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

! The seventh meeting of the national
directory was held at the league Of
fees. O'Connell street, Dublin, on June
q. j. Z. Redmond, n. P, presided.
! There was a full attendance of the di-
rectory.
The chairman made a heightened
! statement, in which he dealt with the
character of the land bill of the gov
eminent, pointing out it's Objectionable
features and proposals. He also made
reference to the De Freyne prosecu-
tons
On the motion of Mr. John f. Red
mond, Nj. P (chairman), seconded by
the Rev. J. c. Cannon. Adm east Dom
egaD, the following address was unan-
| imously agreed to and ordered TO be
| published and sent to the branches of
| the United Irish League:
| l. A sham land bill, which was never
intended to be passed, has been now
openly abandoned by Mr. Wyndham,
and the era of false pretense has been
brought to an end The present chief
secretary, placed in his position by the
landlords with the hope of staying the
onward and irresistible march of the
people in all parts of Ireland to COM
pulsary purchase, has more than justi-
fed the hopes that were placed in him.
The measure which he introduced con-
| tanned in every clause provisions for
bringing back to the landlords the
power they have forfeited, and for
helping the landlords to more money;
| nearly every line was calculated to
deprive the tenant of some one of his
hard-won rights. whether obtained by
agitation or legislation. The bill would
have torn up some of the best pro-
visions of the land act of 1881; would
have stayed, instead of stimulating,
| land purchase; would have inflicted
heavy and intolerable fine upon every
tenant who wanted to purchase At
tempting but TO touch the very fringe
of a great question, which affects the
very existence of our people, and af-
fects them equally in every province
in Ireland, the bill yet managed to ap-
proach this petty peddling with the
question in the old spirit of making the
nation pay for even a small escape
from the thraldom of landlordism.
2. This impudent and contemplate
response by Mr.. Wyndham to de-
mand for a great measure, in which all
Ireland is united. is a final proof if
that were needed, that neither from
Mr.. Wyndham nor from any other
chief secretary in a landlord govern
ment, can the Irish people expect to
get voluntarily a great measure of
compulsory purchase. Now, as so often
before, the Irish people are thrown
back upon their own resources-on
their own unity and organization, on
their own courage and determination.
Now, as in the day when Parnell ut
tered the words. it remains true that
the measure of the land bill of any
government is the measure of the mag
nitude and determination of the agi-
tation among the people themselves. A
small and fraudulent land bill will be
the fruits of an agitation that is want
ing in either strength or determination;
to get a great land bill there must be
a great agitation.
3--If, then. it is the settled determi-
nation of the Irish people to extort
from this or some other British min
istry great measure of compulsory
land purchase. and to get rid for once
and forever of the incubus of landlord
ism, the Irish people must show a
stronger spirit of determination, a
closer union, perfected organization.
In every part of the country a move
ment against landlordism ought to be
made strong, effective and fearless
The landlords must be made to- feel
liberation and patience are exhausted,
and who are ready to face danger and
suffering, if need be, to attain their
liberation. The evil forces of grazing
and grabbing which are allies and
weapons of landlordism must be fought
until it is clear that in no pant of Ire
land will the moral sentiment or the
public opinion, of the Irish people toll
crate the men who, from greed sell
fishness and the coveting of their
goods, assist in maintaining
the plumber and enslavement of their
land.
I've necessarily include in this APP
peal for a national uprising against a
universally admitted social economic
evil, the laboring and artisan classes
of our country, as well as its farming
No final solution of the
land question can be just or possible
which could ignore the claims of our
agricultural laborers to a stake in the
soil, to better and healthier homes, and
to more encouraging opportunities of
in their native land; and
these rights and advantages will, in
our conviction, necessarily follow from
the eXpropriation of those who now
so largely monopolize the soil and re-
strict its cultivation and development
To free the land of the country from
means to hberate it for
great or Industrial purposes and for
the fuller development of wealth-pro-
ducing capacities. To multiply the ne
cessities of life and stimulate all other
branches of wage-earning occupation, |
the land from the grip of
will be to free it for the
greater and more economic advantage
Of all branches of labor, because a
healthy and prosperous agricultural
reacts beneficially upon all
other productive employments. Today, !
under the paralyzing influence of pas
toralism, an acre of rich land, devoted !
to grazing, yields a yearly value of |
some 60 in produce, and gives little |
Or no labor, while an acre of land de-
voted to tillage yields an average of |
eS, and does so through the agency of |
labor alone. To liberate the land from |
is, therefore, a task for |
the mechanic, artisan and commercial |
classes, as well as for the farmer and /
aborer, and without in any way desir- |
ng to interfere with or control the in |
dependent organizations of labor and |
artisan bodies existing for separate |
aims and Objects the directory of the |
United Irish League earnestly appeals |
20 the members OF all such organiza- |
ions to join with us in achieving this |
great and truly national reform of OBJ
aiming the land of Ireland for it's peo-
pie. Every weapon which the great |
aw of combination places in the hands
IF the Irish tenant, as well as of the |
English mechanic, must be employed /
without fear. Every attempt to break |
Town these combinations, whether by |
he ooprcinY courts nr at T111hIfo ir,aaat-
ngs, must be met with open defiance |
md resistance.
5. No man brought before these in
amous coercion courts. which are en-
,loyed and paid not to try but to con
Tict, should acknowledge their author
ty. These courts should be fiouted and !
lnGnd. Tho iI,a1auder1t 1n1atnrco tho tl,nI-