The herald., 1895-09-02
Assembly Call for the New
Irish Movement Made
A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
Parliament Offers No Succor for the
Oppressed
The Great 1eeting VIII Be Held In Chicago
September "a, rs and 26-DcIegates
VIII Be Chosen at Once
Associated Press Special Wire,

Associated Press Special Wire.
| CHICAGO, Sept, 1.-The official call
! for the convention of the new Irish move
ment to be held in Chicago on Septem-
| Der oath, 25th and Goth has been issued
| from the headquarters of the new Irish
| movement. 1t is as follows:
The struggle for freedom has reached q
mometous period. Ireland, abandoned
| In the crisis of her fate by the Liberal
| leaders, is told by the Tory secretary to
| the lord lieutenant that the British gov
| ernment is unalterably opposed to tho
granting OF any measure of home rule
whatever. This is the old policy and the
old language employed by successive
English governments toward Ireland.
She has been alternately betrayed by the
Wings and drago ned by this Tories.
Nothing worth her Acceptance is to be ex-
pected from either of the leading Engli b
parties.
Ireland must. therefore. look to her own
children and their descendants for sup
port in her great extremity. Parliament
ary agitation has had long and patient
trial, but has utterly failed to accomplish
its object. 1t remains for us to consider
what other method of procedure or argu-
ment can be used to achieve her liberation.
The Irish in America cannot afford to
be neutral, while the mother land is be.
ing slowly but surely done to death by
the usurping enactments of a foreign
and hostile power, In unison with
thousands of our race distrlbu through
out the union, we, the undersigned,
have decided to call conventions OF
Irish Americans in the city of Chicago,
to take into consideration the principles
of the Irish struggle for freedom and to
devise ways and means best suited to the
accomplishment of Ireland's independ
ence.
Now, therefore, said convention is called
to meet in the city of Chicago. at the hall
of the Young Mems Christian associa-
tion, September 24th, 25th and 18th, 1896.
The qualifications for mem bership in
the convention are agreed upon as fol-
lows All sh-AmericaD military,
benevolent, athletic religious. social and
literary organizations that favor the in
dependence of Ireland ana are willing to
aid her righteous struggle for liberty, are
invited to send delegates to the conven
ton of the new Irish movement, appor-
toned in the following manner: One
delegate for every fifty members and che
additional for every fraction over fifty;
two delegates for every hundred men,
bers, and one adtiopal for any fraction
over one hundred, and so on in proper
ton.
individual Irsh-Americans of sound
patriotic repute, who indorse the object
of the new movement and who are willing
to give it their aid, will be, on recon-.
mendation to the secretary and the in
dorsement of the committee on creden-
tials, admitted to the privileges OF the
floor.
All societies eliigb'e under this call are
requested to elect their delegates immedi-
ately.
The call is signed By John F. Finnerty,
acting presidenG, Chicago; John p. SUIT
tons, acting secretary. New Y ,rk; Will
liam Lyman, acting treasurer, New York
]. j. O'ConnelI. chairman executive
committee, Chicago; John L. Keating,
secretary executive committe, Chicago,
and many others prominnt in the mvve-
ment.