The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-07-19

ffcials in this way, and those boards
should resist the payment for extra po
lice, whose presence in the district has
been necessitated simply by the deter
mination of the government to assist
landlordism by suppressing public
meetings by force, every honor and
recognition which it is in the power of
the people to bestow should be con-
terred on the men marked out for pun
ishment and attack by the government
in this movement for the rights of the
people. No man should be allowed to
suffer in pocket, as he certainly does
not suffer in repute, because he has had
the honor of being chosen for assault
as a formidable enemy of landlordism
and coercion.
{. To sum up, compulsory land pur-
chase must be brought about by such
vigorous and combined action against
landlordism as will leave no alternative
to the British government and totter-
ing landlordism but to pass such
measure as the people of Ireland
unanimously demand. Compulsory
purchase will never be granted as a
concession TO the mere Justice and rea-
sonableness of a measure called for
even by the voice of all Ireland 1t will
come when the government and the
landlords are forced to concede it to an
imperative and irresistible national
agitation. In other words, it is the de-
termination of an organized people, and
not the good will of either landlords or
ministers, that will settle this great
question. Confiding in the well-proven
courage of our race, in their resolve to
settle this question once and for ever,
and to win back the soil for the people,
confiding in the firm hope and deter
mination of the people to leave to their
children of the next generation the full
ownership of the land, untrammelled
by even one remnant of the burden of
landlordism; conffding, finally, in the
readiness of the people to make all and
every sacrifice for such a noble, glo-
rious and final victory over the felon-
ious system that has robbed. ruined
and expatriated the Irish race for CEN
turtles, the directory makes this call
upon the people for such combined
advance as will vanquish the already
trembling and divided garrison of land
lordism, and lead to its final disappear
ance from the soil of Ireland.
The additional purchases recently
made by the Congested districts board,
while giving satisfactory evidence of
the healthy influence of stern popular
criticism, are rather calculated to in
crease than to allay discomfort, by re-
minding the people how narrow is the
boards sphere of operations in COM
parison with the necessities of the case,
and how intolerably slow is their pres
ent system of purchase, and how I'M
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mode of administra ton. 1t will be the
fault of the tens of thousands of ten
ants of adjoining estates. for whom
nothing has been done, if another win
ter is allowed to pass without pressing
their claims upon the Congested dis
tricts board, upon the landlords and
the holders of eleven-months' lettings,
in manner that will compel attention.
With a view to concentrating public
attention upon the demands of Ireland,
and upon the methods by which a cas-
tie. and landlord conspiracy is endeav-
oring to stifle them, we believe there
will be a general agreement in the
country that there is no work in which
the exertions of a large portion, at all
events, of IrelandS parliamentary rep
can be at the present mo-
ment so usefully employed as in direct
ing the struggles against landlordiSm
and coercion in Ireland, upon whose
results any ultimate legislation in
must Inevitably be found
ed. With this object we respectfully
suggest to the United Irish party that
records of the work of the party be,
for the future, framed in such a man.
ner as to give full credit for work done
in connection with the fight in ireland.
Proposed by MIR. William O'Brien, NJ
P, seconded by Mr.. John Dillon, NJ. P,
and passed unanimously:
THAT the directory have learned with
the deepest sorrow of the grave illness
If the Most Rev. Dr. Croke, archbishop
Of Cashel, and associate themselves
with their fellow countrymen in their
for their eternal gratitude to
he most illustrious churchman and ma
-ionalist of our race"
The following was read:
Redmond, Chairman Irish Party,
Dublin:
First convention, United Irish
eague, America, will be held in flannel
Hall, Boston, first week in October, two
lays. Finnerty, Chicago, president of
eague; Redding, Baltimore, vice pres
dent; Fitzpatrick, Boston, treasurer;
)'Callaghan. Boston, Martin, Balti-
more, honorary secretaries"
Proposed by Mr. William O'Brien, M. /
P, seconded by Father Clancy, West |
Clare:
Resolved, That in response to the |
Message which has been received by |
he chairman of the National directory |
rom the executive of the United Irish !
league of America, intimating that a |
of the league branches in |
he United States is to be held in the
ity of Boston, in the month of October |
lext, we hereby nominate Mr.. John e. |
Redmond, NJ. P; Mr.. John Dillon, NJ
p, and Mr. Michael Davitt as delegates
o represent the home organization at
UGH convention"
Passed unanimously
A report from Messrs. Redmond and |
)evlin, NJ. P.'s, relating to their mis-
ion in America, which had already ap-
feared in the public press. was, read |
md ordered to be inserted in the min
ties.
Whereupon. the Rev. ]. c. Cannon,
Adm, East Donegal. proposed, and Mr..
Alfred Webb seconded, the following
THAT we, the members of the direc-
Dry of the United Irish League, acting
s the representatives Of the Irish peo-
lie, hereby tender the public thanks of
he Irish nation to Messrs. William
Redmond and Joseph Devlin, NJ. P.'s,
or the splendid, sclf-sacrificing and
successful work they have
one for the National organization and
he national cause in the United States,
nd congratulate them OH having
rought to a successful issue the work
o well begun by Messrs. j. e. Red
nond, F. A. McHugh and Thomas
l'Donnell."
Passed unanimously.
The following was proposed by Rev.
!. Clancy. c. c.. West Clare, seconded