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The Saelic Cmenican. .
LS December 9, 1916,
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SATURDAY,: DECEMBER 9, 1916.
PLOT TO CHEAT IRELAND AGAIN,
has set t n who made it and mis
managed it squabbling among the:
selves. The bitterest ‘quarrel is between
It is capable soldiers and sailors that
England needs to beat the Germans:
she has not got them, and no new Min-
isters can supply what does not exist.
change may affect Ireland is
indicated by the féllowing article in the
London Chronicle, a particularly well
informed paper, which was cabled on
Wednesday last:
turing for si
ing into office in which Sir Edward Car-
son shoul @ promini
the scheme is carried through it will be
the most dramatic event in Irish his-
tory.
Sir Edward Carson, who no doubt got
the pian, proposes Home
Parliament should be established for
the whole of Tretand that
tl ee
seription to Ireland.
world. Martial-law would, of course, be
abol i ished.
a Settlement of the Irish
Question on, these lin 8 probable
ers of the Nationalist
m Liovd Geore | "ne Trish 1 Traders
aad gir Edward Cari
be noted that there is no men-
ton in this article of the kind or de-
gree of Home Rule that 1s intended,
but as Lloyd George and “the Irish lead-
ers’ are said to have been in consulta-
tion on the subject, it will undoubtedly
te found to be the compromise sel heme
which recently fell through, with
be
change that would take all of Ulster in ee
for three years. That scheme was that
‘the Irish Members of the Imperial Par-
lament, elected etx years ago to sit in
Parliament, having
sit in en Irish one, and have en:
tirely lost touch with the people of Ire-
land, were to be constituted into an
Irish Parlament to exercise the very
limited powers conferred by the Home
ule Act ona body to be elected
Parliament, deriving its powers from
that Parliament alone and not repre-
senting the Irish people in any way or
being responsible to'taem. It would be
a fraud and a cheat -
And the price of this impudent fraud
is 150,000 Irishmen to be sent to the
intered for Eng-
land, with the certainty that the bauble
would be taken away when the war
over and Ireland’s manhood has been
killed or erippied.
time Joba Redmond would be drawing
£3,000 @ year as a member of the Eng-
lsh Cabinet, £3,090 more as sham Pre-
mier of Ireland, and all the other “lead-
jd de drawl
r-
£ could’ have had ai
no mandate to! cei
who
But in the mean-| dre
beter the bribed and discredite¢
‘leaders” accept tt or not. Of course,
wounded in the resistance,.but their
blood will enrich their native soil and
thelr bodies wilt rest in Irish earth, in-
sold
it least, of the traitors who have
mn
1
we chance they did not get in Eas! ster
We
ENGLAND DOOMED TO DEFEAT.
aM Englishmen, even the most intel-
thes.
mass of Amgricans are utterly ignorant
of European affairs and that nine-
tenths of the Members of Congress and
nearly all the Cabinet officers are al-
most equally deficiént in knowledge of
the Old World. - Foreign born citizens
are much better informed than natives,
and the Irish and Germans in particu-
lar. The Irish and Germans are not
ni
le to save the ‘puitea States
rom many bad blunders—and in get-
ting abused for doing their dut;
But the English carry their belief in
t] American gullibility to the poiat of ex-
.| pecting that any absurdity they utter
side and ft is so ridiculous that its con-
stant repetition is beginning to jar on
i e London Morning
pe
a
-| Post said the other day:
y time in the last ten years we
agreement with Ger-
many by allowing her a free
cross the Atlantic. Great
stands between Germany and America
like the counterscarp of’ fortress, and
if the Americans induce us to peace be-
le
fore this job is finished, what they will
have accomplished is ‘to destroy thelr
best defense seninst Germany.
to stand against Gert
‘his nonsense evoked a very indig-
nant and effective reply from the New
York American, It is en
quote the silly stuff, which answers it-
self.
something very
kind,- and the funny thing about this
&
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§
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3
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of the “English effort to secure Eng:
and Anglo-Amert-
can Afliance,
him, that Americans were clamoring
their dear American cousins, He says:
who sets a value that cannot
coe
and fruitful tender of America’s or any
ther neutral country’s good offlces
not y even sure that 1¢
will ever come. .
© we in Engh and—and_ what hotds
good for England holds equally good to
own knowledge for
thinking of peace.
Mictory, ‘We are Jookiag out, not for)
crushing
the par lookers-on 0 divert or
ve.
arrest our fixed reso
ignd will not accept the fraud and Con-
scription will be resisted, no matter
a Lt of Irishmen’ will be killed and
The
8 out of their holes,” but the
| come
Britain} extract fro!
ough for us to] If
One would think, to read | tl
How absurd all the sitting .on the] fit
of the Tribune, with an American ust
most formidable movement for peace in
England, of which the cable despatches
say Httle or nothing, but which we
know from other reliable sources 1s
growing stronger every day. Charles
Bo
Trevelyan’s statement in last Tues-
day’s American
tion- of this
Brooks's statement Tangtabie,
That the fortunes of England are in
missions mat those lis) o
who favor a more vigorous and ruthless
prosecution of ar, no
need to enumerate them speciscaly, for
the ‘daily papers have all given them
and our readers are faraitiar with them,
It has failed to “ “dg the rats
bitten the British dogs
very effectively. “Instead of an effective
blockade of Germany, the submarine
btockade of England is becoming more
stringent every day and England's food
ee & {hregtoned. The “great offer
sive” jomme has failed, after a
sacrifice or several hundred thor ‘sand
and the smashing of Roumai
involves Possibilities for Russia that
are frightening those Englishmen who
have kept their heads.
A Member of Parliament, writing in
John Bull, the craziest of all the fire-
out and
g
8
merchantmen—which
would play io the hands of the Ger-
mans by giving them a@ valid excuse to
sink without warning—says, according
an International News Service de-
ren in last Tuesday's American:
pace, and catastrophe fs unavoidable un-
less’ we, Tegardiess of neutrals, arm
merchantmen. Everything is at’ stake
—the fate of Egypt, whete ‘on a
juarter million m as
well as the result of the ‘heavy, fishtine
on the Som:
This needs no comment except the
obvious one that the proposed remedy
would surely kill the patient
The Manchester Guardian. is really
the most influential paper in England.
and| A cable despatch last Tuesday gave this| ¥®
m its article on the latest
‘Ministerial crisis:
crite fn the Ministry’ Te vat a ‘eflection
arte, crisis in
fhe e a he
| Americans, who, progress ore events, and succession ot bit-
od | Dolitencss, are tather Spatntully ignorant ter expertences hi at last. 4 brought
of European affairs, home to the minds of most th
reallze what Germany 1s fighting for——| fact that w twinning the war
not ly the dominion of Europe but| and the further conviction that, with
the dominion af the whole world, and it| tke present methods of waging war, we
the Allles are defeated, what 1s there| shall never
All this cewe, ‘how foolish and ae
timed is Sydney Brooks's warning
the United States to keep its hands on,
the Government fn Washington had
it
ani
and brought suffering and loss to the
people, while enabling a few. million-
ing in human blo The proper and
most. elective met! hod of stopping the
war wol by compelling England to
of other neutrals. Before long the
ernment to do {ts plain duty and then
8. Thi
direction some Irishmen
all along, but British testimony to that
'o| effect 1s now rapidly accumulating. The
| real danger to the world, and especially
to the submerged races, is an early
peace and an effort in Washington to
save England. But even that effort
would be fruitless. Delenda est Car-
thago, England is marching steadily to
int-| defeat and wv rotten British Empire
will go dow! ’
tory.
tl there will not only be a new making of
n
maps, w outlining of boundaries,
but there will be a new concept of life
and its duties. The world is stirred as
{ [it has not been for ages, and when the
Present upheaval settles down the new
order and condition tet will, ensue
| will be very varied indee:
It is obvious that in the new align-
ment that fs to be every country will
look after its.own interests primarily
and will concern itself but Httle with
cept in 8 y so it may
benefit itseif. Consequently what bene-
will a Ireland and what
status Ireland will aésume when the
high horse is was shown by an inter.
view, published in the very same issue
present conflict is ended is the only
eating English papers, to advocate the hand.
ot
z,| t© &
aires to amass new gions by traffiek-| 5
w
American people may compel their Gov-
thing that should immediately concern.|
‘The opportunity not only of a Ife
"| etme but the opportunity of generations
d| sation until Ireland again occupies the
is within our grasp and we shoul
avail ourselves of it to the utmost,
‘The policies that will shape the final
settlement of the present conflict will
be’ weighted. but uetle either by philan-
thropy or human’ arianism, and the
people who can exercise the most
‘ma-| power will be the people who will strike
| speeches delivered at the historic din-
The London pregs some time
the very significant statement that the
decisfon of the war was in the hands of
the Irish in America, Are we conscious
we like thé giant who, unaware of his
strencth, _ permits himself to be bound
by plem
‘The news that comes constantly from
rats have} to the heart o!
ed merely
dream is every day becoming more and
more of a reality, and it looks as if the
m-| prophecy of Macaulay about the New
Zealander standing upon a broken arch
Bridge to sketch the ruins of
St. Paul's, which was so long looked
upon as a fine piece of florid rhetoric,
were about to be fulfilled. The day for
which so many generations of our
fathers fought and died and of which
all their descendants dreamed is
Tet ue eelze ft and not permit it again
0 by.
FATHER METCALFE'S MASS FOR PEARSE.
Beautifully impressive was the ‘Me-
morlal Requiem Mass for Padraic
Pearse and his companions, celebrated
at
Apostle on St.
‘est One Hundred and Wighteenth,
Street,
morning, Thursday,” November 30.
church was crowded a1
various Irish odjeties who attended,
fitting and appropriate
that the Mase should be celebrated o
‘Thanksgiving morning, because,
Father Metcalf, who preached the ser-
mon, said, notwithstanding the immen-
thanksgiving, and ke was suri
the spirft in which Pearse and
cfates would have us view it.
Before Mass, Villiers Stanford's beau-
tiful arrangement of tte Lament for
Patrick Sarsfield, played on the organ,
was wonderfully Inspirational and in-
fused the congregation with an. at-
mosphere that thrilled one and set one’s
blood plow.
his asso-
med to
‘@ inviolable
beauty, and one did not require a great
gift of imagination to- visualize the
Telion the Irish people we were compelled to
5
undergo,
behind a1
d more
ith thetr faces up-
The Rev. Father Metcalf, who was in
Plicity made it all the more impressive
ind appealing,
nobler
way from
oncept of Natfonhood, ‘the
ing undermined, and the gross matertal-
ism of the English was gradually mak-
ing its way all over the country. “The
Gaelic’ League w-3 the first potent
.| movement that crlod a halt to this de-
plorable condition,
faithful Gael at home and abro: It
was not a failure, Father Metectt ‘sald,
of that power which we possess, or are | T)
alother speakers,
the Church of St. Thomas the} ,
Thanksgiving]
‘he
sity of the sacrifice that had been made| a:
‘e| again for Ireland, it wa:
litte, are following it onwards to the Te
si
spirituality native to the Celt was be-| d
but a splendid triumph, and, guided by
its light, the men of Ireland will now
forge on unfalteringly
proud place she at one time held and
becomes, in the fullest sense ‘of the
term, A Nation Once Agai
CHICAGO'S GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
our readers this week
most of the
ner of the John Mitchel Club in Coicago
on Saturday, Nov
&
| to do that it was found necessary to oe
out two extra pages, aud theri to leave
out some of the speeches and al! of
rish_ casc—not for a miserable
makeshift “Home Rule” Bill, but- for
full Nationhood—was splendidly pre-
sented by Judge Cohalan and O'Neill
an, and
Question were ably dealt with by the
and their speeches
ought to be sent out in pamphlet form
Judge Ryan’s speech on John Mitchel,
the Apostle of modern Irish National-
Jud:
ism, was asterpiece; and ge
Cohalan covered every .phase of: the
Trish Question as it stands today with
demonstration of
8 the military and
1-| naval standyoint—was. mercilessly logi
cal, and unanswerable.
iece of work
been in the forefront of the battle for
Trish freedom. It did magnificent work
ft y th
large territory which it influenced in
the near fat
.
* ADMIRAL BEATTY.-A FINE TOPER.
Adi
Whatever other faults they have the:
|are all good
hi t been sapped by vice, ‘like the
families they left behind in England.
Their chief vice is hard drinking, but
soldiers the world over are aiven
‘at
Sir David Beatty is a toper of the old
school. He commanded the cruiser
squadron ‘which England sent to Kron-
stadt a Uttle before. the outbreak of
war, and went on to St, Petersburg.
Cunlttte Owen, in an article in the New
York Times Magazine last Sunday, re-
lates ine following tnetdent of the trip
the course of the interchange
of ho: jospitalities with the Russian au.
at a single:
capacity for champagne {s som ing
phenomenal, Beatty then went o1
turn thanks in a fashion both eloquent
calm. oughout he maintained
perfect self. -posseasl lions
The Russian capacity for vodka and
; | for brandy is equally great. A Russian
ardty
Russian officer of any prominence who
has not the same reputation,
The drain ning am what beaker in St.
hadn't b
changed then—recall an invident re-
corded in Lord Dutferin's “Letter:
From Hh Latitudes.” Lord Dufferin,
those made at the luncheon of the Irish| 7),
other phases ‘of the Irish] coo;
in;
The Irishmen of Chicago did a fine
miral Beatty, who replaces Jellicoe | |
y
soldiers, ‘ahd thelr vigor] ™
th
nlif ffo-Owen—t he skunk who con-
wh
eh |
and was entertained at a dinn
ner by g 3
party of prominent citizens, They haa
the old foolish custom, that al pre.
vailed in Ireland, of “putting. thete
guests under the table,” and Lord
feria describes the drinkiog contest te.
ween Norseman and G as fe felt
d his
7 ly man who had e1
come to Tee end and t beaten’ the soi
the Vikin| meet
But modern batties, on sea or tana,
m by chard drink
i, WRO goes to
sleep drunk, whether officer or privai ate,
is in poor fighting condition the n
Sir David Beatty's sallors can guzzle
ate ag well as he can drink champagne;
the German drinks beer, but he is mors
German efficiency will eventu-
*|elly win the war on both land and sea.
THE COURSE OF THE WAR.
The chief subjects of interest during
e past week e@ been the Rou-
British Cabinet.
any one familiar with the conditions in
Roumania that with no more effective
assistance than could be afford
Russia, the punishment sh
bright one, has no
that the col-
¥| regiments seem to have fought. bravely
1
in the early engagem
The Russian assistance rendered does
to, have been of
‘ol, and they will be able to turn
their attention to other points of in-
terest,
The first will probably he the South-
western Balkans.
thorities Beatty was presented by Count
‘olstoy, Mayor of rad,. with a Mounts, the retreat of the Allfes to
Iver git beaker enameled in colors} thelr base at Salonica and threatened
a perfect specimen, indeed, of the Rus- ines
sian goldsmith’s art. ‘The beaker was| 0”, German and Austrian submer »:
handed to Sir David at the close of tha] Operating on their communications by
‘ull to the brim wita| 5%, Will be the corollary of. the Gall!
roll flasco, The
will afford
‘to send assistance to Greece througt
i
ania. . :
Coincident with these developments
are to be noted the apprehenston being
manifested in Italy at the preparations
going on along the Austrian border for
a renewal of the offensive that was
the exigenctes arising from.
toper—had gone to Iceland in ‘hts yacht
frontier, in anticipation of a GermaB