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‘July 15, 1916.
The Saelic Amenican.
It Makes Confusion Worse
Wheels.
By long odds the best criticism of
Home Rule, plus Exclusion, appears in
the form of a letter published in the
tory I mes, ot June 22. over the
“Pontificu: it
point of view it exposes mercilessly the
utter administrative
yond follow Partition of “Yreland as
‘d George plans et ith the bene-
tition of John Redm
The letter, which is headed, “gettle-
ment Under Shell Fire,” follows;,
je
estrensing the sympathies of their op-
Dees anyone think Mr. Lloyd George's
scheme will secure the goodwill of any
of
eceptance -of ‘the
scheme, We are going to gain less than
nothing if the crazy machine won't
work. - Upon that roposttion I venture
to open the es din;
f Irishme upon the
principle of Home ule, the framing of
2 working Constitution would be a mat-
ter of no small difficulty. The alt
cation of the simplest and
e to the isting
sdminietrative and. vexecutive muddle
ion—chosen solely for
aaa nd capacity, a and supported by a united
envisage his.task. | *
an Irish Parliament be assumed.
ent ot Jreland Act, | ©
interweay-
ines, creates initial ainicultien which, I
id, the most skilled and sympa-
Bet of our administrators contem:
late with considerable misgi
Honal I Health urance and public san-
are to be run from Westminster
Colt
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ity infirmaries ot m
Unemployment Insurance to be
and aoe
Dublin! law snd
don! Local
Agriculture to be financed
ler any financial
Parliament and Treasury yold for prac-
‘tical purpos
. we are pidden to accept,
to be “administered” by thi
Home Office! What arrent nonsense!
» Are we always to be treated as harm-
less Idiots? “The blessed “Home Office”
is to administer Local Government Acts
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the banks of Lougl
qotree, nothing of the 1 kind is serlously
fntended. “New will take
home of the
Rew administrative bdrioa-brac,
that the six counties will exercise their
own patronage. In a word, every Te
constructed department of governmemt
@ twenty-six counties will be
is, of course, an obvious pre-
“AN ULWORKABLE LEGISLATIVE MONSTROSITY.
‘Bost oe of the Abortion of Home Rule, With Six Counties
Ulster Excluded, Appears in the Tory
Would Be “A Gypsy Parliament for Every County” Put On
is|not for Dublin?
fusion — that| hi
"You, ¢ gue under shell fire—| his native and his adopted lands?
you ly decide.” Must we have an , ete,
Irish Constitution produced under these “Powtiricus.”
condi fe are told that some| June 21, 1916.
mysterious but potent influence, which| - [Whoever “Pantiicas” may be, be is
it is bi an Irishman wishes well to Ire-
tle-| land and is a "potter friend of qretand
>| VINDICATION OF CASEMENT.
t|The New York “American” Says
a-| with Casement.
“| the established procedure’ of the courts
if
Justice to the people of Ir
" editor of the Aim
“Trish Times”—
Confounded The Logical Thing
siderations of economy and later con-
venience. Why not set up the necessary
ministrative machinery wheels?
dad it this precaution for Belfast, why
y not, indeed, do
the logical thing, and give us a gipsy
at
can could hesitate: to expend his last
ys
tem embodying the political genius of
than an:
warty. —Editor G. A.J}
Parliamentary
That in the Supreme Court of
the Future the Verdict of Eng-
lish Court Will Be Condemned.
supreme court of the future
that verdict wa be reversed and that
sentence set
At the jtdgment bar of history, this
felon, now condemned to die for a most.
high crime, will be hailed as a hero ani
a martyr.
He wal fake ‘Ris honored place with
Emmet at mn Brown and the others
f the innumerable company of just] lad!
inet creasing
nd. ,
was with Emmet, so was it
His condemnation was
assured before he was arraigned, and
advantage of
his defense at the
appeal to
of England to mi
bar of public opinion and his
the verdict of the ages.
in an
must elicit the sympathy and the adm!
avon of every
n in the wi
othe result of ‘that appeal to the pres-
he | a
ent judgm ne yanking and to tl
future is fort
prisoner at the bar is acquitted
and goes forth to Meet the applause of
ous in at countries
‘ection
of the Irish eonle till the, last genera, | He
tion shall by ‘© been born on the soil
Eri
“put there is another angle of vision.
ef
relan
sideration, “ve think,
be expressed then in the
5g following lettor of Ematructton and co1
ment addressed by Giearat. to the
PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
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To the editor of
Please write an editorlal on Sir
poser Casement’s speech. It seems
a fonda mental
titude of Englishmen toward ae
men and, in fact, towar
could
with stoi selfishnes
tice an retain thelr loyalty.
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the lesson of Ireland until there
has been ‘a wholly successful Irish
rebellion—-a rebellion as successful
s the tion of our colonies.
hat in order
to on terms
with every other unit and for jus
England than it
cause the whole future of the Brit-
ish Empire sone on ce
man
good and right thinking ‘
ot
erefol
‘ ment, ‘aylag to each "roglend | that
lesson, should be even more honor-
ed in England than he fs in Ire
land.
“course, Englishmen cannot
understand or appreciate these
facts at this time. They learn like
boy at school, only through
the application of the
But those eughcenea minds
throughout the world wbo genuine
ly love Mberty and equality and
who appreciate the value of lb
a
ing the loyalty of a people will hi
8 a leader in thought
and a hero js dee a
Hearst.
‘To! this exposition of Pogland’s real
relations and obligations to Sir
Casement and to Ireland there 1s
nothing to
very fentence tn weighty with truth
and permeated by the sound philosophy
o
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To expect England to realize her
duty to Ireland {s unreasonable at this
me. To expect England’s rulers to
perceive at this time the right path by
which wise statesmanship could.
th
anything, would be equally unreason-
able.
t in an atmosphere | ot passion, sus-
pielon, hatred, tumult ai e clear
Ju ‘gment and wise
counsel to be expecte;
Ireland must walt yet a while for
freedom.
Sir Roger Casement must wait yet a
while for his vind{cation at the bar of
the world’s
England t a while for
the clear vision to see her duty and her
opportunity in Ireland,
as surely as God reigns in
atfec! an the cause . His Heaven, and that justice and right-
the Altes? If so, let them speak! For| (From the New York’ American.) usness: and mi ways con-
oth than conclusive evidence] Sir Roger Casement has been con-|querors in the long struggles and in
ot the obability wit dustity the adop-| victed. numerable conflicts which mark the up-
tion of a proposal which (1) no single} In the eye of the law, by the verdict | wari onward march je race of
Irishmi pon it merits, and|of the jury andthe sentence of the|man, just so surely will Ireland yet be
(2) is a legislative and administrative | court, he is a traitor to the r 5 independent, the children Erin be
absurdit er proposition is a| enemy of the King and a forsworn vil-| free, and the name an ft Case-
ment be held in love and honor through
the ages of the ages.
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TRISH GIRLS DEPORTED.
Asquith Afraid of Irish Women,
Sends Rive to Zaelih Prison.
Dublin
pavers of sine "21, that ine following
ies, wh ad been in custody in
Mountjoy Prison, ane for the past
seven weeks, on suspicion of having
been co1 nected with the Easter Week
Rising, were deported to Lewes Prison,
England, @ June 1!
. Misses Breeid Foley, Helena Molony,
Maire Perolz and Neilie yan, Dublin,
ne
satisfied the ladies
cannot be rel 0 ed.
Premler Asquith 1s unrelenting in
irish patriots, and the b!
nolly, Plunkett and the other
patriots Se on his head. e name o'
ny and savagery ‘The brand
of Cain ts on Asquill
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*,/HOW MARTIAL LAW WORKS.
Father M’Kenna Protests Against
the Insolence of Soldiers and
Police—Father
ters Opened and Examined,
. M’Kenna, CC.
Knockmoyle, Omagh, County ‘Tyrone,
mt ne following otter to the Dublin
endent, rotests strongly against
Drardial Jaw and the reign of terror in
Treland:
Sir—The principal defence I have
not in rentence, much less harass,
eaceable, law-abiding subjects. Fro!
rsonal expert I know that the
application o1
noys and outrages
feelings of the most harmless and la
abiding men. As an example I cite the
case of Mr. Patrick Maguire, Mountjoy.
He is one of the mo:
within the four shores of Ireland; hts
as his private
earnest,
sleatical circte tn Ireland. Father Ma-
ire sit to his brother; at
the local priest, y called on Father Ma-
guire; ardly seated when
four motor cars pulled up at the gates, | Pearse,
from which alighted armed men—sol-
diers and policemen —who proceeded to
surround the
While this ‘aitcary feat was being
accomplished by one squad, another on
tered the house, and rushed hurriedly
rooms, snap) cupboards,
into open
guire's private letters were opened and
ne} Donagh and Plunkett, not only their
-|honor their
Maguire's Let-| the
-|of ‘Militant Gaeldom.
at respectable men | a:
@] were so composed that,
|.| nothing in bis speech was dry 01
examined; nor ia this all, even the tem-
Father Maguire
d Holy Mass while on his visit
martial law, and all this while Father
Maguire and myself were looking on.
e can imagine, then,
worse, how uel more insolent, is the
treatment the roor peasant
when subjected to the tender mercy o'
martial absence of anyone
whose e considered to
mollity the tute and mitigate the
hard ips attending © such domictlary
nthe name of the People of this lo.
cality, for whom I can speak, I entel
the most emphatic protest, against mr
tial law and against the manner, the at-
titude, the conduct an@ the insolence of
carry out its provisions,
We calmly discussed the whole affair
next evening. None of us had ever
been Sinn Feiners, nor had the
slightest connection at any time with
any oF gantaaton, but we
unanimously dec! en declared
with emphast that we could not
promise not to be Sinn Peiners in the
futur
INH. M’Kenna, C.C.
Knockmoyle, omesbe June 15, 1916.
THE IRISH MARTYR BARDS.
Selections From the Poems of
Thomas MacDonagh, Padraic|.
Sir Roger Casement Have
Just Been Published—Padraic
Colum’s Tribute to Poets of the
Revolutionary Brotherhood.
Poems of the, Irish Revolutionary
Brotherhood—Thomas MacDonagh, P.
H. Pearse, Joseph Punters, and sir
Roger Casement.
Edited by Padrafe Colum and Ed-
ward J. O'Brien.
Published by Small; Maynard and
Company, Boston, 1916. Price 50 cents,
net.
The publication of an anthology of
the poetical works of the Irish Revolu-
tonary Brotherhood of 1916
mely and will be welcomed by the
Irish race througout the world. Like
the 48 and '67 movements of the last
century, the Present «revolutionary
movement has its poets and wi
As we are living in a
age, in which poetry is not fully appre.
ciated, it ie very probable th
small number of Ir
the very high-class poems
Mac ‘Donagh and Plun
ets, Perhaps fewer sil suspected
that Roser Casement had written poems
of very high. m
the poetical works of the
martyrs toucti every chord of human
feeltug, nearly all the selections fo thls
little anthology refer to Ireland, and in
earse, Mac-
o
will live for ever in
the Irish people and a free Ireland will
memor)
‘The introduction by Padralo Colum
the Irish writer, is Intensely
interesting. Mr. Colum
poets intimately and his
new Nattonal
l¢ graduated from University College
and was called to the
“Meanwhile he had mast nstered the
EIS
eekly, A:
(Lhe Sword of Light) ant
1d his intention of making it the organ
eo.
it it were not| a1
for we “Kdndiiness fad his humor,
rac Pearse
but never anxious reflection.
when he ad-
dressed you in conversation, parts ot
what he sald might go into essays o:
lectures. He talke
pedam
oe much enthuslesm~—geave
thusiasm, indee¢—was fn all he said,
All his programmes were for the re-
creation of a chivalry fn Ireland.
“He never spoke un tnaly, Ror even
slightingly of any perso: rt did
er, the even center Wilttem
, who was shot wit
mE
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although the Gaelfc was the culture he
always looked to, his father was an
Englishman who een a Protestant.
Padraic Pearse was unmarried and he
ved with his simple and gentle
mother, with his brother and his two
| sist
ow much | SE
receives was
Pearse, Joseph Plunkett and Page
materialistic |
ett, the martyr t
often npoke of.
n-| “He
.Jumes of Ubrary
wr himn fromthe year before| ©
Dublin.
-|the first years is In ‘Song:
TORTAMDInOS. But | troph
the office of An Claidheamh Soluis and
Irtsh education. 1g dwell-
ing house in Rathmines, a suburb of
blin—Cullenswood House, where t
historian Lecky once lived, and ope!
there # secondary school for boye—
‘oil Eanna or St. Enda’s. The school
was to be bf-lingual— js to say,
to give instruction through ‘Irish
as through English. The whole
sotospnere (of, the school was to
* imo yeere afterwards
turned Caltenswoot How
girls’ school, Sgofl Ide
FO
a
OLD BUSHMILLS
IRISH WHISKEY.
10 YEARS OLD
Made in Pot Stills Exctu-
sively From Irish Grown
Barley Malt.
brought St, Enda’s ‘nt
Into a big Eighteenth Century mansion
with extensive grounds, known as
He ermitage, Rat hts taham. It is curious
to note that St: Enda’s and St. Ita’s
were the only lay Catholle schools in
ani
“A ‘resco painting in the hall of Cul-
jouse represen nted the boy
Cuchullatn taking e Druid
warns him that whoever takes arms on
name famous
leath. Around
‘I care not ff my Ife has only the
pan of a night and a day, if my deeds
be spoken n of by the men of Ireland
“This was the spirit Pearse wished
to kindle “ia his boys.
so.
“Atter he took up teaching he con-
ected all bis lterary efforts with bis
chi he produced a hae
ant ‘Cuchullaia’ and another year
a little religious play “Tosagan’
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“In 1911 he wrote a Passion Play in
Irish. * * * A year later he publish-
ed his single took of verse “Suan
traidhe agus Goltraidbe” (Songs
Slumber and of Sorro'
languege of bis lar-Connacht, parish.
the spring ot youd he made a
visit to America and raised some funds
for his schools by lecturing on Irish,
literature and on his ideas of educa-
tion. In the winter of 1913 the Irish
Volunteers were organized. Pearse had
already formed a corps of Boy Scouts.
He was one of the Executive of the
Irish ‘ohuntcers:
“I am ready: tor years I have walt:
ed and prayed for this da:
the most glorious opportunity that has | ha
ever presented itself, of of really asserting}
ourselves.
never com‘ in. We have Ireland's
¢| Uberty in our hands, Will we be free-
or are we content to remain as
ly watch the final exte!
el?’ He wrote those
rds in an article published oe aS
‘nsursection. ke
‘ould ‘all a staal o
who saw “Thonias MacDo1
dieval university. But M
as far from peing
He was a wonderfully good c
eager friend, a happy-hearted compan-
fon. He had abundance of good spirits,
and a fiow of wit and humor remark-
able even in a Munster man. He had,
ti mate knowledge of the’ hu-
ure, his schol
nating nose, he I
Gironde—a party, ty ‘the way, that he
in Cloughjordan, a
town ia. “County Tiprerary, and his
father and mother were teachers in the
He
Igtous novice in early yout
came ‘a teac!
ny and atteryards fa 1
wards he ‘Arren. Toland
tnd to the Trish: speaking districts in
Munster, and made himself fluent in
the language. He published some vol-
Te,
His great interest
‘well
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to Catullus, Dant d Racine. After
he came to Dublin the poetry he wrot
was ni Wh
“His country was always, in his mn,
Dut it did not fill it exclusively, as
might be oatd om pare filled Pear:
mind. en the Nationalists
created thetr Volunteers Thomas Mac
poor had a place on the Executive
the command of a@ cor)
vethe historical figures that appented
the Graceht and
ler,
of tee three
peated aa
straight to him were
the Irish military Ie
O'Neill. In the lives
was oe drame teat
oughtful mi
Tutlontsts the preperation of the vot me
Hi baba the flerce conflict and the
gee
8
ote, day, about
cones pe me that a lady
ied vealied at the school ask bim te
bere her son at his trie eendies
was Madame Plunkett.
ay consented, and Be oat Joseph
Mary Plunk became
B3
He looked a youth who could do
istera,
“Eight years ago he decided to leave
the fresco in Old Irish was Cuchullain’s| 3,
repl
portunity will! stro:
tn bis seademle robe and. noticed bie of th
He de-| Por
er in a Cotlere. in Kilken-
MacDon: ne
his friend. “Toueph Piuakett was often al
will, I saw him in New York in Sep-
tember, 1915, and I was impressed by
be decision and command he had
ined to.
onTa the fall of 1913, after he had pub-
ci
shed his book rse, ‘The Circle
Sword, he and Thomas Mac-
Donagh took“ over the eview.
ike his friend, Donagh,
f y
session and repression. But their most
cherished memory was that of martyr-
The Venerable Oliver Plunkett,
nd he would have the
war out of
a
“I have bropght their history through
rish Volunteers
laration, they have passed
our sizht, and they hav,
f the memory of Ireland. *
“If poetry comes out of intensity of vis-
-/1on, Roger Casement was potentially a
The viston that made him
‘trongly to all forms of 0}
com-
binatione.
and the poems he has written
be few. In some of the Irish fournale
he has published ballads about events
in Irish history.”
A copy of e “Poems of the Irish
Revolutionary Brotherhood” should be
in every Irish-, American hom
SLAP AT BOWEN-COLTHURSTS.
@ permission granted to Mrs.
exOstthorst to erect a fountain in Can
rigadrohid to the memory of her hus
‘wn unani:
Mr, Sheehy Skeffington
giving the history of tt an
It is a hopeful sign to s
to manhood and patriotiam in the Cork
County Council. The savagery of the
British Government has aroused the
Irish people as they have not been
roused in this generation.
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CANADA'S NEW GOVERNOR.
(From the Toronto, Canada, Weekly
un.
vernment has fore-
stated intrigue by sppetntns wnout
the Duke of Devon:
Gorsrnor Generalship. The Duke te 4 2
great Innded aristocrat; the head of
the Anti-Socialist League, which em-
braces among its aversions the oe
tax, a Liberal Unionist, an anti-Home
jer and following the lead of his
Duke, better
known as the Marquis of Hartington, a
staunch Free Trader and an opponent
of the Tariff Reform polictes of Joseph
Chamber ‘Tait
josely Tesembles in appearance
“onele, who though ae clever
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nor subtle, waa noted for mon
sense, straightforwardness and con-
tentious devotion to duty and was
easton, In the House of Commons, he
yawn in the middie of bis own
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eee BLYTHE DETAINED.
louse of Commons, on June
vnéer
roman, Joseph
his ill-health, hed remarkable power at
t the fm, rogulatione, and was at
present ia Brixton Pr 1on,