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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE,
IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
Vol. XIIL, No. 25.
Whole No, 666,
NEW YORK, JUNE 17, 1916,
Prvered ay second-clans matter, Oct 1, 190. at the Port Office at
‘of March 3. 187.
'N. ¥., under the act of Cony
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
And Justifies The Rebelli
the
crowds that come to testify to the re-
sentment and anger they feel and the
determination that English rule in Ire-
land shall come to an end.
‘The gates were closed a little before’
8 o'clock, but, on account of the
crowd outside they. were opened again
rand the crowd w:
i
isles, so that
fl 2s 000 people inside. “lly J 000
le, wding the
Mocks from Madison to Lexington Ave-
rom. Twenty-fifth to Twen-
ty-eighth Streets, making a crowd suf-
ficient to organize three overflow meet:
through a window y stalwart police-
ere .was no atl tempt by th
pritics papers on Sunday to minimize
the size or the enthusiasm of the meet-
1g, or to repeat the foolish jotort, so
Prevalent a yeat
Pear to be largely German. “They Tami
‘ew York
front of the platform, side by side with
the Stars and Strives, shortly after the] ©
meeting o
THE HALL’A BLAZE OF GREEN.
The hal wras's + splendidly secorsted
and was one blaze of green.
irish’ Volunteers. acted
flag of the
names ana their enthusiasm was il
limtt:
Sustiee Peter A. Hendrick of the Su
Preme Court prestded’ and made @
Lally and the whole city w
| unteers,
“| ex
of Ireland
~ sande of ff other lo:
Braight Aghting Trish spesch in open-
B the meeting. Alfred J, Talley was
Serretary, He read numerous jettere
of sympathy ‘and through.a mega-
.
Bourke Cockran Appeals
phone, announced the large number of
subscriptions, which, {t was announced
hasty count, amounted to over $21. .
000, The enormous size of the
and the dimieulty ‘of getting through it
made the work of
the work wat
collectors were girls
of ‘the ‘arious “htanchés mann
na_mBan, ere escorted
-| through the dense crowd by Irish Vol
baskets: were all filled
ks from curre
cult task under the circum.
stan
JUDGE HENDRICK PRESIDES,
In opening the meeting Judge Hen-
t) arick spoke as follows:
Fellow Citizens: We are gathered
here to-night as American citizens to
rannical gover
d|mounce the mur
GREAT IRISH HEETING IN AND AROUND MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN ENTHUSIASTICALLY ENDORSES
THE CAUSE FOR WHICH THE MARTYRS DIED
IN DUBLIN AND PLEDGES AMPLE RELIEF 10
THETR BEREAVED FAMILIES AND THOSE OF THE
MEN IMPRISONED AND DEPORTED TO ENGLAND :
New York Irish Men And Women Turn Out As Their Grandparents Did At O’Connell’s i:
Monster Meetings To Denounce England’s Savage Murder Of Prisoners Of War,
Wholesale Imprisonments And Deportatioas, Sentence By Secret Courtmartial And
The Firing Squad Being Substituted For The Packed Jury And The Hanging Judge
-=-Boston Protestant Minister Scores British Goverament’s Treatment Of Ireland
To The Civilized World For
Justice And Pleads For Money To Relieve The Wives And Children Of The Victims
==Jeremiah O'Leary And Congressman Fitzgerald Make Eloquent Speeches---Munif
cent Contribution To The Relief Fund---Splendid Work Of Irish Women.
Madison Square Garden was packed
capacity, eincluding
one Meee—esnttemén, 1 will not. make | °°
t the person does not live
who can say “hyphenated American”
to any American ‘eltizen «with Irish
| blood’ in his veins, native born
or foreign born, with the meaning at-
tached to it ‘that we are anything but
loyal first, last and all the time to the
United~-States ee “America againet al!
the world (chee!
THAT Fans. BYGLISH TEST:
It has got to be. the fashion al
town and in parts
the question
whether or not we are against Germany
ether we are with England sand
the Allies (applause). For m:
declin ‘America ditizen-
ship tested by a any / protnaishnas who
makes allegiance or evn athy or love
fo! se Amertean citizen-
to speak; but I wish to say that
ers of Irish patriots
a
?
our forefathers have fought for seven| (loud cheers). And we are here to say
centuries. (applause). We are here to| that we inscribe on the banner-roll of
press our sympathy with the people| Irish heroes who have died that Ire-
and we express it in com-
on to-night with hundreds of thou-
yal American citizens
scattered throughout is glorious Re-
public of ours. We e to say what
In} we think of their siruete tor National
athy and support ‘opplause).
e hyphen in the un-
-Amer-
we ae AMERICANS FIRST.
erican citizens first, las
and atl the time (applause) against a
enemies, and we are Amer ican citizens,
even against. England, it be
{cheere.) a verti ‘te: right
man, ne my fellow. Amer
can cataen, Mrowever strong an,
to question my" sAmert
can he may be,
my Govern-
niet ‘or my loyalty to
ent, as I question the right. to
tion ‘the loyalty of great Inti Ameri
e eitizens foe this
under Grant,
Fredericksburg, keeping step with the
Irfsh march and the grim
| death on the “March to the Sea,” where
hedged it around with loyal steel;
he Winchester,
ere they wore It at Winchester,
tching It from defeat, under the
wa ershit Tish Phil, Shert-
eadership of our own
en eRe ye
merican citizens love our flag
At has beer steeped, during all
-| land may become a
dj and
Nation, the name,
coupled with that of Emmet, of Davis—
of ail the martyrs that have gone be
fore—and inscribe upon that ‘banner
one more imperishable. name—the lead-
er, the expressor of the ideals of the
Irish people all over the world for
Irish Natfonality—the name of Pat.
rick Pearse (cheers).
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let us get
work, which fs to express here
our sentiments without fear ith-
out hone of favor, to express once more
that until every Irishman {is annihilat-
British tyranny, as, long as a
body breathes that has within it Irish
ood, we will be the enemy of England
politically until the irish Republic is
established (cheers). (Then the music
an Judge Hendrick said: “A
good my ~ brea!
me) (Laughter)
TO DENOUNCE BNGLISH ATRO-
the very fact
week after those
the years 0! life. of our Republic,
in the
for its maintenance (applause), No
blood of “irish hearts, who died an
bow
of. this country to| ¢
‘Y/ test our Americaniem by
Now, ladies ne rentenen we sre] w
ques- | het e
{blood and misery. There
t]wide and agelong persecution of
rl) of nations. By En)
we recognize the fact that what
ireland has obtained has been by con:
stant endeavor in one direction or an-
her, aud we pledge ourselves that we
wit sympathize with those endeavors,
be well advised or fll
¢ Irish people aspire for Nation,
aiityeaed that will be, God knows, as
long as the green g1 grows in Ire-
Jand—our, aymoathies and our best
wishes are wit!
FUNDS Por THE VICTIMS.
* Now, ladies and gentlemen jones
Puepese practical purpose of t
and are i As a consequence of
the late outrages. appeal to that
end will be made by one of your great
cet citizens whom you will hear later;
at-bear in mind that that is
Dei
me to get
jonks (applause 0 and
your parse:
laughter
t ptensure, tate and
‘oduce the first speak-
strings
Sietoetion J
dtenealsea “ating in ‘the city of Bos:
ton: a gentleman who is an ex-profes-
THE BACK OF THE REBELLION WAS BROKEN
Men Arriving From Ircland Bring News Which Clears Up Many Doubtful Points And
Places Responsibility For The Failure—The Main Cause Was The Treacher.
ous American Warning Which Enabled The British To Stop The Arms-
‘Laden fierman Ship—Then Came. Eoin MacNeill’s Order Counter-
ized The Insurgents’ Plans
manding The Easter Sunday Mobilization, Which Demoral-
And Kept Most Of Ireland
From Turning Out, Leaving 3,090 Dublin Votun- .
teers To Face An English Army Of From
20,000 To 25,000 Men—Graphic
ories of eyewitnesses of the
senting. ‘in Dubin during the insurrec-
tion are beginning to reach New York,
and they throw considerable Hght on
ubt.
witnesses saw all, or
fighting,
sor bf Tufts ‘College, and, above that, a| and heard
all over’ for bis
, his love of justice, and
mst
great humanity,
hit
hoor. to present the Rev.-A. A. Berle
of. Boston (applause).
RLV, A. A. BERLE'S ADDRESS.
Berle of Cambridge, Mass.,
e Significance of the Irish
gic news o}
one
startling revelations which from time
to Lime in the providence of God illumi-
nace the grave mankind's
striiggle with destiny? Events in’ this
wetld are to be judged with. reference,
hot merely to thelr, v
sonal. Intert but.
Ceca to world lif
faire. A few thousand men in
eure’ corner of ‘the world, working at
tore small problem of 10
54
oS
e
and oppression, when it hi
with the character andactions of one
of the greatest world powers, when
occurs in the midst of the most destruc-
and when
2
a3
tentous problems already . loom
large on the horizon, such an event com-
and keenest scrutiny on the part
on a elvilized ans shinklng men.
Irish uprising was. such ap
Men n may alter as to its Risdon
in the time and place, rho
knows the history of Irish inisrote e, es
peclally the latest and most disgrace-
ful chapters of it, can for one moment
impeach elther the soundness of the
7.|to Ireland jone on
.|the other mishaps would
nts pave escaped an
warning given to the British Govern.
ment by an ‘American official after the
raid 's office on April 18, by
tn ireland on the night of April 23.
Inder Secretary 's evidence
fore the Royal commieston a corrects
it would
before von Iget's office was 7
mhether this jroamelens ct of oatlity
pril 17 or
‘nerd 18, i thoctea ‘the hopes of the
Irish rebels, If. that cargo of German
TIS hat been tamed; fn ~iterrz,—em it
have been but for the American
warning to the British Government, all
have counted
for little and the insurrection would
have achieved a great initial syeceas
which would have enabled the insur-
gents to amash the whole British force
-{then fn Ireland.
EOIN MacNEILL'8 COUNTERMAND,
Even in spite of the’ American warns
loss of the German
f
Neill, President of the Irish Volunteers,
in issuing the order
the mobiiization of the .Volunters on
East — Sunday.
only published in the Sunday
Independent and: reached the Volun-
teers all over Ireland through that
was sent to the priests
throughout the country with a request
that it be read from the altar on Easter
rel
if
(oo —
oe GREAT FIGHT FOR F FREEDOM.
Story Of An Eye-Witness.
The
plained is whether Eoin
a consenting party to
day plan oon su dents *enanged “le
mind, or cted against @ plan
hich he had not consented. Alt the
k from person:
mn estion are either
lead or in prison, but there are a few
who had very accurate knowledge who
d will be heard. from
one thing that remains to be ex-
a cx an =
t MacNeill was not a consenting
party to the plan of insurrection that
will settle the question of his personal
hoi js countermanding
though he took no part whatever in the
bet
: fake ‘gnserioan Who Had~Been
in Dublii During the Week of ~.
‘the Rising Gives Graphic Ac-
count of Many Tneidents Not
: Reported inthe Press—Cow.
ardice and Brutality ot Eaghsh
Soldiers—Priest Who Tried to
per Rotunda Hospital Shot
— Women an en
Massacred—Heroism of Iris
0 Fatal Counter-
mand—People Longing for An-
other Fight.
An Irish-American, who has just ar
countermanding | red,
termand | trunk was
i iia aatle, The officers ques
ideal or the essential correctness of the
method by which these martyrs of Ire Sunday. morning. Some of the priests | tioned him minutely as to whether he
land wen? to th dtd not, comply with fhe request, but al belonged to the Clan-naGael, the An-
If. the ei battled tangiers who stood | arse num! Order of Hibernians or other
on Concord Bridge
that were heard arow
sound in their logic and action, then no
American can have the slightest quarrel
with the method and logic of’ Patrick
Pearse and his martyred associates,
dead or alive, in ‘the prisons of Eng-
land.
WHAT IRELAND’ § STRUGGLE
It is worth wile. to D rohearse briefly
your hearing the implications
r seven centuries
to
that
nation, similarly “situated is “rritten, ia
is only one
t is the world-
the
parailel | know and that
Jews.
With the growth of civilization and
the wider freedom and knowledge o!
widespread rublieation “was that
of the Volunteers in the. Provinces, not
knowing of any ainerence ot opinion,
failed to turn out. It w y on Tues-
jent
Irish societies.
During his stay in the barracks he
heard the officers discussing the Rising
y that some of them rere reached pad ithout excep ey spoke Righ
and risings ook | Jace in a few places|/,0f the bravery and sMiclency of the
sings v » Thien Volunteers. The following is bis
the British troops
in. Ireland
were then being concentrated ud-
on
ed
in Parliament, “the ba:
lion was broken,” and the Dublin Vol-
unteers, 2.000 strong at the outside, ha
to face a British army of from 20,000
to 25,000 nen,
WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED,
be account of the
many of the Dublin Volunteers “could
not be reached in time and only 1,100
men turned. out on Easter Monday,
of the men, believing there was
ing gone away on
yn that evening and next
the fighting, but after itish re-
inforcements began to sre ‘hundreds
of willing men were cut
Had the Votunteers ree all over
Ireland on Easter Sundi ording to
the original plan, Dublin “could very
y of the sbeentees Joined inj ®
account of what hi
ing the eventful week of the rebellion:
SAW THE TRICOLOR RAISED.
bout noon on Easter Monday, I was
4) standing on O'Connell Street, when sud-
denty 1
r of the Irish Republic, and all
fa sudden the novel sight attracted
thousands 0 tators, who cheered
wildly when they understood that an:
other fight was on for the freedom of
Ireland. A few minutes later two hun-
dred mounted lancers were see
ing towards st
crowd of civ!
a
sharpshooters from using their rites,
Probably not one of them would have
‘obably have been captured that
nd Irish soldfers would St aa not see O'Connell Street again
ave joined the insurgent: ej until Friday, when the mili hed
it
Dublin would
dup to meet the
y. It began to dawn on the
English mind that Ireland could not'be and, oF
persecuted into submission or content: cept in Eng:
ment. That island, nature had endow-|tand until pians for the Ianding of an
wit jt en tor power, fertil- | ar In the mean-
ity and industrial force, in the family
glish ieee it had
the Eng-
be accomplished without war in Treland,
(Continued om Page 2.)
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Baropenn war would enter on a new
phas
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surrounded * the
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im Dublin was the work of the soldiere,
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