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The-Saelic Amenican.
December 23, 1916,
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 23, 1916.
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS,
e again to Ireland
8
nm
down their lives for
Ireland, and the scattered children of
the Gael ering through the mists
for the light that cannot but come to
Motherland at last.
To our readers and all those who have
Kept foremost the Cause of Ireland’s
Independence and have never lowered
thetr demand, and who are working un-
“tiringly for that cause now, we wish
Happy and Joyous Christmas. We
pray that God may bless their en-
Jas comes again, bring about the
consummation. of all our National
Opes. :
- LLOYD GEORGE'S BLUFFING.
of bluff, bluster and evasi re
a: swagger it, but also 2
tacit admission of failure ged 1 ime
tence. ussia and
blunders which he admitted would aor
non:
sense about “restitution, reparation and
guarantees. hi
things to “keep his end up.”
ngland, France,
sia, or Italy will treat serfously a prop-
‘osttion that Germany, pre-requisite
to a Conference, shall evacuate the con-
quered territory from which the Altes
have failed to drive her troops
and a half years of war and hich
being rapidly increased in the East.
When a real Peace Conference comes,
it must recognize the existing military
situation as the basis of negotiations.
Germany's offer has put the Allies in
@ most difficult position with thelr own
people and in the United States, and
the idiotic attempt of the British-owned,
or subsidized, New York newspapers to
befog the situation will fail, as their
whole English Propaganda for the last
two years has failed.
ti
Lloyd Goonve admisstons about the} stro:
war situation in spite of his pretence
ptimlem, are really humtllating for
Raguand. Shortage of food and of ships, | r1
military and diplomatic failures, are] b
small nations that. happen. to be—out-| been
among his admissions, and it is on the
basis of these that he pretends to ex-
pect that Germany will yield to words
what he Allies are unable to enforce} of
arm:
But *Georse only - skimmed
e Ir!
. partitioning of Ireland is dead and
surface’ of England's bad situation.
Private advices reveal an astonishing
condition in the nayy and the mercan-|-
tile marine. Warships capable of mak-
ing twenty-four. knots an hour were
only able to make seventeen at the Bat-
tle of Jutland, which English naval men
privately admit was a British defeat.
And this was due to graft, inferior coal
being eupplied, ‘instead of Welsh steam
coal, which was paid for. Every ship
leaving England now is allowed only to
and food as will
‘e “her destination and she
must procare abroad the supplies for
the return voyage. The machinery on
many of these vessels, even when not
more than teu years old, often breaks
down in mid-ocean; they are under-
manned and many of their crews are
inexperienced Iandsmen.. These condi-
tfons make England’s mastery of the
sea very precarious,
But, most serious of all, the spirit of
s
cally all of them have privately admit-
ted that England fs beaten. Their only
hope is in the United States coming to
her aid, and the tone of the subsidized
English papers'here within the last few
days shows clearly that another desper-
ate effort is on foot to bring that about.
That ts the purpose of the British Gov-
ernment, and its numerous agents here
will work me might and main to ac-
complish {
There
result of’ the German proposals,
every new German victory in the E:
will put thd Allies in a more foceptive
mood, but will also make the German
terms harder. It ma be assum-
ed that while Lloyd George is indulging
&
a
he is ding emissaries scurrying
through the neutral countries to ascer-
in what conce sto is Germany is will-
hat he is making fran-
to Washington for help.
Europe have undoubtedly
taken a new turn and there will doubt-
less be many sarprises in the near
future.
And what about-Ireland? The answer
really depends on the Irish in America.
If they do their full duty all will go
well.
PARTITION AND CONSCRIPTION SURE.
Ye find the following in the Dublin
Independent of December 4
” an who believes that the
buried is living
@ Irish soldiers, and that
price to be paid will be of the provers
bri
at once
confronted
scover
w days afterwards the same Par-
ially niggardly British character.
Unless the people spea'
Redmond a and, his colleagues, to
thet British master
The: Ulster Herald, which is publish:
ed in Omagh,. County Tyrone, was not
really large
the hope of concilfating the Irish peo-| 9%
le and obtaining the -150,000 more
Irish soldiers that England so badly ®
| needs, but t
men don’t
will vote for any
give full value for the money that Eng-
land has given them and to earn the
traitor’s death that all of them who
can be reac!
other. .
JRELAND WILL FIGHT ON.
‘Men are talking a great deal about
Peace, about permanent peace just now,
and surely at this season of the year in
particular nothing could be more fitting
or appropriate.
Publiciats ‘ and peace Propagandists
of schem
side the jurisdiction of England. Those
the charmed circle
t} more bravely than any’ ni
.| right to Independence, and come what
e-| may, that right she is not now going to
tt be no peace just now'as a| ev
but} not
‘hed will meet some time or ow:
Programme is to proceed—but not suc-
cessfully.
For what would appear to be a”
arranged reason, there is not the re-
motest reference made by anyone who
has ‘so far been discussing peace, to a
small nationality that happens to be
known as land. No sony it is con-
sidered a neg’ vegligivte quantity, and yet| ot
it it were but properly, appreciated, it
is other. matters that are negligible and
it is Ireland that looms large and is of| tl
great importance indeed.
one, of course, knows when peace
will come, or how, or upon what con-
ditions. But of this all may feel fully
and absolutely assured, that unless Ire-
but it will be only a cry, and there will
be no peace existing.
- Ireland has been robbed and ‘ravaged
a thousandfold more
e small ‘nations over
which there is now so much perfervid
indignation; she has rere Tonger and
for her
abandon.
Tish people have fought the
mightiest Empire in the world for cen-
turies, and if the close of war
should find that Empire eve
still, should find that Empire solidified
and strengthened by alliances or under-
standings with other Powers, let it be
|.clearly known that we Irish people will
carry on the struggle even against such
a combination as that,. and however
hopeless might seem the fight and how-
the overwhelming ds, we will
strike our colors no wer our
standard, gael Death Paste amd chills
We y fail again but we
will ‘af with honor and wi we will prove
loyal and true to the proud traditions
of our fathers and will know how to die.
When men talk about permanent
peace without Ireland being restored to
2
-j her full rights of Nationhood men. are
babbling of something which is not.
THE COURSE OF THE WAR.
of the successes in Roumania, it is quite
clear that they are exercising a domi-
nating influence in the counsels of the
Allied Goyernments. The Roumanian
army that; with the help of Russia, was
expected three, months ago to sweep
hy
half its available force and
nearly all its artillery and war material,
has been @riven into the north of Mol-
davia, where despatches say it is “re-
organizing,” ‘covered by’ a d
Central armies coming
from the west and south. There was a
report that Galatz and Brafla had been
‘ocsan' n
| Jassy, leaving-all southern Moldavia in
the hands of the Central Allies, to
"| gether with-all the passes through the
@| Transylvanian mountains into the val
ley of the Sereth.
All the stored grain and the whole of
ratl’s motley force, but it is also prob-
oe that he does not feel sure of his
arfare among the mountains on his
left rear. . There is also the probabil-| W
tty that there’may be and
German reinforcements on “heir way to
Macedonia’ that will make retreat!
hrough the mountains routh of Mon.
aatir dificult If not impossible. The
effect’ of submarine action on his com-
munications by sea {s.also calculated
to render bim dou! by cautious if the
Salonica campaign is not to become a
duplicate of the Galttpol fiase .
Along the Eastern I'ront from Bulio-
h there have been patrol en-
gagements and artillery duels at vark
ous points, but without important co
sequences. There is considerable spect
lation as to whether there will be an
active Winter campaign on this front
by one side or the other, and there has
an invasion of | Bess
presupposes
inefficiency in the Russian army, and if
about St.
of their certainty of its success and not
merely for the sake of making a diver-
It does not yet ap-
ear that it will have immediate con-
sequence, and the Germans continue to
maintain their hold of the line from
e
m:
fighting may in that case be looked for
Mihiel as a_ preliminary.
North. of the Somme to the North Sea
there have been patrol raids and ar.
tillery duels on’ the British Front, but
nothing serious or decisive, It is obyi-
ous from the
commands and the demoralization
tl
of the. Paris Matin, M. Lauzanne, can
disguise the fact that France is so in-
fected. He himself fs, a victim of the
inoculation with it, and reading . be-
ween the lines of the reports of the
proceedings in the French Chamber on
the German peac one may see
that M. Aristide Briand, the Premier,
would be willing to follow Mr, Asquith |
into safe retirement from a com
danger. .
On the Italian Front it may be said
period of inaction the British are again
moving in’ Mesopotamia, and seem
about renewing their attack on Kut-el-
Taurus mountains will greatly facilitate
the Turkish defence in Mesopotamia by
giving uninterrupted railway communi-
cation with the rail head on that part] %
of the line going toward Bagdad.
IRISE,
Be Eveaxon Roa! Rocers Cox.
Tam
And one-eays many things
x saying that
A nahin with all spirits of flood and
And
a ithe shadowless, air-walking
And a the one that race atong|
e.
And scale the eyetal ramparts of the
stars.
I have not any fear .
Of Life
ft
ur Death.
The immemorial laughter of the Celt
Lightens along my
hers
With currents whose head-waters lie
n
The star that heralded Earth's primal
Between me and the unpierceable high
valls
or custom girding me on either hand,
‘there falls a misty tapestry of Dreams
Golden and bray
xing’s face shines on me
Young with a thousand va’
A tremulous far music atts ‘and shakes
ells,
7 Faint wire harpings heard in magic
-| And one tong leaping, a-white sword,
ver
From out the dark,
1| Cleaving its way
Through massed barricades
Of frowning Circumstance and alien
ongues—
The battlehymn of the sun-visioned
Ct We sang & in the Scythian forest-
We sat eit fa Phoenicia and in Greece,
We hurled it on the Roman spears in
Gaul,
We sang it on the sacred his of Eire,
sing it! sing it! sing 1
Stilt this da
Remembering Easter Weok—that red
And resurrection of our country’s soul
Wherever God filngs out Life's pro-
montories—
In Irel
In both Americas,
in Austral
On anes sun-baked veldts—
Irish
e Poet
We the unconauerable Celts,
AFFRONTS TR iis CATHOLICS.
of Wedne
last puttsed the. ‘fotlowtoe special
cable despat
NDO!
e Times cor:
respondent in Dublin says a strong pro-
test will be made in Ireland if Thursday | “
is eatgnated 0 as @ day on which meat is.
not to be
It is reed That Friday is the natural
the AustroGerman army chiefs enter-
course, not to be considered nor includ.
the-ed in any proposal, amd so the Peace
tain such @ project it will be because
day to select, as Ireland is a strongly
Catholic country, :
s for chewing
to crawl under the ‘same blanket « as Sir
ma
sin fortified by having his evangelical
r| laws of the State of New York,
veins and mingles]
8
HAND GRENADES,
England is again talking of another
jeal
summer time that he Was a wonderful| tl
skater,
——_ ~/
English “drives”
bioorn n the spring are considered a
joke by everyone except the English
will be preparing for a spring drive at
the pocket book of old Ultimate
Con-
jumer,
The {rething strike might worry us it
d any money to spend on clothes,
hese hospitable shores. And yet ths
init tes is accused sometimes ot
dei eae rey active in tts hunt tor the
that don’t | “maz
themselves,
Among the latest things in fiction are
oes advertised as “fresh from the
CHRISTMAS VERSE
in in New York has been fined $5
gum police. court,
Hea have probably ‘pot a ite sentence
he had been caught chewing tobacco.
The inmates of Sing Sing having
given the new Warden “the once over”
have _feekde d that he'll do for’ the
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.
John Redmond is reported to be trying
Edward Carson.
Billy Sunday is now prepared to fight
association . incorporated
The Teutons are seared are they?
an gener-
knocked down his
adversary tintil the latter looks limp
says to him: “Well, have you got
enough yet?’ ,
A British Drison doctor has discover.
a new cure for indigestion. It i
“skilly” three times a
wet isn’t the
nutritious quality of Iimestone broth.
The itis Chancellor in asking
have easier minds and fuller, pockets,
Although Germany has shown that
she has “a hand for the grasp of friend-
shi is “another to make them
There must be something rotten in a
business. to which Peace gives'a jolt.
Did you notice the shoc! rman
peace proposes gave the New York
stock mark . .
If John Bull is willing to keep on
paying $28,000,000 a day for the pleas-
ure of bein
ioyment than he has been credited with
eretofort
Nothing will bring the horrors of
to
war more strikingly home
“hackers in England thai an the “com-
pulsory Inence” about ‘which the
bsti
Britis h food controller is now talking.
of the Cen! Powel
practically in
confidence in each other as to put all
their stakes into one fist.
The high cost of living is doing its
best to o keen up with theehigh cost of
Killing.
Britain pretends to be very strongly
in favor of reparation—by others—but
she shows no inclination to repelr the
wro! he has done to Ireland an
many other peoples.
Bir Pankhurst realizes that England
needs peace so 0 badly th hat she (Mrs. P.)
is ‘prepared toefight for it.
William Redmond, who was promoted
tee helping England out of the worst
hole she has ever been in.
We wonder if Stephen Gwynn, M.P.,
formerly Full Private, has got past the
grade of Lieutenant.
A writer in a contemporary calis the
as a mangeney on bring the
po!
dreadnought ‘0 a Tower leva Uenan the
admiral-in-chief of a mud s
England may find in the long run
that it is a great deal better to turn to
peace than to go to pie
—_—_— Li
itish cruiser off Sandy Hook has| Her voi
AB
sighted ater @ and, mistaking
it for a rman jubmasine has flashed
wireless arninge to shipping,
Making the District of Columbia
absolutely “dry” is evidently bringing
y|the prohibttion movement too close to
be comfortable for the upper house of
ongress.
European” governments that
y no heed to the ¢
"Thou shalt not kill” are uel
oppored to the use ‘of alcoholic stimu.
lants,
deral coal inquiry will .
The Fe
about wound up when the Ice ‘Trust
N
ir Law admits that the control of Or Aut
Of days when
demoe-| With in
With bliss as deep ai
CHRISTMAS
By Exany Hr
Where is the Joy, at whose tare sight
jorrow must fi
oO eee, na on sraglngs dight,
where ie he nope, within whose light
oO hue ‘euid of the Presence bright,
t is i
Where is the love, whose gracious might
lakes clean and fi
Shi, ‘da depth, im treadth, in height,
It is
Gift of gifts, we know Thee aright,
For éternity,
God of God, and Ligh of. Light,
We have all in The:
JA FRAGRANT PRAYER,
(After ine Irish.) .
By Aur » Romona,.
Fragrant
ath oh the rose in air!)
Nye cha taught
Tv of Mary bought me:
ay
Breath o’ the rose in air!
In grey of morn
(Christ was forlorn)
“ The birds call kindly,
Be not my eyes shut blindly:
The Son of Mary wept me:
ine Son of mary kept me:
in grey o!
Chet was forlorn!
oO qountenance ke the. Ember,
Bid m
The Lamb. of Goa, sore-taken::~
The Lamb of God, forsaken:
Resurrection Day.
rf
° yonntenance ake the Enmiber,
Bid me rem
CHRISTMAS HAS THOUGHTS.
Davin O'Gox
h joyous Belle ‘once more you ring
fu melody which ne’er grows old,
And which, amid the Winter's cold,
Sounds sweeter
Spring.
than the volce af
io song,of fields in vernal time,
Stirs eerer bliss than your ” pweet
wren o’er the meads and country ways,
Your song comes through the frosty alty
We rise from thoughts of cores Care
And drink the wine of happy
in our young homes halls,
With pious love beatified
We sang and played at Christmastide
And with green holly decked the walls,
Though now once more your chanting¢
Our thoughts beside the sigton's glomy
Ab there are some beneath the snow,
Who never, never more mil hear.
And there was one, so wine 80 en
’Twas like the joy of doit
To gaze upon her maide!
ah
Who loved me in those Gays tua were
ould [ now hold her hand, and
While you chant ower across the kes
The old love in her
What would not ‘Christmas be to me.
But she into the Past has fi Oe
No more eats tarry dawn she'll p
‘© hear the Cais as ease,
I kneel “peneath the lamp alo
Per) No, not alone, her glad voice tells
A secret which my soul perceives,
She lives, my dearly loved one lives
And hears your song with me, sweet
And ever as your muste floats,
Floats through the changing of
notes. :
hear ft now come sweet along,
tp o'er the dreaming flelds of white,
As out into the adoring night,
You swing the incense of your song.
eace my sighing goteit fills
of old iy
When the first Chi nristmnaa “ale was told,
The shepherds lonely on the hills.
The cable informs us that Lioyd
George. has lost his vo alee. The caso Ie
far more serfous than that. All
English leaders have “ost their beads