The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-17
WANT MORE AMERICAN SPIRIT
Irishmen Organize The Patriotic
League of America

New York. Dec 1.-THE Patriotic
League of America was organized last
night, ITO rezindle the sentiment of
patriotism, not only among people of
this republic but of the entire Ameri-
can continent" The league will favor
the independence of Canada and Cuba
and generally do things that will be
en- barraSslng to Great Britain. Most
of the men in the movement are prom
inent Irishmen- Resolutions protesting
against permanent tribunal of arbi-
tration between this country and Eng
land was adopted 1T is proposed to
establish branches Of the league
throughout the country. These officers
were elected President T. St John
Dennison. second vice president Col
Nathan Egan. third vice president.
Francis Wayland Glenn; treasurer,
Herman D. kretschmar; secretary,
Capt f. T. McCrystal; recording sec
retary a. J. Toomey.
The Patriotic League of America, has
issued the following address to the
people Of the United States:'
The closing years of the nineteenth
century are being marked by many
hopeful indications of a revival of
genuine American feeling. The ORGAN
izatiOn and activity Of the societies Of
The Sons of the Revolution the Sons
of the Colonial Wars and similar so
cietles have given most worthy and eff
hcient service in admOnishing the dom
mating tendency of the commercial
spirit and reldndling the sentiment of
of this republic, but of the entire
American continent.
But the membership of these ORGAN
izatiOns being restricted to the people
Of particular classes, must Of necessity
be limited The exigencfes of the pres
ent demand. the strenuous and unsafi-
fed self exertions of a society at
broad as the continent. and with its
doors wide open TO all patriotic Ameri-
cans without respect to race national
ity or religion. "A brief reference to re-
cent events and present conditions
gives emphatic Endorsement to this de-
mand.
"Of recent events mention need be
made only of the incident of the New
Orleans massacre, with the tax levied
on American diplomacy to avoid a con
hict with Italy, the Outrages commit
TED by England on Nicaragua in the
Corinth affair, which aroused the in
dignation and called forth the protest
Of the American people. and the war
clouds which less than year ago rose
50 threateningly over the Venezuela
question and were cleared away only
by the firm, persistent and determined
maintenance of the Monroe doctrine.
'Of present conditions, the Cuban
question is daily assuming more threat
ening aspects. The cause of her patrf-
otic citizens. struggling through car
mage and confiagratiOn in the unalter-
able determination TO break their yoke
of bondage or perish to the last man.
battling heroically to earn for them
our example has taught them to cOvet
appeals most powerfully and patheti-
cally to the American sense of justice
and fair play and cannot much longer
appeal in vain.
THE dictates Of humanity and our
own vast interests in cuba demand
that this government shall extend to
that oppressed and ill-governed island
the protection Of the eagle and the
shield and command that this inhu-
man war of butchery. spoliation and
destruction shall stop and cuba be LETT
free to cultivate the arts of peace and
develop her resources under a govern
ment of her own choice ana creation.
THE attitude of the British govern
ment furnishes another of the present
conditions which Americans cannot
Contemplate with Indifference
.'Sha has established six powerful
naval stations in threatening proximity
IS our eastern coast. She has built
others at Vancouver. Quebec. St Johns.
Kingston and the Niagara river. These
Qualifications could not have been de-