The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-18
MR.. PARNELL's APPEAL.
Funds Asked from the Irish Americans fol
the General Election.

LINCOLN, Neb Feb TT. Harrington, mem
Der of Parliament and secretary of the League in
Ireland, has written the following letter to Pat
rick Egan, president of the Irish National
League of America:
Mr. Parnell desires me to write and place be-
fore You the difficulty he has In acting upon your
suggestion to send over two members OF the
party in the spring He had been in hopes that
two members of the party might be able TO I'M
dertake the journey, but the immense LABOR tnat
Will he thrown upon our small number In the
forthcoming session of Parliament, in fighting
the redistribution of seats bill and the renewed
crimes act, will render the absence of every one
man of our party serious loss. If we can show
sufficient strength III the House in the approach
ing session, we will be able to amend the redis-
tribution of seats bill in such manner that 1t
will enable us to take possession of eighty 1--WE
seats in the new Parliament. while at the same
time, upon the energy and power we display In
discussing the bill will depend the fate OF the
crimes act. which the government intends to re-
new. Under these circumstances Mr. Parnell
desires me to say that you and our friends IN
America will have to leave us our full parlla-
mentary strength during the approaching ses-
sion, and you may rely fully upon his desire and
that of the party to send you delegation as
soon as it is at all possible
Our organization is making splendid progress
and doing great work. To the activity which
our Irish branches displayed in working up the
we owe the fact that Ireland is to receive the
benefit of the extended franchise, for we showed
that, with energy and perseverance, we could
secure, under the limited franchise, nearly every
seat which the new franchise brings within our
easy grasp. very large proportion of our
funds was expended on this part of the struggle,
and even still our expenses in attending bound
airy commissions and preparing schemes and evil
dence for them are very large. Ii. however, we
had not to sustain a large number of evicted
tens nfG rhn have n I1Sa az a
the Land League our organization at
home would be able to meet its working
expenses. But this evicted tenants fund is a
first charge upon us, and forms the largest part
of our expenditures. We have received from
our Irish branches during the year 10000, while
we have voted over $1,000 in grants to these
evicted tenants.
II have seen statementin some of the Ameri-
can papers attributed to Mr. Parnell, that no
finds were needed in Ireland until the general
election. He tells me he never made such a
statement On the contrary, it is with a view to
preparing for the general election that we mainly
want funds We shall have to put forward
about ninety candidates at the general election
prepared to work every one of these elections, as
all the constituencies will be split up into single
member constituencies and every man will have
to fight his own corner with the local aid he may
receive.
''Mr Parnell has directed me to request that
any parliamentary fund at present in hand might
be forwarded, as large proportion of the pres
emit expenditure of the National League falls
within the line of parliamentary fund.- such as
the preparation of bills for Parliament, the rent
and expenses of parliamentary Office, and the
expenses of members delegated to attend meet
ings. as we'll as the preparation of pamphlets OF
the crimes act and the supplying of other such
information to Parliament
''ro remove these off our limited resources
would leave us free TO devote larger proportion
of our funds to organization Under all these
circumstances Mr. Parnell urgently requests
that you will point out to our friends in America
the necessity for renewed exertion in support Of
the parliamentary fund"