The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-16
THE IRISH LEAGUE.
The Address Read Before 1t
Yesterday.
OF GRIEVANCES.
The Wall OF an Outraged, PIundered
and 9Iisgoverned People"-
other News Notes.
The Irish. National League.


the Irish National League was helC
here to-day.
During the conference OF the national
committee of the league, a dispatch
from Charles Stewart Parnell was read
advising the meeting to fix upon date
subsequent to the English elections for
the holding of a national convention.
The following address was then read
and adopted:
In obedience to the suggestion OF
the chosen leader of the people of Ire
land. that the National Committee of
the Irish National League of America
assembled to designate the time and
place for holding the next national CON
vention OF the league in the United
States, have decided to postpone the
date OF meeting until January, 1886. 1t
must be manifest 60 all the members
of the league, and all friends of self
government in Ireland, that it
would be impossible either for Mr..
Parnell to attend the convention
in this country on TO send any o. his
able associates pending the general cleo
ton, which will probably occur next
November, hence the wisdom OF his sug-
gestion that the convention be post
poned. In the meantime, however, the
league should inaugurate a period OF
activity not less earnest and energetic
than that which prevailed when Ireland
Was threatened with another artificial
famine, and when her leaders were
Imprisoned and her press silenced I'M
der the so-called liberal government.
The party led by Mr.. Parneu needs the
support-how well that support is de-
served. we need hardly tell the world.
AsSuredly, we need not tell the men
of Irish birth or descent, serving with
out compensation, without official
power or patronage, among aliens
who have prosecuted, and who have
sought To degrade them; being num-
erically less than one-twentieth OF the
body in which they serve, they have
success unparalleled in the
history of the struggle for a free
government by their ability, their unity,
their disc ipline, their faith in the Justice
of their cause and BY their restless
labors. They have forced not only
their enemies, but the world to look
upon the oppression and to listen to the
recitals of an outraged, plundered, mis-
governed people; they have, with
matchless skill. seized upon every CD
portunity to thrust before the world
their cause. 1t is one which will bear
the scrutiny of light. They never al
lowed it TO be hidden. They bloekaded
The legislation of the English Parlia-
ment; they objected to, postponed and
defeated local legislation intended to
foster and expedite English business
interests in retaliation for the dull, bru-
tai indifference which was shown to
Irish interests, tor the first time in Eng
lish history. 1t was impossible to eX-
tend the franchise privilege in England
and Scotland without giving Ireland
absolute equality in extension While
they have not been able to compel the
government to disgorge the surplus of
The unexpended fund raised to support
The now-disestablished church, they
have wrung from the champions OF that
colossal robbery the admission that it
belongs to the people of Ireland, and
have compelled the return of portion
Of the stolen funds. They have not Sc
cured the lands OF Ireland for the people
Of Ireland, but they have forced the en-
actment OF legislation which, although
IN its effects, is so eXtraor-
TO a confession of the enormity OF the
y oeSu wAAA hAo ~ tOAS SiouAu
down and impoverished the Irish peo-
to get back Grattan's RParliamant
for ireland, but they boldly announce
that the no lesser measure will be ac-
cepted by them, and, pending its restor-
alton, though prohibited from govern
ing Ireland, they have been able to die
tate who must cease and who may as
sumo the work of governing England.
They have driven tbs. party OF coercion,
the party of judicial murderers, the
party of eviction, the party which
vainly sought to imprison ideas when it
thrust men into. dungeons, the party
led by Gladstone-whow wrote boastingly
Of the downfall OF the American re-
disgrsceful retirement from
Dublin Castle, and they have
shown that the whole of Dub
lin Castle was the home OF
so-called English liberalism and the SCAT
Of tyrrany. Its unnatural vice and i'm
ported English bestiality made it only
worthy of site in ancient Sodom and
Or modern London. Their
Iabors have been herculean, their ac-
under the most adverse
are almost mir aculous.
When they next appear in Parliament
their numbers will he increased from
thirty to at least eighty. They will
have more or less of the only reliable
English support-shat which comes
from fear-from a number OF English
members who will owe their election to
the judicious exercise of the balance OF
power by the exiled Irish in England
and Scotland. With that strength they
viii be able to throttle English legisla
ton and compel the English to allow
them to retire from the atmosphere pol
luted by royal and aristocratie besti-
atty. and to establish a free parliament
for the government of free people in
Ireland. In the accomplishment of this
work they need one more great effort
on the part of their American auxiliar-
les. We appeal to every branch of the
League to give renewed life and deter
mination to the work. We earnestly in
vite all who are not members to join
the League; and we invite all the men
of our race, whether members of the
League or not, 10 forward subscriptions
for the Parliamentary fund TO Rev.
Charles O'Reilly, DID,, treasurer, De-
troit, Michigan. At the convention to