The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-20
KEEP IRISH AT HOME
GREAT TASK OF PATRIOTS NOW IS
TO MAKE GELTs FARMER
PRoPRIEToRs
ADDRESS OF THE IRISH LEAGUI
Branches to~Be Formed in America
to Cooperate With Promoters
of the Movement in the
Old Land.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19-The executive
committee of the United Irish league has
drafted an address to the people of this
country on which the committee bases
it's claim for active support Of the Irish
cause at the present time. The address
says in part:
1.-The grievances under which ireland,
after tie lapse of generations still labors
would justify an appeal to arms were
her military resources and opportunities
equal to her wrongs and her resent
ment Were she in a position to oraw
the sword or use the rifle, with even
a reasonable chance of success, we would
prefer that method of obtaining her
rights and avenging the insults heaped
upon her by a remorseless government
to any other But We know that she Is
not at preSent-untrained, unarmed and
without formidable allies, as her people
are-in a position to cope with the land
and sea forces of England, which oc-
cupy her fortresses, command her sea-
ports and can be heavily reinforced with
in few hours from the military depots
and naval reserves of her oppressors.
1--WE neither denounce nor renounce 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
ireland does not seem Immediately prac-
tieable. We have already stated why
Root Them in the Soil.
The address then indorses what Mr..
Redmond andi1 his associates said as to the
important part which emigration is play
ing in keeping Ireland down, and con-
tinues:
1.-THE great task then of this our own
generation, is to- strive to root the Irish
Al.
ly begun by GParnell, and now so ably
prosecuted by Redmond, Davitt, O'Brien,
Dillon and their associates. The young
rural people of Ireland must be given a
living interest in the land that gave them
birth In order that they may cleave
unto the soil they must be made like
the Frenchman, The Hollander and the
Boer, farmer proprietors. All the peo-
pie who own the soil they till have Illus
trated their patriotism by magnificent re-
sistance to tyrants.
"This, allied to the underlying cause Of
Irish national independence, is the noble
mission Of the United Irish League Of
Ireland"
The address calls upon Irish-Americans
to form branches Of the United Irish
League of America to cooperate with
their Irish brethren in the cause of ma
tional liberty and agrarian reform. 1t
further suggests that the league can be
modelled after the old land league. The
address bears the signatures of the exec
utive committee.
LONDON, Dec. 19.-There is every in
dicatien that thegBritish government is
determined to conduct a vigorous cam
paign against the United Irish league,
and Mr. Redmond's speech at Cork is
taken to mean that the league is pre-
pared to defend itself The stu
alton in Ireland at present is very criti-
cal and seemingly the struggle. between
the law, representing the landlord, and
the league, representing the tenant, which
rendered the early sos historfc, is about
to be re-enacted. Large numbers of
mounted and unmounted police have been
drafted into Counties Clare, Mayo and
Roscomnon.