The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-26

SuldlSu tHe ldnu war OF Ireland, lie COM
pared lrelands present independent spirit
with its then servitude and sycophancy, and
I SAID these four years had certainly not been
| In vain. Tney had prevented the recurrence
OF those scenes of AS which disgraced Ire
land and appalled, humanity The creed of
manhood had taken the place of the litany
OF stones in Ireland. The Land League of
the United States had effected this change
The time had come when the begging
Dox should cease to be passed
around. If Irishmen continued to give
up to the idle, useless and indolent class the
| fruits OF their own toll. which they should
/ Keep for themselves; let them bear the fruits
OF their own folly and crime. The power of
the landlords over the minds of the people
was now completely broken. The Land
League had saved 100000 to the producers
OF Ireland, had wrung astounding conces-
slons from the English Parliament, and had
creaied spirit which laughed at danger and
does not fear the gallows-a spirit which
would yet put an end not only to agrarian
landlordism, but to all landordism which
England claims to exercise over Ireland. The
name OF the Land League might cease to be
heard, but its spirit must not cease to move
abroad. Every shred of landlordism must
be swept out of ireland Previous to the
Land-league movement it was hard to stir
the farmers of Ireland the Land League has
aroused them to realization that they have
a country. There is now no division in Ire
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| bad, and Irish landlordism must go.
Father Conalty, chairman of theconference
committee, presented report, with a resolu-
uon. He said the committee had decided
not to report plan of merger or a method to
| disorganize the Land League, but would
leave it to the convention to agree upon such
plan. The report was adopted.
Miles OBrien moved that this Land-league
convention now step on the platform of the
Irish National League and abandon its
organization, so that Mr.. Parnell might say,
as U Brien said here tonight, with the odor
| OF English prisons around him, "Well done,
good and faithful servants"
! The chair ruled that O'Brien's motion, be-
| ing in the nature of legislation, must be put
in writing.
| ADDRESS BY MR.. EGAN
While o Brien was thus engaged, Patrick
Egan was introduced, and said he was proud
to meet so many of his friends of the Amer
lean Land League with whom he had so often
corresponded, and to thank them in person
as he had so often in writing. The move
ment in Ireland began entirely on constitu-
tional grounds, and when it, for time, had
control of the country crime almost cease d.
In 1879 and 1880 the League was at its great
est power in Ireland, and distress was at it's
worst, crime keeping pace with the distress.
there III. In 1880 the homicides numbered
five, in 1S49 there were 203. Philadelphia
has one seventh the population of Ireland,
and there were in 1879, in this city, forty
nine murders, while there were only four in
Ireland In 1880 there were in Philadelphia
| thirty-four murders, in Ireland five. That
miserable mountebank politician, Forster,
says crime followed in the steps OF the Land
| League. In the sight of heaven be (Eganl
charged all the crimes since 1881,
land Since he Egan became ' treasurer Of
the Land League, he had handled $245,000
| and the Land League had received from all
| sources $685., ,000-a total OF 81, 230, 900, of
which nearly 81 10000 came from the Irish
in America. No man, woman or child who
ever contributed cent to that fund had
ever questioned its accounts. Some disap-
pointed blackmalers did so in vain.
THE METHOD OF MERGING THE ORGANIZATIONS.
Bryan's motion was then read as follows
''That the platform of the Irish National
League of Ireland be adopted in its entirety
as the platform of this organization; that
the same constitution for this organiza-
ton be adopted; that the regular
officers of this organization be
elected for the ensuing year by this
convention, and that the organization here
reconstructed enter to -morrows convention,
and act with the organization there repre-
| sented, with one common purpose: union
against the common enemy of our race"
A substitute offered by Brown, of St.
Louis, was as follows:
THAT the convention now adjourn to meet
| with the convention tomorrow; that the
chairman appoint a committee of seven,
| with power to declare the Land League ad-
journed sine die provided the convention
tomorrow complies with the reports submit
| ted and adopted here this evening by the
committee appointed to submit the plan OF
reorganization"
OBren moved the previous question upon
his resolution.
On motion of Sullivan, of Chicago, to lay
OBrien's motion for the previous question
on the table, standing vote was twice or
dered and many explanations were asked as
to what the matter voted on was
A stormy scene ensued. The secretary
tried to explain the situation. A delegate
in the rear said dispairingly, 81 do not un-
derstand it yet"
Sullivan's motion to lay the motion
for the previous question on the table
was finally carried. Much discussion
| on the pending propositions ensued, and
many points of order were raised and over
ruled. After several more motions had been
declared out of order, a motion for the pre-
vious question was made and seconded An
other attempt was made to table this motion,
the question recurring on Browns substitute.
The secretary was accused of making speech
while reading the substitute, the gavel fall
ing continually for fifteen minutes. Brown
| asked leave to insert the word twhen " so
the substitute should read, "when this con-
vention adiourns" etc.
On a standing vote, Browns substitute was
declared carried
Following is the resolution reported by
the conference committee, Father Conatly,
chairman:
| "Resolved, That. In response to the call for an
| Irsh-American national convention, to be held
| In this hall to morrow. and in view of the
| prospect that the deliberations OF
| that convention will result In union
of all Irish bodies this continent which