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Otto Ge agai
_ out to the stage to receive. a fresh
.of the
June 3, 1916, .
. The-Saelic Cmenican.
FOR RELIEF OF ENGLAND'S IRISH VICTIMS
Great Concert At Carnegie Hall, At Which Madame Gadski, Otto Goritz, Victor
. Herbert's Orchestra And The Glee Club Of The Friendly Sons Of St. Patrick
Charmed A Splendid Audience, To Raise Money For The Families Of The
Irish Insurgents, Was Aa Unquatitied Success—Three Cardinals
And An Archbishop A Act As Honorary Presideats Of Committee,
negie Hall was thronged to overflow:
27 on
t of the fund os & wa
the. families of. the men ,
lives for Ireland in the ree iprne in
Jreland, or who are now in British prisons,
as well as of those he are witerng be-
cause, of the e terribly conditions produced
Sthe ruthless suppression not the re
Trish my jeetings are now so numerous that
occurrence,
of the
not become we:
lowest coat of “gdmiasion. to
this meeting was 50 c
boxe:
m avers part. The audi-
ided.
There was almost a surfeit of attrac
Hone of the choicest kind. Madame Johan.
a Gadski and Otto Goris of te Metre
pelitan Opera, Compan
rehest ra and "es be of ‘the Friend.
ns of St. Fasc of which he is the
lve supplied an entertainment of the
ighest musical character and elicited ap-
i that only an Trish audience can
give Madame Gadski brought down the
house with a «plana rendering « of “Kath-
leen Mave ‘bert and
rita were and een called
salvo
of applause, and the Friendly Bone, Gee
ine cet a storm of eri
Donnell boo. _ was
porter true when they came, to the
‘Make the false Saxon feel
Erin’s avenging steel.”
singing. "The
whole Irish race is now thinking of yen-
geance on England
ity of ventin, ng i 8. “Sefore
Jong. it will et the portaniige of, putting
its feng 3 into deeds.
thy feature of the evening was the
tino paid to his dead friends by Padraie
Colum. It will be found in another col-
“More remarkable even than the splen
id concert, the. printed programme,
aordinery. suaninity “among
n classes. ae kinds of Irishmen in the
nd’s fate. The
‘present crisis of Trela r
hat hres Cardinale and an
shop had consented to act as Hon-
orary Presidents of the Reliéf Committee,
which is composed of men who before the
invurrection had been on different sides o
e Irish question, fs the most extraordl-
nary ever made to the Irish people... I
sianifcance will be fully appreciated in
and. _ Following is the announcement:
IRISH RELIEP FUND COMMITTEF.
“And the reates of these is Charity”
Honorary — presi His Eminence
James Cardinal Chom Mie Eminence
John Cardinal Fa
liam © Cardinal "OConnelly
Walsh of Dublin,
Presidents Thomas Addis Emmet; Sec:
retary, ore; Treasurer,
Thomas Hughes Kelly; Chairman Exe-
cutive Committee, George J. Gillespie Sy
Patrons and patronesses: Hon.
Bourke Cockran, Hon, & Mrs. Daniel x
conan Hon. John Jerome Rooney, Hon.
& Mrs. Martin 2 Keogh chy ae & Mrs.
George J. Gilles oe ais De
Conley, Dudley Tad \ta ine ‘Rev, Wm,
Livingston, Rev. r, Rt. Rev.
Henry A. Brann, Rev. Johi nH, Doote ley,
Judge Peter Hendrick, ‘Tudge John W.
jenis
m C. Sank, Alfred J. Tal-
P.
thew
Arthur
c.
iis & Mrs, Jeremiah A. \ O'Leary,
Mek Mrs, Robert Ford, Mr. Thos
Rel fine Norah omens 3
RR Shepherd, ime
Rey, 3 in Ge Agar, ire Hugh
Medtaneny, Ne ‘Timothy AL Leer > Mrs.
Marguerite 3 Mooré,.H Phil
bin a, Me in D. Moore, striae Her
bert, oyitton Lackaye,
Clark, ver. Jobn O'Leary.
Padraic Colum’s Beautiful Tribute To His Dead
~ Friends — “They Have Belittled Death And
Danger For Generations of Irish Nationalists.” |;
Following is the address. delivered by
Padraic’ Colum, at the great entertain.
ment at Carnegie Hall last Saturday even-
ing to raise funds to relieve the latest vic-
tims. of Britis h savagery in Ireland:
‘The British -Governmtent,” which ere
quite willing to exploit the, sympathy felt
premature death of the young
English poet, Rupert Brooke, shot to death
three Irish poets, Padraic P corse , Tho
MacDonagh aad ‘Joseph Plunket
Not
onl ar land, Dut, the whole rid
is at a y the extinction of t
three rave, honorebie and disti ‘inguished |
ives.
* The Engi itlustrated journals. that
have just. come to New-York enable us te
esti mate ws contrast the world's Jo
They have published the photograph | of
the Trish revolutionary le aders.- And with
them they bare _ublithed the ping
order
General 3 Mleceel, On one se they give
s—the
Jou intellectual and spiritual faces
facos of men who liberate, ‘the world, On
the other -side give you a non-in-
n who could never liberate
ision and the f Pe
eat Donah a ‘Paint is on record for
the world A man lie
when he speak ot his viston or ins as
Piration in what
Padraic Pearse thought of his personal
Ufe, Bet has recorded it in his poem
“To Di
T have not gathered golds
The fame that. I wo
In Tove T found but
That withered my ite.
Of wealth or of glory
T shalt lense athing behind me
{T think it, 0 God, enough!)
ut ie name in "the | Neer ofa child.
And shat, is jon of life had Theva
Mi for it is in his
oem, shee for Me Son
. ot Y found Ro enemy,
Who was I to jud, ind,
Plindest groper of the blind?
God t y give the ‘
And the clear “ndubting ‘treat
Wars: to knit for single’ right
Freedom's war to
knit at length
And to win, through wrath and strive,
1 To the-sequel of my life. .
But for you, so small and sou
Born of Saint Cecilia’s Di
1 in more harmonious sone
ow for nearer joss should pray —
je joys: the natural gro
of your childhood and your youth,
| Courage, innocence, and truth:
ete for you, so small and young,
i your hand. and heart and tongue.
And we know the vision ot ie that
sore Rune Ahadonit, was the same
‘the great
jous ah “It is in his oem, “I See
Blood Upon the Rose”:
ore reli
His
I see His blood uron the rose,
_And in the stars the glory of His eyes,
His bedy gleains amid et ‘wenal snows,
His tence "al from the skjer
1 see His face in every flower:
‘The thunder and the singing of the birds
is voice—and carven by His
power
Rocks are His written words,
All pathways by His feet are worn
His trong heart stirs the ever-beating
His er crown of thorns is twined with every
thorn, .
+” His cross is every tree.
These three men had a vision for their
‘counts that could not be vcxnressed ine
proclamat 0 matter how nobly worded
that proclamation might be.
Padraic’ Pearse gave all his thought 4 and
Ail his effort to bring
Ireland the Heroig "hee wy cae istry,
when, aid “the greatest, honor was
for the a with the most child: Tike heart
fer the King who had the larges
o ‘wa The first thing you eaw when
_iniered is school in Cullenswood
0 representing the boy
Cicha taking arms. The Druid has
warned him that the youth who takes
rms that day will make his name famous,
Int will have a short life. And written
round the fresco, in the Old Trish words,
¥ life have only the span tnd
eds be spoken ot by, the
'“Noys-—this ‘Was the spirit that he tried
to bring back into Irel jand.
isccbbiahop a
‘Thomas MacDonagh. strove to create an
Jecland that would be free as his intelli-
ee, as eager oe deeds as he
fiense! er. Those who knew Mac-
Denegit in his literary expression thought
of him as a port with a tendeney to
abstractions, as a scholar with a bent
towards phil olor Thote w oe ew tina
intimately
the
whim
best of comrades
‘and they knew that
an en
the thing to nen be could
Gevotion of hiv He fond v in hie
vision net the Teil ‘Repub
Jo y Plunkett trove to bring
the fiance ‘of the
he memor:
priest martyred in England—the Vener-
ante Oliver Plunkett—was of his blood.
en, with ir comrades—the
gout. an vd brave Connolly, who gave all/of
fis will and all of his ability to the work-
ight Eanionn
and the others,
done a great thing for our country at
this great moment of histor;
‘They have mae retard, not * British
question, but vFopean ques
nersic spirit,
by the porlticer intelligence.
They have belittled death and danger
for generations of Irish. Nationalists.
—_+-+ —_.
SCORE BRITISH BRUTALITY,
Catholic Press of America Con-
demns Murder of Ireland’s Pa-
triot-Martyrs.
‘The Catholic press of the United
States is a unit in condemnation’ of
English barbarity in Ireland. U
the time
he Boston Pitot, Cardinal O'Con-
nelle official organ, referring to the
arden of the Jets patriots, remarks:
id day, not only for Ire
rand but for. “pnslan id,
ver considered,
names to the towering figures in the
Irish Vathaita, Call it blunder; cali it
crim: old adage sums it up
with Suatetat gnality: “Quos Deus vult
erdere prius dementot.” hom God
would destroy He first mad.”
he New York Ca: not Neve ore of
the oldest Catholic ‘oun-
try condemns the ‘raat tt ‘the ‘Bre
ish Government a:
“As details of, the éppentore in Dub- |.
lin during the Irish Revolt ion are un-
folded those of us “who are’ familiar
with the history of English bratatity
da
f the dreadful things that
have happened on land and sea. Ex-
pressions of horror from England, how
ever, do not deceive anyone who kn
way her officials acted in Dublin, with
her approval, of course, shows that
England is the same old ruthless Eng-
land, 80 far as the Irish are concerned.
She “bes executed Irish prisoners of
‘ho had surrendered Tatler giving
her fair and honorable battle. for
erty. Had Washington and the
American revolutionists failed as
Irish revolutionists failed. they,
would have been ca
The Buffal Times pays
the following | ribate, to nthe Irish mars
who have, gone to their
‘that
nd that fruit w:
istered to the British Government.
+
“THE LAMP” VULGARLY
LAMPOONS IRISH. PRIEST.
THE FIRST TIME IN SEVEN YEARS.
An earnest and outspoken priest who
had little patience with delinquency in
‘h attend was
mon of a parishtoner whose devotion to
religion had suffered a lapse. In an-
nouncing the funeral the priest sald:
“Tam requiated to announce the fun-
eral sarvices jurphy,
which will be held in is shure Wid
Tam
to com ply.
Miather Murphy's family will be here,
all his rilatives wilt he here, his
dours will be here. Ane ‘incidentals
Mister Murphy himsiif w
tor the first foime in siven
(_
To the Editor ef Tre Garito AMERICAN:
5
¢ Lamp. The
begging friars responsible for this pul-
lcation have many subscribers among
your reader: again they
have asked me and other Irish priests
for an announcement from my pulpit.
I. have such a holy horror of the Brit-
isher and his descendant, whether he
be Cardinal or friar, that I look for
|.doned
spots on him the very first time he
comes my way.
Bully foi
have plenty of worthy chart-
tles \controlled by priests and nuns of
Shall we lek the Brit-
ish ands iat amite vs-from thelr
Gray rison? Is je Lamp sub-
sidized f front ‘Tondon?. Clever monk!
Intsq-AMeRICAN Prizst.
oe
THE ULSTER UPRISING.
(Correspondence of Irish Prose ond Neve
vice.)
_ BFE ST, May 12.—The upri
nty Tyrone and other sections at ithe
North of Ireland. where
teer organization was
when i
ing a
The: Be
Trish Constat na
mandeered a large “pumber af automobiles
and descended upon several points in Ty-
rone and arrested many person t Car-
rlckmore the police and military report
having seized 3,000 round
and a large number of bandoliers.
—-
ENGLAND'S HIRED LIARS.
(Continued: from Page 1.)
North Kildare in Pariiament—and says
they asked him to say for them that they
are well treated, He lie
wetegten who fled for his life from Dub:
when the {neur; the
Freemen office and
News from tt, wrote a letter of similar
purport which the New
jook the trouble to cable, As he
‘azenly about them in ‘ihe
years, bis selection to
e this new He about the men he had
been traducing was quite appropriate.
ENGLISHMAN REFUTES THE FALSE-
~ HOOD.
The testimony of an Englishman gives
a flat contradiction to these impudent
liars. sse, Who was recently
arrested for speaking Irish, was again
n into custody, in connection with
the rebellion, though he
whatever to do with
lease hé made a statement ia ¢
lin papers deseribing bis treatment and
that of others with who;
fined.
Griffith, former editor of ‘Sinn
John Sweetman, a County Meath tendon’,
ex ANerman Cole O'Leary Curtis and P.
T. a inber of Ga Dublin Cor-
poration, Here is of the nate
ment, as it appeared in “ine Pre
“On arriving et the Kingrbridge, "ste:
tion on Wednesday, the 3rd May. he said
¢ military-and taken
je told the of-
¢ of Oxford ‘and
rs in this
with
thirty-five others, and he remained until
Saturday. He complained bitterly ot the
of the priponers, the sf
it hey ha a single bait,
and were obliged to sleep on the fl
Ing to. the cold the windows could
not be opened and the air was vile
munication or exercise was al-
jonday
‘med thai
hey hadn't ttn ‘asked for
his bicycle and his parcel, and except
for an articie of clothing he a told
that no trace could be found o
The parcel contained a valuable aver
nd gold Irish brooch and a present
from the Achill Irish School, and had
not been recovered sin
TRYING TO MUZZLE THE PRIESTS.
Government has a Special
reland, but he has bee
accomplish anyth Th e Paqe. ve
strict neutrality, so the Spx N
ture faker. - Once or. twice
news despatch claims’ that
very angry with the Irish
ing” to do something
8 Holiness has done
able ‘
exer
je latest news ix
n that General Max-
well, England’s Chief Butcher in Ire-
land, js asking the Irish Bishops to pun-
ish pricsts tor gyn npatby with the tnsur-
gents. d the impudence to write
diocese whe refas
well bid and got a’ sharp reply
from” the Bishop which the cable does
not ‘giv:
and. wie all this is going on, and
loyd George is trying to Prange an
agroement that will substitute a Redi
Carson combination, for Dublin Castle, Pi
the Parlia faction
t job of stran
there is one man there
muzzled—Lawrence we
shall continue to hear from him occa:
sfonally,
“REBELS LAST STAND.
/ (Continued from. Page 1.)
mal ho saw-the fehting seonea 46
wounded soldiers carried pi
one spot and says. the people of the
neighborhood insist there were over 500
casualties among the troops. He says
that Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. pearbyy
When the soldfers finally effected an
entrance into the house they found a
few dead bodies, but the insurgents had
cut tunnels through the houses to the
end of the block, through which they
had effected their retreat and carried off
sll their wounded. It is probable that
pet more than 25 men were in the
building at any time, bet, as they
fought from cover, the:
pick off the soldiers at will,
loss to themrel t res
guns that ‘anally ‘Grove them
insurgents et this point aia nolen did
work Sonat wae worthy of veterans, but
enerel Maxwell complimented the
Sherwoods on hein achievement w ih
r 2,000 men with ma:
chine ‘hous arivin about ‘ts out of a
house after four hours of fighting and
able to
with litte
machin ine
“eptendta gallantry,” ex-
cept the regiment {s Irish. When they
ere Irish their ‘achievements are hardly
raentfoned in official despatches. .
SUPERB FIGHTING OF. THE
BEL.
When the whol te tout avout we Dub-
lin Insurrection can be told,
found that the fighting of the Trieh Vol-
unteers was among the nent {n all Irish
history. The feats Volunteers of
Fingall—the men from North County
Dublin—showed what could have been
dove all over Ireland if the treacherous
merican warning had not prevented
that shipload of German arms. fron
landing in Kerry. They cut the tele.
graph Iines and the railroad, captured
six or seven police barracks, with sev-
enty riftes, and then wiped out a col-
umn of Constabulary sixty strovg, near
Ashbourne, County Meath, killing eight,
wounding elghteen and making prison-
ers of forty,
The rebels held many British prison-
ers, mostly
and consideration, but the English re-
ooting fifteen leaders
by 0 order of a courtmertial and
dering three ne without even
form of a
mur.
the
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United German-Ameri:
1, SINGING: 5,000 singers
2, .CHILDREN SINGERS:
4, MEMORIAL REVIEW of
vation of the Uni
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