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VD]. XL, No. 17. Whole No. 554.
NEW YORK, APRIL 25, 1914.
r.-med as II-hmdzllu mx!1r'.O<tirIw;.ll1K-VGIIOKGBAL
has real, :4. Y., under the his ol Lungrsl av slam a. mic
A JOURNAL DBVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE. IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
The xcw York Worllt is the lore!
e irish race in Ame
, . patr
nclor misses a chance or attaching an
lrlsllrnan or mlsroilrcscllting the posi-
lion oi his ileoPl9- ;
Tile 'lutclligel.lt ll-lau despise the
r, hut nlalle little‘ or no snort l
&
so intelligent
t mcrionn and
loltnlnl. it these papers ‘really rise to
tile lzlillortunity and treat Irish Nutlonll
u a with
the consideration they deserve as matey
all or news, the change will he per.
lllliilcnt
ill-en'aa it la, ‘the licaret papers are
trowdivlg the “(Grid OK the IIBVVE stands
era in
uch an extent that thcy hid
lair to put Pulitzer out or t a news-
tap-r huslness. it is a tonsumuintiou
iel'outi.r to he wished.
mt "wovlhn" A nrsnnrurash: IAKEI.
Th. ‘ewlrork world is the most
ihrclultahle rahcr in the l;nitcd states.
ila ilevin reports are wholly untl'ust.>
rortlly when the interests or its own-
wists. alters or a
r the news. in ordcr to prnnmle
lhoso interests. or with a view to ml
“ilresent or one con-
rl
‘“ ‘-‘“')'in: out this policy it stops at
‘in ialschoorl. hut Drutcctn itselt against
lbei by legal trickery Ind chicanery
not is more conternlltihle and involves
ooreplol-al turpitude than zllie lihcl
ihclr. . '
IALPK LAUI1! HTS YATIIIZI.
“let this arch ialsiier
er is constantly pair
dev ti 1 .
'3
-cm" lred Tea he . who
am e assumed that the whole
in. m:““Elllzed him as the only reli-
"eyor at newt. could not hold
&-.%‘1’v-
THE "wlililil ” ll-ISING lilillllNli DAY BY DAY
Arch Faker 0fAmerican Journalism And Too’ Of England A! Last Paying The
Penalty Of its Dishonest Methods-Virulent Attacks On Reputable Irish-
'men And Denial Of Their Rights As Citizens Fast Bringing Down
its Circulation-Pulit2er's lmpuiient Laudation Of His Father
‘ And Puilery Of Himself-Exposure Of News Thefts Made
Through The Stupidity Of His Subordinate:-“We
‘Pilfer‘Tl1e News” His Involuntary Confession.
imW ceasing to take tl:e."ii'orId and ”‘
ill
a candle to Ralph Pulitzer and were
not northy to he counted in the same
lass. r
y '-acctssu-" As it hsr.lt.lo.x-.
"With my iathcr," says itslph Pruit-
"accuracy in nevlspaper writing
was’: religion. -le had a ravenous
craving tor information. llis intellect
was llnsitilcly leech-like in the W3‘ it
encd n, lhcr intellect with
which it came in contact, and suclre
il-om it every spctinu ioct it contained.
lie was iniolcrsnz orgencralitlea and
impatient oi l-oncluslons.
E
own
I2 I15 inexorlble
in running it down, rulhltin in hearing
it to pieces. Ind had In almost untliim)’
intuition for Efake."
How is that for I description of I
nun who ubllshed more lnipudent
fake: than in)’ Journalist at his time
in the United States and who has only
eredity counts (or mu
even in'.i0urnlaIlsm. and the inherited
qualities are orten intenaiiled in the
process or transmission. or are in-
creascd in power tiy csrelul cultivation.
‘ A you so FAKLS. V
“under the sub-head “intuitively De-
tected I-‘all-ea." Ralph proceeds to de
scribe the as ' '
n
rl
. n.
‘ sin. , he continues.
i-lace thousands or miles away. i have
started to read to him some news
great interest
plauslhillty.
la‘
la
and to me or pertect
only to have him interrupt
W can't you see that t
miserable frllxc!’
haos days,
months later. but irlvariahly that par-
tlcniar story would prove tn have hecn
a falic."
And yet. in spite ol the iact that at-
curary with Joseph Pulitzer “was 3 re
ligion," more fakes got into the World
during his time as editor than into all
the otiacr New
nlent I7! his sun.
lulness Illa erzu grzalcr 1
editorials. ' .
How IALMI was 'IKllFlCn is "Accl;lucr."
But his Caru-
n the case oi
goo on. "it was n g compared with
the almost palnrul ronocicnllousncss or
my each word to see ‘helm!’ it
our so little ‘of an or-er-ataterncht or
an understatement. or ll nllsstaternent
or exact tact. sometimes he would take
a day to determine, between two adie
in u
torial he would urlsily have it mailed.
and then several days later he would
declare that a certain adverh in that
editorial was not accurate and there
tore not lost. and he would send along
('alllQl to insure havinl; that word
used."
we, who knew the world in Joseph
Pulitzers day and could compare it
with the unenterpr
the ds a or w‘iialn lieary i-lurlhert
and the earlier times or Mnuton Mar-
hle,'harl to wait tor several years alter
ls
zr
-
prints -to
enunciates
Put in lvrnlsirls his lalnrot-
s in 3 word
. The scnlrllre which roll
oaa is the concentrated crscncr oi
l>ullimlsn nlodcsty: - -
see i hhould lnow roructhlng
shout accurar'" '. ,
"y.ll.hr ran: up at-tlvrunp hoops."
, rery learned and rather
'3
‘ they . y ,
the state out or money i
the sulhllcad. "l-‘disc Pools and
Adul-
lcratad Good --
t-l
ahlt-ll is certainly II.
y llupln. as a d('li'!‘lP‘
under I e nlanugcnlelli. or his rather-a
pupil. uiltzer the younger, he said:
“To t are who regard iollrnsllsnl no
a ram bunlnchhi enter-lu-lse i may point
out that the lnlollc pays the neltlpupers
thcir prl e in order tn lluy tho truth
. The ncwsplpzr which
sells the while dv-liberate lahcs inaloltrl
tlon as are t L’
e h
lldultcrutors. For those who rightly rte
ates
csllcll harmless take. no is a hnrlrllcsll
liar. it he is guilty oi x lake that in-
lurcs people he is not only a vicious liar
out o a moral ltsslsnsln as hell, but
in either event he is a liar, and it is
only by treating hinl uvlvtlnlllrnnlining
ly an such
he is not
rootcd ollt ii hells an inrctcrate faker."
T, e ,ew York world is doing today
precisely what itslph
‘ended the law of libel lly milling
the bas?'fatsehooiis arid‘ hlaser luslnuaa
ilorls in tile iormf or a -legal wnlplaint.
And it wntratted in writing I [MY I
salary to t exile creature who stood
spousal’ for the falsehoods wizich.it
needed-in it: hnsinoss. 2 ‘
The World denounced as unlit lcr
e supreme court Be ‘ch
tlte i'nr,tlInt. reason.
saint: lawyer as counsel (or the Pulitzer
Estate Incl’ lM.er' brovrbc-at the Governor
of xew Yorkgintu appointing the marl
whom it had dcnouluterl as 3 Judge at
nuner is
the Court‘ of Amlezis. ‘ Tlll:
really aerrlnlg only Mammon V
c are a or rsrws rnizris.
The ll'0rTii steals news Irnlu other
252 la it as llle Erlnl-,l:i
own newsgntilererh. it has
heap found out in those (hell: and 2:-
poscd tlnle and again. out it goes on
unbiuslzliiklit ' ale 0
rlumsily (lane and the Takers are so in-
cmilyletelli. lhat ill"! DISH)‘ [all into
ravn net fol‘ thellt. t lanth-
able inst.-Inca oi" this was I ITRD sat
by the Hearst papers in which by partly
apcll hi; the words haehwardaanti mix-
ing them up lnmeihllt the ii'arll1 was
nlulle to involuntarily make tile con>
lesslon. “We Piller tlla xrws."
The dirty rig is now losing circula-
ilon at the rite DI several thousand I
day because of IL! chanlplnnsllip of the
English side in he I'aIIIuu.c0ntro-
rersy. its rural and
lllaughts on Senhwr
doing hi! dill-Y I d it! in ant. I-
tachs on man citizens tor their prop
exercise of their right Is citizens
discuss Alllerlczln Public qu
their merits. While tll
dignatlon against the Pulitzer sheets
or
to
D izr in-
ol-ning and evening, ihcludcs Ill racca
and class of citizenship, th so who Ire
itting them hardest i c
. and ser-
rants oi l-Jllglanll ior a whole genera-
tion.
AN IRISHMAN‘S STRENGTH
One Gaol Equals Eight “For-
cigucrs" Or Fourteen English-
uicn. Accortling to at llutlleuizill
in Toronto. '
(From the ’7'<7l‘ml!iI rclrplolll. liprll is.l
25 guild ll
s klirn:-. rill. Irv is crlunl
to the whole lot pill iocctilcr.
: was the csi-irl -loiitml to
- so
Mr. Justice ."liiidlr‘i,0Il and ll Jill; in the
Ass-lzc Court at the itity llali ycolcr.
day
in the rourar‘ or on lt"IIoll in-ought
nan utchslllrh on in r lo dalllag.-s
o
’ livjllllru sus-
siw lb.
and B:-ileiillc.
's t-ridv-nrr
nrlliltlrln to his Qlillfllvc iinvllu; Io he
givcu thl-oulrh nu illlclplcir-r. llin cl.
ritnhlc nature and lulllllilil) led him at
all ilnlco an-ay
l as i
nation lly MI’. nolrrlt zill-
that loan dclircrcll hilnsl-ll or we is
meat which many niil lool. upoll as n
rahl. llhcl on Eugllshlncn. Judge and
iury wok it in goollrnulurcil amuse-
ln nt.
"How heavy has this l-all that roll on
your foot?" he wua askn
- llon'l know, put it tool. eight lor-
elgncra to lltt il, and it would hate
taken rourleen l:ucllshorenx'
Later. the ulslntrd sdnllttcd that the
fa ernan hr the gang, wnllou; ally aid
IL all. lltled the roll six inches on the
ground and threw it two feet lama)‘.
"lam he an nasiiahulall or s tor-
eigner?"
"He was an lrishluany his name was
.iilke."’
“You can
Believille?" A y
, ‘I was scared they were going to put
my leg oil" 4 - . --
away from the hospital at
.- .-Piaintiir Ilse admitted that he lelt the
western Hospital in Toronto or his
u h s
dict which the judge opcllctl this nlor
ihgfsnd wllirh awarded plaintllr xauu
danlsgcs.
URITICIZES PUBLIC LIBRARY
Woolworth Building, xow York.
ii h as. loll.
The l.';ditol- oi Tmr Gltnlt.‘ .imnlra><.
r Sir-T thlnll ii is about tirl-c
that some rlollke was lslll-ll or inn p r
represouiatlon or lritth
the Now.Yorla
other day i counted on [in ullnn sbelws
in lhe magazine room tr-only-six ting-‘
lish nlonlnliea and rluarlcrlice. most or
them dripping slandrr on things
lrinh. There periodicals are-largcly road,
and their lniiurnce cannot rail to ho
nlallgn. on the other hand more is not
a single huhllmlou hrtrllrli in lrcland
the ncwspapcr room it in II
u had
or worse. About a dozen English Xleulv
papers are I1l1’l.l. and three or them.
along with number or Canadian
n
papers. are glrcrr the bcst positions o
the open stanlisr
h
and not a single irish panel; is allowed
on the stand '
twenty readers ror an ill
each lane tor a paper like the stotenlan.
i have that i u will inc ude the new
Llhrary within the acope or your en-
ergetic action. Sincere -.
- y . E. nasar.
so-oj
. To GRIJET BARRY VISITORS.
'rho,irish-American union or wash-
lllgton, n. c
lug on sulnla
at it A. AL, and am hr Kind to have
any or the risilora to the parry statue
unveiling Ittruli. . -
I
E
“.1
e
m
'5‘
Bay!
CARNEGIE WANTS CHARTER.
ll'Aslli.x'GTo.‘<. April 2').-Andrew
iiarnrgle came to Washington recently
to urga that the Carnegie rtlidownlcnt
be given a Your-ral charter to, congress.
wliirh he has sought to ohialn ior three
Ills s are now pulling
he-in him out.
hsep trying since
years.
wires to
iler a m
m.l,,,lrl,l diet-ouroing on mod
newspaner. Pulitzer returns to the ques-
tion or ucurst-y in the ‘non. ’ tinder
downlent 5 Federal clrarlrr. Thr Srnr
ate has taken no action.
all on lac-nt. according Io its sec.
relavy, paid for copies
or senator Root’: hpeerh in (over oi the
ranhrrla sul-rendcr no r). but had
mailed them out ulnicr st-naior noo r
lranl; as congressional dorunlent.
-lhe printing rust ::.sll7.9n. At a that or
$2.lDS.3.: it printed -can -no copies or a
RI-pral ttai-rut-nl. prepared h Ls pen
senator Root has
the spring at 1311 to persuade congress
lu pass I bill Elvin! the Cahnegla Eur
. reiary
ted in lrad throt-
lish democracy
culnl.-l-l. Bonar Law.
lI2in]li)l':lY)' alliance
lntlcr are literally
arms and amrllun
as iiol for Home Ru
Asquili: ministry.
Ia we say
only man anion: th
German niilcer ulrn
lne ‘
rcnrn
em it ‘
as
:3
“'lI)‘ H. 11
dit-tori this dl.-hacie.
iilrlcs i h
l Wis
in calling ll
our soldiers’
on
pcrslst
ish,’
hctore many years
ll‘: pirlhlnx up the
I‘ halted in :-i
could " he
i. 4 riynn rlced
plied.
l)Hii'cr corunlanrling
tall his
them 11 thrr wish
our drl-end
lag the mild
are dangerous
lhnovr I
gone. and that in
(or England. ‘When
dlenendod on the Ger
V y lheral
I Gllllfel of Andre
ahle dlsolpllnariao.
imagine two
ordered
sst ulster
tllgnlnz because the
rec
wh
least 3 buy: man,
to ‘two hundred
nnl1,cvuId not he go
area tor a day."
trustees, and sprint $il.o7s.ii to send
lhenl out. .
Cart-lln Haldlner
covltrdly surrender
BRITISH Aliilil IS’
Carson, Bunar Law, Londonderry And Their Partizans Have Conlpleied The
Demoralization First Made‘ Evident in South Africa-Discipline Com-
pletely Si'lallel'ed‘Sl0I‘i8S Oi’ Cowardice And Stupidity From The
Asquith Has A Bigvlob On His Hands As War Sec-
What Use Would Such A Force Be To France And
Russia In Case Of War Willi Germany 7-What Would
'ties Broke Qut is Easily foreseen.
Boer War-y
Happen I iHosti
- laauldou. April l. lslt. ‘
Sir: The I-irlor King. I horn Ille Tories,
llccnuhc Di’ their Dcroonal lcslollsltl. IlPlI'
to ilrevult tit. Ira
East Ulster the decree or Par-
linmhul. with the sale View of nblnlnlnl
ouso
and pronosinl. to
their strike lunds In the I(‘Ql.llSlil0h
ion. c a
Balfour. who though not
i the lnoantinae. th
a-hose lighting prestige"
SOLIKB Africa, l:'tlIe b
. to
forcible language, and uni . y
I do lol-lg IIKD because I me-
‘I.
have
and Patriotism, and you will] see this
Ind anything they cou
all, on
e y to enlorce .
Pnrlinment. null than thou: generals re,-
NOW
Bonn‘ Law, late
or Canada-has tusdo the greatest politi-
cal hlundcr or a century Past. The l-:n
Ill ncler rrleadly to
ilolaud. lnlt so Ilholly engrossed in its
oa eltish ends that it did not care a
tent about Home llule one ny or the
olhrr Thc corrupting or the ar y by
and tho Iristocrntiir
in ,eniuri'inK
pilots and the working classes, which
arms against
dot-ole
or
now
19 as they ICT2 cold
bluuderins
up in
many shortcomings or
The Tories shunted
"any great
in ireland, was the
can with any politi-
onl. and have now landed in a
uaglnlre which will exclude them no
tlledry land, or ‘ntliceytar another ten
eiaro:" he w ole alnnunrol hrlln5- in
the-rt-ory, PIl‘!r"Vo'o-lrl not all one an I
end. V,
In
l
utt of Europe. A
y Icqualnunce said
‘ your
never were the inn!
it. hurl wonder or what nsal t
and Russian friends
9
uscrl mm!
‘it truly"
Ind lint 0! South
y
countrrrnen jl3rit-
hoth con
3
In
D
era Mal. when You
oi‘ Ille British
zrurlre. can your nlcn shoot straight?"
ould think their
rrlllled lzomcwhiii. indignant-
nnt be in ill! lent
alarmed about the Rrltlsh army,“ 1 re
“Just male lrllovili the farl.
The
eath larlsedc n ill
subordinates tog.-vtllcr and ask
to light too. You
on their saying: ‘No. thank
ion.‘ it is quite a dincrent thing, nght.
‘ liirld
am-l Ezwiian.
sun on
o.
aascg-al. and a German snlrlier who can
Ih These xorttl E3<lV.‘l'ny lrlshmcn
Dennis to tart-it‘. Ind the
LY] .
"l'liays or England are
roe discipline or the array is
Ill nulls. Ncllhcr
the lrlahnor scotch can he got -to light
short or them they
mans. Dutch. Danes.
get. ' Prohahl
e
newspapers ai
or
Kitchener, hat the politicians (they
have no statesmen). are strain 0! him.
I I Marshall.
to march to North-
ten or
Cabinet refuses to
moor
general WI!
wnl“IstouinIted It
P.
the collapse or his inisntry" at colenzo.
A thousand British soldiers surrendered
Boers at xicholsen-s
ifli. General Knox l :' '
otsolrllers waroaa-s..r treat their units
slid
a
n.
at
t. to (ice the mtisitl
-who Irrlnxed the
n! (XII lrmnretl
THE BUTT DF EllliiiPE.
jug:
train at Chic it)‘ to ollc rooms or his
number-s.1itcal’lee he was Lord uairianc‘:
V a Ilrrg aurrendcrlr-x
all olt-r lhe place to lnierior aunlhcra,
and Klti'lievier had to coin the Phrase
‘Tsgrettasllie incidcst" which ellpherolrrn
sounds much nicer than "inwardly sur-
ller, wrm
g at thrnl with a long gun. and
For this glorious
the ilorcrnrncrlt vi (Err-at Bri
Iin lnade General White a Field liar-
ohal. llc did not surrcndcr.
en or Down and Anlllnl brim!
lrish, are dangerous customers. v.'lrat-
crcr their lauils. tbby are hrnre, and
hesilsle lo stlootr
their IEEUDES. The Duke of wenlngton
said: “The English soldier is a fellow
who has enlisted (or drink." Fighting
is not drinking
his
Englisl1nleu’s trousers. so that in
ing. boll their band: would be occupied
ceaeionrlaried he
rnando had hurt the prisoners iecllnss
hy laughing. but they really would not
he This would c assrd by
error as s “regrettable incident."
i
kept dodging round
Ind tiring ironl dirrcrcut souls to as to
. whcn they sulll-icnilx
alnuscd thcnlscllea in this way, one oi
ltlem put out. a while llag and suit).
lr-ouad the dclachnll-nt lo surrcrldl-r.
He told tile amt!-r that he had tan hull.
d .
s iorccri to sin an order to
t in cornnland. a at-rgt-ant, to
. bree Burrs. Ia
it looked hire a Hgltthund in dcsputches
it was reported as a surrender to over-
whelnllng numbers and gun..
generals, now employed
taut comlnantl
eral thousand men. was deicaled hy a
ten hundred Boers.
urious at
sheddsdle rrorn spion i<op., a-her, r;..",,
hoaated that in retreat across lha
Tugela
he did not lose one Pound .,r
nrlgadiers ho consulted a.
Iheiher their olnten and lace
(coaullaoc on Pan 3.;