Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-10
IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

National League IN Session at Phila-
delphia-A Formal Organization Effect
| ed, and Platform Adopted-Alexander
| Sullivan, of Chicago, Presidential vio-
| lent Denunciation of Englands Alleged
Misrule 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 Is, 242 able-bouied men engaged in
excepting the peace" while there were but
$1,000 engaged in teaching. The uncer-
| tainty of land tenure and of political status,
and standing army of spies, 60 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.
that the thanks of this Convention be ten
dered to Mr.. Cox. Carried
On Mrs. Parnell's entrance she was heart
lily cheered.
At twenty minutes to twelve a recess was
taken for two hours, to await the reports Of
the committees.
At $40, on the reassemblng 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
telligence and the right reason of their fellow
men. that the duty of government is to pre-
their liberty, to protect their property, to
maintain peace and order, to allow each por-
ton oi Of the people an equitable and efficient
eral welfare by wise, just aud 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
munitles it has wantonly massacrcd by the
sword: to asylums OF terrified women it has
deliberately applied the blazing torch; into
helpless towns it has discharged deadly bombs
and shells. ~
infancy sought shelter it has sent its bloody
butchers Sacred persons of venerable priests
it has str stretched it, upon the rack or suspended
paled on points of its bayonets because; in
hs Words S hss Ike that hat
hand OF the assassin, and it has rewarded the
intamy of Il periured traitor. Its treacherous
falsehood has lured patriots to unsupported
death, rs if the sword, cannon, TORCH scafold,
dagger and explosive were not enough.
1t enjoys the unique infamy of being the
ern times which has employed famine for the
destruction of those from whom it claimed al
pie of the fruits Of their own toll, produced
by their own labor. it has buried not Il hum
dred, not thousand, but more than million,
of the Irish race unshrouded and uncofiined
in the grave of hunger. 1t has merciicSsly
compelled other millions. in compulsory pow
crty, 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
civilization. There is no device of fendish in
genuity it has not adopted to reduce their
numbers. Within two years ithas massacred
children, and womens bodies have been vic
Tins of its licensed ruffians. There is no spe-
cies of destructive attack, however insidious
or 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-
glish cruelty in Ireland is not exclusively re-
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 yestiges of personal freedom,
them to flee to foreign lands. Since
the Of the
made mae '" IN England, ilei AND darng that
by jury have been suspended more than fifty
times. Hordes of soldiers have been loosed
state of war, with all its attendant horrors,
been maintained: To-day representatives Of
Freedom of speech is abolished. Freedom of
press is abolished, and the right of peaGeabie
public meetings is anHulled. NO mans house
is secure night or day, from armed maraud-
ers. who may insult and harass his family.
Without Il warrant u citizen may be thrown
on mock trial before O 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.
B. Instead of protecting the property OF
the people, English government in Ireland has
been conspicuous for its injury and ruin
Out of 2O,0O0.0O0 acres of producing land,
100000 have been allowed to lie waste. The
ownership OF the rema noe generally nc,
the hands of ravenous monopolists who an
nually drained the country of its money in
back to the Irish people. In addition to this,
an Ubiquitous system of taxation imposes on
nance of foreign army. for an oppressive con-
stahlllary, for salaries. to supernumerary Of
ficials, and placemen for pensions to English
tavorites: for blood money for informers and
for vulgar court whose extravaganza is
equaled only by the sham of its .pretensions.
The naturally created ca Iital of the country is
sent to England on ole pretexts' or an
other, and brings no exchange except ar
ticles of English manufacture, which the irish
duee for themselves or purchase in Amefica
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 impaSsable; 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
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.
l. 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-twefth 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
istration 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 to landlords 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 part of the executive, and is APP
pointed exclusively from the enemies of the
people. In England the magstracy is