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September 2, 1916,
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916.
ee |i
akERs
WILSON'S KNOWNOTHINGISM AGAIN,
“President Wilson never mi
re the things he fs constant:
ly hinting at and warning the country
against in vague sentences thet really
say nothing.
man of immediate foreign descent
himeelf, with a triple hyphen to his
credit—his mother being an English-
woman and his paternal grandfather,
cording to his own description, a
“Scotch-Irishman” cording to
others.a Tyrone Orangeman—he ie is con-
stently making accu of disloyal-
tions to the Irish and
were loyal to the United States when
his family and the families of most of
bis Cabinet were disloyal. The Irish
and the Germans were fighting for the
father was not fighting, because he was
@ non-combatant. He was @ Presbyter-
fan minister, and the gospel he preach-
ed was the Devil's gospel of human
slavery. This fact should make Mr.
Wilson ashamed to accuse of disloyalty
the countrymen of those who fought so
splendidly, to preserve the integrity of
the United States and to keep it a land
of free men end women.. But being
ashamed is e thing that Mr. Wilson is
Incapable of, in other things, as well as
politics.
In article on “America’s
Onrortuntt" in the current number of
the
article, quotes this falsehood in the
very first paragrap!
roblem of disunion, more
subtien m more aificutt to meet with di
rect checkmate ani ion than the
old problem which cultinated cS the
Civil War. has engal isturbed
our thought, and we have reallzed that
w > met devote a new ene: ardor
which
sitacks on the
ia
spirits triumphant over .every alien
and sympathy. .
This false and wholly unfounded
statement of conditions im the United
tates fs made by the very man who is
himself using all the influence of, his
tuting the foul calumny, The only peo-
fe in America who are guilty of that
charge are the Anglomaniacs, of whose
unpatriotic work Mr, Wilson fully ap-
proves. They
r extract making
unfounded statements
ism
ave been many things to dis-
'y of thelr adoption.
)AMl the rest of the article consists of
glittering eneralties saying nothing
in bartienlar. The article was evident-
Ply written for the purpose of sandwich-
ing in the untruthful and roundabout
“hyphenated Ameri-
re some honest Know-
to nothings. inflamed by religious bigotry,
who make open and direct attacks on
| foreign-born citizens and Catholics, but
even they mi
.| religions © from
perer ont lick the boots of the officials
1s,
benefits conferred on them by the bleed-
ing they are subject to by them, Amer-
feans. who ‘do not think or who know
Isher cannot le, and therefore when he
trumpets “abroad the great things’ he
s| has done for the benefit of the benight-
ver
ed Hindus, how he has kept the rival
fighting among them-
selves, built railways and given them
stable government, they accept it all as
gospel truth. No account js taken of
the heaping up of debt on the country
go thraugh life without ever knowing
het
revolt against the oppression, they are
shot down, hanged, or condemn
of the Andaman Island.
But in spite of the oppression; ignor-
ance and starvation, the influences of
the outside world and its various move-
ments are having their effect, and give
the He to the statements sent broadcast
over this continent. The Indian people
are not loyal to the British King and
his rule, but a band’ of faithless, traitor-
native and alien bankers whe are bleed-
ing the masses white,
tities and decorations from a fake Em
wt to govern them. P
among “tbe people there is smouldering
a fre which ‘one day under favorable
conditions wilt burst out into a de
s
3
vouring flame and consume everything
before it.
From time to time we see evidence
of this. “Here and there at varying in-
tervals there reaches the outside world
the story of the killing of some public
to hand of a remarkable series of kill-
ingé, each case being that of a native
police oma the base instrument of
foretga
The fret wae the shooting to denn
of two police officials at Dacca
ern Bengal, on June 23, by socsane he
made good their. escape. One victim
eceived nine, the other five bullets in
bis body. The sensation caused by this
double event had hardly died away
hen | Superintendent of
Police in Calcutta, renowned for his
success in runalng conspirators to
earth and who had already narrowly
and
cr
ted with ‘the spirit of Knownothing-
° tu
B
ed to a| pro:
living death in the Penal Settlements|
lor willing to describe or present things
on June 30, his escort mecting the same
fate, and a Britisher’ who ventured to
interfere was taken to hospital severely
wounded. This took place in daylight
ture the perpetrators. Taken with
other incidents of alarming char-
acter proving the existence of danger.
ous unrest, these killings caused suc
consternatio: thi itish or Eu
opean community ae i ni
styled in India, that the Cateutta Eng.
lishman dealing with the question of
punishment for these acts felt itself
compelled to say:. .
Polley of internment has also
been suggested.
ly been made ot
deprecate repressive measures, but the
must adopt more drastic
and comprehensive measures than
as-yet resorted to or. it will not. be
able in time to get policemen to, take
up the work of tracking the men*down.
In the last sentence les the, crux of
whole situation
ritish rule, *
&
a
without native tools the foreign tyrants
cannot long maintain their power. This
wail of the Englishman therefore indl-
cates its recognition of the approaching
downfall of “the Government by (Brit
ish) law established”. in India, When
its native props are knocked away, t
whole fabric will fall to the rounds
and this appears to be the principle of
the policy adopted by the Indian revo-
lutionists.
we “COURSE OF THE WAR.
th
neighbor, and on Sunday night sudden-
ly declared war o1 istria-Hungary.
What the arguments were that impelled
to take this step ‘are ‘not yet
e
new and sufficiently serious phase of
the war for the Central Powers and
their, Allies is evident, for it calls for
an entire revision of their plans of cam-
paign on all fronts to meet. the changed
circumstances.
Tt ts not that the ‘addition of three
or four hundred thousand Roumanian
troops to the forces already opposed to
them’ on the southeastern front consti-
tutes a serious danger, for in no respect
does the Roumanian army rank high
among the armies of Europe. 7
gravity of the situation les in the tact
that a way is
army to invade Bulgaria by the lower
Danube and by way of Shumle and the
Shipka Pass cut the railw:
z
&
becomes
Ae yet there has been no fighting of
importance between the Roumanians
and the Austro-Hungarians except the
first skirmishes on the southern bdor-
der of Transylvania in the attempt by
the Roumanians to seize the passes at
the heads of the roads leading from the
great plain of Wallachia to Kronstadt
Up to the time of our going to press
there had been no development on the
eastern frontier of Transylvania, but an
advance of Roumsnian troops by way
of the Tolgies and Gyimes passes was
antictpated. .
On the Western Front there have been
only the usual stereotyped pushes and
counterattacks to record, with heavy
losses to the British, whose defiriency
of trained officers is lareely responsible
for the sacrifice French
on their section oe "tne Somme drive
have made no important progress; nor
5
at Verdun met with suce
On the
remained halted up to the time of the
Roumanians entering into the war, an
ft
be awaited with deep interest. Th
fortunate part of it 1s that we have ot
one datly paper in New York capable
in thetr true light.
In Asta the Turks after driving the
Russians back ta Mush and Bitlis snd
the neighborhood of Lake Van, appear
to have been halted, but on the rest of
that front the Turks have held thetr
wn or gained further success. On the
Tigris, in the Hedjaz and tomares the
Suez Canal there have bee:
to binding together the forcea
1 produce a new union, & union of
escaped death, was killed by shooting
of importance. In the Balkans the Bul-
th:
e to their Black Hand instincts, |
impulse toward clemegcy, the | Gu
ow open for a Russian|ican people, m:
war or until
cl can be brought about in our
Irish policy.
“We cannot ignore iis fet. much a:
for the active co
operation of the United States is an es-
tative Bennet,
the
discriminates against
pers,
ernment er its blacklisting of Amert-
‘an firm
or agents
1
have their repeatedly renewed attacks uv
t the Russian drive| we
d|lfef that, with a
and the
absolutely defenceless and s0-baldly in-
| our glory
Statute Books.
the law will correct “ne evil.”
Diseased asd gibbering she at
The har
h
garians have pushed the Allies on pon
flanks, and the I!
troops on a part of the Albanian const
allan Front ttle progress
the’ drive towards
tries, and the declaration of war by
Italy on Germany 0 change in
the situation. All that it has done or
was meant to do has been to regularize
the relations between Italy and Ger-
before that the
submarines,
Jo
‘The order issued by the British Gov-
ernment to all British merchant steam-
r
tion of United States neutrality and
Municipal Law, but with present con-
ditions at “Washington British Orders
in Counc and British Admiralty Mem-
ora: e precedence of all Treaties
land tatevaatioutl Law and usage.
AMERICA GETTING HOSTILE,
England's Reign of Terror in Ire-| >.°3
land, Resented in the United
States.
According to the cabled despatches
the. Manchester Guardian recognizes
y towards Ireland
in particular, the
“But above all other influences work
known; all we have to go on as yet are|ing against us in America Is the men
the facts, That the situation developed ory of the Irish revolt.
by this action of Roumania creates a en the Cabinet resisted the first
ardian
the im
troublesome fact of Irish- America, and
hat
would seem ta be no hope of a‘speedy
m dds”
all hope of reconeil-
large Clement in the U
States which, until, with the Home Rue.
TO GRAB AMERICAN TRADE,
WASHINGTON, Au Represen-
of New York, author o!
Penalize any carrier that
American ship
d the British Gov-
Bill to
today assaile:
zing the adoption of his
Bi “pefore “ihe Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee of the House.
This Bill makes the boycott of the Al-
Med Powers illegal
1 and provides a fine
. or imprisonment of from one
ployes
of any carrier that violates
,
merican firm,” said Mr, Ben-
a
ase to be a “overeina
“As @ practical m Th re
a& cou ee 50 clearly Night
attitude of Great Britain so
Germany, we must ne ve this law on the
very passage of
BRITANNIA. .
Peter Goupes.
an
with the brood stained
ands,
And shrieks aloud to all the lands.
Shrieks, for upon her is Despai
en no events| The
Fates have tracked her to her lair, | at
And she shall rot and fester there,
o| the sentence of
longer reason for abstaining from sfink- hic
¢| ing Italian ships wherever met by her| ™!
Maxwell at w
perhaps for | b
as
enforce ee Tish,
m
M'DONAGH'S LAST LETTER.”
te . post
Written From Kilmainham a Few
Hours Before His Death—A
Great and Glorious Thing, to
Die for Ireland. .
The following letter has aomared in
various Irish papers and
ed by the Censor.
have been written by Thonias MacDon-
agh a few hours before his death
Kilmainham Jail, .
Midnight, Tuesday. °
Thomas MacDonagh, having beard
courtmartial held on me
ie 3 use.
will reward my geod “Hehly.
ate-action: d-guards:on the
railway station. and. ‘Buckland Band,
Ine shots,’one passing
through bis brain, while Surendra Te
Gelved five shOts6 ig 9 mere
TRIBUTE TO IRISH MARTYRS
to Father O’Brien Lauds Solf-Sac-
tifice ‘of the Men Who Gave
Their Lives br Freedom.
The . Rev.“ Pat
Ohfo, has paid ne “fojtowing "tibate 6
the Tenders of the Trish RePeltion In a
reoent issue of the, Toledo Blade;,
y letter of Augu 11 (concerning
tne vise is Rebellion
“The
of the men “king the |
tru: iy acts have for her i ger Ci Tid
some lasting freedom and happiness. I} ang nated onpression, not ‘only in Te
am to die at dawn (3:30 A,.M.). May. land, but all over- the ” He re
am read: %, an and thank .God. that | iieved® the persecuted: atte of tl
I die in s¢ My country) Congo Free State, who were hoirtuig
. ut
tr
On April 30, [ was astonished to, re-
ceive a message from P. H. » Pearse,
Commandant General of the Army. of uv s
the Irish Republic, an order to sure
id
to the British General. I di
obey that order as: it came tro
prisoner. I, as then_in supreme com:
mand of the Irish army, consulted with
my second in command, decided to
confirm this ‘order.
would involve my death and, the death
of the other lenders. 1 hope that it
would save many tru among: o1
fol ollowers-—good lives ‘tor “reland, + God
knew: that ‘{t] ¢,
a rubber comp.
‘cénnection
ent de-
gave up ‘its Ute
lor the freedom of his native land.
truer and purer,
‘he Pope, the Uni
ited States Senate,
urjand . distinguished. Englishmen and
Irfshmen petitioned. the Government to
spare his life, but in. vain.
prove our dee: r myse
eret. The one bitterness this-death|~ I met Patrick H. Pearse; *Provistonal
has for me is the separation it brings President. of the Irish Republic,” in
from you, my dear Muriel, and our be-|Dublin eleven. years ago. He was then
loved children, Donagh and Barbara. It|@d{tor of- the: organ the Gaelic
‘s my heart to think that I shall| League, -known in Irish as An. Clai
never aee my ebildren again: bat I have
not ept “or murmure nted the
ost, ‘Of this, and I am vent o pay it.
Muriel has been sent a pee i eo
not know if she
can
have no one to take ne hilaren while
pre
she is coming—if 51
I have insured my children “tor “£100
each in the United Company; payment|life work, the;education of bors and
of the premiums to m th; | You Mr> Pearse impressed me
the money to be. paid to the'children at|88 @ perfect i hi He was pious
in his man:
I ask my, brother, Joseph
\d- constant
twenty-one,
MacDonagh, and my goo
frtend, David Houston, to help my poor}
0 in le
those matters.
wy brother. jonn, who came with me
ni all last. week, has
been sent away: trom here... io. not a, but it a t Pos
know where to. God bless him-and my|sible.- Good-bye, dear lay
her brothers and sisters. Assistance | God bless“ you for. your great: love for
has been guaranteed from the funds-of | me,and He Femeniber alk you have
the Cumann Ban, and other-funds | 8 eee suffer I a inet words
to be collected in America by our fel-|to tell you of my “love for I
low-countrymen there, for -the depen:
dents of those ne fall in the fight iv
wife and ven all for Ireland..
Task Bs friend, D. Houston, to see Mr.
J. Lyons, the publisher of my latest
“Literature in Ireland,” and ta
fe .com=
>It
w:
Joseph. Plunkett survives me. and is a
free man, I make im h my wife my
literary executors wise my , wife
fe
and David Hopston oat "take charge of
ny writings,
Yesterday at my courtmartial, in re
butting some trifling evidences, 1
a statement as to_my. negot tiations. for
surrender with General Lowe, In hear-
unworthy manner; but let it pass. It
is a great and glorious hing to die tor
Irelend, and I w all petty an-
noyances in the splendor of this. When
orn I thought
to me, would this
God hae been kin nder
6 given. a me
thee T bo ped. My, son, wi
great name and you, my darling litte
boy, remember me, » Kindly take my
pe and purpose for: m: jee ‘or
your sister and your beloved mother I
could hope to live longer; put a. WiLL
Tecognize we thing that I hi o done,
his
z
3
sud with | se conse stilt
have don ing for Ireland,
ven with hte ‘otent, ‘and have won the
first steps of her freedom. 58
‘ou, my son, and my, darling daughter,
Barbara. e than ever
ing Ite—teaving you.
God ‘will a
send you these few. things I have saved
out of this war for you. My love—till
e meet in Heaven.
in our union there,
it goes to you.
to make another ot
he ye
jod bless and sustain you, my love:
but for your suffering this would ve} S
nd jo;
Your loving bustand,
THoMAs MacDow.
SI return the. darlingy’, ‘photo.
svarhe,
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INDIAN POLICE OFFICERS KILLED.
BOMBAY, India, June 26.—On Fri
evening, on “Batragttola, near the nonce
bu Peary La
_aluntetpality,
dra Bhusan Mooxerie “yn Roh-
int. ‘Mukherjee peach 4 te ‘the Intelti-
ence Branch, Dac¢ hot.
ate the shooting other poue ‘officers
the
‘ived and conveyed the dead
the hospital. The police took vane
will
cat 3 you fa my: heart at ihe ‘last mo
mote Pearse ‘was 4, poet ona wrote in
Irish and English,
Thomas MacDonagh, another, of ‘the
oe!
L accept your sentence with joy an:
pride, since Its for Ireland I am "e
Sean ‘McDermott, another, of the mar
at my
ay
James “Connotiy, Commander of tha
Dublin Rebels, was asked by the doctor
it he would forgive his executioners,
He replied:
“I will willingly pray for every man
8
who does his duty according: to his
lights.”
He was so badly ‘wounded he could
not walk. was removed on
stretcher, ‘propped up in a-chatr and.
shot
eof. everything held dear on
ife itself, has endeared
those martyrs of ‘Hoey to the «Iris!
rai and abr “i font
bravely and fairly with arms
hands,. and they met leath seurlesly
after they’ surrendere
England removed © “her veil’ of hyi
crisy and showed herself in her tru@
brutal character when she shot thos
helpless prisoners of war,
+--+
“"/TO MARY J.-O°DONOVAN ROSSA,
Died. August 17, 1916,
“| > By ELeaxos Rocens Cox.
Revered
‘or all their “song forever stilled.
And yeta smile was on your lips -
Of pride that through our hopes’ eclips®
And. sweetly ‘here ‘toaéy ro
win Treland’s colors on
The, symbol radiant and divine,
Henceforth, please God, of all. our racd
| Through chaning clime and time, aod
ot
oMcers,| And though your raptured epivit gor
To join the victor-ranks of those”
Who gave for Ireland's weal. their stb
And deemed that. utmost ting small
Still on our minds like
Ke of
9 | Shall fall. the allowed though, of Syov.
“Sunday, August 21, 1016, «
ite and gold-—the sacred sl&® ;
tastes
ceo