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The Saelic Amenican.
; June, 24,1916,
- Abuse them of this illusion, and they
will surely get it.
A WANTONLY FALSE STATEMENT.
The President's attack on the Hyphen-
Mr. Wilson oever
makes a direct statement. He does not
ame the German-Americans or the
Trish-Americans, but there is no room
gor qisurderstanding the meaning of
States be-
loved land, ere some n of
that extraction who are not, and they,
h are forelga to
are not derived from the
questions of our own politics.
“There is disloyaity active in the
United States and it must be absolutely
crushed. It proceeds from a minority,
a very small minority, but a very active
. and Subtle sainority, It works under-
ground, also shows its ugly head
Trying
levy a species of political blackmail,
saying, ‘Do what we wish in the inter-
im or we will
ir vengeance at ‘the polls. vat
is the sort of thing against which t!
American nation will turn with a ment
and trium: entiment which will
teach those gentlemen once for all that
loyalty to this flag is the first test of
tolerance in the United States.”
that have
. Censured the President's action and at-
titude have tried to get this Govern-
ment to do anything for any of the bel-
ligerent Powers. They simply protested
against his partizanship with England
and demanded the enforcement of strict
ality. rica
who have tried to get thie country t
Decome a belligerent are the Presidente
friends, the Pilgrims and the American
7s
Rights Committee for whom the Pres
dent has not a word of censure.
frankly end opealy advocate entering
the war on the side of the Alliee—and
them that means only on the side of
England. If he dared to be specific and
had at d ame a-single in-
himself behind vague statet
never undertakes to back them up with
proof.
‘THE FOLLY OF THE CONVENTION.
The folly of the convention in insert-
Ing Wilson's anti-hyphen plank in the,
Platform Is without parallel in Ameri-
mp:
groups, and thus to destroy that com-
ete agreement, and solidarity of the
petuity ot the
stitutions.
may
biations of individuals in this coun-
who. agree and conspire together for
pe Purpose of embarrassing or w:
jovernment, or of improperly
fefuene cing or coercing our public rep
resentatives in dealing or negotidting
th any fo Power. We charge
that such conspiractes among a limited
a
01
ests of foreign Countries ‘° the preju-
dice and detriment of o We
ct
tors, surrenders {ts integrity or moat
fies its
MAKE ue PRESIDENT AN AUTO-
. cRar.
No organizations, German, Irish,
any other,
charged.
representation of existing conditions
with which Mr. Wilson has filled the
country to offset legitimate criticism of
‘oss neglect of interes:
and his thinly disguised partisanship
What ft really means is
opposi-
tion to President Wilson's shameful sur-
render of American interests in the
Panama Canal question end the efforts
to {ufluence Senator: Congresamen
States and should
suppression of the ri
citizens by the Constitution.
that this Democratic Conv
the Presidency turned
ponelble Autocracy and
and the people should do bis bidding.
IRISH ResoLuTioy THROWN OUT.
The ‘ention met only to. register
decrees sued from the W
It was a cut and dried otair, ‘trom
eloning to end. “Woodrow Wilson was
Boss: ‘an everything, even to the
minutest detail, and any attempt to
“putt in” by a delegate was promptly,
suppressed by Chairman James, as
ickly as the foreman stopped the
mutterings of a negro slave by a wallop
f the head in the good ol
days when the grandfathers of. Wilson's
chief Heutenants were running plantar
tions down South and running the
United States ‘rom Waskin|
d
be paseed favoring the freedom of
of the
Platform Committee, undertook. to pre
America hae et verconat pride, can! s the conn mittee and that fact
be browbeaten into submission to need. ate that was
wrong and contumely. nis was) the last the public ‘heard of
tion w.
treatment of M Lomasney of Bos-
ton, one of the most astute and power-
Ios leaders in tl
untry, ipted to intro-
his order: howled down and
jeered at e convention, This
shows that Ireland is not one of the
“small nationalittes” alluded to in an-
- other plan! e platform, Being
part of the British Empire leaves’ her| very:
enabled
the British fleet to frustrate the landing
of that German shipload of arms in
Kerry and thus
id
id claim for recognition at the
“the best laid
11 get another
Wilson's “watchful
malting” on the interests of his mother’s
CERTAIN IRISH
ES,
Anyone e whe tee vetuaiea Wilson’s in-
ig with a subject
nO 801 PRESS
who has read between the lines of
ey General Gregory's projected
legislation in the tnterest of England
can plainly see in the plank provision
ations, as
ai of a President's foreign policy
jme. In spite of tror of
Praselanie the Wilsontans would like
to be al fo prosecute his critics for
Lese SSoleste And is public acts
. to be i ne from criticism why
not his private morals? If drow
‘bh he is wholly
deal with Irish s0-
therefore condemn as subver-
. sive of this nation's untty and integrity,
and ae destructive of its welfare, t
tivities an designs of every group or
1o-| tion was fit only
they threw It out “ind ineerted vague na-Gael, hel Roxbu ay, | &
June 18, the following resolutions were h
g| came from
Jews had secured direct recogni-
nition in the Democratic one, it th
ie Jews a dif proposition
from ine Irish. The Jews contro] their
and soul, by the Democratic politicians
least so it is
they are told
he
-the Democratic con-
relies ‘hought £ mere Irish resolu-
10 be thrown out. So
resolution—or rather put in one sent
them by Wiison—vowing platonic love
for “small nationalities.” . Of course,
t these within the Brit-
are none
ish Empire that are worthy of consider-
ation. Our Angi ‘on kinsmen must.
erican trade on securing
a wonorole "tor themselves
‘OW LED LoMasvey DOWN.
“Wet, ‘Martin Lomasney from Boston,
who has a good deal to do with
making Democratic Governors in. Mass-
achusett as strong cohorts
back, undertook to
bring before the ‘convention the resol
tion that had been “burked” in tl om-
mittee, but he forgot that the mnaiority
of the delegates whose votes counted
the other side of Mason and
The papers described the
is the New
Dixon's line.
incident sarcastically. Here
‘ork Sun's version of
year in Lomasney of "Boston Planted
himeelt in aa aisle and bellowed tor
recognition. ‘Chairman James avoided
noticing Lomasney for a mtnute or
two, but the Bostonian shrieked like a
siren an sake of reasonable
quiet Jamea ave ‘him a nod.
“You can’t choke me off,” Lomasney
yelled. “This is a Democratic conven-
ion, and I've a right to be heard,
have.
“Well, what do you want?” demanded
the chairman.
“ree a resolution in iny hand,” shout-
asney, “a resolution expressing
the sympathy 0 the Democratic party
r Ireland:
laughter overwhelmed Mr. Lomas} mi
ney. His face reddened. His voice
choked in his throat.
nothing but stamp and swing hi
ed hf
Q
:
organization, political | or otherwise,
28
PI
or wbten is calculated and tends to di-
vide people inte antagonistic
ernor Fergu:
pose of submitting the minority report
platte form dealing only with the
U8.
.Bation and its free in-
ot
jemn all alliances and com-|t
atever nationality or descent, | cl
eaken-| by
men from Dixie have got Teutonopho-
bia from their Boss, and while not
frothing from the mouth against the
@ hungry army from the
BOs BURKE A MAN OF COURAGE.
Robert Emmet Burke of rhicago—
Bob. Burke—another man who
lot of votes behind him, was the ‘only
delegate among hundreds who didn't
want Wilson that had the courage to
“| record ae vote, so that the count stood
1,091 r Wilson to 1 against him,
1 28, son's, slave driver,
tried to suppress im but he refuse
to be suppressed, od up defiantly and
undered out his
tke explained to the New York
World bis Teacons for voting. He was
ol eS the wis! of his constituents.
“I promised tone gentlemen that
ir Wilson,
@ consciousness of
tng that T stood lovally by my friends
mh rated for
© primary election of Ilinois,
in trae to get a place on the ticket
the candidate must file with his peti-
on. I
the only one of the thirteen who filed
that made a statement that I had no
Preference.
“In
rimarfes on April I re-
it least 85,000 of ¢!
cago I we
sentatives of about
I promised them
for Wilson. “
that I would not vote
“Bares des-
in every
@ Northern, noeiaale and
There are thousands
of Democratic voters: in al them
wi won't vote for Wilsot ind . his
nome delegates from New York with
Irish names, on their return from th
convention, predicted.—with their ton-
are} defeat wil
He see do| rt
es in their
etection of Wilson end thei
their redictions 004, but they are up
they
tackled, and some of th
they ‘havi
their own election. - For the resentment
against the slaves who obeye
orders of the Grand Sachem of the
Knownothings ig as. deep .as . against
Wilson himself... Their
Hughes being “a bigot and pro-English”
eat e: ly cannot
be as bad as Wilson, for he ie atleast
a man of honor, But any
enough to beat a dog with.
ngland’s candidate; he has do:
me Eng-
® } augury by th:
they succeeded in attracting.a small|as
t
cetved fs a4 votes, which rnleeea to
pe
Koownothing Platform which insults
Uter
talk . about| a.
in the Gaelic League
Louis J. Wal
a| Padraic H. Pearse, published in a recent
issue of the London Chronicle, says:
In 1899 the Gaelic League was a very
obscure organization occupying 8
| couple of rooms up a dingy staircase in
,|QConnell Street in Dublin, and few
d| people foresaw that it was destined to
wield the potent influence which has
since fallen to it im Irish life. It was
at that time attracting hardly any at-
tention in academic circles; and I re-
ember it was looked upon as a happy
League authorities, when
batch of university students to @ class
y had formed: specially for
our bene! There were, I think, less
altogether, and the
teacher we had assigned to us ‘was an
studious-looking young man,
our own and of the dormant po-
them with statements their tentiaitties that i within Had a
preference for Woodrow W was red ruin
one—and least’ o!
'o be the leader of thi ing revo-
lution, to hold for ting hour the
ce-of “President
lc and
| Commander-General of the Republican
and to suffer death under
tence of a courtmartial at the hands
lescant -on:-“the -strange, -
Celtic eloquence” of our
writers, Indeed, he rather jarred on
ome of us, who cherished the old coi
ception of “Ireland a Nation” with the
ardor that every young
is worth his salt. feels, by his insistence
mn he centuries-old
asp: tration was never. destined to be
realized in the way we bad ‘always un-
derstood.
Others have been struck before now,”
2
t | true have fought and bled for the eman-
cipation of the
have all failed.
Jand's work in the Presidency. and he
would do it again if re-elected. Hugh Roe and Owen Roe fought, for
re GaeLic. American does not/ which Wolfe Tone ir ard
undertake to speak for its r and Robert Emmet gave their lives: for
ak eaders, or
for anybody at all, but it knows that
nough Democrats will. vote against.
Wilson to ensure his defeat—and his
i be a crushing blow for Eng-
land and a blessing to all America,
"THANKS FOR LOMASHET. |
BOSTON, June .19.—At the regular
meeting of the John Mitchel Club, Clan-
ld in
unanimously, adopted:
‘Resolved, Thet we respectfully con-
gratulate Hon, Martin asney for
the manly and patriotic stand which he
took’ cent convention of on
of the National political parties in oe
deavoring to pl to respect
Ireland's Just ‘claim to National Inde
pende
"Resolved, ‘That. the failure of his
honorable efforts {neldentally exposed
the hypocrisy of those who profess in-
terest i the fate of small na atfonsitties,
ved, That we tender, our sin-
cere thanke to Mr. Lom!
ast P. “hoax,
President.
+ .
TWO ORANGEMEN DEPORTED
The stupidity of Butcher Maxwell's
military nincompoops who are enfore-
jw in Ireland Is their most
arre:
sent to Wakefield Detention Camp, from
which they have since been released,
was the experience of Mr.
steward of the Grand Orange
Ua nist registration agent in that
ty.
were in the Orange Hail dur-
ing the fighting ba a en Monday
to the following Thur:
sy | IY
heard that the Twelfth ‘Tantekillings,
mare
brou; to the Boadstone
days), Richmond Barracks, and thence
to Wakefield, England. On the day they
were taken t ichmond Barracks they
ag
Other papers a that the eee
shouted “Raus mit him.” The
were without food from 10 A. 3. to
6:30 A.M .
H. great ottty
i heamh Soluts (
which Grattan pleaded,” for *
vis sang, for’ which oton
himself out with toil” Yet
and ‘planned, ani
nat
At
id toiled in vain. May it not be
here is some reason for
social life, the regs enerator rejuven-
ator of the literature of the orld, the
instructor of the nations, the preacher
pel of nature-worship, hero-
such, Mr. Chair-
man, is ‘the destiny of the Gael.”
en he faced the firing party the
other morning in Dublin to gt
supreme proof of the unselfishness of
hie love for Treland, did thete seeming.
ly prophetic words
hood come back t
personally, bat I think. that an his old
pupil Gael cla:
atched his career vith affectionete in-
terest.
He was called to the Bar in 1901, and
I remember his being congratulated by
the judges of the King’
ent was more literary and educational
than legal, and he never set himself to
acquire a pra‘
Instead he Tapkay ‘built up a reputa-
tion as an Irish scholar, edited with
for a Gaelic
ilingual newspaper, An Claid-
and began to produce some exquisite
Irish prost
robably the most enduring of his
writings will be some of his wonderful-
t charming idylls in literature, It
AN APPRECIATION OF PADRAIC PEARSE
in an article on| is
14 powers of Bit
Irishman who | Stat:
sg) ally been u:
fought and bled, and pleaded and wrote | wi
ne me and: said—'Listen, Willie, 15
My university ‘ite in Dublin’ came|st
brilliant argument he Snade; but his} te
fe fag ¢ mpletion. He would
Louis it Waly in the London “Chronicle”: Tells of His Early
and of the Ideals Which Finally
Mae Him the Insurgent Leader—Believed That Fighting in
a Just Cause Is the Only Noble Thing.
the story of an old man who had
lost his faith, but loved the little ones;
and because of this love “little Jesus”
came with the bare feet and in the tat-
tered dress of 2 _Densant child, to win
him back to Hi
Hardly less touching are some of his
other stories, such as “Bairbre,” an ex-
quisitely sympathetic study of a little
girl's love for an old doll; “An Sagart,”
treating of a boy's yearnii to become
a priest; or “Little John of t! rds,”
which. is a most affecting Vyesontation
of the wistful loneliness of ’a peasant
ehita awalting fe return of the migra-
g birds in
"No Tess remarkable was P. H. Pea re
‘an educationist, and probably thi
ideas which be for malated and tried ‘8
have bigger consequences
than will even be the effects of the ill-
starred revolution which he headed.
loved his wor
for he held that there was nothing more.
| interesting .and. more-beautiful in all
the world than the soul of an unspolled
live and die within its peaceful pre-
it was not to be. The boil de
Irish Volunteers, and the stran
tent, seductf
wn the memory-laden place in which hi
of @ Sri ne party in Dul school was situate held for him myster-
It far more tikely that. the fous whisperings; for Sarah - Curran
an: would live and aie inthe quiet aaa lived hard by; aad every visitor to
seclusion of some eeat.of learning, and a’s was show’
be remembered merely for the books ch the antique
boldly prea
i is the only noble
fe in the Irish Review
February, int Scand that he e only is at
peace with G
THE BROTHERS’ BOYISH VOW.
A special correspondent of the Cen
ublin writes—From
to me by Mrs. Pearse,
mother of Patrick Pearse, the executed
rebel leader, it appears that.the Presi-
lent of the short-lived. Irish. Republic, } 4
had from childhood been possess
a presentiment that he would one day
give his life for Ireland, and had actu-
ince his early
years to fight for Irish liberty. ““The
story ‘as related by irs. Pearse is as
follows: “When ~ and Willie
(earse’e bromner whe was also ‘shot.
mall boys, the elder only
ement,
¢ | as I found out myself only a few weeks
ago, to fight er Ireland.” Tt was Willie
told me the
“It was winter's Bight, mother,”
he said, watter e had been reading
lot about Robert “zmmet and. the men
of *98, and “were wondering when: [re-
land would ‘be “free. “I noticed ‘Pat -was
very thoughtfal, and I could not make
ut, but I thought it was only his
‘ay, and so I didn’t say anything.
were both undressed, and were just
down to say our prayers, Pat turned to
3 want
you to tell me, do you love Ireland well
with all your heart and sou!
said ‘Yes.’ ede
her then? adde
her if it
then he told me.
‘it's my ambition
the liberation of Ire!
‘eupon,” continued Mra, Pearse,
“tna two children quite unknown to
to each other through life a
art
of the nog until the re end for fear
of upse game over
0 bid'me good bye. Pe raps the last
good bye,’ he sali member, and
went off. .
was only in the dark days that
ensued that 1
story
master), had
boken of the work of his life fe near:
ofte
it, for another hour and the ‘whole
at-St. Enda’s,|!
is at war with the
at war 7 pr
‘| tion, guncotton, dyn:
| it to sink:
5.4
‘heed’ G
Ireland laugh at him.
ee
a single shot, and” the death they
desired would « hi
uld fail, but
ould come of It, a
‘that it’ was -the ‘onl way.”
THE BROTHERS PEARSE,
High Mass in Church of Annunci.
“ation, Rathfarnham, for Souls
of Martyred Patriots—Widow.
ed Mother Saluted. by Crow
of Sympathizers, , -
High Maés for fe qepose ot the si souls
of Padraic H. Pea
th
William James Pearse, who here
dered in’ Kilmainham “Jail, was cele
brated ‘at ‘12 o'clock on Sunday; June
in the Church” of the « { Anmunetet
Rathfarnham. ct
The celebyant of the “Mass” was’ the
Michael Behan,’ ‘C.C., Rathfarn.
hem deacon, Rev: William O'Le:
» Rathfarnham; _Sub-deacon, Ren
thomas Moore, nd master of
ceremonies, Rey. James Farrell, S.J.
here was a huge-vongregation, ‘peo.
ple attending*from ‘several parts of tho
The churé
Castie:
“Bevediction’ of the Bless
was ‘given, ‘the J.
Brennan, §.J., officiating, esistor: by
other priests. : After Benediction: the
Hymn to St. Patrick was sung by. the
chotr,
As Mrs. Pearse,
the widowed mother
‘tives: were leaving the thureh they were
Tespectfilly-and sympathetically alu
ed: by the crowds gathered outsld:
SUNK BY HER HER OWN CARGO,
is
Damage Suits Agai Against the Cun-
“ard. Company in’ Which Claim
“Is Made That the “Lusitania”
Went. Down on Account of Ex-
plosives She Carried, .
That the Lusitania was sunk. by: the
in the. Lusitania disaster.
The intift . Oh one suit is Mrs. Sarah
Lund ‘of “tilinots, widow of Charles H.
yan heirs
m Mounsey, also’ of Illinois.
ra ‘Nola of re Street is
attornéy in ‘both ‘s
’The’ plaintiffs bese. thei “contention
that the Canard Compeny was respons!
ble for the sinking of the pitani
the fovowing allegations:
6 Lusitania laid itself open: to
attack | ton submarines and imperilled
thé liveg ‘of its ‘Passengers by assuming
the appearance a character of a Brit-
ish wdr vessel.
2. “It had on poard eu amm
eitrogiyeer-
and other high exp rave
with submarines, all o!
be used
e Germ
4. When the ship’ was struck dy the
torpedo *from the rine thé con-
cussion set off the ‘ammunition and ex-
plosives, ‘and the resultant explosions
in different’ parts “o sel caused
The! “Cunard * Cémpaiy fatled to
rmhaniy’s* warn! ine ‘that she in-
enemy merchant ves
tended t 0 ‘sink’ al
Germany in: fulflmen: It
sunk many such Wessels ‘sailing under
the British flag before May 7, 1915, the
the: Lusitania was or
pedo.
€ transportation ‘of the subms-
rine On the torpedoed ship was a vio
lation of
‘Thos ein sharge of the Lusitania
failed to maintain a proper lookout for
submarine
8. The vessel was unseaworthy
3|it-left port by-reason of the fact thet
it was not. equipped. with the proper
number of watertight compartments 0
keep it affoat atier the attack, or the
f life-boats, rafts am
nits of
4 asta
mages
Forty-four suits or ~ “notice of sul
.| a similar nature have been -file
the Cunard - pany.- The
asked will total several ations
-
sympathetic studies of child say
among the Irish-speaking peasantry of | Treland fe stil unconquered and "she
the West. Pearse did not merely love| still unconquerable helleve those
children, He reverenced them with an|were his last words, just beforé his
intense realization of the truth that| death, though they were not allowed to
“of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.”| make speeches, and even ti 'e poems he
It wi rt of his philosophy that|wrote in prison were not given to me.” the
women art than men, il-| "Asked whether her sone ever thought through ee agency of :a. pries
dren the wisest of all humanity, be-|they had a chance of’ winning, Mrs. { pries receive four dollars.
cause they are most in touch with the| Pearse replied. “"No, they knew they oo
unseen, His. short story, “losagan”} would fail, but, as Pat said to me, “the} Butcher: Maxwell thought. tine
(the Irish peasant’a affectionate dimin it would save Ireland’s soul, ey | great “fellow until. he ran i
ative for “Iosa,” Jesus) is one of the were only just in time, and they knew] Bishop. O'Dwyer. The're ermal
‘0.$30,000 damage —