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The Saelic Amenican.
t _ December 2, 1916,
and good crops, while, of course, the
rain, spotato bitght, and all evil things
jons.
believe “‘sagacity” resolutions is the
latest Inspiration, Perhaps budacity is
cant it would be so appro:
latest claim is that tl those won-
aertal loaders have saved Ireland from
Conscription. gE opinton,
however, <continies to be that they
‘went as to pra
&
3
2g
t they would
have supported it In ParHament if the
had proposed it, and that
the Government was prevented from
proposing it, not by them, but by the
Volunteers and Citizen Army. It {s only
the accumulation of those tricks and
the consequences of those methods that
make them worth mentioning to @ self-
respecting assembly.
‘ore lilustration of the charac-
38
unanimous resolution
the salaries, They, were duly com-
mended in their kept press for his. sig-
nat proof of self-denial.
the salaries came along t
got their resolution.
credit for refusin
guite characteristically,
ney.
e Party for-
Having ee
money,
took the
GONE FROM BAD ‘TO ‘WORSE. :
Since then they have gone from’ bad
ment was necessary in a thing
they had publicly describ
magnificent. This policy ‘St paralyzing
themselves and defeating
hunting for themselves and their Fela:
tives and support
It is Impossible ‘to fight in the open
Ministers from whom oni favors
. Ireland's business ts sacri:
ficed to this secret business. They
cepted and boomed asa great boon Bir.
reli’s Land Bill, which stopped Land
rehase, and left many still paying| m:
old rents, who but for that Bill would
paying less money as purchasers.
d and boomed as “great! m
Lloyd George's notorious
which added ‘two million
pow a year to Irefand’s excessive
tration without any return whats
“They accepted and boomed as “fairy-
land, realized” an insurance ‘scheme
suitable for a manufacturing country
like England. but int Treland operating
onl; check opon Indust d
farther Increase of ta
AN PNASCOLATED. wou RULE
They accep! tae an P cimescatate d Home
Rule Bill, and described it as “better
than Grattan’s Constitution,”
secured full control of Irish
without which Mr. Asquith had declar-
ed that freedom would be a mockery.
made toeget that con-
served to the British Parliament.
ring the discussions of that Bill
they never once claimed restitution ot
the excessive taxes fou:
Ireland by Financial Relations
jommissions, of which Mri Redmond
was a member, and never once claimed
any security against over-taxation in
the fature, continued booming
gontrol over Ireland's money,
fore no means of doing ‘anything -for
this neglected | country, while seventeen
million pounds a year of Irish
goes, with the help of the Irish Party,
to England for British purposes of, p
use to Ireland.
No honest Telenman, whether Union-
alist, wants a future preg
ist or National
nant with inevitable dankruptey for Ire-|1
land, when it would be so easy to unite
all Irishmen on this very subject of
securing financial justice for our com-
ntry.
_ THE DEVASTATING WAR.
leave these things for others to calcu-
late. This horrible war, which British
and Continental statesmen have been
Ing, and could cite
t impeach
many things, but none more con-
Chusively than the utter -unfitness of
British rulers to rule any country.
Sf
cticing Conserip-| r
us ‘soon as| pr
worse. Men who were useless be-/land'
-| declared that
| think of putting even their
te
"| their fallow countrymen, and finally of
‘e-| tonal spirit w
: acter of the Irish Party? Can
1/ers?- What
their own, or to guide civitization, or
of the good things they pe
tend to be.doing.. When I*hear Eng-
lish people wail about the horrors that
ave descended upon them, and, fol-
lowing the exaniple of their press, false
0 its duty, and thei
has betrayed its trust, curse the Kaiser
war, .F often
that if the horrors were a hundredtold
worse, if English homes an!
sh people were wrecked and blasted
toa cinder, as other nations,. including
Ireland, have been, no fair-minded per-
son acquainted with the true. history
of English rulers would question that
it was just retribution,
leeming feature of the
war is the opportunity. it. affords. to
small ‘submerged nations to recover
their liberties, not with the help of the
warring Powers, but in spite of them.
The harder the ctrugele between those
Powers, the better the prospect for the
auc ions as can,
Uke Holland, Denmark, Sweden,
and Switzerland, keep out of the
esent struy
tions
z
Party could, slrrespective of
able. Home-Rule -Act, have got legisla:
tive independence as a condition of Ire-
support, Instead of that, they
it would be absurd to
own act in
operation; an offered Ireland's
belp without any authdrity and without
any return or condition... They entbus!-
astically. approved of
had leaders with cot
a golden opportunity. for 0
islative Independence. When
surrection had, according’ to Mr, As:
quith, burst up ‘the Castle. system of| of
government, and made a settlement. of
the Irish trouble an Imperial necessity,
an unexampled oprortunity was create
for exacting legislative independence as
a condition of peace in Ireland;
an Ireland united from end
would have . supported leaders with
courage and ability to enforce. that de
and.
‘Unfortunately,
leaders, Those claiming
t
missed ue Ereatest opportunity ‘that abs
had three. hundred years.
Tastead or "rastating upon legislative in-
dependence, or éven*an improvement] ants
cupation in af
its destroyers, revil ° men eho
d the opportunity for and
connived, rejoic their execution,
been
the country its
INSURRECTION Gare ANOTHER
The cngorteity was ® created by the
Insurrection, by the horror and indig-
nation which the executions aroused in
Ireland and America, and by the con-
sequent ré
which the so-called leaders
had been * long lating that they im-
agined it ‘w mperial ne-
ceneity came, te a "point In, pressure
from Washington to settle the trouble
in Ireland or risk international conse-
quences. Of the two Irish leaders Mr.
Redmond alone could -easily have avail-
f
tll self-government, includ-
ing absolute control o! wt en ver’
different thing from the
Statute. Book. Trish Nattonatiats|
an English Prime “Mtintster" 'S pledge has
eir Parliament whicti | sion
Ieaders, instead of increasing their de-} of
-| fatal and insulting that no de:
Nor-} viv:
| hostility to -o
s-| Union and all the other blows aimed
te
ae
there were ie such a
‘apid revival of that true Na-| atta
Conference, in july, 1914, would have
been to destroy Home
ge tting tour counties excluded from its
d the op
The. Nutonelist
mand, as they were better able to fo,
actually accepted behind the “people's
backs Carson’s terms, a negation of
cir own professions, a negation of
Ireland's Natfonal right, a proposal so
cent man
of any country would entertain
a moment, a proposal to make
Act on
inoperative
country; in short,
deadly than the Act o!
Hitherto the ral of Union has been
unsurpassed in infamy, merging Ire-
land as it did in : 2 hostile empire.
Ireland was submerged as a whole, as
an undivided entity; hence retaining ia
its solidarity a possibility of revival.
Partition now, by destroying that solid-
would make
and would,
their
e
Fs
by dismembering ~ their
a proj oposal more
Unt
therefore,
against Irel
of A DISUEMBERED IRELAND HELP-
LESS. ba
An Ireland one, as God made it, un-
aired ane aiclbreltant. has within ie
self
ae
merged no longer and
could not recover, @ National power or
yotce for any purpose; and none of its
ts could speak or act in
name of Ireland. Everything that we
‘alue as a Nation, including our future
5
8
B
dj existence as a Nation, depends upon the
y,
maintenance of Ireland's
insult and the greater treachery 1s
er own sons in
dismemberment for their own personal
advantage. .
The Party that used to boast
fidelity to Parnell’s doctrine, that Ire-
land could not r service
a single Irisi bman, has induced many
thousands of g Irishmen to fight
‘and die for mn "ineerty ‘and indepen-
lence of » Servia, Montenegro,
while the
off six counties, with all their inhabit-
This conduct, unmatched in base
ness, excites the ignation of Irish-
men and the contempt of the world.
It was only atte
their bargain wi
th
martial law to prevent opposition; and]
“I they expect to .be: 2 oretven for thi
treachery on th und that thelr
scheme could’ never have worked.
ords, they were helping Carson
kill Hom‘ more effectually
Carson himself could have’ done.
carefally concealed: from thelr
of
to
than
They
followers M George's ‘pribe
ed—that they would have seats for
indefinite time, without election, both
in the British Feriiament, with salaries
ched, and the sham Parliament
Their or-
bus:
hoodwinking the public into the belief
that the full representation for Ireland
at Westminster was the offer which they
would not relinquish.
of the on eakdown of the mutilation ‘plot
were the popular opposition to it and
the ‘fused of the Government to ratify
Lioyd George's promise of salaries fe
the full number The Para bers
Westminster.
e Part made
the|no - attempt ter necire Fane represents,
tion at Westminster when the interests
e int
0 value; bu ho has been | ested
| telling 3 for sears to trust Aequith | their salaries were at stake con-
should have seized the opportunity of} tinued salaries were the blood money
-| showing that Asquith might be trusted.
othing of the
tent, with ing nothing ‘tor his ‘own
side; he: vi;
ents. - On
ready to accept,
ause i mas deadly
last May, that, Dublin Castle govern-| terest, but owing to the joint effect of
reat had broken down, and the oppor nm mo i and tusal
aubsequently revealed at the Inquiry|of the Gov it to continue indefi-
m and corruption against ‘their
country,
"Whet moro need be sald of the char-
y one,
remembering those facts have expected
them to make
est opportunity ever presented to Tead-
re, NO one ne
bit orpriced if after, another. month
or two the same play-ectors ask the
public to believe that tt hey,
Created the Imperial necessity, “eutn tte
unprecedented opportunity, and that it
was factionists like y eon
ented i ‘noking any wee of t
ig tho bellef inthe
pullisuiey of the public.
SURRENDERED TO CARSON.
g
On the other hand, Sir Edward Car
son, who, at the Buckingham Palace:
worthy use of the great-| snich open
d be @| part of
nitely the salaries of the full number
of Irish Members who were prepared
to divide and sell their c
those pretched salaries. Had tl
a been continued, Partition would
the [reachery as a triumph of stat tee
3
Aap
CHEERED THE EXECUTIONS.
Nation: Te is the basest work
ative traitor can
It i e eperaly base on the
men who, it October, pub-
licly suggested the shooting of the Vol-
unteer: leaders; months later
consented to the shooting of them and
cheered when ‘e shot, their
principal supporters sent to penal ser-
heir followers imprisoned,
engage.
tte opinion, while they represent Ire-
land as eager for her own destruction.
tel
it for
the Statute Book forever} Nav:
But | deg!
re-| w
the] son
dj against which the
plotting for her} nam
of its have
-ge{ destroying Ireland: as a Nation-
Mr. Lioyd to} the mi
themselves for pauing Partition pocent: di
So low have they fallen that they still
expect, by the comb!
martial law and
compass the greatest
against their country, a c
est with those i
plese to do
their country but betray it, to rebuke
their lives for the coun-
try and i ‘itn which the Party
have betra: Was ever a party
r the enemy's
enemy's weapons against
their own country.
in the other hand do not their alter-
natives furnish a fine iNlustration 0
‘hat the Coalition Government. means
by their championship of small nations,
when the only alternative it offers to
this emall nation are selfdestruction oF
the putrid traltors.
PARTITION DANGER AHEAD STILL.
Seeing that Asquith,’ Redmond, Car.
and the most powerful. Unionists
{a England still declare that a “settle-
” which mean:
Irish Party, if good
for anything or faithful to any prin-
ciple, would guard Ireland at the cost
f their own lives and liberties,
that, instead of doing
r[this, they are themselves the danger?
audience to
if, f baseness
or treachery which the Party have not
mitted or a’ principle which they
ve not betraye false to
every duty and principle in the past to
be relied upon for our
nation in the
Ne
Invite -any man in the
8 mon, mi er able. t
rantee anything in ireland, and th:
the threat of resignation by wl
manent . relief
ig that English Governments
col
w that tl
oo ) IMPERIAL NECESSITY.
The Imperial necessity being
and growing, the Coal Ligon Government
haying those two way:
ethod of ending ‘sh “eubte oy
the conditions being favorable to that
sign, etment of
Partition a Consent | “tor Ireland
m early unless im-
mediate Pesta ‘petlon. ie taken ©
the Irish people themselves.
ed and a e. "he Pi
ersuading foreign opinion,
opinion, that Par-
ription imposed upon
has rid herself of traitors, put in
their places honest men subject to att
ferent conditions, and resumed
worthy corre om which she has been
too long dive
SOVEREIGN TibEpeoeNee THE
Thee course ee @ new movement with
ol
to another by force is
yranny from which
eelng Europe.
hat sovereign inde-
in| pendence fs unattainable without blood-
shed. To that there are three
First, the threat of bloodshed cannot
when oppo!
irdly, \we have in our own time at
case of Norway, of a
. ring its sovereign inde-
pendence without bloodshed by a con-
us'the silly question, would we not be
e ents she liked. § More then that, she has
ejown dominions. She
ft] self-government. If. anyon
Does | m
existence as a|-se
I
the danger lessened by the
'o}and comradeship, faithful to ireland
ot
ati and to each
‘he| or destructive of their ‘institution ns,
| gtruetion practiced by P
act Parti Hon for Ireland regardless of Bar
great | of
result.
d
sausted with Canadian indepen aenee|
1 independence of some other brant nd?
These hypothetical auestons ry for
em,
a long time to try an:
mples within her
has not availed
of her powers and opportunities? When
had encouraging exam)
°
oe
a
Ireland
cal opportunity .of deciding whether
she would or would not accept a modi-
fication. -
Tt is not for us to obscure our plain
ane simple right by asking something
0
that recent events in Dublin should in-
duce us to modify our claims, he makes
o _mistake. English notion
thet Ireland is stricken and despondent
is as wide of the mark,as
neration of its
leaders, slaughtered in cold tlood, efter
them have heen executed; stricken into
a fierce deternation to stand for Ire-
Jand alon
IRELAND NOT DESPONDENT.
Despondent Ireland certainty is not.
Far fro: Pet
imagine Ireland disheartened and ready
to accept a favo
nemies to
the. grudging dribblets of freedom she
-to be allowed, but themselves lay-
ing hold of the sacred right to which
she is ent itled.
ust be men ‘ready, if sufficient |
te si
mated by the spirit of patriotism
vig-
ilant, ceaseless, remorseless, irreconeil
able activity for ena and freedom,
wever inconvenient our enemies
er, co-operating
OBSTRUCTION . STILL: POSSIBLE.
The kind of Irishmen who would not
fey convince the public
that “Gostruction “hes been made impos-
the alter: made in the
are many ot othe er form:
but respect for rules, which is
men who have ceased to be Irish
A band of men ready to
y length could
bring the British Parliament to a ridic-
ulous deadlock, and thus bring its rule
in Ireland to an ena
N ationalisto,
ld incur Engtish
men prepared to
rity with which the people all over ne
country enroll themselves in the
keep r sotutto monge} ut of offices
in it; and io cneney, ean and fidelity
with: white h they out their plans
for ridding . country of parasitical
Job-h nters, feave no doubt as to the
METHODS TO BE. USED,
To be able to win and maintain free.
dom, mn must hecome worthy of
it by cultivating manly discontent with
rags and scabs and crumbs o!
ism and depende lence.
and aim at worthy ends from
mmand ré
the huge and urgent
task of undoing England’s work ot
struction and neglect in our counts,
It must repair fhe | wreckage with which
It
ther ere (00
country's resources; rove,
foster
e fact
| the Mavigorating
usual | yo;
-| English notions about Ireland. aa
t| Ireland fs, with a ge
etty politicians who| P
measure out| be
"S| Kapp & Peterson Pipes from $1.00 u
ihe arts ot peace, progress and ha; pi} BLACK’
ness. It must, on the contrary, link up|, GENT’S POPLIN TIES, $1.00.
closely with that past and its| “FELON'S: TRACK” (Doheny) _§}
natural development, and to end) “LITERATURE IN IRELA®
Tevive its language, literature, music (Thomas. MacDonovgt 927 15. is
and national customs as a glorious her-| 0'Growney’s °
ge, the tost powertul stimulus to ite TRISTL P aie “1 1a ie Joe ct
own ' peop! the est bari “as
against foreign utter lteratare and ail Dineea's iste TENGLISH “biemios
demoralizing importa all) $1.25. apy,
DINNEEN'S “estettst DicTIONAR .
de CHRISTMAS canna with Engllsh & and
and secure every member
munity in the enjoyment oe
of acetal inaust
tof unfeitered treed
Joy and pride rd
would link us all together, North g
South, as never before, and inspire :
with a buoyant hope, and ability, to!
age, and perseverance ne
the ce
“A STRATEGIC TEGIO CLASSIC,
Tho “military sexpert” of the New
“As the “ca unpaign
opens out the
against Roumania
German general plan b
more and apparent in its
details, and may certainly be classed as
one of the most brilliant pieces of work
in the entire war. It demanded most
careful planaing in-every detail. tt ae.
at this campaign will
emphasized as a strategic classic.”
——+-e
For Freedom's battle once ‘begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.—Byron,
TO WOULD-BE CIVIL SERVANTS:
he is experi
teacher fnaure how he comes ‘0
Je ett)
. Then you will come to
CONWAY'S SCHOOL,
20 Bast 42nd Strect,
‘If you are wise.
Classes for all branches of Civil
Service. Out of pupils of the
Conway School who entered the
examination for Police Captain 31
are on the list. Among the
ten names note oe nway’s men
ioe E. No.
@ V, Under lit.
Candidates for Police Sergcant
and Fire ae enon shou!
give
Classes for these now ae at
20 HAST 42ND STREET.
LEGAL NOTICES.
Borde MARE a fae
re
olaimms against
the County of New 3 Forks notice &
New
tbe ean wy of Nee
of ee
Y. Pal is
iister; his attorney, No. 293
the City of New York, on or betore ‘
pril, nex
October, 1016,
Dated, New York, the 4th 5 eta wie
Claude V, Pallister,
Aworucy for ‘Adtdiolte
ny,
tor,
pattan,
Borough of it better
} Broad:
CaROLIN
oi Houptebla dona Fs ce
ma
‘au order
arroxate Ol the Ce
haraby given to all
Varatlse | Berhug,
ork, dee ed
3 at his place
Di ttwaractine business No. 058 Bad ast Boo See
fo the, ay of New York, o1
lay ot “March next.
Da ted New York, ‘the 23rd day. ot Angust, 1916
Willlam He Bering
. Executor.
Joho M utbotland. *
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xem Yo eae eonetans (omni
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