Show I ERm J < J 14t J Fitzgerald President the I League Speaks for Her THE TOBACCO CRPDAM14E1i House of Commons Flaw in the As algnment Tlie English Game Other News Notes The Cause of Ireland LINCOLN Neb October President Fitzgerald of the National League of America today sent a dispatch to the officers and members of the league in response to a special from Parnell After referring to the I good results of the Chicago convention con-vention to his desire in accepting the presidency the league to become uu active assistant of Parnell and the benefit ben-efit the Ir sh cause has already received from the support of the league in America the aJdress says There now exists th most urgent demand on the Irish race thoughout the world and continues On the 22d ot this month the Tory government of England decided by the rejection of ParnellS land bill oneviction and consequent starvation or banishment of thousands of men women and children Gladstone has truthfully said that every such eviction is equal to a sentence of death Alas many single evictions resulted re-sulted inseveral deaths but tnis was prior to the organization of the Irish I National League and I am greatl mistaken mis-taken in the present temper of the Irish race and other friends of humanity if I that barbarity will ever again be permitted on Gods creatures anywhere any-where Until recently the sad stqry Ireland was known to her sons now it is uppermost in the minds of all Chrisendom The outspoken sympathy sympa-thy of the world is withher children iu their struggle for home and liberty hence Lord Salisbury and his government govern-ment will soon discover that they can never starve exterminate nor subdue by coercion the Irish people The fight on evictions for nonpayment of impossible impos-sible rents has commenced Gods creatures are being rendered homeless and turned out on the roadside but they shall not die the death planned for them by the heartless tyrants We therefore anpeal to every man and women with Irish blood coorsingin their veins to aid in resisting this inhuman in-human brutality Let every branch of the League at once start an antievic tion fund and send the contributions to the national treasurer Rev Charles OReilly Detroit Mich Branches should be started in 6 every town and village in the country in workshops and on railroads rich and poor should unite in this human and patriotic work Organization is necessary to resist organized or-ganized tyrany I J |