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‘ A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH. INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE, AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
Vol. II, No. 24. Whole No. 144.
'. NEW YORK, JUNE-16, 1906.
Entered as second-class matter, Oct. 1, 1903, at the Post Office at
New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
JUSTICE AT LAST TO
COMMODORE BARRY.
ee
The Appropriation for a Monument in Washington
to the Father of the American Navy Passed by
Both Houses of Congress — Text of the Bill.
Called Up by Representative McCleary of
Minnesota— Fine Speech Delivered by
Mr. Brick of Indiana.
se eeaa June, 6,—Irish-Ameri~
\dore Jo ohn Barry, a hero
the Revolutionary
+ The ad been before the public
Re} epresentatives on Monday,
was born in Count;
in of
ington. He m: top, an
on February 22, 1797, President ‘Washington
issuec him, which made
him jer-in-chief of all ti
naval force: Inited States. His
ays been revered by bi
countrym vell
monument ill at last be erected as
to him,
MeCleary. of Minnesota, member
ibrary, called “up, the
id the rules
and pas tie Bh & "80) for the erection 0!
ory 6f Commodore
John . Barry.”
the days when America
w, in
Chappened shat about one
hundred and Sixty-one years ago John B:
opened his wondering eyes in an
hambie. “cote thatched with straw, bes
neath the spreading branches of an
morial rooftree. I can see it nov, unfoldin, a
ceful scene of pastoral beau-
ty, a dreamy lake, the still wide: waters of
t
B88
the ttle home, filled with love and kind-
II the day was work, and when
the dusk came down to mingle with 1
light ‘the man, but not the master, by the
je of a if wife, listened to the song
St the childnood's faughtcr, watched the sun
go out of the dyi
DORN
id this was where Johi
“e WEXFORD.
rry was born,
in the County of Woetord: Syrelan id. No
stars fell on that night to mark
heeded eve courier of fashion her-
alded bis to t ighborhoot
He imply a weld of cot
tune, bor God-1 fearing, | ‘honest
to a modest
tiller of the poi, in the midst of the idyts
of that splendid captain | te Red, White and
Blue and the Green jold are entwined
together
and set a new star in the firmament
in the ferce fires of seven ensanguined
years of heroism, unsur
enfranchisement
average citizen,
1 FATHER OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.
loquent speaker having a
ste of the life and detailed the achiove-
ts of Commodore Barry, concluded a!
| follows:
“And now I have given in a general way,
why I say, Mr. Speaker, that Commodore
John Barry*is the actual father of the
American Navy. His of the
| purest and Brishtest among laxy of
pleiads that swept the sea for shen and
low,
} us. Now, Mr. Speaker, ie us become
as true and aa he was grea!
“He, wit melee fe and god Hike act,
has builded a noble 1, Let us
be it i i
fe istatue we have
vee ed upon it.”
he question was taken; and two-thirds
DECORATING COMMODORE BARRY’S GRAVE.
singh Se ars
ject heat os
Mak
en ae
he ahove cut is a reproduction of a
ho raph taken 0}
mediately after the
&. and B. Association bad placed their an-
nual floral tribute in the shape of an anchor
m=
8
0
Be
S
ig Following is the Bill in the form in which
it passed:
Be It Enacted, Etc., That there stall ee
erectéd in the City of Wastin gton, D. C.,
Commodore John
red to st
Mites asthe by tha Act on ground be:
Tong ing the Gov
ern
, That said state, shall not be
located inthe grounds Capitol or
Library of Cong:
The Speak ies a second demanded?
There was no demand for ond.
CONGRESSMAN BRICK'S vee
Representatiog a ‘Abraham Brick,
South Bend, In: nd. made the following ech
in favor of the Bill:
Mr, S| eaker, the time has at last arrived
to do iustice to brave old Jack Barry and
19 ourselve:
a Barry in
the tomb of Commodore Joh
the cen nf tic Church,
the cemetery of St. Mary’s Catho!
th and a
Fou ce streets, Philadelphia.
Naval Post 400 also pl seed a wreath on the
tomb and fi
On the fete hand. side | are P. J. Hendrick,
Michael
Wexfordmen ;
acl Cullen and
President of
Lacey, Vice: eset Micha
Naval Post 400.
Recording Seer omas
O'Connor, the grand old man of "the society.
erection of
emory of
a ational monument to
whose pre-eminent
the
Services and splendid achievements i
th
he
with a devotion which his
always shown to this liberty-loving Repub-
lic. Tsaa
Thos ba Muaruy,
§% Mou
M.
Commits,
ROW FOR MICHAEL DAVITT.
The “following _tegard to ‘Michael
Davitt was unanimously adopte
fe representatives of
Clev
in
the Unitea
Jo
useful in alleviating the suffering and dis-
tress which centuries of oppression had
caused. he proved himselé ready to suffer
confinement, exile and even death, if neces-
his native land. A
ase he was
‘in the ‘forlorn
foreign
sah ent
refere: e t0 the
triows leader, he ‘founded the Land League,
the. most powerful t widespread or-
ether for the
rom an
in cell was
ss wins
Sout “Aisi i. pleading for
better gondidons for
all hi
DAVITT’S RELATIONS WITH THE FENIANS.
Light on a Subject About Which There Has Been
Much Misrepresentation—The Clan-na-Gael_
Enabled Him to Start the Land League.
,They Were Already Followers of John
Mitchel and James Fintan Lalor—Some
. of His Early Letters.
sketches of Michael Davis life
whic! ny acconany the notices of his death
Jeading Irish daily papers are very
dash a1
inaccurate and the o1
feature is the sympathy expressed with the
dead. mnan ‘and: bis work, Bat this. very
sympathy leads to some of the worst errors
of statem
tis represen ted as coming out of
» of imprisonment a full-fledged
ith Fenianism
nd
oh of us being still ‘full of the impracticable
theories of Fenianism. And so the story
s on until bere in 1897
for us.
meant,
tice man.
just as ‘italy as
oes oh uh ie other. The
short
re ‘exaggerated language
regards his abilities ‘and
as, we believe, a man
is lights, sincerely de-
red the welfare of Ireland. Unfortunate-
le to understand that ta-
Is are as pure as his
di about Davitt’s connection. and
eso ‘with i seni ans at and the
ime the
fed. or rather from
=
cause.
their publication wi po the Shandesers and
mischief-makers to s\
MICHAEL DAVITT’S CAREER,
By Jonn Devoy.
m.
The men whom Davitt met at the meeting
in
ull of good, will
not meet for Irish
yo beyond the bounds One
of prudence,
ish Republic alone could e!
There wae no onposit ion
these resolutions on
member of that body considered that there
whatever to
LEVEL-HEADED AMERICAN NATIONALISTS.
Such conferences as eld its the
ee tel
who had
through a similar experince as bimeelf had
arrived at similar conclus
A “BAD BREAK” IN BR(
few days after the New York lecture,
Davitt delivered another in Brooklyn, at
which an incident occurred whi hows
how far he then was from his later views
mn the Land Question, and how y aiterly di-
han
motherland. Tn ow a gr set
the fact. tha the noble
of ddauntless, scourge, selfsacti-
her
Patrick Ford. Davitt had carefully bre:
e New Y dh
tt
si to
crud n it came to the proposed reme-
dies. It was a mixture of Sharman Craw-
ford's “Tenant Right” and fsaac Butt's
E
v
produce sucl pureinded citizens, such
fearles: sod unselfish patriots as was
Michael Davi
” James P. Mooxey,
DL Murrny,
+S Teaevey,
Joux “Hor
Franc
18 Gate nota,
Committee,
Ireland,
tragedies of
and ni the nea |
a have
pother earth |
to
sien t
flower of g
he chemists of the earth , the searchers
of the mind, not yet fathomed the se
ret and cu reece of ‘the P mmagtificent
thing we call the human heart. Nature al-
ways conceals the d tail oa severywhere Un-
veils the monumental
00D IN MIS -VEINS.
a tis known, no blood of royal
blue coursed the veins of John Barry; it
te
was all
ing
the last hour shall come,
called, Ireland, gerlcem
Barry”; and there by
«| America, clothed with thurel
crowned, with
kindly jealousy,
of rival toi ete
belongs to
And in the glory that en
and liberty
outstretched. hands of
‘ proclaim in the pathos’
“Commodore Jobn Barry
circles the name
| having voted in favor thereof, the rules
were suspended and the Bill was passed.
| THANKS FROM CLEVELAND.
Ohio Congressmen and Senators
“| Who Voted for the Barry Billi—
Sorrow for Michael Davitt.
CLEVELAND, O., June 6,—Representa-
vives of the United Trish Societies of Cleve.
land met at the Hollenden
e
Ray, Sec-
following resolutions in regard
to pacesae of t
mor fly adopted :
Resolved,
jarry Bill was unani-
u atat we, the representatives of
So veland, ten-
Con-
re
r tors, Jo:
s col B. Foraker and Charles Dick, for their
hu sed by
both Houses of Congress authorizing the
WESTCHESTER CLAN-NA-GAELS' RE-
ETS.
Ata meeting of the Clan-na-Gael of West-
chester County, beld Hawthorne Hall,
Sunday, June 10, Henry V.
ing, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The Great and Supreme Ruler
of the Universe has in His infinite ‘wisdom
us and
many years of *imprison-
ment in England for faithful performance
of duty to his country makes it emine
befiting that we record our appreciation of
him; therefo:
Resolved, That the wisdom and ability
which he has exercised ae the aid of 1
ind. of ‘his birth by service, and counsel,
will be held in grateful remembrance.
Resolved, , That the removal of such a life
rom our midst leaves a vacancy and a
shadow that. will be ‘ecoly realized by his
con aud will prov a seri
the present state of affairs in
Resolved, That with deep
reaved celatives of ihe
0
spoken in public and in private during’ bis
in America as a firm believer in the
rei | and policy for which be
Ai
ludson. of
lectures was delivered in Phila-
t 16, 1878, an or-
na-Gael under the di
roll, an Ulster
intimate friend of John
Mitchel. enthusiastic Philadelphia re
porter described D dark man
| AGah sarge, Websterian this
led to his being jocularly cd Webster
and to his occasionally signing that nam
je American Frente
in the Cooper In-
to letters to
thi
s y be overtled “for good by Him
who doeth all things
i Davitt
the committee met that they didnot
gw he had to
the manuscript “reaver, holding it in his
left hand the on
him
was
1
wrong manuscript and was
a bed disadvantage, but
W orld, +h was then
Nationalists, should
ing week it
plicitly th
& the hall Patrick Ford
“the emrance to. the platform
band and said: “I congratulate
eech. Only for it, Td f
(Continued on page 5.)