The San Francisco call., 1895-11-25
British Statesmen Declared to Be
Less Merciful Than the
Turks.
ERIN'S SONS READY FOR WAR.
Proclaim Willingness to Enlist
Against England in Venezuela
or Elsewhere.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Nov. pa ratii
cation meeting of the Irish National Alli-
ance was held tonight in the Grand
Opera-house to indorse the proceedings of
the Irish National Alliance convention
held in Chicago in September last, and the
programme enunciated there. In addi-
ton, the memory of the Manchester mar
tyrs was honored, it being the anniversary
of their death.
William Lyman, president of the Irish
National Alliance, was chairman, and
great many prom inent Irishmen were on
the platform. Mr.. Lyman, in being intro
duced as chairman of the meeting, was
accorded great ovation. He asked every
Irishman present to stand by the Irish
National Alliance. shoulder to shoulder.
He paid tribute to the memory of Allen,
Larkin and O'Brien, the Manchester mar
tyrs.
Ex-Congressman John F. Finerty of
Chicago, the orator of the evening, was
then introduced to the meeting. Mr..
Finerty compared the condition of Amer
lea before the Revolution with that of Ire
land, and said that the sympathies of the
two countries were the same, but their op-
portunities were not equal. He stated in
reply to the editorial criticisms that had
been published on the new movement
that Irishmen were not yet in the field and
should not be looking for sympathy from
foreign countries until they were actually
fighting: IF we are not yet in the field,
we intend to be as soon as we can get
there" There was great cheering at this
remark.
yoI 1.eh ,s,s,
trations generally. England" said ne,
keeps the Turk in Asia and in Europe,
and if she took her hands off Russia would
drive the Turk out OF Europe in three
months.
Fifty years ago there were in Ireland
100000 people. To-day there is about
half that mum ber, and ask, Where is the
balance gone? Why should the Turk be
branded as a murderer and the English
man escape the appellation after such
record in Ireland? There are in America
to-day 15.OO0,O 900 of Irish and of Irish de-
scent, who were driven from their homes
by the scorn and the scourge of England
to the protection of this glorious country,
and who will never allow civilization to
forget the wrongs that Ireland suffered,
despite the criticisms of some American
editors"
Mr. Finerty eulogized Allen, O'Brien
and Larkin, the Manchester martyrs.
"You may ask" said he, "what good
| has the shedding of the blood of the Man
| chester ma. tyrs and the blood of the men
of '6S done for the cause of Ireland? I
will reply by saying that the shedding of
| these martyrs blood has sown the dragon's s
| tions OF Irish rebels to battle for Irish lib
erty."
In the course of his address he referred
| to the disestablishment of the Irish church
| in Ireland by Mr.. Gladstone as one of the
results of the execution of the Manchester
| martyrs. Mr.. Gladstones name was
hissed. The speaker alluded to England's
land-grabbing propensities, and touched
upon the Venezuelan question.
81 venture to say" said he, 'that Con-
gress will meet in short time and that
| we will hear from it if John Bull tries to
do any land-grabbing in South America
And If there is ever call for volunteers to
| fight England, either in Venezuela or else
where, do not believe that there is sim
gle able. bodied Irishman in this country
| who will not enlist
Responsive cries of Eyes" came from all
over the building. In conclusion the
speaker said that victory would crown the
efforts of the new movement and Ireland
would soon take her place among the
nations of the earth.
The meeting concluded with the reading
by John P. Sutton of resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted, arraigning the
English Governmental for barbarous ferocity
to the victims of its power; denouncing
its statesmen as more hypocritical and
less merciiul than the Turk. and deserving
an equal share of execration from every
lover of humanity, and calling the attention
Of the Irish race all over the world to the
necessity of taking such means as circum-
stances may direct to accomplish the re-
lease of their imprisoned fellow-country-
men.