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December 23, 1916,
The Saelic Amenican.
ENGLAND'S BLOOD STAINED EMPIRE|*
gohre —+++
The Gonntry That Has Plotted for Years to Bring About the
resent
uropean Conflagration, the Violator of Treaties,
the Destroyer of Small Nations, the One Unrelenting Enemy
f Tre o Has Starved and Massacred the Irish Peo-
ple i Seven Hundred Years, Now Asks Them to Abandon
the Ideals Which So Long Sustained Them,
and Help Her
very Power .Who
Dared Become Her Rival—Confronted by Nemesis She Cries
for Irish Assistance Which §
he Will Not Get—lIreland a
Seething Volcano Only Awaiting Arms to Destroy for Ever
__; Her Robber Rule.
(By HUGH O'NEILL, Chicago.)
The Easter Week Re Rebeltion in Ire- en m
of the
to the
their spirit of Nationality; that
wi e participants in
mond, Dillon, Devlin, and other place-
unting politiclans, surrender tl
ideals of the Irish for a mess of
pottage or a miserable pittance called
tion under a republican form of gov-
ernment.
Men who did not know the Irish race
to stand for Ireland and liberty and
against British Empire and
tyranny.
pet Parliaments—in Dublin and Bel-
fast- without governmental ma.
chinery or power? the Irish want
dm:
continuo the bully
the Irish believe the ‘aastardly charges
the English against the Ger-
mans?
<Did the Irish not see the menace of
an’ English mobilization of, American
American industries
‘American money on the side of
the path to the race that) man:
fought tor ‘ma sul stands, for liberty.
erty, SUD
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pressed twelve pepers in rrel , sul
sidized the F n's Journal, the
rk Ezaminer and the Irish News of
Englat wal ¢ financing the war, de
ving: iness. of her enemies,
jt business of her Allies an
the meatral t her dupes did the
d Tommies
did the
General Frei as a failure in Fla
ders; Sir Ian Hamilton Jed a quarter
why should the “irish Wen
tity themselves with England, the
| elining power faded 1
enemy of Mberty, he destroyer of the
En, not the deadly
only enemy
she not.
destroyed the liberties of Ireland? Had
she not oe troyed seven
sand Irish men, women and cl
the en years ruthless rule of Oliver
Cromwell? Had she not destroyed as
many’ more of the Irish by the drastic
nforcement of enal Laws, the
most infamous code of laws that were
ever put upon the statute books of any
t put twenty thou-
patrfots to death
y the pitch-cap, the rack, and the gib-
Did. she not by landlord-
and misrule, in the reign
of Queen Victoria, in the years 46, '47
and '48, reduce the population of Ire-
land by nearl: ree millions? Did
she deprive the Irish of their
learning and their civilization? Did
.|she not try to > plange them into ignor-
ance, povert} ponte. unken-
ness and then send them out into the
world without trae, profession or calle
of
in)
against thom “pecause ot thelr Teligion
and nationality’
* mo did not know the char-
rulers and interna-
tional bites thought thet the spirit
ish had changed; that there
e
shooting without trial in military bar-
racks. ‘ancis Sheehy-Skeffington,
and ruthless. man-bunting
through Ireland in the ome TO!
England is shown to
barous, cruel, heartless “cneland of the
ges.
‘doen the career of Eng-
tionalities? ngli not. over-
elm Wales 942 Scotland in
17072 Did she not rob Spain of Jamai-
Trafalgar?
ish fleet in 1807 veithout even the
e pretext that vi
Sixteenth
op!
not - engi infamous Jameson
Raid and followe by the annihila-
tion of the Boer Republics in 1899 to
et the Rand, f chest mining dis-
trict in the worl
But what of the venal Anglo-Irish
politicians who would tie Ireland to
the chariot wheels of the Bmptre?
Vhat is the mess o' ge called
Home Rule Selich denationaltzed 60
en wea, almost destroyed
the spirit ‘of th
are the ‘ih ‘in America almost
ingland in
appenr Mvefore the Trish
people protected by friendly English
detectives. Now the Trish fa. Trelan
know, as the Irish in America have
known, that Redmond is the Benedict
now he must
3 most deadly enemy;
taken place in Aas C pistons with
itlerean. Keo} Care
é ‘The Irish ions have not surrender:
Redmond,
slaves; they
mpire.
render the i
and ennoblet
lasted ‘over 5:
political mon:
with the ag
was linker
the partition
lines uni
Rule, talked
by so few
ed their ideals at the behest of John | ity?
th
politicians, who have old
for four hundred pounds
be blasted into polltieal oblivion.
Irish are not
over to the English to die like dogs in| ®
helping to save the criminal British
And for what would the Irish sur-
d them fn a contest that has
spirit of national
Irish natfonality.
been, even in her darkest days, treated|the Orangemen,
by corrupt politicians in 1801, Ireland
to the Empir
til she found a Red:
or an cmascutated * political monstros-
8) the Irish shal
Devlin, Dies, and venen a “ce
their souls
a year, will] wit!
The
English and wilt ni
are the champions of lb
deliver the Irish
Englan
deems proper
both branche:
deals that have sustained| the veto o}
even hundres
strosity called Home Ruled
would this monstrosity—
the
Dut | power
reed partition would end
8 always
and | division
England's
ide and
gland never found aj who though
sent to} pendence was
of the island oo sectarian
Saxons:—Why
js the thing ‘called Home| thove in
ot & so many and rea
a charter of liberty
robbed
British Parliament and be
ae
part of Ulster wor
lish ulcer and this
destroy the nat
Amerie,
jecause England is the
of the Irish race; because England hi
Ireland of her iitenties and
It provides that the Irivh shall
for Imperial
jerritory
would inte!
the Irish, es}
again
deadly
own taxes
would be
@ trish | En,
wot
ich d tax; | es a1
that the Irlsh shall have nothing to-do
or navy; that the Irish
shall only receive from their
be| paid into the English exchequer, after | {s
it deducted what
purposes,
ta for the Irish, bu
the English shall perm
dget as| and
we of
subject tol] to
e Viceroy, and the veto jg
of Ire-| tf
nsify a
Engiland’s bloody wi
pecially | did in the Revolution; but an Irish
Tomm: tkins is an intelligent, ‘dee.
enemy | picable sroundrel,
pol
holds bi
cause England
dup
cause “ihe fe attempting to destroy the
merchant marine, the navy, an
very existence of Cermany; becaut
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a
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death knelt of Ube:
The fate of rele
that of England that Ireland's hope | E!
the fervent prayer of all Irish patriots,
the death of a traitor,
on denominational lines and| an
fonal conscfousnes:
But the question is asked by
t the spirit of Irish inde-
ead and supplanted by
the craven spirit of the soyalied Angle
that must be saved
e| every lover of the race would say:
the Gi
a British fortress; Because
sland | is the bully of the 5 be
is the arch ‘conmotator
th
the nations and bro
rid w se Bhe males her AL
do the fighting;
F
ca pace would sound the
is so bound up
the destruction of the British Em-
e, and it e fervent prayer o'
Irish race,
their enemies
‘mpire, Not
the destruc-
ritish Empire, but it ts
the Irish race who
fon Jack, shall die
Is ft a Gurka or
Irishman fn the trenches
2 With one acclaim
Save
jecause the
Anglicized
urkha!
glish army! al
iticlans as Westminster, who
become willing participants In
But the fate of Ire
land and the Empire will not be left
4g] Irish pot-house politictans, who ave 8
ich more capable
amen they
play the game of empire.
will be nettled by the destinies of war.
‘This war will either blot Ireland off
map or make it an independent nation.
‘This war Ss a war to the death and cne
own, an
leep reverence, would pray to God that
his maledictions be upon the British
‘mpire.
While England can hold Ireland as
her western fortress, while England’s
ore} the godiess—Italy, the Dlackbanded,
principles nor patriotism than the Irish
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