St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-09
APPEAL TO PATRIOTS.
President Fitzgerald. Of the
Irish National League,
Calls for Funds.
Celtie-Americans Warned Not
to Give Heed to Press
Criticisms.
Papnell and His Followers
Are in Urgent Need Of
Money.
A Crisis at Hand, and Ireland
May Be Freed Very
Soon.

Since the inception of the present Irish
movement, now nearing its hour of
final triumph or sore defeat, the Irish
eXiles and their children in America
have been the chief support and main
stay of the national struggle. The con-
tinuOus financial assistance rendered
from the Uuited States and Canada to
the people and leaders of Ireland has
been the result of organization. The
munificent aggregate created by the
many contributory streams of Irish
American generosity could never have
been attained had the movement
depended on the uncertainty
of spasmodic local action. Our
enemies have recognized the
tremendous force of organized effort as
a most potent aid to the Irish cause, and
they are now exercising all their in
genuity and utilizing their immense re-
sources to destroy and nullify its intiu-
ence by trying to create disorganization
and distrusts among the friends of Ire
land. Secret service money is being eX-
pended and subsidized agents are
EMPLOYED TO SCATTER INUENDOEs,
to make false allegations, and by every
artifice to disseminate ISLANDERS in order
to disrupt Irish national organization in
America. Be the impelling motive what
it may, hostile press is being utilized
in this country to supplement the I'M
scrupuious but defeated efforts of the
London Times, to discredit not only the
national officers of the American league,
but the trusted and able leaders of the
movement in Ireland, whom till now
you have so Loyalty Obeyed and so gen.
erously supported. The Chicago Times
of the I'd inst. says, editorially:
"'Hold no convention is the advice to the
executive of The National league in America
from the gentlemen over the sea, but send
us more money! As to the money part. that
has been The cry from time immemorial.
Since 1886 one agency OF the leagae
alone has collected quarter of a million
of money, and the demand is for more. Men
who are living as members of the British
parliament on funds raised in America, and
living on the fat of the land, or gossip does
them great injnstice, VIII naturally cry with
the horse leech's daughter, Oliver 'Giver"
In the Chicago Herald of the same
date we read:
1.-The programme Of the league on both
sides of the ocean is identical and unmistaka-
BILE. More funds and less investigation IS
last three years, and Parnell wants none for
the present. Nothing rs SO perfectly delight
full to the free handed patriots whom Ireland
sends to this country as to lay aside their
earnings until they accumulate enough to
buy draft, and then blow the whole amount
into the hands of a lot of irresponsible pro-
fessional agitators for unknown purposes"
Brother Irishmen! Is not this the
language of the London Times and the
Tory organs that for generations have
been splitting their contempt upon every
effort of the Irish people to ameliorate
the condition of their country? Does it
not seem as if the Piggott-Flanagan
hirelings, baffled in England, had trans
ferred their operations to America? In
hood, your devotion, your common sense
not to be misled by Salisbury's reptile
press, his subsidized priest revilers, and
those stormy petrels of faction who are
now trying to demoraliZe your ranks.
Rest assured that the ignominouS defeat
of the London Times will be the fate of
its puny imitatorS on this side
of the Atlantic. The time has
come to appeal to our better
nature and to have trust and confidence
in ourselves. The Irish people in Ire
land are setting us a grand example.
They are conducting themselves with
precedented in the annals of the human
race. Generous as your contributions
have been, noble as have been your
sacrifices, and magnificent your efforts,
THEY ARE FAR FROM EQUALING =
under like circumstances the manIfeS-
tatlon of these qualities by the people
in Ireland. In instance, we refer you
to the alacritY with which they contrib
uted in an inconceivably short space of
time S15O.000 to the defense OF the
leader in whose person the Irish nation
was prosecuted in the late 'rimes
forgery" commission. We instance the
magnanimity with which the peasantry
of IIeland have in the last two months
which is how being in turn contested
upon the Irish hillsides. The tenants
defense association has been formed.
and is being maintained to defeat the
last despairing effort of Irish landlord
ism. This Unsuitable octopus which has
so long fastened itself upon the flesh,
and fed itself upon the blood of the Irish
people, has at last been brought to gaze
in terror upon imminent doom. The
Irish landlords recognize that their
tenure of property, founded in robbery
and maintained by tyranny, is nearing
its end. Forced sale of their estates is
two great English parties. The vital
question of the hour is which party
shall anticipate the other in the
framing of an Irish land bill
designed to give peasant proprietary to
the people. The law of eminent domain
is undoubtedly going to be invoked. and
the purchase price of the estates must
be determined on the annual rental &C
cruing from their use. The landlords
hope to sell at fctitiously eXOrbitant
figure upon the showing of rack-rent
roll. Our people have wisely discerned
the cunning of this movement, and
bravely determined to thwart it at any
cost. To this end the tenants of Louth,
Cork, Tipperary and other counties
ARE MAKING COMMON CAUSE,
and are going forth from their holdings,
leaving the estates to present a.vaiua-
ton approximate to their real worth &C
cording to existing prices of agricult-
ural products. These tenants, who
are thus heroieally surrender
ing the accumulations Of years
of toll and economy in the common
cause of nationality. deserve to be sus-
tanned. Will we refuse them slccor In
this, their most generous sacrifice on
the altar of liberty? Most of us have
had cruel experience Of the ubiquitous
system of land tenure In Ireland, and
no instructive words Of mine are needed
to apprise you of the crucial exigency
of the hour. look to you confidently
to move to the support Of your kith and
kindred in their gallant struggle against
the famine-breeeing system OF Irish
landlordism. Looking back upon their
noble past, what think you'll What would
not the Irish people do for us if our sit
uations were reversed? Remember
with what promptness poor, starving
Ireland contributed from her poverty
to the relief of the stricken people
Of the Johnstown food. Gratitude is
virtue Indigenous to the Irish disposi
ton and indwelling in the Irish heart.
The mite that you contribute will be
your bread cast upon the waters. of
which you may securely anticipate
return. Therefore, / exhort you, In
your individual and associated capaci-
ties. to make one more effort for Irish
freedom. Let every branch Of the
league reassert and bestir itself, and let
every individual determine to do his
part. Your interchangeable treasurer has
shown to the world q manifest of
honesty and economy that disarms criti-