Show = i THE IRISH CONVENTION A Large Catherine ol Emerald Islanders Boston 13 Last night delegates to the convention of the irish National Na-tional League held a tecret meeting until after midnight The principal business was the defining of a policy which shall govern the proceedings of the convention today xne ttai egates are nearly unanimous in favor or prohibiting dkcufsion in any form of Amercan politics It was decided to recommend Judge Mooney of Buffalo for temporary chairman The Iowa State League 1 sert 1000 to Sullivan for the parliamentary par-liamentary fund 7CO delegates are in town Boston ISFeneuil Ha was filled at noon with 800 delegates to the Irish National League Convention Conven-tion and friends Mady ladies of the womens league were present also many priests The hall was finely decorated President Sullivan in his address said Gentlemen of tics OonventionIn the name and by the authority of the Irish National League of America Amer-ica we meet to fulfill the requirements require-ments of ts constitution to convey to our kindred the message of our steadfast demotion and to receive the ambassadors whom they have commissioned to acquaint us with the progress cf their struggle for selfgovernment The memorable Philadelphia convention organized the Irish National League of America It is the auxiliary of the Irish National League of Ireland I tbe heir of all the hopeR and the guardian of more than the alms of I that great social revolt which lifted the Irish farmer from the earth to his fest and cast the English system of Jan lordem in Ireland on its face on the earth The Land League was born in an hour of woe when the spectreo famine appeared iummonEd not by the brcsth or God withering the harvests but by the English government With armie nnd fleets with prisons and scaffolds and felon shipu with coercion coer-cion acts and constabulary it enabled ena-bled the bndlurd to withhold until purchased by foreign charity the food the people had produced oy their own labor out of their own soil Humane nay humble BS was the first object of the Land League it was suppressed by force because the English government feared that from the brow of its humanity weuld spring the spirit of liberty The Irish National league whose distinct and avowed purpose is the establishment of the sovereignly of the Irish people in Ireland is the embodiment of that spirit of liberty It cannot be suppressed for its spirit is immortal It is beyond the scope of coercion eels for its life is endless end-less sa the 11 e of a race The shamrock rock on its banner tearbedewed in its native bed is the symbol of the glorious union of that race in three home separated by the seas that divide contnents united by the determination ol a race to achieve the independence of a nation As the Land League accomplished the relief of a class the National League represents the aspiratitms and the resolve of an entire people As the farmers bavebeen the chief beneficiaries of the straggles and sacrifices thus far made the Irish people throughout the world who participate in the struggles and share the sacrifices admonish the farmers that they owe a duty to their country in an earnest support of the aims of the National League We warn them that until the chief object of the National League is achievednational self govern ment their own position is still unsafe i un-safe The National League aims not merely at a reduction of rents not merely at a change from idle proprietors to working proprietor but at the creation of complete national na-tional life and the development of all the diversified industries which render a people eelfsnstaining and prosperous The farmers are rightly admonished that if they fail to extend ex-tend to the laborers the fraternal aid they have themselves received if they fall to encourage Irish products pro-ducts to the exclusion of English goods if they hesitate to invest in domestic industries they will be more odious in the eight of God and man than the landlords from whose clutch they have been released we do not desire de-sire in Ireland the substitution of patty selfishness gigantic robbery The ingratitude of the farmer will be more dispicable and more dangerous dan-gerous than the tyranny of the landlords because that ingratitude will be treason to a nation The economic and civil life of a people I can be developed only by a sincere noble and effectual cohesion of all classes for the common welfare The work of the league in the United States has been directed first to sending aid to the treasury in Ireland whose moderate requirements require-ments in the absence of any emergency emer-gency have been fairly met and to the enlightenment ana solidification of American opinion While force is still able 10 prolong desputism justice is net dependent en arms alone Ireland unable to cope with the empire that denies her a constitution con-stitution and parliament appeals from the bayonet of her invader to the conscience and the mind of I mankind and asks whether her demands de-mands are not just and whether her patience her morality and her perseverance per-severance have not been sublime The American mind Is essentially practical and daring the past year we have endeavored ta make it acquainted with tho practical aspect of English misrule Ireland We have asked our American countrymen coun-trymen to contemplate the impoverishing impover-ishing taxation the crushed manufactures manu-factures the restricted education the diminished agriculture the compulsory emigration the people of Ireland We have a ked the American conscienca to scrutinize the corrupt and infamous judicial system grimly maintained tbeie for the torture anti slaughter of the people peo-ple We hive asked American freemen free-men to contemplate the suppression the intimidation of of free speech the press and the extension of per Bonalliberiynnder an administration nominally constitutional actually a barbarous despotism The results apparent In the of our labor are sympathetic unanimity with which the American press sustain tbe at home struggle of our oountyrmen of universal expression and in the the public opinion of the republic Nor are these results mora frankly recognized than by the Frees of En lend wbich no longer affects to underrate the intem enc < Jr the resources re-sources of the Irish Taco throughout the world or to deepi its determination determi-nation or to be indifferent to the menacing bitterness of its momory It Is now apparent to thoughtful the that men en both tides oi sea tho iuierefis of the American republic re-public are identical with the interests inter-ests of Ireland Every year that witnesses the deni l of selfgovern ment for Ireland is a year of taxa considerable portion of titn upon a Ihn A arl u > nrlfJ1 for the SUDDort Ug L zV t of the Engllsn crown ia Ireland The irain of money fr m the toilers of the United States to aid their kindred in Ireland will continue until un-til the government which they detest de-test and whici keeps them poor and dependent Is expelled In whatever measure we enlist the sympathy and Influence of the American republic in behalf be-half of the peopte of Ireland Ire-land we render a service to the republic re-public It has been the practice of the English government for more than a genera Urn to drive vat numbers of the Irian jeople off I small agricultural holdings into foul and vici > us dens called poorhouees Being thus reduced to poverty their children robted of an opportunity oppor-tunity to acquire broad Ratting ekill they have b > en forced into the pi8 of ir an vssaels and cast pe riiksb upon tin crowded cities of our seaboard Hare they have become be-come unwilling but helpltss charges upon our communities orl by her blimaes3 lack of skill ana their creditable energy in seeking employment em-ployment they bave forced wagjs down alpng the lines where wages are lowest In directing the alien tion of our government to thfs violation vio-lation o inernaticuai right fe dJtcharged a duty to the American tax payer a u wsgorwoiker while we fastened the attention of the war i upon a Iong lived English lie nimely that Irehtnd isovtr p pu lated for we showed tbat only 300JOOO acres out of 20000000 of her soil are under tiliige and that if permitted to govern herself Ire laud is capable of supporting five times her population Of the national eonvenlioa of i each of the Teat TJoluieaipartlai i we requested and received a pledge that English landlordism wh cii is nearly expelled from Ireland shall not t e permitted to transfer its evil seeds to American eoii In adopting this peaceful method of prevention rather than waiting until the cure of force should be r < quired we rejected re-jected tho policy of Mr Glad tone who could not dhe tablish an alien church until according to his own avowal explosives had resouudt d in England and we have relied on sgl t linn ho pfppnr niihlin benefits thus fdlowing the principles of Charles Stewart Parnell No man can doubt that if the hereditary land monopolists of Great Britain fastened themselves upon cur free tolj tho day would inevitably come when the sturdy soUKr with arms and vengeance would drive them off as they drove the red marauders marau-ders whose natural title was better than any that can be acquired by foreign aristocrats from native land grabbers whether individual or corporate cor-porate The Irish National League will persist in exacting the fulfillment fulfill-ment of these pledges until the enactment en-actment of national and state con stitnlionel amendments shall insure the republic agaimt the reopening ot the Irish land question upon American soil Fellow countrymen the only credentials cre-dentials recognized on this floor are the credentials of the Irish National I League On yonder threshold we dropped our character as members I mh 1 1 Ui mnenuau parties ice uuiy uu mand the Irieh National League makes in American polities is the demand for the elevation of American Ameri-can cKzjcship at home and abroad It makes that demand of all parties and it makes it so determinedly that every party must respect it It makes that demand not fn the name of the distant island whence we sprang it makes it in the name of the American republic of which Ve I are a part It makes it not for the man of Irish blood alone but for every American native and adoped whether Celt or Herman Sean dinavian or Russian In mutual respect re-spect and fervent brotherhccdman fuly unconscious of those rnstttrs whereupon we rightly differ as Amercane 1 tour debates bs so conducted that all parim shall ftar and respect us and that our highs title to their fear shall be ou devotion devo-tion to tbe republic and our respect ion oureeivea We meet in thehi3tonc city of the republic hallowed by the erliesi struggles of the American ceople agiinst the foe whom Ireland shallot shall-ot win to terms of peace struggles strug-gles in which our race was valiant in arms and discrete in council We rnett in the hall over which the genius ge-nius of Liberty presides whose walls have resounded to the inspired in-spired words of him who sands toll to-ll lands and all races and all ages aa the Ideal of American citizenship the lover of Emmet the friend of OconnellWendell Phillips The proudest name to which we aspire we accept toS he realize itwith its highest and fullest aJgnificancewith responsibilities and all its du aU its ties the name of American cit zen our character aai a To ennoble it by race and by our conduct as individuals indi-viduals is the resolve 0 every man who is determined to aid his countrymen of national trymen In the achievement tonal selfgovernment for Ireland Among the distinguished gentleman gentle-man present are Rev P Cronin Buffalo James Mooney expresi dent of the land league John T Hines national secretary John De voy Judge John B oney P A Col Us Dr Wm B Cole and Rev M O Brennan of Baltimore Rev M U Gannon of Iowa Rev Dr Charles Riley of Datroit national treasurer of the league Mrs Par nell mother of Charles Stewart Parnell and Mrs Alexander Sullivan Sulli-van Tynan who la known aa a number one Thomas Sexton and Vm E Redmond The last named will arrive this afternoon at 1230 Hon Alexander Sullivan entered the hall leaning upon the arm of John Boyle OKeillyj and was received re-ceived with enthusiastic cheering Mr Sullivan called the convention to order His TematJss were fre queutly interrup ed by nppauoe hn a1nnn nt i aLiu LlILt1 nearing inn eiuq uc c able address of the president of the national league you do not expect me to make any extended remaiks My duty will simply be to preside over vour temporary deliberations but I cannot forego the pleasure or o JDgratuatlDg you upon the large sod intelligent number here to day from all parts of this great union to continue the great work eo conspicuously con-spicuously began It is another evidence evi-dence that the Irish people of this great Republic will never cea e their effort until tbeir native land occupies a volition as one of the nations of the earth I am sore ths delegates that are expected from Ireland to be bore shortly will be greatly gratified at seeing this ins telligenl gathering It would satisfy them beyond any doub that their brdtbers in this cuntry t ill nbver esse to work unfl the great achievement is accomolished of whch Charles S ewart Parnell app ap-p auee is the leader It ie unneceE eary tor me to request I know your I patrotism too well > to doubt it that your deuu rations WIll ot masked wih civility with ciurtesy to cne another and crntinue so until the work of this convention is acconc pushed applause The rules of the Pnilsdelhia convent con-vent jn were adopted Cotmittfea on creJentials resolutions organs i z tion anti auditing accounts cf the i I ague were appointed Recess lbs secretary red the call by which the ecod mtJonal convention conven-tion of the league was assembled after which Chalrmai uilivan announced an-nounced that by tmanmousconsent of the national cmmlttee the following fol-lowing gentlemen weie recommended recom-mended ftr temporary c fiic rs end they were elcced unanimously temporary chairman expresident of tho league James Mooney of Buffalo secretaries Charles Mc Wan of Pennsylvania M J Griffin of Iowa and Thomas J FJatley of Mississippi fofr Mooney was greeted with loud cheers as he took hi pkce |