The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-09
The FOES OF IRELAND



the following Address to that organiza-
ton:
To the Officers and Members cC the Irish
National league:
.'Since the inception Of the present
Irish movement, now nearing 70 it's hour
exiles or their children i'm America have
the struggle. The continuous financial
assistance rendered. from the United
States and Canada to the people and
the organization and the magnificent
aggregation created by the many contri-
buting streams OF lrish-Ainerican gene
rosity could never have been attained,
had the movement depended on the
certainty of spasmotiic local action:
Our enemies have recognized
the tremendous force of organized effort
as the most potent aid To the Irish cause,
and they are now exercising all their in
gcnuity and utilizing their immense re-
sources to destroy and nullify its infiu-
ence by trying to create disorganizatiou
and distr,Ist among the friends of Ireland
Secret service money il being expended,
and subsidized agents are employed tn
scatter inniendot,s and tn make false al
nate ISLANDERS in order to disrupt the Irish
national organization. Be the impelling
motion what il may, hostile press Is be-
ment the INSCRIPTIONS but defeated ef-
forts of the London Times and dis
credit not only the national officers
and able leaders of the movement in Ire
land, whom till now you have SO Loyalty
obeyed and SO genero,siy ,er a supported. Inc
rally: "Hold no convention is the advice
to- the executive of the National league in
% but send us more money" AS to the
money part, that has been the cry from
time inmeunorial. Since 1886 the One
agency of the league alone has collected
a quarter of "a million of money, and the
demand is for more. Men who are living
s,, members fu1 9s raise .s hris,Sh !"
land, or gossip does them great injustice,
daughter, give, give" In the Chicago
Herald of the same date we read: .'The
programme of the league on both sides of
more funds and less investigation, Is the
cry of everywhere. No convention for the
last there years, and Psrneii wants none
| delightful to free handed patriots whom
Ireland sends to this country 50 as to lay
| enough to pay the draft and they blow the
whole amount into the hands of IN lot of
irresponsible, professional agitators Tor
| is not this the language of the London
Times, one of the tory organs that Tor ReIl-
erations has been splitting lifting their their contempt
| amclioratc the condition of their country.
Does il not seem as il Piggott and Flan.
transferred their vile operations To Amer
lea? In this emergency we rely upon
your devotion, your manhood. your COM
mon sense, not to be misieti 10y Salisbury $
| reptile press. his subsidized priest revil-
| ers, and those stormy petrels of faction
who are trying to demoraliz your ranks.
Rest assured that the iGnoninious defeat
1 of the London Times will be the fate of
| it's puny imitators on this side of the At
our better nature and have trust and con.
fidencc in ourselves. The Irish people i'm
| Ireland are setting n grand example
| They are conducting themselves with
| zeal. n dignity and DISCIPLINE
| precedented i'm the annals OF human
race. Generous as your contributions
| fices and magnificent your efforts, the.
are far from equailing under like circunl
nnie smSs; In IRE Irc,nnd In assnn.e = we rfe, aa,
| you tn the alacrity with which they con
| tributed i'm an uncomfortable short space
leader, i'm whose person the Irish natior
was prosecuted in the late Times forger,
commissions. We instance the mag
| nanimity with with which the peasant ry
| months raised Sl5O.UU more for the
contested upon the Irish hiIlsi,ies, tn.
tenants defiance has been formed and il
| being maintained To- defeat the last dcs
| pairing effort of Irish landlortlism. Thi,
| Unsuitable octopus which so long ia st enes
itself upon the flesh and fed itself upoI
the blood of the Irish people. has at las
imminent. Irish landlords recognize thu.
their tenure of property, founded i'm rob
| Dcry. ana nlsilntiAlneu Dy tyrakItHy. near
ing it's end. The forced sales of their es
tates Is now the living issue contested b.
two great English parties. The vita
question of the hour is which party shal
| anticipate the other i'm the framing
of an Irish land bill designed
| TO give the present property to the people
| The law OF eminent domain is unioubi
| edly going to he invoked. The purchas
| price of the estates must he determined
| on the annual rental accrlinR from thei
use. The landlords hope tn sell at u hC
| ticiously exorbitant figure upon the show
| ing OF the rack rent roll. Our people
| have wisely discerned the running of thi
| movement. and have bravely determines
tenants OF Louth, Cork, Tipperary am
| other counties are making common caus'
| and going forth from their holdings. leav
| ing the estates tn present a valuation az
| proximate to their real worth accortiin
| to the existing prices OF agricultural pro
tluce. These tenants who are thus herr
| ically surrcndering the accommodations q
| years OF toll and economy i'm the common
cause of nationality, deserve to be s''
| tained. Will refuse them succor 4
their most generous sacrifice Ola the %
tar of liberty. Tie experience q
most OF have had cruel experienc
with the iniquitous system of the landior
i'm Ireland. and mo- instructive words q
mine are needed to apprise yoI OF tn
critical exiGency of the hour. We look
you confidently to move tn the support q
your kith and kindred i'm their gAllai
Ga.