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: “May 6, 1916,
PLEDGE SUPPORT TO IRE
_ LAND’S FIGHTING MEN.
(Continued trom Page 1.)
tense interes quick appreciation of
every good point made, and the “voice,”
which John Mitchel used to describe as
the most eloquent speaker at Irish
meetin was strongly im evidence and
at his
“ObRY ANT HAS MADE goon
The poor fools who wrote the
tited the fact that the audience 2 stood
land Ueber Alles” was Played, as con-
eee Broo that it
rywhere in America,
Geeviy 3 impreeed by the proof recently
y is sincere in her
that she had
war situa-
thon would permit in the effort to help
tretand. had sent a shiptoad of
arms and ammunition to Ireland, which
through no fault of hers, had fail led to
reach its destination; she had a
panied that effort a strong naval
demonstration on the of Eng.
y two Zeppelin ratde in aiek
frie nash for Treland:
Jand and b:
succession. at,
with the military Instincts of the Irish,
mean: st
at
ermal anirish Alliance were right and
are likely to make good.
REMARKABLE
seer oF
But the nest remarkable feature of
the meeting was the number of Irish
prise present ‘xo Rationale meeting
had so uded tre
‘and.
made speeches endo! we
ing ibe revolt in Treland, and another,
the venerable Dr. Henry ‘ann,
rote m Atlantic City
letter.
not do.
Protestant among
Hobbs Maginnis
ENTHUSIASTIC AND ORDERLY.
derly meeting and any
were the usual proval
at
chiet public buildings of
the began. The flags of the Irish
sVolustocrs one the Stars and Stripes
the Green, White and
were already in evidence, held
age by Volunteer
three minutes.
this incident.
‘DECLARATION OF INDEPEN-
“DENCE OUR JUSTIFICATION,
SAYS JUDGE ROONEY.
Counsellor Denis A. Spellissy, on be
erican
The reporters alJ notes
Jerome Rooney, former Judge of
the Court of Claims.
The Chairman sald in opening the
meetin,
an American meeting, held
by Americon citizens, and for the de
fen merican prinipen At is
erlean in composition; it mert-
con 7" its spirit; it is "american in its
to say that there 1s not a
‘he Amer!
every other Moliteal “allegiance upon
earth.
“We are here to declare, in the face
f all the world, that the Revolution
in Ireland, the armed uprising of thou-
ands of her people against ed
cient tyrant, Englan nd, has our unquall-
jed approval and Godspeed.
“If, to Tory minds that be tr
to their shattered idol, the British Em-
pire—tet them mi
told 11
given out Friday vast, fn Lond don,
the false she: epherd
echoed by hls handful of tolowers bere,
make the most o
a formal statement
. oF
tional government or @ national jy,
earnest sy: y and supper in thi
waging against heavy odds agi
objects—iife, liberty, and the
of this Republic achieved, with the
nation, In the Amer! Revolutio:
vices of our
of ou! ne ti
War of 1812, and in the Civil War,
short of actual hostllittes,
the generous, broad-minded
to Ireland thelr active sympathy
condemnatio!
country,
We ai
ence and we
which is necewsary
more than to the United
ngland for her own selfish
iy secured by the Independence o
to ithe world's peact
and economic life, whic!
continuance of which is
and becom
a thriving hive
We
far as the present
as was rendered to the
that ald will be ora as
land will be reco;
far as
her in the Congress of the
will hi
status by successful military
lin uring ast week, an
old land. If we in America
nly one
We, Irish residents of New Yor!
wi
England has already announced. her determination to enforce in that
firm Ireland's ight to a separate and distinct national exist:
rem: merican people
States, whic
interests sions. can only perman:
the blight of English rule and the deliberate crippling of her industrial
bas prevailed for
provided for by expres
called Home Rule Bill, Ireland could support a population of 25,000,000 ”
dust
“ing her Independence and defending her
thank, the Government of Germany for extending to Ireland, so
military situation will permit, the same kind of aid
gerent and an ally of the Cer
owers, her civil end me Pres Asse 1d
naence nee by that. time, no matter
ave
action.
se ongratulate the Irish Volunteers on the magnificent display of
entry" and aye kill rn have alsplaved in a Henne fn. eee
4 we call
Fon, the Friends of Irie Frecto: lom as the nly peat
ot expresing their sympathy and support
act and wor!
vratae, that pangs ne er what its vicissitudes in the immediate
mets eta “and ireland “aking her place among the Nations of” the”
Eart
K, in mass meeting assembied, act-
that the freedom
eaceful commerce, and to one ‘nation
‘h is now controlled and restricted
ent.
rm that, freed from
try, ertectly capable of maintain >
an Republic by France. We hope
cireumstances will permit; that Ire-
7 2
erted and a place sooured f
‘which will settle the terms of peace. .
how her’ an
made good her claim to such
‘acticat mei vas
tor the struggle for freedom
as the emergency de
ending—the writing of Robert Em.
Dd
that ‘those who inspired the plot were
false to America ss we aa thelr home
land,
defend Treland’s ‘8 choke of “oyalty t to the
Empire (meaning his choice) as bast
on principte,
e tell that false politician and his
followers that we, the
Irish Revolution, successful or unsuc-
the true doctrine of hu-
“We do not ‘fear to speak of ‘98,
though they be a names of it; we do
not repudiate Wol the im-
rtal Ene, though ‘they must blush
a "the ames; we jo not
ands ser
Body Struggle for ‘real. free
true national . independence,
they may give & only a ip admiration
and support; t ashamed of
the O'Nelils of the “North, and, in
later age, the Dwyers, and the Lord
ward Fitzgeralds, and the - Joh
iitehele and the John Boyle O'Retilys,
and, thank God, the John MacNellls
and the Casements,:
“The case of Ireland. was put once
for all, in the Irlah House of ‘Commons,
pril 19, 1780, when Henry Grattan, in
rent Declaration of Irich Rights,
said:
“‘A country enlightened as Ireland,
chartered as Ireland, armed as Ireland
@ injured as Ireland, will be satisfied
with nothing lese than Wberty:
FATHER O'DONNELL INVOKES
BLESSING: ON PATRIOTS.
The Co: snmnttice on
Chairman:
the
hat we were compelled ata very
thou-
ing, tl
early hour fa the gvening te turn
sanda of away
who sought admission to the ‘hall to ex-
n this occasion.
speaker Father Patrice oO" Donnell) (a>
plause).
Father O'Donnell: and gen-
tlemen,, Irishmen Irishwomen:
It 1s a great week for Irish people to
Ladies
have lived to, this week of 1916. (Ap
plause); were brought up with the
tradition that one God in His
mercy would look ‘town. on old Trelan’
waited for it, he men
are trying to sccomplish it. (Ap-
plause), God strengthen their arms.
(Applause and cheers.) God multiply
(Applause).
their cartridges (applause), and they
prove ¢ woman! that assert-
ta itself on the walle ot 1 [Limerick Ives
today in Ireland. (Applause and
cheers). .
We have beard a good deal of the
destruction of the Lusi
with munitions that wai
our broth
{Applaw
Tam not going to speak very long to
sin Dovitn 2
you tonight, because the man of ail
address an Irish
i Mr. John Devo. (A
) y this, that
te we’ got ‘he chance there are ‘pleaty
of strong arma and stout ere
in the United States who would be only
too glad to give @ helping hand to our
brothers at home, (Cheers.) We still,
thank the Lord, have the old tradition
te i
“Whether on the scaffold high
or the pane id we die,
Oh, no m when for "Erin dear we
al”
FATHER 0’MAHONEY TAKES
SARCASTIC FLING AT ALLIES
Rev. James O/Mahony read the reso-
lutions, which were passed unanimous-
y and with loud cheering. Before read-
reciting ‘a a
pailpin Fanach” and other poetry. in
eae. mong other things,
e Canni-
bats (laughter), we will find them Aght-
tephen’s Green—for civil-
(Laughter gad applause).
see in tl s from time to
time calle for godsnothers od-
fathers for the men fighting for their
© oll 7
ountry, an: lections, and
80 forth. oer am and
woman hert or 2 god
mother for in ‘Trleh r tite ” “(apple use.)
NOT FOOLS TO FIGHT, SAYS
FATHER LIVINGSTON.
Father William Livingston said:
are insane or fools, and that they are
injuring the cause of Ireland... Wi
that stated not only in the daily press—
n
here representing the
understand that-we have no fanit to
find with them. :
We know--at least some of us knew
—that their copy is blue-penctled every
once in @ while, as much loss of
thelr own pockets as well as to the
loss of their own reputation as writers.
en there “are papers calling them-
selves Irish which cannot see anything
but insanity in an Irishman rising up
to say that he is a man and that he
has @ God-given right to life and itb-
2
2
y.
Now, I shall ‘take two or three ex-
amples that I hope some of you may be
ly you have
hear
heard, or will many
ge
world's history.
not to any of you, but there is a possi-
these
past year, as you
Pa
wrong and vile murderous.. Ta:
is the spirit that has been growing up.
as told only this moraing in my own
vestry by @ boy who was brought up 1
ur own school, ‘but was hardly old
“Don’t you think, Father, that ‘tt ns a
great mistake, and that it is going to
THE SHELBOURNE HOT
From which the Revolutionists fought.
ybeen bound and chained ae
£2?
Ireland's
throat until her victim has fallen life
t her But she will n
put back the cause of Home Rule a
long time?" I said to him: “Did you
oven or did anybody tell you that the
was ever intended to be
brought into action?” T'eald, “I don't
think that it was ever intended to be a
Now, a few months ago I was out on
the fleld of Gettysburg. I stépd a the
's Hol peo
a aly in ‘roland that
hear “places called . the “Devil's
Glen” and» the
which a
n planted be-
Sniping whom?
soldiers ‘on Little
in the papers
that sniping is a’ terrible)thing, and
that some of the men who out-on
the front eine
O'Connell Street~of cor
that they did very wrong, because they
sniped a few British soldiers, (Laugh-
hind the rock sniping,
Snfping the Union
Wr
nybody in this meeting ever
ead bietory of the South against the
North. where there are expressions of
hatred against those men who fought In
the
Furth ner “up I stood on the old Bloods
Angle, the old stone 1
across to the small idee. ‘over ‘whe
Pickett's they made
that : Pickett’s
Charge. Their wrong; they
were fighting in defense of slavery and
disunion, and
res?. They may have been; but the
were a mn ¢
though we do not belleve in the cause
ent day are erecting monuments on
battlefield of Gettyabu rg to the South:
ro men
Again, most ‘ot you have heard when
who,
were ordered to certain death. What do
they say that? They are glori-
fied for that onward rush, where there
was no chance of success, You remem-
ber the words:
“Some one had blundered.
hy,
“Gallant Six Hundred.”
Tam not speaking now of the cause
for which they were fight
They were fightin,
iyrante that they have f
the! Russian (Laughter ..
us go k in ancient history.
You va have all heard of Thermop
have heard of that pas h
re Leonidas and his three hundred
Greets stood against Xerxes, the com-
mander of the Persian army, and how
they struggled for three days in that
row pass until some traitor showed
r Allies now,
hundred who stood against
the whole Persian arin
im history whenever you find that what
you might call an insane struggle for
liberty has taken place write
poems about. it, an glorify the men
and laud them to the skies and put
up monuments te vine memory.
man attempts to
do senythiog | ke that he is called @ fool.
schoo!
For
that reason, therefore, we must not only
come here to applaud what may be said,
and to shout out our love for Ireland,
and our sympathy for the men who are
now in the feld—God give them cour.
age and success and victory (applause)
—but we must do
th them quietly and
kindly. We must study the question;
e raust know something, and teac!
them, and t the young children
rowing bp, teach them to read Ameri
‘athera of this coun-
atrug-
gles in the past in Ireland, oven “hough
tause toa grand and slorious victory,
EL, for the hour seems to have struck at
last. And meanwhile, let us all herein
America, whether Irishmen or the do
scendants of Irishmen, let us by the
they have not been successful. ’ They | virtue and the regularity of our lives
will glorify them, and they will look ' cast honor upon ou ‘ountry,
for lor the day when another struggle will | Let us Image in our daily lives the trus
. . Int acter and so Ireland wil)
;| gradually enlist the sympathy and the
“who fears te oa of '98, admiral our rican brothers
Who blushes at the 6 name? of every denomination. And I think
hen cowarde mock the atriot's fate | the result will be that if England con.
we ho hangs hie ead for sham nes longer td deprive Ireland of het
all a knay half a rights, the innate independence of
tne slights hls country thus, ericans, that independence of spirit
t true men Ii! men, at has erican always to
Will fll_your glass with us.” . vor the oppressed, that independence
—— of spirit t
SWORD OF ERIN WILL FLA)
Mert
com
birth or Irish de
cular rei
ple
tyranny, lust and
mast
tive
the
pathizers are proclaiming and insisting
on n0)
of Ireland from the thraldom
it. hi
for seven centuries.
dred
vaded Ireland, she has not had a na-
York, of the “American People, Irrespec
we
SH
TILL FREEDOM IS WON.
E, Sheehy of the Fathers of
ey, sata a part:
{8 not supposed to be
posed exclusively ot those of Trish
scent, but as the cir-| either do ot
ads, it is a meeting of the peo-| dependence to Ireland or fight it out
who are nigh sick unto death of | with the United States.” (Applause.)
treachery.« It 1s a
Xew | EXPLAINS WHY HE LEFT
REDMOND IN DISGUST.
P, A. Moynahan said in Past
i lt not.detain you long,
the ground
covered.
ow the Irish in. Ne por
this critical occasion in the “history of
Ireland, and- that question has beea
8 meeting of the ‘people of
of, creed or natton:
proud position which th
der to effect the Hberation
in which
as been held by a despotic Power
es, for seven hun-
ears, ever since England first in-
w, in or
(Coniinued on Page 7.)
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