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CLAN-NA-GAEL JOURNAL
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 25, 1916
xiii
VOL XXIX . VONE nouan PER YEAR
George Bernard Shaw lie-‘
asserts His Irish lllanlluud
By Approving the Action of the Irish
Revolutlonists and ncing ‘
heir Execution. Gives the Lie bx
ess.
Declares Shooting Slaughter
r .Bernard Shaw, discusshig
the executions of the Sinn Fr.-iiiers, ill
The relation of Ire-
nd to‘Dublin Castle is, in this re-
spect, precisely
States toward Turkey, or Belgium to-
ward the Kaiser, or the United States
to Great Britain.
"UntilvDublin Castle is superceded
by a national Parliament, and Ireland
is voluntarily incorporated with the
British Empire like Canada, Australia
the Germans. u an
h in order morally
, xv llll
lg .
‘ Will ll’
I xlusgg
ii iii: 2
I g,
s.:lli"(4‘-”‘
in accepting assistance from the Ger- I ,6 -49 ‘‘‘‘’'‘’'
i-nans as Eng and is in accepting the ll,” NARI! ,Wt>ll1llIc1an " f ‘
assistance of Russia in a struggle with ' 1 i ii fa f
‘..';.“,f“’; , ,, , , ks ,, ,. llllllllll:i..., ‘K '4" ,
c, ac a e nows at IS a...‘ ‘ ii -.u.
‘ V V enemies will not respect his ri hts if .
1" CONGRESSMAN 1]; FE MCLEMQRE ‘hey Catch mm‘ and that he must flgl“ Fighting the Same Foe for the Same Reason ..
'VV'ho Defended Ireland's Fight for7Fr eedom, in the House of Representa-
tives on Tuesday; May 16, I916 ‘
cunning, harbors forgot the ripple of iii 5 ' gm , , ..
busy keel; A ‘ I po5,,;o,, ,.,]aa“1(ge5e;h,‘? aamT,Qm,.mnd : It isnor that we are apostles of hate. Who lilreus have earned
... When individuals or corporations her The 5 0t Irishmeri will now
By Hon. Jeff. McLemorey or Texas
in the House of Representatives,
Tuesday, May 16, I916
Europe recent!
ack tirmameilt of >
1 ' lrisli revolution
17.0 .
democracy forget ‘he stern, ,penlou
deeds by which their ancestors we
tile rights of nationhood from a for
resort to unfair methods to assassinate
a business rival we condemn them as
criminals, But England in her do
struction of Ireland committed the
greatest economic crime of. history,
The more dramatic and obviously hor-
devastation and brutal penal laws-
were mere incidents in the
strangulation of Irish economic inde-
3
lit]
the last 70 years, and remembering the
terrible atrocities which have stained
the centuries, what wonder that the
Irish race throughout YJIEAWOFIKI cher-
ishes undying hostility to the tyrant?
And are not those men who have as-
pired to redeem their land, to restore
it to wealth and independence, wortl
of the commendation of all freenlen?
with a rope around his neck, adds in
some measure to his g ry '
fghis compatriots and in the eves of
disinterested admirers of patriotism
throughout the world.
- m in Europe.
in Heaven or earth can prevent it,
" not a Sinn Feiner. I have
i
against the Gennans and Austrians.
But I remain an Irishman, and resent
any imputation that I can regard as a
traitor any Irishman taken in a fight
for Irish independence against the
British Government.’
T. R. AND KITCHENliR
1
It was exceedingly appropriate that
to T. R. should fall the duty of de-
scribing the beauties of Kitchener
life. ‘ ' ’
bier.
it was most Fitting that he should per-
form on this occasion
Kitc‘n:uer's ideal was the spread of
(From the Fatherland, New York)
Christ‘: word of charity about the earth? But the Christ that laid:
"My peace I leave you, My peace I give you," is the same Christ that
said: " I bring not peace. but a sword I "
tween right and wrong; between truth and falsehood; between justice
elemal war, until the wrong is righted, until the true thing ifestablished. 3
until justice is accomplished, until lreedomiis won. “
P. H. PEARSE, B. A., Saint Endas College, Rathfarnham,,Dublin.
There can be no peace be-
lrelind’s Beclaratiin of
lnllepenlierlci
POBLACHT NA ll IZIREANN
The Provisional Government of the
Irish Republic
have divided a minority from the nia-
jority in the past.
'ntil our arms brought the oppor-
tune moment for the establishmcntol
eigri lyranb 16>’ not an undeniable claim on the the Eni ire at all costs; and like War- T me P 1 5 lrel,-ind
The Irish people have a claim to na syrnpathy of Am l:IC3.>- For a century fgn n,’:,i,,g, (11: m jiismaed (hg 0 cop e 0 Government,
tional independence based in the nob Irish represenmiies In the English means. llis noble labors in Egypt lrishmm and ]rl5]1wK)n)En: In (I): "”“e"“""9 0‘ W “““>le P=‘>I?’= 0‘
lest traditions of mankind. Conquer Parliament have i7l03d"d ‘M’ “ "'0d- and India does not need to be review- name of cod and of iii. and gene[a- 1‘,“1","dh 3"“ ‘lewd ‘W "'3 5“f‘”‘,g"
ed after a civilized history of a thous ic of n ional rights, and the few ed any more than does 1). 131,0; 0 - om l E mccivcs he, 0 Fll =31’ 6“ and Women. the 1'1?‘
and year ey have been for seven successes they have had have been due C,-on-Mel] and “NW6” in henna old tradmon of “no God. Ireland, VlSIOnal‘]CvOVEfl'.ll"l'-lellfy hereby ‘consti-
oeiiniries subjected to English rule, to English fear pr Insll rebellion They all worked to spread civilization, uimugi. us, summons i,,,, .i..i,i,e,, ,0 ;‘11F%;1:;ry‘VI1aEa:ir$n;=;t=‘rhe thitgiuvlgic an;
d for seven centuries they have no
, ceased to hate and resist it. English
rule of Ireland has not been a mere
whim of obstinate tyranny; it ha been
s
n grim economic WIXWA -This should If an
be, understood, for it is the key to the
Ages Ireland
manufacturesy
Irish product
hnglish; Irish ships
carried them to the Mediterranean, the
Baltic and the Rhine
English policy had
than to crush this
,, Eventually laws were passed whirh
prohibited the leading Irish industrie
and closed the seas to rish ships
When the Irish Volunteers of 1
oompelled the English Parliament to
. publicly renounce all rights to legislat
‘ for Ireland, iris: Country experience
lie most rapid development which any
nation has achieved in a similar per
iod, Industries sprang up, commerce
%
food- Industries have ceased, factor
its fallen to dusty artisans for-got dzeir
Two years ago the Present Irish Party
which has been degenerated by life in
bribery
which compels the recognition of Eng-
land’: supremacy an grpints Ireland
no single power which characterizes
nationhood. And to further make this
measure a curse to the country’ the
English parties connived to permit Sir
Edward Carson tr) organize and arm
a body of Orangemen sworn to fight
against home r The situation thus
created permitted the English Govern-
ment to give the final blow,
hoped, to Irish nationalism, by
ising to cut oi? all Ulster, or at least
a part of that Prmince, from the rest
of Ireland. . .
‘ No people have ever placed them-
selves in so unfortunate a position as
tims to English politicians who fright-
ened them with absurd spcctres. Ire-
land is the natural home of religious
tolerance- Throughout the land Cath-
olics and Protestants live peacefully
side by s’ e.
The ancestors f the Orarigernen
organized the volunteers of 1782 and
the united lrishmen of 1798, yet to-
day they would resist the liberties of
their own land because the majority
of their fellow countrymen are Cath-
olics, This situation caused the form-
ation, three years arm, 0 the new
Irish volunteers, led by both Catholics
and Prgtoeitantsq and sworn to resist
and if they happened to spread any-
thing else, well, it coulrl'nt be helped.
The would-be imperalism of T. R,
and the real article which graced the
was the
the boundaries of the U. S.
the Canal our Southern boundary and
to exploit the Phillipines for all time;
would be like what Kitcllelier would
have delirzhted in doing. Nor did they
even differ regarding the treatment
of natives. a thing which John Bull
ever regards as an abomination. In
the famous Guilde Hall speech in Lon-
don, T. R. expresstd his igriess
heart when he said that British rule
in was marred by excessive
timidity-that it was not kind war
or kind deeds, but the rod of iron that
was needed.” And W. R, Hearsti
then in Paris, strengthened the state-
" “excessive kindness"
9..
a
In
a perfect constellation of human um-
inaries, while the next is so barren in
this respect that it has to get along by
quoting and rnisquotirlg former gen-
erations. I am afraid that we shall
soon enter one of these doting periods.
With Kitchener and T. R., in Heaven
life on I ' earth would cease to be
interesting. ‘
Pailraic Lagaxi,
CLAN-NA-C-AEL GAMES
Tuesday, Jilly 4th. Tickets for sale at
the I sh-American u , pi-uce
and at box olfxze of the Park on July 4
Great Boxing and Motor Cycle Races.
her nag and strikes for her irecdom.
> Having organized and trained her
manhood through her secrct revolu-
tionary organization, the Irish Repub-
lican Brotherhood, and tlirouglillieg
ris
right moment to reveal itself, slle now
seizes that moment, and, supported by
her exiled children in America an
by gallant allies in Europe, but relying
in the nrst on her own strengthi she
strikes in full confidence of victory,
We declare the right of the people
of Ireland to the ownership of Ire-
land, andAto the Iinfetteredcontrolpi
that right by a forei
government has not extinguished the
'ght nor can it ever be extinguishe
except by the destruction of the Irish
people. In every generation the Irish
people have asserted their right to
national freedom and sovereignty; six
times during the past three hundred
years they have asserted it, in arms
Standing on that fundamental right
and again assertin it.in arms in the
face of the world, we hereby proclaim
the Irish Republic as a Sovereign In-
dependent State, and we pledge our
lives and the lives of our comrades-
in-arms to the cause of its freedom,
of its welfare, and of its exaltation
among the nations
The Irish Republic is entitled to,
and hereby claims. the allegiance of
every Irishman and Irishwoman The
epuhlic guarantees religious and civ-
E
as
il liberty, equal rights and equal op-
trilst for the people.
children to sacrifice themselves for the
common good. prove itself worthy of
august destiny to which it is
Signed on Behalf of the Provisional
Government:
Thomas Clarke
Sean MacDiarmada
' P. H. Pearse
James Connolly
Thomas MacDonougb
onn Ceannt
Joseph Plunkett
- CLAN-NA-GAEL GAMES
Tuesday. July 4th. Tickets for sale or
the Irish-American Club, pruu
Great. Boxing and Motor Cycle Races.
Running, Jumping, Hammer Throwi
. Race, 5-Mile Race, Hurling an
Tug-of-War. Dancing all clay.
PRIZES
Handsome Gold, Silver and Bronze
Medals will be given in each event.
. Don't fail to see the great and excit-
ing Motor Cycle Races, also the Box-
ing grid other events. See prognixi
-,VVit.h terrible and splendid light an rible incidents of Anglo-Irish history aiwaysinsjsied 'g' p11 ,1 (1 1 ,3 ,3 ' - l, I f, d d ' '
as suilufn as Elie iigii“ninEs‘Fi“":r’asn, i rore”rn?ssn"cres‘,'1zinr EA . ' esp -ii,-rl lrclsltffisvvits diiyiiir fix: 3" .'3EP"““’“;,gi1‘.'.".f: am an ty.m,'Es.Be,‘17e"- ‘hem " '5 -us.