Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-02-09
irish OF AMERICA.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT FITZGERALD
Urges Them to Stand Solid Against Stormy
Petrels Of Faction and
STAMP LANDLORDISM UNDER FOOT.
An Earnest and Eloquent ExhOrtation for
Irish Freedom.
LINCOLN, NEB., February 8.-Pfesident
Fitzgerald, Of the Irieh National League,
to-day issued the following address to that

to-day issued the following address to that
organization:
LINCOLN, NBB February 8. 1890.
To the Officers and Members Of the Irish Ma
tiOndl League of america:
Since he 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
sole support and mainstay Of the
National struggle. The continuous
fnapciel assistance rendered from
the United States and Canada to the
people and leaders of Ireland, has been the
result of organization. The munificent ag-
gregste created by the many contrfbutary
streams Of Irish-American generosity could
never have been attained had the move
ment depended on the uncertainty of spas
modic local action. Our enemies have
recognized the tremendous force Of organ
lied effort as a most potent aid to the Irieh
cause, and they are now exercising their
ingenuity and utilizing their immense re-
sources to destroy and nullify it's influence
by trying to create disorganization and
distrust among the friends of Ireland. Be-
cret society money is being expended aud
subsidized agents are employed to scatter
inuendoes, to make false allegations and by
every srti6ce to disseminate ISLANDERS in
order to disrupt Irish national organization
in America.
Be the 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 Amer
ican League, bat the trusted and able
leaders of the movement in Ireland, whom
till now you have as Loyalty obayed and
40 generously supported. The Chicago
Times of the I'd inst, editorially says;
Hold no convention" is the advice to
the Executive OF the National League In
America, from the gentleman over the sea,
"but send Us more money"
AS to the money part, that has been the
cry from time imHemorial. Since 1856
the one agency of the League alone has
collected q quarter of million Of money
and the demand is for more. Men who
are living as members of the British Par
lament 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 leeches' daughter, "Givei
Givew
In the Chicago Herald Of the same date
we read "The programme of the Lesgue
on both sides of the ocean is identical and
unmistaksble More funds and less in
vestiga,iOn' is the cry everywhere. No
s.. he
nell wants none for the present"
Nothing is so perfectly delightful to the
free e-hsnded patriots whom Ireland sends
to this country, ss TO lay aside their earn
ings until they accumulate enough to buy
draft, and then blow the whole amount
into the hands of lot of irresponsible
professional sgitatOrs for unknown pur-.
poses.
Brother Irish. is not this the language
of the London Times and the Troy Organs,
that for generations have been splitting
their contempt upon every effort OF the
Irish people to nmelierste the condition of
their country? Does it not seem as is the
Pigcst hirelings bsffied in Eugland, had
their vile operations to Amer
lea?
In this emergency, we rely upon your
manhood, your devotion, your common
sense, not to be misled by Salisbury's rep
tile press, his subsidized priest revelTies
and their 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 it's
puny imitators on this side of the At
lantic. The time has come to appeal to
our better nature and to have trust and
confidence in ourselves. The Irish
people in Ireland are setting us
q grand example. They are conduct
ing themselves with zeal, a
dignity and discipline unprecedented 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 equalling,
nnder like circumstances, the manifest of
these qualities by the people in Ireland.
In instance, we refer you to the alacrity
with which they contributed in an incred-
ibly short time one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to the defense of the
leader in whose person the Irish nation
was prosecuted in the late Times forgery
commission. We instance the magnaDim-
ity with which Ireland has in the last two
months raised one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars more for the came cause, which
i3 now being in turn contested upon the
Irish hillsidts.
The Tensnts' Defense Association has
been formed and is being ma ntsined to
defeat the last despairing effort of Irish
landlordism. This Unsuitable octopus,
which has long fastened itself upon the
flesh and fed itself upon the blood of the
Irish people, has at last been brought to
gszs in terror upon imminent doom. The
Irish landlords recognize that their tenure
of property, founded in robbery and main
tained by tyranny, is nearing its end:
Looking back upon their noble past,
what think you, would not the Irish peo-
ple do for us were our situations reversed?
Remember with what promptress stsrv-
ing Ireland contributed from her poverty
70 the relief of the stricken victims OF
the Youngstown flood. Gratitude is vir
ture indigenous to the Irish disposition
and heart. Mites that you contribute
will be your bread cast upon the water,
of which you may securely anticipate
return. Therefore, l exhort you in your
individusl and associated parties, to make
one more effort for Irish freedom. Let
every branch Of the League re.assert and
bsstir itself, and let every individual de-
termine to do his part.
We need not assure you that your every
contribution will be faithfully delivered 10
its riphtful destination from trusted hands.
Be not dismaJed by your limited capacity
to contribute. The twenty-five cents
have been as faithfully entered upon our
honored tressurer's books ss the ten
thousand dollar remittances. Anonymous
contributions have been impossible to
answer. but have been no lees carefully
credited.
Therefore, l entreat you, as honest,