Sunday Washington globe., 1901-12-22

dress TO Irish Americans by the
Executive Committee OF the New
League.
The new Irish movement is a remarkable
affair, inasmuch as the most pronounced
physical force" leader in America, Hon
John r. Finerly Of Chicago, is at its head
and for the 6rst time in his life breaches
parliamentary action for the redress Of Irish
grievances Il is unfortunate that at the
inception Of this movement one of the
purest, most unsel6sh and brainest leaders
of the physical force" party is on trial In
the criminal courts of Chicago, charged
with the bribery of iuries while counsel for
the Yerkes system Of elevated and surface
railways in that city. Hon. Alexander Sui
livan, the gentleman on trial, has suffered
more persecution by reason Of his connec-
tion with these Irish organizations than any
person ever at the head of Irish societies,
and that is saying great deal
The Cronin affair involved him for a long
time in exhaustive litigation from which he
emerged without stain on his character OF
a suspicion in the minds of an unpreiudiced
public that he had aught to do with that
atrocious murder.
The editor Of the GLOBE has been intimate
with Mr. Sullivan for over quarter of a
century and we can truthfully state that no
purer OF more patriotic lrishman lives than
this one time president of the defunct Irish
Land League. The unmerited prosecutions
to which he has been subjected have grown
out Of a duel he had some twenty years ago
with a school principal named Hannaford.
This man Hannaford insulted Mrs Sullivan,
who was then employed in the Chicago
public schools. Mrs Margaret Sullivan,
by the way, has been conceded to be the
brainiest woman ever connected with the
press Of this country She was for years
the editorial leader writer Of Storey's
Chicago ZTibNHe, and has made many
noted contributions to current and maga-
zine literature In the duel which resulted
from the insult TO Mrs. Sullivan Hanuaford
wis killed and Alexander Sullivan was on
a subsequent trial houoraby acquitted of
the justifable homicide Nevertheless his
enemies have never ceased TO resur rect
this episode in some shape OF another and
Barnes, the states attorney prosecuting
Mr Sullivan, did not fail to lug II into the
trial but was squelched by the offer of the
defendant to read Hannaford's insulting
letter and the records of the trial
Returning to the new Irish move
ment of which Mr.. Sullivans loyal friend
John H. Finerly, is the head, the executive
committee met az the Hoffman House
Thursday last The twenty-one original
members Of the executive committee were
present, Hon. John f. Finerly presiding.
Vice-President M ] Redding, OF Balti-
more; Assistant Secretary P. + Martin, Of
Baltimore Rev Father Toner. Of Pittsburg,
and Mr.. Duffy, Of Pittsburg, we're also
present.
A constitution and by laws based OH the
lines Of those of the old Land League
were adopted. Arrangements were made
10 organize the country IN support Of the
Irish leaders and the United Irish League
of Ireland.
The executive committee drafted an adj
dress to the people Of this country, on
which the committee bases its claims for
active support Of the Irish cause at the
present time. The address is in part as fol-
lows:
The grievances under which Ireland,
after the lapse of generations, still IabOrs,
would justify an appeal to arms were her
military resources and opportunities equal
to her wrongs and her resentment Were
she in a position to draw the sword, or use
the rife with even reasonable chance of
success, we would prefer that method of
obtaining her rights and avenging the in
suits heaped upon her by a remorseless
government to any other But we know
that she is not at present, unframed. nm
armed and without formidable allies. as
her people are, in position to cope with
the land and sea forces Of England, which
occupy her fortresses, commanding her sea.
ports and can be heavily REINFORCED with
in few hours from the military depot
and naval reserves Of her oppressor
We neither denounce nor rcnounce the
principle Of an appeal to physical force,
under favorable conditions, but we are
fully aware that the application Of such
force for the obtaining of the rights of Ire
land does not seem Immediately Practicable
We have already stated why"
The address then iudorses what Mr.
Redmond and his associates said as TO the
important part which emigration is playing
in keeping Ireland down, and continues.
The great task, then, Of this, our own
generation, is to strive to root the Irish
people in their soil, the work so gloriously
begun by Parnell, and now so ably prose
cuted by Redmond, Davitt, O'Brien, Dillon,
and their associates. The young, rural peo-
pie Of Ireland must be given living inter
est in the land that gave them birth In
order that they may cleave unto the soil
they must be made, like the Freuchman,
the Hollapder, and the Boer farmer pro-
pretors All the people who own the soil
they till have illustrated their patriotism by
magnificent resistance TO tyrauts
This, allied to the underlying cause of
Irish national independence, Is the noble
mission Of the United Irish league OF lre-
land n