Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-05

nOuncement was received with ringing cheers,
and the idea of then and there commencing
the subscription took like wildfre through
the whole convention.
Mr.. John E. Finerty came forward smiling,
and said that although he was not as rich as
he might be, he nevertheless could not let
Chicago be behind in such good work, and he,
therefore, would cover that first $500 with an
other, and would give $500. The announce
ment was received with cheering, and
subscriptions at once came rolling
in. These subscriptions continued until
over $27 900 had come in
THE ADDRESS.
The following is the full text of the address
adopted, an abstract of which was sent by
telegraph:
To THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND ALL
FRIENDS OF LIBERTY: In the spirit of the
call for this convention it's main policy was
foreshadowed-the policy of uniting all the
forces at the disposal of the Irish-American
people to give aid and comfort to the Irish
people at home in their contest with an intol-
cradle landlord system, supported by all the
power and influence of the government estab-
llshed in Ireland by the London parliament
Notwithstanding the many fair promises
made within eighty years by English states
men the passage of the hateful act of union
which destroyed the legislative independence
and aimed to obliterate the nationality of Ire
land, fifty coerclve acts have been passed to
chain the country to compact forced upon
her by corruption and the sword, and the con-
dition of Ireland is at this day as unsettled
and as hostile to English domination as it
was when Gratten's voice in splendid protest
was heard for the last time in an Irish house
of commons.
We may pass over the instruction of 1908,
the struggle for religious equality, the war
against the titles, the agitation for repeal. the
efforts of yonng Ireland, and the revelation
airy attempt of the Fenian Brotherhood, and
come down to the last few months, to
show the evil effects of foreign rule in Ire
land, combined with an agrarian system which
is unique in point of establishment and unfa-
vorable in point of atrocity. Within a few
months the Irish people have been subjected
to the old process of foreign coercion by mill
tary force; the recognized leaders of the Irish
nation have been arbitrarily arrested and inso-
lently imprisoned, and the alleged benefits of
the recent land act have been forced upon the
Irish tenantry by the rifles of a powerful ar
my and military constabulary. The Irish
members of the British parliament who re-
sisted By parliamentary procedure the passage
of ferocious coercion act were fOrcibly ex-
PEELED from the house of commons, and such
of them as ventured, in Ireland, to give voice
to the wishes of the Irish people,
were, in common with hundreds of the less
prominent countrymen, consigned to Jail,
under suspension of the habeas corpus act,
there to remain during the pleasure of the
British government; without chance of appeal
or hope of trial. The Irish prisons are even
now filled with the men most beloved by the
Irish nation, the enunciators of its sentiments
and the champions of it's liberty. The civil
law is paralyzed, and martial law in spirit, if
not in form, has been substituted by pouring
into ireland 10000 foreign mercenaries, and by
converting what in all other countries are the
peace officers of the community, into hostile
garrison to maintain the will of an alien gov
eminent.
The Irish people, during the whole course
and carried forward by Charles Stewart Par
nell and colleagues, kept within what is call
ed the constitutional law of Great Britain.
There was no secret attempt at combination.
Everything was open and, even according to
English law in Ireland, legal. Nevertheless,
British government has dealt with constitu-
tional agitation embodied in the Irish Nation
al Laad League in the same spirit
that she dealt with the secret reYolu-
tionary bodies that preceded it, thereby
indicating that legality cuts no figure in her
relations with Ireland, and that when any
Irish organization, whether legal or illegal,
threatens her supremacy in the subject island,
she drops the mask of constitutional govern
ment and strikes her victim to the earth with
the mailed hand of relentless despotism.
This is no mere rhetorical assertion. The
American press, in its foreign dispatches, has
| been filled with accounts of fresh arrests
of suspects" day By day since the
mental ministry reinaugurated the pol
| icy of brute force, until at this
| hour the prisons in Ireland are surcharged
| with the best citizens of the country, who
| have dared to remain faithful to the men
whose patriotic ardor and splendid ability hav,
made the Irish cause, both in its national and
agrarian aspect, the leading question in tn
pire, and opened the ear of the outside world
to abatement of the fraud and oppression
practiced throughout many generations by the
British government on the people of ireland.
| Deprived of the last vestlge of freedom oil
opinion, terrorized by a military occupation
offtheir soil, outraged IN their honest feelings
| by the treacherous arrest of their tried and
trusted friends, handed over, SO far as the for
eign government could hand them over to the
vengeance of an Infatuated landocracy, the
Irish people, faithful to the doctrine of pass
i've resistance, have, as an overwhelming ma
jority, stood by the manifesto of ssno rent''
issued by their imprisoned leaders, and in so
doing they exposed themselves to all the pen
alties that the British government could i'm
pose upon them, and pledged themselves that
we, as their kindred in happier land, must
see, for own honor as well as for their saliva
ton, that they do not make it in vain.
As we cannot in person share whatever dan
ger the people of Ireland may be called upon
to face, it would be ungenerous in us to urge
them to acts beyond their power; but, in hav-
ing assumed the attitude of passive resistance
to landlord robbery, as embodied in the address
Of the government of the people locked in
KIlmainham jail, we cannot do less than sus.