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Vols KIL, No. 1, Whole No: 642;
NEW YORK, JANUARY 1, 1916, .
‘New York. Ne
Entered as second-clags matter. Oct. 1, 1908, at the Post Office at
Y. under the act of Congress of March 3, 187.
RIG
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
IRELAND PLEDGED TO
To Oppose Compulsion By Words
w “The Empire”
reereant Parliamentary leaders
have at last been forced by the rising
tide of public opinion fn Ireland to make
a show of opposition to Conscription.
john Redmond and John Dillon did so
mn to “the
impudent and
land stands
loyally by England in th
Bishop O’Dwyer’s now famous letter
(0c
the" question of Conscription.
aroused a storm of. public condemna-
tion of the “Irish Party’s” slavish at-
d by public
e1
and pledge resistance
q ft :
nana of the audiences and ure inter
rapted im almost’ every ‘tentenco they
utter.
urse, Redmond and Dilion have
another motive to spur them to action
nd to resentment against the Govern-
ent.. Nathan, the jer-Secre-
tary for Irel
testing.
inst this until
cessity by ‘expressing wordy opposi-
Redmond and “Dillon,
led and: abetted every
vernment
Accordingly
who had aid
ppose Conscrip-
tion, They will give it ert \etory op-
Position by speed and,
Labor men in Sngland 4 are sino Tes0-
Mw nal opposed, that will’ count for
femetiing, but only in Parliament.
MAKE RESISTANCE IMPOS-°
‘eal crostion te 7 ‘onscription Rew
nena and pitts have done their ut-
Rost tom e impossib le. They have,
mgcol calston with the Government, en-
lea
tects a and to keep them disarmed. | wh
[the Volunteers were in a fair way of
becoming a really formidable miitary
force they setzed possession of t
sanization and tried to turn.it into a
almost
RESIST CONSCRIPTION
Recreant Parliamentary Leaders, After Lending Their Utmost Aid To Every Effort
To Drive Irishmen Into The British Army, Forced At Last By Public Opinion
Only—But They Are As Solicitous
As The Britishers—The Tide Is Rising In
Ireland And The People Fully Aroused—Redmond’s Recru-
iters Everywhere Attacked And Bishop Dwyer
: Acclaimed For His Timely Protest—Government
To Suppress The Irish Volunteers.
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tion made: infinitely difficult. All this
treacherous work was deliberate and in-
di ay for Ri
act
House of Commons when war
clared.
When the whole story is told it will
agh’s treachery
was de-
And for the
bloodshed that will ‘inevitably result
and for .Ireland’s unpreparedness for
the ordeal he te about, to" fac e Red-
mond, Dillon, Devlin a “oon,
nor must take full responsiblity
REDMOND kept IRELAND DIS-
If there were "50,00 armed Volun-
teers in Ireland now England
ream o} Th
een at least 30,000 arm
fairly well trained Volunteers in Ireland
now but for his three
leaders’ aid’ to disrupt and
f
of thelr apport:
tion to. Conscription, they are
every) aiding. Jn the
est. pover. to..ald-the:
place ‘where they make their living.
The object of all—General | Prien
John Dilton and Ja nd—wi
10 disorganize the Ieish Volunteers by
depriving them of com leader
. And now, while
tre posing in Parlia
these “renegades
ment as opponents
“tele dishonest
to het
the attempt ts
hoped that Rei Dillon will
and John Di
Englat h organized and
poorly led, but numerous. army to
stamp it out. They it now,
rather than at a later stage of the war
whet t will making such
poor fight as it can, away from Irel ne
0 save the doomed Empire. It is
be hoped the young mi of Ireland et
keep their heads, ute hat
they owe eondien pishment
to ve traitors who have aided England
to keep them disarmed,
ENGLISH GOLD FILLS
RECRUITERS' POCKETS.
Degraded West Britons Receive
Ten Pounds for Every Speech
They Make for England’
Crumbling Cause Under the
Name of “Expenses.”
From Nationality.)
Here is an Interesting question and
answer (suppressed, rae, in the
Dublin daily papers). ree asked
and answered in the English, Hopes of
Common:
Sir Arthur Markbam asked the
Financial Secretary; to the War
Office . if an: bers . of
ers, is
House have received payment. for
Ctowte +
; | COLONEL HOUSE'S MISSION.
Going to Europe to Settle Quar-
rels Between American Ambas-
sadors Growing Out of Page's
Attempts to Assume Authority
prives the American People of
the Truth About the War.
According to a Washington despatch
to the New York World of Monday last,
the mission of Colonel House to Europe
as President Wilson's Special Envoy is
for the purpose of settling disputes be-
tween the chief American representa
tives in the European Capitals whjech
have grown out of Flunkey Page’
tempts to boss them all. Page {3 utter-
ly unfit for any diplomatic position and
fs positively silly in his attitude to-
wai English aristocracy. His
statement that the United States was
is the most pro- English President
the country has ever
5 Raturniog Americans come back f from
England with disgusting stoi
Page's, exhibitions of abject servitity to
the English, When a lord {s announced
he Kets into a state of hysterical ex-
eitement, rushes around like a ci
mal turns everybody out, includ
in ne the ladies, who have come to see
on the business for attending to
cle his salary. “Lord
2
bury them up.
ord,” but this American flunkey wor-
shine him,
When Wiliam J. Bryan was Secre
tary of State he sent a special commis:
aloner to investigate conditions in the
American Legations and Consulates in
Burope, ran exhaustive examt-
nation the commissioner and
made a report which revealed disgrace-
ful conditions, Be reported that the
American Embassy, in London was run
by the British Foreign Omer, without
British Govern ‘0 disrupt the only
force In Ireland. that is, capable of re-
sisting it,
The Dublin correspondent of the Lon-
don. Times, who is very well informed,
ey are open-
GENERAL Petaso's SIGNIFICANT
OR:
‘ | The intentions oe the English Gov-
ernment in regard to the Irish Volun-
teers are disclosed in an order from the
General commanding the English army
in Ireland, published in Mr. Redmond’s
organ, the Dublin Freeman's Journal,
in its issue of December 13. Mr. Red-
mons organ gives it thus
following notice has been
served a the Suneroithe of Dub
lin, dated Decem
in pursuance at tne Powers cone
ferred on me
fence of the Realm *(coneottdation)
Regulations, 1914,
ok Major General L. B, Friend,
B., a competent Military
- Sithority, do hereby prohibit the
manufacture, or the sale, franster
or, in the
politan Pollce, we will act under
my instructi
Signed od this "sth day of December,
1915, Headquarters: Irish Command,
Parkgate, Dublin
oe 2, Major-Gen eral,
Commani 8 in Treland,
Competent Miter Pputhor ty.
LEADERS Ane Aipes OF GENERAL
‘aimed “atrectly at the
order i
e the beginn
: trish Volunteers.
fficers of the Irish Volunteers were
arrested. and ordered away from the
+
dressing recruiting and = muni-
tions meetings during the war: and
if so, what 5 total amount?
Mr. Tennant—I understand that
member Hous:
that claims for expenses have deen
made an cannot. state what
the ‘otal vamovat Involved
sard, Nov. 10, 1915.)
All ‘members of the English Parlias
ment engage denouncing
Huns” from public platforms on
present receiving, in addition to their
£400, Mberal payments classified as “Ex.
pens public funds, Similar
Mberal payments “under the heading of
“Expenses” are mad imp ora-
tors who perform nightly in Dublin and
elsewhere under the auspices of recruit:
ing committees. ; The “Expenses”
Mi
sea" of the
al
serve that
@ Crown Prosi stor in England
for the Government. O'Conno:
whose classical knowledge is unique, in
formed assembled that the
dition _permittin;
“The Child's Guide to Knowiedge”
ae
IRISH: VOLUNTEERS AND
LOYALTY TO IRELAND.
.In the House of Commons on Decem-
er 9,
Mr. Ginnell was informed by Mr. Bir-
rell that the evidence that the Irish
Volunteers: have endeavored to foment
disloyalty in Ireland is voluminous, and
much of it must be known to th
leaders of
articles and letters
the organization, from the
in its official organ,
rts of pro: ceedings
Gisela the details of my information
in the matter.
Mag Ginnal~The right honorable gen-
tleman je question
srerers ‘to disloyalty
whicb to Ireland.
(Laus! .
emt, at 20) euident
Wilson saw this report mi as taken
mo action whatever, Evidently he an
Lord
esid eu Wilson
"The Senate Commit.
on Foreign Retations ‘would 8 ind it
Intereting readin} ught to call
rit. a the State Department
sce Mr. Bryai it is practically
by the British Ambassador the Com-
mites ought also to call for the letters
e Department from Mr. Colville
a ellor to the British Em-
bassy, giving advice whic!
to take in certain c:
land 1s
taches ni entured to do anythin
like this, but their recall was demand-
specifying any',charge!
Mr. Barclay, who undertakes to dictate
he action of the Government of the
Unteca States in cases where British
interests are concerned, are retain ed
here so that the United States may c
tinue to be “English led and Bogiieh
“poll lowing 1s part of the Washington
despatch to the World above refered to
“If Colonel, House succeeds K ws
forthcoming mission to Eure oD
be he greatest
diplomats, in the opinion ot the
circle, js fully, acquainted with
the long list of assignments which Pres-
ent Wilson has given him.
me] House arrives in Lon-
iona do not overlap into any
other countries
Al
of the
which have American
Adointnration has reasons for
Mr.
advice to other American Ambassadors,
tives at other
. been reported bin
that there is a three cornered feud on
among Ambassador Penfield at Vienna,
Gerard at Berlin and Page at London,
(Continued on Page 8.)
Mr. Birrell—t was speaking of the
whole, United Kingdom. {Cheers.)
lying to Mr, Ginnell,
Home Secretary sald that no one
had been deported from Ireland to any
place outside the United Kingdom.
ia
essed te American representa-
u
JOIN REDMOND’S BACKSLIDING BEGAN IN 1895
Ia Speech tn Cambridge University He Said “The Scparaton Of Ireland From
England Is Impossible And, If Possible, Undesirable,” And Then,.In A Private
Leties, Denied Using The Words And Protested That He Still Dreamed
Of Irish Independence—itis Welcome To Queen Victoria In 1900 A
Renunciation Of The Parnellite Po'icy And His First Recruit
ing Speech—Kept Up The Game Of Humbeg To His
Last Utterance In America And Got Support
Only Through Deception.
me notion that John Redmond ae
ecomie a renegade from {irish N:
tionality until the outbreak of tbe pres
ent European war is an error, He
the fag in 1895 when be
ch to the students of Cam-
muted it
Id deck a few vaaye
of Tie Gaenic America
very Ipteresting tet
1895,
Redmond to the late Edward 0’
ty of New York, The letter ts marked
ritten in
to public geiaietsty of a statement Mr.
Redmond had made in a speech deliver-
ed at a meeting of students of
Uridge University -a short time previ
“the separation
impossible
and, if possible, undesirable:
The copy of the letter is in Edward
O'Fiaherty's dandwriting and was for-
warded to evoy, who was then
in Boston, by the late Michael Breslin,
jobn J. Teevens.
Only one of the four, who were then
supporters of the small Parnellite
party led by John E. no
alive, but the handwriting of Edward
O'Flaherty, who made the co} Re
monde Jetter, and of Michael Breslin,
the letter accompanying tt,
tified by scores of peoote
There bad been much adverse criti-
cism of Redmond’s statement among
public letter in Ireland.
whicl edmond says in his letter
was reported by the London Press Asao-
clation, was published in the Dublin In-
which
then
of
the
in that.
en
oulifeation
were Justifie
His private correction” 7 ‘the “jetter
FI
he claimed to
yy the Parneliite policy.
But, whatever may be thought of Mr.
edmon and qualified de
nial that he used 8 “impossible
and undesirable,” there is no qualifi-
cation whatever af ihe following state.
ment in, his to. Edward
O'Flahert
“Tt (Separation) seems and probably
is im) posable ner but who can fore
tell the fut
“As to ita being ‘undesirable, no man
living would” mor
u
10 Was the m
his protesslons o in ultimate
Irish Independer
HIS WELCOME TO VICTORIA.
Of course, thousands of American
Irishmen who hi
fifty years, to di its for her
beaten army In South Af She had
issued an order that the. Irtsh regi-
ments of the British army be allowed
Shands.
chiefing” a surrendering to the Boe!
in hundreds, so it wes necessary to wit
the goodwill of the Irish. As usual, the
English Government decided that a
bauble was enough for them and that
no substantial concession was neces-
Redmond agreed with
them.
All Ireland knew that it was an Eng-
isb trick to get Irish recruits by
protence of friendship that meant
nothing, but John Redmond pretend
to freiand Jobn Redmond rose in his
ace and read & meaning Into the Min-
isterial statement 158
found tn it. Ie played toro the hands
of the English Government and threw
away an opportunity only second
that which came im at we out-
reak of the present Eur It
menchlp,
patriotism and sincerity and it found
him wanting.
edmond began
his speech with a
recognition of their valor, no
matter’ on what firid thal
hove dren, dit a m of
cours nthe battietields of South Africa,
and intended to stimulate Tecruit-
ins, hie it did xtent. It
jond's first recruit! i speech.
repr uP Tee DECEPTION TO THE
Recognizing that slavish speect
unerring ‘indica
become a West Briton and bad abandon-
ed the Parnellite policy, the editor of
Tur Garzic Aurmcan then parted
ment” as a lever to wring further con-
eb
and announced dimealt unqualifiedly to
be—what be always really was—a Brit-
ish Tmperia Hist. 5
EDMON: De {UBTTER To
"FLAHERT:
_Folloming i ‘Retwond’s ‘letter to Ed-
‘ard O'Flaher!
8 Ape 95.
My dear Mr, O'Fiahert
receipt of your letter of
2éth of March and I basten to reply.
‘The report to which you refer was
a ery oor one 0
The supied an bour and
a helt, and the report a mere bald
summary of about a column long.
It was made, not by one of our own
reporters, but by a reporter of the
Lomton Press Associatio
not be taken as
expressed any
jon as to what the ultimate future
of the Irish Nation might be. My
position bas al
Mr, Parnell—"N.
mit
nation.” very pbrase T
« in Parliament in the debat
Home Rule Bill
y—not to put it
back on that position now,
lon that Redmond ! had
<n
ky
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oY om eS
Ee ei eS net my “pe
rarer
a ery eae
“hie tro rm a