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Show WILL FALL UPON DEAF EARS. What the Result of the Appeal of the Irish National League Will lie. New York, May 27. Leading members of the local Irish societies seem to be a unit in the opinion that the manifesto issued a few days ago by the Irish national league of America urging unity of action in Ireland as a condition of fiuancial support from the United States will fall upon deaf ears, both in this-ountry and abroad. During the past two years, so it is claimed, the influence of the national league, which was once a strong and potent factor iu Irish affairs, has declined de-clined In proportion to the falling off in its membership, until both are today merely , nominal. Members of most of the municipal muni-cipal Irish councils say that a uew organization organiza-tion with leaders of prominence and reputation reputa-tion might be able to exert a strong fntlu-; fntlu-; ence, not only in this country but in Eng-j Eng-j land, during the coming electoral campaign, but that the national league as it exists to-j to-j $ay js generally regarded as having so little rwlu'emce that its latest appeal will avail them nothing. |