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July 1, 1916.
The Saelic Amenican.
REDMOND’S BETRAYAL.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Fein party and the proposed
the Sinn
nd as
concessions are regarded in
r
, however,” the’ mani-
other Nationalist leaders were present.
Resolutions
pest gratitude for the magnificent
_ spirit of pao self-sacrifice mani-
fested at rence of one ster
. Nationalists ‘in consenting to the ti
porary exclusion et Oe Ulster counties
from the Home Rule Act.
The relations “ties favored urging
acceptance of Mr. Lioyd George’s plan
and emphatically protesting against the
conduct of the Government in failing to
- {berate men imprisoned who in no way
the recent upris- Do
jet
were connected. with
ing in Ireland.
BISHOPS OPPOSE - PARTITION
str Must Not Be ] Bo Divided From| tio
eo Rest of
Treland—Proposi-
‘He a Gross Insult to Spirit of | ¢
, Nationality. . .
om meeting wat
eld on June 8
in
magh, County Tyrone, to consider the 5
aon which
Lloyd George 8
end approved by, the I Irish Parliamen-
resental
Pertton of Irelan
Coinis Counetts and or lee, Boaras
Ther also in at-
tendance a iarge muriber ot priests and
oer prominent p ‘sons. -
posed to the scheme
ot avin “veland 0 cn religious or any
were received
from txt titcter 1 Bishops strongly pro-
testing clusion of Ulster
from the t rest of Ireland.
BISHOP OF DERRY CONDEMNS IT.
"The Bost Be _Dr. M’Hugh, Bishop
of Derry, w
“T heat iy. ‘oin my..voice with yours
in. protesting against any proposals
that would be inconsistent with the
ideal of an Ireland One and Undivided,
which Nationalist U Ulster. has-ever kept
before her. in the strenuous
fad of necessity ‘o play in the struggle
for Home ne during the past quarter
ota .
“ ‘understand, some. people, are dis
sed to regard the silence of Ulster
Nationalists as equivalent to acquies-
in any proposals, however out-
iach or unjust, that may be put for-
ward, even to the severance of their
connection, ‘with the rest. of Ireland.
Greater mistake was never made.
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ont Xesionaist iter has been silent
and she has refrained from making wi
OF CLOGHER OPPOSED.
The. Most Rev. Dr. M’Kenna, Bishop
of Clogher, also expressed ae agree
ment with the protests agi net arth
tion: His letter is in part
. mu ee Pai nition, ireland
question, Such a solution would set
.
tition Ireland would be to of:
@ grossest insult to the spirit of
Irish Nationality. It would be utterly
should such a proposal be m:
hoves every Irishman who tore his
ntry, © desi promote the
id dest
- Welfare, prosperity and happiness of its
Peo)
phatic protest
inst such -& propo: sal, and to do
crerything tn his power “to prevent suck
& catastrophe
land in twain. from befalling our ie
loved country.” »
1 BISHOP Pr DONNELL MILDLY
ple, to enter an
“The Most. nev Ope onnell, Bishop
ot Paphos wrote arcing his opposition
at would divide thelr
mm the rest of Ireland. His
8 and
once ‘characterized Dr.
ODonnell's * ronouncenents.
BISHOP McRORY ADDS HIS VOICE,
The Most Rev. “Dr. MeRory, Bishop
of Down and Connor, wre
“Tam opp
ettlement of the Trish Question which
and - true staeemanship ought to
le of healing in
stead of Perpetuating our unhappy dit
ferences... Bi en more orposed
relat
rebellion, encourasin 2 |
were passed expressing the | iD&
part “she| alrea
Bx
county until all the people of the oun
y ing
‘ong!
against Partition in. any form were
unanimously adopted
THE PADEPENDENT” PROTESTS.
The Dublin lent, commenting
on the letters of ‘tne Ulster Bisbops, de-
nounces the: treachery of the Govern-
ment and the weakness or worse of the
Irfsh Parliamentary Party. The In-
dependent's article s in part as fol-
lows:
“The resolution passed by the repre-
Council,
it Clogher
ry genuine
Nationalist. any, Proposal to Partition
Ireland mu says, ‘repugnant
to every patriotic Tata | Such a
solution would settle ni
sion” would, @, be a mockery.
the Nationalist leaders reallz ze how
intensely oppose lers are to
the proposals now before the count
and how pi
was exp
If they have
any appreciation of the present opinion
of the coun try they: will at once—and
probably for the frst time for many
‘s—deal candidly and straightfor-
People’s ey
“This inane policy, so much in vogue
for jobs is what has di ed fro’
Party good and sterling Nationalists,
and er, a
factionists.” We warn Mr. Re ond
and his three colleag:
National movement, irequenty ithoat
consultation with the
the Party, and nearly
regard to the feeling of the country,
that if this policy is persisted in at the
present
w
draughts; ‘but they, will not have ‘the
poison of Partition
A ROYAL SOP TO CERBERUS.
The Duke of Connaught Slated
for picer of Ireland Under
Bogus Home Bule Scheme,
WA, Ont. June 26.—Cont
iat avieea reaching the Canadian "oar
ital from England intimate that the
proclamation of Home Rule for all Ire-
eral to-day
farewell inspection to, the Canadian
nits training for’overseas serv!
will leave Canada for Great Britain in
going straight to London, Th The
ary t
ern ¢
Joyd George e ule is
pected to be throug! ‘liament
aoout the date the Di
uke of Connaught
is timed to land.on the. other side.
e
Duke of Connaught fs personally
t a bad fellow, but placing him at
3
3
g
a
a
a
fe
and the suppression of
ideals and aspirations. The English al-
ways treat the Irish
whom it 1s only neces:
toy to play, with, while they are robblng
m out of the country
lish, ke the Bourbons,
ing and forgotten nothing.”
LORD SELBORNE RESIGNS.
ne 2—The Earl of Sel-
norne. rai resigned the presidency of
the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Official announcement to this effect was
ace toate ht.
= ning gost says that the resig-
nation of Lord Selborne was
his Siseareement with the Irish settle
ment scheme.
“He .may not be the only ren to
resign for the scme reason,”
ing post says, and quotes “ob Dillon
as saying that it was quite possible
that the pronossle will not be adopted
a. Cabinet break up 01
question.
to any schem k to in-
Yolve in the operation. veterred to any
—_+>—
Wilson forgot to accept Hughes’s
resignation. “with regret."—New York
Amey
- Dresded over the gal
{| brutal treatm
ch
.| eulogized Thomas
and stupid role of throwing dust in the
a
“alway ‘rithout e
| ieaders of the Irish Revolution by the
ich | 20,000: British troops.
as because of | et
Morn:| by British writers for more than three
HONOR THE IRISH MARTYRS
Big Meeting in Palm Garden,
rooklyn, Pays Tribute to the
Men Who Died for Ireland—
Thomas Lonergan Orator of the
ening:
More than one thousand persons at-
tended. the memorial meeting for Ire.
land’s martyred
Blends of Irish
lay evening, June 22,
Greene and Ham
lyn, flag of the Irish Republic
covered the rostrum,
William F. Delaney, Clerk of the
Maglatrates Court and Democratic, lead-
the Twentieth ‘Assembly “District,
thering and
cation of England's
land.
Freedom, on Thurs:
t Palm arden,
strongly in denun
ent of Ir
Father Joseph Fay, of St. Brigid’
urch, a young priest, born in Dublin,
MacDonagh, the
the country,
were martyrs, aye, saints, and he
lieved they would be venerated as long
as Ireland remain e to the spirit
they
be-
Ireland rou;
memories of Americans the cruelty o:
the same pe: Government during
tte until complete independence
“Thomas F. Ahearn made a short talk.
John H. Columbine of the
that Irish relief comes first,
land shea fought
splendidly and those who suffere:
accorded a Tising vote of than s
The o Principal speaker of
was known Irish ‘Netionallst
Thomas SI Tonergan of New York, who
sounded the ote and kept his audi:
ence deeply intereste dat every st
is many telling points evoking enthu-
jastic pplauee
ergan's address was, in part,
&
2
as follows:
The cold. blooded execution of the
English Government has shocked the
moral sense of mankind, has aroused
the sympathy of liberty toving
women everywhere, united the
Irish element an er “cals broad land.
It comes with v4
American to conden the Irish rebels
of .1916...Those men..who fell. on the
streets ot Dadlin Ashting for Irish free |
i
dom we e and as brave as the tg
‘American rebels who died Lexing-
ton and Bunker Hill fighting for Ameri-
can liberty.
The blood of the patriot t@ to liberty
phat the blood of the Christian ‘mar-
yrs of old was to the Church. There
ts no disgrace in being an Irish rebel
ause rebels e asaerters
of human Mberty. every country aad
fs every age. Those who die for hu-
an freedom r die in vain. The
Trfsh martyrs of “tate year have linked
t olfe
heir nai Tone
and Allen, Larkin and
O'Brien.
‘The Irish people were goaded into a
premature revolution thi
secution and tyranny wi
Defense of the Realm Act. They real-
ized that Conscription was about to be
envorced.
We t forget the noble part
played Ym “that uprising by the women
of Ireland. led the devotion
and bravery of the women o of Limerick
In 1690, Those Dublin
tela came from all walks in life
Man; ged to the aristo-
cracy and novi of Ireland. A num
ber of the and women who took
part in the “irish Revolution were
Protestants.
‘Less than 2,000 Irish insurgents held
most of Dublin for seven di
e
g
captured
Dublin Ct
land is ine “most finished product
ish misgovernment recorded in
The only rem-
people recognize that fact, the better
for them:
If Ireland were free and independent
¢ Switzerland or Holland she would
she most prosperous and conten!
e than a century England has
had the ear o of the world. . Her histor!-
ans, novelists and Journalists have per-
verted facts, falsified truth and m
sland’s enemtes,
humanity of perfidious Albion.
and the Irish bave been calnmniated
hundred years.
England owns or controls nearly all
news agencies {n Europe and 80 per
cent. of the cables of the world. Since
the present European war bei
ent. of the war news published in the
‘American press has come through Eng.
Ith sources.
During the past sixty years Ireland
vane i
burg ‘Avenues, Brook.|® much be
t| demand the
- | tion?
inst |
has been taxed $15,000,000 a year, ac
cording to an English Commission,
over and above what she ought to pay.
s id $900,-
Imperial Treasury
since 1854 to which England was not
entitled.
It would take too long to analyze the
shortcomings
much vaunted Hom
is a paltry
ment under German rule than the sus-
pended Home Rule Bill, in its present
form, would give to Irelen!
There is very little hope of an in-
hi
dustrial "revival iT pending
me Rule Bill which prohibjts Ir
land from having any control whatever
ver her fores rl
ce, labor exchanges, collection of
taxes or Post Office Savings banks,
s levied in Ireland shall be collect-
yy Imperial officers and paid into the
sicheauer of the United Kingdom.
ince the close of the Spanish-Ameri-
financial and political
freedom o!
American Flag, and
England or any other foreign Power.
Why should this young and vigorous
nation tie itself up to a decadent na-
Unless all Nee fail oe British
ire is doome: ich m
tional independ once of Treland and the
freedom of the seas for all nations,
both large and small.
During the past seventy years, Ire-
iand is the only country on earth that
lecreased In 1844
the population of Ireland was 8,500,000;
to-day it is 4,300,000 which in itself is
a strong indictment of British rule in
Ireland. Since 1820 fully five millions
f the ‘sons an Ts of reland
have gone into exile, 4,000,000 of whom
here come to the United
of hope to the » oppressed people of Ire-
land and as the success of the
American Revolution that gave inspira-
fon to Henry Grat:
t history is Philo jo80-
ple and certainly
there is no better ‘vay to judge the fu-
annals of the human race where any
eople ever achieved their freedom
and _independence, except by force of
It was force that, established a
republle in Switzerland in the re
‘teenth Century and levelled the Bastille
g
£
ni Fran Eigh-
teenth; it was force that enabled the
hirteen colonies to spring into an in-
vincible republic le George
Washington oi the Immortals of
modern times; force that p
served this Union, emancipated 4,000,
and independent from centre to circu!
erence,
iA collection in aid of the sufferers
as taken up and ther
Fesponee, The m eeting concluded with
the singing of “The Star Spangted Ban-
ner” and “A Nation Once Again,” by
Nhe | (he entire audience.
BIG LOS ANGELES MEETING,
Rabbi Hecht Says There
Bond of Mutual Porsegution
Between the Irish ani
Hebrews Father Dillon Prays
for Downfall o gland,
ELES, June 12.—Shrine
Auditortom | was thronged last re]
ith the s and daughters of Ireland,
Interspersed, wi all ri
cil, the County Board of Supervisors
and men prominent in Los Angeles and
drawn fro
the eurrounding country,
every walk of The main floor and
balconies ofthe auditorium was packed
and every seat filled. With the intro:
a
ction. evening’s programme Senator
and the mutual reason for the demons-|'Ashurst, Representatives Hamill, Eagan,
tration, the multitude tose T| Driscoll, Loft, County Clerk ‘William
seats ir fervor. . Kelly, of Brooklyn, N. ¥.; Patrick
ema
The Re Hecht, Rabbi of
the B'nal B'rith Syoagogue, we was
chairman of the evening, si
Jew, you are Tah Srhrooet
out, the world a strange ex.
isted between those races. ee bond
of mutual persecution. in striking
parallel their histories lie. From each
poet
e Rev. Paul Dilton, Pastor of St.
Cecella's Church, sa:
rebellion of hee is pot
at’ the Continental Congr
country that Irish fons proved their
love for freedom a Am
“If at that tim erica a Jn
fied, Ireland is ‘nore “than justified in
pm It the cause of Am erica was
just, the cause of Irelan. til mo
jut and it is a duty or “honor that
,| Peed that day.”
| cessfully make
Is al Mr.
America, mn the principles of
freedom and the Patel foe of oppre
is a duty we owe to posterity that we
ear the mask from Englands face,’
impassioned appeal of Father
Dillon went straight to the hearts of
is audience, and a tremendous wave of
applause greeted his remarks, He fol-
lowed with
, “judging the future of Ensland
by her past, what can I say for Ire-
If we wish to be free, what shall
That question has been elo-
men.
to the long rosary of Irish martyrdom.
Yet though they have fai
the manacles of tyranny from the head
of Ireland, and after centuries of perse-
cution,, Ireland stands lay uncon-
qu ered and unconquer
“The difficulties of England are the
advantages of Ireland. There never
through a
bloodless revolution. Should Baglend
lose in world struggle, Ireland may
survive. And I say to you here, God
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eeches were also delivered by Dis-
San Fran.
jam F. Quinlan of Pasa-
joseph S Scott of Los Angeles.
Pictures of Ireland and of the scenes
of the revolution were projected npn
Horan.
we nied by a lecture, review.
ing the vents just previous to the out-
e tragedies that culminat-
oa in the one great tragedy of all—the
execution of Padraic Pearse and his fol-
lowers,
Musical numbers by the Cathedrat| Church
Trio were very much appreciated by
8,
the audienc
MEETING IN WASHINGTON.
Dr. Hamilton Williams, Padraic
Colum and Shemus O'Sheel
Arraign England — Subscrip-
tion Started for Relief Fund.
WASHINGTON,
“Friends Irish Freedom” ftiea the
spacious auditorium of, Poli’s Theatre
last night, where, under the auspices
of fame organization of that name, they
‘d addresses setting forth the actual
voletions between Great Britain and
Ireland.
Dr. Hamilton Williams, chief of the
medical staff of the office of the Dis-
z
tured the scenes enacted during the re-
the time of O'Connell
hat n striving for a federal sys-
tem, “The situation in a nutshell,” said
Mr. Colum, “is that the reli
tween Great Britain and Ireland are
unsatisfactory because you cannot suc-
in an industrial cor
ple wit!
cultural ideas cannot rule justly a peo-
ple with a totally ditterent set, and,
e en ause @ people with a
tonal consciousness of Irish intenalty
annot be ably ruled by another
Coli
whether she is capable of holding rule
over a proud people.
generosity or in judgm:
must let ber know that her cecupation
upon as an
O'Sheel leo, snade a soul
fon taken up for
erished families of the
subscriptions which will amount up
into the thousands.
The meeting was presided over by
Professor P. J. Lennox, ae mec Catholic
| University. Seated o1
James A. O'Shea, President ot ‘the Tocal
.branch of the organiza’ on
J. Ryan, Rossa F, Downing, President
P. T. Moran, of the Chamber of ae
merce; the Rev.
pe Gathotte University,
o even, white and orange fiag of
tne Trish Repubdlic mes the: principal
jecoration. Small of this char-
dien:
KANSAS CITY IN. LINE.
United Irish Societies Decide to| te
Start Branch of New Organiza-
tion.
NSAS CITY, Mo, June 21—Thi
Council of the United Irish So-
cleties celebrated a double event last
evening, thefr silver jubilee and also
e ry of the birth of Wolfe
‘one. [Irish-American Hall was crowd-
ed ti An
present ire to establish
Pbranch of the Friends of rien Pree
D.C, June 26—|*
ts who lost their | as
the im-
Irish mar-| Russ!
tyra realized $334.40, with promises of | {
1
‘and L Louis
that
acter | were distributed ‘through the au-| oi
OLD BUSHMILLS
kk *
IRISH_ WHISKEY
10 YEARS OLD
Made in Pot Stills a
sively From Irish wo
Barley Malt.
for membership in the new organiza-
tion.
Mr. McKenna, who presided, ex-
pressed, hte pleasure at the size of the
audien
Speeches were delivered by Mess
Edmond Ly Anthony Nugent, John
J. Mullins, and John J. O'Connof.
Mullins spoke in Irish and w:
dently understood by a large proportion
of his hearers.
Mr. Thomas Moylan, Thomas J.
ine, Henry J. Keating, and William
Murphy rendered some choice Irish
elodies.
It was decided to hold a public meet-
ing at which a branch of the Friends of
Irish Freedom will be established an
officers elected.
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SUCCESSFUL BRONX MEETING.
A meeting was held Sunday evening,
June 18, at St. Anslem’s School Hall, the
Bronx, for the relief of the families of
led and imprison-
nin
The epeakere were: Rev. Father
American. Irish Historical Society, and
The speeches
mer,
were frequently interrupted by 8p
plause.
Professor Lonergan explained
the
causes that brought about the revolu-
tion and denounced the cold blooded ex-
ecution of the leaders. He said that the
brought tears to the
the audience,
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BRANCH IN CONCORD.
CONCORD, N. H, June 12—At a
large meeting, held last evening in
Capital Hall, @ branch of the Friends
eyes of many in
execution of the Irish prisoners of war
savagery,
Mr. Peter Golden, who represented
the National Committee
‘ick A. cut
ford, Daniel J. Doherty and Patrick
Reardon.
THE HYPHENATED HUMBUG,
The York Sun of June 20 print
ed the following letter from a corres.
‘ails in
ria | Pendent:
yaa are living in an age of hum-
om the President down to
istrict “Teader eversbody is talking
. nated American
mbug. and overy man
who exploits it is a hum
simon pure Americanism or plain hum-
5?
The hyphenated American bogie no
longer influences the lons or opinions
‘tial and intelligent Americans.
ala Tamnbug has been overworked until
as carried
is denuncia-
oath of
the
The trouble is
aden ders with
politicians, political conventions, the
press and even the President. The
hyphens of other metals do not count,
they are ag a matter of fact detestable,
rican, and ghey
ju sty merit the opposition of the com-
bined forces of humbu,
ARLES THOMPSON.
dom and several names were handed in
‘New York, June a
bug. .
hyphens are not objectionable,
eterna eh
enn wenn te tone