The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-11
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE,

| ed, and Platform Acknowledgements
Sullivan, Of Chicago, President-A vio-
! sent Denunciation of England's Alleged
| Misrule I'm Ireland.
! PHILADELPHIA, April q.
| AT the morning session, the Secretary
read, by unanimous consent; COM
municatiOn from Hon. S. S. Cox,
of New York, congratulating the Con.
ventiOn on what it had done, and declaring
that 1t was impossible for Ireland to remain
under British government, on account of
commercial restrictions Of the latter. There
were 6S,242 able-bOdied men engaged i'm
excepting the peace" while there were but
81, 1000 engaged i'm teaching. The uncer-
tainty of land tenure and of political status,
and standing army Of spies, go to render
Ireland the ~orst-governed country in the
world. Agitation for liberty will go on.
| The questions of extraditiOn, citizens rights,
| etc., If considered by the Convention, must
be viewed in the light of the lessons of re-
cent events.
Edward O'Meagher Condor then moved
that the thanks of this Convention be ten
dered to Mr.. Cox. Carried.
! On Mrs. Parnelrs entrance she was heart
| lily cheered.
At twenty minutes to twelve recess was
| taken for two hours, to await the reports of
the committees.
At $40, on the reassembling of the con-
| vention, the Chairman of the Committee on
| Resolutions submitted his report, as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The irish-Americsn people, assembled in
| convention at Philadelphia, submit to the in
telneehce anu tne rlgnt reason OF their fellow
men, tnat tne uuty OF government is to pre-
| serve the lives of the governed, to defend
| tneir nDerty, TO project their property, to
malntain peace anu oruer, 10 allow each por-
voine u IN iaoiI,etInn an ana m anu , @
er,i waifera hv ,,isa Inst =, "a b,o ." -
Wo soIamniy! donIora and ai.o ,,,,',,nn.;r,
| ohio b;Storr md nn;,orsni LnouiaIdn -. G,
| inv mon in tastimonv hereof 'A "
,rb,t tho Ennl;sb Enynrn,,o,t h,, ox;,.
cd 4, iraIond not re ,,raSor,,a ~, lie &c H.
! GOVERNED I'm, to destrov tsem Ent;ro n, oo III
| mrnities n bas xvantonIv massacrnd hr ,ho
sword. tn asviums Of tnyrifimI women Il has
| JoIihar,toI, anniiod tho hIa,;,~ tnrnh " no; Ia,
beinIesS tnwpS n has d;scbar~nd Soadiv h,mbs
and sbcIis ~
Tbrougb copsoorated crypts whore aco o,d
;pfancv snngbt shelter n has sent H. hi,od,
butchers. Sacred nersons of venerable priests
| II has Stretched ,,pon the rack or susnnndnJ
naInd nn snoints ~ its ha"nnots hooa,,sa ~,
heir own Srnrds its "misSaries ike that M
Eoyarnmaut :, IFS goii hoe hcon foldnJ in The
hand oT tho ,ssassin ond :, bos ro,~a,dai ,ho
MIAMI Of n neri,,rni tr,'itnr Its treachcrnmS
faIsnhoood has H,raJ natr;ots IN npsmsnecind
death, as if the sword, cannon, torch. scaffoid,
a al
a nv n mef efn oa oP nry tho
only Cnynrpmont Ep"vn t ncicnr mr. n, ,riI
ern times which has cmpIovcd famine Tor the
Oh r tnoSe from h Mho t elamcd al
IL - H. r,;;,s ~ ~ $50 III ,,,i,ii,
b~ thor own iobor !, hos hnr;eI al, not ~ I, I'm.
IL NJ, " ,hosn be-, -, r., 10, :; Ht,,,
oT ,ho ~" T,S ,o ,rnsood , , nnn,,;,n
In the g,-,va of bmngnr ~ b,S morciinsSIv
nnmnoltnS o,ho. miiiiens IN onnn,nIsn.,. ,,S,i
crty, TO seek IN ai,en lanas the bread thcy
w e','''eu W III '"cii o""
There is no form of cruelty known to the
lowest savage which 1t has not practlced on
the Irish people i'm the name of the highest
civilization. There Is no device OF hendish IN
genuity it has not adopted TO reduce their
numbers. Within two years 1t has masSacred
children. and women's bodies have been vic
tins of its licensed rufans. There is no spe-
cies of destructive attack, however insidious
tifc whether directed against life or matter in
any portion of the globe. for which its bar
harities in Ireland have not furnished cxaul-
pie. There is no form of retaliation to which
despair or madness may resort, for which En-
glish cruelty in Ireland is not exclusively re-
spOnsbe.
> We declare that English government in
Ireland has not defended the liberty of the
people. but has annihilated it. The statutes
enacted since the invasion amount to a
series of coercion laws framed to deprive
citizens of all vestiges of personal freedom.
and to reduce them to outlawry in order to
confiscate their property and compel
the beginning of the present century.
when the Irish Parliament was abolished,
the laws for Ireland have been
made in England, and during that
period habeas corpus and right of trial
by Jury have been suspended more than fifty
times. Horles of soldiers have been lOosed
upon n people forbidden to bear arms, and "a
state of war, with all its attendant horrors,
with occasionally those of retaliation, has
been maintained. To-day representatives of
the people are i'm prison. Cuiltless of crime.
Freedom of speech is abolished. Freedom of
press is abolished, and the right of peaceable
public meetings is annulled. No mans house
is secure night or day, from armed maraud-
ers who may insult and harass his family.
Without a warrant a citizen may be thrown
into prison: without counsel he may be put
on mock trial before a preiudiced Judge and
packed Jury: on living ayerments of pur-
chased wrctches, his liberty may be sacrificed
or his life taken i'm the name of law.
3. Instead of protecting the property of
the people, English government I'm Ireland has
been conspicuous for its injury and ruin.
Out of 2O,OOO,OO0 acres of producing land,
6,OO0.O00 have been allowed to lie waste The
ownership of the remainder, generally ac-
Quired by force or fraud, has been retained in
the hands of ravenous monopolists who an
the form of rents, no portion of which goes
back to the Irish people. In addition to this.
an iniquitous system of taxation imposes on
the people gigantic burden for the susie
nance of a foreign army, for an oppressive con-
stabulary, for salaries to supernumerary Of
ficials, and pacemen for pensions to English
for vulgar court whose extravaganza is
equaled only 10y the sham of its prctensions.
The naturally created capital of the countryis
sent to England on one preteXt or an
other, and brings no exchange except ar
ticles of English manufacture. which the Irish
people, under self-governmeDt, would pro-
iuce for themselves or purchase in America. |
Irish manufactures, deliberately destroyed
by England in the last century. are still dor
mant;; Her immense water-power turns no
wheels: her canals are all but impossible; her |
rivers are all INSTRUCTED; her useful clay and
valuable minerals are untouched. In her
beautiful harbOrs are few ships except those |
Of her enemy. English law for the protection |