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The-Baelic Gmemican.:
May 6, 1916,,
OFFICE OF f
Bie Lace American
165-167 William Btreet (Reed Butlding)
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.
TELEPHONE: 3285 BEEKMAN,
P. O. Box 1682.
Published Weekly by
THE GAELIC AMERICAN
- PUBLISHING COMPANY
ihooRPORATED CNDES THE LAWS OF NEW YORK
1 Devor.
163 Witam Si, New York
One Years’ Subscription we
Six Months’ .
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916.
IRELAND REDEEMED BY DUBLIN.
of Dublin have redeemed the
honor of Ireland and restored the lost
prestige of th# Irish race. y have
cepted by the rotten political ‘wachine
as 8 settlement with England
without giving the people a chance to
pass judgment on ite merits, and abject
submission to crooked politicians be
came the accepted doctrine of the
Party.
The bloody revolt in Dublin, with the
uprising of a few thousand half armed
en in other parts of Ireland, hi
lutiontzed all that and notified the
world that Ireland still demands Na-
that she fs willing to fight for-Iberty
and that her sons know how to fight on
her own soil. The spectacle of a few
worth having and an enemy that can
strike herd.
unt’ of press misrepresenta-
tion, no slobbering over “needless blood-
hed in a cause that is doomed,” will
alter or minimize this tact.
loodshed was not needless.
failed disgracefully.. The English army
ts only a half organized mob and nearly
left in ame British army are Scotch-
men and Irishmen; none them are
Eastishmen. Tue e nglish tave, lost the
power of organization and co-ordination
in big things, and without these quali-
tles success in modern warfare Is im-
possible, So that the English army ts
doomed to final defeat—the kind of de-
feat that cane to It at the Dardanelles
and in Mesopotamia—and Ireland's op-
portunity. will surely come before long.
will be au the better prepared
to use it because of the effect o1 the
world of that eplendld flght In Dublin,
The materialistic Englishman cannot
understand that, aglomantacs
in
As Joyce sang of the death of O'Neiil
Crowley: - oN
N .
“One free man dead f. “Muerty is worth
thousand men.
Thousands of trud men died for >
erty in Dublin last week and they kill-
ed many Englishmen before they went
fe crop of true men will
de multiplied @ thousand fold by their
mple and the Irish cause has bee:
lifted up. to a new love Instead. of
being. discouraged the temporary
check, Trish- Nationalists are cheered
au
row, tnt every reason m to feet proud and
hopeft
ENGLAND'S MONUMENTAL 7
cable despatch from London on
the extradition of Irish plotters in
America.
The folly of the English was never
better itlustrated than this news.
Th
London that they thin,’ that American
citizens can be extradited and tried in
yw Wilson
glad to oblige them if he
dared, but the American people won't
let him. oe Te ORE g
IRISH PRISONERS OF WAR MURDERED,
w York papers of Wednesday
afternoon published a cable despatch
which stated that four of the men who
had signed the Proclamation of the
Irish Republic—Iretand's Declaration of
Independence—had been shot, by sen-
tence of court-martial. The
named were Patrick i. Pearse, "Thomas
2
jarke, James Connolly and Thomas
MacDonagh. .
men were murdered and Ire-
land before this war is over will exact
a heavy toll for the butchery.’ Every
an of them was taken in arms, wear-
ing a uniform, and were soldiers of an
Irish army. That army’ will be re-
organized as sure as the, aun will rise
morrow and will capture many Brit-
eI
has been murdering Irishmen for seven
centuries with impunity, but her day
tality and savagery have failed tn the
The men she has butchered are
the polittcal seins a Ireland to-day,
and their names honored by the
whole people as are Pine. saints of the
Church, Tke memory of Robert: Em-
ure
met ie cherished ‘by the’ whole Irish
race and revered by civilized human-
ity the world over.
‘Martyrs, Larkin
Fenians, but,
Jand to a passionate outburst of anger
and put new life
Thet movement has tt
and gave a splendid account of itself in
te streets of of Dublin last week. It will
with Pearse, Clarke, Con-
the others who
this difference. England was then at
peace: she is now engaged in a
for her very existence and her incom-
Mefent army, led by men
a by the gaerion fighting qualities
land and the few fairly competent men
is surely coming and with it the op-
portunity to avenge the cowardly mur.
der of the gallant men who shook Eng:
land's power in Ireland as it has not
een shaken for three hundred years.
- The. Irtsh race has
terrorized, “It
when fighting ith its back to the wall
against desperate odds. These murders
Will arouse it to a degree that will bode
She could not.
relan
history ‘hte Engiand has never TAS
ed and never will be able to lea
high seas, and taking out of them’ per-
sons wanted by the British Government.
3
z
&
‘was soon seen in the way the
British Foreign Office backed down and
agreed’:to the Japanese demand that
the offensive proceedings should cease.
-+ But matters have taken another turn.
A ‘traveller now in: the
sent to.a friend in this country: some
current rumors -of, the
approaching dissolution of the Alliance
wien England and reports that an alli-
tente,. has been contracted
vit Russta, he says:
The su!
to-
came t
xpressions to be heard here and there
tthe AngloJapanese ANlance
should be st
robably netther
the “Hit “also is evident ly not aware. "at
that fact, otherwise {t would have left
that ticklish alone.
The are under the impression
or the {i as been put about among
them that the late emperor signed he
ich
e Is not ‘and cou ia “hot be the case.
course
Nor has King George done so. ° So
@ people come to realize the -truth
there may be serious trouble from one
nd of the
prada
cession
dation, for the Alliance would be want-
in;
Comment on the forégoing ts unneces-,
sary in the present stage of the trans-
formation now working in the Far East,
but in the meantime st would be
the possibilities for
Ag on 8
their desperation trying to
preserve the privileges and rower of
the governing and: predatory classes
now railing Great Britain, the men now
the head of British aifairs are cap-
able of any intam:
THe couRsE OF THE WAR,
week was eminently unpro-
pitious for the Allles. The Turks cap
tured an entrenched British ‘camp
twenty-thrée- miles
Canal and annihilated a *rouriderabie
As
surrendered to
Khaill Pacha; te British battleship
Russell was sunk by a mine in th
iterranean; the Germans
Hindenburg made a big bag.of Russian
prigoners, including supertor officers, in
Far East has |,
bject * has eyldenuy caused | kno
for
wail in the New York Tribune
1 on British failures.
the long
of May
with its mixed parrison of British and
Indian troops with camp followers to
mber of about thirteen thousand
men, With them were four Generals,
and over five millions of dollars in cash,
which will enable the Turkish General
to. finance operations against the Relfef
Force without, drawing on Constanti-
nople for some time to come.
quith finds that the Kutel-Amara dis-
gulshed strategist, the Grand Duke
Nikolai,‘ Nikolalevitch,
quith’s placé would have gad birch
“it’sh al ri,” or nichero,. no
ter.”) But if the garrison rs a ‘oust
Persian ‘Galt Some hope is expressed
that a Russian force coming.from the
direction of Bitlis may strike the Turk.
ish communications somewhere between
be thinly held.”
will solve this new problem,
the. Erzeroum-Trebizonde road
in urish hands,
real importance of the Kutel-
Amare disaster lies in the effect it Will
have all over Middle Asia, Arabia and
‘A shoit time, however,
Part of
is still
North Africa, where it will be soon
1 hearten te Persians in
their resistance to the Anglo-Russtan
at |
been’ intriguing
years will rally to the Khalifat at Con-
stantinople, and Egypt with the Soudan
and all Mostem North Africa will move
throw off Anglo-Franco-Italian domi-
ion. : .
nF
mn’ the- Western “Front in Europe
there have been shiftings of the scene
which leave-things much as they were
which We referred:last week have been
engaged in a vigorous offensive. with-
out making, perceptible impression on
the German Mnes; and on the northern
section’ held tish the ac
cHange in.the line on either sid.
ports have it that large German rein-
forcements have keen massed at cer-
tain points’ behind their Ine, but
whether in anticipation of a gen:ral
offensive by the Allies, or for an offe
sive movement of their own does not
yet appear. It is now generally under-
| too that the “Russian” contingents
arrived $n’ France are. in reality Serv-
is only.a revat
remnant of the Servian army
rading. as: Russians who
brought..round to cheer the drooping
“oop
districts retovered from Servia, and the
Black Sea° ¢ ences have beet
strengthened and the territorial “waters
mined.’ The Allies remain inert at Sal-
‘ an opera bouffe air
f their proceedings,
‘The question of interest outside the bel-
Ugerent countries now fs,
oly of the seas by the Britis! ih,
“TAXATION OF IRELAND.”
The following are the figures of Ire-
land’s taxation (on the last ascertained
basis) under the last pre-war Budget,
and —_— -
1913-14
ve 1 14 15
$55,672,500
$61,947,500
5-16. $90,927,100
dntel (estimated) $133,610,000
4
‘We have to ook in the right direc-
tioa for Iiberty if we would enjoy it.
BEFORE THE STORM BROKE.
Last Papers Received Reported
Mahy Incidents Which Showed,
the Rising Temper of. the
People—Arrests. and” Seizures
of Arms by the Government
and Capture of ran
by the People.
It was getting very warm in Iretand
woe the Paper brought by the last
mail , were; print me seh Times
of. Aprit. 10 had- the follow!
“Mess Ernest Blythe ne William
Mellowes, the Irish . Volunteer organi.
ers, who’ have for.some weeks bi in
custody’ in Dublin, have been removed
under military’ escort t @ Kingstown, ¢ en
route for Englan
mary” loss, relatively speaking,, the | Dublin-through the streets of the cft;
trategic, moral and’ political conse-|-by way of protest against the deporta-
auences can not.yet be estimated... _| ton of Ernest Blythe and William Mel-
The ving army under, Generat | lowes. About 1,300 men participated in
Gorringe is so to say in the air,.and| ‘he march, and of these a. proportion
. were recruits, who were said to: have
may. in its turn become a” second ined Curing the week, and who”
leaguered fore or be compelled to fan peared on parade without equipm
or Mohammerah near ‘he Freeman of A| eit 7 hed the “tol-
lowing item about the
The following matement ‘ published
‘on official author!
“At about 12:35 Yesterday: (Sunday)
tremear -to Terenure
3
were
marching from Grafton Street to Steph-
en’s Green. west, driver ‘believing
he had room to pass betw
panie ded gong. to- proce
A cyclist tit Volunteer Jumped.ot
hieycle, plac achine in front of
the ‘tramear, opened his revolver pouch,
put his hand on the stock of the revol-
vel .e motor man to ‘come
fig” ‘The motor men at once stopped
emained stationary until
ihe, cyclist had mounted and ridden
SRetrrng sonora to the incident
Free e that
ne Caste Sather won take no
notice of The article said.
° This was a very ‘veprehensible pro-
it it fs the sort of behavior
mau of commor
the heads of the Sinn Fetners, the cool-
er should be the reads of those respon-
sible for publie The!
are surged constantly in the nal
Tes: xam ples’ e. Sinn
Pliner ond “‘stam|
men: do.
sult, “a hai the trouble. jo. not
believe that the advice is honestly mo-
tived. mes from people who think
to do nothing during the war to gratity
the Germans, there can be no doubt as
the. wisest course er the authori:
0
ties, and the
man ststaed Jouroals in the “United
States would welcome eny such excuse
for representing Ireland as s hostile to
the rald be al by some
of ue. methods 80 atten urged on those
civilians and soldiers responsibie tor
the peace of Ireland. . There
certainly no “lsatiection in Ireland
that would make “stamping ft out” a
necessary or useful process. id the
fact that hot-heads trail their coattails
ask for Teason
by ‘esrondiog to
their invitat:
e Independent of April 10 had the
following n
A se nection seaure of arms was
lay afternoon b;
a the B Division,
me. known
tole lowing a parade held earlier in the
day
Shortly after 4:30 a motor cat, No.
in the bos-
ef incident. created considerable ef.
eitement in Volunteer circles, more es-
ood elaborate
to guard
tained by the authorities ‘Tarough a
tal comraun cation
The dependent of af Apt 1 had the
totosing farther
Pos-
of its Irish, Scotch, Canadian and Aus-
e
ever see the sun rise by looking
“We ni
tralian “covibgcata But that disaster “on the’ British and probably inspired ; into the west.
of arms from tor car in Dublin on
Sundey—Joseph Keuny id Patrick
Doyle, both of Ferns, County Wexford
—were yesterday. remanded in custody
out”. thet Sov eto
not believe that the re}: P
t
ull Thursday’ by Mr. Macinerney, Ko.
Northern Police Court,
in the
yn. Doy!
imation in clips; six rounds revolver
ition; one hundred and
founds ammunition for magazine rites
ne unloaded revolver on Kenny; somg
Dapers, including. the “Irish Ht Volunteos
and lterature of that class; ffty rounds
revolver -fmmunition, Jaree i 4
ten home-forged bayon:
he accused told ‘ritnesses they start.
The d tor
erna and the bayonets for Enniscor.
g
The Independent had also the follow.
ing report ot ES fneident that occurred
in the Hou!
Mr. Birrell (Chiet Secretary aid Tre
and) has. informed Major Newman
that an inquiry was being held as to a
deficiency of small arms ammunition
500 rounds the questioner. stated for
Haulbowline) alleged to have deen Tost
im transit between Fermoy and Cork,
British soldiers, the price ranging f
half a crown to ten shillings. And the
soldiers who so! all c
Englishmen.
for the utter
the new British 6
in such numbers was utterly impossible
before ti proper military reg- >
lations prevailed it would also be in:
possible now.
PADRAIC COLUM ON
~ SIR ROGER CASEMENT
oo By Pavnato Couvw.
(From the New York Evening Post.)
re is a sonnet, written ee, ger
casement that tells more about the man
himeelf than anything an ontalder could
7 ean sonnet to Hamtlear
Eyrx” a his salutation to the
Poni champion, and he speaks of b
as, althoug! is Defin “a by Roman er fe ant
still “claws' to cling and
be kept: ‘Casement though
‘as being such hampton for the Irish
People He thought of making a fast:
Celtic tah might be kept~
the frith that Ireland has a separate -
destiny, and has the right to create a
culture and a competence for hers
\ But, it will be said,. man Case
t took service with the Spritish Gov
m
ernment and accepted
honors. Hé 10 Ti
ut as the champion of Irish separate
ness, “If Case)
this he, would certat
taxe servic
Britain and Ireland as a Hi
rel
might enter the Austro-Hungarian
He was in that service to se that
the interest of Ireland, as we well as the
interest of Great’ Britain,
SrATIORERE OF 4 coNsULATE
he detected the Fore
e interest a eo cond
yn one oct
there to, tell them, thet
yal.to one,of the firm
in Brazil
onery. The’ For Office
“his office be scold with Station
and constitu
n and Ireland.” When
acted ‘sioyally tower the
Trish people and the Irish mercantile I~
terests in regard to. the cell tof oceat
Iners at the Port of Queenstown, C2!
ment expo ore their met! thogs.
Cas bears @ nam! ee
nonlrish.. ut in signing ‘it in trish
makes it “MacAsmund,” showing th a
he capslders | himself of Norse-Gaellc ¢
traction, does
ing bearin;
Castillian nobleman.
romantic distinction of an;