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Che 6aeI.lc Omemcan.
March I], 1916,
THE CLOSE OF THE CONVENTION.
lcoiiliirai-d From Page ii.)
ould we iorget our own history, could
we even lorget vvhnt Englnnd he done to
America and to re ii in our ow
aiunll nntuina that h
what
up that ol rriince tognthsr with
no i- one is just In good to Englriiid
to-get es the other. These I uiriirg
rri-nchnieu hnd nlno thnt Eiiglniid in;
lead or sondiug lighting men is gcnerou
,.
hitter niny
the itriiggle lor
English trnde. :ri innd
on be where one expend.
is blood. nnd the other lends rnoneyl
becouie better ne
sonte. cnnndinns.
Austriilinnn, anrlshiin, sikhs all runs go
tlrst thnt tllz lives of England‘. own chil-
dren may be preserv . In fact in the
use or an Irish soldier Engbiud reckon:
that whether he kills or is killed she is
nus ahead. '
we know the Englnnd oi the past. This
is the England oi to-day. shell we trust
hert shall we iorgive and lorgetl when
'1 need ‘
England i er proper
sioun, when she bee-ornes n sninll notion
oecu ing the southern rtion is th
P!
island ol crest lzritnin, when her power
tor evil is destruyrd, then ire ml think
or iorgiireness, hut uni-er, never will we
lorgei.
uslss P. Ml'LL'AHY'8 mmeass.
llir. (hnirninn, liei-erend Enthers, nnd
Ladies nnd aenth-rnen. 'orning irorn tiie
ennirnonvi-erlth, whers
word in rhoinss rrnncis
slesgher lnpplnusel still shines illustri-
ously, I greet the oonventi ii r
heart. The deep soul nnd troubled genius
ol the Celtic race ielt that in thin iupreiue
the
s‘Im .
with possibilities or grent rrio
mcut in the nenr luture. Preparedness is
oi the hour in t country,
the wiinihword oi the
have coins hure
got on nrrny t st wi
in thi ii lire
serve the integrity nl .tliin llepublic lrorn
tiie li r ol inreign ericruiicliuieut, nnd n
nary llnit siinll soy to Enghiiid on the
high M7!-I, “You shnll not stop our coni.
nlzrrz, , shall not rend our pririite
ruiiils" r‘ this purpu .' and
giutleuiun this cullntry iiislies prepnr.-.i.
ursis To-tlu in lli-tullt irelninl,tlie youth
or o l ml rire preparing, too. 1'hey- are
and pledi,-rs we
thin nuprenie iiinuwnt I
the reiponsihilitis-I that
who hnre ntteiiiicri this convention, thnt
us lltil ivlien the stnudnril
nun or-IN-ions of
(lime of III! share
nnii shall
of sir liberty in ngoiu iriiliirlud on the
Irish liillsiilrn. (.-lppliiure.i
J()fl.V’ wzvovs x<PEr:clI.
Alter bring iutrodircod, Mr. Di-i-oy nnid.
ir. chiiii-nisn, indies nnd gr-iitlnninn, tho
‘ kind as to relriiin lroui
putting n li ii
certainly pirt n
t
nue, but I will
liniit on it inysell. All
t vvns necesrnry to be sold ns been
Ileclnrntion
, OW, that
tliiit nrelsrn inn nlll be adopted without
e nut
tho Am u want the Eng.
lish Guverilmtnt, the ninents i
Eerlin rind vienneennd the Government
in lvssliiiigton-to know exactly w it we
wont, nnd wbnt we nre determined to
have. (Applausln)
In the splendid opening Ipcech oi Jun.
"cc Go be hope wn expressed that
Engliind niiiy be dzlt-atell in this wsr. The
n ly poi.-rr thnt run dclent England in
ii
mile the map ol ' we Ell
nut 54‘x‘Hl‘e that result l). o pnsnrige cl
tlvlllil, or he g 3 convention, or
l
innking 0! r en. The nngr ol
the xntiniis vi-ill hnve enough on its hnnds
ll not ' s 0 nt or its time’
or Irelunda cone unleul
thnt Irolnnd he.
I And is
;'l
N
-vld
to collsidrrlllun
on the rinxle condition
corner n belligerent. (Applause.
ontiiin recsigiiitiori us a belligerent, cities,
military positions, wmdd have
, to be cup.
tured, ports vi-oiild hni-s to be controlled,
I V
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is onlll Governlllcnt nstnblished.
r.
the Irish people hnve er.
ertaiii decisions. and the Englis
(‘rovrrnrrlrnt hss iii-teriniried
policy which. it both nre cllrrn-d out, wiu
iiievitiibly bring about thnt result.
Irish people linve decided in
n and by piihli
lurge so the monster nieeyings which dew
udod Repeal in O'C1Inllt-II‘lI time, that
ntteiiipt to eiiiorce cons.-ription will
he tirrie being lrightened Englsnd,ori
the ndriiisnion o w-who
is n iiieni r of he Government-hns
lrigiiteiied Englnnd anil rtnyed her hand,
so thnt lrelurid won not includnd in the
conrcriptiiiii Act
A: '
volnnteorr were
inin iurcs bringing shoot that re
riilt England has dun.-riiiiiirii to suppress
tllel , nnd Ilccet-(IE i supp
ii
men! to the Conscriptio Act into the
British rnrlinineut thiit would include Ire-
lnud in the consc ' tion. u begun
to lrrnt ollicerl and organizers of the
Irish "oluntecrl er: and there through-
out Irelnud; ind those who know sny that
she intends later to swoop down on the
whole organintiun. throw the lenders into
pririou, nnd take the arms lrorn the hands
oi the rnen- '
re
:-
I‘
ri errupted by man in
go,
t po icy
begin.
on to do when tlist
nte or things arrives: It the yoiin
-5
S
-3.
E
s
the right, to give Ir
land the right, to deinnnd recognition as
n belligerent it you do your lull duty
when you go your lionies, by npponl.
ing to our America ueig rs
iris bri rig befor the Airiericnri
pe pic Irel-nd’s yust rind leg-itininte cinims,
th I i rle ii
ill compel the
o
wnr ruirst be supplied to the Irish people!
Do you know that toennhlelrelnud to tight
lor her liuerty, and to win it, n run
100, ,ooo would be n very small iuriouut
oi rnoueyi will you light to secure the
right to obtain thnt loan in the United
Statu. Is the Administration in “hahings
has nllowed the Allies to raise ns
ol the billionrdollrr loan is en Im-
a
convention; and
$l.01)D.000 vi-nuld eualilo the I pen
to make is very good lwginning indeed.
' no in America. I no
n coiir
Lwlil-ve thnt the ynuiig men ol
hrii-e lrlldz up their minds thnt ii England
carries out the course thnt I have nketclled,
tint on. sertn'n she intends
to ndopt. they have decided tho ' '
better lnr theni to die deinudiug their
rights and libortisn their run
soil than to shed their blood lor England
on the lrnttlnrii-lds oi Ernnce.
Eyrou mid:
honiisrurii. know ye not,
be tree theinsolves rnust strikc
the blow
--Ilrreilitsry
I‘ ii
And our own rliouins Dlsvia sling:
"Tliz 'I‘ribunl>’a tongue, the ports pen,
ltisy row the rued in prostrate men;
But ‘(Is the soldier's sword nlone
(‘nu reap the hnrvest when ’tis grown."
cLosl.va SPEECH BY JUSTICE
DANIEL P. CGHALAN.
Justice Dnuiel F. cohnlnn, who won the
lust npenher nnd received n grent ovnti
ii
9.
M
i : ,
Ladies and Gvntlt-lnen, I know that ‘he
hour is very IIJL-, and I know that the
ground liii. boin splendidly covered by
those who hire already spoken to the
resolutions; but I feel ' to be
permitted to six
DEW] snid lroiri t
or the men and wornen oi the Irish recs
(applause).
From my enrv boyhood I h vs
taught
ahoiie
been
hosts
America need fear It nll wn the aaulltry
from which Wlasllirlgton I d the Revolu-
tionlry heroes delivzrzd it. I hue,
Ii Inn ne on, an e h
been convinced
victinns for myaeI(eI hlv
oi Ainerrcan
e
inure nnd inure iron. ii study
- 1'3‘, and rrom a study ol English his-
lult thing which hnd. been
git to nie in early boyhood, ions the
prchent nionient. thnt there is need t
JUSTICE DANIEL I-‘. COHAIAN.
those 0! our old race wbtv-and ws say it
without in nny vi-ay rellcctirig upon the
people nl nny other rnoe-who have con-
triltllmd at least an much to the bringing
existence of these inrtitutnionr, who
have contributed as freely 01 our
every bnltlc-Neld in which American
victory was strive lor, or in which the
Americln ling win in diiiigci-that it was
over so greiitly need that the
women 01 that blood should come forward
in order to point out the danger: which
iirpass this mun ry.
ways been, there niwnys
vi- . ‘ii this country, ii group or W.
pie, who hire syrnpntbized, not with th
who Won in the Revnlut u, but with those
who lost in the Revolution; there has been
tr
at all times in this country a school or
thought which his taught thnt the Rev
rllntion was i niirtnke, thnt the colonies
never shoul nvs been se hr. min
he can “the inother country”;
thnt the united slides or Americl. never
should have come into existence; and for
the lust twenty years there hns been
openly tnught here the notion that this
country should he s ' nited with the
nny thnt clever
u sincere men ironi '
point of view, most poworlui men, arc
vi-orking today, it they can, to do as much
for England with the lorccs oi these
United stntev as it the Revolution never
hnd tnlien plnce; us if this oountry never
had n broken away
5
from the British
Empire. d I say tiirther then thnt that
it it were not for tbs clinics oi the people
or our rnce nnd oi thn other riicen nsidc
lroni those oi English blood which hove
done so mllch to build up this country, if
it were not for them, for the stand which
we take, tor the positions which we nssert,
those men rriig t succeed nnd rnight ngoin
to all intents nnd p
5
’”-u
I869
?0FT
Review at 9 o’clock
Admission, 50 Cents.
llfartllring in us
wonder that Ireland knows she
r of syroouse, N.
If you re an, or
Wolfe Tone ‘Company
truth lapplaiisel; nrid that rlruericn never M M
I never
ill not,
could he oi-ercoiris, that American iiistitii- , may
11",!-3 new would fall. -mien it wer.e'b.l' iiir, lhiiiili God, has nlu-sis nil.-d '
‘W13 A ‘mm V-‘Mm-It or by Frlhsll iiig (lIy]Ilnlh4l')r to sgniu sllbjllguktz tl
wiles iron. with ( pplnuse), end I have n... ,
t nnd ever more st ongly thon nt tbs
eiitnry oi this ouliiitry and tliiit England
ii r,i.
i trust. Mr. chslruisn. that this clmnr
try not be drnwn into the -
stru
niuiiifniri its
rlghts.not the rlght.itlhore no any such
thing in Iriternntiiinnl i.nvi--lhn ‘
t
rights, not
t is verv
inii-el doclriiiwiiot the right nl linriiig
II '
ii niaii or wo
the ships of n belligerent, but on oi
the rights '
‘ Anierion-the i
ii pun
iriiiili co is end go without
he
'con 3%!
upon pencuiiil ships behnigi
ntri '
ion.
as,
in this
rights, nnd nu Amer
r served; thnt
ht in the Revolution, the notion lor
which we iouglit in the wsr oi '
continue to be rig
ion in time o
nf Auierrcnn cit one, all or the
send goods
t nre riot contrnt
yen or nny ol
ght to have our
being censored
opened, right to Imvc neu-
i-en holligcreuts-
rig to
v and dying the rlrriericnu ling,
rig those ships stoppud and
tulzsii iruni them upon the
by tho cruisers or by the wor-
ry who '
that this cltuntry will n I has
r the tool or the ally of Any
' wn thnl. Americnn
n rights, will be
the nation for which WE
1512, will
hlenus. which will be
Iinnded down to our children As they cums
to us in o nu erntiou.
ur ay d gen
ellnd is wnlserneil who can
So far as Ir .
any what will come out at this extraordi-
' w
dured,
ty and o
P
seven centuries nnd more
down nude
cnn lay b
time niny hove
to be mm
tune hiis coins, in
our people,
country from whic
or our ioreintliors, crime, which
as has
oved, when
nary struggle, the like of which t c
never Ice I
who con say but the
God’: providence, when
when inir race, when ie
h either we ourselves,
no other country, the
pression ‘
r the heel or oppression-who
ut in the providence oi God the
coins when that tyr
at oppression is to
' goin
cones. and when the old hand will s
come in to the family of nations’
It uiiiy well be that this is In; it my
well be that this will be one of the
H
a
have
rria
th
our
rnesottiie wa
pledged ourselves to
in or
I.
kind
out
hope that It Will; we
do I.lI thnt we
der to bring iibont that result;
hot mny be, whnte
I’. We
thnt will be asked to do
lighting-the thing for which we nrs will-
ing to ntn
in the open, is the root thnt America must
continue to he who
nnd independent country, not n
'ghi.s nisy be invnded by Eng<
by nerinnny or by a
whose ri
Iusd or
here in this country, to stand
t she has been, I free
free nnd indepeud ri
country, but u e t. enun-
tl-y,a country whlch is going to new to the
my line that via Illld down
‘ vo
t
not go
rig to give up n
ny or those rights to
nny people or to any power (applause);
HE:
1916
Annual Review and Reception
FIRST REGIMENT, IRISH VOLUNTEERS
MAJOR THOMAS J. NQLAN. Commanding
V TERRACE GARDEN
58th Street, Between Third and Lexington Avenues
ST. PATRICICS NIGIIT, FRIDAY, IIIAIICII 17, I916
Dancing at I0 o‘clock
EXHIBITION or IRISH DANCING
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Why the Irish Want
Germany ‘to Win
very exiatence.'AImn4st complete ruin or her fishing,
Yr dlsease-a
rruing and run d tries-misery, povert
directly trsceabic to England and her deliberately false promises. Is it nny
' have home rule? In it an
wonder that 1i-eluud sees her destiny in amino er most
What Could Germany Do for Ireland?
-is the title of a new book written b
Y. we statement he mu as i
hand knowledge. The real truth, the whole truth, uncenaore
attitude towartlu England nnd Germany is grnphicolly, clenrl presented,
, n ei-in Pro-Ally-or just ossive i-oi - ck
will inolre you stop and THINK, will OPEN OUR EYESI
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W 1. DI the feast of St. Patrick lly Cumaun N.
st some IIABBII, Irrc., on Tuesday evening, March is,
Illa!‘ Ltd the mlv-nine-3 nt Indy oi lllorny school Auditorinni, M,
rinll nvenue, between IESth street Ind
I t st.‘ d I hole, that the luv ,
will continue to be whit she lins oi which will he devoted towiirds the VI.
tnlly iinportarrt purpose or aiding the Irish
volunt
A rpleridid pi-ogrnniriie is being nrrangod.
llrs. Agiies .Newiiisii will recite ---i-ii.
linttln oi Bel)I.vlll'IJ,” u very line poem wi-it.
ti-ri u teiv yours ugo by her brother, Itoge,
cnseiiient, nnd pnhlislied in the book oi
irioh I-Iistoriclrl Enllnds iiud Poems.
others who hrii-e promised to contribute
George Potter, The Irish Pipers‘
cord in It-ulund.
to r iin
ui lviisiliington. entering into no Entllllgr
' .1 ii it Iliu‘Iu’t been tor
this rnce within the lust
v o
iiunle iii an Arbitration Treaty would
ll probability have been niiide between
l-zuglnriil nnd AIIIIEIIEB rid had such is
treut ii unit
9
the
a
ner, Eichsrd Ilollsnd, Miss Eileen Murray,
is chnrlos wnldren, William Idsrris,
Miss zllourn Lee, willinnr Gnrrity, sen.
nine UReiIIy, .lobn Molouey, Ernmgg
I-ienphey, and the ciunnnn Na ni
eigiit.bnnd jig dancers.
tirenty-rive cents.
go
the
bee
ta
2
5
=
'2
=
E
ii compelled to enter th
side or Englsnd, nnd it
do e n other service
counsel, by their nugges- Admission will ho
vent those
ii being pnssed should stnnd is ii
rcmendous record lor theni end the rrice
in this country.
I trust, Mr. cbnirinnn. thnt these reso-
lutions rnny prevail, and I henrtily nec-
the resolutions ii-iiich lieve been
proposed lnpplnusel .
jog‘.
Page and Sherwood, two good men,
squeezed out of Congress. War at nny
price! ' -
the greatest convention of our 1
over held in America, I send
:'-“ it in t I t t tli
MESSAGE TO JOHN T. KEATINWS D,'y‘,,"M"hf,,”,n'esp" 0' ’ menmy
WI170W- lite time or nbie sorv ee sn unswolv.
lng devotion to the cnuse or Irish Nit-
Uizon the suggestion oi the Chairman
tlnnallty
he was unanimous y directed
ta.
ta
“O'NEILL RYAN."
vote at thanks was then passed
a
the proceed in
. n ,
“551D Maryland Avenue, Chicago.
adjourned.
"As Chairman and by dlrectlon a
Grand Annual Ball
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