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Vol, XII, No.3. Whole No. 6
44,
NEW YORK, JANUARY 15, 1916,
New York, N. ¥..
ered as second-clave matter. Oc. 1,188, at the Post Offce at
Be ‘under the act of Congress of March 3, 1678
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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Fogland In The European Conflict To
Americans” In His Address
‘The prostitution of the courts of the
United States to the service of the per-
sonal ambition of President Wilson so
successfully inaugurated by owas
Marshall, United States District Attor-
ney e Southern (Distrtc of Ni
York, “goes. merrily The object
vent ne Punileation of certain personal
actions 0} ‘Wilson which would
dama bim in ‘the eyes of the American
people and ensure his defeat at the
polls next Novem aber
e that im-
partial ee shan “not "preside ‘ot the
Marshall's
acteristic beginning.
Clayton ta the Judge, and his address
to the Special Gran in New
on Janu a shameless
ind inexcusable
nouncement. It
rT
Jury to carry out a partizan campaign
azainst the. ‘president's ‘oo ponent:
crayron’s ENOWNO: ra
ees RECORD. sea
"Shdge. Clayton has ownothing
record, Every man ‘who refers to for.
eign born citizens as. . “hyphenat
Knownothing. _Presi-
d Theodore Roosevelt
use this term babttually and are there-
01 Mai rhe edi-
2
g
e World and Sun writers
who have not yet taken out their first
Papers feel themselves entitled to use
the Knownothing expression.
But Judge Clayton has a better claim
led a Knownothing than his
use of the words “hyphenated Ameri-
cans” his attack on foreign born
citizens in his address to the Federal
Gr in New York a few days
1
thing measure, inten:
strict immigration.
foreteners a test which if appl
Uayton’s own State of Alabama would
exclude very many native born citizens
rom the franchise. Why foreigners
ee cannot Tead or write should be con-
worse than illiterate native
dotlene Mr. Clayton did not ex
WILSON'S PLAIN PURPOSE.
-
Speech to w York Federal Grand
Jury, tht relatives and thelr tellow-
Countr; rn in Germany or Ir
lead “vere fighting for the preservation
of the Union and for the free institu.
tiong founted by the Fathers wi
Judge Clayton's relatives were fehting,
Rith the ald of England, to destroy the
Paton end to build up an oligarchy in
he South on a fou dation of human
Slavery. ae issues of the
@e dead and ought to stay burled. But
m a+ Southern ide
Southern Cabin ke Ww:
Northern citizens whose kindred
nd ats to conduct trials in wich pre-
iy lice should have no place, it is sure-
all fafr-min
KNOWNOTHING JUDGE DRAFTED FROM ALABAMA
Wilson’s War On Citizens Who Dare To Criticize His Shameless Suhserviency To
Be Carried Out Under The Direction Of
The Man Who Tried To Bar Foreign Immigrants By A Literacy Test-—
Judge Clayton Opens His Campaign By An Attack On “Hyphenated
To The Federal Grand Jury—
A Most Improper And Provocative Speech—The Men
Who Are To “ Investigate”
“Plots” And Indict For Lese Majeste,
The Mannfactured
party lines and meen him into the
White House ag:
WAR ON ue HYPHENS.
g the insolent epithet, . “hy-
phenated Americans” at the Irish at the
dedication of te jonu! to
lore Barry, the Father of the Amert-
can Navy, is a born Irishmai
ie was a wanton and uprovoked insult
to the whole body Ra Iris citizenship
and characterized by the
style of language, tl the & same m methods “
insinuation and indirection which are
found in all Mr. Wilson’s attacks up to
'y latest insult to foreign born
citizens in his last Message to Congress,
‘Wilson is not a man of courage.
men he attacks by utterly false insinu-
ations, His mean, shuffling evasion in
refusing the other day, at the request
of Congress, to name the men whom he
charged with disloyalty and saving they
e most.
done by a@
ot, ade
berate and unfounded falsehood as
ENGLISH PLOT REVEALED.
Captured Letters Show British
Minister Was Working to De-
pose ‘Khe of izeece and Put
Venizelos in His Place—How
the “Small Nationalities”
Game Works in Practice.
The Evening Journal of January 8
printed an International News Service
despatch from Vienna which contained
much interesting matter that hed been
daily pai pers some
referred to show-
at the English Minister to Greece
create a revolution in
zelos Pres
is a fine exhibitio
“small natfonalities,” o!
uch in America and of the treach-
England's agents everywhere
Engan's interest are ‘men
Greees merey. “st tne
British feet, “his diplomatic ruffian
would be given his passports and diplo-
matic relatione would be severed
Following is the Vienna despatch re-
ferred to: .
VIENNA, Jan, 8—The removal of
nstantine and the choice at
Venizelos as President of Greece
suggested tonay in letters of English
officers captured on the ship
Spezia by an n Avatrian submarine a the
Mediterranes
Th were General Napier
formerly Snilitary attache in Bulgar!
and later assigned to the English rnd
dassy in Athens, and Captain Wilson, a
member of the ritish Parliament.
Both were on their way from "Athens to
London.
‘A postal sack which they threw over-
board was fished up. Among the offict-
al correspondence was rt of the
serves particular attention, as at con-
tains in which
the Entonte Powers have clinected to
the Greek Government.
TI jemands re in Sexrant con-
tradiction ‘of the used
in Great Britain to "he "ect ‘at the
‘PLAYING HER OLD GAME.
England, With Audacious Illegal-
ity, Tries to Cripple American
: Commerce So That She Can
| Monopolize World’s Markets at
5 the Close of the War. \
through Orders in Council and other
deviots methods to control the vous
mmerce after the war is beginning
wn mn some of the New York n
papers. The illegal and indefensible
mbargo on American
for neutral countries has
"New York Evening Mait concern
for some time, that news;
seeing the exact condition of things os
ave been brou!
been giving
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est of defenders of commercial integrity
and international law, it is well to
ubdub expend-
actions of the priate
ter so mucl it si
commerce was attacked aloi
wren the British embargo is extended
It did not mat-
seems, when German
favorably dis-
of "the Allies,” as
ihe British Order, ‘has it, why then it is
jorse of anot! ‘olor. Perhaps the
il sees the light that man’
thinking, far- g Americans saw
months ago,.that England, under thi
pretence of helping the “small nation-
alities,” was really engag in @ war
‘0 drive Germany, her most formidable
rival, out of the markets of the world.
At any rate the fact is patent, that
what Bnglan
any, now seeking to do with
Imetice nd American commerce.
v The article from the Bfait is illumin-
ating on this point.. It clearly proves
England's purpose concerning the
United States and the commercial im-
portance of os countsy. That pore
th,
It sentiments expressed in the
vated States Senate have any value at
all, and undoubtedly they have, it is
lear that the Wilson Administration
must modify its pro-British policies or
suffer a decisive rebuke at the hands of
the Senate. Democfatic and Republi-
can members of that body have served
t its
They are especially insistent that the
Administration should now do what it
bas persistently refused to do hereto-
fore—ser g on American cit!-
zens of the risks they run when they
voyage on ships of belligerents carry-
ing munitions of war. edure
has been urged onthe Administration
ot
by publicists of
country.
rotest agalnst the refusal of the Ad-
ministration to warn fe
influence tn
and by a body that Mr, Wilson with all
of his pronounced pro-Br
thies cannot ignore.
was precipitated rather Unexpectedly
are told, filled
condonation violated the spirit and let-
ter: of. American neutrality, ‘should
stirred to some sense of responsibility.
SENATORS DENOUNCE HYPOCRISY OF WILSON
Americans Who Travel Ou Ships Of Belligerents Laden Or Not With War Munitions
Do So At Their Own Risk, Are Unpatriotic In Their Action, And Should Be
Warned That Their Conduct Imperils The Peace Of The United States—Em-
bargo On Contraband Urged As A Retaliatory Measure For Eng-
land’s Repeated Violations Of Saternational Law, Defiance
Of The Standards Of This Country, And The Means
She Is Using To Strangle The Commerce Builded
By American Thrift And Industry.
to one side, while neither is being fue
ished to the other side. We are
utral; we are hypocritical in iain
ing that we are neutral.
“It is a moral esponsibility that fs
nly
to any of
these belligerents at any "
FO Heved thet the
United States should take som
to “advise its citizens in a formal way
0 keep them from endangering them-
selves and the peace of the United
States.
r Jones sald the Government
ought long ago to have advised Amert-
can citizens to keep off belligerent
ships.
eaiThere is not sn American citizen,”
jd hi not tam iliar with the
dangers tow wale is going and the
dangers he is subjecting this country
to when he goes on belligerent ships.
“The citizens who, knowing these
things, still travel on belligerent shtps,
are not very coneldorate a the people
th
that the Repeal of the Free Tolls
visfon of the Panama Canal Act was
necessary to save the | United States
from grave foreign p
ENOWNOTHING vtpee DRAFTED.
And now his Attorney General drafts
from Alabam:
pean Wi
ge Clay began his work like a
hotiog judge in Ireland by pronounc-
whole class of citizens guilty of
distoyalty. His 5)
ring in Inactenta
ference to mee because he bi
none. His object was plainly to create
prejudice in the minds of the men he
ddressed against those whose es cases
were to be brought before them, There
no word of caution, no direction to
their wlll be before they could be even
shat ther char,
informed it
ainst them. And it was the most ‘ais
sraceful and nletenstbte sual pro-
founcement ever uttered in mited
tater
8.
AN ATTACK FROM THE BENCH.
cept the Evening Jow
nd the Tribune ‘omitted the term “hy:
The Evening
utg-American Line and in.
connection with conspiracies.
I have no patien ith 0
0 has feeling other than that of
America first, last and forever,’ an-
ounced Judge Clayt ‘If there ar
ple within the boundaries of this
relict starting
ue ieotty ‘hat would obliterate
tione 8 and neural. ee en
@ same respect tow: ard
Greece and nee sandamental institu.
tions, even toward the Greek sovereign,
's evident in many Places. in in the pri-
@ . correspondence—a all the
tant, as the peo) sole concern-
atic
or ae sonnected with the Eng-
lish Admiral
Fo! ‘llowing ‘S the captured Embassy
“ Sir F. Elliot, English Ambas-
sator in Athens, to
e
sion of the points on which concessions
are demam reek Government.
“With expressions of my highest re-
spect. (8 vee d) Enuior.
“Postsc
wD ‘Witharawat ot on “troops
from Salonica viel
"(2), Entiroly tree neh of ateposel
of railroads an 1e border,
especially in the section of Ketvolek
and Monastir, so that we m:
nica and the peninsula of
Chai This is of the greatest im-
ance to insure the safety of the ex-
“¢ Freedom
farce fhe right to visit ships and
boats rritorial waters and to search
tor and destroy hostile submarines and
their bases on the coast and in terri-
torial water:
“In consideration of the difficult po-
sition in which the withdrawal ot the
Servian towards Albania and
ally, but also by action—that is, by
evacuation of the vicinity’ of Salenica
by the Greek troops, which must be
withdrawn in order not to Mnder our
movements for our protectio
Te, following is from a letter from
Y, C— of the English Em-
basey ria Athens:
“Athens, 28 November,
“According to my opinfon it ' ‘pest
se the King and make Venizelos
Prosident of the Hellente Repubtic, but
everybody seems afraid of euch drastic
means. Unfortunately, the King 1s very
popular with most of the army.”
From a letter by Mr.
ea with the British ‘admiralty
“ath
“| am oo
fhe King himeelf recognize the mistake
hey have made, but the King is so
(Continued on Page 8.)
rus “St tear exigency, te ciipole: our
foreign commerce, and, when. the war
is over, retain what she has stolen in
Here is
the meantime, how the Mait
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cause ine British Governms
States, “or any Americans unfavorably
(Continued on Page 5.)
my conviction that after this war there
will be no more Kings. They alone have
caused our miser,
From a letter by Mr. W. ¥. C—,
groretary in the English Embassy at
Athen:
, Dec. 2,
“The Greeks ‘tear “the Gertiana,
we insist on remaining here. They are
miserable as one can imagine, All
we have'to to is to make them fear us
more than they fear the Germans. For
this purpose we here a strong. fi fleet,
‘rom. t We
H. F., at the Foreign Office {n London:
“The happenings here are a & x:
ample of icy. As usual we have
let ourselves drift and have been
y surprise.
“We are playing into German hands
by voluntarily calling against us 300,
000 or 400,000 Bulgarians, while if we
n tamely and let the Bul-
garians into Macedonia, we would prob-
ably not have been in the position of
having to fight them.
“T think the Dardaneles attr should,
i
close our series
oing ahead blindly only decause wo
have peson an
‘moral
Gree
?
withdr
aus certainly deserve nothing me
rom a letter to Major R. S. 8. R.,
London, from a friend in Athens, dated
November 30, 1915:
“The sitnation here must be deserib-
ed ag an entirely unusual and critical
dangerous,
pare gainst the Germans, who will
in
bet! inate, he remains immovable, It is
storm as Monastir has
talk
charged the Administration with’ moral
responsibility for the deaths of Amert-
ns, killed
X-
pense of a few minutes time and labor.
“I have in mind,” said he, “the
case of a prominent citizen of my
own State who lost his life on the
Lusitania, He was warned by pu
lic notice not to take passage on
the boat. In addition to that he
Warnings, made light of them and
lost his life.
Officers of the Government were
perfectly aware that this ship was
loaded with munitions of war for
the belligerent nations,
the Government.
“Not only the passengers
themselves at fault, but the Govern-
ment i ger:
take passage upon a ship practt.
cally carrying death, and Sestryc-
tion to the subjects of one of t!
contending nations 1s ‘tect morally
The Gor ernment placed iteelt ta
© position which must have
embarrassed the Administration in
We contributed to the disaster by
permitting the passage of our own
people.”
Passing from the question of Ameri-
cans sosisting on travelling on contra-
rying vessels, Senator Works
P rotested against the shipment of muni-
tions. He electrified the Sen:
declaration that “we are not
we are hypocritical in claiming that
we are neutral.
“It may be conceded,” continued the
Colifornta Senator, * ‘a8 a mere question
n “American citizen had
a * perfect night to travel upon one of
these shfi
“But certainly there is @ moral re-
sponsibility, resting not only upon the
ment but upon e' American
gitizen, to do everything possible to be
done properly 7 avold conflict with
the nations at w:
“I have from the very beginning been
e shipment ot nuniios
war to any y benigerent en
tea
tain had sonetteatly ay Ger.
aa we hat said to Great Britain at
that time, ‘If you pre
of our goods Germ
nish you no more muni
we might have brought: England to
terms.
“But aside from that, we have prac-
tically made ourselves a party to the
war by, supplying munitions and money
tinue his journey on a
about to sail.”
he New York Senator insisted that
this Government “if it deemed {t best
for the welfare of the American nation,
if it regarded tt as. the best security of
Peace with all the nations, could place
Dutch vessel
out exposing itselt to the imputation of
an unneutral
Giscussion participated in by
hat he said
Senator Lodge, although a Republican,
e Adminis.
ttn, arntle the Senat
bras! New Yi
trons, cl in
tion of a real neutrality. Following cS
a synopsis of the, debate:
“y .cock—I should like to ask
the | Senator from Massachusetts wheth-
er he thinks that Norway, Denmark,
Sweden and Holland were guilty of un-
neutral acts when they placed an em-
Dargo on the exportation ot gems and
ammunition after war
“Mr. Lodge—No, for ae simple rea
‘Mr, Hitchcock—Then has it come to
this that America is the only great na-
tion of world forbidden, according
he Senator's theory, from exercising
tte sovereign nant ‘of placing an em-
go?
ec MIr. e—Why, not the least In
the Sond “They aia not change the
conaitions by thelr a
at Lodge—It would change the con.
ae “Hltobeoek—I think the Senator
“Mr. Lodge—The day it puts an em-
rgo on, all the world er tet
would be worth more to Germ:
@ million men.
“Mr. Hitchcock—And before Sweden
Placed an embargo on the export of
arms and ammunition these arms end
ammunition and other contraband of
‘war, and yet no one was heard to claim
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