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The sinking of the German ship loaded with arms and am-
munition off the Irish coast was the ‘direct result of informa-
tion treacherously given to the British Government by a mem-
ber of.’ the Washington Administration on the’ orders of
President Wilson. It was a deadl blow aimed at the heart of
Ireland, and if . it does not prove atal, it will not be Woodrow
Wilson's fault. . ' V
VVilson’s officials obtained the information by an act of law-
, lessness-a violation of international law-committed with the
deliberate purpose of helping England. and it was promptly
placed at the disposal of the English Government, whose ser- 1
vant Woodrow Wilson is. Forewarned by this most disgrace-
ful and dishonorable act ever committed by an American
President, the British fleet, which had been batiied and eluded
by the arms-laden German cruiser, was sent to the right spot,
the cruiser was sunk, and the Irish people deprived of the means
. of fighting for their rights and liberties. This was America's
otlicial expression of gratitude‘ for the splendid services of
Irishmen in the Revolutiongthe War of 1812, the Civil l.Var,
and the Spanish-American VVar.
The Irish people here have as good a right to collect money
and supply arms to their countrymen in Ireland as J. P. Morgan
and the munition manufacturers have to send money, arms and
munitions of war to England and her allies. And they will not
be terrorized b the petty Czar. who is now King George's
Viceroy in the White House. He allows not only arms, ammu-
nition, and tor edoes .to be carried as freight on passenger
' steamers with merican women and children on board, but he
' allows explosives to be carried in cabins and staterooms, and
this inflammable material is, permitted to come in crates falsely
labeled and are passed by his inspectors. . t ,
Come on. Mr. Wilson, start your prosecutions of Irishmen
, for “breaches of neutrality” and between now and election day
you will wish -that you had never been born.
Can This Charge Be True?
The indignation that swept the country over the betrayal of
Casement caused great uneasiness in Washington.
notified Robert Lansing, of the State Department, of the receipt of
:1 threatening letter which announced that anytreatment of Sir
Roger Casement other than that due a prisoner of war of the
highest rank would be a sentence of death against “him and other
English servants in this country?
men! had information in regard
Sir Roger Casement. .
On December 29th, 1915, I called attention to the intimate rela-
tions existing between the l.Vashington Administration, the State
Department and the Department of Justide with English agitators
and informers such as J. Revelstoke Rathom, editor of the Provi-
dence Journal, whose pro-British‘ propaganda‘ is aided by Adolph
S. Ochs of the Times and Ogden
wrote:-- .
Secretary Lansing denied the statements made by Mr. Devoy.
But it was not denied by the State Department that this Govern-
to the revolutionary plotting: of
Why does the President receive Rathom? Why does Secre-
tary Lansing send for him so often? Why, on November 12th,
‘ did the Department of Justice take cognizance of Rathom’s
charges against diplomatic representatives of foreign powers?
> further information? VVhy did Secret:
“lhy did A. Bruce Bielaski telegraph to‘Rathom, asking for
Lansing have pub-
,‘ lished the statement that he had on his idle Rathom's charges
‘against Washington diplomats? .
-, Why did Morgan double his guards, why did President Noble,
head of the Stock Exchange, station, private policemen at all the
entrances of the Exchange and forbid members to take their friends
to luncheonlon the top floor of the building? Why is there a steel
screen on the top of Morgansbanking house and a similar one on
the top of the Stock Exchange? Why are visitors still barred from,
4 the Visitors’ Gallery? .
The bankers and gamblers of VVall Street are living uneasy lives.
It is because Morgan’s shrapnel, Schwab’s machine guns and the
bayonets forged by the Steel Trust. sold by them for the destruction
‘of the Germanic peoples. are now being used in thexslaying of men,
women and children in all the cities, village
Ireland. I , V I
Funds provided by the subscribers and underwriters of the Anglo-
French loan are on deposit in Morgan banks" and being paid out to
the munition makers of Wall Street. To this purpose is “devoted
the money of the underwriting syndicate in the National City bank,
‘in the Morgan banking house, in the First National Bank: . ‘
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"THE F‘A’,1‘iI-IERLAND,
Spring-Rice
Mills Reid of the Tribune. I
s hnd countrysides of
Why-Wall Street Lives in Fear
That is why Wall Street has ‘doubled its guards. It knew that
-millions of Americans of Germanic stock looked with hatred on the
American Tories of Wall Street, who are gluitcd with fortunes
i made by the slaughter of their kindred. These Tories now know
that millions of Americans of Irish blood regard them with equal
hate. , ' .
For how do Irishmen feel when they see English ships loaded
with guns and shrapnel, leaving New York bound for England. to
supply English‘ soldiers with arms for the massacre of the Irish
‘people? Four such ships, destined for Liverpool. had their ports of
destination altered for Ireland, when they left New York last week,
after the rebellion had begun.‘
‘Into what dreadful paths are the madmcn of Wall Street and
Washington leading us? Step by step, driven by race hatred and
money-madness, they are bringing our country nearer to an abyss.
Are they deaf to the wrath of silent millions; do they stoptto listen
to the voice of the West, the rumble of the coming storm?
We read in the despatches from London :- ‘
,1. Large forces of English, Welsh and Scotch soldiers are pour-
in into Ireland. The temper of these troops is bad and the
so diers are expected to show little mercy. .
The Daily Chronicle says: If reluctance to destroy bricks
and mortar has delayed the bombardment of rcbcl buildings, it
g has been a very.short-sighted reluctance. ’
Again the Daily Qlironicle says: Less than a month ago the
Ulster volunteers, with rities and ammunition marched to a hall
W ich was being built for the Hibernians, utterly demolished it,
and subjected the houses of local Roman Catholics to afusilade
of shots. . ’ t
This is England. fhc protector of small nationalities, the England
that fights for the “liberation of Belgium and Servia," which crushes
the aspirations of the Irish people, by training the guns of her tieet
upon their dwellings in Dublin, the while she mouths of “humanity
and civilization." ,. ‘ ' ' 1.
George Haven Putnam, born in London and head of the notorious
American Rights Committee, recently, in Carnegie Hall, ‘denom-
m3l9d.EH8land as the "most bencticcnt country on earth." How
has this beneticent country treated Ireland? I quote from an Eng‘
i
lish publication, the Historians’ History of the World, in “Ireland
Under English Rule":
The king’s courts -were openito every man who brought an.
action against an 'Iris.l1man,‘yet, it a native were the plainti .
“"3 V69’ fact of his birth was allowed, to be an effectual bar to
his claim. (2) If an Irishman was murdered, whatever were his
‘link m ‘h‘ ch“"Ch QT Slate. 119 Court would undertake to punish
t e "1““"de""-."J- Llngaff-l. History of England. , A
1 e Statute of KllkEIllly..‘If any man took a name after the
IP13,-ll 535111011. used the Irish language, or dress. or mode of
"d'“.g (‘mhout Saddle). or adopted any other Irish customs.
?tl‘lt;'l1JSailEll:fl]? and hordseg were forfeited, and he himself was pult
i e co ' ‘
thd lamyp. W. Jglyce. n security thatohe would comply witi
i M12 James K. McGuire, in his latest work, "What Could Germany
Do for Ireland?” writes: .. ,
ITh3 Oblect of the Gaelic Renaissance is to make Ireland
. B1’ ,5‘? and arrest the progress of making her merely-a West
"fish Dfovmce. glreland should stand alone for Ireland. and"
save the ysubmerginggof. the Celtic race. This is not Ireland's
war.‘ Her strength is in living, in saving her youth and re-
5e.‘i‘l""”3 the ‘"399 ffomaleath-living to creatcasocial order which
wi hesseri the hardships of existence, and learn that prosperity
315, ‘d5 ‘WY NYE. test of the success of national experiments. .
H‘? F 3“d Vocational schools would occupy the sites of the dis-
c‘ “."E5'f I“d“5‘”31 Villages organized onico-operative lines.
Em"! ""i"? Gefmanyi‘ would take the place of the gloomy.
5r‘,:"e' ‘.5.’ ml‘ ‘““3ZC3 lhilf give us’ the heartache to see them-.
rid‘: l?e':g3:c::Yd0f ‘wrcrdched Connemara may be answered. ll"
eve - ' -
immu‘ SO“. V 0P6 . and her bogs drained and turned into
.G?d’5 “"el'CY is infinite. It is He who endows brave men with tllc
spirit of courage and sacrifice to fight for freedom from brutal
‘I3:DPI'1B>s0.rs. .He will yet see Ireland liberated from the curse of
. ng ands 3‘-“"1 hmd-"‘P9Tl13I>S at this hour when Ireland's hered-
itary foe lies prostrate, terrified at the spectre of the 'ruin of he’
fortune and her race. ‘ , V ' -'
- ‘What c l ' ‘ ’ . s
‘Loo postpaiosl. dTG“el;'nli:2Ai:-)1-“E‘)xi1ANfDdr”I;eland? 'By James Is.’ McGi1
ire. “lie
3 Broadway. New York City’. ‘