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‘ANY ENTRIES FOR THE FEIS
‘I, Hundred Dollars’ Worth of
Pmes Attract Record llumber
0, gunipetitoril to the Dliforenl
.‘ contests Which Will Be Held
"11; Celtic Park on May 31-.
“-“lg an the Feld to he hcld in Celtic
part 3’ 3
'ourl in by very mull.
'" pm tbarthe llilt oi competitors will
rig much larger than last year
i-early the well-liilawn Gaelic
Men and sincere n he Eastern
‘ms have already entered. Judging
Mm present indications it is ale to
"" W year’: lreis will eclipse
mvslzr held in America i
itbe reis.
y. me lmslluihcl.lIrer'a bands.
ten lug competitors should apply
pr entry blanhe to the aecieury Feia
committee. 211 E.‘45lh St. New York
“$3.... oi lrisn dancing will be glad
now that they can enjoy the so
well as the Aluerir
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city will he one
FEIS IN WORGESTEE.
on Wednesday evening. April 22, the
is -oi the Worcester
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ed and a very nigh-class nraxialnme
was gone through With the gruiesl. in-
lsiesl to all. Ill. Fleming was the
ihlpln. Anna cassldy. Diarinuii-l Lynch "
Ind Flnllan .'l‘laDColllm. .
The proceedings were opened with a
tctlol: on the 1 sh warbipes by
as
nails by
lzlrtrd th
Ieveral llrstrclasa artists com-
ranimc.
The result oi the Field was I Wonder-
and
Sui! represonlrilvcs irom several so-
riuirs. , '
THE PROVIDENCE FEIS.
The llnnllal Feis of the Providence
[hello League W V held in Infantry
Hall on urada evening. April 23.
The hull was crowded and the big audi-
tilic enloyerl the iollowiug Irell lender-
It
g . J.'J. Hunt: h'orn-
lube. liiss Bertha Field, Marlon Ilussey
ml Andrew Farrell; recitation. “Brian
Bolus Address to His Army." Diur-
arldenoe quartets: iii; and
Miss berths Field and Andrew Kel-
. selection on the barn. 3
iuliua si Angelo, bigbiand dim; and
llrara dance. Neill James, with
'- J. Anderson accompanying on the
liliblsnd pipes r
lliss bally.o'Bricu spoke: on
ovidencs and.
‘" every town she had visited since
‘Wing to this country. Her ope
umiglarka were in the vernacular sno
round atier round of Illlllause.
ll
AELIC LEAGUE EXHIBITION
dgaihflxhibltldn oi lrish Aria our: in-
‘ ha. which is now touring the coun-
Mmgmlsal had very successiul en-
,“ in Vhrcester and Erockllm.
This week it is
engagements are
n Salem Ind i-laverbiil.
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En-on any previous visits. bliss
‘ hell and Miss Eithna Kelly,
"3 Well known to all Interested
in Ireland, lecture
aim
'" Vvuellc aiinlrs
'olunieers
daily on vlrioul topic: connected with
the Giselle revival and lrlllh Irtll Mira
Teren Hall) n, L meril:k'l unou:
violinist, Gaelic sing r and dancer de-
lights the audience several times daily
with rendlilona oi lrlsls traditional airs
dance tunes 0 .
Anna Casaidy'a deiiness at weaving nne
rugs on a baud-loom attracts consider-
able attention v
is
a.
rage
RRITISH LAW LY INDIA.
(From London India. April 17.)
Nirrnal Kanto Roy, the student who
has been twice acquitted oi onsrges
arising out oi ibe murder oi inspector
is now at lib rly. the crown
having. on April 3, entered a million oi
ncilc pranrqui, in despile at Mr. Justice
ei:hen'I order, a er the second trial.
that the accused was to he tried again on
When ‘the prose was
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tor the deicnce. asked the Judge to say
that the or er of release amounts to
Mr. Justice Stephen replied:
A trial of strength between
alists and the Government."
result is all the more sisniilcsnt ba-
cause oi the public distribution by the
Bengal Government 0! awards to the
Dnlice, an unfortunate incident upon
which we commented last week.
oaing Scene of the trial
a crowd assern led in the
precincts of the Calcutta High Court.
variant being maintained. An
iniormsl congratulatory reception was
d in the Bar Library
ers, W in
A signiiicant comment on the trial
made by the Calcutta correspondent or
a special tribunal or three Judges, Wlthr
‘GOOD PRIZES ARE OFFERED.
People Who Know the Irish Lan-
guage Encouraged to Compete
at the Oiraztclnas, Which Will
Be Held in Klllarliey in July.
DUBLIN, May 1.-The oircucblns
programme oiiera good nrlzee ior tram-
u 5 in English is i
metic and 2
:20 and :1 Wu. ior best original drama.
The Frcvmml prizes oi ts, Sll and silver
medals ior short story in lrlsh, and
three other cornpctitlons:
ilianuacrlpls must reach lbc Secre-
idry. olreacbtos cornmltlae. itlilsrney.
Ireland, boiore June 25.
e oireaohtas is hired tor Killarney
ior six days commencing July zil. copies
oi syllabus may be bad ironl the sccro
y and any inquiries in connection
with the iestivsl will be promptly and
gladly apswere .
There are thousands oi lrisb sneak-
ers who never attempt a short story or
essay in the lr b language.
not iollow because an iris
that be has no literary turn in English
that he should not try his luck in in
language oi his nation. -
he talents oi our people have never
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line did it through the ilgllsh -
guag t an almost uniilled ilcld
lies r us should Womlit every Na-
cenus l-lib
afferent lhe almost bare plain of nallve
bought. -
out a jury. under the Act M190 ,' sin
is well know that "Bengali jurors
will not convict.“ That rernarli la a
suililclent indication oi the temper
vaillng among the omvials, in the
oi a more than usually damning reve-
lation of polite incompetence and soy-
ernmental inlly.
pre-
(ace
SENATOR D'GUlll'ilAll'S SPEEDH.
(Continued fnzm page 2.)
tion oi prohibiting our country irom
ma ing charges that will discriminate
against herscii. '
Note the words, “the nations observ-
ing these rules shall use the canal on
terms or entire equality." How can on
b on a
tad o use the Canal. will it be
claimed that the United states will be
den oi the use oi the Canal ii it ial
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rules. d0 allnd on
and it'is to them that the term “all an-
iionsmlreleril. .
i:2vi;LAli'n rtiicoaivlzsn OUR
RIGHTS. .
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That the British Government at the
time the second l-lay-l>aunceiote Treaty
was negotiated understood that it was
our purpose to retain lhe exclusive cou-
irol over the canal. and that Great
Eritulii was willing to consent thereto.
is apparent irorn the notes oi the con-
ierence between secretar ay and
Lord Lansrion-be". Alter the words. “the
canal shall be free and open to the was-
s oi commerce and oi war oi al
tiona," Lord Lansdowpe proposed to add
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which a all agree serve these
rules", and iurthsr on the wor s "so
Agreeing,” after the clause rleclarin
“that. there shall he no dlscrlnllllatloll
against‘ any nation," ctr-. it is plain
that the nations “wtllch shall agree to
observe these rules" and “so agreeing"
F-Mild not embrace the United States. he-
csuse was is United States with
whom [let other nallalls would agree.
Secrelal-y Hay objected to this lux-
gemlon and stated that there would he
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substitute for Lord
luent, that “the Canal shall he i
that Great Britain should not be placed
a less advantageous lmltlon than
other Powers. while they stopped short
E
Telephone: lzoi styvesnt.
DONNELLY MANUFACTURING C0
' pepartrncat oi MARK COWEN 8 C0-
Uniforms and Military
Headquarters for Uniforms of the Irish
Equipments.
in accordance with General
Orders No. ll. . -
Service uniiorms consisting of Khaki trousers.
Blue Flannel shirts. cic.. also on In -
PERFECT HT Ali"D FINISH GUARANTEED.
.. 737.798 BROADWAY-
.Cor. loth Street.
New York
oi conierring upon other nations a con-
traclllral right to use the Canal."
Lolto LA.’i'sD0vl'.lE c0NFIR.lls THIS
VIEW
The nations, tbel-eiore, with which
Great larizaip was to enioy equal rights
were the banana w h a no can-
tracturul rights in the canal, and it
apparent that Lord Lansdowne did not
regard the United states as embraced
in this class.. . ‘
hese views are strengthened by ths
declaration: made by Lord Lsnsdoa-be
in c nierence Ambassador
chaste regarding tile Treaty. in the lol-
ter oi ‘Ambassador cbosle to Secretary
r date oi oclober 2, ml, the
earnest desire to b or; t
nient, honorable alike to both par-
ties, this long and important.coniro-
ons. in su
nation we can abut
lake care or ourselve .
Nothing could be clearer iron 1
statement than that the prohibitions
against) blockade and sits oi hostility
in the canal were not intended to apply
to the United ststee.- As Lord L n
downe stale
--ii we get into war ulth any nation
we can shut its ships out and take care
oi ourselves."
ii the other rules were not to apply
to the united states, and it must be
clear that they do not. rule 1 c:in'rii7t
be bold applicable without violating
riery prim-lDle oi construction.
in Ambassador choatea note to sco-
: oi August is.
Lord Lans-
co
its ships out and
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tailing pressures to protect ins Canal at
a when we are engaged in vial";
that "contingcncics may or non it
blight be oi supreme importance to the
United slates that they should be iree
“the neces d. I cours
right of the United States to interfere
temporarily with ma iree use oi the
nsl by the shipping oi another
Power."
“ALL XATIO '
DOES NOT 1.’l'CLL'DE
U. 8.
Thai the words. "all nations," as used
In Secilon I of Article 3 did not em-
brace the United Slain: is again mule
In the first note Am-
oasssdor clloste said:
‘"Lord Laneaowne claims to desire
only that the other nations. llarllng wild
nothing. should not s on s better
ing with respect to the Canal than Great
with so much, and
I. be 1) mid by these
stringent rules at neutrality while the
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others are not so bound."
well, the other nations that bariwitb
nothing are not on a e er iooting tbsp
Great Britain. we are treating them
all alike. but England now changes her
posiiion
in the note oi August ‘:0, llml. Am-
bsssador chortc said. reierrlng to a con-
icrence wills Lord Pauncsiole on the
previous da . , , - - ,
‘I went over with bun iuliy the two
noinla which l and discussed wllb Lord
Lansdowne and in my answer so you.
He recognized the iull iorcs oi what i
had to say as to L e inexpcdicncy oi
inserting the words. "which a all agree"
and so agreeing" in clause 1 oi Article
3. alter the striking out by use some
- oi Article 3 a Hay-Pnunceiote
Trcaiy He should emphatically hvnr
ornltti
tween’ the rights oi the United states
and His permission granted in other
nations In use the Canal on terms in!
equality to be imposed ivy the United
ates.
THE TREAT)’ WITH COLOMBIA.
in the proposed Treaty with Colum
known as the Hay-Herran Treaty,
1903, which was ncgotiaicd by secre-
ry Hay. vessels, troops and munitions
of war of C
in
to
Root. a like provision was insane
proposal to exempt Colombia‘: xllllls was
called to the attention oi the British
speaking oi the bonding Colombian
Treaty:
said ll was their duty to protest
against any irlcnuilllty in the treatment
accorded tore gn nations in the use or
the Canal. and that Columbia was now
as much u iorcign
noted that I
trained in the Treaty I‘
lied in 1904 and acquiesced in hy the
British Government ior many years.
Not until the second note of protest re-
garding the exemption under the Pan-
ama Canal Act of l9l2 did the British
Government inlirilale Illat the exemp-
0 mania in 1904 tollsliitlled a
violation oi our obllsaiioas The pond-
ing Colombia Treaty contains
11 the British conten-
sno which must bear tba burden oi
rnainisining it and dricnding its nen.
trailty. '
PRESIDENT TAr'T's TESTIMONY.
-rbsi the United sister is not cor-
braved lb inc expression “all nailons,"
s
the deliberate judglncui llrnnolull-ed by
nil
r C. Knox,
December 2i, lsii. Presllenl Tail
said:
“I am very connrient that the rnlierl
stslss has the power to relieve irom the
payment oi T is any but oi our ship
ping that Congresl olccnra wise ‘
Vi c on
the Canal tllas our money that built
ships
olnrl .
oi subsld
life of many Governments
ingjthclr own men so so
well cslablished in general that a auto
y equal to the Tolls, tn equivalent
remission oi Toll, cannot be hel
E
e made by the President would doubt-
less disclose how great a burden oi Tolls
the codalwlee trade between tha Al mic
and l s rscilic coast could bear with-
out przvenllng its uceiulness in rom-
pelitica with the transcontinental r
roads. One oi the cruel reasons ior
building the Canal was to set up this
competition and to bring lbs two shares
close together as a prsriical irlda prop
m. it may he that the Tolls will have
to be wholly reolittcd.--‘
SENATOR LDDGE‘S ADMISSION.
Senator Lodge. in a speech deiivsreri
in the Senate on April 9. lsii. said:
‘I was a member o e oroign no
lations committee oi the senate which
mendn1enLs to the ills!
i had some
concluding the orgoliario s I'hlL
suited in e second l-layrauncciotc
Treaty. and l was iamlliar with the die-
cuselona
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all the proceedinga I'll
sulted in the ratification of (halite
Hay-Pauncclole Treaty. I
llew lhcn that under the term: of the
Trzaly of November II, 190), Ill? United
Staten was It liberty to exempt IL! and
emnrnerce (rain the payment
of roll. it It row in lo do In. and l yaizd
lisalrihl. lbe Bard mendnlenl. which
lllnhlu lhls explicit, because I
inmighl ll. needless. ‘ ‘ ‘ The opin-
ion uhirh l iormrd in I901 as to our‘
rights under the Treaty I have never
Changtd. i hold it now as I did 13
re’
cars ago.“
.sEi‘m:TAIiiEs HAY AND 0I.Kl-Jr.
Selretary H in his statement to
the senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
illa second Ha -
oi the Trtsty is‘
that it itlle Canal) is to be exillleively]
the property oi the United states. and
is to ho managed, conirollcd. a ii de-
iands-.l b it ' ' ‘ The United
slates alone is lha splc owocr oi the
3 I 1-iircly Anlerlran enter-
prlsr adopt. and nrcscllbca um rules by
whlln the u e or the Canal shall be
regulated,
r:v-secretary olucyu in his address
read beiore ire Innuul rnrelirnr oi the
American society or international Law,‘
in l"l'adllingtpn. D. C. on April 2;. 1913.
as .
“The single point is. are the words
“all rlzilimls" ll2<‘ll1fl": or exclusive or
it seems lllmtull to
Auriozsfully (nl1li> that the United
Sialc lntludcrl.
“in The eaty is a contract I:
r
whi:h the Dra5)l'lnidr of I (‘anal llxds
the [nine upon which it grants me use
oi the canal to us customer .
“l was needed ior that purpose
only: it Was not needed to iii the tennis‘
upon Whlc the ‘nil Later and la
1: trual-sbouldl
by cus-
tnmers. the Ynllti! Slates looked upnu
liselr as one oi the customers.
“in we ds ‘under construc-
tion’ are in substance the iirsl oi’ a set
1 six nllea sdob ed '
Sixlea as the basin oi the neutralization
oi the Canal. But the other ll 2 cer-
tainly apply only to parties other than
the United states. su that there is the
strongest reason for holding that the
first or them is to be given a like appli-
.
(I .
satilsd lhat a stale so
re not allacenlibla oi any other
reasonable consiruriion. ii the terms
are vague and pi rloubtiul import. the
presunlpilon is against the stat s in-
tentlou to part with or abridge ils1urls-
dictional or property rights. ‘ '
in short, the Trcziy II an instrument
by which use proprietor or a canal iixes
national Law in the Lil!
bridge.
law. imtel l a
"II. in
cluded under the uclt condition
llc stab bus," , '
ily
as
I which
if mile
the action oi Great Britain
I P
oi’ Great Britain
l
r
ior its protectio
i
Treaty bad bsrn construct
Slllel. under the
law does not permit
I.-zlms oi use to its cu
is an utter ace oi
evidence that tho united states regarded
itseii as one oi lis in orders."
With our legal and moral rishis so-
aell sualaineii now can we jllsliiy (heir
abandonment to a nsilon co:lrel'nl.-lg
which Pie ident lxuclrsnan said in his
message o l 57: .
"Since the origin or the izorcrnment
vie have been employed ncgolisrlng
Trcailas niih that Power. and illici-
wsrds discussing their true lnlcnl and
mcanlrig."
TREATIES nos"? APPLY TO
A.l'i:c:u coxoi-rio.xs.
)'0lAi‘ Ilitnilall
lo lily-
I ply in (‘l
ibereiora iha Parunla Canal is n
dc c provisions oi lils‘lla
adopted ill 130], that it was "In ()iDm‘ll-
ilcll of both nallolu lhat the Canal
would ui orc gn sail. and
that lor the protection or the Canal it
was dlsilncily stipulated that the rights
v subsequent gs
oi the territory over w lo a r can
was constructed, L o., change oi sove-
reignly siler its construction.
A loss lime as wall as ior so years
or ill: crlnlcnlnlaiad
through the rispu
wo years ailer tbc adoption or this
Treaty. we catered into a Trcaty with
the Republic or Panama whereby
cmilerrerl upon lbs united states is
perpeluiiy all the rights oi sovereignty
bosscsscd by the Rtlmbllc oi ransrns
over this stretch oi land oi in milcs
iroru ocean to oce n The doclrlne is
well established in international law
that all Truly sngagemenls are neces-
B ECHQYII under-
o
andlrlg (hat they shall cease Io be u
n I: dltlani upon
whit?! they were executed are use
Hall, well-r gnlze
"nellh:r.Dll'iy to a Treaty can make its
binding aiicci oencndcnt It will upaal
lbs time of Ila conclusion is zsaenllally
altered."
l Mr. Oppenheimer. Professor of inter-
‘ verilly of Chm-
his slant on international
h It
an almost universal lei-usnlced
may a o uri. kind as lo Justify a
party in pour a an aunollllnblc
Tre-sly The vast majority oi panni-
the members or the amily ops.
agree that I mile are con-
rcbus
Hannls T ylor. the American author-
nri international law, eialcl tbs ruls
iollovl
lzalc are the conditions oi in-
"So un
terllnlionai existence and so diilicult
it in cniorce a contract bet-i-acn slates
alter‘ the state
was iouoded has substantially changed,
a acts upon which
b
they were executed are essential-
red."
okcd til
auntelote, the iolnl author of the Hay-
Paunccioie Tretl)'v hated the Position
as follovls:
some British
the
Powers. Great ot
bound by me neutrality nroilsloua
adopted, an isr as they snorted E
b-rouse it was s reco n rinclple oi
ntcrnaiional law lbat trcaiira are only
operative so long as the basic or run-
damenial oondliions upon which they
are hstrd continue. Incl that in the event
or A lundernenlal change, such xs a
a parly t
could llonorably contend that ‘ was in.
opcvdirce as to Mr nr.-lrly acquired ten.
n
'v.
This contention oi Lord Pauaceiotc
was upheld by the British Government
and England llrdceeded in fortify her
newly acquired territory and continued
the contrary. In or second note at
protest Great Britain‘ reluctantly con-
ceded I.hIl-
"pow that lbs United sures has become
lb: practical sovereign 01 lb: Canal His
ment do not Ilueltion
e belligerent rights
Canal contemplated by the
ed ' lied
plarelln the miidllions in rcicrcncc to
Treaty is made lniernalinnsl
lloguisbcd. The Treaty must stand or
(all as a whole. under the doctrine
reingilized by the British Government
i new-
rvesly i no id be a Ciulal built
across any other vllrt of the mail of the
United Stairs.
AMERICAN SOFEREIGNTY
t disputed
that when the
It in ii
Treaty was ncgotlatcd both Governments
rsauuled that the Clnal liquid be can-
ilrui-ied on hliell icrrilriry
the soil oi the rolled sietc .
our sovereignty over the territory in
g admitted, it must iollow
and not on
s
canab actually construcied is lppnrgnt
irom lhe circumstance that b our
Treaty with p a ma we 2 br s y ..l.
cilinl vessels oi the Republic oi psnsmg
the paylntril oi Tolls pa sing
through in canal, notwllhsuading ins
lisy-Pauncalols pro slons II to the
‘.2
rs
ri
nl l submit amply
Mr. Cheat! and Lord Landdnwnd were
ronrllllon of its obligatory force It lag
(To Be Coriziudcd Kczt Wgei.)