St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
Irish Lead 9ps Issue an Ad-
dress to Friends in
America.
Solid Plan Of Self-Govern-
ment for Ireland Now
Offered.
Assistance From Abroad the
Main Means Of It's Ae-
eomplishment.
A Little More Aid Needed to
Carry It to Compile
ton.

LONDON, Feb. 1S.-The following ad
dress has been issued by Justin Nc
Carthy, Timothy Healy and other Irish
Nationalist leaders,:
To Our Kinsmen and to all Friends OF
Ireland in the United States, Canada
and Australia: We have reached the
most crucial moment in the history of
Ireland's long struggle for her
rights. The premier of England, the
leader Of the government and of the
party ruling the British empire has
brought in a home rule bill, which forms
as whole a broad, solid and enduring
plan of national self-government for
Ireland. This bill offers to the Irish
people parliament practically
free to deal with all of Ire
lands local affairs and an execu-
tive government responsible to that par
Lament, and, in addition, the Irish peo-
pie have under the bill the right to
share by delegation of eighty members
in the government of the empire. In
this, as in many other respects, the
settlement OF 1898 places Ireland
on higher national plane than that of
1886; it increases her place in the gov
ernment of the world, and offers more
solid guarantees of the honorable full
fillment Of the great contract between
her and Great Britain.
Accepted the Constitution.
The representatives of Ireland have
accepted without hesitation the conSti-
tuition proposed iii the bill as fitting
censummation of the sacrifices and
labor of the Irish race for so many
centuries. They believe they could
regard the enactment Of the meas
ure as final and triumphant close to
a long. bloody and sorrowful strug-
gle. The enemies of Ireland do not yet,
however, acknowledge that the end is
close and assured. Although they
know that the bill is certain to pass
the house of commons by an uu-
which secures majority on the popular
chamber is always ultimately en-
acted into law, they invoke the as
sistance of the house of lords in post
p0ning a settlement. We cannot. theIe
fore, disregard the possibility of long
and desperate campaign to defeat Mr..
GladStone'S noble efforts and to wreck
the Irish cause.
Confronted by enemies venOmOuS and
INSCRIPTIONS and with boundless
wealth, it is Impossible for US TO carry
on even the short remnant Of the strng
gle without the assistance Of brethren
and friends iii all parts of the world. 1t
is only from people of
Our own Blood
and from American and Australian
SympathizerS with our principles that
IVa have asked or accented assistance
We make an appeal to the same tried
friendS-more confidently OH the
morrow of the day when a
vote, unanimous and unchallenged,
has stamped IL the foul and calumindsls
charges of the paymasterS OF PigOtt,
that the Independent Irish nation had
consented to become mercenarieS OF
British administration.
III the struggle of the last fourteen
years, almost, the courage and tenacity
of our people at home has been kept up
by the financial assistance from our
kindred and friends beyond the seas.
Our nation, reduced to poverty by long
centuries of miSgOvernment under re-
stricted franchise, before that assistance
came to her aid, had lot a voice bat
that of enemies in the house Of COM
mons. The tenants were represented
by evicting landlords, their aspirations
for religious liberty were represented
by inyeterate bigOtS and the never
eXtinguished demand for national
government by either Tories or
place hunting Wings. O'ConaeilS
mighty movement for repeal broke
down under the strain of this want Of
proper parliamentary representation of
the demands of Ireland. For a quarter