St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-10
IRISH DIFFERENCES.
Address to the Friends of Faction
Rended Erin.

LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. o. NJ. V. Gan
non, president of the Irish National
League OF America: w. Lyman, treas
urer, and John p. Sutton, secretary,
O-day issued a significant statement,
addressed to the friends of Ireland in
America. The document refers to the
rival factions, inflamed with hate, ar
rayed against each other in Ireland,
and says those who would be naturally
looked to there for com ell tending TO
peace and unity are foremost i'll fer
menting fratrcidal strife, adding:
at is patent to every thoughtful man
that the cOntendlng parties are each too
strong for one ID politically destroy the
other anu force reunion down the
Threats of discounted opponents.
Union, however. between these factions
is absolutely necessary to the success of
the Irish cause, and it must be a union
of head and heart based OH mutual con-
cesSions, even if every present aspirant
to the leadership has TO be forced into
retirement. 1t should be the resolve of
the Irish in America that no parlia-
mentary factions shall be permitted
to bring upon our mother land a ruin
more complete than England's tyran-
nical acts have ever been able to ac-
complish, We have faith i'm the sturdy
nationality of the people: and when we
speak of the people we do so in an
American sense, and beyond the arti-
ticlal lines of mere British franchise
We believe in the manhood or Ireland,
and to it we appeal to force these parlia-
mentarianS to stop their QuarrelS or
make way for other irishmen to whom
the interests of their country are of
greater merit than of personal ambi-
ton or personal anmOSitieS."
The address calls Tor more thorough
organization and redOubling of efforts
to make the Irish league of America a
mighty engine for good, not only for
Ireland, but for the Irish race all over
the world. Entirely non-polItical in
America, the league, the address says,
will exercise marked beneficial intlu-
ence in Irish affairs, and its power to
render financial assistance be far
greater than can ever be derived
from spasmOdic collection tours by
Irish representatives. Its service to
Ireland in the past has been incalculable
in spite of the many obstacles placed in
its way, and now, as an independent
American organization, it should not
heed the clamOr of interested parties or
stop by the wayside to quarrel with fell
low countrymen who may differ in opin-
ion, but go steadily forward, endeavor-
ing to bring order out of chaos, union
out of disunion, and ultimate freedom
to Ireland. Branches should be
at once organized, and state eX-
ecutlves are urged to put the
good work in motion with the least pos
sible delay. 1t has been boosted by a
British statesman, the address says,
that gun could not be fired in Europe
without the consent of the English gov
eminent, because, strong in her own
splendid system of organization, Eng
land kept every European nation in
state of turmoil and diSorganization
through the medium of subsidized secret
societies. She is playing the same game
in America to-day, says the address,
which asks: "Can we possibly hope to
overcome her powerful influence with
out organizing to cOunteract it ?"
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