Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-11
INDEPENDENCsS ADvOOATED.

A Manifesto is Issued by the Execu-
 tive Committee of the Irish League
 of America-The Time Has Come
 for . Gigantic Movement-No More
 PernfcIOus Influence Has Been at
 Work Among the Irish People in
 Recent Years Than she Influence
 of MT. Gladstone.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-The executive committes of the Irish league of America has issued the following msnifesto.
 To Irishmen and friends of 1rishmen:
 When the home rule proposals of MT. Gladstone became known we addressed you, giving our opinion of his bill and warning Irishmen against the acceptance of it's provisions. We had no faith then in the work of MT. Gladstone We looked upon 1t as s:chimerical something to lead the fool farther, and we were sorry to see our own people playing the weaker part in the greatest farcical comedy of the age. The bill submitted to the house of commons was practically worthless. The imposition on our country of the mutilated skeleton just rejected by the house of lords would have been sn outrage, and the serfs who would accept 1t with thanks would merit the scorn of the nation. It was 8 sorry psctacle-Ireland, after her strug gle of centuries, On her knees for a orumb
 We have no hesitation in declaring that no more pernicious influence has been at work among cur people than the inhuep ce of MT, Gladstone In recent years. The spirit of Irish nationality was bsing stead lily destroyed by this influence. fostered by a designing agency which prefers West Britain to an Ireland. The people were daily becoming more and more Britainized and erst while patriots more English than the English. Let us hope that the spell has passed away and that our people will once more recognize that their place is not at the feet of England
 h that event the house of lords may not be an unmixed evil.
 You will now doubtless be told by the professional agitators that the rejection of the home rule bill by the house of lords is mere temporary eetbsck, that if MT Gladstone has passed two or three British measures. 1t will sgain be sent to the upper house and that then on your defeat, ths grand old man will go to the country anc l be swept back to power on tidal wave O. popular indignation against the lords These men will be simply playing yor l false.
 Mr. Gladstone, whether he appeals t, | the country this year, will in the opinion of those thoroughly acquainted with tn situation be defeated at the polls, and tn men who would still keep their hands il your pockets know this.
 On the home rule question alone he
 certain of defeat, but his shirking of tn
 direct issue by linking an unpopular locs
 option bill and other measures to hom
 rule insures a sweeping majority for th
 tories. Do not for a moment imagine ths
 the British people are willing give home rule to the Irish. Anon
 even the most ardent followers of NJ
 Gladstone, with the possible exception (
 John Morley. there Is not 6 man whom
 interests. Even Lord Roseberry admit | to enable the liberal party to escape tt
 enactment of coercion laws or the disfra1
 cbising of Ireland. Are you willing, ther
 fore to play the part of dupesg
 It appears to me that the time has con
 when the Irish race the world over shoul
 be united in one gigantic movement f ! the liberation of Ireland. It has the pow to strike the chains sfrom the motherlsr
 If 1t only has the will.
 A great convention of Irisbmen from l countries, we think should be called and l l plan for united action formulated al
 adopted. At such a convention the exal ! pie of the American patriots might emulated and @ declaration of Ireland's 1 dependence given to the world.
 M. V. Cannon, Omaha, president Fri
 national league of America; J. P. Sulliva
 secretary Irish national league of Anerif
 Lincoln, Neb; William Lyman, secrets
 Irish national league of America. N . York. New York, September 10, 1893. '