The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-06
GOD SAVE IRELAND
Address of the National Executive
Committee of the Irish
League.
Appeal for a National Defense Fund
of 100000 to Maintain
the Struggle.

Boston, Nov. 6.-The following address
has been issued by the national executive
committee of the United Irish League of
America, acting under the authority Of the
national convention he.u last week in
Faneuil hall. Boston.
Friends and Fellow Citizens-At its
first national convention held in Faneuil
hall. Boston, on Oct. 20 and 81, 1902, the
United Irish League of America pledged
itself to raise an Irish national defense
fund OF 100000 for the maintenance Of
Irelands struggle for land and liberty,
within the period of six months.
In addition. 1t made a pledge to raise
dollar for dollar to combat the landlords
fund-intended to crush the resistance Of
! the Irish people-and thus give to Ireland
the most practical help that can be given
her under existing conditions. In brief,
the American Irish have to do for John
Redmond and his associates, in 1902, what
| they did for Parnell and his lieutenants in
1881, and again during the Times-Pigott
conspiracy of 1856.
| IF unfortunately we cannot at present
| fight for Ireland. we can, at least, sub
scribe for the defense Of her gallant cham
pions, now behind prison bars, or soon
| to be placed there by the despotic sus-
pension of all constitutional procedure
| on Irish SOIL
THE case Of Ireland Is the foremost
question of the world to-day. Her attitude
of calm self restraint under maddening OPP
preston appeals to the sympathy Of man
kind, and the insults heaped upon her
representatives by the English prime min
lister should kindle into generous flame
the hearts Of the Irish race in every quar-
! ter of the globe.
! Shall it be said Of US, the American
Irish. in the pages Of future history. that
| in the moment of supreme trial we proved
false to our motherland?
In this great struggle we are not called
upon to make sacrifice of our blood as
our fathers so often did In breach and
field, and upon the scaffold. but we are
asked to give Of our means what we can
justly spare to advance to victory a cause
sacred in the sight of God and dear to
all men who love liberty, which comes
from the Almighty hand and which god
less tyrants have too often sought to curb
THE English minister, in the plenitude
of his power and the cruelty of his ar
rogance, has put an insult, unparalleled
even in the annals Of Anglo-Irish relations
upon Ireland the insult of coward who
| Is brave because he deems himself secure
He must be hurled from political power
as Parnell alternately hurled both Sails.
bury and Gladstone in 1885 and the sue
ceeding year. Balfour has gone much
farther in official brutality than any of hi.
predecessors In refusing to give Ireland
even one day during the parliamentary
session for the discussion of exclusively
Irish affairs-a privilege never denied tt
other parts of the alleged United King.
DOM
I'VE can destroy Balfour politically i
we unite against the English ruling CLASSES
as they have united against Ireland.
Wherefore, we call upon every man ant
woman in America, in whose veins courses
drop Of Irish blood or who loves libert.
for its own sake, to give to the cause o.
Ireland according to the means which Coz
, has given to him.
Bear strongly in mind. friends and fel
low countrymen, that this Is an emergenc.
call forced upon the Irish party, becaus
Of the landlords trust fund Of $500, 90
!. raised to destroy the Irish tenant farmer
and their leaders. Money will be irnme
r diately needed to defend civil suits TO
damages, intended to financially embarras
= and ruin all the chiefs Of the Irish move
3 ment and to bankrupt and drive out G
business patriotic Irish editors, such a
Patrick A. McHugh, M. p, OF the Sig
3 Champion, who Is now In prison for faith
. fully defending the rights of the people.
1.-THE Irish national defense fund il
therefore, entirely distinct and separat
from the United Irish League and parlia
mentary funds. Its trustees are Rt. Re,
Patrick O'Donnell bishop of Raphoe; Aid
erman Stephen O'Mara Of Limerick, an
Hon. John e. Redmond, the leader Of on
race.
''All contributions to the Irish nationa
defense fund should be forwarded imme
diately to the national treasurer Of tn
United Irish League Of America, T. 3
, Mass, who will transmit them promptly
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