Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-14
CENTRAL LAND LEAGUE.
Resolutions Adopted Relative to the Land
Bill" Ireland for the Irish.'

The Central land league held good
meeting last evening, President G. M.
Mac arthy in the chair. Secretary Ho-
gan read the report from the Dublin ex-
ecutive, July 81, which contained much
matter of interest to leagues, giving the
particulars of evictions, many cases being
extreme hardship. The president ad-
dressed the meeting and introduced the
following resolutions, which, after
speeches by VIM. l.. Keely and John w.
Willis, were unanimously adopted by the
league:
WHEREAS, The consideration of the Irish
land bill in the British parliament is now
drawing to a close and the attention of the
public is being averted from it and its ode
formitIes by the acts of ill advised and IRE
sponsible individuals, who, under the pre-
tended guise of patriotism, are seeking noto-
riety by the use of nefarlous means for the de-
structlon of innocent lives.
Therefore, be 1T resolved, by the St. Paul
Central land league, that we look upon the
o-called land bill as a fraud and a delusion.
That shorn in the house of lords of its few re-
deeming features it is now simply another
legal contrlvance to drive the Irish from Ire
land. That the introduction and passage of
sion of the principle the Irish are struggling
for, "The land for the people," and
We trust they will not falter or retrace step
in the agitation until ''landlordism" shall be
destroyed, and to this end we hope they will
close up their works under the banner of the
land league and stand to the battle cry "Ire-
land for the Irish"
ReS0lued, That we do most emphatics1ly
abhor and condemn the so-called dynamite
and internal machine acts of O'Donovan Ros-
sa and z. w. Grove, especially when directed
not against the enemy but against the lives
of innocent men and women. While i'm
pressed with the belief that much of this in
fernal business has its origin in the minds of
over-zealOus British detectives, yet the acts
claimed to be exposed are SO clumsy of execu-
tion as to be fairly attributable to the invin-
chile ignorance and laundering impractical
bility of men who are totally destitute of fol-
lowing in Ireland or America.
ResoLued: That while regretting the fail
ure in the house of lords of the "Parnell'
clause of the land bill suspending evictlons
pending adjustment of rents by the court, and
while invoking the condemnation of the world
on this unrelenting proceeding, evictions are
being proceeded with, in the language of
Gladstone, "every one of which is sentence
of DEATH" yet we must admire the heroic spir-
it and patriotic determination the Irish people
exhibit in their stubborn, passive resistance
to the execution of these sentences, and we
are forced to remember there are times when
patience ceases to be a virtue, and of these
wrongs inflicted on an unarmed, peaceable
people, by armed bodies of police and soldiery
continue, forcible resistance becomes a neces-
sity and duty, and we fervently pray that
the God of justice may nerve the Irish people
for any struggle that may be forced upon
them.
On motion, Treasurer Bell was instruct
ed to send draft to Ireland for EGO. The
meeting then adjourned. Dues collected,
1925.