Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-15
TEE PARNELL FUND.

The Probable Subscription or the Irish
Citizens of st. Paul $5OO-Michael Davitt
and Others!On the Marquis of Lansdowne.
President William Louis Kelly called the
meeting of the Irish National land league
to order at Hibernien hall at o'clock
yesterday afternoon, and after some ex-
planatory remarks relative to the desira-
bility of every Irish organization, associa-
ton or society becoming, through the plan
adopted by the Philadelphia national
gathering. participant with the National
league and its work, incorporating this ac-
ton in their bylaws as an addition to the
work for which they were instituted,
read the call for state con-
vention of all the national, hibernian,
benevolent, temperance, patriotic, literary
and social Irish American organizations of
Minnesota to assemble by delegates at 10
a. M, Thursday, Nov. Is, 1883, at the city
of Minneapolis, in furtherance of the
statesman like policy laid down by the
Philadelphia convention of uniting all the
forces and elements of tho Irish race in
this country, in order to better advance the
common cause in Ireland.
After slight debate, 1t was voted, on mo-
ton, to appoint delegates to such conven-
ton at the next meeting of the league.
Capt. OConnor, chairman of the several
ward committees appointed to collect
funds for the Parnell testimonial, stated
that while some of the ward committees
were ready to report and turn in the funds
collected, others were not, but would do SO
the first part of the week.
The chairman of the Parnsil fund COM
mittee for the second ward reported the
sum of $130 collected therein, and the
chairman of the fourth ward committee
reported the sum of $160. SO as the
amount collected in that ward, with more
| pledged. These announcements were re-
ceived with great applause.
On motion it was voted that all the ward
committees meet at the Office of Sheriff
O'Gorman at 7:30 O'Clock next Wednesday
evening to make their final report of the
amount donated by st. Paul, and it was
also voted that such amount, which it is
thought will reach the sum of $500, be
sent John F. Finnerty, of the Chicago Citi-
zen, the first man to propose the raising of
the Parnell fund in the United States, and
one of the treasurers of the same, in an
exchange draft on Dublin, to be forwarded
by him to the treasurer
of the Parnell fund in Ireland.
Il was also stated in this connection
that the books of the Parnell fund will be
closed in both Great Britain and the United
States Oct. 20, and that the time set for
the presentation to this distinguished Irish
parliamentary leader and patriot is Dec.
II of the present year.
For years the rich land owners of Ire
l..
ment, and in order to enrich themselves
and grind the peasantry they have in this
position, made laws to impoverish and
starye their tenantry In order to fill their
own Golfers. No professional Irishman
could afford to take an election to parlia-
ment, although no could secure the
voles, as such action would rob HIM of
his meals Of subsistence. This is what
Parnell has done for his race, and in his
long and successful struggle he has be-
come impoverished, and his couptrymen
the world over who believe that the eman-
:ipatiop of their native Isle will be accom-
plished by such ends, are raising this fund
to enable him to pursue his struggle for
the amelioration of his people, in which,
without hope of any such aid, he has made
great strides under the impulse Of patriot
ic fire and sturdy patience.
The men who subscribe to the Parnell
fund see their way clear through educated
and well balanced Irish minds in parlia-
ment soberly and steadily push
ing the landholder with his solfshness and
avarice, the wall, and demanding and re-
covering through peaceful legislation that
which no violence can accomplish, and
which every act of violence on the part of
mistaken men retards. This is evidently
but the beginning of system of necessary
and wise support Of trusted Irish states
men in parliament until the wrongs of
that country are redressed, as they will be
by such action, which will finally enlist
with it the sanction of the civilized world
of all nationalities.
The meeting further voted that the
meetings of the league for the fall and
winter should be held on the second and
fourth Saturdays of!each month at 1880
O'Clock.
Just previous to adjournment President
Kelly, in speaking of the new governor
downe, now crossing the Atlantic, said
that in letter to the Montreal Witness,
Michael Davitt said that if he ''rules Cana
da as he has ruled the Lansdowne estate
in county Kerry, he is not likely to come
back to Erin in hurry" and ''that he
leaves his country FOR his country's good"
Mr.. Kelly then read the following extract
among others on the same subject from
the Witness:
Mr.. Stewart Trench, in his Realities of
Irish Life" thus describes the state of
things on portion of Lord Lapsdowne's
estate in AT and '48: sat least 5000 peo-
pie must have died of starvation within
the Union of Kenmare. They died on the
roads, and they died in the fields; they
died on the mountains, and they died in
the glens; they died in the relief works,
and they died in their houses. So that
whole streets and villages were left almost
without an inhabitaut, and at least some
few, despairing of help from the country,
crawled into the town, and died at the
doors of the residents, and outside the
Union walls" The present Lord LaDs-
dewne owns over 10000 acres IN Ireland;
in Dublin county, 2,132; in Queens county
$3.50; in Meath, 1896; in Limerick, 1926
and in Kerry 1883. The father of the
present agent and the grandfather of the
marquis, under the name of "Rules of the
Estate" devised code of inhuman laws
which were rigidly enforced. The present
agent and marquis carried out those rules
previous to the land league. One of the
rules of the Lansdowne estate was that no