The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-26

Considerable enthusiasm was created
by a motion to add ODonovan Rosa
to the list of vice-presidents. Rosa
declined.
Chairman Finerty declared for an
! Irish American standing army Whlcn
shall be ready to do battle for ireland
whenever the opportunity may present
| Mr.. Finertys address of today was
! made after he had been chosen perma-
| rent chairman. He said: American
papers question the prudence of hold
| ing this convention and debating to
us policy, and hoping we will do
nothing to offend English sentiment.
| What do we care for English sentl-
ment? Naughtero We don't want 10
| offend American sentiment, nor french
! sentiment, nor Russian sentiment, but
| we want to offend most seriously our
hereditary and merciless foe. (Cheers)
| We are here today to sound the death
! knell of Whiggery in Irish politics. We
| stand on our rights as a race to adj
! Yocate the absolute independence of
the land that gave us and our fathers
! life. Our friends, the editorial writers,
may preach the doctrine of prudence.
! We will follow their advice so long as
| it may be necessary. l will remind
my American editorial friends that
when America had a grievance against
| England, they did not stand on the
order on which they threw the British
tea chests into Boston harbor.
Question of Prudence.
sThe English press will say that we
are here for other purposes than the
accomplishment of the liberty of Ire
land. 1t is physically and morally i'm
possible for the English press to tell
the truth. (Cheers)
eve do, however, desire to tell
| Great Britain and France and Russia,
and every other possible enemy of
| Great Britain that we are in this fight
to stay. (Cheers) We are not in for
one year or three. but for the war.
tremendous cheering) We do not
care if we are to be beset by whole
battalions Of English spies. We do
not care if all Scotland yard was
within hearing tonight. because we are
meeting in public and with an avoWed
purpose"
"StOIe Our Parliament"
Continuing the speaker said: eng
land stole our parliament. We have
asked it back We have gone out of
our. way to humiliate ourselves a the
feet of England. Are we to remain
thus forever? We are not here to be
told that I'VE contemplate murder or
sWindling. These properties belong to
England. We are here to invite the
sympathy OF the whole world to our
cause. We are here to tell our be-
loved Uncle Sam that if he draws the
sword in defense Of the Monroe doc
trine the Irish of America will be be-
hind the Stars and Stripes when the
struggle comes. We are here to tell
Russia if she desires the conquest of
India that our hearts and hands are
with her, the French who hate Eng
land that whenever they get tangled
up in a dispute with England over the
colonies that they can rely upon our
support.
1--WE are here to encourage the en-
listment of young Irishmen whether in
Independent or regular battalions. to
be ready when the time comes" Pro-
longed cheering)
Mr.. Finerty having thus outlined the
cause and purpose of the meeting, con-
Guided with a ringing peroration that
brought the audience to its feet again
and again. The close of the speech pro-
duced wonderful scene in it's way,
the audience standing and cheering for
fully ten minuteS
After this, two resolutions were Of
fered, expressing sympathy with the
Cuban revolutionists. A conmunica-
ton was presented from the Polish
Alliance of the United States, express
sing sympathy with the objects of the
and communications were then handed
in and turned over to the committee
on platform and resolutions
A number of kilograms and cable
grams received today in addition to
those of yesterday, approving the con-
Vention and endorsing the cause were
read by Secretary Sutton.
noticeable fact was that many of
the kilograms from Ireland came from
the northern end of the island, where
the national idea has been supposed to
have but few advocates
motion by O'Neill Ryan, of Mis-
souri,, that committee of one from
each state be appointed to draft reso-
lutions was adopted.
William Lyman, of New York moved
the appointment of a committee on or
ganization and ways and means, which
was adopted. Recess.
The First Symptom.
In the afternoon session, the chairman
read clipping from the Pail Mall Ga
zette, which favored meeting the Irish
half way in their struggle for independ-
ence. The reading was received with
LOUD applause, and the delegates seemed
TO think it was the first symptom that
E5nglan1d would give attention to their
pointed, VIM. Lyman of New York, be-
ing appointed chairman of the national
committee OF ways and means. Calls
were then made for other speakers and
O'Donovan Rosa, O'Neill Ryan, of St
Louis, and delegates O'Leary of Mon
tana; Langdon of New York, and Will
here, OF Pennsylvania, responded. Rossa
was given an ovation when he arose to
address the meeting. He said in part
u am not in favor of waiting; In my
! judgment the time to strike is when you
are ready and the place to strike is in
England. All this talk of organizing to
fight the English out of England is very
well, but it has no terrors for England
land and Ireland than in any other
place. Now is the time for Us to strike
and the quicker the better"
O'Neill Ryan, of st. Louis, said that he
spoke for the young men of the Irish
nation, who would take up the fight when
to lay it down.
Means Revolution.
This move MEANS" he said, ''revolu-
ton. It means the turning point from
4 the sword We have given a patient
trial to peaceful agitation, and we now
turn to the teachings of O'Neill and
O'Donnell.''
The other speeches were made in the
same. VEIN and all were heartily APP
& plauded.
Tomorrow the real work of the con-
vention will begin and all committees
). We're instructed tonight to be. ready to re-
port in the morning without fail.
4 Many kilograms of sympathy for the
cause were received, and to the surprise
of the convention, most of them were
from the north of Ireland, where, the
cause they represent Is said to be of as