Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
PASSING THE HAT AGAIN.
AN APPEAL BY THE NATIONAL IRISH
LEAGUE OF AMERICA.


Contributions May Be Sent to Either Mo-
Carthy or Redmond, as the Givers May
Elect-The Discussions in the Parlia-
mentary Camp to Be Ignored.
OMAHA, Feb. 23-An appeal was issued
this afternoon from the headquarters of the
National Irish League of America to the
Irish Nationalists and the friends of home
rule in America The document begins:
The stirring appeal to the friends of Ire
land published in the New York Sunday SIN
| February Is, makes it the imperative duty
of those having any heart in the movement
| in charge to respond in deed and in spirit to
the timely and generous call OF the noble.
| hearted editor who has sounded this note of
| warning of danger and of advice.
Attention then is drawn to the signs of
disintegration and apathy in the spresent
Parliament, and the absolute necessity that
| exists that the present coercive Government
does not take "snap judgment" upon the
Irish race and the friends of home rule: The
advice is that
Money should be collected at once in all
parts of the country. Let those who so de-
sire send their money so collected to the
party led by Mr.. 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 one
against the other.
The issue of home rule must be fought ont
in the coming Parliament. We have been
idle, apathic, indifferent and prejudiced long
enough. There is no excuse now for any
man who believes in home rule TO withhold
his hand. Matters that separate the men,
bers of Parliament in Ireland from each
other cannot and should not be considered
at the present time. Every right-ninded
man who believes in the triumph OF the
principles of home rule will come to the aid
OF all the members of the party now.
The people do not seem to understand that
no man can be recognized as q candidate
by the House of Commons, nor entitled to
vote at the ballot box until he has deposited
with the proper officer statutory costs in the
form OF coin or instantly-negotiable se-
curity-the amount, on the average, being
ST. 800 for q borough seat, and 50 600 for
county seat This money must be collected
for total of SIS members of Parliament and
perhaps more. Shall we, then, do our duty
and not have it said that after years of en-
deavor, of sacrifice and great expenditure
the cause was lost at q critical moment be-
cause we paused to quarrel upon the way?
No matter what our individual opinions
are, or may have been, that man is no lover
of his country or freedom who will allow the
world to say that he cannot put aside his
personal opinion for the general good in
such q momentus crisis. Therefore we beg
of you to get to work: call meetings in every
city, village, town and hamlet in the United
States and have this money ready and in
hands of the proper parties at the moment
when Salisbury deems it necessary to de-
clare the life of his coercive Parliament at an
end. Do this and you will have the appro-
baton, not only of your own conscience, but
the applause of the civilized world. God
save ireland.
The appeals is signed by H. v. Cannon,
lam Lyman, Treasurer, National Irish
League