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‘The-Saelic Amenican.
September. 9, 1918,
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1916.
RENEGADE LYNCH’S IMPUDENT SCREED.
-, Arthur Lynch, deserter from the Boer
Army, who took the Fenian oath and
forswore it and who offered the British
ainst its ene-
men toe whom he
ch has:no mission irom. the Gov-
ernment. Letthim go. We don’t want
him.” -
The Adjutant of Lynch's Mttle com-
pany, which hevcalled a Brigade, {s liv-
ing in Westfield, Mass., and he testified
that the “Colonel”.left his men at the
front, telling them he was “going to
nd never returned.
Thea he came to New .York'‘to start a
lecture tour in the United States as “a
hero of the Boer War.” .He never got
Generals—“General Louis Botha said
to ; ‘Colonel,’” etc, or “General
Lucas Meyer 8: me, ‘Colonel,’ ”
ete. was like Nelson at the Battle
7? shouted tl
“Aye, aye, sir,”
shouted back,’ and Nelson, reassured,
turned to his oftcers and said; “Now
let the battle go
Lynch returned. to Europe disgruntled
and with a grouch against t tbe men who
ard as @ representative Irish waoldien,
ted he has been “getting square” ever
since.
He tries to “get square” in a serie
of three articles on the Irish sttuetion
which appeared in the New York Am:
ican last week, and he does it adroftly.
He" is a facile writer, using catchy
phrases, but 1s utterly lacking in politi-
cal insight or breadth of view, but he
makes a dexterous appeal to the newly
awakened National spirit
Irish race by , admitting that
the Easter Week Rebellion _ has
“spiritualized Ireland.” He describes
what he calls “a wave of Sinn
Fein” as sweeping over Ireland and up-
g
Nationalists welcomed the admissions
and prematurely congratulated the
writer, Those who knew Lynch wait-
ed. They knew that Lynch had burst
into the ParHamentary Party, which did
not want him, that he has never been
trusted by the leaders, whom he fan-
eled he could one day supplant, and
that his alm has always been the utter-
ly unattainable one of making himself
the leader. Hearst newspaper
ertaken the Quixotic task
of bringing about, “hia absurd impos
sibi
Th one who waited were repaid for
their patience by the contents of the
third letter. In that Lynch “let the
cat out of the bag.” The leopard can-
not change bis spots and Lynch is the
same man today as the Lynch who de
serted from the Boer Army in face of
the enemy, who forswore his stegtance
to the Irish Republic and who
while running for Galway, the fetter te
which he offered the British Govern-
ment to fight against its Irish enemies
—the men he had sworn to take wu
arms with for Ireland, After admitting
that thé whole Parliamentary Machine
has collapsed, that Ireland has lost all
confidence in the British Parliament,
and proving that in both cases the Irish
peo}
that Ireland has no cha! to
return to the old rut and rely on the
British Parliament - alo The. Irish
Ireland must try again the other thing
that has failed more miserably and left
@ stench behind it, while Easter Week
has left glorious memories.
self, he says, once belfeved in physical
force and proceeds to give fanciful and
wholly uneubstantial reasons for his
abandonment of it. He gives his mo-
moti,
‘The “whole thing is an attempt to
stance: “Redmond has failed and A:
quith has broken his promises. Pearse,
Clarke, Connolly and the phystcal
force men have also failed. Put me in
Redmond’s place and ut your faith in
the British Parliament again and all
will be well.” It is too grotesque to
take seriously. man who looted
to the Transvaal Government, who de-
serted in face of the enemy and who
ofered to join the English in fighting
of the
Parampntary Party, but hi
h}a smile,
place among real Nationalists or
| decent Irishmen.
‘
GETTING CLOSE TO THE FACTS,
After feeding the American people on
vicious fabrications manufactured by
the British Censor, for the past two
years, the New York World has been
forced to confess its part in the infamy ‘Al
through its own European . correspon-
lies were forwarded and
upon’ these Ifes American pubic sentt-
mt was formed and expanded.
short, the British Censor deliberately
Hed to the American public, and in this
way continued to create a sentiment
predicated upon a basis maliciously and
villainously false.” .
Now that this series of outrages have
‘been exposed, ft is time for the Amert
e
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ousness.
World and other pro-British sheets in
New York City should begin to find out
why this serial story of falsehood
should have
the Allfed “Governments have subsidized | 8%
many American newspapers. . That
there fs solid ground for this charge
an be found in the aectaration of Lord
Northeitte, owner the
at a banquet. in Philadelphia
Just before the war, that he had con-
cluded negotiations whereby he had
secured control of een leading
American newspapers.” ' Northcliffe de-
livered this startling piece of news with
we are told. And well he
might. He was then beginning, acting
for the British Government, the work
of debauching American sentiment, for
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and convincingly demonstrated
Northelifte’s declaration, now recatt-[ ton:
not have been his own.
may be, it is certain that he got good
value for it, and that these so-called
American newspapers forgetting the
high tradition and tdeals of American
journalism, shametessly betrayed their
Teeders and dishonestly carried out the
orders of their London
the end is not yet, coe thetr col
ame If
umns testify dafly. The n6.
fabrication, | stuptdity and
falsehood is being followed. Bu
day the American reading public, slow
to belleve in the treason of their newa-
papers, will awaken to the enormity of
are naturally obnox-|™
tous.to Tone, so he must impugn their oe
been dished up to them
o
the crime that has been done them, and
will make short work of their betray-
ers. Meanwhile, it is satisfactory to
note that this awakening has commenc-
the British, living up now as ever
to its traditional record as a purveyor
of fraud, and hypocrisy. And
public utterances, the victous lies that
are circulated in the guise of legitimate
news.
newspapers
Between pro-British, subsidized
and pro-British officials, the
| people of the United States have been
and
shamefully scandalously mal-
treated.
REDMOND PROTECTED BY PEELERS.
‘Leinster Leader,
mondite Party as long as it could, but
never hesitated to criticize it when
nece: but its criticisms were al-
ays mild. We never see the pal
pinion, . We
know from other sources, however, that
most of these papers have turned on
the Party and that some of them sharp-
ly criticise it. Not one
ih Treland has ever fallen
wi
° In a recent issue of the Dub-
lin Independent the following extract
ed! 1 the | Li
from an. ‘editorial in einster
Leader:
machined confidence resolutions,
moved by reliable hacks who h:
th:
ck
that was the fs Pradtaed ty ‘thelr politi.
cal representa
The machined eetutions and the
political. picture —Leinster Leader,
16.
This fully corroborates all that Tue
Gaetio American has said about Red-
mond’s standing in Ireland to-day. And
it {s published under Martial Law and
the Defence of the Realm Act. It is
the irony of.fate that the man who un-
@ertook to speak for the whole Irish
Race when he sold Ireland to England
has tobe protected from his own coun-
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who
le
disgraces North Kildare in the British
Parliament now has a poor chance of
reelection indeed when the only news-
Paper in his district speaks thus of his
leader and the horde ot paid poltroons
who follow him.
CARNEGIE’S MILLIONS AND HIS HYPHEN,
Now that President Wilson has again
with due verbal deftness pointed out
@ terrible menace to American in-
has been assiduously plotting
the very destruction of the American
Republic and ts complete submergence
with the “Mother country?”
As far back as 1893 Mr. Carnegie out-| necte
Mned in the North American Review—
though a copy of that particular issue.
tay not be easily accessible just now—| cours
@ specific purpose and plen, and if that
purpose and plan did not mean the de
in Mberty we do
meant, Listen to},
what Mr. Carnegie has to say.
On page 708 of that journal he says:
imagine that I write a
01 ate omotes reunion, I
favor. I judge all political questions
rom thts standpotn’ Au dive
thoughts compared with the. ‘Teunfon vot
And in nother part of the article he
wrt
Numerous as would be {he States!
comprising’ the reunited mm, each
possessing equal rights, etl Bilal, as
the home of the race, would ever retain
precedence—fret, am mone equals rw
evor great the number of the children
might. sit around her ia council,
there could never be. but one mother,
and that mother Britain.
‘Where were our lynx-eyed guardians
of ‘American freedom then? Has any-| er:
one ever heard of their taking Mr. Car-
negie to task for this treasonable prop-
aganda? Mp, Carnegie is reputed to be
c
4 tmorities, who took the cards &
worth some four hundred million dol-
lars and it is t upposed, is, conse-
quently immune fr om. erittet im, r-
ticularly when some of those raliions
is distributed in the shape
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they may
be in other directions, are considered
id | good glong the I!nes laid down by Mr.
Carnegie. We understand that Mr. Wil-
son sought to separate the canny Scots-
man from one of his pensions and, for
the time being at all events, failed.
However: ‘4f at first you don’t succeed,
Mr. Wien will no doubt in
ocd time try a,
Meanwhile he Sours out the vials of
his ilk were doing what
they could to disrupt i
aniac imitators—that
without soul or country—whose chief
“aD defamation and slander,
vel They
ave received a severe jolt because St.
John Gaffney holds and expresses the
same opinions regarding the English
that Thomas Jefferson did, and because
T | he brought to the public notice the high
handed action of the minions of King
George in their treatment of American
citizens. The English have been assur-
ed so often by our American Ambassa-
dors that we are “English led and Eng-
lish ruled,” that they have come to look
cards, ai
seen from the following which appear-
a in the New York Sun of August 31:
John
States Consul at Munich, has achfeved
newspapers yesterday quoted his hana
utterances af length, and before the day
0 arrive at the
was made to the postal at-
and
Issued orders to postal clerks to stop
should feel very proud to have merited
them yelping at his heels, and he feels,
own country and against all decent peo-
ple in general.
SHANE LESLIE'S ‘DRIVEL,
alle continues in eruption.
An interesting person is this same Mr.
Leslie and most delightfully Emerson-
fan in his {nconsistenctes. ‘Change”
deen his mist
onen ters sang. No
hewing to the line for’ Mr. Leslie, not
even to the line of principle. Far more
least resistance.
Mr, Leslie first appeared in New York
aeis of
Mr. Leslie in
until. he had procured some
with white h pretty ctiectively. to bind
himself.
that occasion, Mr. Lesile, si
very dramatic attitude—mayhap indeed
a “Desperate Desmond” one—and point-
ing to Dublin Castle told the Gaels of
Dublin that “there was their Bastile,” a
phrase freighted, of course, with des-
perate and revolutionary meaning.
Sapient Mr. Leslie. discovered a
and we heard of Mr. Leslle as having| +7
gone abroad, to France or Belgium, no
about the men who w-
“True patriots all, for be it understood
They ‘ett their country for their coun-
good,”
does not apply here, .
Mr. Leslie's pen was
mightier than his sword, 50 the “Gen-
ern Front,” hence Mr, LesHe’s presence
in our midst for some time past.
. In one of his latest outpourngs in a!
Mr. Shane Lesl:
0
Gaffney, former United} @
lous postcards | a1
je which might conflict | with ihe co
t
Mr. Gatfaey or any other honest man em S
the censure of such curs and to find| an
alluring was the other line, the one of] ;,.,
bi
As he lett Dublin to come here on
striking al 4,
fi
Bastile not so hazardous or difficult of
doubt, to “do his dit.” Xe the couplet .
ii
‘evidently
‘al Staff” shifted him to the “West-| n
Boston paner ‘Mr. Leslie is referred to
‘Mr, John Redmond’s personal rep-
Tesentative in the United States.” How
interesting. Mr. Leslie {s becoming
d who knows but one of the
“yartous events in the womb of Time
that are yet to be delivered” may one
day disclose that Mr. Leslie is also the
personal representative of another John
—a John whose last name 1s not Red-
mond. but—Bull. \
Well, the laborer is worthy of his
hire and it cannot but be admitted that
there are few men who can pour such
a deluge of words over stich a desert of
{deas as this sane linguistic farceur,
_ THE COURSE OF THE WAR,
vane irony of the Entente combina-
ion was completed when Russians and
Duiguriens clashed on the sof! of the
Dobrudja. It is a far cry from the day
when the generous, liberal-minded Alex-
ander II. of Russia, driven by the anti-
Slav P&n-Muscovites of St, Petersburg,
as it was called then, declared war on
the Turk, to the era of his craven and
superstitious grandson, - Nicholas II.
of Petrograd.
tors who later assassinated Alexander
IL. was the friendship of a dog for his
dinner; they meant to use it as a step-
ping stone to Constantinople, the Egean
and the Adriatic, absorbing every
thing lying between Russia and those
the way, fighting the battle of the free
It was perfectly obvious that the re-
an:
almost commeldent with their declaration
war /against “Austria, wer
takes, and to any one knowing
manian frontiers, very
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the Row
clumsy. ones,
too, he at has elapsed
since hostilities started the Roumant-
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gion with the different armies in the
south and east.
Igaro-German invasion of the
Dobrudja is already developing its
objects, one being a threat to Bucharest
by ‘the capture of the bridgehead at
Turtukai, only about forty miles dis-
tant from the capital. The other to
cover the right and rear of the force
operating on Turtuka{ from an invad-
ing force coming by land through Rou-
mania or from Costanza by sea from
Russia. A Russian contingent appears
to have. already joined the Roumanians,
the Bulgarians, But that is too much
the fullest advantage of the
diversion caused by the declarations of
war by Italy and Roumania, the Allies
on the Western Front have
a2
and the Muscovites in full march on
Vienna and Berlin. Facts, however,
and the offictal German and Austrian
rej
defined, and the appearances are that
Liberators and Liberated
.| are now crossing swords, a
obtain posses-
ne To the Editor of the New York Times:
i.
the Altes have undertaken more thay
they can perform, The complete
radical change in the G
ground, assuming it is not @ blutt
Age toa finish, ~
n the Asiatic Front the Turks con,
tinue to hold thelr own;
reports from that quarter being amos
amusing. The positions occupted by
the Turks are a distinc
ish are reported to king exten.
sive preparations for an advance on
Bagdad when weather condition
permit. Nothing was reported’ {rom
ght for High Fe
proceeding with energy and precision,
and the Japanese press boldly advocates
the acquisition of the Dutch Islands tn
Pacific by purchase or otherwise,
and blandly Invites Australia to agres
mmerce and the right
to: enter, Anstralfa, hold
PRESIDENT WILSON'S PET,
Carranza Issues a Decree Cons
fiscating the Property of the
Catholic Church in Mexico—
Even Churches May Be Closed,
MEXICI
religious institu.
will be nom{nally controlled by
the clergy.
churches as places of worship after the
expiration of a yea
—
JOIN THE WaISTLERS,
—
Britishers Start New Optimistic Cam-
Iraign to Keep Up Their Courage,
Com of any. kind would but
serve ei spoil the following:
INGTON,
sande of national optimism
set on foot in Engl
keeping
and
obtain “arora te terms in business deals,
KUNO UBYER ON THE “TIMES”
ETTER WRITERS.
_The following letter w:
as
e
3
é
id not print this letter of
f the eminent Celtoligtst:
I will stake my reputation as
logist that the letters of “Molly” and
“Patrick” which you print in, your
stage Iris!
verfest tyro in matters of literary com:
position. , That the leading newspal
of New York should een
in by a bungling farceur
easily’ taken
8 ight on American
throws an ominou
journatism.
: Kuxo Mevs®.
August 29, 1916. . ‘
MAIL OF oe & consuL ENO
SHANGH. usiness men
here are been ‘aac "7 the Brit:
‘sb censorship of 147 of ‘Ameri
can mail, which arrived. “n Shangha!
fro: "yan
press of Russia. e
of the American Consulate was “
sored,