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Show America's Irish League. ON ANOTHER PAGE is presented the constitution and by-laws of the United Irish League of America. Amer-ica. Its purpose is fully explained, so that organization may begin at once with these published articles to help i along in the government of local so- cieties. Irish leagues need not necessarily be composed of Irishmen entirely. The object spatis patriotic emotion in every lover of humanity. Although it has the encouragement of Cardinal Gibbons Gib-bons and the Catholic hierarchy of Celtic blood, the Irish League is distinct dis-tinct from religious societies of Irish Catholics, and welcomes men and women wo-men of every creed to share in Irish endeavor for justice and the right to live on the soil of fatherland. Creed cut no figure when Father Murphy Joined with Robert Emmet, or when Irish priests later on supported Tar-nell. Tar-nell. Irish Protestants are as earnest in support of the movement with Catholic Cath-olic leaders as Irish Catholics were loyal to Protestant leaders in the struggles strug-gles of the past. The hearty reception of the Irish delegates del-egates to this country from Americans prominent in -the public "eye, has in fused new life iind energy into the people peo-ple of the Emerald- Isle. With America behind them and John. Redmond to lead them. Irishmen- begia their campaign of "the land for the people" by abandoning aban-doning every fear of. failure through intimidation or threat. The exercise of free speech, the tlan of holding meetings, meet-ings, may and does .meet the opposition rt me British authorities, but prohibited prohib-ited meetings are held, all the same, and oratory is only subdued behind prison bars. The. Dublin correspondent of the London Lon-don Sunday Observer declares that the national convention of the United"! rish League, which opened in Dublin Jan. 8, was a great success, and that it was the first Irish- gathering in that city since the death of Parnel that was really inspired by a spirit of unity as Parnell understood unity. "No one present," says the Sunday-Observer, Sunday-Observer, "could fail to note the linn hold that John Redmond had got on the country and no question of an alternative al-ternative chairman was ever thought of. He was undoubtedly more generally gener-ally supported by the people than any one since Parnell, and the feeling prevails pre-vails that the national party 'has' opened a new and victorious chapter." t |