St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-24
MONEY FOR IRELAND.
An Appeal for Funds That Are
Badly Needed.

All appear iOr FunuS Inat hfe
Badly Needed.
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 23.-The follow
ing appeal was issued this afternoon
from the headquarters of the National
Irish League of America to the Irish
Nationalist and the friends of home
rule in America.
The appeal to the friends of Ireland
published in the New York Sunday Sun
Feb. Is makes it the imperative duty of
those having any heart III the move
ment i'll charge to respond i'll spirit to
the timely and generous call of the
noble-hearted editor who has sounded
this note of warning of danger
and of advice. Your attention then
is hereby drawn TO the signs of dis
indignation and apathy in the present
parliament and the absolute necessity
that exists that the present coercive
government does not take "Snap judg
ment" upon the Irish race and the
friends OF home rule.
The advice is that money should be
collected at once i'll all parts of the
country, and let those who so desire
send their money so collected to the
party led by MIR. Mccarthy; and those
who desire to send their money to the
party led by Mr.. Redmond should also
forward it to the proper quarter with the
prOviSO that the moneys so forwarded
shall not be used by one against the
other. The issue of home rule must be
fought out in the Coming parliament
We have been idle, apathetic, indiffer-
ent and prejudiced long enough. There
is no excuse now given for any man
who believes in home rule to withhold
his hand.
tnr ..h b. T..
berS of parliament in Ireland with each
other cannot aud should not be consid
cred at the present time. Every right
minded man who believes in the tri-
umph of this principle will come to the
aid of all the members of the party now,
as we'll stated by the Sun. The people
DO not seem to understand that no man
can he recognized as candidate by the
house OF commons nor entitled to vote
at the ballot box until he has deposited
with the proper officer the statutory
costs in the form of coin OF instantly
negotiable securities, the amount on the
average being $1,000 for borough seat
and $4,000 for county seat. This money
must be collected for a total of eighty
five members of parliament, and per-
haps more. Shall we then do our duty,
ana not have it said that after years of
duty, of sacrifice and great expenditure.
the cause was lost at a critical moment
because we quarrel upon the way?
No matter what other Individual
opinions are, or may have been, that
man is not a lover of his country or of
freedom who will give the world to say
that he cannot put aside his personal
opinion for the general good of such a
m0mentOuS crisis. Therefore, we beg
of you to get to work; call meetings in
every city, town, village and hamlet in
the United States and have this money
ready when Salisbury deems it nee
esSary to declare the life of his coercIve
parliament at an end. Do this and you
have the appreciation not only of our
own conscienceS. but the applause of
the civilized world. God save Ireland.
The appeal is signed by NJ. V. Cannon,
president, and John p. Sutton, secre-
tary, and William Lyman, treasurer of
the Irish National league.