The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-09
TIE IRISH CAUSE.
President Fitzgerald Issues
Lengthy Address
In BEHALF OF OLD IRELAND,
supporters of Home Rule are Assured That the
Day of Freedom is Dawning for Erin
Money Wanted.

LINCOLN, Neb., FEB. S.-President Fit:
gerAld of the Irish National league, to-da
iss6ed the following address to that organ
lzation:
10 the officers and members of the Iris
National League of America:
Since the inception of the present Irisl
movement, now nearing its hour of fina
triumph or sore defeat, the Irisl
have been the chief support and mainstay
OF the national struggle. The continuou.
financial assistance rendered from the
United States and Canada to the people
and leaders of Ireland has been the result
of organization. The munifcent aggregate
created by the many contributory streams
OF Irish American generosity could never
have been attained had the movement de
pended on the uncertainty OF spasmodiC
local action. Our enemies have recop
nized the tremendous force of organ
lied effort as the most potent aid
TO the Irish cause aud they are now
exercising all their ingenuity and utiliz-
ing yer immense resources to destroy and
nulli1y Its influence by trying to create
disorganizaTion and distrust among the
friends Of Ireland. Secret service money
is being expended and subsized agents are
employed.to scatter innuendoes, to make
false allegations and every artifice to
disseminate ISLANDERS in order to dis.
rupt the Irish National organization
in America. The impelling motive, be
what 1t may, hostile press is being uti-
liked in this country to supplement the I'M
scrupulous but defeated efforts of the
London Times to discredit not only the
national officers of the American league.
but the trusted and able leader of the
movement, who is in Ireland, and whom
till now you have so Loyalty obeyed and so
generously supported.
The Chicago Times of the End inst, saws
editotorially: Hold no convention IS
the advice 10 the executive of the National
ieakue 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 immemorial Since 1856 one
agency OF the league alone has collected a
quarter of million of money and the de-
mand is for more. The men who are liy-
ing as members of the British parliament
on funds raised In America and living on
the fat OF the land, or gossip does them in
justice, will naturally cry with the horse
leercher's daughter, give, give'"
In the Chicago Herald of the same date
we read: The programme of the league
on both sides of the ocean is Identical
and unmistakable, More funds and
less Investigation is the cry every
where. No convention of the royalists
for three years, and Parnell wants none for
the present Nothing is so perfectly de-
nghtful to the free handed patriots whom
ireland sends to this country as to lay aside
their earnings until they accumulate
enough to pay the draft, and they blow the
Whole amount into the hands of lot of ir-
responsible professional agitators for up
known purposes
Brother Irishmen, is not this the Ian
guage of London Times, one of the
Tory organs that for generations has
rrrarr %h.0.,.
every effort of the Irish people to
ameliorate the condition of their couptrvg
Does 1t not seem as if the Piggott- Flanagan
h1relings, baf1ed in England, had trans
1erred their vile operations 10 Americas In
TINS emergency we rely upon your man
hood, your devotion, your common sense,
not 20 be mlsied by Saiisbury's reptile
pres mis- subsidized priest revilers and
Ithoss stormy petrels of the faction who |
|are Row trying TO demoralize your ranks |
hest assured that the ignominious defeat |
|of the London Times will be the fate of its |
|puny lmitators on this side of the Atlantic. |
The time has come to appeal to our better
nature and have trust and confidence in
yourselves. The Irish people in ireland |
|are setting Us a grand example. They are
conducting themselves with a zeal. dig
unity, and discipline unprecedented in the
annals OF the human race Generous as
|yeur contributions have been. noble az
have been your sacrifices and magnificent
las have been your efforts. they
|are far from equalling under like |
circumstances the manifestation of
these qualities by the people in Ireland.
|ln this instance we refer you to the alac-
F,ity with which they contributed in an in
conceIv4bly short space of time $4,000 to
the dtsense Of the leader in whose person
fhe Irish nation was prosecuted in the late
Ftmss forgery commission. We instance
M. Hta..t 20 x,-1tk l.
pr Ireland have within the Last
two months raised Sl50. GOO for
the same cause which is now being in
burn contested upon the Irish hill sides
a teatants' dslense league has been formed
hnc Is beng maintained TO defeat the last
hlspalcipg effort of Irish landlordism
Hhls unsuitable incubus which has so long
fastened itself upon the flesh and fed IL
I'LL upon the blood Of the Irish people has
it last been brought to gaze on the terror /.
winch Is imminent The Irish Landlords )
cecogalze tnat their tenure of property. ,
founded IN robbery and maintained by :
tyranny, Is nearing its end. Forced sales
Pt taelr estates IS now the living issue CON
|ested by the two great English narties
Fhe vital question of the hour is which
Harty shall anticipate the other in I
IA aing an Irish Land bill designed to give
esssaIE proprietary to the people. The
paw eminent domain is undoubtedly
PONG ~ be invoked and the purchase price
p estates must be determined on the an O
lual rent accrulng from their use The
landlords hope to sell at fictitiouslv exhor
|itant figures upon the showing of the F
Jack rent roll. Our people have wisely
iscerned the cunning of this movement
nd bravely determined to thwart ii al, anv -
ost. TO this END the tenants of Louth
Cork, Tlpperary and other counties are
nanng common cause and gong
ng estates to prevent yaluation
pproximate to their real worth ACCORDING %
existing prices of agricultural produce y
hose tenants who are surrendering the :,
ccumulations of years of toll and economy -
the common cause of nationality. de- -,
Prve to be sustained. VIII we refuse
hem sucGor in their most generous sacri-
Zee on thst altar of liberty! Most of US
ave had cruel experience of the UBIQUITOUS
Fstem oil land tenure In Ireland, and no
|structlve words of mine are needed to
Pprlse you OF the critical exigency of the g
puf. we look to you confi0entially to
Iove to the support of your kith and kin
feo In tneir gallant struggle against the
|mine-p reo system of Irish landlordism
that think you would NOT the N,
lisn people do for us were in
lr situations reversed Remember with
hat promptness poor, starving Ireland Oh
|ntrlpubea from her poverty to relieve the
|rls51n victims Of the Johnstown food.
latitude is a virtue indigenous to
|e Irish disposition and indwelling in the o.
fsh heart The mite you contribute will nj
your bread cast upon the waters of fe
hicn ny may securely anticipate a re be
|rn-. 1 kpect you in your Individual and eli
|soclakei capacities to make one more Pr
fortipr Irish freedom. Let every branch hs
the league re-assert and bestir itself and TO
every individual determine to do his part