Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-31
II IRISH LEAGUE.

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Amothcr League Meeting Last Evening"
Speeches By Several Prominent Mens sers.
The Irish National league met last eve.
ming with an increased attendance and 9
tine literary programme inters persed with
music was presented. Mr.. Warren gave q
spirited recitation, and was followed By
Mr.. Shadrick, who expressed his sympathy
with the oppressed against the opPressor
and was IN favor of cultivating Irish liter
allure, and of getting acquainted with
Irish authors who had enriched Englist
literature. The question of private own
ership in land he was ready to debate be
fore the league. he was of the belief from
personal investigation that private owner.
ship IN land was wrong, and would debate
contrary opinion.
President mcfarland related a case o.
landlord atrocity that occurred in the west
of ireland, aud referred to
traitors and informegs. Ireland had
not q monopoly of these wretch.
ed creatures, and to-day n one who was
conyersant with the sad story of Ireland
and who knew how Irishmen were tempted
TO rise on their eountry's ruin to fame, it
was q matter of congratulation how IN
prolific the island had been in producing
r~enegades and traitors. Reference was
made to Sparta, to Hungary, to the
Tyroi, to England, and even to
America to prove they each and all pro
duced traitors in abundance when the
cause OF liberty was at stake.
VIM. Lsary delivered a calm and tenn
perate address, replete with we'll matured
thoughts on the Anglo-Irish question. No
other race had made so many sacrifices in
the cause of liberty as the Irish, and
they still evinoe a determination for the
reooyery of their lost inheritance, which is
worthy of the highest commentator.
Their motto has been ''Never give up,'
and by perseverance they will ultimately
prevail in obtaining their God given rights.
either by moral or physical force, or both
combined, from the stronger nation that
has unjustly CENTRALIZED them for ages. He
was in favor of adopting a policy of moral
suaslon rather than of physical force while
Ireland was so weak and her enemy so
powerful. Too much blood had already
been shed, and too many sacrifices made
by gallant Irishmeu fer the good that had
resulteG to their country from it. Those
who advocate warfare with England while
Ireland is incapable of coping sue.
cessfully with her, are guilty
of criminality, and those who
preach the gospel of hate and urge the
people to use explosives, should be en-
tirely discountenaxced. O'Oonnell came
up to his ideal of q model hberator, and
better it is to pursue his policy of gaining
Irish rights for smother century than pre-.
c~ipately to rash to arms and get inglor
iously defeated,
Charles Early folio we'd the last speaker.
and believed in physical force to back NJ
moral suasion. The English people wert
making rapid strides toward Democracy
and would soon be as anxious to witnss:
the downfall of the Brit
ish monarchy as their fellow
subjects OF the sister isle. He also depre
ciated the use of explosives, and said til,
use of them would work irrepsrsble in
jury TO tbs national cause. He was willins
to use legitimate weapons of warfare
against England, and said the Irish peopl,
should be educated in every possible way
to use the We tpons when Englend's diff
Guilty arose.
Harry Burke was of the opinion tina