Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-25
SHORT Or FUNDS.
More Money Needed by the
Irish National League.
lts Officers Have Issued an
Urgent Appeal

To the Irish NationaIists and the Ameri.
can Friends of Home Rule-How the
Money is Used That is Contributed by
the Friends of the Cause--Facts Not
Generally Understood.
| OMAHA, Feb 25.-The following APP
peal has just been issued by the officers
of the Irish National league to the Irish
Nationalists and the friends of home
rule in America:
The stirring appeal to the friends Of
Ireland, published in the New York Sun
day Sun, Feb. IA, makes it the impera-
tive duty Of those having any part of 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 advice.
Attention then is hereby drawn ito the
signs of disintegration" and apathy In the
present parliament, and the absolute me-
cessity that exists that the present CO.
ercive government does not take "snap
| judgments" upon the Irish race and the
friends of home rule
The advice is that money should be col
lected at once, in all parts of the country,
and let those who so desire 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 &lso forward 1t 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, apatnetic, indifferent and preju-
diced long enough There is no excuse
now given for any man who believes in
home rule to withhold his hands. The
matters which separate the members of
parliament in Ireland from each other
| can not and should not be considered at
the present moment. Every right minded
man who believes in the triumph Of this
principle will come to the aid of all the
members of parliament now, as Is well
stated by The Sun
The people do not seem to understand
that no man can be recognized as a can
didate by the house of commons, and be
voted for at the ballot box until he has
deposited with the proper officer the
Btatuatory costs in the form of cash or
instantly negotiable security. The
amount on the average, Is 81 500 for o
borough seat and s., 1000 for county seat.
This money must be collected for total
of eighty-ive members of parliament,
and perhaps more. Shall we then do our
duty and not have it said that after years
of endeavor and sacrifice and great ex-
penditure the cause was lost at a critical
moment because we paused to quarrel
upon the way9 No matter what our in
dividual opinions are, or may have been,
that man is not lover of his country or
of freedom who will give the world to say
that he can not put aside his personal
opinion for the general good in such
momentous crisis.
Therefore we beg of you to get to work;
call meetings in every village, town and
hamlet in the United States, and have
this money ready and in the hands Of the
proper parties at the moment when
Salisbury deems it necessary to declare
the life of his coercive parliament at an
end. Do this and you will have the ap-
probation not only Of your consciences,
but the applause of the civilized world.
God save Ireland. NJ V. CANNON,
President Irish National League.
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