second Monday
in May. Persons wishing to join the organiza-
ton and aid in forwarding these Objects are
requested to give their names to the officers be-
fore the next meeting. RALsToN ]. MARKoE.
Secretary of the Irish Land League of st. Paul.