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The Gaelic Amenican.
January 22, 1916,
LONDON CHIE OBJECTIVE OF GERHAN ARMIES.
Pub Opinion in Teutonic Empire Demands no Cessation of Wat Until the
“Devil's Spawn” of England Is
Brought to Task for Having Ignited
the Spark That Has Led to the Most Stupendous Grime. Against
Pamanity Since Creation of Universe. ,
New. York Sun of last Sunday}
pubtehed a symposium of German pub-
Teutonic mind that Orst and
British Government 1s directly respon-
sible for the war and that It Is the cul-
mination of years of intrigue carried on
Governments by British
k thelr cue from the
able to blind the people t No
critical pretense of cotta fr -stoall
nationalities” has been able fe its
heir “duty to Belgium,” cannot change
ondition that every Gerina, ‘man soldier
fenting for land Jnows to
be the iain marae trut
dire
revocable “is feeling of resentment to
Exgland is in Germany, the Sun quotes
part of an article by Housto. Stewart
Ctamberlain, an Englishman, resident
in Berlin, written by him in the Tag-
Chamberlain does
He
ork of distortion,
calumny and falsehood, all pursued with
e destruction of
accoun! Germany wil have with
them one of these fine day:
Following are some extracts from the
article:
“To-day there ia not a German to be
found, tho one search the world
through, who is not aware where lies
the starting point of the terrible war,
hat upon,
towne of England. The New York news-
apers in publishing the reports of the
Zeppelin taids pointed out that ti
average cockney looked upon them with
im sense of near humor and were
rather inclined to make of them a holi-
day diversion. The German newspaper
gives some of the truth about how the
London Tommies acted when reports of
threatened Zeppelin’ attacks reached
hem., Here 1s a quotation from the
artic! .
“The incredible ignorance of the Eng-
Hish working classes | reveals itself with
an overpowering el soon as one
enters into courersation wt one of|
&
&
nthese people believe, word for’ word,
al that tele vs os been. telling
hem for are comptetely
devoid of “raividuattye
thoughts o
tion. Unconsclously on
great swarm of ants, all of which
e
wever, in the full sense of the word,
there ig nathing to be found. -
Tuiddle. classes ‘and
suburban dwellers it ts far different,
There the hatred of Germany and of
everything German is indescribably in-
tense. One is unconsciously led to
ascribe this sentiment in great me
defence against the feared Zeppelins.
his gloom appears to have created
a new variety of nervous ailment of
such intensity that many f its victims
are driven by it to the
insanity. Doctors no
these sufferers, who
by tens of thou:
them off wholesale to such parts of Eng-
land as are not Perm mently 1 in danger
of Zeppelin raids e the street
pening approaches the normal condi-
tt is a common occurrence for
than 50,000 of these Zeppelin Tunattes
to be despatched fi ek
mid! towns, To peed this exodus
ecial trains are run, fn which noi
but those pri m™
tifeate are permitted to travel.
“SUERRIE ENGLAND" IX GERMAN EYES.
“The railway statlong prevent ate
spectacle whi e:
with these panic strieven ‘ne
dividuais, who run abont aimlessly like
s0 p without’ a shepha rd until
hey are ‘packed 0 off with more or less
brave force _by the perspiring porters
and train officials
Characterizing the world conflagra-
tion ignited by England as the “most
stupendous crime against humanity
since the creation of the universe,” the
for its sake
destroy the
tga Peatesrmen
develop to an art Ss truly
cal-
D.
ch statesmen
ven to establish
iy good) relations with Ger-
any. More than once Russia too
showed her Inclination | i that direc-
Hon, but ever a did England
fervene a8 the murderer of, every
thought ‘of pea
“Men representative of every section
of the German mn are now shed-
wing their blood in battle, suffering and
alking through the
fea yet et that devil's spawn
be .apared?
natured, accursed
have @ alr of their” monkey heads
touched?
“That cannot be; that shall not ‘bet
“Germany 1s fgh exist-
8
ny law
except the great law of selt-preserva.
tion.
“The innocent will have to suffer, ‘tis
true, but that is merely the retribution
sin. The hellish caverns of
‘Albion.
ed from curse laden hands | the true, old,
noble England too shal
“When once that day dawns on which
the English shall be made to feel
righteous punishment on their own soll
we shall know that the final phase of
the world war has been reached, t
oe _Breat universal Peace 1s approach-
in,
‘nother article trom the Kovintsche
Zeitung tella of the frenzied fears
Londoners when the Zeppelins ome
barded Lomdon and some of the coast
Koelnische Volks-Zeitung has this to say
of England's fallures as a miltary and
financial power
“One would have thought that at this
moment England would hardly have
any reason to be aggressive and o
de: It is therefore nothing sho ort
of a marvel tous to see that in the face
she
she has shown herself speeches should
be delivered in the English Parliament
which rather beseem a triumphant con-
whose
prestige in the rulltary dom
also on financt unds has *suttored
s0 severely as G
against humanity since the © erea-
tion of. the universe.”
ese expressions .go to prove that
the one enemy Germany 1s ambitious to
disctpline drastically 1s England. On
this point there Js a yirtle national
unanimity. Chamberlain says that the
r can only end In England, which is
another way of stating that London is
the chief objective of the German
mies.
_—
BIG CROWD ENJOYS SHOW
OF THE ECCENTRIC FIREMEN
More than §.000 members and friends
¢ Eccentric Firemen, No. 56, Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Stationary Fire.
men, patronized the twenty-first annual
entertainment and ball of that progres-
sive. organization. e ration,
which was successful In all details, was
held at Cen he
evening ot “iamuaty 16. al
predecessors both entertainment an
Ball gave unbounded faloyment to ail
‘presen
The evening’ pera’ with a gplendld
vaudeville entertainment
direct ection of John A. Robbins, conse
ing ptodate singers, dancers,
inesical and monologue artists, Notable
among them was Loutse’and Mitebell,
faring * acrobi and childre
Brother Joseph Sellslagh; a member of
the Firemen’s organizat Jon, who were
generously applaud
t completion of the entertain.
ment, aud suid the strsins of Prot
Ward's. orchestra,
‘and march began, led by Thomes Pot
and wife, followed by Secretary Will.
wife, John E. Kennedy and ve, ‘jena
Cunniffe and lady, Heory Goldman and
ife, Charles Macinnle and lady, Will
iam Mallon. and Mi = Mallon, and fol
0 other ‘couple
Taternational
Healy, Chairman
Committee,
Timothy
President
M: I. ‘Marks, Fire Commissioner
Robert J. Adamson, Secretary of the
Borough Ralph M. Folks, Mise, Robbin-
ou Smith, Captain James D. Ciitord,
A. Engineer U. S. Post
oO! and “Court House Buildings, Com-
pensation Commissioner Thomas ure
mer of Licenses George
Executive Board New
York States Federation of Labor, Off-
cers Central Federated Unton, a’ dela-
gation headed by John J. McHugh and
<ennedy, Amateur Athletic
29
on
3
s
Chief Engineer Belnord Apart-
ments; Supervisjng Engineer, Depart.
ment of Charities, Gavin W. Hamti!to:
and a number of rreminent men and
women th all walks of life.
IRISH CIVILIZATION IS
FATHER POWER’S. THEME.
Very seldom, if ever, have the mem-
berg of the Harlem Gaelfc Society spent
en evening at their meeting | hall, 112
st
Ea e Hundred an enty-fifth
Street, to better advantage ‘than on
Wednesday, January 12. Rev. James
Ws Power, President of the Soclety,
eresting address o1
“any “irish ‘Civilization, fe told of
how Irish monks during the first cen-
turial decade Christianized and edu-
cated the people of Europe; that there
was not a-country in e—even
Italy itself, fountain. of Catho-
licity—but owes the foundation of many
of its noblest religious houses to the
indomitable zeal and pfous labors of
those Celtic monks,
Those Irish ploneers of Chrigtianity,
he safd, overran Europe, carried with
them everyw]
combatted
they were
visers of Kings, ‘Chiefs and Emperors,
and the heralds of peace and good. will
among mankin
‘The names or those Trish ploneers of
Christianity are
throughout Europe, ts “thousands. of
‘the faithful worshippers revere them as
their patron saints, Catholics in Aus-
sila and Germany continue paying hom.
‘age to their me sory by not oaly giving
noir names tf their places of Worship
but also to thelr ebildren at baptism;
“names and fame of, thos
Tren ints and martyrs are
practically unknown sequently
taconmetorated by the Suindren of the
Gael
on nt inspired, he sald, by the healthy
of Gael
National propaganda ic
eague; very promising ‘torts are be:
ing made throughout Gaeldom to cor-
‘ t fis anomaly, he con-
that. propaganda
nothing i is ‘nore cortatn than that those
old Celtic names, which have been so
honored in Europe, will again rank high
. the esteem and popularity of the
Trish peo]
Prior o ‘the address by Father Pow-
er, a resolution of sympathy with the
fam ily of the late Miss Greta Fltzger-
other, was. The
memb ers of the society werent “teplore
the sudden and early demise of such
patriotic and ardei er as
Miss Greta Fitzgerald, and also of her
dear mother, who wa: 0 equally di
voted to the cause of Ireland a Nation.
bers of the society are
que: more Bunctual ip ee
sted to
attendance at the weekly
the classes for the study of the Tris ‘ame
ereafter promptly at
until 9:45 P.
BM in Irish danc-
ing will be given. “Members are also
requested to do their utmost to make
the coming Leiltdne and Apron and
, to be held on February
9, 8 pronounced success
spect. .
‘OFF TO SHOOT THE KAISER,’
Atr—“Off to Philadelphia.”
Oh my name is Mike O'Leary, ‘
From quite close to Balngeery, 2
And the heads of all the dames I am
Prussians, |
And I art to shoot the Kale in the
ring.
Chorur
With my rifle on my ‘oh oul
my V.C. where I tould
I never ‘gave the Blighters nay warn:
"
ae before they'll get to Pover
, Fl have the war all ov:
very Vm on o shoot the Kalser in the
der,
There's a chap called Vietan,
‘And at lights, he’s very cam
Says he: rn stop the Heavens from
Arrah, begorrsh, Mike Lear,
They'll cut a quare
When you start to hoot, ‘the Kalser in
\the morning?’
Chorus.
When they tould my poor outa a mother,
der:
Says sbe, without a shud
“We'd bate the English biack and blue
But now I’ve got promotlon,
And just to raise commotis
I'm off to shoot thé Kaiser in’ the
» Chorus, ©
RUM THE BRITISH BAIT.
Immorality . and Drunkenness
Held Out As Added’ Reasons
by Redmond's Recruiters Why
Irishmen Should Ruin Soul
and Body in: Defending Eng-
land's Tottering Cause.
a recent cory ot the” Dundalk
rt of a recruit:
Dundal Ik.” The
tory of the gathering thr an inter: “The
esting and instructive sidelight on t ninent has” ayed sending
inducements Irishmen to Jarge muster of armed Irish Vol- that protest, in’ accordance a remy
“rally to the colors,” in defense of| unteers at Fintona, from the Carrick- carefully conceived plan for cleart is
“small nationalities.” More importent,| more, Beragh, Sixmilecross, Dunmoyle,| the principal matters of dispute’ ae
however, is the news that the Keoule Augher, Ballyscally and Clogher dis-| tw veen the United States and Lo do i
ers who get fifty dollars a day ai iricts, ‘under’, the eof: Capta There te excellent authority
penses. are being. literally “ridiculed | M’Rory, late erican army,| statement that, even betore the 2, te
from, their platforms b: od | unanimously passed a resolution oppos- e note, Great Britain haq 5 oe
of Ireland. Of course the attractions of | ing Conscription. The Volunteers were th 7h
“wine, women and held out by] addressed by Rev. C. Daly, C.C., Clogher, tovoweh readjustment
Recruiter Grant must have a particular] and Father Coyle, cc, Finton: aunt sat I
interest for the priests oe Ireland, ore —— Administration from the humiliation
s ‘or those who, a + that is com! it at th
O'Leary of Dingle and Father O'Doher-| SENATORS AND CONGRESS: | tre con 1t3 spectous ean
'y, t ublin Castle bin retgon son, tions at this time plainly -made for a
el il
ople of Ireland
The minora _sustestions mat
Grant should awaken the authorities oe f being the only violator
the Catholic Charen in Ireland to the] Congress has its way there is much| in the world. It is orice ality
seriousn lal conditions| more likelihood of action being taken} and not ‘tl 7 y bangers of
that the Anglicisation of parts of Ire-| against’ Britain the against either} Wall Street or the munitions manufae
land has drought about. It is certainly| Germany or Aus! rers who demanding the whos
time that some ot the Bishops sho It was this notification that caused] truth about the Administration's posh,
come out in the open and follow the] the pro-British ‘orld to} tion. relative to Ge: ony Bastin,
lead of mene Opus, Limerick’s pa-| publish a three-column article vee Sun-) Britain and Mexico. And, mark you,
triot prelal they would only, real-| day morning to the effect that t the whole roe is about to be dra ed
ee it they id by this course be do-} sues between Washington and London| out of chives of the Whit
for ‘Cattolie ism in. Ireland House and “he 'S ‘he
UNITED IRISH-AMERICAN
Great Britain to send a reply to 4,
N protest delivered in November py s"*
SOCIETIES OF NEW YORK,| bassador Pago to the Dritien Myf
on - | Office against the Orders tn Couns
defining contraband of war, e
cause of its
The annual election of officers of the
o it Britain was interpret ed to rere .
mtemptuous disre; :
full attendance of delegates is re-| com the
quested. of that nation for thereat sae
of completa presented ty this ntry,
ANS TO APE.
NITED “crm
AGAINST CONSCRIPTION.
prachinery looking to g
it.”
MEN DEMAND TRUTH.
(Continued from Page 1.) put the United States
and Its foture than all the West Brit without anything more drastic| stand alread. i
ly taken senate
ons and Loyalists who have ever cursed] than an occasional note. "In a specious| H. the best guarantee that the
Ireland with their“ presence, plea, deliberately inspired, this is how] period of half. truths has- passed fo
risk of offending the moral ideals of| the World explains why a he|ever..- * *
F readers we publish the report’ of British Goverament has showered Its +++
the Dundalk “rum and women”. meet-| contempt on this Governmen The human submarine generally opt
, as follows: | “Except to a few, the failure of! ate i
Bhat war steal iol p s in muck instead of Ww
humored ba: a recruiting meet-
iter
ing held in the ‘Ma rket Sauare, Dun-
dali, on qWetnestay night
eaker Sas Lieutenant
Sheehy, wo tota the audience that he
was the son of a Nationalist M.P., and
that he come
who ined Llestenaat
Sheohy's invitation to dou kaki,
“Lieutenant Grant, had been in
the trenches, followed. He apologised
for his Jack of oratorica! ability ye
plaining fia he was only a sol ier
and a d—— young soldier. They. might
ot believe all they read i e
ne
papers about life in the trenches. If
sy would have
THE IRISH BALL
"ISAT. ‘EVE'G, JANUARY, 22,
“| ADMISSION TOKETS:
Ireland’s Annual Social Carnival’
in New York:
(Under the Auspices of the United Irish Counties’ Association)
—- WILL BE HELD ON——
1916
. oe AT THE © we
- Central Opera House
‘1D AVENUE AND 67TH STREET.
~- FIFTY CENTS EACH
Music by Prof. McIntyre’s Orchestra
President, J. P. McAvoy, Kilkenny, Treasurer, P. Dillon,, Limerick
Vice-President, J. P. Hayes, Leitrim. Secretary, J. J. O'Connor, Cork.
by stating that he would stand a
to every man who came ed.
" {bieutenant Sheehy stated that the
of offters they would have would
be jolly good fellows, such as the
speaker. He then ‘troduced to
audience Lieutenant, Moy:
‘Lieutenant Moyn:
rendered somewh:
z
magh's ‘tise course was
nd the audience Taushed
ay, said Lieuten-
. you finished?’ queried
the impatient orator—and the audience
' au
ingly at the good-humored -
ts no laughing matter,’ he urged, but
auditors would have thetr - little
Iwo tials Plaza Assembly Rooms.
TICKETS,
29th GRAND ANNUAL BALL
00. LONGFORD MEN'S S. & B. ASSN
Two Bands
0-112 EAST 59TH STREET.
“SAT. EVE’G JANUARY 20th, 1916
Music by Prof, Molutyre’s Orchestra — Special Music for Trish Dancing
Admittiig Gentiemen and Lady, Enchualng Wardrobe, 50 CENTS
a Lady 25
ae ty Cent
—01
Bernard Sheridan, President; Patrick McNally, Vice President; Prank Rell
asurer; Philip Houricaa, Financial Secretary; Patrick
“Recon rding Secretary; * Michael Di Dugan, Sergeant-at-. Arms;
' John Lennon, Physician.
USTE
De
r S— |
Thomas Mullen, Joseph Trapp.
~ARI
James Corrigan,
NG! EMENT, cOMMITTEE—
Charles MeWade, Chatman: James Higgins, Secretary: James Lennot
Thomas Manning, Thomas Quinn, Corrigan, James Morgan. John
Reilly, Jam es Farrell, Patrick Cainen, John Bo John De
i § Hughes Michael J. O’Reilly,.Frank Archibald, Thomas Kells,
aan, ames Gormly,, Michael McCabe, Malchaet O'sbau ighnesshs
eter Reynolds, James Flynn, Michael J,.Quinn, Patrick .MeManus, Matthet
Farrell, William Igoe, 2 Berar rd Brady, John Quinn, Charles Gillen, chat
Reilly, Thomas Hig:
NORARY MEMBERS, —
John J. Devine,
HO:
Hon. James J. Hagen, Hon. Hon, James Doris.
‘ravishing’ of certain institutions. This
was too mucl the audience, there
ras a fitter ina then a fart
The speaker, In obvious discom
ata, satire with the unique distinc-
being the first to be ‘laughed
down” at @ public meeting.”
A NEW YEAR'S WISH TO OUR
CHRISTMAS BABY.
Grandma Rooonevan Rossa to Baby
888 vee Cole,
pink of the heather
towing, cheeks of our Baby!
Fortone! Bright let your, may be
‘0 gild the eat of our
Ey silver the spoons tnd “nellow the
‘That feed and sabe Baby.
Lord of all things created,
In this little soul new freighted
For earth's grest orase,
Put peace and
Gifts ott the spirit and gifts of the mind:
Virtue m and strengt! com-
"bined;
Courage and sweetness and d godly grace,
Ever,ia favor before Th:
‘And blessing the hearts iat waited!
GOOD CLOTHES ARE HALF
THE BATTLE.
——
The well dressed man has @ tren
dous advantage over the other fel
and It 1s easy for you to choose
right kind of olotl
me make a sult to your of
ne of the besctil
ailor-made ‘sit
Cothes, ‘The man who knows seed
very quickly.
Tatlor-mades have the
that goes with all ce
muccers comes to the
8.
PATRICK J. HOEY,
‘ LEADING IRISH TAILOR, |
941 Sixth Avenue, - - New York.
“Botween Sird and 54th Sts. 2 + Tel, Col, 178%
antabod ves
wort,
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