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The Saelic Amenican.
“April 22, 1916,
most modern machinery sod
‘rue, German victory would have to be
dearly bonght; its irreparable cost
would force a merciless. throttling of
and Bonaparte would drop out o
ranks of the great Power
Third y raw; no clear cu
decision. France regains her devasta-
ted provinces, without homes or Bemus,
provinces which, the labor of a gener
tion ii nable to restore. She gets no
compensation for what she. has spent
for the war, none for the cost of pro-
viding’ for cripples, widows . and
phan:
Her friends and her foos would tn
pon her. Mi other-
and no work-
ers, The sea of blood that separates
{neighbor from neighbor is fated to sep-
arate them for eons;
Over ountaing
here wit never
toward y onctliat
graves ot "prosp perity
lead a
women,
owes to the horrors and to the miracles
But whet further can this war bring
and security. These 5
can gain at hom s taught
her to abandon the futile hunt after
that which is forever lost to her! and
abroad not the meaj agrest piece of me
vin eee ever again dem:
else that France. vnteht
gain ‘rom this war would mean some
thing borrowed, for which . terribly
‘high price would anded.
strong statesman would not let slip tie
opportunity to rescue France. ani
‘tor Europe, ‘The genius
make it clear to him
Be
5
ini
realization would dawn. upon him
for
yond the Vosges. - Nothi
clouds and has created a Insti ace
fol homeland, a France forever at
pines FRENCH COMPLAINT, oF
ENGLAND.
ww York World of Tuesda, lay last
had “he “allowing wireless despatch
from Geneva, Switzerland;
April tt AD Lmpressioh
of increasing dissatisfaction on the pi
land because of mine
Tatter's military inactivity and failure
ake a move to relieve the pressure
at Verdun is created by excerpts from
the French press,
-“The meaningless exchange of phrases
of mutual admiration of
Enchaine.
mdon Cabinet is-deliberately deferr-
ing universal service, and doesn’t want
to ‘0 comprehend that a postponement for
@ month could seal defeat,
epespite the’ situation in’ Fran
whose last reserves are shedding their
troops may reach, ‘the battlefield at the
right moment.
“The question for England is, ‘Are
are, to stake
it
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be gues oder if possible, else it may
be too
“Call” ‘nmedtately and place at your
Lord Curzon, the only English-
tal “victors, England must furnish
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IRISH PIPERS’ PERS’ CEILIDH.
first indoor event of the Trish
pipers Club since last M 1 take
the form of a Ceilidh at Room “201, Bm
reade, southwest corner’ Fifty-
‘ninth Street and M a Avenue, on
Saturday evening, Apri The pre-
ylous affairs of this aut have be
most successful from an entertaining
vi tt Ta hope
An admission foe of 2B cents will “be
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CANNON LAUDS 1 THE IRISH.
Ex-Speaker, However, Falls Into
Prevalent Error in Stating
That the Race Are Compara-
tively’ New-Comers — Boston
Largely Gaelic in Early Days
a Last Century and Ireland’s
Sons Were Among the Early
Pioneers,
Ex-Speaker Joe Cannon of [linois, in
a speech delivered on the Immigration
a on March 25, spoke highly of
oon qualities of thi
ight be expected Fie ‘om
edueation and liberality, he is opposed
to placing any unnec
on immigration,
the country owes much to the
grants and that sine Irish and the Ger-
ans always been’ among the best
American wctttzens.
ng to the coming of
Irish he fell into a mistake Sich is
frequently made by writers and public
speakers.’ » Evidently Mr. Cannon is
under the impression that the Irish had
‘d to account for
erroneous belicf as the Irish were here
in early Colonial
was
a cen-
civilization,
to a lary nt an Irish city in the
early days of the last century.
‘The strength of the Irish in Massa-
chusetts is brought out incidentally in
a book entitled, “The Bi of a Con-
vent.” The writer, wh a boa
ing pupil in ‘tl Ursuline Convent,
Mount St. Vincent, Charlestown, which
is burned to the grow igoted
ij cI in great
and ignorant mob,
detail this diabolical outrage.
fers to the Convent as follows:
She re-
Se chy cont ury—an
perfectly furnlahed and appointed for
the purpose; and a body of Irish nuns,
educated in ronch cony
Convent grounds she remarks: Mount
Benedict was swarthing with sudden
life; a steampaddy had already made a
breach in it and. w: work,
the movement to destroy the Conven'
was organized and carried out under
the direction of ton truckmen,
omen
als,
The pupils, who were natives of Bos:
ton, hastened to their homes as s001
as day! tiebt appeared. The narrator
scribes her arrival in Boston as for
more at ease when I got into
Irish,
gutter and crowded
front of the shanties in wifich: the:
ved.”
been
i pvidently the writer, who had
1
speeches of men of National peputer
ton.
"WORLD'S COURT | CONGRESS”
Hugh O'Neill of Il of Chicago Gives
is Reasons for Declining
to Attend the Bogus Peace
Gathering.
In reply to an invitation 8 serve as
a detegate to the “World's t Con-
vital to the life of the nation cannot
‘be
lef a so-called International
urt. it Court were establi
ed and America were represented by
confidence could Americans
0 of the leaders and the
rincipal financier of this and kindred
ents is Andrew ‘Carnegie, who
3 been prating about peace and now
ie ‘workin ing to have our country @ Part:
of Eng:
which anne in the
Review in June, 1898, he
his slenature, that he hoped he would
live to see the day when the sun would
rise over a re-united British American
State. This doctrine I consider trea-
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Nor can 1 have any confidence ina a
favored a union of Great
Britain and the United States.
At a meeting held in the Republican
speech
clearly prognosticated war Because c
was nothing more nor less than
gument, in favor of an alliance with
nglan
1 a6 notice tne ‘name of Vincent
Astor. This. yo
that be cannot have any leas of his
own on international affairs., No Amer-
ical confidence ‘in the
statements of any Astor when the head
f that house renounced his American
eitinenship and accepted an English
Again let me be frank with oo
you not the same John
mond who took a leading part | in the ine
South
Are
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a
Crisis have jou ot
ea? Your Wor! since the Jame-
this country to help England in the war
which England herself brought 01
it me, therefore; to say that T
cannot accept the proferred honor; nor
yy name to be used in
any’ way with .the World's Court
League.
Yours resect
Hoa ton Hoa 0 NEILL.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO
ARM MEN OF \ OF IRELAND.
1 OAR.
Received National erasures
Dents “ petites, No. 256 Broadway,
to and inclu ding
wea nett ay, * april 19, 1916.
J. Gal-
900.00
on, en, . Contra
Costa County, Cale eee eee 81.00
Received from The
O'Flaherty, Financial Sec-
retary, proceeds of lecture
given by Cornelius Lehane,»
under the auspices of the
Boston Gaelic School! So-
ciety, Boston, eae 50.00
Received from Rev. John H.
jooley, — Corpus Christi
Church, New York City 5.00
ta +2 $46,281.64
PROM wine CONTRA ¢
‘OSTA COUNTY. CAL
$20 Pasion Corton. .
$i—A Friend.
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IRISH LANGUAGE FUND.
NEW SW ROCHELLE, N.Y.
, 17, 1916.
fartin J. Keogh, National Treasure?
the Fund in wa of the Gaelic League ot
Irel
New "York Philo- coe anna
, ‘Treasurer . $100.00
gress,” O'Neill of Chicaxo, :
sent the following Jeter ‘to John Hays row i Eliott, Colum 10.00
Hammoud, the Pre 5
fieaee Sel 4, 1916. an ‘D. Scanlan, Dalles, Texas,
Dear Sint see fatter of| through the Irish World. 5.00
h i ing that upon the| Balance in the Mutual Trust .
Company of | Westchester
ty January 1, 1916... $829.26
Hill, your General Secretary, I | . Coun ant
been elected a delegate at large to the sections recetved since a
‘orld Court Congress, to be held that time ye. eereeeresseee, 121,00
New York City, May 3 and 4. —~
In your letter you also state that the Total to date... $450.26
fidence in
of the :2e!
with ft, Questions ot honor and ‘ln BS
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YA woman in the Uachtar Ard (Coun-
English, and she frequentiy broke into
Irish.” R. M. Hill, who presided, knows
igh and would provide an inter-
ns OWN expense.
How it shines
in Ireland!—Claidheamh Botuis,
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SDXTON ON OVER-TAXATION
Financial Expert. in. Parnell's
Time Says Ireland's Increas-
ing Burdens’ Will Drive the
People Out As the Great
Famine Did—Makes T. P,
O'Connor's Attack on the Pro-
testers Look Silly.
Thomas Soto whose knowledge of
1 help to Charles
Stewart Parnell “Guring his leadership,
Mr. Se: xton's letter
“ao xo Frederick seer
blin, March 21, 1}
Dear the announcement i voor
letter that a meeting thoroughly’ rep-
resentative of the citizens of Waterford,
of very particular interest, and, let us
of no little prac-
tical importance.
It must be admitted and agreed that
tion that unless they
ever they have to say, “utterance further
deferred mperial
taxation in Ireland, always excessive
since the death of the Irish Parliament
gave it life; and only twenty years since
unanimously demned bya Royal
mission, comprising the most emi-
nent British official Snancie ers, as dis-
Broportiouate, burdensome, and unjust,
has now, by the jot joint enets of legisla-
tion tn war, become g difficul
es furs
ther. developed into a public dahger.
as are
available to all, any student of economic
fund “derived
strictly limited resource:
the system of taxiug ‘Ireland ‘te
tnovgh it was a physical part of Great
Britain—and reat
Britain to bear up against any burden
wtie perateted in. tnder the new cond:
tions of expenditure, despite the stipu-
lations of that very Act which put an
end to Irish authority on taxation; de-
spite the unchallenged verdict of the
Royal Connmntasion of 1895; and despite
is notoriousthe extrema
dispesity TDotween the means of Gres
Britain and Ireland to anewer fiscal de-
mands—what will be to Ireland the con-
sequences of such persistence? Capital,
industry, enterprise, labor, wages, all
from
g
=
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fore
odus as hunger was ‘o compel the
Tm mperial Budgets are now of such
vast dimensions as had never been fore-
Great Britain, were abandoned, as it
must be ndoned ‘when conditions
make it unworkable, Ireland. could n
longer be sa’
tain, because ay proportion
tiely to be fixed w mn become im-
possible by vesson| “ot the multiplying
demands of mperial Exchequer,
‘The future ‘ot Bl sh public finance,
o far én as towards the end of the cen-
tary, is already “clearly enough defined
in general outline to show what
case of Ireland needs.
after yielding this proportion, the popu-
jation, shrunken as it is, would not be
doomed to further depletion, but would
e, and to make a liv-
more attention is concentrated
on this vital principle, the better it will
be, Anything less direct in its atm,
less comprehenstve in its purpose,
would mean a dissipation of pubite
energy, and in effect a waste of
Yours very fee
3 SEXTON.
T. W. Kenny, Es0., P
. Kingsmeadow House, . |.”
+. Waterford, ns
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‘The hest way to show your approval
ot the policy of Tae Garnic AMERICA’
is to urge your friends to subscribe tor
it or advertise in {ts columns
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TRIBUTE 10 EARLY IRISH SETTLERS,
essa Tavenner Has Splen
Gone n America Inserted in
ae Lover True Liberty More
Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner, Tl
ing Im
inois, speaking on the Immigration
il on March 25, in the House of Re!
resentatives, asked leave to t in thi
Congressional Revord the following trib]
te to the carly Irish settlers of Mont
gomery County, Ill, by F. Me,
Carron of Farmersville, 1
careful census of the “gettlers of
Irish extraction who settled upon the
prairies of the panhandle. of Montgom-
ve history of Montgomery County
knowledge of their lives, characters,
and the work performed by them must
carefully revie ed by the historian
to the State and Nation,
It must be frst said of them that
they loved and 4 cherished the home of
elievers ‘in and
upholders of whe Seostitution and laws
hey were surpassed * by
sand aualed by few. . No heart
with more patriotic pride than
that of thé Irish settler at the sight of
Old Glory. is children he in-
stilled the love ot count Ty and respect
devot ner aoe No
one ies irty—more
than the Irishi o one respects
jawtul nsonetituted authority more than
Boyle O'Reilly has well de
seribed the Irish attitude in that re
I'am Liberty—God's daughter! )
bol
My symbols—a law and a torch:
Not a eyore to threaten slaughter,
azzle or 8c
Bat a Tight ti that the world may see,
And a truth that shall make men free.
I am he sister of Dr ~
An m the sister ot Faith;
3 today ‘acre’ for my beauty;
oOo led ror to death,
Iam she ‘ayed for
‘Heroes Sutera undisme fot
‘hom the martyrs were betrayed for!
he men and women of Irish
bint petted upon
minds,
y wave to
the Republic the. vitality so eentiat to
pure
hearts, and sound bodies
its growth and progr great
truths of Christia anit were strongly
imbued in their minds and hearts and
the Golden Rule was.
b:
They made the principles set forth. in
the Declaration of Independence living
things, and the great truths of cen-
turies stood ‘personified. They’ breath-
ed into their hearts and souls the air
of freemen exhilarating blood
of new-born Ife coursed through their
vein the old country thelr lot had been
a hard one, through no fault of theirs.
For centuries
the’ beautiful land’ of os
did Article on Achievements» of
“Congressional Reoord."! — No:
Than the Irishman. -
their birth had been. oppressed by o
most damnable and tyrannie:
verdant spot.
quently portrayed its beauty tm the fo,
lowing words:
“{t is the fairest patch of earth emp
flung by we Creator out ao the window,
if God's he . 10 face Of the
Almighty’s green footstool there $8 x0
land #0« green, jowhel sky
more soft, the ‘air more blithe, the sua
more mellow, than the sky chat eal
the air that blows, and the sun that
shines upon this verdant seaociel
isle.
“For when the day god rejoicing in
his strength streams up the ral era
and rolls away the blue haz
mountain tops all nature is azlow with”
scape , precludes a expres
ions of delight.’ The heather blooms
upon the hiliside; the rose blushes
the valley; the birds tunefally carol in
Tove, al
Dlessed the ancient isle.” *
nds of their fathers had tees
taxen from them and parceled out to
the soldiers of a triumphant and tyra
nical o and religious
erty was je the plunder.
ers drove the Irish into a ost wa
mountain fastnesses.
placed upon’ the heads of howe me
dared oppose the plunderers ~
ed for the“ spotis. read the batory
of the. terrible oppression in Ireland
when the blood cf her sons and daugh-
ere wa home and Iberty °
es one's stood botl with indignation,
How terrible the ‘crimes that were per
petrated- upon her‘ defensetess won
and children,
tears of sorrow
daughters during this 4
history. The Irish people forgive these
errible wrongs, but they nev
forge
it ‘s hard to forget when ‘a deters
be brought up in the darkest 1guorance
ale easy or subjection? No,
they stand ‘ay by an wd ‘ee
tha “avillzation to be thus
ey permit helt pe ‘poe
ived-of centuries of
proud they were of the part
them as a rac
sixth, centuries Treland’s misstonaries
ad carried the worl an Christian ctv
ization to the Continent of ae tates
pectally among the Ger ‘man: ‘rte,
‘when ‘continental ‘Europe and Britain,
were. thi of, learning for weet
ern Europe. In. §37 the University of
Ardmacha, es pm
esting to show t! part she Pl
in. the Christian civilization of ti
rope, but space forbids,
(Continued on Page 1”
~ historians of the p
should be able to inform theii
uch large num
Ia a book o
view, and expecially
race as comparea wi ith the “
interested in promoting
to any
165 William’ m'St.,
WHAT THE IRISH HAVE DONE FOR AMERICA
The story of the Irish in America has been variously
Facts have been twisted to suit preju
been elther,ignorantly or “mratletoualy. ta
industrial prosperity, and be able to correct false views. - T) <4
4 dust arhat it meant to this country that the Irish came here's"!
ers, .
“THE IRISH CONTRIBUTION TO
.AMERICA’S INDEPENDENCE” -
‘By THOMAS HOBBS MAGINNISS, JR...
vast Pmportance from a historical point of
:
and te formation eat the trish
“Anglo-Saxon,”
IT IS A BOOK EVERY AMERICAN OF IRISH
BLOOD SHOULD POSSESS
ta extromely interesting to every man ahd wean ge
the cause of the Irish race in
Coples may be obtained at this office,
“address, postpaid, on receipt 0 # $1.00. mill be malted
~ THE GAELIC “AMERICAN,
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