Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-08-16
IRISH MANIFESTO.
Declaration by a Chicago Sec.
ton of Erin's Friends.
PROPOSED CONVENTION DENOUNCED

ITS Promoters Given . RakiDg Down BY .
Gathering at . Park in the Western
Observation-Disclosures To He Frauds and
Warned Against the Coming Gathering
ut Chicago Next Month.
CHICAGO. Aug 16-Some strong de-
clarations touching upon the Irish cause
in the United States were presented at
the picnic of the Confederated Irish So
cietics of Chicago, in Burlington park,
yesterday. They denounced the proposed
convention Of Irishmen in Chicago next
September as being brought about for
purposes other than the betterment of
the condition of the residents Of Ireland.
Following Is the way the subject Is
treated:
We, the Confederated Irish societies
OF Chicago in mass meeting assembled ex.
tend to the people OF Ireland our hearty
sympathy in their struggle for the right
b make their own laws through their
own elected representatives without for
eign interference. and we pledgs them
our support until citizensh ip in Ireland
shall be as free, self-relian:. sc!f.controlled
and respected rs that which We enjoy in
the United States.
People OF Ireland tho Sole Judges.
1--WE affirm the right of tine Irish people
to use any means within their power.
whether peaceful or forcible, to recover
that freedom of which England has de-
prived them by force ana fraud; and that
the people of Ireland, living on Irish soil,
are the sole judges whether the methods
Of O. Connell and Parnell, or those which
gave liberty to the thirteen colonies, to
Greece, Belgium, and Italy and unity to
Germany, shall govern their policy" The
divisions in tho Irish ranks are deplored;
anxiety for the union of all Irish men is
expressed, and our countrymen at home"
are urged to effect q reunion on the basis
of a principle and policy that will prom.
Use success.
New Movement Declared q Fraud.
The declaration then says: 1--WE de-
nounce as n fraud and sham the So
called new movemeHt,' or convention of
the Irish race to be held in this city on
Sept. "A, % and &c next; we brand it as a
dishonest attempt 10 hoodwink and de.
ceive honest Irishmen into restoring the
leadership of smirched and discredited
men, to prolong factiouS strife and pre-
vent a real union of the Irish people for
honest purposes. We warn our country.
men that while the men put forward as
the ostensible promoters of this convcn.
ton are individuals without character or
standing in tho national movement the
real leaders are the residue of the dis
graccd Triangle, who embe-zled the
funds Of the Clar-na. Gael, robbed the
Land League, inauguratcd n bogus dyna-
mite warfare to cover up their dishonesty
and supplied the spy lie Caron with the
information which enabled him to send
their victims to a living death in British
prisons"
viii lie a Factor I'm American Politics.
1t is believed that tho Irish question
will play an important part in American
politics in tho next national campaign,
and each OF these organizations claims to
represent the true Irish element. The
resolutions recently adopted by the gen.
eral convention Of the United Irish SO.
cieties indorse the project of converting a
congress OF the representatives of the
Irish people to consider the present condi-
lions OF the Irish national cause, and de-
plore the present appearance of Irish
political affairs The other Irish faction
held large picnic at Ogden's grove at
which the speeches were all in favor of
the new movement" denounced in the
foregoing.