Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-06-09
THE WRONGS on IRELAND
Archbishop Croke's ImpasslOned Ap'
peal to Premier Gladstone.
'Blot Out Eviction From the Statutes.
Arraignment Of England for the Treat.
ment of the Irish People.
Defense Of the Land League.

Defense Of the Land League.
Via French Atlantic Gable to the Evening Telo-
grant,
DUBLIN, June 2.-Archbishop Croke
concluded at Thurles yesterday one of the
most extraordinary campaigns ever
known in Irish ecclesiastical history. His
Grace brought his labors to a close with
two speeches containing several passages
of the highest importance at the present
moment. In the forenoon he made re-
markable appeal to Mr.. Gladstone to put
stop to evictions. His Grace said: II
appeal to that great statesman solemnly
as an Irish patriot, as an Irish Bishop, in
the name of Tipperary and in the name
of Ireland, to let his fiat go out that there
are to be no more evictions during this
present time. Great cheering.) 1t is
curious fact that the word eviction, in
the sense in which it is used here, is
scarcely known in any other country in
the world. There is no such word and no
such thing elsewhere. 1t is a word of
evil omen. 1t is a word that imports the
depopulation of our country, that imports
the degradation of our people. that i'm
ports the flying of them beyond the
waters to foreign lands in quest of the
means of livelihood, carrying with them
the spirit of vengeance against what is
certainly the greatest empire in the
world, but which is no less certainly the
empire which has treated Ireland worse.
than ever empire treated dependency.
| loud cheers.)
blot OUT THE NAME OF EVICTION"
Therefore would say to that great
statesman, If you value the friendship of
Ireland, if you value the good name of
England, if you value the lives of our
people, if you do not wish to perpetuate
the national feud and the sanguinary tra-
ditions that have ruled in this country
for ages, blot out from the statute book
the name of eviction, and let no man
henceforth be turned out of his land un-
less it is quite clear that the money which
should have met his engagements was
wastefully and foolishly dissipated.'
| loud cheers.) 1t was only the other day
that the venerable parish priest of Moycar-
key told me that when he became the priest
of that parish it contained twelve hundred
J families, There ara at present only four
hundred. Let me ass Mr.. Gladstone what
has become of the eight hundred fami-
lies once so happy in their humble homes
who have disappeared from the parish
Many of them have gone into the grave,
many into the workhouse and many to
the great Republic of the West. bearing
with them undying hatred to the coun-
| try that banished them from their native
land. Great cheering.) At the same time
if evictions are to go on, would advise
you how to act. Do not bring yourselves
into collision with the authorities. They
are too strong for you. If not even for
conscience sake, for our own preserva-
tion, for the sake of expediency, if not of
principle, we must act on the defensive.
| We must offer passive resistance to those
opposed to us, and in that way they will
get tired of the contest, because whole,
united people have never yet been defeat
ed"
UNFOLDING THE LAND LEAGUE.
In the evening His Grace entered fully
into the present position and aims of the
Land League. He declared that the agi-
tation was not due to Davitt nor Parnell
nor their followers, but to the fact that
there was Il mighty grievance, and that
the Irish people at last contemplated it
manfully and were determined to remove
it. "Without the priesthood of Ireland
it would have been impossible" said His
Grace, 'for the movement to reach its
prasent mighty dimensions" 1t had been
said that Mr.. Parnell did not wish the CO.
operation of the priesthood, but the Arch
bishop declared authoritatively that two
years ago MFR. Parnell waited on him in
Dublin and literally went down on his
knees to him to ask him to use all his in
huence to have the priests join the move
ment. His Grace concluded with the fol-
| lowing remarkable declaration: II have
to say that this movement is not revo-
lutionary movement, in the strict sense of
the word 1t is constitutional move
ment it is lawful movement. 1t is a
movement which we intend to push for
ward by moral force alone. Cheers
We do not intend to violate any law; we
intend to exhaust all constitutional reme
dies. We are perfectly certain that the
elasticity of the constitution will allow
us the means of working energetically to
the last and finally achieving the result
we aim at. We wish to produce the eff
feet upon England not by physical force
or by any manifestations of physical force,
but by moral means.
AN APPEAL TO THE WORLD.
"We want to make our grievances
known before the entire world, to tell
France and Spain and Italy and the
United States and the great colonies that
acknowledge the sway of Great Britain
that as in this country we have been
kept down by bayonets to the present
time and as by bayonets We are now fully
determined, bayonets or no bayonets-
great cheeringl--to proclaim at all levents
our wants, and to proclaim that we will
not be satisfied until we get our rights
and that we will enlist on our behalf not
the swords nor the guns nor the cannon
of France or Of Spain or of Italy or of the
United States, but the intelligent opinion
of all the Intelligent nations of the world.
Therefore this is not q revolutionary
movement, nor is it an irreligious move
ment, because it is conducted by the
most religious people in the world and
backed up by the best, the most holy, the
most self-sacrificing, the most faithful
and the most tuncompromising priesthood
in the world. Great cheering.) 1t is not
an unjust movement, calculated or de-
signed to. do injury to anybody. We re-
pudiate that charge We say that we do
not intend to do injury to any mortal