Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-09
ERIN's CAUSE.
An Address to the Irish
National League.
AN URGENT APPEAL FOR MONEY.
President Fitzgerald Jmpl0res the
Patriots te Rally for the
Final Struggle.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALr
LINCOLN, Neb., February 8.-Presiden
Fitzgerald. of the Irish National League
today issued the following address tt
that organization:
10 the officers and members of the Ir5s1
National League of AmericG
Since the inception of the present Irist
movement, now nearing it's hour o.
triumph or sore defeat, Irish exiles OF
their children in America have been the
chief support and mainstay of the ma.
tional struggle. Continuous financial as.
sistance rendered from the United States
and Canada to the people and leaders OF
Ireland has been the result of organiza-
tion. The muni6cent aggregate created
by the many contributary streams oi
h.American generosity, could never
have been attained had the movement
depended on the uncertainty of spas
modic local action. Our enemies have
recognized the tremendous force of
organized effort as most potent cid to
the Irish cause, and they are now exer-
clsing all their ingenuity and utilizing
their immense resources to destroy and
nullify it's influence by trying to create
disorganiz ization and distrust among the
friends of Ireland. Secret service money
is being expended and subsidized agents
are employed to scatter inuendoes, to
make false allegations, and by every
artifce to disseminate slanders in order
to disrupt the Irish national organization
in America.
Be the impelling motive what it may,
hostile press is being utilized in this
country to supplement the unscrupulous
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 Ire
land, whom till now you have so Loyalty
obeyed and 80 generously supported.
The Times of the I'd instant says edi-
torially: "Hold no convention" ia 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. Sinrs 1886
one agency OF the league alone las col.
lected quarter of million of money,
and the demand is for more. Men who are
living as members of the British Parlia.
ment On funds raised in America, and
living on the fat of the land, or gossip
does them great injustice, will naturally
cry, with the horse leech's daughter,
"Give. give"
In the Chicago Herald, same date, we
read: The programme of the league on
both sides of the ocean is Identical and
unmistaksble. ''More funds and less in.
vestigation'' is the cry everywhere. No
convention for the last three years, and
Parnoll wants none for the present
Nothing is 30 perfectly delightful to the
free-handed patriots whom Ireland
sends to this country as to lay aside their
earnings until they accumulate enough
to pay draft, and then blow the whole
amount into the hands of lot of irrespon.
sible professional agitators for unknown
purposes.
Brother Irishmen, ia not this the Ian
gGage Of the London Times aud Tory or
gans that for generations have been epit-
ting their contempt at every effort of the
Irish people to ameliorate the condition
of their country? Does it not seem "a if
the Plggott, Flanagan hirelings, bafflsd
in England, had transferred their vile
operations to America? In this emer-
gency we rely upon your manhood, your
devotion, your common sense, not to be
misled by Salisbury's reptile press, his
subsidized priest revilers. and those
stormy petre,s OF faction who are now
trying to demoralize your ranks. Rest
assured that the ignominious defeat Of
the London Times will be the fate of it's
puny imitators on this side of the Allan
tic.
The time has come to appeal to our
better nature, and have trust and conf
dence in ourselves. The Irish people in
Ireland are setting us grand example.
They are conducting themselves with a
zeal, dignity and a discipline unprece-
dented 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 the manifestation of these
qualities by the people in Ireland. As
On instance, we refer you to the
alacrity with which they contributed
in an inconceivably short space
of time, $150,000 to the defence
of the leader in whose person the Irish
nation was prosecuted in the late Times
forgery commission. We instance the
magnanimity with which the peasantry
of Ireland have within the last two
months raised $l50,000 more for the same
cause which, is now being in turn con-
tested upon the Irish hillsides.
A tenants defence organization has
been formed and is being maintained to
defeat the last despairing effort of Irish
landlordism. This Unsuitable octopus
which so long fastened itself upon the
flesh and fed itself upon the blood of the
Irish people has at last been brought tt
gaze In terror upon imminent doom
Irish landlords recognize that theil
tenure OF property, founded in robbery
and maintained by tyranny, is nearing
it's end. The forced sales OF their estate'
is now the living issue contested by two
great English parties. The vital qnes
tion OF the hour is which party shall an
ticipate the other in the framing OF al
Irish land bill, designed to give peeasaa
proprietary to thea people. The law o
eminent domain is undoubtedly going e
be invoked, and the purchase price
estates must be determined on the annua nIi
rental accruing from their use., IN
landlords hope to sell at fctitiousiy OK
orbitant figures upon tho SHOWN
Q of back rent rolls. Our pee
y pie have wisely discerned the Gun
!. ming of this movement, and nav
t bravely determined to thwsrt 1t at an
i cost. To this end the tenants OF Louth
i Cork. Tipperary and other counties ar
q making common cause and going iort