The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-12
APPEAL FOR IRELAND.
Objects of the United Irish League
Set Forth.

The warm support which the Irish
National Press has extended to the
United Irish League from its inception
encourages US in the belief that us
generous readers also can be couhteu
among the friends of the movement.
We, therefore, appeal with commence
to them for their assistance
The objects of the League are Wen
known to friend and foe of the Irish
cause by this time These objects COM
prise:
1. The reunion of all earnest Nation
alists in an organization similar IN
purpose to the old National Lana
League, in which movement the Ell
forts and activities that have been
wasted in barren controversies anu
sectional issues during the past nine
years will be directed into renewed
militant organization against the com
mon enemy of the liberties and homes
of Ireland.
This reunion to be brought about by
a cessation of inteTneCine strife pc
tween divided Nationalist, ana not py
any surrender of one side to the other
in this unhappy controversy. when the
United Irish League has been organized
to bury in oblivion.
,. The National independence of Ire
land in the rule of Ireland by Irish
men.
3. The abolition of Irish landlordism
and the restoration of the land OF Ire
land to it's people.
+. The better housing of our working
classes in country and town, ana the
material and social betterment of their
condition.
>. The prevention of famines and of
periodical distress in the poorer parts
of the country by means of the break
ing up of grazing ranches and the pro
viding of more land and better land
for small cultivators.
6. To arrest as far as possible the
continual emigration of the youth OF
Ireland by the foregoing and other
feasible remedies for what constitutes
a growing deadly danger to Ireland's
hopes of National self-government and
to the cOuntry's social and material
well-being.
I. To encourage the revival of the
Gaelic tongue among the Irish race,
and to assist in cultivating among
them a wider knowledge of the Ian
guage, literature, laws, and institutions
of ancient Ireland
The United Irish League has already
given substantial proof of the good
work which it is capable OF accom-
plishing.
1t has reunited thousands of men in
harmonious cooperation for Ireland
who were previously separated in popu-
lar effort for the country's cause.
It's organization and influence have
in obtaining large and val
ued concessions for the people residing
in the so-called ''congested' areas of
the west of Ireland.
But the best credentials earned by
the United Irish League as a movement
Of hODpfnl DTOD1iSp for Ireland
found in the alarm with which its
growth and labOrs are witnessed by our
English rulers, and in the violent at
tacks that have been made upon it by
certain of England's Irish judges, and
by papers like the London Times.
AS the objects which the League has
been organized to accomplish are such
is the majority of our race approve
IF as essential to the uplifting of Ire
and to her rightful status as Nation,
We therefore, invite your readers and
our kith and kin in America, Canada,
The AuStralias and elsewhere to extend |
4 helping hand in the working out of
he great task which the United Irish |
League has undertaken.
Our people at home are aiding the |
out of slender resources, and |
will continue to do so. But large meas |
Tres of support are wanted for a more |
vide and vigorous spreading of the |
and We therefore, venture |
o ask this help from all who are wish |
'ul to see the objects of the League !
achieved in our time.
In behalf of the Directory of the |
United Irish League.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, |
MICHAEL DAVITT,
JAMES O'KELLY.
Dublin Sept o. 1899