The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-09
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National Irish Convention in
- America. ~
ARa,rs on the O,her Side.

here for holding an Irish national con-
vention. The answer was returned that
Mccormick Hall could be had between
November 18th and December 10th. Il
is therefore intended TO hold conven-
ton between these dates in connection
with the Land League. The convention
will be an open oRe.
Dublin, 7.-Police took down the
names of all who entered the new rooms
of the Ladies' Land League on Monday,
with view TO prosecution. In view Of
the great expense involved there will be
only three more sub-commissioner
under the land act for the present. The
nine additional commissioners are sp-
pointed for ore year only, government
| believing, by the expiration of that time,
that undue pressure Of work will be re-
| moved. Despite the suppression of the
Land League, several local branches
| sentinue TO meet secretly. a circular
has been issued to the police, instructing
them to Immediately report any meetings
proposed to DE- held for League purposes,
though held ostensibly for another OBJ
ject, with the view to arrest the partic T.
patorS. The executive is considering
what to do in regard to ladies leagues.
Parnell writes that the report printed in
the ETeentG7s'S Journal OF al interview
| between him and two prominent mem
bels Of the Eone-rule League on Sstur.
day, is almost wholly Inaccurate and
misleading.
Andrew Marshall Porter, Queens
counsel. will succeed William N. John
son, as solicitor general for Ireland.
John McHale, archbishop Of TuSrn, is
dead. H"c,ai .r'
New York, 7.-ReraLG' Dublin: The
following manifesto, addressed to TIE
Irish people by Home Rule Lesguers, is
to be discussed at meeting Tomorrow,
tuesday.
FELLOW Cott1ltrgmeaa: .--.
On the eve of the centenary OF the
accomplishment OF Irish freedom,
brought about by the glorious man OF
Dungannon, We would be base and spirit
less should We acknowledge that the
iron vi slavery has eaten into our vitals
and we were not stirred st such time to
admiration of the deeds Of 1882. If the
Irish people have not utterly lost the
spirit which animated their fathers, they
will not fail to make 1882 memorable in
their annals for their determined and
successful efforts to reeonstitute the fab
rio raised 100 years ago by the public
virtue of Helry Grattan and volunteers,
and destroyed in 1900 by the brides and
bayonets of Pit: and CaGtelerea. The
state of things which prevails in this
country would be sn eternal disgrace TO
the worst and most uncivilizpd govern
ment Oh the face Of the globe In no
country OF the world except perhaps
Russia, is there so little public liberty
left, or so much despctism exercised by
the ruling executives in Ire. and in 1881.
Thirty-fVe thousand soldiers and 49,
coo military police garrison the country.
They allow no day TO pass without max
ing the people feel that now, as in the
days OF Elizabeth, Cromwell and Will
liam, the sword is after all the argument
with which Eng seeks TO answer all
that the Irish nation demands Csnnons
are planted on the public places of our
cities; public meetings are prohibited
and dispersed; police invade even private
dwellings to dispense Assem- blages; every
mans liberty is at the mercy Of the chief
secretary acting on the secret denuncia.
tons of paid spies and informers Every
day numbers of persons Of the highest
responsibility, and many occupying rep
resentatiVe positions are arrested and
flung into common jails without trial.
Among those so deprived of liberty are
four members of Parliament, one Of
whom is acknowledged to be the leader
OF the Irish people, and would under free
institutions be prime minister Of the
country. The possession OF arms, the
birthright Of every member Of
every free commonwealth, not
of1 Eo1 q.
ishsble By heavy fine or imprisonment.
Now two questions arise First-Can it
be for one moment pretended that sys-
tenn OF government under which occur
rences such ss have been just named,
habitually take place, has any moral
rightto EXIST Second Would people
who did not endeavor at the earliest
available moment by every legal and con-
stltutIonsl means to put an end forever to
such occurrences, deserve anything bet
ter than the scourge of the savedriyer?
Our manufactures since 1900 have been
nearly extiuguished We have had since
the union four or FIVE tsmines, our coun-
try has been depleted by three millions
since 1S4O. While England is, relative
to taxable ability, the most lightly taxed
IN Europe, ireland is the most taxed.
Since 1900 there have been ffty-nine saw
age coercion acts in force here. We
were promised at the time of the union
equal rights and privileges with the peo-
pie OF Great Britain; but, to-day, four
teen years after the establishment of
household suffrage and of compulsory
registration Of voters in England and
Scotland, we are still denied these i'm
portant rights, with the result that while
the proportion Of voters to the male pop
ulation in England is to 4, the propor-
ton in Ireland is to "a. The municipal
fraternity, as also compared with that of
England and Scotland, is mockery.
1t Is needless to go through the list of cur
grievances, but sufficient to add that
scarcely e matter OF public concern of
Ireland has the will of the Irish people,
that every department. of our business,
DO matter how little it concerns others
than ourselves, is managed by irrespons-
I6le autocrstic boards appointed by
Englishmen, and composed to @ large
extent OF Englishmen and Scotchmsn.
Despite this, however, we are told that
we must be governed by another people.
and that too fer our own sake. Anarchy
1t is said. would overtake Us if the bene-
VIOLENT restraining hand Of England was
taken of from Us. a more impudent
pretehse was never advanced. Our
troubles spring from the government OF
Ireland by England, and from that alone.
Is the present state Of Siege, fruitful in
anything but hatred, i'll will, loss of