The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-14
THE IRISH CONVENTION.
A Large Gathering OF Emeraiu
Islanders.

to The cJnVenuOn OF Inc 1iie
tional League held secret mee.ihg
until after midnight. The principal
business was the defining of a pollcy
which shall govern the proceedings
of the convention tc~day. The osi-
egates are nearly unanimous IN 'aVo[
OF prohibiting discussion IN any
form of American politics. IL was
decided to recommend Juoge
Mooney, of Buffalo, for temporary
chairman. The Iowa State League
sert 81, 900 to Sullivan for the par
Iiamentary fund. 700 delegates are
In town.
Boston, 13.-Feneuil Ha! was
filed at noon with 500 delegates 10
the irish National League C0nVenS
ton and friends. Mady iadles Oh
the wonen's league were present
also many priests. Fhe nall WAS
finely decorated.
President Sullivan in his ADDRESS
said:
Gentlemen of the Co11oe7stion:-In
the name and by the authority OF
the Irish National League OF Amer
lea. we meet to fulfill the require"
ments Of is cons titution; TO convey
to our kindred the message Oh our
steadfast devotion; and TO receive
the ambassadors whom they nave
commissioned to scquaint US with
the progress Of their struggle for
self government. The memorable
Phila5elphis convention organized
tha Irish National League OF
America. 1t is the auxiliary OF the
Irish National League of Ireland,
the heir of all the hopes, ana the
guardian of more than the aims OF
that great social revolt which lifted
the Irish farmer from the earth to
his fest and cast the English system
of Iandlordsm in ireland on
its face on the earth. The Land
League was born in an hour OF woe,
when the spectre o famine appeared.
summoned, not by the oreStn OF
God whitening the harvests, hut oy
the English government. With
armies and fleets, with prisons and
scaffolds and felon ships, with coer-
cion acts and constabulsry, it ens.
bled the l,ndlera 80 withhold, until
purchased by foreign charity. the
food the people had produced by
their own labor out of their own
soil. Humane, nay, humble ss was
the first object of the Land League,
it was suppressed by force because
the English government feared that
from the brow of its humanity
wsuId snrinp the spirit of liberty.
The Irish National Jesgne, whose
distinct and aVowed purpose is the
establishment of the sovereignty
of the Irish people in Ireland, is the
embodiment of that spirit OF liberty.
Il cannot be suppressed, for its spirit
is immortal. 1t is beyond the scope
OF coercion acts, for its life is end
less SIS the II e of race. The sham
rock, on its banner, tear~bedewed IN
it's native bed, is the symbol OF the
glorious union OF that race in three
homes, separated by the seas that
divide continents, united by the
determination of race to achieve
the independence of nation.
AS the Land League accomplished
the relief Of a class, the National
League represents the aspirations
and the resolve of an entire people
AS the farmers have been the chief
bsneficiaries of the struggles and
sacrifices thus far made, the Irish
people throughout the world, who
participate in the struggles ano
share the sacrifices sdmonish The
farmers that thcy owe duty tc
their country in an earnest support
of the aims of the National League
I We warn them that until the CHIEF
object of the National League i:
achieved-national self govern
ment-their own position is still I'M
safe. The National League aim
not merely at reduction of rents
not merely at q change from idl'
p-oprietors to working proprIetorF
out at the creation of complete na
tionsl life and the development o.
all the diversified industries which
render a people self-sustaining ant
prosperous. The farmers are right.
: admonished that if they fail to ex
tend TO the laborers tie fraterna
. aid they have themselves received
if they fail TO encourage Irish pro
ducts, to the exclusion OF Englisl
goods; if they hesitate to invest il
3 domestic industries, they will
: be more odious in the slgd
l of God and man than tn
landlords from whose clutch the.
have been released. We do not de
sire in Ireland the substitution O
G petty selfshness for gigantic robbery
e The ingratitnde of the farmer vii
J, be more dispicsble and more dan
y gerous than the tyranny of tn
j. landlords, because that ingrstitud
/. will be treason to nation. Th
|. economic and civil life of peopl
can be developed only by sincere
noble and effectual cohesion OF al
/ classes for the common welfare.
Is The work of the league in tn
70 United States has been directe
% first, to sending aid to the treasur
% in Ireland, whose moderate require
e, ments, in the absence of any eme1
e. gency, have been fairly met, and t
3. The enlightenment and sOlldiicatio
70 of American opinion. While fore
)" is still able 10 prolcng desputisn
i Justice ia net dependent ca arm
TO alone. Ireland, unable to cope wit
" tie empire that denies her Col
stitutIon and parliament, apes
frouo tho havornf of hor invader