The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-12-03
THE NEW IRISH MOVEMENT.


The United League, which has lately
sprung into existence in the west of Ire
land to counterfeit the devastating work
Of the landlords. deserves the support
and cooperation of the Irish race in this
country. In defiance Of the British gov
eminent, the movement has already
achieved success and brought -felonious
landlordism to its knees. John Dillon,
William O'Brien and Michael Davitt-
three intrepid champions of their op-
pressed countrymen-have succeeded in
welding the people together in a solid
body in the western counties, in spite of
all opposition from Dublin castle. Polit-
ical dissension is being banished by the
league, and national unity is being re-
stored. A common cause has brought
the masses of the people together, and in
future the apostles of discord will find
their occupation gone. After seven years
of political chickering's and wranglings,
the rank and file Of the people are COM
ing together in cordial unity to fight the
common enemy
That is contamination which has
been ardently desired by every we'll
wisher Of the Irish people the world
over Without unity they can accom-
plish nothing of national Importance:
with unity and a firm :esolve to be free
men in the land Of their birth, they can
accomplish everything, and no power
that England can WELD will keep them
in subsection to it's tyranny. Let them
once realize that fact. and the day of
their redemption is nigh. They are now
on the right course, and let them go
steadily onward. The following excerpt
from the Dublin Freeman's Journal ex-
plains the objects to be attained by the
United League:
The new organization has taken up
the old cry Of the Land League, 1.-The
land for the people," 1t has embodied it
in still wiser and holder policy. Its
mission is to evct the droves Of bullocks
from the fertile lands of Connaught on
payment Of compensation, and restore
the land to the people who were hunted
from those lands into the bogs and
mountains. Its mission is to make fam
inc u thing of the past in Ireland. Its
highest vindication is the hostility it has
excited amongst the whole tribe of rack
renters and evictors. The castle has re-
vived coercion for its benefit. 1t has
sent men to prison for playing the in
flammatory tune Of THE Peeler and the
Goat" 1t has attempted to blockade
peaceful towns and suppress legal meet
ings, and has covered itself with ridicule
in the attempt. The league has thriven
on coercion. The league has conquered
coercion. The monster demonstration
held in Galway, without an attempt at
is confession at once of
the impotence of the castle and the
power Of the league. The question it has
made its own Is by the pressure of united
agitation being forced to the front. The
districts board is ievoting it.
self more assiduously to its main func-
ton. to secure suitable holdings for the
people. For the future
1t will have far less difficulty, on the one
hand, in inducing landlords and grazers
to consent to sale Mt reasonable
price. and, on the other, in inducing the
government to make an adequate ad-
vance for the purchase money. With the
British government in ireland the United
League is an organization that is de-
nounced and succeeds, and the denlncia-
ton and the success are exactly in the
same proportion. 1t is not an asrarian
agitation only, but like the Land League,
it is a home rule agitation as well, be-
cause it's function Is to bring the Irish
Nationalist together in cordial co-opera-
ton, and because whatever improves the
material condition Of the people inevita-
bly, strengthens the demand for national
self government.