Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-27
IRELAND AS A REPUBLIC
The Plan at Chicago Has CryS-
 talized. NO MORE FAT REVENUES
For the Parliamentary Party Across the Sea- Men and Money Will Be Devoted
 to Other Uses.

the Irish national convention this after
 noon to an organization which has for it's
 avowed object the independence of Ire
 land as republic by a policy of phys ical force. The ashes of the Fenian
 brotherhood are rekindled the National
 league, with its trust in legislatures and
 it's reliance upon parliaments and enact
 ments is buried from sight, and in it's
 place rises the Irish National Alliance of
 the World. Incidentally, too the Irish
 parliamentary party across the Atlantic
 is repudiated and henceforward will be
 deprived of the abundant revenues that
 have been contributed from this country
 for it's maintenance and support.
 For the next two years at least New York will be the seat of operations of the new movement. William Lyman, a wealthy Irish-American of that city, having been selected as president of the first alliance. with authority to appoint secretary of his own choice.
 The plan of operations adopted pro- vides for central council. with author ity to issue charters for state organiza- tions. Membership is restricted to peo, pie of Irish birth or descent who snail pledge themselves to aid in the liberation of Ireland by any means consistent with the laws and usages of civilized nations.
 The plan closely resembles that of the old Fenian brotherhood. This evening the convention adjourned sine die
 Nothing was done by convention at the
 morning session owing to delay on the part of the comittee on resolutions In agreeing to a report.
 When the delegates reassembled at ; o'clock the comittee on ways and means and plan of organization presented its report.
 The introductory was as follows: "The movement of the organization shall be known by the style and title ot the Irish National alliance.
 Tt shall have for it's object the secur-
 ing of the independence of Ireland by any
 means within it's power consistent with
 the laws and usages of civilized nations.
 Tke qualifications for membership shall be good moral character, birth on lrlsh soil or descent from Irish parentage on paternal or maternal side, or both, ana the taking of the following pledge: "T .----.. hereby pledge my word or honor to aid by every means within my power in conformity with the constlt'i- tion and bylaws of the Irish National al liance in securing the independence Of Ireland"
 In subsequent paragraphs it was pro
 vided that the officers should consist of president, vce-presdent and treasurer,
 secretary to be selected by the presi-
 dent and an executive council or nine. The membership initiation fee
 was fixed at $l, with dues of 30 cents per quarter, and it was provided that 70 per cent of the gross receipts of the subordi- nate councils should be turned into the national treasury. Some sharp criticism
 was made upon the report by John Fitz- patrick of Illinois, veteran, who said that he had tramped barefooted while carrying messages in his hat for the rev olutionists of 1S48, and who contended that the convention should form a gov ernment then and establish q provision al Iria c1 a m Delegate OHiggins of Massachusetts offered an amendment that the national secretary be elected by the convention, but he was ruled out of order, and the
 report was adopted with a half dozen dissenting.
 The report of the committee on plat form and resolutions was presented by ONeill Ryan of St Louis. and was unan- imousy adopted amid great cheering. It read thus:
 The people of Ireland are a sovereign people. Ireland is by nature separate from every other country, and liberty is the birthright of her people. Ireland was known throughout Europe as a nation long before the dawn of Christianity, and | was the home of civilization while En- gland was still barbarous.
 "Epgfands claims to authority in Ire | land originated in force and have been | maintained by corruption and coercion. | They have never ripened into a right to rue, the tue lO lilc CODQutSl JdS never | been perfected inasmuch as the Irish peo- | pie have continually by constitutional 1 agitation or revolutionary movements re- | sisted England's power and endeavored | to destroy her unlawful supremacy. ireland is deprived of almost every | civil right which the American people | most dearly cherish. UneXampled cru | city and brutal vindictiveness have been | the distinguishing features of EnSland'S
 rule in Ireland England has destroyed l lreland'S industries and ruined her com | merce; she has placed upon her statute | books laws making 1t crime to educate | an Irish child; she burned Irish school | houses and destroyed her churches; she | has driven into exile or left to per.~i in | her dungeons thousands of men whose | only crime was love of Ireland Every l measure for the last century looking to-
 wards legislative independence of the 1 Irish people has either suffered defeat fin | the commons or has been arbitrarily re- | jected by the lords. England has vio- | lated every treaty and broken every | pledge and with almost every year of the | century she has imposed upon Ireland l brutal laws of coercion, and one of the most drastic measures is now upon her | statute books.
 "'ro the pleas of the people for justice | and their prayers for mercy England has
 responded with the scourge and the scaf- 1 fold. and yet today Ireland enthralled, | but not enslaved crushed, but not con | quered. is in spirit nation.
 | Tt has become after many years of earnest endeaVor to obtain mea sure of | independence from the English govern | ment by peaceful agitation that appeals | to reason and for justice are futile It is i left. therefore. for the men of the Irish ! race to proclaim again the truth recorded l by all history that the liberties of Deo- 1 pie and the independence of a nation can | not be achieved by debate. but must be won upon the field of battle. and we de- | clare our belief that the men of Ireland
 who are being driven into exile. or into | the graves of serfs in their native land by Englands misgovernment are entitled by
 the laws of God and man to use every
 means in their power to drive from their country the tyrant and usurper; and we | believe that Ireland has the right to make England's difficulty her opportu- nifty and to nse all possible means to ere | ate that difficulty
 Tn view of these facts the members of
 this convention appeal with confidence 10
 their American fellow citizens and all | lovers of liberty to cooperate with them
 in aiding the people of Ireland in the
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