The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-27
APPEAL FOR IRELAND,
Birth Given to a New
Organization at the
Convention.
LIKE FENIAN BROTHERS.
Patriots Will No Longer En-
trust Their Cause to
Parliament.
LIKE FENIAN BROTHERS.
GREAT PLAN OF OPERATIONS.
Independence Of the Island to Be
Secured by Any Means Con-
slstent With Law.

CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 26.-Birth was
given by the Irish National Convention
this afternoon to an organization which
has for its avowed object the liberation OF
Ireland from England's yoke by q policy
of physical force. The ashes of the Fenian
Brotherhood are rekindled; the National
League, with its trust in legislators and
its reliance upon parliaments and enact
ments, is buried from sight, and in its
place rises the Irish National Alliance of
the World.
incidentally, too, the Irish Parliament
ary party across the Atlantic is repudiated
and henceforward will be deprived of the
abundant revenues that have been con-
tributed from this country for it's main
tenance and support. For the next two
years at least New York City will be the
seat OF operations of the new movement,
William Linman, wealthy 1rish-Ameri-
can Of that city, having been selected as
first president of the alliance, with author
ity TO appoint secretary of his own
choice.
The plan of operations adopted provides
for a central council, with authority to
issue charters for State organizations.
Membership is limited to people of Irish
birth or descent. and who shall pledge
themselves to aid in the liberation of Ire
land 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 the convention at the morning
session owing to the delay on the part of
40 Init
to report When the delegates reassem-
bled at 8 o'clock the committee on ways
and means and plan of organization pre-
sented its report. The Introductory was
as follows:
1.-The new movement organization shall
be known by the style and title OF the Irish
National Alliance. 1t shall have for its
object the securing of the independence of
Ireland by any means within its power
consistent with the laws and usages of
civilized nations.
"The qualifications for mem bership shall
be good moral character, birth on Irish
soil or descent from Irish parentage on
paternal or maternal side or both and the
taking of the following pledge: l, -,
hereby pledge my word of honor to aid by
every means within my power in con-
formitv with the constitution and bylaws
of the Irish National Alliance in securing
the independence of Ireland"
In subsequent paragraphs it was pro-
vided that the officers should consist of a
resident, vice-president and treasurer, a
secretary to be appointed by the president
and an executive council of nine. The
membership initiation fee was fixed at 81,
with dues of 80 cents per quarter, and it
was provided that rs per cent of the gross
receipts of the subordinate councils should
be turned into the National treasury.
Some sharp criticism was made upon the
report by John Fitzpatrick of Illinois,
veteran, who said that he had tramped
barefooted while carrying messages in his
hat for the revolutionists of '48, and who
contended that the convention should form
government and then and there establish
provisional Irish Legislature on American
soil. Delegate O'Higgins of Massachu-
setts offered an amendment that the
National secretary be elected by the con-
ventior, but he was ruled out Of order and
the report was adopted with about half
dozen dissenting votes.
The report of the committee on platform
and resolutions was presented by O'Neill
Ryan of st. Louis and was unanimously
adopted amid great cheering. 1t read
thus:
"The people of Ireland are 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
4la 3 -, Jy.
land was still barbarous.
"England's 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
rule; the title to the contest has never
been perfected, inasmuch as the Irish
people have continuously by constitu-
tional agitation or revolutionary move
ments resisted England's power and en-
deavored to destroy her unlawful
supremacy.
ireland is deprived of almost every
civil right which the American people
most dearly cherish. Unexampled cruelty
and brutal vindctiveness have been the
distinguishing features of English rule in
Ireland England has destroyed Ireland's
has placed upon her statute e-books laws
making it crime to eoucate an Irish
child she burned Ireland's schoolhouses
and destroyed her churches; sne has
driven into exile, or left to perish In her
dungeons, thousands of men whose only
crime was love of Ireland. Every measure
for the last century looking toward legsla-
tive independence of the Irish people has
either suffered defeat in the Commons or
been arbitrarily defeated by the Lords.
England has violated every treaty and
broken every pledge, and with almost
every year of the century she has imposed
upon ireland brutal laws of coercion, and
one of the most drastic character is now
upon the statutebooks.
ITO the pleas of the people for justice
and their prayers for mercy England has
responded with the scourge and the
scaffold, and yet, to-day, Ireland, en-