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‘ “who did the Sighting.
The Saelic Gmenican.
June 17, 1916,
OFFICE OF
Ge. Caste Aumezean
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NEW YORK city, N.Y.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1916.
Letters containing matter for publi-
cetion are this
ice, with a
[press or has been made uw
In order to reach subscribers in time,
it ig necessary that Tas Gar.to AweRt
CAS be printed on Wednesday after-|?
noon end, of course, it must be made
up earlier that d
Itis impoosibie, ‘therefore, to publish|
in the current week's dssue anything
which reaches this once later than
Tvesday morning, unless it be some
piece of news of cetraordinary interest.
w intended
to press.
all section
Fein organization, whose
“policy was pacifc, though militent, had
practically died out and
remnant | remained.
are as dishonest politically as they’ are
commercially, and putting false labels
on is fs a habit they cannot get
over. For more than a y had
been calling the Irish Volunteers the
“Sinn Fein Volunteers” and when the
rebellion broke out they called the fight-
ing Volunteers the “Sinn Fein rebels.”
the proBritish papers here fol-
lowed suit and have continued the non-
sense to this day. It is a very absurd
misapplication of term:
The men who led the rebellion and
‘that bound
social programme of reform. ° Jai
Connolly, who Ied the Labor movement
after Larkin's departure for America,
was taken into the Separatist organiza-| th
tion efter the outbreak of the European
war, and was ee member of its govern-
Ing body, @ two organizations
were so closely * ihe that they
jeally one. They certainly were
one for fighting purposes, for Connolly
was made Commandant of the Dublin
dtatrict and all the, various elements
tourhe under him,
the part of she English the mis:
representation of what,theycalled “the
Bian Fein rebellion” was deliberate.
y always referred to Liberty Hall as
he. Sinn Fein Headquarters,” though
they knew very well it was that of the
Labor movement, and the American cor-,
respondents followed “their example.
Even some Irishmen who ought to
.| sion fs stopped.
and Con-j 6
nolly added to this an industrial and h
all the Irishmen who believe in, cop-
Plete Irish Nationality, and ther
every reason to believe that the union
ay
ee permane ent,
hear no more of “the Sinn
pein, rel rebellion” and “the Sinn Fein
Volunteers.” There were nt
Fein Volunteers and there was no sin
m and given Ireland a place
in internation! affairs that she never
had bet N the men engaged in it
oid thelr “auty nobly. Some time the
ToH of those who died fighting for Ire-
land will be made up and proper hon-
ors will Le accorded them. At present
e have only the names of afew, out:
tide the leaders, who were shot by sen-
tence of a courtmartial.
manner of the death of the latter
has already ‘had a wondertul effect in
retand, Some of them had been sub
jected to vile and widespread calumny.
This was especially true of James Con-
nolly; but the stories told of his Chris-
says an Irish priest who knows where-
of he speaks, “were not alone heroes,
but saints, and James Connolly was the
of Irish Independence.”
priests, as well as many laymen, who
were hostile, to the “extreme National-
Ists" and “Liberty Hall men” have been
converted to admiration, and this
A martial race cannot help admiring
men who make lendid fight, and
the example set oy The Dublin rebels
has already sunk into the hearts of the
young men and women, and the chil
dren of Ireland. The last of the Dublin
rebels surrendered on Sunday, April 30,
and during the six weeks that have
martial law and the most
ot terror since 1798 hi
-|to take ft off the shelf and gave Red-
mesins very much for the future of Ire-
nd. as
“Parliament” to do cneland's bidding.
a
Rone
little bit of a bill.on the shelf,
fighting men of Dublin forced Asquith
has bee
rebellion, his only solicitude is to make
Asquith’s task easy, so-he consents to a
legislative monstrosity that is doomed
t
Ing the hardest times in
and whether it is to be sm:
mediately. or the debacle Is. postponed
a little while, the end-is near. No
for all Ireland or for
stave off the inevitable,
hey |)
are the irreducible m a
must and shail have National Indepen-
dence,
THE COURSE OF THE WAR.
e feature of the week has been the
sudden falling back of the austro-Hiuns
u
ts, however, appear to indfcate
that the Russtan drive has nearly spent
Its force, as the cavalry and light artil-
lery composing the first line were get-
spirit of Ireland 's Unconquered and
unconquerable and fn who
made the rebellion ‘Interpreted it cor.
ectly.
REDMOND BETRAYS IRELAND AGAIN.
The rebellion has forced the British
Government tomake an,,attempt to
“settle” the. Irish Question and, com-
pelled the irish Parliamentary Party
to do something to show that it has any
right to-exist. But beth undertake to
“The ‘methods
promise will probably be
which all Iretand will agree. Durtn,
| fo
-jall this maneuvring all public discus
The announced plan is) dun
left to Carson.
1s of Antrim, Down, Der
‘Tyrone and Fermanagh are to be loft to
his tender mercles. .
Then. Carson goes to Belfast and
holds a secret conference with
Ulster Unionist Council, comes out and
to make sacrifices” and will probabiy
consent to take all he asked for when
fake Home Rule Bill was passed.
Then Redmond brings his Party over to
Dublin and, without any authority from
2
x
0 run the rest, without going through
the formality of an election, Whil
rusning, the twenty-six Irish counties
fo land they will, of course,
Cave, “to recelve. thelr" £
members of the Imperial Rarllament.
There are some details, they say, which
have yet to be Bxed. One of these will
probably be the question of how to
reach Donegal, which is to be included
in “Ireland,” across the hostile terri
tory of Fermanagh, which is to remain
in England.
‘These Four Hundred Pounders have|
senting to have Ireland cut in two is a
betrayal of Ireland, to which the Irish
people will never consent. And t
wil never consent to hare men in re-
ceipt salary from the British
Je was a union of
Treasury act as members of q Dublin
to
those from which they have just been a
Russian advance has beet
rapid that the gap that has been created
between the Austro-Hungarian left and
the German right at thelr point of june.| !
tlon should afford an. opportunity for
Hindenburg to get in a blow that may
help to save the situation. It is very 4
likely the Russian reports of prisoners} ®
taken are greatly exaggerated, and the
opinion in Wall Street is that all the
reports sent over are framed to aid the
Russtan loan just issued in New w York
by pro-Ally financiers, In any ce
momentary influence of the
resent
by the British Consulate, has been d
becoming
for the partition of
tween
He | pulsion of King Constantine, and a ren
ovated Servia under Allied auspices,
beving been discovered.
Butcher Kitchener, te man
Boet
i
patched up little scheme of Home Rule, on
rill
men here
of showing the qnality of their “Amer-
mons stood up and cheered.
fo!
Pi
graded hirelings of England who have
the British army and .wi
shot or detained in England until the
end
conditions is unfavorable to the cause ao 50, for
n
le
nian question ts again
Al conspiracy
that country be-
Greece, as a reward for the ex-
clared.” The Alba:
acute, an
Asia both he Brtuen and Russian
the
back into Persia pursued by the Turks.
I
section, the advance on
progress, so that on
the whole the Turks are making a good
show under considerable diMcuity.
A new military saint has been added
0 destroy the race
i
Africa by killing thelr women and chil-
*\ dren in tl
the Desecrator of the Mahdi’s Grave in
the
e Concentration Camps, and
Soudan.
t also gave our Anglo-Episcopal church-
in New York the opportunity
holding a memorial
8
a
by
vice in Old Trinity Church, Broadway,
last. Tuesday, in his honor.
THEERED te MURDER OF, PEARSE,
ave been informed by a most re-
sh mihon aa ‘when Asquith an-
need t rb:
and Thomas MacDonagh, the, first taree
rebel leaders to be shot,
bers of the Irish Parliamentary Party
who were present in tho House of Com-
» all the’ mem-
Our ine
rmant was told this by a Member of
hi
M2 Ireland knows ft just the same,
| We all know that the Parliamentary
y is composed of a pack of
il
cept Jokn Dilion were cowering in Lon-
lon, and that they fondly hoped that.
JI thefr enemies were in the hands of
‘ould be: either
of the wa t assumed
jafety they contrnitted rolitical hari-
art.
"The nevishapers ‘in Ireland knew bet;
6 protection of the skulk-
srthe Conteal Powers traitors’ lives, they suppressed the
At Verdun the Germans have made|"° te Protection eat be only
substantial progress, and on the east|te™@Pporary.- Drumhoad arimartial is
a game that two can play at, and the
turn of the dirty dogs Sho cheered the
a
{ts civil population, By the capture of
Hill 321 andthe Thiaumont Farm mid-
way between Fort-de Vaux and the
Meuse, which appesrs imminent, there
will be further , limitation of the
ground over which the French can
manceuyr Verdun.
On the Anglo-Belglan Froat the prin-|
among them,
episodes in Irish history, but this in-
.|famy of the Redmondites is the most
1,
shametess of. al
A RIFT IN JUDEA,
ement fs going on among the
hi
‘Those who really ‘wish well’ to ‘Ireland
{JY meant first after himself,
ed|to the
cipal incidents are occurring aroun
for saving his own British, the English
General is throwing on the Canadian
and Australlan screens the honor and
glory of driving back the Germans, bi
with indifferent success.” Tt is the Brit-| PRO Were slad to escape with thelr
ish Colonists and the ch WH re ee eee thet tat tn has “en
really bearing the brunt of the work, ‘at were their n Rus
that the Austrians will be again reduc
defensive unless
tro-Hungarian line re-established, It
Italian Front it seems likely
ed
the Russian
drive isdefinitely arrested and the Aus-
nd
jects of the Little White Father after
the war, had appointed themselves the
ha
ut| “Matural” leaders of the luckless Jews,
This mass of Jews has for a long
time submitted to the domination of the
highbrows aforesafd, and has been used
freely’ by them for political purposes,
with great advantage to the highbrows
and Httle to the used. The present
3
able them to plunder ad libitum the sub- | hi
hardly likely, however that the Italians
will recover much of thelr lost’ ground
without the new Cavinee under M. Bos-
ell proves more capable of handling
the situation than its predecessor under
M. Salanara.
Pe
ui
o}
Tv
8
jolitical situation especially seemed to
offer an exceptional opportunity to the
pper cryist to establish their hegemony
ver those unde
hey | ul
In the Balkans the situation is some
what confused by the pressure exerci
the
mobilization;
_and a general blockade
of Greece, extending even as far as the
port of New York wherg it 19 directed
not to be intimidated, and the result
as been a split among the Jews of
New York and the retirement, from all
sia Js still strong among the Jews from
the dominions of the Czar, so that be
tween them and the pro-Ally highbrows
who find no. difficulty in forgiving for
the sake of gain the former oppressors
of their poorer brothers, there
longer »sympath: nor co-operatio
mn as
{8 no) tan
things are. The highbrows are regard-
ed as “Jew anti-Semites,” men similar) ©
to our antiIrish Irishman
HELP THE SUFFERERS IN IRELAND, ©
The work of collecting money to ald
victims of British tyranny and of
British atrocities in Ireland has made
good beginning, but no more. The
necessity for prompt relief has been
eloquently told at splendid pubic meet
ings in many cities and larg 8
have been collected, but spasmodic com
tributions in such gatherings only start
It is by careful, syste:
is is as true of the present Relief
Movement as of any other,
Experience in this country has shown
that the Tag Day system i lon,
odds the best, and New Haven clinches
the argument last Sunday. New. York,
pit several rich. men...contributing
large sums, raised about $27,000 from
@ population containing at least 1000;
rich men comtrrbuting, ‘collected "in one
mon
day $4,7 The y was ‘given in
half duilera quasters, ten and five cent
pieces, with the two smaller denomina.
vith
tions predominating, but the collection
was made a splendid success by. care-
fully planned, - systematic: work. ' And,
. With the samé plan® put
the situation in Ireland explained to
" must be remembered that, besides
the fifteen men who ‘were butchered b}
courtmartial and one who was shot by
is own responsibil
orted to England and several hundred
others are kept in prison in Ireland,
Besides these there were about fifty
rebels killed and probably two hundred
non-combatants shot by the * soldiers.
goodly instalment must be’sent at once,
Fond w Yeo
The “officers of the Relief Commttes
are:
Honorary Presi ‘ident!
His, Eminence ses “cardinal “Clb. an
bons.
His Eminence John Cardinal Farley.
His © Eminente William = Cardinal
O'Connell.
Archbishop Walsh of Dublin.
President, Thomas Addis Emmet.
cretary, John D. M
, Treasurer, Thomas Hughes ‘Kelly,
airman ~ Executiy Committee,
George J. Gillespie.” -
All ney for the Relief Fund
should be sent to the Treasurer,
Thomas “Hughes Kelly, 6... Beekar
Street, New York,
HAND GRENADES,
is: only New Haven’s first}: ‘
“Himself” announced that the British,
Empire needed Ireland-to enable it to
win, It he poke correctly, the Empire
is doot
They att to have “German Day” at
the Allies’ Bazaar They could
unconscious
nglo men and women and Apalo.
maniacs are!
* ‘Phere doesn’t seem to be any plank
in the Democratic, platforat about, wirg
tapping,
Talking of wire tapping, District Ate
torney Swann di
his wings’ much in
cavesdronn| ing persons cust
‘or breaking the law has been that they.
a ‘ted by doing so they'd fi
i other people were breaking
This would be a good time for ‘an
independent telephone company, which
would guarantee immunity to. the. pub
ite from “listen! ng in” or wire {soping,
@ look tor a franchise in New York.
Alderman McGarry was quick to dis
cover that those “tag days” are a public
nuisance when the race from which he
sprang wanted a permit for one fro
the New York Board of Alder
The Chicago convention tled/a sauces
Pan to the tail of ‘the, hero of Kettle
Hill. * ‘ .
reton Frewen, -whé > wants® att
‘Anglo-American’ Alliance, says that
even the British Liberals now admit,
the Home Ri 1.18 no good.’ What
mond and his friends have <alled a
“charter of. freedom” isn't worth the
space it occupies in the Statute Book,
tew more- expértences Ke that’
ping themselves In the American flag. |
Habit is a great thing; when a mar
gets accustomed throwing hand
enades he’can sling them even w!
he’s lying on the flat of his back.
om aen plans a hot ca:
one of our leading Tallies, re
that rate he'll have to warm up ‘ 'some
him:
! We are told Bettaln plans thé”
rebuilding of Belgium. owever,
permit trom the Kaisel
before she can start, desing” fore the
foundation. and, after all,
so busy glueing the fragments of her
Empire togetner that she won't hava
time_ for. the Belgian job.
“The rats” came out of their holed
the other on. and England is somewhat _
‘rattled”
consequence.
naval vio. |
e like
British Admiralin-Chlet
would have to issue orders to the na’
himself dressed in a life preserver |
da diving suit and e “hearts
of oak” floating around re cork unders
shirts,
“phe ‘English won a’ great
ig land's “sate retreats” Pat
on tend a sea, have been a
ture’ of the al .
If Chicago deserves the narie of the
“Windy City,” Oyster Bay ought to be
called “Hurricane Harbor,” for reasons
which we! won't menti6n out of respect,
for the remains.
ew Russian Joan of $50 009,000" ia
tone floated in nite :
will help Russie, to keep moving gnu
Japan and herself got ready to
the “open door” in the Orient in Vaca
Sam’s face, My tet Ak
We haven't nears wt Mayor Mitchet
has gone a post raduate course
. in the Ro okies” ” amp at. Plattsburg
These are the day's when the politici-lthis year. He learned it all last year, ©
aus -are busy “shoosing “the people's
choice.
Teddy's
slogan, “America first,
The selection of Hughes as the.can
vention proves that it isn't’ the man
who makes the most’ noise and shaws
is teeth the most
noticeably “who
“gets there.” ~
When Teddy announced he was out
of politics, he only imagined ‘he. was;
he was simply out of wind.
The Colonel mistook the Bull Moose
‘ty and deserted
jesert a faithful
house cat when they are movin
If the Progressive Party can't live
without Theodore bye
°r loesn
real American ke ‘atnbriése
Sols ror the leadership?
“Flag burnin, kes the
think,” announces’a New-York: daily in
one "twill
0 ate doing
their miserable best to convince all na-
tor
ns that the gory finger marks of tl
Emblem,
“on "arte
Day” at the ais Bavaar in New York,
people| Derm
a
creates confusion and sometim
ng-) He it
evidently. His recent performances ine
dicate. that he'd make a better lino
in than a soldier.
ee
OUR IRISH SH HEROINES.
‘There is a P iarge pron proportion of Irish.
women among the patriots deported to.
English and Scotch prisons, The fol-
lowing were detained in Mountjoy,-
Prisos and deported later, with the exe
ception of Countess ho wi
‘
released on condition that she, leave |
Ireland:
Countess Plu
Kati
Lynn, ‘iss Eileen’ “Gtttorar Miss Matra
Perolz, . Miss folony, Miss
Agnes Higgins, Miss Brigid Foley, Miss
Nellie Ryan, Miss K. Ryan, Miss Kear-
ney, Belfast; Miss Kat thleen Brown,
County Wexford.
DUBLIN STILL ‘ILL REBELLIOUS.
DUBLIN, June 12a 1A demonstration
wi
ft "982"
~The demonstrators were not interfere
ed with by the police,
ecks and money orders should 6
made payable to Th Gartte AsrertcaN .
Publishing Company, not to the editor.
Making ~ them
not always in the office, but he
Business Manager a there during work.
ing hours’ every