The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Substantial Way of Showing
Love for and Devotion to
Erin'S Cause.
MONEY WILL COME IN SOON.
Knights of Tara to Hod a Grand
Picnic Tomorrow for the Pris.
oners' Fund.

A~'S oANSApHAShf WAbA SASoo
to show their appreciation OF the recently
released Irish political prisoners and
devotion to the cause of their native land.
And this is to be done in the very express
sive way of raising handsome sum as
contribution from the Irish people OF Cali
fornia to the wretched men now let loose
from English dungeons.
That this work of love may be the better
carried out the Irish Political Prisoners
Association has been organized, with DR..
OToole as president.
A meeting of the executive committee
of the association was held last evening at
K. r. B. Hall, DR.. O'Toole being in the
chair. There was present a large number
of delegates from the various Irish socie-
ties OF this City and Oakland, besides sew
eral Irishmen who have always been
prominent in Irish movements.
The principal business transacted was
the ap pointment of committees to solicit
subscriptions from the Irish people of THE
City and State for the relief of the recently
released Irish political prisoners.
The following address was ordered sent
to the various Irish societies of this City
and State and also to prominent citizens
OF Irish birth or descent;
TO THE IRISH RACE IN CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. %, 1896.
There was recently released from English
prisons number of Irishmen who had been
confined therein for many years on suspicion
OF having been connected with dynamite out
RACES committed, or about to be committed in
England. During these years they suffered
that cruelty and persecution which modern
civilization, as understood in England, has
brought to such fendsh perfection, and
which, in the case of those unfortunate sus-
poets, was doubly intensified by race an
tipathy.
The testimony of such men as Michael
Davitt, O'Donoyan Rosa and the late John
Boyle O'Reilly has made the world familiar
with the cruelty and suferings to which Irish
political prisoners are subjected by England.
But stronger testimony still is that afforded
by the unfortunate men who have just been
set free. A few years OF this treatment has
reduced these men to mere human wrecks,
broken in body and shattered in intellect,
living witnesses to the barbarous inhumanity
still practiced in the very heart of the great
civilized British empire.
With their life work interrupted, they come
| to us entirely incapable of aiding themselves.
We therefore appeal to you, our country men
and women, to see that these men are pro-
v1ded for during the few remaining years OF
| their lives. 1t is unnecessary to dwell on this
subject. 1t Is enough simply to point to those
men and say to you: ''These are your country
men, reduced to this condition through love
and devotion to Ireland"; and, relying on
| that open-hearted generosity which has char
acterized our people ON every deserving oeca-
sion, we feel certain you will see that they
shall not want. Give England your answer to
her brutality.
The foIlowing-named gentlemen have been
appointed committee to solicit and receive
subscriptions:
Those who may not and cannot be person.
ally called upon may forward their subscrip-
street. San Francisco. NJ. C. O'TooLE,
w. F. STAFFORD, President.
Secretary.
Executive committee. G. Nealon, Jere-
mial MRlOQv. DIR. nj. C. O'I0Ola. Jeramiah
Deasy, Judge NJ Cooney, j. G. O'Connor, r. C.
oConnor, F.. G. Molloy, P. A. Mcdonald,
0u9s5 0 !9an Logan JsSn Shea Grant Rs9tev Dans mel
?. Crowley oBrien, sa +. FaSiss Wsisn es' g.
dunno, W. i. Stafford, Philip Bolger, John
eabDsy R e A RnGn Rgs Captain i TGoR S . mft It
Fitzgerald, John G.. Ryan, J. P. O,Connell,
Jerome Deasy, John r, Dignan, Patrick
!; sqlliysn, n,sn,. Jennings Philips, l. C. Gun,
renee Nolan, Matthew Nunan, Martin o'Dea,
r Dnndon, +: J. Meaghes, J. Conlin, patrict
eaaold oRes onn psTsnss 1SSmss
and NJ. ]. Vaughn, of San Fran
cisco; Eugene o'Connor, E. J. Murphy,
}ohn y9seph
White, p. J. Hsrney, Edward Donnelly,
Edward Malley, D. E. Condor. James sulii-
pa1sick ndSsa Mullen NJ Etasersd and
Michael Nihill of Los Angeles; John Toner,
Mountain View, and Thomas Hogan, San JOSE
A grand picnic and reunion will be given
under the auspices of the Knights of Tara
at Shell Mound Park tomorrow. The
proceeds will go to swell the political
prisoners fund. As splendid days
sport has been provided all who are in
sympathy with the movement and attend
the picnic will be more than pleased with
themselves for participating in it. The
management OF this event is in the hands
OF the following well-known Irishmen:
Committee of arrangements-J. B. Cos
grave fchairman), John Sheehan, Hugh Dolan,
John Creighton, Michael Corley, John Hen
nessey, Charles B. Flanagan, Michael Nc
Grath, Thomas McGuin, Patrick Kearny,
Frank Monaghan Michael Corley.
Reception committee-Michael Dempsey
(chairman), Cornelius Deasy, Patrick Dolan,
Andrew Meehan, J. J. Egan, Cornelius Hur-
ley, Michael McGrath Martin Walsh, James
Corcoran, NJ. Rodgers.
Floor manager, John O'Kane.
Floor committee-James Devine, John J.
Flynn, Da mel Callahan, John O'Grady, Owen
Reilly. P. F. Green, D. S. Mccarthy, John
Burns and p Walsh.
Committee on games-P. ]. McElroy CHAIR
man, Stephen McQuaid. p. ]. Marion, ]. J.
O'Callaghan, NJ. Hannigan, Michael Doian.
Bernard Ward, John Lowrey, NJ. ]. Connolly,
Denis Loden.
Treasurer-William Mulvin.
Judges OF jig and reel dancing-Thomas
Desmond and assistants.