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Vol. XIV., No. 13. Whole No. 707.
WAR DEMAND MADE UNDER POLICE PROTECTION
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New York Plntocrats Who Want To Make
Benefit Assemble Their llirelillgs At lladisoll Square Garden And Brutally
Assault Men And Woolen Who Ddreil To Note " No.“i While Vast Throngs Of
I Real Americans Outside Are Kept Out By Police Reserves-Mayor Mitchel’:
Disgracelnl Action-ITIvo Days Later The Great Hall" is Packed With The
Working People Of New York And The Streelsiilntsitle Are I-Tlllcd Witll Earnest
Thriings Who Protest Against War With Iierinany-Everyone I-'reeI To hter,
And No Police Protection Necdul-The Meeting Represented The Real Feeling!
Of New York‘ Citizens And Their Determination To Prevent War-llinging
Speeches And Resolutions.
rwo meetings wcre held in siadison
Square Garden last .weok-aua on
Thllridlj evening. March 2!. to demand
o
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I! lniul of condition: in New York
at the present nae.
h war meeting was held under
police protection and was characterized
r Ioenea in once and ru
o
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war. who
r
they have
9 Alllea. and which this bank-
'rho rt
wer I rrightonod, and
nervousness made them ord
nice. I I I I . I
nu.’ WAR Vtrtluzu ‘ '
ass [IL 1:.
no arst case or this was when Elihu
nooi. who was chairman, told e andr-
onr. that "the m ng co d not no
held hut. tor this protection oi tho Allied
the! Bounced on the
Grant] A
s are lm
h
nailed
prelimlnlfi they (at their hands in by
antashll-it 1
daring to say "no,"
that outside the hall, where there was
crowd hostile to the meet-
ing. all the police reserves would not
TIIVI been able to lava them (rorn be L15
3‘
I
an “M W,,I B," ,,,,,,,,,,,ck nu, where noon air gal arinss 2 ad
“mun” H, d! sed by r unttsr speakers The
were no llrktlsf I:-sryop who come
135.47 THEIR owlv F'RlE.YDS' nr
‘ Jitauxa.
The rutlians even beat some oi their
lands h is a. One lrinh
is who was in
(17. I‘itb Impunlll D)’
the moods and paid agents or entrlnno
men. were
Iumpllon
I war. e the
were under the lhbushte
of
ever bo his to in
h their employee and del>end- II,
hludiaeon men ‘to suppress all dls- MI
E .
I The Mat 01' those
d n v
'11 was ax tc.vaut=H awsrix
-vs. hall was profuatly decorated
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New Fortunes Out Of War For England‘:-
with'Engllsh tings. with an occasional
pront. outirull, rose to
the band played '- d 5. .
speeches were all pro-British; all
advocated war and sending an army to
light with the All
onel and tho roat all tsllted xar Eng-
rld. . ,
ANTI-WAR MEETINGS OUTSIDE.
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on who o
and made short won: or n (ow pro-3rtt-
lshers who interrupted them. Had these
crowds been admitted to the hall a very
cornnlsxinn
‘ -it
I k lmoern said
nothing or all this. It pnya to he now
all ueuII to their laeart‘s con.
. The New rorti tnimsnltrsi-have
reaped nlrich hnrvcsl‘ that night, for
m away he were on on
tile intsn. It was r the protec-
tion or this hig (orre that the clunhing
was done nids hall. I-lsd'ths
own 9 hrs to in, the
tables would Iuire been turned and the
clnnhara would‘ ave heels handled
roltshlr v’ v
A Irrgavr oizrrjar 0F.BRITISHI
’ . 1iroh‘Er.I ' '
o Take.nIVuY the army af'striko-
breakers. Elli IIIPSNI "students" from
Lord
-Isrn
3 =2
un t-r my-were represented
by the daily papers or Voicing in
ttmenls Of [TIE people
city. They reyvvrsented nothing out a
heavy outlay oi aritlan money. ' V
A IIIIEAT Allll-WAR MEETIIIII.
The people oi New York throngod to
was admitted and no ellart was in
ext-lurls anyone susnecled ht hostility. to
the purposes of the me "Th 0 '
snarlzers o
pie or
adent that they needed
tectiop.
It is safe to say that there were not
a hundred non-syrnhathizera present.
it there were they kept discreetly slletll
- In
no police pro
by the ltuonlo-nrouml them.
Every man hear
be!
(are IJB Wlal I1 I out
him tried ttigct a nmash at .
had witnessed the lmunl assaults
ncerul men and Irom
the United Stiller: I'm for England."
(Ctmunurd on Page 8.)
N EWYORK IRISHMEN PROTEST TO CONGRESS AGAINST WAR
Present Situation the VVork of British Propagandisls Whose Object is to Save England From
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;or their consideration. These are the men who praite of fighting
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par‘ t-strifeywhicb should be condemned by all patrioti Americans. -It is an idle but highly dangerous
“land are filled with men who follow in his footsteps, when over a hundred such-men are under-
'Markievlcz, is being tortured to death among England's vilest female criminals for preaching and
’ II NEW roux, MARCH 31, 1917.
Destruction and to Load on the Shoulder: of the American People the Loans Made by
Unpatriolic American Capitalists Which England Can Never Repay-blew York Pluto-
crais a Greater Menace to Free Institutions Than all the Outworn Aristocracies and Effete
. .IlVIonarchies of Europe Combined-Now Planning a Drastic System of Coercion of the
American People Worse Than Any Ever Devised by‘ European Tyrants‘-Wn.nt War not
Only on Germany, But on all Americans Who Refuse to Bend the Ks-leirwould Turn
. This Republic Into An Irresponsible Despotisrnwlf War Comes Every Dollar of Arneri- E
can Money, all Military Supplies and Every Ounce of Food Should be Safeguarded for
ExclueiveI American Ust.&Mayor Mitchel Rebuked for His Deserhion to England and His
Shameless Slander of His Illustrious Grandfather. I I '
The following resolutions were passed by a. unanimous vote at the meeting of the United‘
Irish-American Societies at the Irish-American Athletic Club on Sunday evening, March 25:
. ' We, the United Irish American Societies of New York, representing fully 50,000 citizens
and knowing that we voice the sentiments of the eat majority of our people, who have, from the
Revolution to the present day, proved their devotion to this Republic-and to the principles of gov-
ernment enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the American Constitution,
solemnly protest against the organized attempt of British agents and propagandists to drag this
country into the European War, and w'e'call on Congress to refuse to declare war or to vote that a
state of war exists. warn the Congressmen from New York that they will be held strictly
responsible for their votes. I I '
The attempt to force war is made on the ground of resistance to an illegal German block-
ade and the declaration of a. barred zone by Germany which are no more subversive of American
rights than are the Bri sh blockade and the declaratiorof another barred zone by England which
have been pronounced illegal by this Government, but are nevertheless tamely submitted to..Bri’i.- '
ish orders are implicitly obeyed, while similar German orders are pronounced an affront to Amer-
ican national honor. We insist that American rights be rotected and the national honor vindi-
cated against all nations with strict impartiality and even-banded justice.
I T a campaign for war in the press and the semi-odicial outgiviugs of the Administration
have already disclosed the purpose to be. not a military success over Germany, but the saving of
England from destruction and insolvency by dnancial help on an enormous soalo'and by loading
,on the shoulders of the American people the colossal loans which sordid and unpotriotic, American'
llnanciers have made to En land and which England can never repay. It is these capitalists who
are behind and who control the demand that America. enter the war. “ Theyfwould makrenorm-W
nus fortunes o t f it at the expense of the American people, who would gain nothing from the ‘
Iawfu silo dice I I I f.,’. , 2-”';'Jt .' . . . .“i“," "T ‘. 1"7‘:r‘". ' N
I ‘ We udirm that the-Plutocracy centered in New Yorlris a greater menace to thclreo
‘lllllatlti founded by the Fathers and to Iluman liberty and progress .througl1out'Itlle ‘world tba
tho outworn aristocraciee and effete monarcbie’sI’of Europe combined. .Knowing that the American
people are against war, they have already prepar d a. drastic system of coercion more destructive
of the rights of the citizen and more'tyrannical‘i'n scope and character than any evefdevisedvby
Old World tyrants. If Congress enacts this infamous system into law, the liberties of tbe'Ameri-
can people will disappear and this Republic will be transformed into an . irresponsible despotism.
We had is forecasts of it at Madison Square GElI’iIIC1LO1’l March 22, when the hire lugs of New Yor ’s
Plutocrnts, .with. the British flag flying over them and under the eyes of Mayor. Mitchel, brutally
-clubbed arid ejected men hnd struclrswomen forI.the crime of voting against a resolution submitted
for liberty,-civilization and bu-
e dcoeiffrom. tl‘.elll'.?
instl- .
ll all
manity in a war waged for their financial gailf alone. v - , I
Tho published forecasts of the repressive measures clearly indicate that war is to be waged,
not against Germany alone, but also against. a large part of the citizenship of the United‘ States,
involving infinite possibilities of internal strife that will leave wounds which cannot be healed for
generationsand may bring nIaticna1Idisastsr. " ’ ‘- . . "I. I ' '.
If unfortunately Congress should declare war, that war should bszwaged for American in-
terests alone. The people should insist that.C-ongress provide that not one dollar of American
money, a single ton of American munitions or one ounce of American food shall be used for any
but direct and clearly defined American purposes: ' America will need all her money, all her food, a
large army and is powerful navy to protect her own frontiers and coasts. , s men w o are show
precipitating war for their own 8.ndIEIlgl?l.I1d’B interests are those directly responsible for our utter
unpre tiredness for war. The ecple must compcl them to retrieve their own neglect, as far as they
may, y mobilizing the country’: resources for ' s defence and providing for the‘ safety and food’
supply of the American peo ' ' ' " - '
We thank the twelve brave and pittl'lOl.lG‘sBl:lab<'JX'3 who foiled the plansof sordid men to over-
ride the ConstIitutian of the United States and rnaketbe President an Autocrat, with power to
plunge the country into war without action by Congress and before the American people llad,time
to realize , the revolutionary and dangerous nature of the measure sought to be rushed
through. Congress without discussion or proper consideration. We ’ them as champions
of American liberty and of the free institutions founded by the I‘lttl1ers.. We articu-
larly commend the action of Senator 0'0-orman Iiand we resent and repudiate the abuse and irlis- .
representation heaped upon him by the organs of England in the New York press. We know that
the great majority of the people of New York approve his course, wl1iIch’was not flliliuscering, but
proper; dignified and honest opposition to a vicious measure fraught with danger to the best inter-‘I
ests of the American people. I 5 ’
. e condemn the outrageous action of Mayor Mitchel in standing under the shadow of the.
British Hag, smiling approval of the hired thugs who assaulted American citizens and brutally beat
women for exercising their privilege of voting against a resolution submitted for their consideration.
We warn-him that his threat that men who refuse to follow him in his desertion of American inter-
7ests and principles will be “ ut up against a stone wall” is a provIoca.tion ‘to violence and civil
threat,’ for which lie ovred'tbe.peopIle.qf New Yo! an apology. - .
ii Mayor Mitcbol's statement tlta't'his grandfather, if alive, would take the same course as lteI
is taking new is a shameless slander, displaying utter ignorance of the life and character of the il-.
lllstrious dead. No other living man would dare to say that John Mitchel, who fought England all
his life and died a martyr to his devotion, would take the side of En land now, when, a ter
teen patriotic leaders have been executed and hundreds butchered in cold blood, tho jails of Ira-
going sentences of penal servitude in English prisons and when n gifted Irisbwolnan, the Countess
practicing the doctrine for which .Tolln Mitchel stood. John Purroy Mitchel is at liberty to desert
to the enemy if he likes; if he tries to subordinate America's best interests to those of America's
only real enemy, it is his own affair, but the reputation of John Mitchel is in the keeping of the Irish
people and they will not permit his unworthy grandson to‘ smircll the memory of the greatest
modern Apostle oi’ Irish liberty or to prostitute his name to the service of Englau . ‘ .
esolvsd, That. copies of these resolutions be sent to the twelve Senators who so ablyIde-
A JONAL ncvorrn To run collar or IRISH mncrcucucc, IRISH LITEBATUR-EI sun run INTERESTS‘ or rat: IRISH sacs.
’ mans .. ..oa.l... hnurur.0:t. I‘. no-. at us. Post. Iillleo at
NIH Y-tI.N. Y-InIn(n-Iztnif Cdtnunhl llIn:hl.Il1l
OUOTES .REDMOND’S WORDS AGAINST HIMSELF
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fertdedltlle Constitution, to the Senators and Representatives from New York State and to Mayor
Mitche .‘ i . u , i
OUT OF RED.’llo?t'D's‘ OWN MOUTH.
hoen s change in the attitude or Great up
Britain towards
’ Dlrnttve corntort." And, may i add. ’
'I’I1IGE FIVE CENTS.
oyil tieogge, In Home ltiile Ilttiata Reads for dense or Commons The Parliament-
I arian Leader's lilowing Description At An Australian Banquet In London Of
The Oreat Boon: Conlerrtil On Ireland By The British Parliament, Showing
That No Change Is Needed-Treated Contenlptnonsly, The Ilen Who Sold
Ireland Walk Out of The llonse And Then Return, Like The Dog To his
Vomit-Laurence tilnnell Makes Manly Protest-Kecrnitingln Ireland All Utter
Failure, Even Among Ulster Unionists-Irish Regiments Broken lip Or lilled . '
With Englishmen For Lack Of Reinforcement:-The Young Men Of Ireland
Refuse To Fight For Englanil-lleign Of Terror Still in Fall Operation, IIIIHI.
Does Not Terrorize-Irish People Resolute I rv
gentleman say now many Irish Meni-
hers Parliament were sent to Jail ror
righting (or (head Lhinxn? .
Mr. Lloyd ooorga-I was going to add
that this erllliapi rocord oi lsgislauvo
rtenl news rriins Ireland is hard to get
o is what I
said; ”
lthheld the
n:
o
o
.-.
1
"For over a generation there has
Irelan - A huge
him has enact a complete transfor-
. !n. - .
rml; -tnir.y4ni-or orrihtztl-dour t.
have‘ rplssed . ‘since . m
ation the economic conditions or
no. (Hear, hear.) hot. is a ve
rsrnarlrnhlo o otntion. which sir John
Lonsdala r d irom a s is delivered .
hy Mr, J ha llodmonn in to 5 at an we well 1.9,, D... ..
Australian banquet, and think’ it ..,...i...., I... 0.-.
worth while quoting the whole speech. had been going about
for it is a better summary or what has 3... ggkfng 1.. ..,,.. .
happened in Irelanrl"dllrlI.lg the last and .1. nm g...,.,.
thirty or forty years tllun anything I can m.
have over reader soon.) He so - hood to insist upon nu
tw
;iirat in Au rail hut . .
V I . I.’ on “I ,m,md IRISH REGIMENTS BRO]
has occurred in the in erval To-‘ 9 “"0? 60115999 of rec
(lav the people or Ireland, or T91-mi I15 dell! "ML in .'1‘n.
spooning, own the s . Today the AIIIBICA ,‘!.DuNin letteh ‘
lnho era live in decont hohltattonn maul! ml 8 therein are 1IIlly't
Today there is nhsolnto rrzedomln 9'1 by English 01110181 Imwlmcew 1-"
no local government and t o 1 nl following 1- “ken from In‘ :t'nlr- u
t.,.. .. 0...... -I-.,...., .,. llsh paper which arrived hy also not
have the widest Parliamentary and ma ' It is under this Illlztlon. “Irish Re- ‘
..... iruui: e. Today we crumns nest": .
know that the evicted tenants. who “In the Home at Commons an Much
re the wounded sol er the 7. Mr. .ll&Cl’.‘h9l“0'-I. in revly to I QUE!-
l..... ....-I ,9. ....,..,,e.. In lton, s cl that certain h regiment:
their homes, or to other homes as had already been Absorbed owing I I
5.... .. 0. 1...... ,,...c,. ....y lock or recruits. Otherlrisla hattnlinns, g
were original drive We know probably a snslorlty. h-d already rs-
"... ms ‘ggngegtgd ,..,,,,.,...I ma ceivorl drafts ot men who were not,
M... r .0 ., gf W... ,,...i...>x Trliiltlnen owing to tho lash or rain-
om... .1 (11 1,... . ..., rorcsmsnts irom Ireland." . .
4 ’l unionist Mr an d
that recruiting .
was as dead among the U ter nlou- .
lugs have been provid
..e.. .5. g ....,,. ,,,,d .,....,,..,. lists as among thsuationnlists or the
dance is toil y amo g the people Smith I ' ’
we know that in in own. lrsis wow .
been passed iarllitatlng
the housing or the w hing cl sees, LETTER YROM DUBLIN‘ ' ,
o;inr as e town tenants ara eon- ' W’. ‘ ’ '
rernrd, we vs this to solhtion- DUBLIN, March x.-The total (nth
3... V, n", ,,,,,,,.,,. gm. ,,.,,,,,, ,,, ure or no int in Ireland is now evi-
A... 1, D m, 3,, ,,,.,,,I.,..,,. dent to the duilest Englishman. It is
an"... m,,.,..,, ,,.c,,,,,,I ,.,,.. ,,., also evident that Redmcnifs promise in
V... C ,,.,...,,.,,.,,,,I M, 0,”, the Hon a otcommons n the inning
dtsturh nee irorn i r homes. hut 0 -1‘ "Int I Ihmen would he
0. tn. ,1...” u,, ,,.,,,,,,.,, heart and soul with tn Empire in that . -
Qh(-y l.... ..,..e.. A pm, r sordid urllose or crushing a commer-
,,,,,,, ,, .,,,.,,,.,,e V, ,,,,,,,,,,g cl rirsl ot been realized. Th t
.,l,...i....i . I... . ..,, ,,,,,,,.. or all the young men or Ireland are not at
5.,,.i..,..I-> . ..,. ma, 1., .,, M1. the hottierront in. ho over, not Red-
wants or on legislation obtained mood’ hull. an an den his level
Iyy mg W... I...“ 0; . pm. host to invelglo thorn to ng r thsir
country. I tried to get it for Eng. old nd implacable e only To start the
land three or four ngo. hail rulllng his brother, lie, joined
tl.oughior.l Mr. Ilsdmond goes on: the army an r the on or the "lead-
um. I..." u la.. .y.,.. ,....c.....,,,.. er oi the lrlsll race at home nnd abroad"
rrraddrn in university education fol wedthe ex lea his uncle.
1... mm. .,i ....I,..,.,.., o( 1...... the examhle or loyal Tledlrlonds did
in wa know that in primary and stem as the DEDNB ol lrelan
secondary education the thirty-tour their rr till it "-1 be s thsl they
ygnyg rs. I 1.... .........d in... wit. could not see that England’: are wwro
nsssed an enormous ndvnnro in em lrelanifa wnmlh In I 0 of clatorlv
clear and in sons llrovllled concocted lies designed to income the
far hringlhg eirlclency shout. 1'o- mind: at the l-ear-I6 against rnlany
dnv e hay is sy em o(.oltI . the native shrewdnssn oi the lrl do-
. so
pensions in Ireland whereby everyr
old man and woman over rwventy
is saved from the worltnouso, tree
to spend their last days in com-
sh
tected the falsehoods, all the reputnhla
rn ilitnry age remand to acca
the bait and laiighed
they are rec vlng between them nggerated for the purpose or misleading
probably more in the pension than the en .1 lcrnhlrar nd lmrrren on
they could in their llie ins in the wort that the Irish peopls -were
wagza. continuing,’ Mr. nodmond a unit in ooisnsa tlm Erlrpir But
say "We have system or no. this d option hail been sod
tlanul industrial inallrarlus which estlmatea hat a million, 2:.o,ooo.
provides tor the Ilnltll or the poo
ple. and makes it lmlnsslblo tor the
poor. hard-work mall and
woman, when sickness com! to the
rloor. to he carried away to tho aotunl . a guru compiled
worithoura hospital, and make: it in lo Wtmbllrho and tor the toul
. will rmivs as. or man riscrullihx glvn hy L1,,”
cent christian treatmrnti during hears it tho ll 9 oi commons put
their illness" I no I tho riuietus on the Qxlggsratlong or u,.
made the lnsuranoo Act the rllmnx rot-ruitin mom rl. Lloyd
of all the hsneilta. (Laughton) George, n on time previous to hi.
Mr. Devlin-vWlllItlld right honorable taking up the duties or Prime Minister.