 |
| William Lyman. |
IRELAND'S GRIEVANCES.
Resolutions
Adopted Reciting Her Wrongs.
TIME FOR
DEBATE HAS PASSED.
The Declaration
of Principles Conclude That Nothing Can Now Avail But Force of Arms to Gain For
Ireland Her Liberty.
CHICAGO. Sept. 27.—The third day's sessions
of the Irish "new movement" convention were generally regarded as the
most important of all. The principal business on the program was the
consideration of the platform submitted by the committee on resolutions and the
report of the committee on ways and means for national organization.
O'Neill Ryan of St. Louis was greeted with
enthusiastic cheers when, as chairman of the committee on resolutions, he stepped
forward to read the platform proposed for the consideration of the convention. His
powerful voice and the impressive silence of the delegates made a deep impression
as he proceeded to read under the title of a "Declaration of
Principles" the following:
"The people of Ireland are a sovereign people;
Ireland is by nature separate from every other country and liberty is the birthright
of her people. Ireland was known throughout Europe as a nation long before the
dawn of Christianity and was the home of civilization while England was still
barbarous.
"England's claim to authority in
Ireland originated in force and has been maintained by corruption and coercion;
they have never ripened into a right to rule; the title by conquest has never
been perfected inasmuch as the Irish people have continuously by constitutional
agitation of revolutionary movements resisted England's power and endeavored to
destroy her unlawful supremacy.
"Ireland is deprived of almost every
civil right which the American people most dearly cherish. Unexampled cruelty
and brutal vindictiveness have been the distinguishing features of English rule
in Ireland. England has destroyed Ireland's industries and ruined her commerce,
she has placed upon her statute books laws making it a crime to educate an
Irish child; she burned Ireland's schoolhouses and destroyed churches; she has
driven into exile or left to perish in dungeons thousands of men whose only
crime was love for Ireland.
"Every measure for the last century looking
toward legislative independence of the Irish people has either suffered defeat in
the commons or been arbitrarily rejected by the lords. England has violated every
treaty and broken every pledge and with almost every year of the century she
has imposed upon Ireland brutal laws of coercion and one of the most drastic character
is now upon her statute books.
"To the pleas of the people for justice
and their prayers for mercy England has responded with the scourge and the
scaffold, and yet today Ireland, enthralled but not enslaved, crushed but not
conquered, is in spirit a nation.
"It has become evident, after many years
of earnest endeavor to obtain a measure of independence from the English government
by peaceful agitation, that appeals to reason for justice are futile. It is
left, therefore, for the men of the Irish race to proclaim again the truth recorded
by all history that the liberties of a people and the independence of a nation cannot
be achieved by debate, but must be won upon the field of battle, and we declare
our belief that the men of Ireland who are being driven into exile or into the
graves of serfs in their native land by English misgovernment are entitled by
the laws of God and man to use every means in their power to drive from their
country the tyrant and usurper and we believe that Ireland has the right to make
England's difficulty her opportunity and to use all possible means to create that
difficulty.
"In view of these facts, the members of
this convention appeal with confidence to their American fellow citizens and
all lovers of liberty to co-operate with them in aiding the people of Ireland
in the achievement of the same measure of liberty enjoyed in these United
States."
The "declaration of principles,"
created decided enthusiasm and was unanimously adopted.
Then the following was submitted and met
with instant approval at the hands of the convention:
Resolved, That this convention recommends the
formation of military companies wherever practicable, in order to foster and
preserve the military spirit of the Irish race, and to be prepared for action
in the hour of England's difficulty.
After the resolution was disposed of, J. J.
O'Connell of Chicago presented the following as the report of the committee on
organization and ways and means:
The "new movement" organization shall
be known by style and title of the "Irish National Alliance."
It shall have for its object the securing of
the independence of Ireland by any means within its power, consistent with the
laws and usages of civilized nations.
The qualifications for membership shall be
good moral character, birth on Irish soil, or descendant from Irish parentage
on paternal or maternal side or both, and the taking of the following pledge of
honor:
"I,—, hereby pledge my word and honor to
aid by every means within my power in conformity with the constitution and bylaws
of the Irish National Alliance in securing the independence of Ireland."
This organization shall be governed by a
president, vice-president, treasurer and executive council of nine members, who
shall hold office for two years, or until their successors are elected and duly
qualified.
The president, vice president and one member
of the executive council, such member to be selected by the executive council,
shall be in charge of the funds of the organization.
The state organization shall be modeled on
the national plan, and all authority to organize must come from the national
executive, and no other authority to organize shall be valid.
The initiation fee shall be $1, and 50 cents
a quarter, payable in advance.
The unanimity with which this plan of campaign
was caught up by the delegates and stamped with a hearty vote of approval was a
revelation.
The election of officers for the newly created
Irish National Alliance was declared in order and resulted as follows:
President, William Lyman of New York; Vice-president,
O'Neill Ryan of St. Louis; Treasurer, P. V. Fitzpatrick of Chicago.
 |
| Alton B. Parker. |
Land
Purchased With Pension Money So Declared.
KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 27.—The question of
exemption from taxes of the property of veteran soldiers purchased with pension
money has just been decided in the affirmative by Judge Parker at the special
term here.
The relator [sic] is George Coddington, who sues
the assessors of the town of Gardiner, Ulster county.
The court of appeals has held that property
bought with pension money is exempt from execution. The city assessors have taxed
on this theory, but some towns have placed such property on their assessment rolls.
Judge Parker says: "The court holds, if
all the money with which the land was purchased was received from the United States
government for pensions or bounty money while he was a noncommissioned officer,
private or musician, that such property is exempt from taxation." There
being some dispute as to the facts, however, a writ of review was granted to
determine this issue.
 |
| Chauncey M. Depew. |
Growth
of the American Idea.
That champion of the interviewed, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, makes a statement of interest to American newspaper men when
he describes the changes that have taken place in the slow old British
journalistic methods. When he was in London five years ago, he received at his
hotel a polite note asking when it would be convenient for him to see a
newspaper representative. After the interview was in type, proofs were
submitted to him so that he might see whether he was quoted accurately.
On a later visit to England reporters called
at his hotel and sent up their cards. They asked some questions then, but not
so many, "principally about American securities."
But this time great was the change. The
British newspaper young men have been "catching on" to the American way
rapidly. Mr. Depew's steamer landed at 5 in the morning. At 6 he went down to
breakfast to find an English reporter waiting beside his chair, "saying in
the well remembered New York way, 'Are you Mr. Chauncey Depew?'" Then the
young man fired off at him a succession of questions covering politics,
economics and social questions, all in a breath, precisely as the Yankee
reporter does always.
Well, we are glad to have taught our British
brethren something about newspaper making. We hope their journals will in
consequence become less dreary and heavy and less difficult to read in future.
There is no doubt of it, the American newspaper is the most readable one in the
world. It puts the most into a small space.
The time is coming when its news will be
absolutely truthful as well. [Italics added.]
DEPARTMENT OF GOOD GOVERNMENT.
UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE
Good
Government Club of Cortland.
WHAT
DISREGARD FOR LAW MEANS.
New York City has supplied the country with
many political object lessens, but the latest is perhaps the most important and
fundamental of all. We have been wont to say that it was respect for law which
made a stable republic possible among the people of Anglo-Saxon stock in North
America, and disregard for law which was at the root of the rebellions and
revolutions of Spanish South America; but here is a great city of our own land
in which not only has the settled law upon a certain subject been
systematically violated by its sworn agents and executors, but this violation
has become so much a matter of course that when the police begin to do their
evident duty there is a public outcry, large delegations appear before the
mayor to beg that the law may be allowed once more to become a dead letter, a
subsidized press poses as the champion of the poor man's beer, and a United
States senator strikes a demagogic attitude and pleads for the open saloon. We
have never been able to see why it allowed at all [that] traffic in intoxicants
should be allowed privileges of Sunday money-making which are denied their
trades, but important as that question is, it is not nearly so important as the
clean cut issue of law or lawlessness, which is raised by the agitation against
obeying the statute law of the state of New York.
The question has been raised before and is a
vital one in Cortland to-day, but it is well that it should be raised just now
in the most conspicuous place in the nation, and with reference to a law the
general interest in which makes the issue plain for all who think at all. It
amounts, after all, to this: Shall the servants of the people be allowed
discretion in their administration or enforcement of law? Shall the executive of
nation, state, city or village ask whether the law commends itself to him, or
in his judgment is popular, before he proceeds to enforce it? If he may do this
in regard to one law, why not in regard to another? If he may let the offenders
of the excise law go free, why not the thief or murderer? Discrimination in
regard to offenses belong to the lawmaker, or to the judges who interpret the
laws which are brought before them; to allow it to the executive is to center
in him all the functions of government, making him in effect a tyrant who may
become as dangerous as those who long ago were overthrown in the struggle for
freedom.
Civic liberty is not a social chaos. It is
strictly limited by law. It is a matter for congratulation that the village
authorities of Cortland are strenuous in efforts to enforce law. For the
contempt into which law had fallen it must be acknowledged that the saloon
business and its supporters are largely responsible. The destruction of manhood
and ruin of the home are not worse effects of the business than the debauching
of the public conscience. The effort to continue a business that has been
outlawed makes an outlaw of the party engaged in it, and as one has well said,
"every one who disregards a troublesome enactment when he thinks it will
be quite safe to do so helps to destroy the republic" This is precisely
the issue to be met. It is good order or disorder, peace or public [upend],
decency or shame, conscience or unbridled license, and on such an issue there
can be no alternative for the friends of order and law than to array themselves
on the side of law enforcement.
EXCISE MATTERS IN VARIOUS PLACES.
On Tuesday we printed in this column part of
the information obtained by "The Outlook," concerning excise matters
in various cities. Readers are reminded that the numbered paragraphs contain
answers to the following questions:
1. Are the Sunday excise laws enforced in your
city?
2. What is the attitude of the civil
magistrates toward their enforcements?
3. What is the attitude of the municipal
reform organizations?
IN LOUISVILLE.
1. There is plenty of legislation on the
subject, but the Sunday excise laws are not observed.
2. Mayor Tyler declares himself to be a
church member and a good citizen, but he will give no help to those who desire
to have the law enforced. The police force is under the charge of three
commissioners. The president of this board is a distiller and one of the other
two commissioners declares himself against any "blue laws."
3. The Louisville law and Sunday Observance association
was formed last winter and a stubborn fight is now in progress. The executive
committee is pushing things, and is confident of ultimate victory.
IN CLEVELAND.
1. There no conspicuously open saloons. The
city is exceedingly orderly on Sunday. The front doors are almost never
unlocked during the day, but a "side door" business is carried on.
2. The police director says: "I suppose
the law ought to be strictly enforced, but we have thus far proceeded only
against those saloonkeepers who violate the law openly and conduct places which
become annoyances. Whenever complaint is made about such a place, we promptly arrest
and prosecute the proprietor. We permit no liquor selling in gardens on Sunday,
and we try to enforce the law throughout the city."
The chief difficulty is, as in Cortland,
with the law which favors the saloonkeeper. The police deserve much thanks
that under the circumstances so good a condition of things exists.
3. There is no municipal reform organization
which looks after the Sunday question. The Christian Endeavor union has been a
large instrument in obtaining the present condition.
IN BUFFALO.
1. "For many years, so many that the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary—the Sunday closing regulations have
not been rigidly enforced. Long continued disuse has made them regarded as
practically absolute."
2. Both Mayor Jewett and Superintendent of
Police Bull refuse to act.
3. A strong and growing sentiment has been
aroused against this state of things. Last spring an order association was
organized, and on the 11th inst. A massmeeting [sic] was held. At this meeting
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt and Bishop Keane spoke. The tide is rising.
CAUSE FOR CONGRATULATIONS AND HOPE.
Bad as the situation is shown to be in these
typical cities, it is most encouraging to note that in every city there is a
large and persistent movement in favor of the enforcement of law. The people
with consciences are demanding that the law shall be respected. The Outlook,
commenting editorially on the above described condition, says: "In the
conflict that is being precipitated there may be temporary victories on the
side of the law-breaking elements; but the knowledge that popular government is
in peril when officials can place themselves above the law, and the knowledge
that public morality is in peril when perjured prosecutors of law-breaking are
the public officials, are forces too strong even in the worst of our cities, to
permit fear as to the outcome of the struggle."
PEOPLE
vs. NOONAN.
Defendant
is Charged with Assault in the Second Degree.
The examination in the case of The People
vs. Timothy Noonan, the defendant being charged with assault in the second degree,
was called in police court at 11 o'clock this morning. Irving H. Palmer appeared
for plaintiff and E. E. Mellon for defendant.
The first witness called was the
complainant, James Smith, who testified that he is an acting policeman of the
village of Cortland, N. Y., and that on Sept. 25 he went into the saloon of
Timothy Noonan under the orders of Chief of Police Linderman, that defendant
placed his hands on him and forced him out of the door. He then placed Noonan
under arrest for assault. Noonan resisted somewhat, but after procuring coat
and hat went with him to police headquarters.
Upon cross-examination it appeared that
previous to his arrest Noonan had ordered Smith to leave the place if he had no
business to transact and no papers to serve.
Only the one witness was sworn and at the
close of the evidence, defendant's attorney moved that the prisoner be
discharged on the ground that the evidence did not show that the person making the
claimed arrest was a duly appointed policeman of the village; that the evidence
shows that he has never received the proper warrant of appointment or
commission from the board of trustees, the president or the clerk of the
village; that the evidence of the witness shows that he was a resident outside the
village of Cortland at the time of his appointment; that the witness was
ineligible to appointment to any office in the village of Cortland under the
village charter upon Sept. 17. Defendant's attorney then made a long argument
in support of his motion.
The motion was denied and defendant held to
await the action of the next grand jury.
Obituary.
The death of Dr. F. O. Hyatt at the age of
66 years removes from Cortland one of its older residents. He was born in Otsego
county, but spent his youth and early manhood in Marathon, where he married
Julia Bouton in 1856 and moved to Cortland in 1858. He engaged in the dental
profession which he practiced successfully many years.
He early showed talent as an artist, especially
in portrait painting. Some of his work, when quite young, shows that he
possessed the artistic faculty in an unusual degree. Had circumstances
permitted the cultivation of this talent he would have made in all probability,
a fine reputation as an artist. But dependent wholly on his own exertions and
with an invalid mother to support he was compelled to seek some more
remunerative avocation. After gaining a fair competence he gave up the practice
of dentistry and devoted his leisure hours to portrait and landscape painting with
marked success, considering his opportunities for study and practice and the
fact that the best years of his life had been spent in other pursuits. His work,
like himself, was original and independent of instruction or assistance.
He was also a great lover of music, both
vocal and instrumental. The violin was his favorite instrument, and he spent
much time in the collection of fine specimens and greatly enjoyed the company of
musicians who came to try their qualities.
He was a lover of all legitimate sports,
such as gunning, fishing, archery and other athletic exercises. While never
seeking popularity, he was one of the most genial of companions, always ready
to do his part, and true to his friends as the needle to the pole. He was a generous
friend to all with whom he became associated or connected. While prudent in business
matters, he was strictly honest and upright in every relation of life.
In his latter years he and his devoted wife
became greatly interested in founding and maintaining a hospital. Although his
health did not permit him to be active before the public, he loyally supported
her and others in the often times discouraging work. It was through his
foresight and business tact that the ladies were able to secure the present location
with a building so admirably adapted to its reeds.
He was always a good citizen, interested and
active in the promotion of all public interests, and always on the side of law
and order. He hated trickery and double-dealing and fearlessly condemned whatever
he believed to be wrong.
BREVITIES.
—The Cortland City band give another of
their popular band concerts at the park to-night.
—The Normals defeated the Dryden team at the
Dryden fair yesterday at football.
Score 30 to 0.
—The Alpha C. L. S. C. will meet with F. J.
Doubleday, 44 Port Watson-st., Monday evening, Sept. 30, at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Dryden Herald issued a daily edition
during the fair. Many columns were devoted to fair notes and the papers were
newsy sheets.
—Cornell university opened yesterday. There
are nearly 600 new students which is over a hundred more than ever before at
the opening of a year.
—Michael Frances Ray, brother of Mrs. M. Ray
of Cortland, died at Cazenovia Tuesday after a brief illness. He was 36 years
old and unmarried.
—Ten thousand employees of a trolley company
at Hazelton, Pa. are idle because the water is too low to run the dynamos and
all the cars are at a standstill.
—Cornell defeated Syracuse at football at
Ithaca yesterday by a score of 8 to 0. Cornell made two touch downs in the second
half, but failed of a goal both times. Syracuse put up a strong game.
—Charlie Meehan, the celebrated boy soprano
of St. George church, New York City, will sing at the Presbyterian church on
Sunday evening, and the choir will give in addition a well selected musical program.
—James C. Van Orden, brother of Mrs. G. E.
Ingraham, died in Los
Angeles,
Cal., Wednesday, Sept. 25. The remains will be brought to Cortland for burial.
Notice of the funeral will be given later.
—Said a Freshman as he seated himself in the
electric car at the depot Thursday,
"How much is the stipend for proceeding to Cornell university in this
vehicle? Will it be a nickel or an exaggeration thereof ?"—Ithaca
Democrat.
—The Dryden Herald says there were 12,000
people on the fair grounds in that place Wednesday. Upwards of fifty people
were relieved of their pocketbooks. The work was done in a way to indicate that
the thieves were a gang of professionals.
—The foundation has been laid for the new M.
E. church hitching barn and the framing is in progress with Mr. Sanford Baldwin
as boss carpenter. The barn is 75 by 50 feet with 12 ft. posts. The old parsonage
barn is to be removed and the southwest corner of the new barn will be
partitioned off for the use of the parsonage.
—Articles of incorporation have been executed
for an electric road from Owego to Speedsville, fifteen miles north, just over
the Tompkins county line. This will open up for traffic a valley of well cultivated
farms thickly settled. Consent for right of way has been obtained from the commissioners
of highways and nearly all of the property owners.
—The fourth quarterly conference of the
First M. E. church was held last night. Resolutions highly complimentary to Dr.
L. H. Pearce, the pastor, were adopted and a unanimous request was made to the
bishop for his return to this church. Dr. F. J. Cheney was elected lay delegate
to the annual conference at Newark next week, and H. L. Gleason was named as
alternate.
 |
| Cortland Opera House on Groton Avenue near Main Street. |
"Niobe
To-night."
The new fantastic comedy "Niobe"
by Harry and Edward Paulton, authors of "Erminie," will be presented
at the Opera House to-night. "Niobe" the ancient and modern are
grotesquely blended. It will be remembered that "Niobe"
was the queen of Thebes, and daring to compare herself with Latona was
transformed through the wrath of that goddess into marble from which tears
constantly flowed. The authors of the new comedy have made very unique use of
this mythological story. The action of this play is quick and all the
characters are well and originally drawn. The dresses worn by the ladies are said
to be very beautiful, while the production in its entirety will have all the
flavor of a metropolitan production.
Miss Minerva Dorr, who assumes the title
role in "Niobe," is the same lady who so successfully played
"Jane" last season, a comedienne who received great praise for her
comedy work everywhere. Miss Dorr is supported by Mr. Frank Norcross, for many
years with the Frohmans and late with A. M. Palmer's stock company.
No comments:
Post a Comment