St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-20

FUNDS FOR PARNELL.
Patriotic Irishmen Determine
to Stand by Their
Champion.
The st. Paul Land League
Branch Will Make Prompt
Response.
Pope Leo Not Opposed to the
Cause Of Home
Rule.
Catholic Prelates Urge Gener-
GUS Subscriptions to Fight
i. the Thunderer.

The st. Paul branch of the Irish Ma
tional League of America will meet at
Crusaders hall tomorrow evening at s
o'clock, in response to the call of Presi-
dent Fitzgerald. to takeathe initiatory
steps towards raising funds for the aid
Of Parnell and his colleagues. Members
of the local branch of the league state
emphatically that there is no truth in
the report that the pope has frowned
upon any attempt to render Parnell
financial aid.
I'VE have membership of about 200
in this CITY," said p. r. Mcdonnell.
secretary of the local league, yesterday,
land we are all in favor of giving the
fund substantial aid, and various COM
mittees for that purpose will probably
be appointed tomorrow evening. This
is crisis which is grave and mOmentOus
in the struggle of the Irish race. We
must support ParDell and rally around
him to help him in his suit against the
London Times, whose charges reflect
upon every honest son of Erin in this
country. The pope is in full sympathy
with the movement, and will do all in
Ills POWER TO HELP IT.
Why should he view it with disfav0r?
The Times has made some absurd
charges which it is totally unable to
SubStantiate, and the much -talked-of fet-
tiers have been branded as forgeries.
The Catholic church is the champion of
the poor and down-trodden. That the
head of the church Should refuse to
offer aid to representative sympathiZer
with the cause of.Ireland, and take up
the cudgel for ariStocratic, anti-hOme
rule England is absurd. The
Tory government has paid hlrelingS in
Rome, who do nothing but circulate re-
ports against his holiness, with view
to helping the waning cause OF Eng
land. A man can be good Catholic
and still contribute his mite towards
helping on the glorious cause of liberty.
The local branch of the league but
echoes the sentiments OF other branches
throughout the length and breadth of
America. Probably the best refutation
of the statement that the Catholic clergy,
under orders of the pope, are opposed
to Parneil and home rule is found in
the utteranceS of DR.. Nulty, bishop OF
Meath. In a letter addressed to his
priests and people asking them to gen
erously support Mr.. Parnell the bishop
remarks: .s s -. ,s..ss,.. G,;,,
Fifteen years have how elapsed since first
made Mr.. ParneHs acquaintance. L hap
pened to be then engaged in the discharge OF
some episcopal dutiesin aremote and by no
means easily accessible district of the do
cese. He had to travel Oh AN outside car
nearly s -.
TWENTY MILES To REACH Me-
Before presenting himself as a candidate
for the representation of the county OF
Meath. he came to solicit my approval and
support. Mr.. Parne1 was then but little
known to the world. Except the informa-
ton contained in a letter which he brought
me from the pastor of the parish in which he
lived. and who was a former class-feloW OF
nv own. had no knowledge whatever of
him. Aud yet, in a single interview .-ot
hardly two hours duration, he revealed
such extraordinary powers or lntelecI
such ready and abundant command or
fresh original reseurce-that [, without the
slightest fear Of .rashness or precipitation,
committed myself TO him with the fullest
tr,stand confidence. have never seen any
solid grounds for withdrawing, or for even
modifying the conviction with which L then
trusted in him; nor have ever done so for
q single moment AS / was thus the first
Irish bishop who had absolutely committed
himself to Mr.. Parnell. SO should naturally
| e the very last to abandon him. crisis,
therefore, so grave and so momentous in the
| national struggle appeals with interesting
| and exceptional force to
THE PATRIOTISM OF n IsIIMEN.
| It calls on them to come to the 'front.' to
| rally round their chosen chief. and to sup
| wishes and with all the moral, material and
| pecuniary aid at their command. The high
| and exalted position of the arch bishop of
| Dublin. his noble and devoted loyalty to the
| national cause, the splendid services he has
rendered to il by his speeches aud his writ
| ingy. and the sacrifices he has made in its in
| terest, point him out as the. most duly and
| highly authorized of living men to inaugurate
| this movement, and he has done so. The
! primate the archbishops and bishops who
| have preceded me, have authorltatIyely as
we'll as argumentatively proved that it
| is our own country itself that is on lis trial
| IN the person of Mr.. Parnell, i'll the coming
| inquiries. 1t would be waste of time in me
| to illustrate this important tact still further.
| A movement, therefore, that comes directly
| and opportunity to its relief must necessa-
| rily succeed For, should the masses of my
| countrymen shrink back from the pecuniary
| sacrifices which this Indemnity fund de
| mands, / should feel forced to confess, with
| sorrow and with shame, and as one of them
selves. that do not. believe. them as yet at
| least worthy of freedom. l do not admire
| the feelngs-or patriotism of any 1rlshman
| .Who is not eagerly DESTROYS of taking a ,art,
! and having hand in the final discontinue
| of the enemies of his country. - r.