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Show APPEAL FOR IRELAND. Objects of the United Irish League Set Forth. The warm support which the Irish-National Irish-National Press has extended to the United Irish League from its inception encourages us in the belief that its generous readers also can be counted! among the friends of the- movement. We, therefore; appeal with confidence to them for their assistance. The objects of the League are w;ell known to friend and foe of the Irish cause by this time. . These objects comprise: com-prise: 1. The reunion of all earnest Nationalists Nation-alists in an organization similar in purpose to the .old National Land League, in which movement the efforts ef-forts and activities that have been I wasted in barren controversies and sectional issues during the past nine years will be directed into a renewed militant organization against the common com-mon enemy of the liberties and homes of Ireland. This reunion to be brought about by a cessation of internecine strife between be-tween divided Nationalists, and not by any surrender of one side to the other in this unhappy controversy, which the United Irish League has been organized to bury in oblivion. 2. The National independence of Ireland Ire-land in the rule of Ireland by Irishmen. Irish-men. 3. The abolition of Irish landlordism and the restoration of the land of Ireland Ire-land to its people. 4. The bt'tter housing of our working classes in country and town, and the material and siocial betterment of their condition. 5. The prevention of famines' and of periodical distress in the poorer parts of the country by means of the breaking break-ing up of grazing ranches and the providing pro-viding of more land and better land for small cultivators.' 6. To arrest as far as possible the continual emigration of the youth of Ireland by the foregoing and other feasible remedies for what constitutes n o.,.nii-!tr rioirliv d-mcor tn Ireland's hopes of National self-government, and to the country's social and material well-being. And 7. To encourage the revival of the Gaelic tongue among the Irish race, and to assist in cultivating among hm a wider knowledge of the language, lan-guage, literature, laws, and institutions of ancient Ireland. The United Irish League has already given substantial proof of the good work which it is capable of accomplishing. accom-plishing. It has reunited thousands of men in harmonious co-operation for Ireland who were previously separated in popular popu-lar effort for the country's cause. Its organization and influence have succeeded in obtaining large and valued val-ued concessions for the people residing in the so-called "congested"' areas of the west of Ireland. But the best credentials earned by the United Irish League as a movement of hopeful promise for Ireland are found in the alarm with which its growth and labors are witnessed by our English rulers, and in the violent attacks at-tacks that have been made upon it by certain of p:ngland's Irish judges, and by papers like the London Times. As the objects which the League has been organized to accomplish are such as the majority of our race approve of as essential to the uplifting of Ireland Ire-land to her rightful status as a Nation, we, therefore, invite your readers and our kith and kin in America, Canada., the Australias and elsewhere to extend a helping hand in the working out of the great task which the United Irish League has undertaken. Our people at home are aiding the movement out of slender resources, and will continue to do so. But large measures meas-ures of support are wanted for a more wide and vigorous spreading of the organization, and we, therefore, venture to ask this help from all who are wishful wish-ful to see the objects of the League achieved in our time. Im behalf of the Directory of the United Irish League. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, MICHAEL DAVITT, JAMES O'KELLY. Dublin, Sept. 27, 189!). |
