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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
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Vol, XII, No. 20. Whole No, 609,
NEW YORK, MAY 15, 1915.
Entered as sec
‘New York,
ter, Ort. 1, 198, at the Post Office at
je act of Congress of March 8, 1879,
Sevan _» PRICE FIVE CENTS, :
KUNO MEYER WELCOMED IN PHILADELPHIA
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Acclaimed At Fine Meeting Called By Philo-Celtic Society, Greeted By Scholars And
Students Of University Of Pennsylvania And Given Rousing Reception By Irish-
American Club—The Great Celtic Scholar Does Ample Justice To Ancient Irish
Literature, Credits Irish Missionaries With Bringiog Christianity And Civiliza-
tion To Teutonic Race And Says Germany Will Try To Repay The Debt—
“The Two Irelands,” One The Seat Of Learning, Prosperous And Happy; The
Other A Victim Of English Greed And Rapacity—Father Coughlin In Ringing
Speech Arraigns Parliamentary Leaders —Casement's Name Wildly Cheered.
PHILADELPHIA, May 8—Kuno] feet and cheered enthusiastically. It
Meyer left Philadelphia this morning | was a recognition by the Irish men and
stter a series of demonstrations of Irish | women Present that - fs through work
like that of Ton and
through the roller ‘for. which “they, stood
porations of Dublin and Cork that Ireland must be freed.
exhibitions of Anglomania at Harvard fol _ 78:
leased, and-in fact, I fee!
honored to have been selected % intro-
duce Dr. Kuno Meyer to an audience of
fe:
our countrymen sand friends in Phila-
elphia.
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*. Kuno Meyer has edenerved oe ot
of her
Meyers ‘countrymen, “the istingalshed
German Bhiloloxs ists, mn as Dr.
Zeus, Dr. Windisch and Dr. Zimmer,
were enone the first pioneers in the
movement for the Gaelic Revival, which
hi 0 such importance in our
These Jearned German schol
gave reception at
eiubaouse, 726 Spruce Street.
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the great beauty of the Irish
language and erature and 8001 m learne
ed to love that which they so vmuch a
mired. Dr. Kuno Meyer rts an able suc
cessor of these pioneers. Strongly im-
pressed with the beauties of the Gaelic
us
dignation they
Irish race throughout the wor!
re to the Pennsylvania Uni-
of
ly tefuted the lying version which Eng e, Dr. has de
jand has placed before the ld.. There the est years of his life to the develop-
were many, d men present, among | ment “of Gaelic studies. . W! e was,
them distinguished professor of Ori-| professo; iversity of Liver-
ental lanewages: ant ey were. VeTY | pool. he spent his Summer -vacations
‘wermry a’ thetir"congratulations to-the | for several years in Dublin Conducting
ore German scholar... He freely ad-| 4 school of the higher studies in Gaelic,
ited Germany's debt to Ireland by | intended for the fntare teachers of the
positively stating that it was Irish mis-| Trish langu ais able ork in
sionaries who brought Christianity, civ-| this connection, D1 ard
ed the freedom of ke cities ot Dublin
ork,
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“But Tam sorry to add that the Cor-
Porations of the city o'
and restoring it to its rightful place. Con have recently
felves, and covered themselves with
disgrace by witharasring the freedom of
people. They are delivered before the | those cities from er, in order
educators 10 are moulding the men | to please English mai opinion. Why
who will be the leaders of American er so shabbily, a
Public life in jhe. near future
demonstrate the absurdity
ot the English calumnies that have cre-| Dr. Kuno Meyer 4
ated prejudice against Irishmen and
whole ‘aisgracetul tate is that elehteen
ood and true men, member: th
ening,
acity on Thursday evening: orporation, were found
iy @, o7 om the occasion of Kuno Meyer's
lecture, under tl ices of the Phil-
adelphia Pallocelte “Society, on “The fused to ve
Bob who re-
Two d's." a ates, | draw the freedom of the from
stare ms : ders et re. | Meyer. All honor to these eighteen in-
lend when she independent na-| dependent members. What es the
ton, vith freedom of the city of Dublin amount
Nn, vamous tor wera. "alled with freed ne ack frlend of mine,
fenolars, sending missionaries ani
teachers. all over Western and. Central
Burope and welcoming to her schools
the students of other countries, and the
m 7 fives thet which he has
Hn oe Under the bight of ER “Tne Corporation of Dublin does not
ald P. Coughlin, Pastor of represent the citizens of Dublin, or the
f Ireland. 1
tie ‘Churen af Our Lady of Merey, pre-| People of Irelany
‘oduced by Francis
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intel Gallagher, MicePresident Philo- the new fr
Cette Soclety and chairman of the com- | nS in the
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of
. Hei lex:
and Dr.
‘Ofessor Thomas 0’ "Bolger ol
nen ot ot t Pennsylvania, ‘and other well
PaTHoR COUGHLIN’S ADDRESS.
weather pouehlin, whe was a Fenian
young man
trong,
Sant the
ting,
te to Wolfe To
a the audte laud
te rc ry ot of the Volunteers of 1782," to enforce
fer meted with tha at oft the mreat Gaited such @ pol! e we such eeu “
a aeeerrin! present with her enemies,
sive esistance, of masterly Inactivity,
never such an opportunity
for ore “than a century, since the days
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cae: the suclence. ‘eats i ‘its
And there would be no necessity either
to fire a shot or strike All
e sel shnese ot the so-
cae leaders ot the Irish pi
the beginning of the war scare
the English Government passed an Act,
granting a limited measure of self-gov-
ernment to Ireland, but made it in-
operative unt the end of the-war, And
immediately the so-called leaders of
tne Irish people hurried over-to Ire.
land and through the length and
breadth of the land and on the same
platform as English -politicians, they
lowered the dignity Cf Bish represen-
tstives by assuming
lish recruiting ser: ants,
their countrymen to join the ‘baa ch
army, knowing at the mowient that t
do so must end in wholesale siubter
It was a crying shame and “disgra‘
It was worse. a base betrayal
ot Ireland, a cowardly. crime again
their own countrymen
“The Dublin Fusiliers went to the
front | Steen hundred strong. Only six-
Dul
iy, Francis AlcGee and the Philo-
beitie “dancing clas
PREDICTS 4 WORLD: WIDE WAR.
viewed by Philadelphia report-
ore protessor Meyer predicted a world-
wide war ag a result of existing condi-
ions.
“This. 1s to be, a whole century of
wars,” he sald, “The war will extend
to the Tdian and the Pacific Oceans.
Australia will be. brought into it, and
America will be a belligerent, too, in
eutral.
the present w
will ‘be disastrous. Soon we must see
whether European and American poli-
cies are to rule the Pacific, or whether
the.yellaw races are to dictate.
“We are standing at ‘the threshold of
a new era, which is to be ushered in b;
a is new era all the
Powers of the world wu stake new posi-
u ons in the scale of importance, There
and statesmen. This opi
Chaperie, but it was al
2M 000 en.
were mostly
Trish, seoteh Welsh. and Canadians.
is repeating
Irish and Scotch are fighting Gunand’s
battles while the “flannelled fools” of
factories in order to take advantage of |, wi
war eal German tra
one in ‘en of senose Irishmen who join
the English army will ever return to
Ireland, and the so-called leaders who
urged them to enlist are aware of the
ra
“What gratitude do we owe to Eng:
land? Is {t for seven hundred years of
the most brutal persecution that ever
scourged a gland our
country? 3 it emer are to fight
let them fight for their) ‘count
not for “the land -of the sateanger and
pers
“Don! the so-called leaders go to the
front?
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front, thes they would cease to afflict
uuntry they now claim to repre-
weet England fight her own batt!
Let Irishmen join, the Irish Folunteers,
Oh, for
but not.
Teast, a Sir Roger Casement, to teach
our countrymen lessons of’ practical pa-
triotism, to reserve their strength, their
devotion, and their sacrifices for Ire-
land only”
KUNO MEYER'S ADDRESS.
When! Father Coughlin | introduced
im.
‘uno Meyer the audience gave him a
great ovate we Bre ter portion of
bis addre larly disserta-
tion on ancient | ish Nterature, which
he said held a high place among the
literatures of the old and showed
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citles, the full text of it is not given
in this report.
After describing macient Ireland as a
nation which had commerce with all
the world, a literature and a national
ity centuries before any other European
nation, showed the results of England's
Irish policy which, he said, had sent
ratios
and shameless factionalism, have given
to the world a false idea of Ireland's
greatness.
“England’s treatment
since the conquest has bee!
id. “The
of Ireli
men to gain their support in the war,
but England's treatment is as harsh as
ever.”
en the speaker contrasted Ger-
many’s treatment of Alsace and Lor-
raine. He pointed out that Strassburg,
under French rule,.was dirty, filthy
and mean, To-day, he said, under Ger-
man sovereignty, that city boasts of a
beautiful cathedral ‘@ university,
while the people are happy. So loyal
in fact, that 30,000 Alsatian
Meyer was delivered in Gaelic by Daniel
Gallagher. the Gaelic rallying
song of the Gaelic Leagu:
the even:
jan Donnelly
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nom. - Dances were » given bY sites aapie
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porting, but space forbid
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cades of clashing interests. These causes
cannot be removed by a few months
fighting.
“The war is not a question of Bel-
gium, nor of Servia, nor of Alsace and
Lorraine. The interests that are at
stake are enormous. Nations are in the
They
present war, Germany will not stand
rit.”
IRISH-AMERICAN cuoB'E RECEP.
The diab Anercan ‘ciue tendered a
recenti er on Friday
evening o tts tne chou, 726 Spruce
ly hour the’ spa-
ous err vere ied. with irish men
pay ‘their re-
the Stetingntshed~ German
scholar and to tell him how thoroughly
they appreciated his. gr
Ireland and reprobated and repudiated
the attempt or Pagtish politicians in
Ireland to repay .his services with
sult, There were also asi a number
of prominent ore ang! and : Austro-
Hungarians, were the guests of
the Trish Aerian Club,
A was later served in
large meeting hall of the clubhouse,
which was attended by the ladies, After
the good things had been disposed of,
President William Tobin proposed the
g
in-
of the guest of the evening in a
ech which must have made the ears
the recreants in Dublin r
tingle and which evoked great applause.
br, Meyer 1esponde: few gracef
words, and then speeches were made by
Hexamer, President of the
German-American Alliance, Dr. William
Carroll, Dr. J. Richard Shannon former
United States Army Surgeon and Presi-
dent. of the Pailadelphia Seuraty
League; Francis J. Clarke,
retary; John Devoy, Luke Dillon, ue.
Mary Gallagher, President Ladies’ Aux-
lary, Anciont Order of Hibernians of
Philadelphia; Mr. George von Grivivic,
the Austr: Thunsaian Consul; Joseph
McGarrit; nets O'Kane, Daniel Gal-
lagher and other
tho: ine
"present rere
stant Phil
Geiphiay Lioutenant hss Orszag,
Austro-Hungarian Milita Attache,
Captain Rados of the in terned Austrian
steamship Franconia, Luca Tomasivich,
First Officer; and Secoi
Gommittes of Arrange-
eches were well worth re
HOWE THANKS STATE LEAGUE.
At a special meeting of the Gaelle
League of the State of New York held
n May 7, a letter was read from Fred
eric C. Howe, Commissioner of Immigra.
tion, thanking § the State League for the
excellent concert given by: its members
at “zi Island.
meeting decided to hold the an-
nual convention of the League at 110
East Fifty-ninth Street on June 1
In conjunction with the Irish Volun-
teer Committee the State Gaelic League
will hold a field day at Celtic Park on
May 30,
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MOST OF THE MINES ENGLISH,
a despatch, dated The Hague.
officially tmounced to-
at we Dateh tine sweepers who
have been ‘tethering sainea on the coast
since the opening © it have recavered
et at ils “conttvtion, 54 of
and 146 whose
Hentity ould net “pe establiahed,
passengers many
THE “LUSITANIA ” WAS A FLOATING ARSENAL
Vessel Was As Legitimate Prey for England's Enemics As A Transport Carrying
Troops Or A Train Laden With Ammunition And Supplics For Army In The t
Ficld—Carried Munitions Of War, Including High Explosives, And English :
Reservists On Way To Seat Of War—Putting Non-Combatants And Women And
Children On Board Was Same As Placiag Prisoners Or Civilians As A ‘Screen
For Advancisg Columa Of Troops—Washington Culpably Negligent In Ignor+
ing Timely German Warnings—Anglomaniacs Bent Ow Getting United States
Into War On England's Site—They Will Not Succeed.
tect the Lusitania at a point where Ger-
man submarines wert be lurk-
ing shows conclusively that English
naval officers and
-The following article was written for
the Bors Staats Zeitung of Chicago
we est:
YORK, May $, 1915.—I deplore
tne. loss of life in the inking of the
Lusitania, whether the
y have good reason for that '
by German :
fear and will have more and more as :
mine. I particularly, deplore the loss of war goes on. the great British
American lives, for the sake of the vs navy is only safe in protected harbors
tims and their families, and bec t {or in the middle of the ocean it ceases :
tha bad eflect their deathe will have on | £ be an _titective protection to Britis :
German ertea, comme! I ted invincibility,
sat the responsibility for tke loss of | ®Bich has done more than anything else
ite must be placed on | the English Gov-| t® Bold Ireland down, becomes a thing
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the past
Ste
Cannan, " put oar’ Steamene And what of British seamanshio?
sed women and elildren on board an | TH® men are probably as good as
auxiliary cruiser of the British navy, | Dt Wbat of the higher and whi
which was undoubtedly armed notwith. | left this great ship, with thousands of
standing the British denial, which was | human beings and gre stores om
Ihaded with monitions of war including | Poard, utterly without protection? And
wi he Captain who vain
high explosives, and bad among her
British reservists on s
taeir way to the seat of or the Gen
sel was eras a flo eating ‘rsenal and
legitimate prey f mies
an English
ting prisoners or civilians ai
front of an advancing column of
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‘And President Wilson and Secretary emigrants ariven from their homes by
English tyranny.
We may as well face the fact
taat the effect in America will be bad.
The real object of the pro-British propa-
ation af n from the first to align
the War Zone around the tied. Teles
and in the advertisement published by | !and in the European war. The Angio- :
the German ssy in all the leading | M@miacs don’t care anything about .
merican papers on the eve of the sail- nce or Rusels, ex 60 far 4
ing of the Lusitania, ‘They are in no| they can help England, or about Bel- :
sense relieved of this responsibility by | £m, except as a means of working up ;
their denial of Germany's right to pro-| American sentiment for Englen 5
claim the War Zone or their disitke of | Belsium has giv a weapon wi
the method adopted Embassy in| ®hich to hit Germany, the Lusitania
sermons about Ger
ge
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s to admonish American citizens t nen and children in the Con-
avola sailing on British ships. Such | Ceatration Camps in South Africa an¢
admonition would not have in any way ined and dinod Kitchener, the
impalred their Protest against the Ger- who superintended the murders
man action, and their failure is all the s
more inexcusable Seems of the number | d dervishes at Omdurman, are gre:
of American steamers ¢ ain under ‘the | Numanitarians when England is struck,
Stars ont Stripes on hose who nd they: will for time get Many un-
wen! @ Lusitania fond heve taken | thinking people to follow them. . We,
passi Germans, Irish and old style Ameri
The ‘citect of the sinking | ot the Lusi- | #08, can fight them and beat
tanta will, of course, be two-fold, One | 6 continue to stand shoulder to shoul
der and keep our heads, but the battle
will be harder, until German victory on
both front w seems assured,
is complete. Then will come our vic-
tory, too.
pal concern British bret van Eng-
jand’s mastery ‘of the
wn affect the German cause in
an :
effect will be injurious to an incalcul nglomaniacs will continue to
te degr he second it will un.{ Stout about Germany's violation of in-
Boubeed be tad. ernational law Jand has tor
ed eimply as an act of war and] international law, so far as it relates
ashe Te Remanitatien aspects, {19 contraband of war and the treatment '
the sinking of the Lusitania, at the] ot Reutral commerce at sea, and that ‘
ot where it occurred ‘under all | Portio cade no longer existe
England, as one of
he debate on the De ciaration of Lon-
dealt to England by Germany—it it | :
don, is a law unto herself in such mat-
si . ;
was a German act—eince the war began. | Tor tet motto ee ;
t was a harder blow. than the torpedo-
ing of the three Britis cruisers in the
North Sea; harder than the sinking of
tne Audacious outite of Lough Swilly;
harder than the complete German vic-
tory at the battle of Coronel, and of in-
finitely more importance than the sink-
ing of all the other British vessels by
German submarines since the outbreak
of ‘the war. as a demonstration, at
he very spot ‘phere E ‘ngland’s mastery
of the sea begins, and te bold which she
bas kept Ireland in bondage and poverty
for many centuries, that the mastery ta
0 longer hers. And it w
tration of England's na aval tneftclency
hich
Ce
Right." This
England gives Germany
and deprives England
appeal to the code she has herself vio
ated.
There will be a tremendous effort .
made to Ret the United States into this
war on England's side, for the express
purpose of leaving the country at the
mercy of Japan, dominating China and
using her great resourees, when the
European war Wilson and
Bryan wittingly prepared the
wey ver that situation by practically
ma a nt to Japan of the
Pi
Neananehip which” dele & Paci Ocean. in addition the Amert
blow to her m the | can fleet fously. weakened
staggering blow © reste on the throvgh foolish Intervention in the Eu-
would suit England's
“iBren if the report-now current in| Fopean war,
New York newspaper offices, but 8 purpose exactly.
pressed, that several British cruisers The country will probably not allow
e also sent to the bottom should | {self to be stampeded war, but the
turn out to be untrue, the fact th: effort to get it in hae already begun,
warships were” on
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