The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-04

| deIphia-A Formal Organization Effect
ed, and Platform Adopted-AIexan6er
Sullivan. of Chicago, Presidential yio-
| lent Denunciation of England's Alleged
1Misrule in Ireland.
PHILADELPHIA, April q.
| At the morning session, the Secretary
read, by unanimous consent; a com
munication from Hon. S. S. Cox.
OF New York, congratulating the Con-
| vention on what it had done, and declaring
| that it was impossible for Ireland to remain
under British government on account of
commercial restrictions Of the latter. There
| were 6S,24 able-bodied men engaged in
keeping the peace, while there were but
| 81, 600 engaged in teaching. The uncer-
tainty of land tenure and of political status
and standing army of spies, go to render
Ireland the worst-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'AIeagher Condor then moved
that the thanks of this Convention be ten
| dered to Mr.. Cox. Carried
On Mrs. Parnelps 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-American people assembled in
! convention at Philadelphia, submit to the in
| tellgence and the right reason Of their fellow
! men, that the duty of government is to pre-
serve the lives of the governed, to defend
| their liberty, to protect their property, to
maintain peace and order, to allow each por-
! uon OF the people an equitable and efficient
| VOICE IN legislation. and.to promote the gen.
| erai welfare by wise, just and humane laws.
| We solemnly declare and cite unquestion-
| able history and universal knowledge of liv-
| ing men in testimony hereof.
| l. That the English Government has exist
! ed in Ireland, not to preserve the lives Of the
| governed, but to destroy them. Entire COM
munltles it has wantonly massacred by the
! sword: to asylums of terrified women it has
! oelDerately applied the blazing torch; into
| helpless towns it has discharged deadly bombs
| and shells.
| Through consecrated crypts, where age and
| infancy sought shelter, it has sent its bloody
| butchers Sacred persons of venerable priests
1t has stretched upon the rack or suspended
! from the gibbet. Pulling babes have been inn
paled on points of its bayonets because, in
| their own words, Its e1nisSafies like that
| Government" Its gold has been folded in the
| hand OF the assassin, and it has rewarded the
infamy OF perjured traitor. Its treacherous
| falsehood has lured patriots to unsupported
death, as II the sword, cannon, torch, scatfold,
| dagger and explosive were not enough
| 1t enjoys the unique infamy OF being the
| only government known to ancient or mod
| ern times which has employed famine for the
| aestructlon OF those from whom it claimed al
| legiance BY forcibly robbing the Irish peo-
| pie of the fruits of their own toll, produced
| by their own labor, it has buried not hum
| dred, not a thousand, but more than million
! Of the Irish race unshrouded and uneoffined
| IN the grave OF hunger. 1t hts mercileSSly
! compelled other millions in compulsory pow
| erty, to seek in alien lands the bread they
| were entitled to in their own.
| There is no form of cruelty known to the
/ lowest savage which it has not practiced on
| the Irish people in the name of the highest
civilization. There is no device of fiendish in
| genuity 1t has not adopted to reduce their
numbers. Within two years it has massacred
| children, and women's bodies have been vic
| Tins of its licensed rlffians. There is no spe-
| cies of destructive attack, however insidious
| OF, violent, ancient or modern, rude or scien-
| tifc, whether directed against life or matter in
| any portion OF the globe, for which its bar
| barities in Ireland have not furnished exam
| pie. There is no form of retaliation to which
despair or madness may resort, for which En-
| sponsible.
| 2. 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
| series of coercion laws framed to deprive
| citizens of all vestiges of personal freedom,
and to reduce them to outlawry in order to
them to fee to. foreign lands. Since
| the beginning of the present century.
when the Irish Parliament was abolished,
made in England, and during that
| period habeas corpus and right of trial
by jury have been suspended more than fifty
| times. HordeS of soldiers have been loosed
upon 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 in prison, guiltless 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 warrant citizen may be thrown
| on mock trial before a prejudiced Judge and
| packed jury; on lying averments of pur-
| chased wretches his liberty may be sacrificed
| or his life taken in the name of law.
| 8. Instead of protecting the property of
| the people, English government in Ireland has
| been conspicuous for its injury and ruin.
| Out Of ,2O,0OOOOO acres of producing land,
| 100000 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
| nually 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 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 placemen for pensions to English
| favorites; for blood-money for informerS and
| for vulgar court whose extravaganza is
| equaled only by the sham of its pretensions.
| The naturally created capital of the country is
| 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-goYernment, would pro-
| duce 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 obstructed 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
| OF property in Ireland has been a lance to
| make Ireland bleed at every pore for the ben
| eft of the heartless landlord and the English
| manufacturer.
4. English government in Ireland has not
| maintained peace and order but has for seven
| hundred years broken her peace and destroyed
| her order.
| s. English government in ireland does not
| allow that portion of the Empire an equitable
| and efficient voice in the Legislature. In En-
| gland one-twelfth of the population votes for
| the members of Parliament. In Ireland one
| twenty-fifth of the population votes for
| members of Parliament. In England reg
| listration laws are favorable to votes.
| In Ireland they are inimical to the voter.
| In England all classes of population are fairly
| represented. In Ireland, the Poor law is en-
| ployed to secure to1andords and place-hunt-
| ers the preponderance in the National dele
| cation. In England the judiciary is independ-
| ent of the executive, and sympathizes with
| the people The Ireland judiciary is the Great
| ure and a part of the executive, and is APP
| pointed exclusively from The enemies of the
| people. In England the magistracy is
| chosen without regard to creed.
| In ireland ninety-Seven per cent. of the mag
| istrates having jurisdiction over the peoples
| liberty are selected from creed rejected by
seventy-eight per cent. of the people, and the
| deteStable spirit of religious bigotry is thus
| legalized and perpetuated. In England, laws
creating civil disabilities on account of re-
| ligion have long been dead. In Ireland laws
made under Edward III, Queen Elizabeth,
| Earl of Stratford, Charles L. Queen Anne, and
| their successors are still vital to torment a
| people for whose oppression no statute is
| found too hoary by venal and truculent
Judges.
g. Every measure of legislation proposed by
an English member receives courteous con-
sideration. Any measure, however just,
necessary or humane, proposed by the patriot
Irish members, is certain of contemptuouS
rejection by the combined majority of both
the great English parties. Thus the edu-
catiOnal system of Ireland is VIGOROUSLY
inadequate; thus it is that evictions,
unknown in England, and declared by
Gladstone to be almost equivalent to
death sentences, are of daily occurrence
in Ireland. and have nearly doubled
IN i've years, in spite of the boosted benefit Of
the Gladstone Land laws; thus it is that, all
though according to the Government returns,
criminals are twenty-sev in ten thousand of
the English population, and only sixteen in
ten thousand of the Irish population, in spite
OF the evaporation to which they are sub
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