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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
Vol. XII, No, 44, Whole No. 685,
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 28, 1916.
New York. N.Y
Butered as second-class matter. Oct. 1, 1908, at the Past Office at
S ‘under the ect of Congress of March 3, 1478.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
REDMOND UTTERLY POWERLESS IN PARLIAMENT
Proposes A Colorless And Ambiguous Resolution And Makes A Speech Of The Same
Character, But Poses As Ireland's Accredited Leader—Asquith And Lloyd
George Treat Him As A'Negligible Quantity, But Compliment Him On His
_ Loyalty—tis Motion Is Overwhelmingly Beaten—The Discred-
ited Leader, Pretending To Be Still The Spokesman Of
Ireland, Complains About The Contemptuous Treat:
“ meat Of His Recruiting Recommendations And
an ~ Plainly. Admits That His Slavish Policy
et | Is A Complete Faiture. ca
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Lord Charles Berestord,
John Redmond, after, being subjected) land; Lord
greater humiliation than he. ever ex-| Pirie, and Lord Stanf arabes, King
perienced before in his whole public| €0rse’s Private secretar;
Ufe in his own constituency of Water-| BEGINS WITH A FALSEHOOD.
‘The Irish leader said it was undeni-
able tifat the situation in Ireland was
er, and he con-
tate of affairs with the
“ford, where his word was once law, re-
turned to London and made a fake “Na-
_ tlonalist” demonstration in the English
” House of Commons. . The “leader of the nuine -enth for the Allies in
Irish Race at home and abroad,” was Irefand at the beginning of the war.
met at the railroad station in Water. uation was full of
“| menace and’ dan: henner menace to the
rted | hopes and aspirations of Ireland and to
there sur-|a good tween Great
rounded the building in which he was| Britain and Ireland, and of danger to
to speak, They occupied every point of | th highest Jnterests of the Empire at
the present .
vantage in the neighborhood, as if they] “ty object is to’ allay, not to ine
expected an attack in force; they were] flame, feeling, and to show
stationed in. strong force within the| possible to save the situation,”
hall so as to be ready to suppress any ¢
attempt at disturbance and to eject the
disturbers. Nobody that- was not .
vouched for was admitted to the hall,
but many opponents of Redmond suc-
ceeded ia eluding the scrutiny wee from
“bestaning to end ¢ ing kept
tant fire of “interruptions, in
te of the ejection of many. To this
survey ite outbreak of the war.
rst the
the Nationalist leaders were thwarte:
in the navy;
alist “volunteers had enlisted, and if it
had not been for distrust of Ireland in
ead oe ee eerie’ aa tie| te early phases of e num:
H
‘acknowledged. leader of he, Irish pe0- treble of , volunteers . Would have heen
ple.
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2 git hones
am Ne, eo “deadet> comptatned
erm the ce scene of sts Teriumph chat the delay tn putting the Home Rule
“Redmond hurried ndon, here Soon
cretybody knows that he is utterly dis-
Portonity of saying
oe dificult ti
10 po} pularize military. service had been
ically’ thwarted,
“port, Ww! all the daily papers pub-| 09, he National Univer
lished, and which {8 herewith given. ot allowed to organize an of-
. —_—— rs’ training corps, while a ber
. REDMOND,S FAL FALSE PLEA. |ot privileges had been granted to Trin-
ity University, complained general-
nn Redmond,|ly of the unsympathetic attitude of the
leader of the | rich, ‘Natlonalsts, today| War Office in regard to measures sug:
formally sed the Government of| gested to*popularize recruiting in Ire-
how it is! o¢
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“I do not: want_to make a
party speech and accordingly start my | w
G
efforts of
of the people of Ireland oe real fm-
provement can be hoped f
WANTS IRISH PRIsONERE RE
. LEASED.
“Let the Government withdraw mar-
tial law, and put in command of the
forces in Treland a man who has not
been connected with the unhappy trans
actions of the pi adminis:
tration of the Defense of the Rt
Act be as stringent as but
animated by the same spirit and carried
into effect by the same machiner; in
reat Britain, Let the 500 untrie:
ers rt penal
al pri rs, and, above all, let the
Government take courage its own
hands and trust the Irish people one
and for all by putting the Home Rule
Act in operation, and resolutely and on
its own responsibility face any prob
lems which that might e1
‘Mr, Redmond said that t present condi
tions were injuriously affecting
British cause throughout America and
the Dominions, especially at present in
As
h d the Government & listen
sertonsly. to his warning adv!
DUKE RECOGNIZES REDON, D'S «
Henry Edward Duke, ‘he Chief See.
retary for Ireland, ceiving to Mr. Red-
ond, sald h nized that under-
lying Mr. Redmond'e speech was @ DF
found desire that ‘Ireland should play
@ part worthy o}
her countrymen in
‘The real question, he continued, | §
other, hose
grounds oe criticism which referred to
mistakes recruiting mismanage-
;|ment were capable of remedy, he add-
ed, and Mr. Lloyd George, the Secretary
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deal with them.
ke said that
interned for participation in the Irish
uprising were ringleaders, and be ask-
“Do the Nationalists desire 560
rials for treason with the conseayenes
whlch “would “follow?” “The timé ‘had
who made application and who hi
been able to offer
released.
straint, he insisted, upon fen from the
who took part in or sym-
pathlzed with the cette ine whd
not aband bi
acterized as their foolish abi tton, and
if nothing better could be devised mar-
tial Taw would have to be continued.
e Risin} z in Dublin » Mr. Duke de-
Redm
sald he somthing ‘vith the National-
having ‘urned “tne patriotic enthusiasm |land. Changes were made, but too late,| jcts* disay ent in the delay of the
of Ireland into indffference and finally] he said, poplieation i Home Rule Act, but
into rebellion. In a speech supporting] The final blow came in the formation asserted hat the real obstacle was the
his motion of censure, which was de-| of the Coalition Government, the speak: | gisagr them-
feated by a vote of 303 to 106, he de-|er sai ‘he inclusion of Sir Edward] seives, ena r that the British system
anded the fmmediate. granting of|Carson in the Cabinet convinced thou-| o¢ gaminis tation could not be blamed.
me Rule, the release of the prison-/sands of Irishmen that they had been| tig pleaded fo or. ‘ voluntary
for their part in the| betrayed. From day recruiting for
in,
From that day things went from
worse, and finally came the Rebellion.
CITES “SOUTH AFRICAN PRE-
CEDEN'
We
While the answers of the Prime Min-
ister and the Secretary for Ireland of-
fered small comfort to the complaint
Nationalists, the speech of Davii
ge, Secretary of War, was atetinge or a
conetiiatory. He admitted that | the Rising "had. been dealt with in the
ad _ bee!
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purpos
woul AMingly im Ambassador | yp a Tatontat edministration in Dublin
Page to visit the Tish prisoners and| oq what they proposed to do. Had the
report on their treat ew Chief Secretary Gone ° solution?
. Was it proposed, to maintain martial
@ said he would do everything
h regi-| tl
ent maint
Nstent with the principles wherefor the "
has been, move all that made for bad
e| bad management an
jon and, Tearonstbtley,
would only
or has
recent unhap)
toe ‘state vot feeling in that coun- a basis of freed
.P. Rawlinson, © Unionist Mem-
rsity, move
Redmon id mo
regiments.
cthe whole situation can onlysbe met
pling with the Trish situ
ontinued Mr. Redmoi
the present state of bovers.
qeatand so long Wil the
he importance
and Ireland
s|mond’s suggestion for filli
.| Irishmen the wasted ri
settlement of the Irish proble
in regard to martial law, the Govern-
s to sect
subject of Ireland Protection, by every
meant
MARTIAL naw NEEDLESS, SAYS
Ne
Sir. John simon, f the former Home
Secretary, contended that the continu-
ance of martial law. im “Treland « was
needless, Its remo said, wi
a pasuage the bitter an dangerous ‘Peele
ing
“ohn Xorton Griffith, Unionist,
opinion that it
Enpactiae ° attempt to apply Cort
cription in Ireland:
ASQUITH “couPurwenrs
ex:
THE
Premier. Asquith, then nising, same
regrettal
der “ia reerulting in
the early stages, and safd that Mr. Red-
ing up witl
ks of the gal-
lant Irish division would receive
o man had
Jove or prective service
@ Irish "te sade ler.
“Repudating the. allegation that Dub-
in Castle was being run by a Unionist
tdinistraton, the Premer ae that
mbered tl e Gov-
ernment was dealing with a provisional
and e hoped, a ansltory situation:
rorttel lw in ymmonly rte
sense @ was not being “zopiled to ‘eetana
and if the desired ends could be ol
tained ‘by different means, nobody ‘outa
more anxfous to adopt them than
not consider
it safe, in view of the possible recrudes-
ecruiting,
=
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nemy, f not iC
ent time to disc controversial Tnat-| present excited and frritated | public
ters of domestic pol ecling Sat Ei ne Shehting for The
resolution in| ple ,
the pee’ 2s ‘ee ded House. rigbts ee amall nationalities in Europe,
presence orn 2 rdlis ‘maintail by martial law the
Among those in ery wert
jnin
‘Wimborne, the Lord Ttontenant of Ire- Unionist Government against the will
ence of recent events, to dispense we
thé existing safeguards, but the
ar, was particularly qualified to],
te
560 men stitt| $
security e. were ‘elne ma
ould be | af
ble | £9. 60-0 a
ZT peltove, tt can be done,” said the
the W
most careful and sympathetic attention.
rendered, ore constant, | ©
croment was desirous to revert to nor-
al conditions at the earliest possible
momen
prRNe says PRISO.
TARVING.
Asmat Promised that the Irish
at the mo-
RE ARE
Mr.
Prisoners wot
ment {t was Consider ‘ate 0 80,
Alfred Byrne, alist, repre:
senting a divislon a Dubin, shouted:
“They are starvin
Any complaints brought to the notice
Asquith
Fumetny Healy interrupted,
is the hardest-hearted ‘atter
WOULD HAVE Agr WHITE.
“The honor: rte, enters ” replied
mows that that deacrtpr
tion is not applicable to the Homi
m produce his fac
“It is idle to d e Amert-
n Ambassador vialt the prison.”
“If the American ssador will
give himself the trouble,” responded
t mier, “I shall be most happy. I
take nothing back of what I on my
my visi 1 vith
ny part of Ireland a form
of government lacking telr consent.”
Nationalist verfes of: “What are you
doin
in concluston the Premier sald that
the atmosphere now %xisting in Ireland
ould only be Aispersed by an age oud
settlement, eved there was
rty, no sane politician in Great Brit.
ain, whe vould not welcome with joy
co-operate
mholeeartey therein, and he prayed |»
ight 8001
sacha ed.
we Asquith’s was received
with signs of Sseapproval by the Na
tfonaliets,
: Jon. DEVLIN IS HUFFED.
Jos Devlin, Nationalist Member
for West Belfast, regretted that he
unable to congratulate the Prime sin
st single suggestion toward
m or a single
ment Government, he
said, had handed over Irish affairs to
Lord.Lansdowne, Major. Price, 2
Giltor of the Morning Post, and
tiumvirate should
» he added, if
Tord GEORGE ways MORE RE-
David giteva Georse,
War,
bers most crucial period of. re-
eruitiage ‘at whe beginning of the war,
Secretary for
some stupidities, which at times almost | to
k ike malignance, were per}
trated in Ireland and were beyond be
Let. to recover a
at
national sueceptibiiit jes have
fended and original enthusiasm ile”
« Every effort, he continued, was bein:
made to keep Irishmen in Irish reek
ments, and only in cases of military
emergency were Irfshmen drafted into
non-Irish regiments. He was sorry to
say that som
nglish regi
Trish | in charac
ate had ceased to be
num ber of recruits from
ireland since the beginning’ of the war,
105,000, or 2%
was
been
» Looking at
tary problem, he h
all parties would help Mr. Redmond
ir utmost to solve ‘his difficulties and
which rendered it impossible for them
perate.
for
making this sppeal as Secretary
everything to securing’the assist
this great race. And.I make the
appeal to Iretand.”
‘he wiinson. ame epdme it
a vote of 303 106, thus
ti
eliminating the Redmond resolt ion,
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Viscount Grey in ciscaselng ire unity
o the Allies says that “for the future
will stand and fall ocutnes ‘Th
viscount spoke wiser than he was
aware
se endeavor | stood
ing to Preserve the constitutional move-| under
~|the Fair was Jewish
e ot the Irish battalions of | tn,
THE IRISH RELIEF BAZAAR A SPLENDID SUCCESS
Time Ext
{
ed On Account Of {ts Great Popalarity To Thursday Evening, October
26—All Classes And Creeds Without Distinction Contribute Freely To Alleviate
The Distress Of The People fm Ireland—Several Delegations Attend
From Near-By Towns—A Centre Of Attraction For The People
Of New York Who Flock Nightly To The Garden And Make
The Enterprise A Pronoun
ced Success—Will Realize
A Goodly Sum For The Irish Relief Fund And
Will Serve To Knit More Closely Than
Ever The Irish And German People.
Because of the uoprecebented success
of the Jrish Bazaar, which was to close
mn Sunday, October 22, it was found
imperative to continue it for four more
days. ir has created such
thusiasm ‘and 1 8 en numbers of
attend ft each night from ell quarters
that the committee
ao to adie able to continue iM fore er.
mense Garden been
tnroneed verry night with the thou
sands of ps whe came to show their
2 empathy se of Ireland and
thelr 1 chute a ‘velieving ik dh
tress of the dependents of the met
suffered because, of their efforts to free
Ireland. In point of num
ing, in the enthusiasm displayed, in the
F
ime, the Bazai
Jo:
the Irtsh people of New York.
ral_promine!
trot Sori ingfield, New Haveo, Brockton,
centres, caught
mplete-
me
a similar nature ta their home
Fund. It is under
ents already
for @ monster Bazaar to
held tn Spriugtel eld, Mass. and Tepresen-
tatives from the Irishmen of that city
were-of,the.Garden several nights. to| m
see how things were being run: %
ISH DAY.
@ most intergsting days at
Day,-on Saturday.
>was th
ry Weinberger,
that they have
thing of
towns for the Relief
2
One of th
The big feature
President of the Broollya Philosophical | we
Society. Mr, Weinberger told with
great fecling the story
race and o|
have surmounted an
tu
eral Jewish Societies
Justice Victor Dowlini
. Sunday was “Plattdeutscher Tag” at
U Platt
a
e Europe: nor, who sang in spie
did. style “Erin is Calling,” written
specially for the occasion
Jerome.
Monday night the Bazaar started out
again n-Austria-Hungar-
4 nd all previous records for
attendapce were broken. Tuesday night
me devoted to the parishes of Brook-
nd the Brookynttes thronged the
bullding and vied* other in
their desire to have the Bazear realize
magnificent sum.
L CLASSES CONTRIBUTE.
that he was wholly one os. with his
loyalty: te France
“Thi rely a charitable move:
feels just as bad to Irish families as it
enc
aorta interest has been shown tn the
ring the
whole period and it has Drove con-
siderable money to t Fund.
Th
nna | thelr artistic setting and arrangement, | re
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and it would be difficult to say which}
one was the most ‘attractive. - Perhaps
the O'Donovan Rossa Booth, which was
ene her
in charge consider-| {
rs attend: | 34;
-| Age of Char!
ea landmark in the history of| ¥*s be
t
nt Irishmen visiting
‘gan, Charles F. Murphy, and] w:
sas| Seat, intere:
a Eileen
speec!
is were a eliant in
of Rossa’s four daughte
in charge rs,
‘because of its
most gattention,
dre’
splendid. aa
Sirs gare. ‘Moore who bas spent
cervhce |
n who] a hi
. Booth
The Phtlo-Celt! a
gnificent display ot gacorted Mods
yries Included a Gratonele donated by
which con-
tantly played afl ‘manner of irish
rast écManne, EXT A
ee and Mrs,
in charge.
Mra “shorter,
ong those
mn Convent in Ballina, and were
Hackett of Lexington
Booth,
‘Mrs. Michael OReilly, and realized ©
sul ‘und.
© O'Rahitly
Booth by Mesdames. olony Yond OC
Monteith, wife of Captain
Monteith, who Ianded in Ireland with
Sir Roger Casement, realized a
sum frome epecial palnistry, booth
watch the conducted. Seon McDermott
in charge of Sean’s patriotic
csr Sean was the most loved of all
the men who fell in-the Easter Week
Rebeton, and his dooth was throng
e contest for the most popular
priest, who will receive ificent
surplice of Irish lace, continued with
it, and several votes were
cast for the fighting Bishop ODever of
Limerick. Among those in charge
Grace, Miss wire, Grace,
Ioconnor, Mollie O'Kelly, Mr. and
Lee, and Miss Ree Kelty.
anne Shamrock Clud Booth was in tne
pable hands of Miss Anna and Mi
Murrey, and Miss Sheila ‘osu
were
Neue
Th e Padraic Pearse Booth, which bad
probably the largest stock of any Booth
in the Garden, was in charge of Miss
Margaret ‘McKenna, Mise Bridgie Me
Mrs, Walsh, Miss Manning
Fitzgerald. Miss McKenna
Miss ‘Mura,
and Miss Fitzgerald transferred their
ey | getivities during the week t0 the Hol
Jand submarine and aided ma-
terlally in "maine per me very Paying
enterprise. which {t pi
TEE ‘puer nerve, .
Each night before closing there was
a parade ar the Garden which
fatted in front of ‘Jerome Connor's
¢ Em re
registered silently a vow and m:
promtse to the spirit of Euimet that
(Continued on Page 8.)
meters
happily