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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE. .
Vol. XIII, No. 84,. Whole No. 675, ie . NEW YORK, AUGUST 19, 1916. Bored anny sing ies Oat dae ot th tort Otten PRICE FIVE CENTS.
- the United States
Sy Their r Whole Sin’ in
ati
uttalo who, with John Gilt of
w York, wént’ to Irela
ine the Rellef Committee, to distribute
‘tne funds and investi
*.- Unton of both
‘completed. Most satisfactory. Gill
sated | Smurdey, Expect sailing
‘k-19th, Advise famt-
Nese * Murer,
This means that Mr. Murphy himself
ts to safl.on the American Line
_ seamen New York on Saturday.
0 Aid Committees which were
ich Mrs, Thomas
at, alming to take
tthe families
in, was Tress urer.
posalbility ot 2 : velash
or rivalry and makes the work of relief
easier. -
WORK OF THE FIRST ENVOYS.
Mr. Gillespie also ecelved the follow-
ing vette from Mr. Mury
n Wedneedee, July 26, 1916.
Me o h eaten New York.
Since I wrote to
you eee
ing
Yeatigations of the indivi {dual « cases of
distress and destruction.
both commatttees fairly: well «
we
organized and with the small ai
of money at their command doing the
“
nd represent-| pl
chbishops"and, sta Who Are
Censor is determined to keep the facts
from the Irish peo Bul of course;
the facts » reach Irish people in
spite of the Censor, though it takes a
longer. t!
ENGLAND'S DESPICABLE ACTIGN
England is getting meaner and m-re
‘That is ‘saying
turies we meanest nation in the whole
world.” But this war has brought out:
as Bo ‘otnet event in history has ever
her thera will be an eud to the British
Empire. ear that.she may
jose it ts bringing to the front. and ox.
did motives that have always governed
her, but which she managed to conceal
under the best organized and most col-
ossal scheme of false pretences in alt
human _ history.
Enel Jand’s desperate necessities make
shoceetlly ye aye
horseif, day’ b:
shattering the fabric of fal
she has built up 60 successfully: to
‘pest friends
Reson ree eg eattey ANd her hirelings in America
of bringing both committees together | Shamed of her 8 nd have no longer the
fs beginning to assume a most hopeful |CUTSS? to defend her shameless
aspect and you may have a wire befo EASTER WEEK DID IT ALL,
this reaches you th: jame has been Week
consummated, rairly successfitl, through hired sertbes
pres
rival nor anything whatever from
York 5: We find thet tor
@ present the sum of money
Drought is quitet ample suggest
your not fending more until you hear
trom me to that effect.
missed sudtence with His Grace
‘by an accident but will have one nex!
week, Father Bowden ts very kind and
Jot ecording us every courtesy
‘We met on the boat a very deliehtfut | "TO
Caritas | companion, a priest of the
Carmelite Order, Father Magennis, and
spent. t very pleasant evening at his
Place last week.
In Limerick 1 cattea on. Mr, Stephen i
hirelings. fakes about her Dow
dust on a shel
e-war tf Ireland
o wi hi
land. Ireland..had forgiven England;
Irish in countless thousands we
’ shop of - Limerick, i" fh they wer
whose views on matters ‘generally are| never» mentioned omelel dow
much quoted at this time. patches— very Ti
Sactous. : nd_was heaping, blessings on John
oe tae es ond's A this
On Monday we made application | for
Rudlence to ‘the: Earl of Dunraven,
hose boo! whose views on mat:
ters public and financial are very htgh-
ly respected. "We ed from
Redm ‘ding to
neture ot rela, England herself be.
Moved a this: she knew. that Treland
t loyal and could be trusted
Tooueitly. :
WORK OF THE VOLUN’ TBERS'
ES.
treely on Ireland and hope vant ee ange
make in the neat
fe, Galway, Cork, etc. in The " ies oe te friah Tolunteers pe at
ive our kindest: remembrances to|down a great man; ish soldiers
our friends. We far pleased
‘With our progress.
Fatthtunly yours, “
. MURPHY.
6 letter shows tne . the two first
avon sent to Ireland were not in
are 60
and @ ‘ctolly * ainproportanats number
of. officers, ut they also down
any mportant things. The:
ooh Treated bares
g; (uestions Asked by the Vulgar’ ‘and bape
Patgaunted to the S Third: Degree ” - Mts. Kelly,
! Otersfyth the Foch ey athe
scourtesy and a dation Wis a Deliberate Violation
MR
‘rounded ie
oe ba
1
posing to the whole world the low, sor-| mei
forget the hypocritical role she has| hey
he is/spicuously failed for, seven hundred
ye
‘ou| England for her benefi
hi
still passed cirrent in America because) p,
nt | of ceaseless repetition by her well paid
Citizens, Were Sub-
ndvfleld as ta During
Whose
Front, Was Treated
ean
at
Irish-Liberal { Alliance
ling, unscrupulous. and.
cowardly brute that he really is and
always was.
tpveered from Public use since the Hit-
tle ‘scrap between Asquith and. Red-
‘n- | mond. over the torn-up remnants of the
treaty to Par tition ireland and call it
“Home Rule, essions are
now: freely. made oaat dleloyatty is ‘so
Tfe in Ireland thet.a Jarge “English |
emny fe ery to feet Ader” cot
trol, The savage executions that fol
lowed the Rebeltion and the wholesaie
arrests an ¢ sufficient
inking man,
before they “hanged. Si:
nt, they began t re an incredul-
ous world that things were getting nor-
mal in Ireland again.’ But that .exhibi-
tion of English meanhess and savagery
gave the He ‘direct to se English re-
ssuranees and showed that England
still fears Ireland and wants to cow
r by same methods that have con-
&
8,
Now they. would rere the world be
Heve that act of crown! was,
6 Jast of the Irish Rebetion and that
ity” of Rebelé has. been - shattered,
ground into the dust, gna the peaceful
majority of the people re grateful to
enicent rid-
ding thé country of "ehelr ontilentiat
presence. is ts the kind of stuff the
land.
as English give out about Ire!
AFRAID OF TWO PEACEFUL MEN.
But, notwithstanding jand’s anxi-
of the most
ows, wives and children
she savagely pu
She let two missionaries of relief land
hed
violated, no “Seite ‘tow
New Solana, re barred from Ireland
—and barred with every circumstance
of brutality discourtesy at Eng-
land's comman 8 .
The. petty, stupid British ‘officals
must treat them with all the personal
pect of which they. are capable,
the decrenis little "Home Rule
Bir" to bits; they shot away John Red-
mond’s: deaderahlp and they mortally 1
siericaa Ship, Carrying the Flag of}:
yr | hap
zulel a Trishmag, aon
e | not
lleve this story, | 0"
ciniahed. nyt pose
SFT him
Washington, apparently in a manner
satisfactory tn
and had scrupulously complied with -all th
knows to be, Hes. Over three thousand
bread-Winnérs have been shot,
penal servitude ‘or deported,
hatred of the Irish people was not half
as its stupidity.
4 STUPID ENGLISH BLUNDER.
They could not possibly do anything
more calculated to jrritate and embit-
ter the Irish and stimulate the collec:
tioa of funds for the set of their vic
tims in played into
hands of their Irish one! mies. They at
fronted the three Cardinals and ail the
Catholic Bishops in America who are
Fa
made a demonstration more hurtful to
England than anything that any com-
bination of ber irish enemies could pos-
sibly
and. or their brutal treatment of the
wite of Mr. Jhomae Hughes Kelly they
offended France.- Mrs. Kelly is French
and all her male relatives who are of
militery age are fighting for France in
the present war, as ‘thelr ancestors did
all of France's in
Their ashes Iie on all the famous bat-
tlefields of Europe where Frenchmen
won glory and renown. But this
daughter of, France, which is now Eng-
land’ all ted with unspeakable
frdenass ‘ana “dial ity: because ‘she
wife wt a distin-
ik T lack of common-
Sone and tact thet dictated thie action,
ween is fully and openly approved by
the Bri ernment, is a striking
re vein om of the breakdown of
land's/ governing capacity. It was all
done on the order of the Home Office.
le recital by the two Relief
of ‘the treatment to which they
We hear less now of. England’s. zeal d in Liverpool by British
for the “Mba Nationalities;” the omelals, acting | f Gore ent
“scrap of ” has al whose - representative vas! on
reper” haa almost dis-| To cssured them of decent treatment
grea fe. itself.“ It will be a historic
doc :
—
2, Rytoming report of th > arrigal
- Ee ee Retief *2nvoys*snd’of the
ent they gave ot the presd is taken
from the New York Sun of Saturday.
August 12 “
Mr. and. Mrs: Thomas H. Kelly and!
Joseph Smith, who sailed from Ne:
York on board the American liner Phit
adetphia July 15 to distribute the irish
Relief Fund in Ireland, returned yes-
‘d for eleven days, while the
vessel was in dry dock for repairs end
painting.
Mr. Kelly refused to be interviewed
on the ship, saying that he first had to
consult advisers in the city, but last
night at the Hotel Monhattan he gave
out. the follow ng
“Messe, Thoma H._ Kelly of |New
ihe curtain was rung York . and Joseph’ Smith of Lowell,
tragedy. But Mars are aleays Detrng Mass., sailed from New .York on the
themse ives and American Line steamehip Philadelphia
a to those they try to deceive. Tre for Liverpool, for the purpose of dis-
land ts “paced?” the small minor-| tributing the Irish Relief Fund in Ire-
Jand.
e Coe or thi
Mr. George Gillespie of New York, at-
had ral telephon:
Mr. Potk, Louueniler ‘of the State De-
en adv ised him of the por
of the visit of Messrs. Kelly a
Smith to ‘rofend, and their character
and reputation had been discussed by
with the British Ambassador in
to all concerned.
ated | from New York
Liverpool July
fi
“The party
my to and arrived i
It anything wes concealed
about their persot
It was the sort of examination that
arrested criminals ar ly subjected
hadwand tell Ih world
(Continued on Page 8.)
ast./the Irish people generally.
England doee| w
Eng-} Engl
_— ted
STATEMENT OF THE ENVOYS
afforded
ic interviews with | ™
IRISHMEN DENOUNCE
ing The Distinguished Irishman
Services To Humanity—Also
The United Irish-American Societi-s
always adjourn their meetings during
the Summer months, but a special meet-
Ing Was convened last ‘Saturday even-
ff taking action on
great importance to
‘he meet-
ing -was held et the Irish-American
Athletic Club House, 159 East Sixtieth
Street, and was very well attendéd,
over fifty societies being represented.
Mr. De! Chatrm:
men ot Greater New
urder o r Casement, in
deftance of the roteats of practically
the whole civilized world; to denounce
tous frente nt of. Mr.
‘Thomas Hughes Kelly and Mr. Joseph
Smith, the ‘lolersies of the Irish Re
ef Fund, and to protest against the
blacktisting of American firms by the
ish Governm:
‘DENOUNCE MURDER OF CASEMENT
6
“Whereas, The. eit Government,
with Dersieteat stupidity and brutality
and’in deflance of the sentiment of al}
al, ttavrtg-toving <9 gt ~pnd-+ women,
S| tenced to death upon the gallows for
High Treason Roger Casement, end ex-
ecuted him in’ pursuance of sald sen-
tence;
“Whereas, Such condemnation was
pretended to be founded uron an obso-
lete and forgotten statute of the Eng-
lish Parliament, conjured up and tn-
voked only.for the purpose of this judi-
cial. murder,
&
Germany witnesses who sould Gisrro ve
the acts attributed to im
y and of
of wee
dds
iilustrious . ol of Irish pa-
triots who have g| their lives to fre:
Mberty and relief of his oppressed fel-
low-creatures, as attested by his’ Inves-
tigation and’ expos
outrages egal
te Congo,
5
3
2
£
3-7
oe
z
at
maimed to yield profits to English capt
whereby he succeeded in draw-
tng the world's attention to those out-
4|Tageous cruelties and stopping them,
nus demonstrating
were his a thoughts ‘and aspirat!
‘ected towards achteving the fre
of bis ‘native and, but extended. to-
wards the betterment of all his fellow-
men without distinction of race or coul
try; and
“Whereas, His entire career proves
him ‘to be a man of the purest’. sentl-
actuated by the highest
Deattatingy and Norful for his coun-
the drastic regulations of the Defence ficed for, can only ve dis-
of the But evidently the | Cs#™ization before debarkat Naeotehes ets ae y °
itish Government saw that they were THE PARTY- SEARCH? that of George Washington and his
getting hold of facts, and it is facts| | “Mr. and Mre. Kelly and xe Sats noble compatriots, - who at
hat England most feara tn Ireland. S0| were called after a time saine tyrannical Power to proc
they m t be reinforced by two|given them (132-133-168) ma ‘vited the frenion ‘we now enjoy. therefore
capable, clear-headed men of affaire|to a corner of the dining saloon where be it
and literary standing whote word would| thelr passporte and papers a “Resolved, That. the ated tris
rica.” So Thomas|manded and given over to Mr. Amertoan Socteties of New . Yor!
Hughes Kelly, the. Now “York banker | Cooper, Hens’ officer. Messr: |aemn as orate ‘greantel, and tel,
who stands high the» Catholic | and re then tak the trial and execution of Roger Cas
Church, od Joseph “amit , an Irish} cabins by detectives and subjected to| ment by te British Government, an.
Protestant writer who * ar w'the attention of thot to
would
et Tow-citizens of every race
scrupulous course of Great ‘Britta “in
estroying such Irish men as she can
le, or Frienten
acquiescence in her destructive
domination of Ireland.
IRELAND'S FAITHLESS LEADERS
ARR.
neither ‘corrupt, -
into
“reat egrets of Home ety
sen-!
| tolidity the
@
-_ eas, His action in endeavoring} mittee of
to gain for fretand that Mberty which
he
be
deen released
MURDER OF CASEMENT:
i United Irish-American Societies, Representing Practically The Whole Organized
Strength Of The Race In Greater New York, At A Specially Convened Meet+
ing, Arraign The British Government For Its Brutal Conduct In Hang-
Who Had Rendered Conspicuous
Score The “Friend Of Small
Nationalities” For Its Attempt To Split Ireland In .
Two, For lis Attacks Ou American Trade’ Aud
: Its Gross Insult To American Citizenship
In The Persons Of Thomas Hughes
Kelly And Joseph Smith,
ich the English Parliament has se
m.
h a meas
the proposed
ligious lines, wou!
of injury than benefit to that country,
and that the
“That sucl sure, gangrened by
division of Ireland on re-
id be more productive
intoteah not alone to Ireland Pa to If
y of th erywhere led
on by ‘ne hope of its leaders to all the
onices which would be creat:
ed by the
o-ralled Home Rule Bill, merits the
Cindemnaion of all honest
LISH ATTACKS ON LHERIOA.
vel mi
veyed Amertean _ ship tween
Amert rts, all of which should
war American cltizens what they may
| expect. if 2
TsULr. 70 AMERICAN cIriZEXs.
“Tha recent action of British of-
fists in ignominiously searching an’
insulting Messrs. Thomas H. Kelly and
cans, who went to
purpose of aiding the
families of those killed
in the recent insurrection merits, and
should receive, the resentment of the
people and/Government of the United
States. *
Dexts A. Spriurssy,
Chairman,
Paaxe Doxwenty, Secretary.
e course of the discussion the
Irish people against her
than anything in living memory.
++
THE POLITICAL ICAL PRISONERS.
m the House ot Comm Commons on July 24,
ain Sa
Servants—Sir Gay
Fleetwood-Wilson and Sir William
B,
yrne.
Mr. Samuel also tol
Byrne that 712 Irish male prisoners had
from Frongoch up to the
Present, and two women from
sidered the Advisory Commit-
tees recommendations as soon as
Tease orders were immediately issued.
LIGHT FINGERED CENSORS,
BERLIN (via wireless to Sayttlie,
LL), Aug. 14—A letter from the Sua-
blan Association of Los Angeles, Cal.,
to Stuttgart,
mailed May 10, has just a
enclosure of $255 is missing, the
Offictal News Agency asserted today.
The letter had been opened by the
ish Censor. .