The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-03
TILE CON VENTl0N.
The Irish National League Of America
Born Yesterday.
If Not Killed by Jealous Friends IL
May Thrive.
Full Text of the Platform and ResOlu.
tiOns Offered.
Terrible Arralgment of Englands
Course, Past and Present.
The Remedy Suggested Is to Boycott
the BritOn.
Congressman Finerty, n Dynamite
Disciple, Deeply Disgusted.
Full Report of the proceedings.
The Remedy Suggested is to Boycott
the BritOn.
Congressman Finerty, Dynamite
Disciple, Deeply Disgusted.
Full Report of the Proceeding
Tho CONVENTION.

PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-It was nearly
II O'Clock before the national convention
assembled this morning. The reading oi
the minutes was dis pensed with.
At 4Op. m. .he chairman OF the COM
mittee on resolutions submitted the report
as follows:
THE IRISH NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The following is the report ofthe commit
tee on resolutions: The Irish American
neople, assembled in convention at Phlia'
deIphia submit to the intelligence ana rlght
reason of their fellow-men, that the auty Oh
the government 10 to preserve the lives OF
those governed, to defend their liberty, TO
protect their properly, to MAINTAIN peace
and order, to allow each portion OF the peo-
pie an equitable and efficient voice IN the
legislature, and to promote general Weiiare
by wise and Just humane laws. we sol
emnly declare and cite unquestioned MS
tory and universal knowledge of living men
in testimony thereof.
First-That the English government has
existed in Ireland not to preserve the lives
of the governed, but to destroy them. En-,
lire communities it wantonly massacred
by the sword; to asylums OF terrified wo-
men it has deliberately applied the blazing
htorch: into hel pless to WINS IL has discharged
deadly bombs and shells; through cohse-
Grated ports where age and infancy sougnl
shelter it has sent its bloody butchers; the
sacred pei sons of venerable prl; US IL mas
stretched upon the rack or suspended iro
the gibbet; pulling babes have ocen I'M
nailed on the points of it's Dayonets, because,
in their own words its emissaries liked thai
government. Its gold has been tolded ~
tue hands of assassins, and has recorded the
imfamy of the periured traitor. Its treacn'
erous falsehood has lured paVri'
OTIS to unsuspected death, as II
the sword, cannon, torch, scallolu
dagger ard explosives were not enough
IL enjoys the unique intamy OF oelns the
only government known to ancient ana
modern times which has employed famine
for the destruction of those from whom II
claimed allegiance, forcibly robbing the
Irisn people of the fruits OF their own tolls
produced by their own labor. 1t has buried
not hundreds, not thousands, but more
than a million of the Irish race, unshroured,
uncottined in The grave OF hunger, IL mas
mercilessly con PEELED other mlilions IN
compulsory poverty to seek IN alien lanus
the bread they were entitled 10 III IhelI
own, Is there no form of cruelty known 70
lhe lowest savage which 1t has not pracIlced
os the Irish people in time OF the highest
civilization. There is no device VI
tendish ingenuity it has not adopted
to reduce their number Wltb'n TWO
Years, II has massacred children, an
woman's body has been the vlcllm OF lts
licensed rutfians. There Is no species ol
destruction or attack, however lnsiulodS Oh
violent, ancient or modern, rude or sclen
tific, whether directed against l"e or mat
ter, in any portion of the globe, ior when
lis barbarities in Ireland have not furnished
examples, There is no form OF retaliation
to which despair OF maduess may resort
for which EDgland's cruelty III Ireland IL
not exclusively responsible:
Second.-We declare the Engllsh govern
ment in Ireland has not Defended liberty Oi
the people, but has annihilated 1t. Statutes
enacted since the invasion amount TO Il Sc
ries of coercion laws framed to deprive
citizens of all the vestiges OF personal zee.
dom and reduce them to outlaWry In order
to coniscate their property ana compel
them TO flee to foreign lands. Since The De-
ginning of the present century, when the
Irish parliament was abollsheu, laws tor
Ireland have been madetn England ,and dur
ing that period habeas corpus and the right
of trial by Jury have been suspended more
than fifty times. The horrors of a soldiery
have been loosed on u people forbidden 10
bear arms and state OF war With all its At
tendant horrors, with occasionally those OF
rAtificatiJ IN, has been maintained. To-day
representatives of the people are IN prison,
gu ultlsss of crime. The frec tom of the press
nAs been abolished. The IIbAL VI peaCea-
ole public meetings has been annulled.
No mans house is secure, night or day,
from armed marauders, who may insult
and harrass his family. A citizen may be
thrown into prison without counsel; may
be put on q mock-trisl before prejudiced
iudge aud packed jury, on the lying ayOw-
ments of purchased wretchcs; his liberty
may be sacrificed, or his life taken in the
name Of the law.
Third-Instead Of protecting the prop
erty Of the people, the English government
in Ireland has been conspicuous for its in.
Jury and ruin. Out Of 2O,UOO,UO0 acres OF
producing land, 0OvO ,OO0 have been allowed
10 lie in waste. The ownership Of the re-
mainder has generally been acquired by
force or fraud and been retained IN the
hands Of rayenous monOplists, who annu.
ally drained the country OF ITS money In the
form Of rents, no portion Of which has been
given back TO the Irish people. In addition
70 this an inquisition system OftaHatiOn has
been imposed on the people, a burden for
the sustenAnce Of 8 foreign army, for al op-
pressiye constability, for the salary OF su-
ptr1umerhry officials and policemen, for
pensions 20 English fayOrites, for blood.
money. for iuiOrmers and for a vulgar
court, whose cHtraysgance Il equalied Oniy
by the shame Of its preteniiOns.
Tne naturally created capital OF the com
Try is sent 10 England ON one preie1t or
another, and brings no exchange except
Ihat article, Of English manufacture that
which ths IRISH people under selfgUyeri-
ment would produce Tor themselves OF puf-
chase in America. Irish Manufactures,
deliberately destroyed by England in the
last century. are still dOrmhut. Her i'm
mense water pgwer turns no wheels, her
canals are all but impossible, her rivers are
Obstructsd, her useful clay and valuable
.fraH NrH Narr l
ful hsrbOrs are few ships except
those Of her enemy. EHgiish law i0r the
protection Of property in ireland has been
4 lance 70 make lrelHud bleed at every pore
Tor the benefit Of heartless landlords and
English manulncturerA
FOurth-The Euglish government IN In
land has not mEiutaiued pssce and order,
bot bns for several hundred years broken
her peace and destroy ed ber order.
Fifth-rbe English government In Ire
land does not aiiOE that portion q The eni-
ufre 90 eusitable sud Efficient voice IN the
i-gisisfurs. England, one-twelfth o. The
population votes for members q pariia-
mem; ireland, one trsnty-iifIh Of The pop
ulsfion vOIes iof members Of parliament.
In England The reEistrhti0n laNs are iavur-
able % votsrs. In lreland. they are eIifui-
csl 70 The voter. 10 Engiand Al ciassss ere
fairly reprsss ut.d. IN lrelsud The poor laa
is employed 70 secure - lsndi0-ts ard
piscs hunters prspJDdsrsncs IN ths -.
tional l.gsiat1rs. In EnEIsfd
the i1diciary E indeuendeuf 81
the erecuurs and sTmrst1IE--
sith the rs1pis. In Irelznd ths jIfi1is 3
Il q c-enturt a1d rsrt q tte erecltiFe. Err
= appoinf-d ercluEFely from rn-uiss o
he ueoule. n EngIsnf ths usrigracJ I
choser witbouf r-Esrd - eel a. D. lari
81 pr cent. of ne ma straiss hlFn Z i-