The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-28

| outlawry in order to confiscate their property
and compel them TO flee to foreign lands. Since the
beginning OF the present century, when the Irish
| Parliament was abolished, laws for Ireland have
been made in England, and during that period
the habeas corpus and right of trial by jury have
| been suspended more than fifty times; hordes OF
| soldiers have been loosed upon a people forbid
den to bear arms, and state of war, with all its
attendant horrors, with occasionally those OF re-
tRllation, has been maintained. To-day, repre-
sentatves of the people are In prison, guiltless
| OF crime; freedom of speech Is abolished; free
| dom of the press abolished right OF peaceable
public meeting is annulled; no mans house is Sc
cure, night or day, from armed marauders who
may insult and harass his family; without
warrant citizen may be thrown into prison;
! without counsel he may be put on mock trial be-
fore prejudiced judge and a packed jury; on
lying averinents of purchased wretches his lib
erty may be sacrificed or his life taken in the
name of law.
LAND POLICY AND POLITICAL POWER.
Third-Instead of protecting the property of
the people, the English government in Ireland
has been conspicuous for it's injury and ruin.
Out of 100000 acres of producing land,
100000 have been allowed to lie waste. The
ownership Of the remainder, generally acquired
by force or fraud, has been retanedin the hands
OF ravenous monopolists, who annually drained
the country of its money in the form of rents, no
portion OF which goes back to the Irish people.
In addition to this, an ubiquitous system of tax
alton imposes on the people gigantic burden
| FOR the sustenance of foreign army, for OPP
pressive cOnstabulary, for salaries to supernum-
erary officials and placemen, for pensions TO En-
gltsh fAvorites, for blood money for infOrmers,
and for a vulgar court, whose extravagance is
| equaled only by the shame of its pretensOns.
| The naturally created capital of the country is
sent 10 England on one pretext or another, and
brings no exchange except articles of English
manufacture, which the Irish people, under self
government would produce for themselves or
| purchase in America. Irish manufactures, de-
| liberatey destroyed in England in the last CEN
fury, are sui dormant her large waterpowers
turn no wheels her canals are all but impass-
| able, her rivers are obstructed her use
full clay and valuable minerals are
untouched. In her beautiful harbors there are few
ships, except those OF her enemy. English law
| for the protection OF property in Ireland has
| been a lance to make Ireland bleed at every pore
for the benefit of the heartless landlord and En-
| glsh manufacturer.
Fourth-English government in ireland has
not maintained peace and order but has for 700
| years broken her peace and destroyed her order.
Fifth-Engish government in Ireland does
not allow that portion of the empire equitable
and efficient voice in the legislature. In Eng
| land, one-twelfth of the population votes for
members OF Parliament; in Ireland, one twenty
| fifth of the population votes for members of
Parliament. In England, registration laws
| favorable 10 the voter; in Ireland, they
| inimica TO the voter. In England, all classes Of
population are fairly represented; in Ireland, the
| poor law is employed to secure landlords and
| piace-hunters a preponderance in the national
delegation. In England, the judiciary is independ-
ent of the executives, and sympathizes with the
| people; in Ireland, the judiciary is q creature
and part of the executive, and is appointed ex-
| clusively from the enemies OF the people. In
| England, the magistracy is chosen without re-
| a
magistrates having Jurisdiction over the peoples
| liberty are selected from creed rejected by
| 70 per cent. of the people, and the detesta-
| BILE spirit of religious blgotry is thus legal
lied and perpetuated. In England, laws
creating civil disabilities on account of religion
| have long been dead:in Ireland, laws made nnder
| Edward Ill, Queen Elizabeth Earl of Stratfurd
| Charles H., Queen Aune and their suce essors
are still vital, TO torment people for whose op-
preston no statute Is found too hoary by the
| truculent judges. Every means OF legislation
proposed by an English member receives courte-
Gus consideration; any measure, however JUST,
necessary or humane, proposed by the patriot
| Irish members, is certain OF contemptuous re-
lection by the combined majort y Of both of the
great English parties. Thus it is that the educn-
tional system of Ireland is notoriously made
quate thus it is that evictione, unknown in
| England, and declared by Gladstone to be almost
| equivalent to death sentences are of daily oc-
| currence In Ireland, and have nearly doubled in
five years in spite of the boosted benefit of the
Gladstone land laws; thus 1t Is that although,
| according to government returns, criminals are
| twenty-seven i'll 10000 OF English population,
and only sixteen in 10000 OF Irish population
| in spite of the evaporation TO which they are
| subjected yet England enjoys constitutional
liberty and Ireland is under worse than martial
| law. Intrepid and persistent attempts of the
patriot Irish deputation to obtain In the English
Parliament just and humane laws for Ireland
always have been, are, and in our belief, must
| continue to be a failure.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Now, therefore, in view of these facts, be-
Resolved by Irish American people in con-
ventton assembled, that the English government
| IN ireland, originating In usurpatiOn, perpeJu-
| ated by force, having failed to discharge any of
| the duties of government never having ac-
| qured the consent of the governed, has no moral
right whatever to exist in Ireland, and that it is
| the duty of the Irish race throughout the world
to sustain the Irish people in the employ ment of
all legitimate means to substitute for it national
| sef-government.
Resolved. That we pledge our unqualified
and constant support and moral ana material
aid to our countrYmen in Ireland in their efforts
| to recover national selfgOvernment ana in
order more effectually to promote this object by
the consolidation of all our resources and the
creation of one responsible and authoritiye body
| to speak for Ireland in America.
"Resolved, That all societies represented in
this convention, and all that may hereafter com
| ply with the conditions of admission, be organ
| lied into the Irish National League of America,
| for the purpose of supporting the Irish National
League OF Ireland, of which Charles Stewart
parnell is president.
Resolved, That we heartily indorse the noble
sentiment of Bishop Butler, of Limerick, that
every stroke of FOrsters savage lash was for
Irishmen new proof of ParnelPs worth and an
additional title for him to the confidence and
gratitude of his countrymen.
"Resoved, That we sympathize with the Ia.
borers of Ireland in their efforts to improve
their condition, and as we have sustained the
farmers in their assaults upon the landlord gar
rison, we now urge upon farmers justice and
humane consideration for laborers. In the
words for the employment of which an Irish
member of Parliament was imprisoned we de-
msnd that farmers allow laborers a fair days
wages for a fair days work.
"Resolved, That as the manufacturers of Great
Britain are the chief source of her material
greatness, already declining under the influence
OF American competition, we earnestly counsel
our countrymen in Ireland to buy nothing in
England which can be produced in Ireland or
procured from America or France, and we
pledge ourselves to promote Irish manufactures
by encouraging their import into America, and
to use our utmost endeavors by plain state
ments of fact and discrimination in patronage
to persuade American tradesmen from keeping
English goods on sale.
Resolved, That an English ministry, ostenta-
tiously liberal, has earned the contempt and de-
testation of fair minded men throughout the
world by imprsonlng more than 900 citizens
of Ireland without accusation or trial, a number
OF whom were noDle-hearted women, engaged In
works of mercy among the evcted victims of
landlord rapacity and English law,
"Resolved, That this convention thanks the
Right Rev John ireland, Bishop of st Paul;
Right Rev. John OConnor, Bishop of Omaha;