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HE CLAN -NA-GAEL JOURNAL
L’. XXVIII
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 27, 1915
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
It is not that we are apostles of hate.
is accomplished, until freedom is won.
Who like us have carried Christ’: word of charity about the earth? But the Christ
that said: “My peace I leave you, My peace I give you,” is the same Christ that said: “I bring not peace, but 9. sword l” There
can be no peace between right and wrong; between truth and falsehood; between justice and oppression; between freedom
and tyranny. Between them it is eternal war, until the wrong is righted, until the true thing is established, until justice
P. H. PEARBE, B. A., Saint Endas College, Rnthfarnhnnr, Dublin.
EV. GTRATD P.
COGlllAN’S GREAT
SPEECH 0T WELCOME
To Dr. Kuno Meyer, the Cel-
ebrated German Celtic
Scholar Who Recently
Lecturecl on “The Two
Hall.
The Crawling Slaves of the
Corporations of Cork and
Dublin Were Held Up to
Ridicule and Contempt By
Our Lady of ]i(ercy’s Pa-
triotic Pastor Who Ex-
pressed the Sentiment of
Every True Irishman.
- to.'y.- A Statue to Him in
Dublin Says Father Cogh-
lan When the Slaves Ar
Forgotten. .
when he was a young man in Connacht,
opening the meeting. He paid an elo-
ously applauded, but when, in compar-
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through the policy for which they stood
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honored to have been selected to intro-
duce Dr. Kuno Meyer to an audience
of our countrymen and friends in
Philadelphia. -
“Dr. Kuno Meyer has deserved well
of Ireland and of her sacred cause.
’ countrymen; the di '
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sts, such men
. Windisch and Dr.
al which has grown to such import-
hese learned Ger-
’ man-
uscripts, found in e 0 er-
sities, recogniied the great beauty and
merits e ish language and lit-
erariire, and soon learned to love that
' so much admired. Dr.
cessor of
merit 'hlle helwas
professor in the University of Li r-
hc his summer vacations
for Several years in Dublin ennducung
a school the higher studies in Gaelic,
intended for the future teach
Irish language. For his zlblc work in
this connection, Dr. Meyer was award-
ed the freedom of the cities of Dublin
and or . -
“But I am sorry to add that the Cor-
porations of the city of Dublin and
Cork have rerently stultilicd them-
ed themselves with dis-
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had honored so conspicuously?
Because Dr. Kmlo Meyer is a German
patriot: because he lover the Father-
Irelauds”at Horticultural I’
Dr. Meyer’s Great Work for if
Irish Language and His- 1‘
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Father Coughlan, who was a Fenian '
made a strong Nationalist speech in ,5
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quent tribute to VVolTe Tone and Rob- 55; pop;
err Emmet, which the audience vigor- in the
Ireland uith that of gig
‘ men, he men-
Iand, and has worked and is still work-
vvelfzire and interest of lhe
healthy feature of the
whole disgraceful affair is that eigh-
ue
teen good and r men, members of
the Dublin Corporation, iiere iound
o reins to themselves
They relused to vote ith the afor-
ity wi dr w the freedom of the
city om . Meye All honor to
ese eighteen independent member
League of Fhiludel
.llow can 2 city that is no(
can r freedom on otlers
philosophy-‘No one gives that which
lie has not.‘
“The Corporation of Dublin does
not represent the citizens of Dublin,
or the people of Ireland. the mass,
the great body of the citizens of Duh-
lin, the plain peopl ha '
th would award
ors of a triumph.
at is rornin in e new
ilig to me in this
to see a statue erected in Dublin in
honor of Kuno Meyer.
“The masses of the Irish people are 5
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always lioriesr. Guided by klml
Providence they
pendent‘ policy.
All would
come by waiting with patience, but
with courage and determinztiom This
is Ireland's opportunity; but I am
afraid that it will be lost and dissipated
by the folly and blindness, the cowar
ice and the selhsliness of the so-called
ad ' h :0
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the war scare
plzlllorm as English polltlclans,
lowered the dignity of Irish represen-
tatives by assuming the role of Eng-
lish recruiiing sergeants. They urged
men to join the English
army, knowing at the moment that to -
do so must end in wholesale slaughter.
It was a crying shame and rlisgtace.
It was worse. as a base beiraynl
of Ireland, a cowardly crime against
their own countrymen.
“The Dublin Fusiliers went to the
Clmpelle, but it was at iii
20, . TVere they English?
will find that they were mostly
Scotch, W'elsll and Canadians.
istory is repeating itsel ,
Irish and Scotch are Fighting England's
ballles while the an clled fools’
England are at home
racecourses, or Filling
you
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to
playing golf. or
crow ’ - (air
the factories In order to la advant-
age of the war tn steal German trade. which ca
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Not one in ten of those Irislimtn w
join the linglish army will ever re-
Contini ed on Page Two
te W
y, and the surest to succeed
' ‘ ihar is C
'9 lioncyhrceir Renaissance. As
ct, in the disappearance for the
ol Irelaiul is-linw w
THE TRIENDTY
SONS BANQUET
A SLAVISH SPEECH
Tile Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of
Philadelphia IEZWC had many great men
among their membership. They have
jg had many great orators at their ban-
quets. The lrishmen attending these
banquets have had to listen in patience
to mnny a slavish eecll, when spee-
ches oi this kind are delivered by men
in whose veins there hows not the
blood of the Celt, they are listened to
in patience if not in pain y is men
who would rather bear insultthenl-
selves than he discourteuus to strang-
QFS.
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ill when one of our own race is ‘
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hrcirc-hr all the way from New York
to ' N ' I a chain
licking 5 tech and a deicn of the
“P y y’ and its author, it ddlng
om o
‘ who has the literary bug but l:xcks-lit-
U; erary ability, delivered himself cl 2 lot
of the cheapest drivel ever listened to
on Marcll i7th, the burden of his pro-
martyred dead and unite with their
“ niiirilcrers to rnurrlcr the patriots of
other lands; unite with J0l’ll"i.BlIll and
"""' his thirty tllollsnntl war hablesl No.
h Mr Mlcilael Monahan, we are not pre-
.‘ 3‘ a to c e a race en
their shanlro
ii Irish Renaissance he could
4 e co d write an
on his experience in the “P de-
THE POSITION OF HOME RULE
The great political transformation,
time be-
the arty system of Goiernmcni
in Great Brilaiii, has taken place with
such .1 startling surlilenness that it is
dimciili at first sight to i-isiilisc its far-
reaching etiects on the iuiure fortunes
oi’ these countries.
ever. some
immediately. One such is the emce-
riienc ol the Liberal Party as a separ-
Party lines can again come into exist-
ence; an it may be sllrmiscd that rli
first successor to the Coalition Govern-
" be formed out of the
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Act he nnecieri by the new turn of at-
' The answer is not dillicult. as
there can be litl doubt that the Act,
' me into existence with a sus-
pensory halter round its neck, may be
now rcgnirdcd as stran .
-Irish Independent, May 26.
n Edward Grey:
THE Pl0T T0 MURDER SIR ROGER CASEMENT
England would Repeat the Poisoning of Owen Roe or the Assas-
sination of 0'Sullivan Beare.
Christensen, the Faithful Norwegian True to Casement as Dwyer
or Anne Devlin to Robert Emmet.
merit entered into by M. de C. Findlay,
the British Minister to Norway with a
Adler Christensen. who traveled in a
conhdential capacity with Sir Roger
Casemen
ican liner Oscar II. whlc
lloboken
agreement sets (or that
h sailed from
will be paid to Christensen for the be- N
ayal of his employer and benefactor,
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out that part of the work
re so familiar. The cop of to the
th
agreement and Sir Roger’: letter to
Sdward Grey, shows England in
I on the Scandinavian-Amer- '
on October 15th, l9l4. The ‘
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‘story of the plot has been sworn to by
him bei re the American Vice Consul
t lterlln on A ll 1915 and is
don plaice, to dwa nrey asking
for denial or co en a re
forty-elg hours no denial having
arrived lrnrn r w Grey or
Findlay, “The American” gave space
s cry. Findlay’: agreement and
Castment’s letter to Sir Edward Grey
follows'
British liegatlon.
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Norway.
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Sir Roger Cascment's letter to Sir
Berlin, lstl February, l9l5.
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The Right Honourab
Sir E. Grey, Bart, K. 0., M. P.
London.
Sir:-
I observe that some discussion has
n tlle House
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the subject
teased to draw when I set out to learn
-it might be the intentions of the
German Government in regard to Ire-
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in the course of that discussion I
understand Lord Crewc ohserved that
“Sir Roger Casemcnt's action merited
a sensible puni men
The qi
alpiinishmcnt you sought in
secret to inflict upon me is, at ngth
in my possession.
'1: is true I was aware or your inteu.
trons from the nrst day I set foot in
Norway rce monilis agO; but it ha:
taken time to compcl our agent there
Continued all gage Three
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