The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-28

1ish- parties. mus the uC0C
svsfem of Ireland is VIGOROUSLY In
adenuate: thus it is that e%victions un
known in England, and declared by
Gladstone to be almost equlvaient u
the death sentence, are of daily oc
cnrrence in Ireland, and have very
nearly doubled during the last nv
wears. in spite of the boosted benen
If Gladstone's land laws. Thus I'll
that although, according to govern
mont returns. criminals are twenty,
seven i'm 10, 900 Of English people ano
only sixten in 10, 1000 of the Irish pop
ulation, in spite of the evaporation
to which they are subject, yet Eng
land enioys constitutional liberty
and Ireland is under worse than
martial law. The continued n
nersistent attempts of patriot irish
denntations to obtain in the English
parliament just and human avs
for Ireland nave always been, are,
and in u belief must continue 10 oe
= failure. Now, then. in view OF
these facts, be it -
Rcsolusd by the Irish-American
people in convention assembled; ina
the English government III lrelahd,
originating in usurpation and per-
petuated BY force, having failed to
discharge any of the dutieso of govern
ment. and never having acquired the
consent of the governed, has no more
right whatever to exist in Ireland,
and that it is the duty of the Irish
race, throughout the world, to sus
tain the Irish people in the employ
ment of all legitimate means to sub
stitute for it national self-govern-
ment.
Resolved, That we pledge unquali-
fed and constant support, moral and
material to our countrynlen IN Ire
! land in their efforts to recover their
national self-government, and in or
der to more effectually promote this
object by the consolidation of all our
resources and the creation of ore re-
sponsible and authoritative body to
sneak for Ireland in America; that
| all societies represented in this con-
vention, and all that may hereafter
comply with the conditions of admis-
sion, be organized into the Irish
| National League of America for the
purpose of supporting the Irish Ma
tional League of Ireland, of which
Charles Stewart Parnell is president.
Resolved, That we heartily indorse
the noble sentiment of Bishop But
Ter, of Limerick, that every stroke
of Forster's savage lash was for Irish
mel and a new proof of Parnelps
worth and an additional title for
him to the confidence and gratitude
of his countrymen.
Resolved, That We sympathize
with the laborers of Ireland in their
efforts to improve their condition,
and if we have sustained the farmers
in their assaults upon landlordism
we now urge upon farmers justice
and humane consideration for labor
ers. We demand that farmers allow
labore1s a fair days wages for a fair
days work. j..
Resolved, That as the manufac-
lures Of Great Britain are her chief
sources of her material greatness
which is already scclining under the
influence of American competition,
we earnestly counsel our countrymen
in Ireland to buy nothing in Eug-
land which they can produce in
Ireland or procure from America or
France, and we pledge ourselves to
promote Irish manufactures by en-
%couraging their import to Americas:
and to use our utmost endeavors by
plain statements of facts and discrinl-
nation in patronage to persuade
American tradesmen from keeping
English goods on sale.
Resolred, That the English Minis
try, ostentatiously liberal, has earned
the contempt and detestation of
fair-minded men throughout the
world by imp1isoning more than
1000 citizens of Ireland without &C.
cusation or trial, a number of whom
were noble-hearted women, engaged
in works of mercy among the evicted
of landlord ~rapacity and English
law.
Lesolpel, That this convention
thanks the Right Rev. John Ireland,
Bishop of ST. Paul; the Right Rev.
John O'Connor, Bishop of Omaha;
the Right Rev. John Lancaster
Spaulding, Bishop of Peoria; the
Most Rev. John Williams, Bishop
of Boston; the Right Rev. s. V.
Ryan, Bishop OF Buffalo; the Most
Rev. Patrick A. Feehan, Archbishop
of Chicago; the Right Rev. Edward
Fitzgerald, Bishop Of Little Rock,
Ark, and their coadjutors, for their
efficient efforts in providing homes
for Irish immigrants in the United
States. The people of Ireland are by
the law of God and nature entitled to
live by their labor in their native
land, but since the brutal govern
ment compels large numbers TO emf
CRATE, it is the duty of their country
men to warn them against the snares
and poverty OF large cities, and assist
them to agricultural regions.
Resolved, That the policy of the
English government in first reducing
Irish peasantry to abject poverty and
then sending them penniIess to the
United States dependent upon Amer
lean charity, is unnatural and an out
rage upon the American government
and people. We respectfully direct
the attention Of the United States
government to this iniquity; we pro-
test against its continuance, and we
instruct officials who shall be chosen
by this convention to present our
protest to the President of the United
States and respectfully but firmly to
urge upon the President that it is the
duty of the government of the U.lited
States to define to support paupers |
whose pauperism began under and is
the result of English government,
and to demand Of England that she
send no more of her paupers to these
shores to become a burden upon
American people.
Resolved, That this convention
welcomes the sturdy and undoubted
patriot and prudent custodian, Pat
rick Egan, who, to protect the Land
League funds from the robber hands
of the English Government, volun-
tarlly abandoned his private bust
ness and accepted E. long exile in
foreign lands; the integrity of whose
guardianship has been certified
after minute examination of his
books by undoubted independent
patriots John Dillon, the Rev. Eu-
gene Sheehy and Matthew Harris.
Grateful Tor his invaluable services.
his couDtrymen rejoice that thew
possess, on this important occasion