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Vol, XIIL,:No. 50,° Whole No. 691.
- . NEW YORK, DECEMBER 9, 1916,
Kew
York. N.Y
Eniared a4 second-class matter. Oct. 1, 1019, at the Post Office at
wader the act of Congress of March 8. 1812.
. ~ A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
}] CHICAGO IRISHMEN ACCLAIN DUBLIN REBELS
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Irish Nationalism, Notable Men Hear Magnificent Presentation Of Ircland’s
Right To Freedom Aud Superb Befence Of The Men Who Fought In Easter
: Week—Their Ideals And Characters Commended And The Wisdom
~ Of Their Action Justified—They Revivified The National
. Spirit, Placed Ireland’s Case Before The World And
Ensured Its Consideration In The Final War
. “ Settlement—England Doomed To De-
, feat—fireat Speeches By Judge
yoos Cohalan, O'Neil! Ryan, Kuno
i Meyer, Father McCabe
ore And Others.
HICAGO, Nov. 26.—Yeste erday was “a great day for treland™ in Chicago”
It neat two Irish functions, bor. were significadt
the Irish "Fallot Chub a
was a luncheon nd the other @
John Mitchel club at the Hi The speeches at both were remark.
ably fine statements of Trelend’s cease, but a full report of both would fill o1
complete issue of THE GAFLIC AMERICAN, wo only those delivered at the dinner
in celebration of the anniversary ot the birth. of John Mitchel, the apostle o
modern Trish Nationalism, are se!
heon of the Irish "Fellowship Sind, which was presided over ‘by
Judge "Tone ”. MeGoorty of the Appellate rt ana was attended by many
Chicago's leading c’ citizens, was give! honor Supreme Court Justice Daniel
F. Cohatan of New York, and ormer Judge O'Neil! Ryan of St. Louis, who were
“to be the chief speakers at the Mitchel Club banquet in the evening. Both of
them made notable speeches and there were many other speakers, all of whom
spoke stoquer
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A NOTABLE GATHERING.
he Srowa that filled the large banquet hall of the Hotel Sherman in the
’ evening was probably the mo: table and representative: Irish gathering that
ever assembled in Chicago. "The I Ist of those who sat at neakere, Table will
suffice we show the character and standing of those rreent. It is
n, Colonel Harry Rutens, Dents £. Sullivan, “Sadge of the
Supreme Cour t
Meyer, Daniel F.
NeGarrs, Toastmasters Hon.
ery Rev. F, X. McCabe, D.D., LL.D, Presi University; Ji
ff the Muncipal.
‘ourt;. John M.
Judge. of the Appellate Court; Mic!
«Court; George F. Barrett;-Chief Justice of the Criminal forge Ki
“Judge of the Circuit Courts Harry C. Moran, Judge of the Cireuit. Court, Can:
v UL; John K, Prindiville, Judge of the Municipal Court; Congressman
Thomas ‘Galagner, and Alderman ames ‘Kearns,
his speech.
Saint of the Club, and’ the principal other speakers
mpliment in
hem in Chicago
nd they will undoubtedly
reat. . Everyone is talking ot them
as most inspiring effect on the National Moveme nt.
full report of the speeches Jeav ves in for description or comment,
farther than to say that all who @ in stating that Chicago
never had a more remarkable demonstration for ‘Trish Nationality.
. “Judge Cohalan’s Speech, :
\n Mastel Arraignment oF English Rule He Predicts The Downfall Of The
. » Robber Empire And The Complete Liberation Of Ireland,
Judge Cohalan, who was warmly received, sai
Mr. President, La
hed audience in Chicago, when I wa
ot ting (0 oe gece aia vas. aske to-night, in talking to this second aude
ed, in
ence of aitinguianed Chicagoans ake an Irish speech. was asked,
from America who have been in
of the latest Ot those aad" and to give to
by inlrectin, that the shine 1 rela Jus
in Irela
+ ta those who eT te Dror the satisfaction ot your judgment that the
ition which I hope to prove to
Ricing in Ireland was not only in no sense a ising, but that 1¢ was the] ©
Jogical act to which the cold judgment of sens! ™ nt required the mal
action in Ireland to come if the Irish race in Ireland w preserved.
1 Tam ‘advance as the second proposition, which I hope to
prove. same way to your jodgment. that the men wl ° rose and fous!
1d so on behalf, fa lost “cause,
or tat c ee aid 60 Chose that Inevitably, and be re eis contest which
en the two great giants that are now stivse
premucy 0 ‘ar World shall cease, must selty be a winning cause,
D A NECESSARY THIN'
ly did conditions In tootend justify thd Rising
ved the Rising fn Ireland. I mean
tn April, but thst conto ‘in a reas sg Be ech an
etd the | man ¢ y for any cau!
uld preserve the Irish race in Ireland
¢ will make Tretand tree. (Applause).
eal to your passions. in det ‘ca
y hi a a
maintain that they did the re cay an a
had not done that hey did, ‘het
we ye the last generation of the old
i
this present gen vr {sme would i
race thats would have iived to Ire
and I challenge accent
ful contradiction when I say it, that fon
point which ey
equired that they should do what
yr their Salen, that as time goes
1p, no more necessary
of liberty, than was
{ Ireland in the latter pare ore
wal
> tion te do it at any
wt
At Great Baaqnet Commemorating The Birthday Of John Mitchel, Apostle Of Moderna try
Moore, New York; Senator John Daily, John P. McGoorty, Judge ot the Appellate .:
‘Thi
A. agi
jeal toastmaster, and his daughter made a
-} extraol
com
and Gentlemen—I had ‘the pleasure fs s atternoon
ot
ation impos
© | bee
latfon of Ireland, unltkes the population of any other ci
and that ever;
g|to deny the National” ‘dents ot
© Lest wh
aid they pot fall, but that th
‘on behalf of, the cause, th
\ they took in Dublin and in, other parts of
‘eam ot ae wre BN “years OF , sUOCESSFUL GOVERNMENT.
- ane moment—and at this hour tt would in impost-
mt 9 eat cxtended Jength—I want to, call attention to conditions |
e
as they have existed In ireland for
a may. & review of the condition:
tries for, say the
fhe last contu
some time past. [ want to make, so far
8 fn Ireland and™tn England and between
ry. Leave aside, in the n centuries of
struggle, leave aside the generation at the end of the Eighteenth Century when
od of Irish Iistory, and
d over, neve er Was a coun
of Irel nd looking at
“for the only tlme fn those ‘enturles Irishmen gov
handfat of the men of Ireland,
‘0 represent the great mrss of the
where in modern i tory, unless it be in the
fon in Germ:
r really extr
this country since the Civi can find no place
ere under anything ke half decent ule prosper com! "ee ont
forward by such leaps and hounds as they did in Ireland during the eighteen
years that men of Irish blood gover a Ireland, glvi le
itself and Oy itself, cut of
that Ireland could not live of
¥ ae you may. and you can find outside those two countries
to which T "eter nothing
men governed roland, when it could be
thing to say in a lari
not centered in Troland
in that government of Ireland whose
wonderfil advance in the arts,
with truth that nobody ded any:
inte
Yy saw THE SITUATION CLEARLY.
THE’
that that gives
Irishmen, “cannot govern 1
the men in Dublin
took last April, because they saw
the situation which confront
outside of the
they saw in
British Islands have rei steed even
-| not only is fighting for world-w!
ocean and continued domination of the c ommerce
yet, that in this azhi ‘pnaland
je supremacy, for continued domination of the
finance of the world, but
England lost the fight—as England in their
at tbe result woul e:
the prey of the sh: shark when the shark were to
meet with di They realized, in other words, that if they were to con-
tinue to be to England, at they were to continue to be living
only for the urposé of = England —and va seems
to be the role that Pine so-called responatble spokesman or Ireland in the Brit-
ish Parliament thinks
Ireland. should
reland could only hope to be the slav
in this war—that ‘there could be
ny
e and
10 go down t¢ m and
te
dete as they believed at would before this contest was finished, that uniess
they were cut aloof englan
have to share the tate. ‘ot England
to defeat,
IRE}
the situation wh fet
‘s from tl
, cut away from England, that they would
and go down with England to doom and|T
LAND ENORMOUSLY OVERTAXED,
confronted Ireland at. the. opening of. this
e days when Mitchel led the Rising of '48,
Healy, M.
in exposure, ot ”
ment of trish prisoners of w
se This
Although the Cei
Irish papers to publish the e:
onsequences of the
in the Fro
Trish Priore are confined.
thorities desi to discov
of the “psisner
" for miilifta
dy
in order to shield their comrad
ing conscripted, refused
thelr. names at roll-call.
two hundred of the prisoners w
ik THE GaELic Aurnicas
nt the form of a communication
u
nsor forbade
owed to see the
t of November
ho
service.
rt
t ine
e tr
Fron-
eck the second In.
the
xposyire,
protest
light.
e to light that rere
& hunger strike on a
large
ngoch Camp, where the
he aus
er two
were
isoners,
en, from
ewer
‘Consequently
ere punl-
war. year
In soventy years the populatton ot ireland had been more than cut in two. ‘The an “ate te the camp whitch Is 80
population of England and Wales bad been more than doub) he popula-| cnnoputar with the prisoners owing t
tfon-of Ireland, that in 1845-6 was hi great as the population of England ite low-lylag situation, which is regard-
and of Wales, { or wag at thé beginning of the war less than one-|eq qs unhealthy, and prisoners. oriein-
eighth of the population of England and of Wal ee ally accommodated there grere recently
jo much. for the population... Now for the taxation of dread Accord-| removed to the North Camp, which de
Ing fo the report of the Snglish Finance Commlasion eppotated some few years Ie.
ish Parliament for
the Purpose of inquiring into the result of
of the treaty, which the Act of
Union really was, had been put into oper: ton in Ireland, against the protest
of Ireland, the Commis was compelled to report to the English Parlia.
m at Ireland on the average from the Act
ence Ginnell,
jr Ireland,” fo ithe
taxation now amounts to the
pounds. Figure that out in do
lions of dollars, ot excess taxation,
England’s own figu:
ciiars, something abont se
And
British Parliament,
r three hundred and forty millions of
venteen hundre
you-will understand, according even to
IRELAND CRUSHED AND IMPOVERISHED.
‘The English talk—and we h
rdinary measures of reform, ,
r another that England had been fo
o
ditions in Treland, and I say
cen
in ‘the streets.
lish aw, which
because the burden had become so
could be no
them in Jelsnd, the facts
Trel
been cut in two in seventy years
direction and by indtrection to
England might raise cattle
table, and in which she might kee
a
wers—the
her Po et still remaint
for the Irish race wit
“Di
that there {s not in Ireland, with
is
contact with English industry’ which has not been broken do’
a not been broken @
oken down by English force, And
reland of which E:
alked almost to death—about the
the cxtreordinary advantages In one way
rcing upon Ireland. Yet take the con-
the possible ex-
is Dot a
nd in many of them the
ot an industry fm Ireland “which
wn
8 true that there was left no onportunity
‘Mgland could deprive the raci
ENATIONA LIZED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMEN
nd Irishmen, in order
of Ireland. and of England in rer
fathers were 0 do, 0%
race, in order to make a career for
had sunk the Parliamentary r
ment, so hard and fast had they bound themselves to the Eni
England and in ireland;
tribution of patronage, so
whe h for tl
en this wer came
ini
e first time were being
‘Ensland for the first time jn a generation,
poleon, was in grips
‘orld
on, and when
or practically for the first time since Nai
contesting
when i
@ career, would either have to go outside
to seek jt out, a
have been “ziven to Ireland, and said he thanked God the time had com
he could
Ireland.” he coutd and would sa:
This was the situation which
termined that In thts contest the ra
w their Feeponsibie apoResmen,
if them—they
taking the position which they
going up and down the country in
cruiting sergeant and asking the
England, in order that the chains
around the limbs of Ireland,
when
get up in the House of Commons and say, fnetead of saying “God save
“confronted those Irishmen who were
ce of Irishmen was to be preserve
nm whom the;
Vielana takin;
o
of slavery might be more Closely bound by tl
Feenonse to that appeal trey: saw tens and tens of thousands of Irish-
om’ Ircland, misted
beleving fast in dying fn ‘itt
their responsible spokesmen,” misled into
in dying in Flanders, in dying wherever
(Continued on Page 2)
| strike,
Wednesday to Boturdas. On the
— | prisoner:
the
2)
of the old army, | that was considered necessary in England's contests with
s-|seen from t
less objet mab)
Tl o hundred prisoners w
penaiized. by bein,
Camp bi aiaeel ned going o1
ent wlthost
ing of the latter day the doct
Be d that one hundre
ere in a v
intervened. The prisoners cons
his request to take their food
tion that the Chaplain received
in any way. This guarantee w:
by the authoritics,
to the North Camp
the Monday {t. became know
reat surprise, after the guaran!
all the letters, registered packet:
however, these things were give
‘There was further
Inter, and after display. of
joree, over three hundri
e} who refused to reveal their Ide!
s| South Ci
rolleall were marched away
mp.
prisoners’
» 7th Oct.
letter to you dated 4¢
disastrous results
e commencement 0
uiction of these punish
this date
fatigue party of eight prisoner:
Camp rs to cl
Before doing
oceeded to
p, and thy
would not
ragraph di
» tember 15 ort previous Tetter),
sent wo the
tho were
South
or certl:
= Cathotte Chaplain, Father Stafford, then
ented at
on condi.
guar-
antee that they would not be asked for
names or punished
as give
undred prisoners returned |!
that evenin
to their
tee, that
's, and].
parcels sent to the two hundred prison-
ers would not be given them. Next doy,
n to
st
trouble
military
mers | the:
ntity on
to’ the] ¢
PERSECUTION 60 CONTINUED.
Following is the second instalment of
complaint to Timothy
Trish Prisoners internment Camp,
fee
Sir—Arising out of the subject ot our
inst. re
vindictive and unjustifiable punishment
3
indicate the rapid approach of those
hicl @ for| h
a
f the in-
si
the usual
ie
Tean out
80 this
the entrance
ere stip.
military authority that
own ash-
were placed In the guard room by the
ol
d
Soocteea
the | Ci
IRISH PRISONERS OF WAR ON HUNGER STRIKE
—_+-
| Mon Confined At Frongoch, Persecuted For Refusing To Clean Up The Filth Of
British Soldiers In Another Camp—They Rcfuse All Food For Several Days
Until Their Condition Alarms The Authoritics And They Win Their
. Fight—Were Deprived Of Letters, Visits From Fricads Aud
Parcels From Home, Kept In Solitary Confinement And
Put On Starvation Diet—Refuse To Answer Roll Call
In Order To Save Comrades Wanted For The
British Army—Attempt To Break Bown
The Spirit Of The Men Utterly Fails
—Women Confined Without «
Trial At Aylesbury And Cut
Off From The World.
pub-| more punirhment than the others, tn
that all bis inward and outward letters
are stopped for a period of one month,
on -account of his previous “convic-
jon.”
October 6.—On this date the prisoner
Patyick Daly befor
rtfal under secti
Army Act, which he stated carr no
conviction, sentences of imprisonment,
with or without hard labor, not exceed-
ing two years; or penal servitude for
not’ I
taining to these punishment
we earnestly desire to draw your atten-
tion,
The opening paragraph of the order
y virtue of which this large tody of
gateted A unconvic! are
Realm
Regulations disecting thet he shalt be
@ Place of Internment at
n our arrival here we were
oF
ciple, to work in nelghboring quarries.
When the North Camp wa:
for the Internment of further - Irish.
Prisoners, the same control and man-
ment was given them bythe Com-
mandani aders of both
mps were clearly given to under
an for a transference of the whole
body of prisoners to the Nov mp,
on the grounds that {t was more healthy
is acting ‘ultra vires, or illegally in pun-
ishing any of the prisoners here for re
military, wtaining in each individual
October 5—On this date the above] order Secretary of State au-
party of eight prisoners was sentenced | thorizing him t 0. If this is cor-
he Commandant to fourteen days'|rect the further acts of the prisoner
solitary confinement in cells the] Daly, which have arisen primarily as a
North Camp, to be f e pre-fresult of refusing y & wrongful
sume, by. the usual purishment of iso-| order, are not punishable by the Com
thes
mandant, or by courtmartial at atl
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