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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
Vol. ‘XIV., No, 48, Whole No, 742, ‘
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 1, 1917.
Entered 24
seoond-tlaas matter. Ost. 1, 1008, at the Pont Office nt
‘New York. N. X., wmder the act of Congress of March 3, 1878
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BOSTON HONORS MEN WHO DIED FOR IRELAND
a
Great, Orderly, Well Conducted Meeting Pays Splendid Tribute To The Manchester
“. Martyrs And The Heroes Of Easter Week— Boston Papers Print Fair Re-
port, Showing That No Untoward
Incident Occurred And Quote Accurately
_ Portions Of The Address Read By John Devoy, But The New York “Sun”
-> And “Times” Published Lies Made Out Of Whole Cloth Regarding The
Proceedings And The “Herald” Joins Them In Deliberately Misquoting The
Speaker—Absolutely No Interruption, But A Mythical Band Of Vigilantes Is
Described As Protesting Against “ Sedition”
That Was Not Uttered, Order-
ing Devoy To Stop Speaking, And He Is Said To Have Obeyed The Command
That Was Not Given—Not One Word Of Truth In The Ridiculous Yaro—The
Speaker Defended Irish Citizens From False Charges Of Distoyalty, Denied
The Existence Of A Plot Aud Urged American Help For Irish Freedom.
ORTON, November 26.—A great.
meeting commemorate the Mi
capac “iiisuiefent
commodate the crowd and many people
had to stand in the oar of 7 hall. It
nthus! imous | efforts
. mesting from start e finish, “and there
ac-jto the United States.
world, and they are now engaged, under
rd Northcliffe's direction, ork-
ing overtime, in a Genpereo ‘ne to
lestroy the Irish National by
charging. its advocates with Gintoyetty
That cause has
lived for an seven centuries and
is not going to be destroyed by the puny
of a gang of contemptible
seribblers in New York,
the
in the teeth of those who ufter
helped to make the Revo-
thet further 1 be tole | It ts tantly f
\ erated.” Bante statement tat Suc and fore yt the inten.
‘ren Mn. ‘Dover's speech became sedi-| rity and the honor of thts Republic,
tous bi ‘warned that treasenable Wo are sairags ve
fterances would not bo tolerated and ready t bow.
ot So-| °ur beet contribution to America wa
ciety would use violence to break up| onr part in the de! efen ce of the Union
dent
Papers.
| most unscrupul-
BOSTON Pape fave FAIR
REPOR’
van treated the
xtracts fri
> ‘pevey. actually
y said bead whatever
“warning” of the Defence So-
becatise no such ‘hing conured
Sond It would. be a. very: imprudent
thing to do with that crowd of Trish
or Defence men at the mecting: there
were a few S vice men Who
“ who wero
kno
nothing Megal oF against the Govern:
Doubtless
there me of the "Defence crowd
there also, but tthe statement that they
hers taking notes
absurd, seeing that “printed copies of
@ the reading thi
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Michael Rohan’ presided - and
ja a short Introductory address, 1
which he sa “deman
gne of the older ations in the world
e of th
econ:
poem, written
chester Martyrs,” and as ai
Sons of the Clan-na-Gael, also by her-
The Boston Herald, in its report this
morning, sa;
withers must have been close to 2,000
and they gave John
- George ‘Washin;
JOHN DEVOY'S ADDRESS.
A w York newspaper which is
usually well informed, though it does
that I have, I know that an attempt is
being made to frame-up @ inst
IT therefore decided, for self-
protection, or what T T have to say
eno fear ot. ne Boston papers,
. Dut the. New York ones are the meanest
justice for Bish
original doi
eM
4) during the Civil W: rand much
© | enmity Girectod against be to-day 13
cause of th Many of our assail-
ants are, sone of men who fou,
English arms in the!
it was the Irish imi
ed a connec
‘willing to “let the dead past
bury. its dead,” and we have done
ing to cause strife or discord
among the racial elements that make;
up the population of the United States.
igrants who rust | pris
are grateful
elp she gave in the effo
glorious Republic in two, we are justi-
to the
| American pe
privileges, but we stand on our rights
as ol tizens and insist on every one of
ge
Way ENGLAND HANGED THE
MAR!
e assembled here to-night to
honor the memory of three men who
died for Ireland and to proclaim our un-
is | wavering allegiance to the prinetple tor
iy |
which they gave up their Ii
2) years: 0, on November 23, i, Allen,
F
Larkin len were executed
Manchester, after one of the most un-
fair trials recorded even {n English his-
oped their death:
on the sca!
rmined to win
a spiritual people, and the
more for Ir land ‘than the
put to death
¢|Saxon—wasted his great thought on the
English when he wrote:
“For Freedom’s battle once begun,
Bequeathed from ‘bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.”
@ an sure as you are Mstening to
glorious spectacle of the fag of the
Irish Republic+the Tricolor of G:
White and Orange, representing every
in
of the | workingmen
* | heaped
history of the Manchester Rescue,
which led to the executions, or of the
‘enlan snovement, of which that rescue
was a typical inctdent, It Is not neces-
sary. You all know ft. It is enough
to say that England considered tho
women|
wrence, who
ealant Trish regiment
More than a bu dred and fifty such
officers had gone to Ireland to take part
projected Rising, and hundreds
were ready te tollow them.
Fenianism ‘wae Popular in the Federal
Army and some distinguished Generals
ght for Ire-
ne
command of the
8
a
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also offered, mthele services,
Joh
ners and
ith the movement for Irish In-
ee dependence today.
N ACT OF HEROISM,
‘aptain Deasy,
men—not picked men, but plain Irish
who volunteered—armed
with, revolvers, effected th
rhe
were hundreds of uni
was an act of solenaia daring ren,
t|showed what cou!
if General Sheridan's “condt. as
rp | tions could havi
plished
England hoped to crash. was
reorganized and is stronger today than
TENIANIGN AWOKE GLADSTONE.
Fenianism failed of its matn object,
but it terrorized | England inte making
‘William £. Glad-
augurate the policy of “dolng 1 jostice to
Ireland” — meant the
National Demand and atiounting to
sions. To “the intensity of Fenisnism’
selena owes the Disestablishment ot
the poplscopal Church, the various Land
he fighting spirit which en-
abted. Parnell to bring the count
The abandon-
leat century. He had lived
O’Connel!’
agitation for Repeal of the ‘Union He
had heard and read the great tribune’s
splendid statements of Irelan
But wh
a hope-
less rebellion; when they began to break
e law and to reslat eviction, to rescue
7 RASTER Werk SAVED IRELAND.
hs ade a
clone. study or Trish Tietory “sad they
thoroughly understood this attitude ot
England. Tho Redmondites had sur-
rendered Irish interests and promoted
thore of Wngland, voted for all
of Lioy
They sidetracked Home Rule to hetp
the Liberals to pass English measures
and when the men they had thus served
at the expense of thelr own country of-
fered them a paltry measure which
most unscrupulous Mars in the
(Continued on Page 8.)
| The
Sian vrolnore
“is repeated everywhere from day to day
‘onians ‘if } er’
b-} cently
whom,
armed soldiers. It
@
atrectty, 20 that the leaders
concliiate the Irish by partitl conces- |,
id. | appear as though, things w
SLANDERING SINN FEINERS.
erman in Irelan
but None of Them Undectabes
to Say How It Could Get In—
They Talk of Lloyd George's
Fake Convention as if the Irish
People Care a Thranéen What
It
English continue to stander the
‘THe “German money” Ie
and ft is always assumed that ft fs a
fact capable of proof, but none of the
Englishmen ‘undertake to say how it
could be got into Ireland.
Here {8 one day's output, copied {nto
the Danja Independent from English
pers:
3
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“There are very definite algns,” ae
special correspondent of the Londot
Daity Express in Dublin, “that the 1 toa
of Sinn Fein are not bent
other rising. They know that it wan "
swiftly and completely crushed. Mr.
folly may bring more bloodshed on Ire-
att is said that many rifles were re-
missing from a Dublin barracks,
and {t {s assumed that the Sinn Fetners
have them. These things have caused
r of sectional
all Nationalist’ Ireland will b
come frreconcilal
—_ GERMAN GOLD.”
Mr, J. 8. St. Le Btracher, in ithe Lon-
don Dail; ie ‘Te elegraph, sa e Prime
Minister has told wu:
for Boloism and
feat
to be ‘on ihe watch
> do our best to
and are rect
a
abt this money 1s recetyed in-
can assert
that they hay
help from our
but Boloism pure and. simple? The Gov.
ernment are doing nothing but arrest-
3
ae
=
sé
5
ith murder, and Allen, Larkin and
‘O'Brien, none of whom had done the |ing & few ot econdary leaders, and
shooting, were anged, Their ery of | letting even them out when they verse
“ Save Ireland” eo di e- | to obey of Tules which are not thos¢
came the watchword of the Irish people, | Of an ordinary hotel.”
nd 7. D, Sullivan put it into song to an| “There 1 mo doubt that om evolu:
American atr. movement which | tio vel
ing force,
fts numbers 18 al
the Daily Telegraph Dublin correapon-
dent.
“Mr, De Valera’s recent speeches have
heen milder. Still, word
might work mischief, The Convention
seeking such & plan as may unite its
diverse elements and bring " happy set-
tlement. It has reached a when
the need ds peace, that. peace without
which men cannot view things dispas-
m the point of view of
s if some careleas
some evilconceived word should defeat
tts ot
nORDERED ovr TO DRILL.”
“Conscription to the ranks of Sinn
yesterday “have 6 seen a letter from
two young men in County Clare in
ed. They
month in prison Ww bad as
the suffering the Sinn Feiners would in-
flict’ if they refuse
y News Dublin correspon:
ears “that the Convention deliber-
pefully,
t an
other, ast, sorportuntty for
conciliation 1s near at h and.”
pressure
employment of such pensio1
BIGAMY sO BAuPANT AMONG
RITT:
While Ltoyd eats 1s busily emplo;
ed carrying the Dlcssings of elvtlization
to various part the wor!
in need of a little close Attention Tight
near Mr. George's home, At the Gla-
morgan Arsizes in Wales, recently, Mr,
Justice Lawrence declared that "
amy Is absolutely rampant, and
for the marriage ceremony scems to be
eying out altogether.”
ae
English Papers Still ,bying About |
“Ger: Mone
“J attempting to frame bim.
re
thea be *aroneht to bear against the |G,
BRANDS THEM AS LIARS. MOUNTAIN IN LABOR, BRINGS FORTH A MOUSE
John Devoy "Tesues Statement
Contradicting Malignant False,
r
terruptions and No Vigilantes
Ordered the Speaker to Stop—
me Liars Are Very Stupid.
lew York Bun and Times having
published deliberate and maticlous Les
Boston meeting 1
day evening at
spoke, the following contradiction w:
sent last Monday to all the New York
Lewspapers:
New York, November 26, 1917.
‘The reports published by the Sun and
Times this morning of the speech
made in Boston last night are not only
untrue, but deliberately false, I read
tion, for the very good reason that I
did not talk sedition,
* Lala not ¢ make vs pete ech against the
r, ys I did, and in
the very aret sentence { uttered Y eal T
a not discuss the progress of the
I kopt that promtse and I did not
crite the or any of
policies, I confined myself strictly
te detending myself and frionds from |@nt, and to give bim an Advisory Coun- | be the same tolerance en rie minor 16
e false charge of disloyalty, and 1 |cil, instead of th set of Dublin here undoubtedly are am
aid not y that the loyalty of Irieh {Castle officials. Instead ot Tweedledum, | signs of on the main tssue—Home-Rule
citizens was conditional on any: action | they will make the Irish bow the knee | for a united Ireland?
f the ent. The s! ent that | to . glish never) The men watoctod. by eae
I said so is a deliberate falsehood Ike |make a wholesale, or complete reform, Convention ‘would counsal and
the one that I was interrupted and {even in ther own country, and in Ire-|bhazardous measures ‘fs a eralultous ine
warne: land -all their concessions are cheats, galt to the intelligence of the Conven-
‘The printed copy of what I read to{ leaving things pretty much th
the meeting which the writers of the
false reports what I say,
nd 1 marks erent those
contained. ‘o that copy. The
papers snentionsd “fully
spapers a8
tend intended to bure the’ Irish
Cau
. Jonx Drvor.
NEW YORK “SUN'S” LIE.
(Prom the New York Sun.)
.|JOHN DEVOY HALTED
IN SEDITIOUS SPEECH.
THE
Defence Society Bitps In on Clanna-
Gael, Meeting.
Special Despatch to the Sun,
BOSTON, November 25.—Three thou
sand people attended a meetiog. of the
Clan-naGael at Hibernian Hall, Rox-
bury, and ‘cpplauded Sohn Devoy's bit-
ter attacks on Great Britain, He was
ven a tremendous rcception.
His entire talk was nothing less than
many and
for democracy” propoeal apply to Ire-
land and that | Ireland must be included iH
in peace par!
Edward " “Din igley, special agent of
the Amertcan Defence Soctety for New
England, was present with a large num-
Fein in Ireland is now apparently in |Der of the visflance coupe and stonosra:
operation,” saya a writer in the London bie ° AMhen Me Devoy's t
Dotly E: “A friend sald to me itions he was warned that
trensonable utterances would not be tok
erated, and that the members of the
which they say they are ordered out to Defence Soclety would use violence to
aril, Their drother is @ soldier, who vould use viole
won a commission. If they drill | Woe UP the mesting ua ess © stopped.
en con
wee Tn tah Th thes do “eee gettt |. The mentfon of Chiet Flynn of the
their home will be firod into, their eat-| Secret Service was loudly, booed and
tle mutilated, and their families molest- piss e Dalted States Secret Service
The “pro-
ee press of New York City was
Uberally.
eines “TIMES” ALSO LIES,
* DEVOY WARNED IN BOSTON. ~
Vigilance Agents Stop Him in a Speech
inst the War.
Special te “he New York Times,
re in the employ
of British agents.
fe satd that German cruelty in- this
whole war would be a failure,
(Oontinued on Page 5.)
| ing, denovement
—_++—_
pretence that Lloyd George's
hand ‘oleked “Irish Convention” is going
I settlement of the
“Col
to report a real
Question,
formerly
(1 rother of i ‘Cone pike) ‘ee
a well infor: an
irom it whieh will be "Found delow rill
how small the proposed “settle-
to be,
show
ment” is expect
They propo:
existing system of
keep an Englishman
as Lord Liew
were before.
The Weekly Despotch article is evi-
the Boyne| vi
ow the | men:
probably call for important raiier tun
sweeping changes-in
dently feeler—playing
Water “a little alsy,” to
irish will stand it.
Valera
see
does not favor
radleat change +H very significant
(From the Weexly Despatch, London
October
‘By our Political Correspondent.
3
&
moving swiftly to a
e question whether
bankrupt or
is bound u
ish satermanshiy Is
Time is thi
een months
iden that Cabinet unity was
bring about—the removal o
y delegate t
the advisory |
stestt able ‘to discharge full executive
to a Con
function:
ention
ent.
8, acting as a
Bd
ww is the psychological moment for
Government to
courageous and
imaginative step in statesmanehip that
vet
comentiy inviting the
consider. whether the
ts strongly
should be detaye
considerations
urged
'HOLESALE CHANGES...
sir race ‘kett, the
understood ' ly to favor
immediate handing over of the govern-
ment of Irelan the Conv
from the egangers implicit in a co
ance of evil
porting sit
Ca:
ota enna” sala the ame Minister, 2
“there have been so many opportu:
which rookea itke golden opberta
but wh: mehow or other
it the moment it
Is not the p1 present ‘one of these golden
opportunities? ainly no
stretch of Imagination f is needed to
se to tinker and patch the
f misgovernment,
The suggestion
. and Eoin MacNeill
thould be put on the Ad
tee to help the English Viceroy to gow
not started in
ertion that Sir
vith what happens
essence of the situation.
equith,
t se courage to
‘assuming the role of Parlta
red by the old Political
Tani ist
guished st cman or the Convention, is
d sup
orace’s How is a consider-
ale volume of opinion ‘a ‘the Conven-
o
solved ‘nto “Gust, thet one should seize
"Loudon, Paper's Forecast Indicates That Lloyd ‘George’s Fake Convention Wiil
Propose A “ Settlement ” Of The Irish Question Which Will Settle Nothing
And Which Will Certaialy Be Rejected By The Irish People—Quotes Sir
Horace Plunkett As Recommending That No Radical- Changes Be Made, But
That A “ Viceroy’s Council ” Be Nominated By The Hand Picked Body As
A Substitute For Dublia Castleh—This Means That An Engfishman Would
Still Govern Ircland, fis Advisers Only Being Changed—Four Members To
Be Allotted To Lister And Five To The Rest Of Ircland, The Goverment Ap«
pointing Six—The Minority Would Thus Have A Veto Ou The Action Of The
Majority‘Exemplifying The British Otigarchy’s Idea Of Democracy, For,
Which The World Is To Be Made Safe—De Valera And MacNeill Recom \
mended For:Places Which They Would Spura—A Grotesque Proposal,
Irteh
jonial
ul
tele
to
ten:
whole
any
strike
Brit-
not.
para.
0 it,
2
5
r the
ntinu-
nities,
nities,
had dis
great | n
that would be created by some ~suck
bold action
executive control of Ireland of the Can-
vention, w
[as “tl
tative body
sembied fo!
ftate to take. the
advice offered them. Possibly the reas
euimesities may spring up
fri lendly atmosphere nos existent
Conven
itative fol
80
an
as the participation-in-the
hich has well been d
he most remarkable and represen-
ot Iriahmen that bed a»
r three bundred years.”
Government hea
m for their hesitation 1s the > fear that
nominated to the Vicerors es
ministrative Council, But is not the
inthe
Te be assumed that the Con-
vention it they were asked to-act-as-ad-
it is an assumpttor
‘he Government. of Ireland, Mike the
curate’ 8 egg, is. Many of
Aduniniscrative departimentedo their
wore efficientl: tight be desired:
others, “undoubtedly require keying up
by men of the high intelligence and 6x
perience to be found.in the Convention.
With th that might weil
ly feasible ta
be lett aleve it 1s scarce!
Up) vention would de-
Sire to. mediate
one great-and immediate effect of
advisory Administrative Sasa
would be to prevent Dublin Castle
making mistakes of judgment due =
faulty reading of the psychology of th
Irish peo)
LIST-OF “PROBABLES”
trative Council would be formed as fok
It |lows:
Mespeny Nowrsareo BY THE Coxven-
1, Sir Horace Prochat
. Lord London
3. Mr. Neate opie, ALP,
4. Lord Midtet:
3. Mr. De Velers.
6. Professor MacNeill.
sy Uistra,
1. Mr, Hugh Barrte, MP.
2. Colonel Sharman Crawford, MLP.
3. Mr, Joveph Devlin, M.PL
Tepresentative,
Eusceo sr Rest or Inevaxp,
1. Mr. John Redmond, MP.
2. Mr. John Dillon, M.P,
3. A_ representative ot HM, Lords
ants.
4A representative of the- “local au!
orities.
The way to bring the Sino Fetners wo
Teason {s not to
ind brings in adherents, but”
to take action which will m:
the ps
pe of Ireland.ask ther emsaives wether,
they are golng to throw away the tang.’
Yble good hy and'
with
By anybody else bat a violent partt.
san it must be admitted that Dubtin
Bix weeks, arising out of a
tween the power-loom ma mee
and the tenters, 12,000 Beltast women
and girl operatives have been 4
to vie
ualise the enormous impression: for good
tn
Besa though not directly protved tn
dispute; yet as recen' Tuesder
last Mr. Duke, o Trsh.Secestary, gene