The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-22

mental IN covering us with defamation
that we wish to screen the murder ers
OF Dr. Cronin- Wemeet here to-day,
| among other reasons, for the purpose
OF vehemently denouncing his atroci-
Gus murder in our capacity as Ameri-
can citizens; but we hold that as Irish
Americans We have no more right to
be held responsible for that foul at
rocity than has any other element of
our body polite for crimes committed
by persons to whom they are kindred.
We deyoutly hope that the officers
authorized by law will succeed in
bringing to justice the assassins of DIR.
Cronin. We repudiate, both'as Ameri-
can citizens and as Instantaneous, the
claim made by the enemies of our race
that the Irish element has any desire
or any purpose, to make the soil of
America the theatre of acts of veng-
| eance because of feuds, factions or
dIsagreements growing out of political
| differences or personal heart burnings.
We desire to declare that in the alb
sence of anv rational opportunity for
the assertion of the independence of
flreland after the manly fashion of the
American revolutionary fathers, and
while regretting the absence of that
| opportunity We wish to convey to
Charles Stewart ParneIl and his as
sociateS IN the present struggle for
Irish tenant farmers ass
urance of our sincere de-
| sire to aid their patriotic efforts and
our wish to leave them unembarrassed
| by any policy of ours until all peaceful
methods of settling the Irish question
have been exhausted.
At Cheltenham beach a long state
| ment accompanying preamble and
resolutions, was read and adopted.
1t recognizes fealty to the nation as
the first and highest obligation, and
next thereafter pledges support to the
cause of Irish liberty to be secured
under the leadership of Parnell and
| Gladstone. The preamble and reso-
lutions are as follows:
| Whereas, In the midst of the uni
versally conceded tribute to the Irish
people justly earned by devotion to the
principles of liberty and civilization,
when Ireland's children led by her
patriot and astute statesman, Charles
Stewart Parnell, were on the eve of
breaking down the barriers of English
prejudice; when the world had to make
Jreland'S cause its own; when fossiliZed
bigotry, and selfish interests only
stood in the way of Irish progress, cold
bloOded and cruel assassinations drop
ped their double distilled poison into
Ireland IS chancel, and
Whereas, In order to indelibly stain
the reputation of our race, these con-
spirators and assassins did resort to
the Infamous calumny of charging ouI
murdered fellow citizen with being a
British spy; therefore be it
| Resolved, That we denounce with
all the force of indignant language oul
utter adherence of assassination, muir
der and the moral assassination resort
ed to by the murderers of DR.. Cronin
to cover up the embeZZlement of money
and the betrayal of people whose de
votion to the cause of liberty too otter
makes heroes of designing knaves.
Resolved, That knowing DIR. p. H
Cronin to have been patriotic, high
minded, pure Christian gentleman, ut
terly incapable of playing the roll d
!, sycOphant, of falsely living the life of {
spy. we brand as the most maliciou!
libel and moral assassination the in
famous report that he was an agent o.
, England. on the contrary, knowing
him to have been devoted defends
! of honesty and truth, we hereby de
clare it to be our solemn conviction
, that for his faithful adherence to tn
J Irish cause, honesty and truth, he wa
foully murdered to prevent the expos
i ure of the actual criminals who hav
dragged down that cause in blood ant
tears into the dust of our GethSemane
Resolved, That the crime of thi
: most atrocious murder calls for all tn
9 energies of our civilization for thu
+ speedy and extreme punishment of tn
= law, and we pledge our abiding sup
4 port to the public authorities unit
g every guilty man shall have answere
s to the law for his participation in tn
= most devilish murder which has red
= dened the annals of crime. We deer
4 it our duty to express our regret an
: chagrin that few prominent Irish
men in this country and across the wa
tiers should have taken the foolish pc
n sition that DIR. Cronin's murder wa
2 the work of England's agents, and tina
f the suspicious and accusations almOs
e universally entertained and expresse
in this community and throughoU
: America, against men pointed out b
Y the evidence as the authors of the col
i spiracy to murder DR.. Cronin, wei
Y uttered in the interest of the Londo
t Times.
f The resolutions conclude with e5
: pressions of sympathy with the caus
t of Ireland and a pledge to its support