The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-08-23
A. o. II. OF IRELAND.
Annual Congress Of Order Meets In
eslfast-Adopts Resolutions Pass.
cd at Emmet Meetings In

63na0c-Aoopte he0olOtIon8 PaSo.
cd at Emmet Meetings In
New York.
The annual congress of the Ancient |
Order Of Hibernians Il. A. A. was
held in Tara Hall, York street. Bel
fast. on Saturday, July 10. Brother
r. J. Healy, BIZ. M.C.C.. National
vice-President, in the absence Of the
National President, occupied the
chair.
Brother Barry, Cork and Mcguire.
Glasgow, were appointed secretaries
to the congress. Amongst the south
ern delegates we're Bros. O'Connor.
Tralee, and Tadg Barry, PIG. Cork.
The chairman, in opening the pro-
ceedings, referred to the demise of
ex-National President Christie, who
had died since the last congress, and
also to the deaths of Bro. M. E. T.
McCrystal and Captain Anthony, COM
mander of the Catalpa, and resolu-
ton of regret was passed, all present
standing.
Tadg Barry, PIG, Cork, moved,
and Bros. Robert Johnson seconded,
the adoption of the following resolu-
lions which had been passed at the
Emmett celebrations in New York and
other American cities, and they were
carried with acclamation:
- IT
reanirm our belief in the principles
and policy for which Emmett gave his
life and our determination to make
ireland an independent nation.
I'VE affirm that Ireland's right to
separate and distinct national exist
ence is God-given and inalienoble. She
has never forfeited that right, and the
history of her connection with Eng
land from the time of Strongbow to
the present day proves conclusively
that nothing short of complete ma
tional independence can ever make
her people happy, or enable them to
repair the havoc wrought by English
rule.
Eve consider that the so-called
Home Rule Bill gives Ireland legis-
lative body crippled by restraints and
prohibitions, deprived of any power
over the country's vital interests and
Industrial life, which retains in Lon
don the absolute control of the Irish
finance, maintains all the existing i'm
perial taxes, and provides for the
payment into the British treasury of
all taxes levied in Ireland, whether
by Irish or English authority, forbids
the Irish legislature to levy duties
on foreign goods, and preserves I'M
impaired the supreme authority Of the
British Parliament.
1--WE do not object to the Irish peo-
pie making whatever use they can
of the. very limited powers given to
them ~ this measure, or using it as
a lever to wiring more from the for
eign government which holds them
in it's grip, but we repudiate John
Redmond's statement that the passage
of this bill will be a Anal settlement
Of Ireland's quarrel with England, and
that ireland will. therefore, be the
only country on earth where all prog
ress is forever barred.
1--WE denounce as unwarranted pre-
sumption Mr.. Redmond's oft-repeated
assertion that the Irish in America i
will prove false to their citizenship
and work for an Anglo-American AL
lance, out of gratitude for measure
which is aimed to perpetuate and
consolidate English authority in Ire
land and blast for all time 1reland's
hope of real freedom"
The National Secretary said that
he had taken down statements from
some old members in reference to the
expulsion of the founders of the Board
Of Erin. One Of these old members.
Of the Derry division, was in the
Order for over 80 years, and was
initiated by a man who was men,
Der for over so years before that He
would prepare an account from those
members' statements and publish as
soon as possible.
The following resolutions were also
adopted:
'-rhat this convention of the Order
views with great pleasure the progress
of Ma Fianna Eireann Urish National
Boy Scouts), as it believes the educa-
ton Of the youth of Ireland, both phy-
steal and mental, along national and
self-reliant lines, is a movement which
tends to do powerful amount Of good
for the regeneration and emancipation
Of Ireland; that this convention
pledges its hearty support 20 Ma III
anna Eireann and urges the various
, divisions of the Order to give the
organization all the help in their pc ".