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The Clan-Na=Gael lourllal it
VOL. XXVII
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 27, 1914
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Country ls in Act of Reasserl-
. lng and Vitallzlng Her
Manhood
Volunteers Embracing All Political
Faiths Have Organized in Com-
mon Band to Assert Her mghts
While the country is flooded by the
Associa d other news agencies
with fulsome nuEery and gross exaggera-
tion of the Ulster Volunteeri, the resur-
rection of the Iliah volunteers is are
' in Amer-
ica. This -censorship, arranged in the
interests of the “AnglvrSu.ron Alliance,"
decides what the million: of Irish people
in America shall and shall not read in
regard to what is going on at the other
side of the Atlantic. and when the news
does reach the Irish here it is coloredto
Iuit British purposes.
-province or
Ireland today in vibrant with the tramp
of men, is tense with the thoughts or
men, is alenme once more with the mili-
tary spirit that some people thought was
dying ‘out as Ireland. Ireland is in the
act of reassel-ting and v-italizing her man-
ood t for generations has there
been manifest such a spirit as sweep!
over the Emerald Isle today. '
stalk: boldly in open daylight, through-
out the whole land. On the hills, In
the valleys, in village and hamlet, in the
streets of the cities, the measured tramp,
tramp, tramp of trained men resouruls.
From Cork to Donegal, from Dublin to
Galvvsy, the men or Ireland tloclr to the
call 01 the Nation. Company after com-
pany, battalion after battalion of the
army of Ireland are being drilled and
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eve province the preparations are di-
rected against the common enel.ny-Eng-
Inn .
Thea Irish volunteers are organized
to unite all sections or II-ishmen in moth-
erly cooperation in the cause or Irish
nationality and not to coerce Iny section
or Irishmen. Their one and only object
is “to secure and maintain the rights
And liberties common to all the people
of Ireland" Their ranha are open to
all ahlshodicd Irishmen vothont distinc-
tion of creed, politics or social grads.
Ireland's hope for national indepen-
dence now rests in the Irish volunteers.
achieved, i. e., “Ireland a Nation,” until
the last “l'edc0ut" and the last "peeler"
have, like the sunken, been banished from
The national spirit or the Irish people
has outlived seven hundred years or
dereat, disaster and despair. The en-
thusiastic response to the call ror volun-
teers torgtrsland prom once again tht
the spirit of Irish nationality stiu lives
in the hearts of the people, that when it
seems almost departed it is most ready
to break forth, and that it cannot die
while there is yet an Irlahnsau alivc.
onward, Irish volunteers! on you now
depends the restoration or Ireland to her
lawlul place in the lamily or nations.
.
CLAN-NA-GAEL GAMES
‘ saturday, July 4, at central Park.
4400 North Fl"?! Street. Tickets for
sale at lrish<Amerlca7I Club, 725
Spruce Street, Irom member: and at
the box-olfice of the Park on July 4.
(From the Gaelic American).
President Wilson’: declaration in lavor
of George VVashington’a policy or “No
Entangllng Alliances,” made in his speech
at the unveiling of the Barry Monument
in Washington last saturdsy, is Welcam
It is none the less welcome because, '
the simmons amendment to the bill to
repcnl the Free Tolls provision or the
Panama Canal act, it was made to cover
up the surrender of American rights in
that American waterway. And it in none
the less welcome because it was made the
occasion and the excuse for a. mean and
l:'
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as is Mr. Wilson's habit-on the citizen-
ship or the race or which commodore
Barry came, who hsre been, or all Amer-
ican‘ citizens, the most consistent and
strenuous arlllocates oi the policy to ‘which
Mr. Wilson now announces his belated
adhesion. x
The President had a (vine opportunity
to do a gmcciul thing and he not alone
failed to use it, hut he availed himself of
it to do a most. ungmcerul and uncalled-
for thing. He pnlsetl John Barry IE if
he was the only It-isllmnn who had ever
done anything creditable (oi; the United
States, and be implied that all the rest
were actuated by unworthy motives. And
he did it under circumstances where re-
spect tor the great omce he holds made
it impossible icr anyone in that great
throng of Irlshrrlen to utter a word 0
protest. II: required a peculiarly mean
mind to abuse courtesy as President Wil-
Hon abused it that day. The occasion
called ror some recognition at the rice-
less services to the United states or the
race to which Jack Hurry bEl0ngEl.l,IlI the
Revolution, the War of 1812, the (Xvi!
War, (0 say nothing of in Work in the
building up and development of the Re-
public (rpm the Revolution to the pres-
ent day. Any other President in his
place would have at least devoted a few
sentences to the subject.
Tait would have done it gracefully and
blood or every Irish citizen, and of the
millions or citizens of Irish race tingle in
their veins.
in the occasion only an opportunity to
race and to utter a Ialaehood by impli-‘
cation. Thus was a great occasion put
to a vcry ignobla personal use. He used
Jack Barry as a club to hit Jack Barry’:
muntryulen of today because they opr
him in a political controversy; has
cause, in fact, their conception oi Amer-
ican citizenship is more trny American
than is Woodrow “'ilaon's.
In the following sentences which fol-
lowed his declaration uguinst “Entangling
Alliances”-vl'hlcl'l were condemned in all
the resolution: passed by Irish societies
against Repeal of Free Tolls, and which
the New York Til-l-lea correspondent say:
were the things the President was driving
at-Mr. “Filson said all he thoulzht it
worth wlllle to lay about Jack Barry‘:
countrymen:
“There is another corollary. John Bar-
ry was an Irishman, but his heart crossed
the Atlantic with him. He did not leave
it in Ireland. And the test of all 0! u9-
lor all of us had our origins on the
other side of the sea-la whether we will
assist in enabling America ta live her
separate nrld independent lire, retaining
William H. m
Theodore Roosevelt would have made the -
But President Wilson saw “PE
cast a wholly undeserved slur on a whole 1.;
l‘IllSOIl’s “No Alliances" Used as
cloak to Hide surrender of canal
President Goes Out of His Way to Take Rap at
Principles of Irl'shmen Who Attended Unveiling
of Monument to Commodore John Barry
everything that we do by the intersta
rt and thought and
all, the hyphen drops of its own weight
out of his name.
“This man was not an Irish-American;
he was an Irishman who
American. I venture to say if he voted
he voted with regard to the questions
as they looked on this side of the
us
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lots, or when he fights, his heart and
his thought are nowhere but in the cen-
tre of the emotion and'the purposes
and the pollciea ol the United States.
' ''Accardiug't'c1r::su1Tm;'r1l the Irish-
men when the Ptesi ent sneer! at are
better Americans than Woodrow ilson.
and the evidence of that fact is found
in is message to congress aslung ror
Repeal of Free Tolls.
"Some Americans need .hyphens to
their names because only part of them
h over” is I ve
spiteful statement, all the
more spiteful when interpreted by the
Times correspondent’: explanation, which
is undoubtedly the
Irishman and no German who camel to
this country uses the hyphen to describe
, his status; the appellation "Irish-Amem
can” and "GermanvAmerican” was in-
vented by American to describe them.
But the real “hyphenated American,"
the sell-styled Anglo-Saxon, invent:
that term for hirnsell and glories in it.
nd the Anglosaxons are the Am
cans for whom President Wilson has
must respect and deference, even though
hey admit that their hearts are in
England--“dear old England," as one of
Mr. Wilson’: dallghtel-ii called it when
regretting that her father’: election pre-
vented the family's annual and delightiul
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:'l.
, , Pllzrims‘ society has for
its object the promotion of an Anglo-
Amcrican Alliance, but the Pilgrim. ass
ed for those citizens who, more than
any others, have strenuously and consist,-
elltly demanded adherence to the policy
or which ‘the Praident now, for the
Sm time in his llle, has a good word
to say.
It rrcsidcnt wilson had the seal
American spirit in him and it he was
not under the inlluence of his "gene.
meat, he would have remembered that
there were other Irishmen and sop. as
diatinzlliahed
A can cause in the
Revolution. General Richard Montgom-
ery was born in Ireland and he brought
his heart with huh and poured out his
' blood for the Aznelrlcun cause at
Quellcc.' Sullivan, lloylsn, Mad An.
thuny Wayne and other gallant ilulliierl
of the Revolution were or Il-lab parent-
age and the Frielldly Sons of St. Patric):
or Philadelphia, who came to the rescue
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our ancient erections, but determining
of “'ushiugton'l rugged and Itarring
l'l.rmy at Valley Forge with their money,
were Irlahmen to a man, and the FA-
ther of His Country did not ask them
to apologize for their hatred of England,
or ma e any nu-emetic allusion to the
"hyphen.” The "hypheu” emthet was
invented by the Knavrnothingil and its
use today in reference to Irish citizens
I! an u.nel-ring indication of Knownothing '
leanings. That fact will be remembered
in Mr. Wilson’: case.
Commodore Stewart, Parnell’: mater-
gland In in-
lrom the spot in Ireland where Presi-
dent Wilson‘s gmldlather Iii-at saw the
light. But then the C<'immodore’g moth-
er was not English. Phil Shendan
hated England so much that he was ready
to take coulmand of n Fenian army it
it could he got together, end Meade,
the victol; of Gettysburg, llzld an equally
The fact that these two generals were of
Irish descent did not lessen their services
in the estimation of the American pea
pls, nor did the fact that shields,
lleagher and colrconn were born in Ire-
land and ready to draw their swords in
Irelandrsgservlce dun the gl0K'y'0i their
valor on American hattleaelds. I
The Irish citizens whom President Wil-
ion covertly sneeri'iF"vot'e"w‘ltb‘ "ref-.'Ii3'
to the questions as they look on this side
of the water and not on the other side,”
according to their judgment and con-
science, just as much as Woodmw Wil-
rller American citizen does.
The impudent charge that they do not
do so is made invariably by men Will: an
steeped in English prejudice, or have
English interests to serve and w o sl-
vmys take use English side in Anglo
American controversies. It President
Wilson was it manly man he would have
made his assertion outright, instead of
nlesnly insinuating it.
In'sh citizens place their better knowl-
edge of England at the service of the
United States, and they work and vote
in the interests of this repvblis just in
Jul; Barr-y, llonlg Sullivan,
Wayne, lloylan, Stewart, a.hel‘lda‘n,
Shields, llleaaher and Col-cdran fought for-
these interests. They have never asked
the United States to do anything for
Ireland, or against England; they have
simply warned the American people
against entanglement in the wiles of
British diplomacy, which they under
stand better than any people on earth.
And they have helped to compel Mr.
Wilson to make that declaration against
"Iinta.nzling Alliances," and it is not the
least or their victories. Tim. is the head
and trout of their otlending.
A straw will show how the wind
blows, and the fact that I’l"&‘idErlt Wil-
son could not and an American post to
quote from, but selected Tennyson, an
English aristocnt, steeped to the lips in
ant.i-American prejudice, apetkn for it-
lf his reading was an extensive in
literature, surely he would
have found something in it appropriate
t e occasion. ut e
England for it. n he went for his Pun-
nma anal policy. And as he adopted
that policy at the dictation 01 England,
throwing the Baltimore platfann oven
board, the question suggests itself: How
10135 will Mr. Wilson stick to his declanr
Hon -sainat "Ents.ugling Alliances?" If
the Baltimore platform wn only "moles
ses to catch men.” how many Irish votr
era are ‘ eiy to be caught in this latest
pot or trcacle, accompanied as it is hy
contemptuous insinustionn against ‘the
character of their citizenship?
.
CLAN-NA-GAEL GAMES
Saturday. July 4. at Central Park,
4400 North Firth street. Tickets (or
sale at Irish-American Club, 726
spruce street. from memberl and at
the box-office at the Park on July 4.
S
IHIEH-AMEHIBAN
HELP I5 NEEDED
lllH llllllNlEEll5
Move of Ulster Has Shown
Way to Believe in Celtic
Independence
Appeal for Funds Being Made to
Equip Great Citizen Army for Na-
tional Defense
Ire1and‘s only path to national inde-
pendence lie: in 3 sword-track through her
enemies. If she in to have national lrcedom,
she must at least he prepared to fight.
Home Rule gives her only the freedom of
the ('OIlVlEt in the prison lields, always
within range or the wardens gun. Ire-
land still remains "that part of the Uni-
ted Kingdom called Ireland.” The Home
ule Parliament will not be permitted
to use irsely the powers delegated to
ir,’n.l’u'ch less tlrerlend.slranrn.nesrl'r’ .
is backed by an armed and resolute na-g
tion. Its ireedorn can be guatrnntm-tl only
by the sword and the military spirit or
the Irish people. put, thank God,
old national spin, the uncompromising
spirit, the lighting spirit, is astir again
in Ireland, as it was in -93 and in '67.
It is to be found in the ranks or the
Irish National volunteers, upon whom
depend the iuturc or Ireland and the
ruturo or her children.
About three years ago, the Unionists
of lxortlleast Ulster determined to or.
Home Rule upon that territory which
they inllullit. Sim-e then, with the
assistance of all the reanurcoll nf the
press, pulpit and maglstracy, with half
the people or England urging them on,
and with hundreds of thousands of dal-
lars in their war cheat. they have e...
rolled 100,000 volunteers. In six lmlnthll,
the Nationalists of Ireland, discouraged
by the press, without inlluentlal ll-riders,
without money, without help from the
pulpit, have enrolled (‘-0.000 munealld for
what? "To secure and huaintain the
rights and liberties common to All the
people of Ireland." It has been a purs
ly voluntary and spontaneoul enrollment.
There has been no war ch
warrior will-and no power in Ireland
or out of it can stay the march oi‘ the l
Irish National Volunteers.
It devolves upon each and every indi-
vidual of Irish blood in America, to
cm: his or her duty in mg new
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to movement which so suddenly sprang up
in‘ Ireland. Every Irishman and every
Irlahvruman owe a dc6u' -
lenders, nor have successive defeats driven
(Continued an Second
VOLUNTEERS‘ EXCURSION
The Seventh ‘meat. Irish Volun,
teem, of Philadelphia, will hold its second
Band annual excursion to New York on
sundav. August 0, 1014. Ar.-...ge,,,s.,r.
have been made for a lield day in Celtic
Park with the New York Irish Volun-
ra. Excursioniau will he admitted
oe
gl:-,e>g0.to the lurk. Tiol.-era for adults,