Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-28

since the invasion to amount to series
Of coercion laws framed to deprive the
citizens Of all vsstiges Of personal
freedom and reduce them to outlawry
In order to confisoAte their property
and compel them to fee to foreign
lands. without . warrant . citizen
may be thrown into prisoner; without
counsel he may be put on the dock
and tried before . prejudiced judge
and packed Jury. On lying averments
OF Purchased wretohes his liberty may
be sacrificed, or his life taken In the
name of the law.
Third-Instead OF protecting the
property of the people the English
government In Ireland has been con-
splcuous for Its injury and ruin. Out
of 10000, 900 acres Of producing land,
100000 has been allowed to lie
waste. The ownership Of the re-
mainder, generally acquired by force
or fraud, has been retained In the
hands of monopolists, who drained
the country of this money In the form
of rents, no portion of which goes
back to the Irish people. In addition
to this an iniquitous system of taxa.
tiyn imposes on the people q gigantic
burden for the sustensnce CT q foreign
army, for an depressing constabulary.
for ea,arles to supernumary officials
and place men, for pensions to En-.
gliAh favorites, for blood money for
the informer, and for a vulgar court
whose extravaganza lie equalled only by
the shame of It's protensions. Tne
naturally created capital of the
country 10 sent to England on one pre-.
text or another, and brings in OK.
change nothing except articles of Eng.
llsh manufacture, which the Irish, un-
der self government would produce
for themselves or purchase In Amer.
ica. Irish manufactures, delib.
erately destroyed by England In
the last century, are still dormant.
Her immense water power turns no
wheels, her canals are all but impss-
sible, her rivers are obstructed, her
useful clays and valuable minerals are
untouched; In her beautiful harbors
are but few new ships except those of
her enemy. English law for protec-
tion In Ireland has been the lance to
make Ireland bleed at every pore for
the benefit of heartless landlords and
English manufacturers. The English
government in Ireland has not main
tsined peace and order, but has for
700 years broken her peace and de.
stroyed her order; the Euglish gov.
ernment In Ireland does not allow
them an equitable and efficient
voice In the legislature. In
England one-twelfth Of the popu-
lation votes for members of parlia.
ment; In Ireland one twenty. fifth Of
the population votes for members Of
parliament. In England registration
laws are favorable to the voter; in
Ireland they are inimical to the voter.
In England all classes of the popula.
tion are fairly represented; in Ireland
the poor law Is employed to secure to
landlords and place hunters pre-
ponderance In the national delegation.
In England the judiciary Is indepsnd-
ent of the executive and sympathizeH
with the people; in Ireland the
judiciary Is the creature and part of
the executive, and is appointed exolu.
sively from the enemies of the people.
In England the magistracy Is chosen
without regard to creed: In Ireland 81
per cent OF the magistrates having
jurisdiction over the peoples liberty
are selected from creed rel eoted by
78 per cent Of the people, and the
detestable spirit of religious blgotry
is thus legaiized and psrpetuated. In
England laws oreating civil disabili.
ties on account of religion have long
been dead. In Ireland the laws made
under Edward ILL.,, Queen Elizabeth,
Earl Stratford, Charles II Queen
Anne and their SUCCESSORS are still
vital to torn ent the people for whose
oppression no statute 10 found too
heavy by venal and truculeut Judges.
Every measure of legislation pro
posed by an English member re-.
ceives courteous consideration; any
measure, however just, necessary or
humane, proposed by a patriotic Irish
member, Is certain of contemptuous
rejection by the combined majority of
both great English parties. Thus, the
educational system of Ireland Is
notoriously inadequate; thus it Is that
evictions unknown In England and de.
clared by Gladstone 70 be almost
equivalent to death sentences, are of
daily occurrence In Ireland and have
nearly doubled In five years in spite
of the boasted benefit of the Glad.
stone land laws; thus 1t is that. although
aocor ding to government returns
criminals are 27 In 10000 of the
English population and only 16 In
10000 of the Irish population, In
spite of the evaporation to which
they are subject, yet England enjoys
constitutional liberty and Ireland is
under worse than martial law. The
intrepid and persistent attempts of
patriot irish deputation to obtain In
the Eoglisa parliament Just and
humane laws for Ireland, have al ways
been, are and in our belief, must con.
time to be failure.
Now, therefore, In view of these
facts, be 1t
Res LIVED, By Irish, ,Amarlc peo
ole In convention assem- bled, that the
English government In Ireland, orlgl.
mating In usurpation and perpstuated
by force, having failed to discharge
any of the du,iss of government aud
never having acquired the consent OF
the governed, has no moral right what
ever to exist In Ireland and that II is
the duty of the lrish race throughout
the world to sustain the Irish people
In the employment Of all legitimate
means to substitute for 1t national
self government.
RESOLVED. That we pledge our un.
qualified and constant support, moral
and material, to our countrymen in