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A JOURNAL DRVOTED TO THE CAUSE OI‘ IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
M XL, No.y25.‘Wl1ole No. 562.
NEW YORK, JUNE 20, 1914.
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N. v.. undulhn an M Conpul orllrsn-ll ,1. yo.
PRICE FIVE GENTS.‘
work oz organizing to hill the
mo National volunteers in Ireland to
equip ’themseives has been
in made a good start, Boston has done
something. lndianapolis work
Pro-
nsl Committee turn over c n-
ol the National volunteers to him
and shaurlon the non-political character
or the land which has made it so tar a
pest hilccedd, has created a had impres-
t lessened
support the movement in lreland under
ll: present management, As an earnest
or its support the American Committee
scshllng to my Treasurers or the Pro-
rlsiauril committee in Dublin a llrst in-
mlmetlt or sl,noo. ‘This sum comes
mlaly tram Philadelphia, and the com-
lnlltee expects to rollow u rat
lellllllante by 2 succession or drama that
7.
or
ill] lVlLlPD9l'ldel'lCE.
lh: Tdl:Il(!:s day. and It ought 10 be set
:lliins.ln er v rat to
States at the-sarliest‘“l'r"oarr‘r'Ble'
Br the lime H G ulc Airnarcax
readers that
ills snawcr will he. it will be in
lncrlraa dollars, but there should he
to needless delay.
calm AGREEMENT REACHED.
The New York sun in one of its edi-
llnns last Wednesday had a special
illlle ll-om London stating that “Red-
light" tor control of
Vntiollal volunteers and that
omniittee had accepted
ll: proposition that the committee give
‘'3’ lo I
to er-
ihil) is lcnreseniatlves or
merit: Pa the despatchis prnhnhiy
"“l51'9llrcsel'liatlon or some (Ill: 11
mil hetwee the committee the
n and
Full: The cable is obviously inspired.
l’ll.lLADELPHTA Illl THE VAN.
Nationalists of the Quaker City
Start the Work of Raising
Funds for the Irish National
Volunteers - Five Thousand
Dollars for First Inatallilent.
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'1"0nrietor or the olcott Hotel. as
5 secrete .
ll ‘ ""“"iis was held in the new A
...y,e-“C"i'-h. and was attended by rorty
umgiilves oi; rlous societies and
q M r or othen who were ul:i2ltllllat-
ilmhyiy at the Irish organizations.
l... me’ or prominent city omclala
um nded the meeting and showed
by >' Iynlpathy with the move-
tlim-n‘”““lnz down substantial ton-
t commit-
'“ 3Yl'hl7htlly with the move
Ittehd s largo m eung to be
MDVEMENT Til AID VOLUNTEERS SPBEADING
lrincipal Cities Of The United States Forming Committees To Raise Funds
in Arm And Equip The Force In Ireland-Philadelphia Leads The
Way; New York, Indianapolis, Chicago, Bullalo And Other Centres
Follow-First instalment Of A Thousand Pounds Cabled To
Dublin This Week-Most Remarkable Movemenl That ire-
land Has Seen In A Century - Well Managed, Thoroughly
Disciplined, It Has Preserved The Peace In Ulster.
held on Sunday ci'enln!- Gun: 21. at
the Hibernian Hall.
Mr. P. J. Mccmrvey, County President
of the A. 0, Hi, was on hand Ind shv
the movement his hearty co-operation.
A temporary Finance Committed had
been working for [Yin previous ten an)‘:
Patrick 0. clil. rs
counsel encounsins the
to do their duty. ,
Division an, A. 0. l-l., held a meeting
earlier in the day and voted iron. to
purchase iirst-clues rides.
held n spec
in cash
younger men
n
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speeches on the duty of the hour. Vari-
nun allied‘ Divisions of the A. 0. B. have
d d sums in proportion mkthelr
financial condition.
t etlc scene was witnessed in Di-
vision ‘I8. When subscriptions were
d for u lilayn man, Michael Egan.
d athlete
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told by his phystvlan that he has only
a short time to live. walked to the desk
and out down to dollar hill. any lid: "
to put arms
1 '1 ,u;ml,.l‘l3rhdu.liicof the men in the gap at
t. u,
e earliest possible morocoi
The ladies oi Philadelphia are aoaue
to their lluty. as well as the men, and
a large number hdvd made handsome
contributions and are circulating sup
scriptioo curds among their friends to
dwell the tuna. The motto seems to he:
PURCHASE A RIFLE, and any one who
declines to do so is looked on with ads
picion. 9 names at the sulrscrihera
will he rorwarded for next week's issue.
foam
NRW YORK MAKES A START
Committee Organized and System-
atio Collection Arranged For.
A be cull or the American Provi-
slollal Committee I crowded and most
representstive meeting was held at the
lrish-American ’Athlctlc ciuh. loo E.
Slxtleetli street, on Saturday evening
t for the purpose oi (arming
I l Ne York
mmittee .10 raise
as to or .
Committee
avonlent irom its inception and
hrought into exlsteoue a citizen army or
over 100,000 men. it was pointed out
that the very existence or this magnln-
cent v nntcer even though-
through the treachery or the Liheral
Government. it was uhie only to secure
ve
and brought the old Hghting spirit back
to Irelnnd
The action or Mr. John Redmond In
attacking the men who had made such
a remurliuble record and delnundlns that
they hand over cont “'90 W‘
done their best to prevent the success
or the volunteer naavement. so that they
ror. it was in .
Dnhlin Provisional committee wsre sev-
eral loyal supporters or liir. Redmond.
that nothing whatever had been done
or the committee or the under
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made that the National Guard or
e turned over to the contra o
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llrely tree from interfered-:e (min or in
nollrir-al movenlvnts.
Mier a lull and tree discussion it was
run responds in
pool. for the purpose oi‘ amllng the
tionnl Volunteer A m
and those in
rl the work
or canvassing and collecting will begin
at once. -
Til Executive committee heldl a
meeting on Tuesday evening llntl adapt-
ed the drart of ll elnular, and made
considerable progress in mapping out
its work. a General Culllrlllttce will
mect again this (Saturday) evening at
tho lrlsh-American Athletic Club and
will decide among other thmgs to hold
regular weekly meetings.
REDMON D DECLARES WAR:
Not on tlio“i3rit.isl1 Government.
Which Is Plotting to Dismem-
ller Ireland, but on the Provi-
lilollal Committee of the Na.-
tiollol Volunteers, Which Has
Provided Ireland With an Army
of Defence and Prepared the
Way for a Union of Orange and
Green-A. Mast Unpntriotiu
rind Treaollerous Ant.
Vnrlolls versions of Mr. John Reid-
l1Ioni‘l's Declaration of ‘Var on [be Fro-
vlslunal Committee 0! tn? lrioh Nae
llnnll Volunteer Z e in who have
done the but work for Ir?laVId.l.T1at“!V!?‘
lsiled
g of hostilities
war is in all-the Verslorlli. As
mhers ot the committee, are
ialtllrul iollowerd or Mr. Radntol-id and
cm,
the United Irish League, and an the
hostile to the Party. it is
Redmond's nlolivna on any
other theory than that he is acting as
the instrument of the Brllihh Govern-
reavhcd a strength of over hiuloo men
end were rapidly reaching douhlu that
number without any help, or even a
friendly word, from fill‘. Redmond. and
they had gcrupulously refrained Train in‘
Tliat
a Committee
had pl’uCiIlmBd‘lhlt t were
open to ll-lahlnen, ll-respective or
creed or politics, and the young men oi
Ireland rushed to the ranks in unenl-
mous approval at that nan-partlzen pru-
Proteslurlls. I! well as Calh-
lriah Lehsuers. Hiber-
nlaua, slnn I-‘einers and Advanced Xa-
tlonullsln touched elbows, target their
dllteroncea and recognized that they had
a common country to defend. The
Split.
and the good orient on the orange Vol-
unteers wad di (2.
lnhtcdli or linstenlng Civil wnr,.the
advent or t National volunteers and
the admirable tact and Jndglurnt shown
gaping wounds that
healed. They demonstrated that, with-
out the British army. whose nmreni had
refusmi to ohcy orders. Nationalist ire
knowledge that the odlcera or the harm)’
would relusa to rn v against them.
could not he accomplished. Every man
with any military
roI:rlpllSl:i-
d it is I servlre lhlt will
on acknowledged when the h
the time comes lo be written or
out. They were organized in do homo
thing that could nol. he done. they hm
tween lllem r-nulrl or e at a settlement
or the lrlsh Qllesilon. lrcording in lhq
interests and the ide f the
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and the way in
e nollliclllnrr. out the Volunteers have
hreoarcd the wa .
r rising to the occasion nnll
presented him, liir. Redmond rlrollusva
to groasn lllt: National Volunteers, it
they will not consent to he turned into
a partlzon political rnavlilne and give
up their splendid pl-ogramnle or uuitiux
the manhood or Ireland in a xutlonol
whose services will a at the
ever Irish Gnvornmcnt
may be established in Dublin. He rll-o-
poses to slllit them into two rival true.-an
Ive tlla unite Cursonited an nilv
vantage which will destroy all the good
wurlr the National vniunl have
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onds ncllon is prmed by his illlma.
lunl The best ierslon of it is e
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Frets
d in the rnlloulng Canadian
despalvll. uhlrh is taken from the To-
ronto moor:
l'.'r.luhn Redmond.
ears. a ma-
jorlty nr whom. he asserts, are no: null-
!'MIl’LEl.SoS5<lBatvT1'1FirPlY!,V. ,
Alttlmigll the Provisional Committee,
at a meet
Party should be added to the tommlttec
in cnnir .
A meeting or the Irish Nationalists
dinrusded the lilutte in tho H
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Commons this alter
“nmourlLa lo a rorusnl to accept my ur-
fer or to-apt>ratioll."
Pointing out that the committee orig
llnlly was a-aclr-constituted body, liir.
Redmond Drori-eds '
"I am il'lIOYlllP.Ll on good authority
that a majority or them are not sup
lmrtcrs or the irish Party. while or the
party Ind its Policy. is n cnrldl
tlon ol zhinlsil which nlnlnly cannot con-
tinue."
Declaring that the rank and tile and
the rospouallrlo leaders or the Irish peo-
ple Ire enlltlcd lo demand aonie guaran-
tee that an attempt shall not he made
in the name oi the mall Volunteers to
dictate the policy a! the National Pnrt
Mr. Redmond tlnds the best guarantee
in to e the nrcselme an the gov
ernln: bad! of men of proved judgment
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era of the Irish Party in the Volunteers
to at once organize ollnty mltteos
quite indelwndnnt oi’ the Dublin Prowl-
Ii0I1Il committee, and to maintain an
lnderrehdrnt county government or the
Volunteer movement ilnlll it is nosdlbld
to elect a governing body which shall
have the full ronlldence oi the country.“
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WORK FOR REDMOND TO DO
Since the Psrllamer-liar‘y Party. pow.
ing to public, opinion. has given its 31)-
prnvnl to the xstlonal volunteers there
ls:
In the Dublin
lrldcnrndcltt 0! June the lnllotlng
lctlcr aoliodred; '
sir-it would seem now that when the
Plrlllmwntary Party have colIdestend-
ed to tolerate the Volunteer movement
Ireland. ‘
ilavlnl; checkmnted the csrsnnite
lender who were only playing A gum
or uglisli politics
iconttmted an Peat 5.)
WONDERFUL NATIIJNAL REVIVAL IN IRELAND
jag?
Sudden And Spontaneous Change in Popular Feeling Shown By The Progress
Of The ,lrisll Volunteers-Probably l50,000 Men Now Enrolled, But
Great Difficulty Is To Get Arms-Efforts To Turn The Movement
lnia Partizan Political Llnos, If Sllccessfu‘, Would Destroy Its
Usefulness And Efficiency‘-Strong Factor In The Decision
01 The Ulster Problem And The Fate 0fThe Home
Rule Bill-Agricultural Credit In Ireland.
(Snecial to ‘rue (‘mule Aunucsy.)
UL'Bl.lN. June o.7Tne situlllon in
lr-elnnd grows in latcmt dolly, hat a
[ow monlns ago the rollritry wn ups-
lhellc and dependent upon the decision
of tile English Liberal Government. A
derent o Home ll Elli Iecl-lied
t
llrollilhle and likely to he 1 lowed by
a collapse or all National reeling and
or every xotlonsi hope. Today, thanks
to re irlen volunteers. ho tar rrom he
lug n Iny danger or o Nullorlhl col-
lapse, lroland is undergoing one or the
t move
ment hcen that all tile wloeacres who
svolied at it when it -as i
now srurrying into it and protecting
tllat thoy.were lo fxvor or it all along.
w days ago the [run rum. a
paper which is certainly not a purtizl-in
or the rnoverueul. estimated its‘ strength
M. l:a,ooo men, Inil ullrrlltted that it
was growing at the rate rf many thou-
sands a weolr. i do not lhlnk that this
rurrrrlrcr ir in any dvnse an ovcrcs
run though it is not possible. owing to
(he rapidity or its sroath, to set exact
nguree as to t c riumhcr or men enroll-
cd. ii is (alriy sale to slay that line lrlsn
l pluolecr lorre has robzhly 15,000 men
actually under military training It this
present momvnt. Almost every young
n the national side in t
llind ‘Ulster.
rlvline T1
. ve been
made to use ins volilrrtca-rs (or local or
rd som- places atxem
central committee. and throughout. the
many hundreds or Voilnlioor comnuliiel
it Is now rully recognized that the vol
urllscr lorce must he s r. part and
xallooal Delcrlce Force. recognizing no
rally divisions betweori irisnl-hen and
recognizing ho interests sura those that
pertain to the whole lrish Nation. -The
ccrllral committee has again Ind Ignin
emphasized a broad National basis
or the movement. and it is upon that
lrrond National hash? being accepted and
adhered to in the tulur-. u it ha been
up till now. that the hall value and use-
rulncas or the volunlu-r Force depends.
The young men or ircland. to [he
number or about 150,000 are now helng
trained nnd dldclnilrlr-ul e great
problem that conlronts the central Com-
m ow to get thcm armed. The
importation or s n lr
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a
one rides tor sale here could dispose of
them inside of it and there would
still he a demand (or more. The individ-
ual i‘alunteers can sml would buy arms
ll‘ arrnn word a nun lo.
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Ad for the Home Rule Bill, I few
weeks In Sir Eliwnrli Carson was vir-
tually in n vosltlon to dictate Lcrms to
Bill the Irish Volun-
n and
ul tomes.
Mint: -in
of the country. Th
peo .
ganlzatipns the people will insist upon
l-einli heard.
The members or the lrlsh Parliamen-
loritr. however. have respected thenon-
i
have nut had the sense to taint this line
no hole to deduct the volunteer
movrinvnt rrom the line: upon Iltlvh
s Alarted.
The (‘orunilsslon which rem-llly re
rbed on the 0! Agricultural
Credit in ireland has published an im-
nse o lunblc material
tlorl. lie or vllill impor-
tanco to the roaperlty or Ireland, and
that more than r a a la when
Nlariullt pr etary has Just onca es
lubllollll The rt s can clrnrly
that [he means I! P795911! avallxltle T0!‘
the 5m inrmers lo got nrlvurucs or
mom-y are cam extremal)’
and detrimental to lhc commun-
vicious
il.v. The money lender
n
orglrllrllliau in the country willing and
able in on line Vi . T e whole aumeaa
out by the man Agri-
tulturrll Drgunizdtien Sari , it is not
unlikely that it was to secure mum such
tlon that‘ the nepal-tm
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from lrloiher Golerrlln
tor the carrying out at this very we.-g,
HULMER i-lausox,
IRISH REBUKE BRYAN.
Secretary of State Told He Is Not
Wanted at Irish Day Reunion
in Pittsburgh.
“'.ASl<llNGTO.V. June . am.
the Administration Ind
nounccd that lncy cared to hear helm‘:
rrom President lrllsna nor any promos.-
oi’ his omclal iamlls
The Irish societies had arranged to
hold a hlg rally at Kennywood Park, in
Pittsburgh. Three w
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r lily member at his Cnbintvl. but
ll suggestions, and n Repllbllcau.
senator cummias. or rows, as. ....,n,,
to address the gathering. .