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. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
Vol. XIIL, No. 4. Whole No. 645,
NEW YORK, JANUARY 22, 1916,
Ent
ered
‘New Yoru, N. ¥., under
es second-class matter, Oct. 1, 1968, at the Post Office at
tne act af Congress of March 8, 8/2
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
REDNO D BETRAYS BRITISH LABOR ALLIES
“Ireland's Arch Traitor Adds To His Many Infamies By Deserting The Laborites And
Voting For Conscription That Is Resolutely Opposed By The Overwhelming
-Mass Of Trades Unionists In Britaima—Three Weeks Before Treachery
Redmondites Declared Against Compulsory Service—trish Volun-
. teers Standing Behind Their Rifles Force West British Leader
: To Declare That Act Would Be Unworkable And Impossi-
_— - ble And Make His Coalition Paymasters Confess
| They Are Airaid To Fasten Coercive Yoke
On Necks Of Ireland’s Patriot Army.
John. B, Redmond, MP, has once
more Ngemonstrated - hig. incompeteney
and knavishness as the leader of the
not be the football of eee Tmperial
ism thi unfortunatel
famous Keogl t z a bis
light beside Redmond.
who knows anything about
if
it into force in I:
conspicuous fall
Jt know,
mond or to the
the fact
would not be due to Red:
action of his followers, but to
that Ireland has a spl
rs,
afraid, as he wa in “Waterford, Yo ad,
tress his own consti
on been “pinging the
for years on the strong and
d of fraternity that exists
t British Part
r so long
nly enveloped himsel!
in the garb or British Imperialism, be
Three
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develops
being the precursor of Ifke action to be
qpnlted to 1 to Ireland it the Irish Votun-
eers
mbit to its dic
a December 20 test “ne “party” held
a necting in the House
over which Mr. Redmond presided.
that" meeting, three wi
pert
“The Irish Party on Tune 7, 19185,
Passed the following resolution:
‘hat in view of the
Paign carried on for a lone ‘period
in favor of Soe we feel it «
decla we
Aoople of these
demn as scandalous and freacher
ous the attempts which have been
th attempts, produced
Such magnifi its in order
to set up an argument for the need
of Conscription, And declare
ett, any attempt to: bring into
system of compulsory ser-
we bi meet “with our vigorous
Tesinta
wl that ‘has occurred since then mo
‘an estes the attitude then taken
‘his treacnery to the Lai
by the Irish Party, and the magnificent
response of the British people to the
Teeruiting campaign of Lord Derby has
proved that the patriotism of the coun-
can be relied on a supply be thelr
vetuatery effort all
r to ° “victorious “jecue,
When Asquith gnnounced his inter
tion to apply Conscription to Great
Britain, Redmond and Sohn Dillon
against it on the first reading.
mond waxed indignant against the at-
tempt of the “coalitionists to impose
Conscription. Never, he declared in so
many words, would his Imperialist soul
stand for any Jegistation | hostile to the
sentiments _of . the ~ Brit! rites.
They were “brothers” in tat and would
80 remain te the end. Laborites
tool at his ‘word “although a
Might inguiry into he oat Studie “
with. treasons to his land,
have convinced them or. ‘the futility Mot
dependi him where his four-
hundred-a-year was involved. And just
as Redmond has betrayed Ireland, so
econd time Redm 2°
voted his little coterie of poltroons in
favor of coercing British workingmen
to go to the for a cause wit!
hich a large clement of them is not
sympathetic.
of soiree to the tsinking Irishmen
who have. been followii ‘ond’s
career, sometimes with cmasewene and
more often with disgust and contempt
rites brought
eceived
0 surprise. How it has
by the betrayed has n ot developed
fully, but it is safe to say that what-
ever pact of sympathy. existed between
Redmondites and Laborites in the past
smashed into smithereens,
ie significant point in the matter is
that Redmond, traitor to every honest
principle of Irish Nationalism, is now
traitor to men who thought they could
trust him. But the Laborites did not
now Redmond as well as the Irish
people, and when they needed his sup-
port against Conscription they found
he had gone over ‘to their enemies.
Treasonmongere of
change their natures no more
than the leopard his 51
beidised press ror Ireland,
ed cheer-
more than two weeks. As late as
ary 3 lest, the venal and aecrentt Free.
man, speaking Red!
voleed the view hat “al ational
Ireland will sustain the Labor Part
its hostility to the introduction ot a
policy which is fraught with perll to
many precious possession: Mas to
the attitude of the Nationalist represen-
tatives of Ireland,” said the Freeman,
“the leaders of British democracy re
quire no assurances. The Irish Party
will be in their places in the House of
sday, and on the
id a special meet-
position to
B
upon the support of the Irish Party.”
‘he Freeman 1i
less gtaceful retreat.”
addition to the, foors -hundred-a-year and
he
pellant nakedness, traitor of
traitors to political friend and native
aca yet notwithstanding al of this
man’s abominable treasons al those of
mane ears to. Trish national rights
(Continued on Page 5.)
KNAVES’ RANT AND. CANT,
England's alessional Recruit-
© ers Insult Irishm 0
fuse to Heed Their Advice to
Fight Under Union Jack—
Clerical West Britons Bring
Discredit on Catholic Church.
Eoin MacNeill, in the Irish Volunteer
pays his respects in this causti¢ fashion
to the Recruiters, la nd
clerical, who are disgracing their cloth
and their Irish blood in England's service.
For the first time in history Ireland
has produced an An\ te Pope. ‘The Rev.
Dr. O'Doherty, C.C., has laid down the
duty of Catholics ed “be tru
Church.” The
thee uty, “from the teaching of the
new Anti-Pop
T have no acquaintance with this new
Doctor of the Church, but I was once
well acquainted with Canon O'Leary, of
ingle, and regret to see a report of a
meeting in Dingle over which he pre-
sided, The meeting was nominally held
for the purpose of
erry,
bring in {ts verdict in due
Canon declared that the Suit ‘of the
meeting was to keep th ad the
interest in Ireland beyond sending .a
the p
very long ago, and the British “tates.
men of our time are not the ruthless
‘8 pre-
sence in the chair, one, Mr. Denis Reidy,
of Castleisland, declared that Mr, Red-
stand by those who had won thi
a
&
S
the Dingle’ people {gnored Mr.
Reidy and his fellow-oratcrs.
Sergeant-Major ORenily, of the Con-
naught Rangers, spoke He said
that Egan O’Rahilly was his proud an-
cestor, and was a nephew of Myles the
Slasher, who died for Ireland at the
Bridge of Finea. ie said that the
young men who would not listen to aoe
s
wi
540
gee
man te
allied
glorious schfovement.™ ene ‘inking of
the Lusitania. - He - sald, “Remember
that Ireland is now a new Ireland, ree-
titution bas been made for the wrongs
done us in the past, and the teachings
of our Holy Faith is to forgive
wish to be forge especially where
restitution is m
MrT O'Donnel, MP., spoke next.
“He was more than pleased that they
had the Ve b
jem there nell
tion of the Government, in imprisoning
» We can now under
was taken of the
ice
Party “protest” or of Mr. Deviin's prov
test against “sens -
ns.” Cano Nee of Die was
a thts stane | a the ¢
ent a stage
fa then fertner ‘even then the recruit-
ing sergeant-major, and named the man
who should “goon be turned out” of em-
ployment. Mr. O'Donnell is having his
He knows well that he {s now a
he
representative of the Imperial Parlia-
OUTRAGE U. 8, SOLDIER.
ans
British Take Member. of Fifth
Infantry From American Ship
in Jamaica Harbor and Subject
Uncle Sam's Man, to. Dishonor
of Arrest and Detention.
United States soldiers, wearing the
uniform of their country, al
victims of the “watchful wai
icy of the Wilson Administration. Like
the American citizens murdered’ in
Mexico, and lke
seized
but
t
ful and waiting” President
d upon to Wink at anything
the British may do to American wen or
American commerce,
York newspapers of Janu
The New
ary 14 reports an outrage on Priv
Albert. Clark of the Sth United ‘Staten
Infantry, who was taken by British sol:
diery ‘and detained for hours at Kinge-
ton, Jamaica.’ It 1s the first: recorded
instance the War of 1812 of @
United States soldier in full uniform
being taken by a foreign power from
an American ship. Clark had served
nineteen months in the Canal Zone
hboarted the Santa Marta at Colon
mnder orders to report to’the Adjutant
General at Washi ington.
When ‘the steamer entered Jamaica
Harbor she was boarded by a neutrdl-
ity officer. He closely questioned all on
board as to their nationality.
Clark told this @ was born
just outside Flenna, but haa taken out
first papers for citi
The neutrality oftcer tee the ship,
and shortly afterward three negro sol-
diers in uniform appeared and forced
Clark to accompany them. .
According to Clark, he was taken t
a camp on the outskirts of Jamal
mown’ as lower concentration
heamp. He was: hyoupht, before the com-
manding officer closely. ext
amined. After revere! hours she
permitted to‘return to the ship, !
ported
but was curtiy told that nothing could
done. about it. ! Of course not!. ;
shouldn't the “british have every oppor-
ly have a most. wonderful “American”
Washington if we
e say.
BRITISH LOSE E22, 08 081 OFFICERS
Associat ated Press| Press correspondent,
wilting from London, under date of
January 4, 8i
- Offic cers cavuaty lists for the month:
ot Dece the British
army in tat month lost. 275 killed, 638
wounded, missing, a total of
930. Deducting from the wounded and
missing totals a r since included
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month.
contingent ‘turing the month, 35 having
|, 75 wount missing:
the Royal Field Artillery had 19 killed,
3 Engin 5 ae d, 87
Yorkshires, kil 35
Lancashires, 11 lled, 24
ustralians, 13” killed,
Canadians, 10 Killed, 29
es in many other regi-
into double fig
Although the Proportion. of ‘killed to
wounded mbder is sli ettly
smaller, the propo portion for the wh
period of the war Js virtually one lied
to two wounde:
ment — at £400 @ year, and that
er a representative of Ker-
district during the past ten but
.@ had the grace to say that this was
done vith ‘the help of agitation.” The]
Dingle people are not fools,. They know
that the fight for the lam fought,
not by truckling or fawning or flunkey-
ing, but by the sufferings and sacrifice:
of the . people, and during the
time when Mr. ‘Donnell was as yet “a
years,”
servant e Crown,” like ine man
he now Posey
tion, “We he fared, “a
gee ation, : seinen people!”
rted at this point.
By 1 rosie that ‘the audtence, ike the
cranks, bumbugs an na foward de-
nounced under the pat Canon
O'Leary of Dingle, had thelt own doubts
about being members of a free nation
and a self-governing people?
SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN DENAND TRUTH
Wilson Administration Must Answer To Representatives Of The People For Countenancing
: Repeated Violations OF Laws Of Neutrality, Produce AU The Correspondence
And Information Upon Which Was Based The Action That Jeopardised
The Peace Of The Luited States With Germany And Austria; Must
Also Explain Why Repeated Outrages On American Citizens,
Ships And Commerce By England Have Been Permitted
Without Protests At Least As Sturdy Aud Pointed
As Those Sent To Other Belligerent Na-
tions—Time For Half-Truths Gone.
When President Wilson begot the
notion that he could dominate the pres-
coe cone 68 as easily as he did t
he
forgot one essential. He overs
jooked “nue fact that nearly aul the
ces, intrigues and strategies for which
Wilgontsm 1s spon
@ distrust of the Wilson Adminis-
tration that had been kept down by the
Tonage at his ‘disposal h: tis
tributed, and that Members of oer bigoted attac: hyphenated Ameri-
01 ast two | cans—that Knownothing phrase of bis
ars, have no reason’ to be vuln own invention at the Commodore Jack
Besides in-the interim of 1915 when| Barry celebration, when he insulted
Congress r and yeas embed, every man within his hearing by
Senators and Congressmen launching it—has produceg- many a bad
ome, They had visited thelr political half hour for” him en re
friends and Persona a neighbors and haa minded by 801
found, many heir am:
ment, that ‘ne Wilson “Administration, con’ by the phrase nore
having departed from the traditional] sented all over the country. Perhaps
standards of American honor and Amer- he proclaimed bi
augara ‘ation. In short
in
national politics they would do well to
cut adrift’ from the moorings of Wil-
sonism.
Most of these members of th
made Wilson «
a Preaident,: They
“the "Aamfutetoation, ‘pad not
cruiser Vancouver in
on her way to Hampton Rot
hed’ “outed the energetic protests and
4
demands of Amer! business men | son to revive ind make it
when their American ships Ameri-| our American snst{eations,
can cargoes were seized and “confiscated While the e
by the British, and had sat supinely
sitent while every law of ou
humanity was being
and a merry tim
to shreds byl British Orders in Council | honor to kee f.war with the
and through repeated violations of ie United States, something which the
letter and spirit of the Declaration of | “ired pro-British press of w York
London
Senators and Congressmen when they
went into their constituencies during
great | tne type of Theodore Roosevelt.
of these | tria refused to play the Wilson-Lansing
b followed Germany's lead.
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g
»
stand hel
try, the United States, costa be neutral
in the European wai n it approved
the exportation of hundreds of millions
of dollars worth o}
one belligerent and at the Port of New
York denied other people the right to
some suitcases of rubber goods
to'another ‘belligerent. xt only that,
bet it had the rubber go
dicted for their action. ~ »
the viclous vivlations of
international ta practised d week in and
week out by England,
They had not ‘ong to pai ater the
‘he
ih ports,
rifled of their cargoes and these car-
Soe resold by. Bristshomnrebente 4a-the,
very- eauninics tow bie ‘the: Amevteart parédaeas~throug! e excitement
manufacturer had orlginaily consigned | atténdant on probable trouble with Aus
m. This kn owleare gained, from|tria. The W! group ot
het
fete own voters and in the heart of
their own constituencies caused the Sen-
ators and Con, to anal e in-
quiries into their own n positio da how
the Administration policies were ‘iWkely
m with the folks back home.
What they learned can in some meas-
ure be learn
from the speeches made cimintatration
notice sent to them
Congress
the inspiration of the .Ad-| nes
conveyed to the ‘Administration that if
did not
ministration’s failure to cau
resister hele: protest, aa
@ un-American fads, fan.
(Continued om Page 8.)
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