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Vol. XIII, No, 24. Whole No, 665;
BOGUS SCHEME OF HOME RULE, WITH MOST OF =
ULSTER EXCLUDED AND THE PRESENT ROTTEN AND
DISCREDITED “IRISH PARTY” T0 POSE AS A “PARLIA-
MENT,” WITHOUT AN ELECTION, REVIVED TO KEEP
IRELAND QUIET DURING THE PRESENT WAR
Redmond And Carson, The Faithless Leader And The Man Who Threatened Rebellion
And Sought Aid From Germany, Said To Have Agreed On The Plan In England’s
Interest And To Be Trying To Induce Their Followers To Accept It==British Gov-
ernment, Scared By The Rebellion Which Brought The Irish Question To The Front,
Forced To Do Something And, As Usual, Decides On A Fraud---Ireland Demands
Bread And Is Offered A Stone---Total Separation From England Is Ireland’s Only) v
Hope==-No Measure Of Self-Government, Within The Empire, Will Ever Include The
Right To Restore The Ruined Industries Of The Country, Which, Under A Free Na-
tive Goverament, Could Support 25,000,000 Of People And Protect Its Independence.
Mr. York
World's “London correspondent, who
{fs also’ the’ ~ representative of
the ‘Dublin = Freeman, organ
Irish. Parliamentary Party,
the
fs naturally the’ best Informed of all
the. men in the English Capital who
write for American papers, so far as
following ¢: cable Sespatch published tn
last Monday’s
70. SPLIT TeabaxD Ly Tw
Tenpond
authentic source the outline of the sot
tlement fentatt ively agreed on
Sir Ea
ich ‘Carson is to submit to his fol-
lowers at Belfast on. Tuesda}
Provinces and aco for {he | nese Ulster
Counties of Donegal, Cavan and Mon-
eahon, “the remaining six “iste er Coun-
jes to continue under the British Por
Tament until the end of the w
the question of these excluded counties
will be reconsider
eesti STRENGTH.
r that the Nationalists may
irish represen-
tation in the British Parliament remain
durin, present
stren; other words, ihe Nation-
alists while, getting Home Rule’ at
once for five-sixths of Ireland, would be
in exactly the same position after the
war to fight for the remaining sixth as
they are at present.
pursuance of the policy of avoid-
ne general elections during the war,
4s
bell, the
the only Unionists. included in the Dub-
lin Legisiature.
¥ a special clause, the Lord Lieu-
call the
country.
no legislative authority, it is expected
to’prove an important. factor in draw-
ing Ulster into communion with the
Test of the « country...
REUNION.
Carso} ‘ond the other Unionists, rec-
ognizing that Home Rule is inevitable
from . Belfast
state .that
eek
but
chastened attitude, and it is hoped Car-
eee suc eed in talking them over
ont
The atlater Nationalists, for their
Part, are m low any
even the bitterest Orangemen to decide”
to Barow i their lot with the rest of
the fount
settlement be. ratified, it
is Selteved ‘more liberal provision will
Parliament
duced on the financial provistor
that measure by conditions arising out
of the war. :
A STONE, INSTEAD OF BREAD
Of course, the foregoing despatch was
sent-as a feeler to. draw oxpmessions of
Irish opinion in- America.
rebellion has forced the ‘teh ‘Question
once more to the front, and E)
must. make
But, as usual, England offers Ireland a
stone, instead of bread.
proposed settlement will settle
nothing. In addition to the radical
faults of the original “Home Rule” Bill,
which denies to Ireland every attribute
for it
i
5
1
o!
| cludes other — most objection
| able feature—the entrusting to
ni teen and discredited Irish
Parliam that'has betrayed
reland ‘er English Jobs with such gov-
nm powers ae the contemptible
tte Bin grants: These mer
were
elected several years eo before the
Jesus which now confront Ireland had
e to the front. ave since
tot the confidence
pudiated Redmo:
land and nis claim of a \ Tight to speak
for Irelan moni Tight when
he sald, in attacking ther rebel leaders
in the Enemy’s. Parliament, that the
rebellion was as much a revolt against
the “Irish Party” as against England.
It it was a revolt against the
whole “rotten political syste which
grew up un Party’s mi ment,
corrupted the "bite life of the country,
freedom of speech and dis-
THE STOLUSION OF ULSTER.
But the exclusion of er, or @ny
part of. it, from the authority 0 of the
puny little legislature in Dublin is an
insult to the Irish people.
would
lines—the areas to
those which contain a majority
at is a monstrous thing to
this Twentieth Centu ory to ase
the political Uivisions of a comntry on
8 bellefs of the fohabitante,
robbing both with
nd 0
perpetual
hostile sections and incr
tarian bitterness tenfold.
by dividing roland into two
asing the sec-
NEW YORK, JUNE 10, 1916.
jut, aside from this diabolical fea-
& Natton, one and indivisible, and any
an who consents to its division is a
traitor to hie c country,
ORANGEMEN WOULD ACCEPT TN-
EPEN] (DENCE.
ition of the "majority" of
tee Protestants to Home Rule fs en-
tirely due *° the English connection.
TI ere many Natfonalists among
them. Several of the imprisoned in-
whole sit uatlon gould be at onc
changed.
narrowness and. religious ‘Steotry
latter being wholly due to an ab td
fear of the Pope—the Northern Orange-
men are hard-headed, practical fellows.
Their business, thelr Interests and
their associations are an
make the new connections necessary to
take care of their interests—which
y would speedily find were in no
danger at all.
SEPARATION THE ONLY SOnPTION.
Separation from England is the on
practical solution of the
be
The talk about Ireland being unable to
lve as. an indepei ion is the
sheerest nonsense; and the talk of Ire-
the next door neigh-
deen made weak and poor by tne de-
‘New
berate policy of England. and
land has grown
because of
sources er on German
ines to make her a powerful Nation,
able to defend her own shores and hi
interests abroad as well as any nation
that exists t 4 separation
m England would reduce England to
the position of a third cl ‘owel
England's righ! would be cut off
m would b
and her ability to command the s
which is the chief source of her power
—wou ni
IRELAND COULD FEED 25,000,000.
In 1846 Ireland had more than 8,500,-
000 people, . The great Famine of 1847
‘was an English-nade famine. It was
not a famine of food, but a famine of
of the poorer people. because
cronomic conditions acre pro-
ced by English rule. has hever
been denied that Ireland i 1846 and
ae pirogue enough of food—cattle,
pigs, wheat, oats, barley and
vesetatonto feed double the number
f people then on her soil, But to pay
the exorbitant rents to the Anglo-lrish
landlords—Bngland's garrison in
nd— farmers and cottiers who
produced food enough for 17,000,000 of
People faa to sell it to England. And
then were themselves compelled
to starve ve
lant
of knowledge of polltt-
a3, and ranted about
Tights of Property nd when 2,000,000
of them deen" sent to eternity, the
ndon Times exultingly proclaimed:
“the Irish are gone—gone with a ven:
geanc|
paar NATIVE GOVERNMENT I8
IRELAND'S NEED.
Now, in those days agriculture was
col
So that saying thi
port. 8 population of 25.0 00. 000 is an
‘underestimate, tvalled
fishing grounds watch are now exploit:
ed by foreigner’, and her vast indus-
trial resources are practically untouch-
ed, Under the sham Home Rule gov-
ernment Provided by the Act | that is
ie Statute Book— er
that may be—she is protibived. "trom
doing the smallest thing to revive the
industries destroyed by nd, or to
create and foster new nder an
independent Goveroment Treland would
undoubtedly become a thrivi ving hive of
indust i
imerica, in spite of thelr total Teck ot
industrial and technical
home, that they have great
for manufacturing. They
eyes, fineness of touch and 4 utc
With the same opportunities afforded
them at home th
a “they
wheels of industry hum, and Ireland
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(Continued on Page 8.)
Hanson SQUARE GARDEN, SATURDAY EVENING
Every Irish Man and Woman Who is True to Ire~
land Should Attend
rrangements have been fay com-
pleted for the great mass ing
Madison Square Garden on “inte esse
be the largest gathering of Irish people
ever assembled under one, roa
speakers walt oe W. Bourke Cockran,
a J. Piugerala, Bain-
bridge € Colby, Jeretntad A. Lens and
A Berle, of Boston, Sass,
Those who failed to hear the “great
speeces Geltvered by Mr. Cockran and
Mr. Colby at Carneste Hall will now
have a chance to hea
seating capacity ot Madison Square Gar-
many times kreater than that
ot carmente ‘Hall, The committee in
charge has paid spectal attention to the
acoustics and the arrangements made,
the Great Meeting.
will enable every person in the gath-
ering to hear every word, spoken by all
the ees aker!
man Fitzgerald is postpon-
ing hie trip to the St. Louis Convention
ot ibe ablest orators in the United
‘te o bands have been engaged and
ffo1 are ing made to secure very
celebrated singers. Though there is no
al ¢ for admission, boxes are for
sa) Some have already been at
tices ranging from $100 to $250 each.
will be completely deco-
in green, white
Those who want to an to “show be
on. band early.
‘
MNS
GRY
Entered ns second-class matter, Oct. 1, 1903, at the Post Office at
of Mareh 3, 1878.
York, N. Y., under the act of Congress
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LAST BULLETIN ISSUED BY PADRAIC PEARSE
Padraic H. Pearse’s last war bulletin
sued to the Dublin insurgents on
is:
April 28, the day before he surrendered,
Life, @ wo ort
1
d by Irish
abuse a the rebel leaders, “and pleas
ney” for the “misguided”
ia and ile,
Wherever the paper obtained the bul-
letin, it is undoubtedly genuine. It
clears up some important points
which there was some uncertainty. One
ha
concerted uprising ‘all
Pearse’s statement leaves no doubt
it was this countermand!
sued by Eoin MacNeill, which, as John
Dillon said in the House of Commons,
“broke the back of the rebellion,” Sir
Mathew Nathan, in his evidence before
he Royal Commission, also attached
reat importance to it.
EILL'S FATAL ORDER.
me ‘e following paragraph from
Pearse’s statement places the responst-
bility fully on Eoin MacNefll, though,
as in everything that Pearse ever said
or did, it is done charitably and gives
credit for good m
“T am satisfied “iat Wwe should have
Th that we should
“the task of .en-
proclaiming, the
1 is over and he
has been sentenced to penal servitude
for life, so there is no purpose
to be served by withholding facts which
were made puolic in Dublin by the
Rebel Chief while the fighting was still
counter-
rection which had b a
thus enabling the British military au-
thorities to concentrate their whole
force on Dublin.
PRARSE'S LAST BULLETIN.
Following is Pearse’s last bulletin to
the Insurgent Irish Volunteers of Dub-
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE
RISH REPUBLIC,
GENE RAL POST OFFICE, DUBLIN.
28th April, 1916, 9
The Forces. of the
Ir ik ‘Repu,
on
Broclaimed im Dublin
then still being held,
e were confident of their
bility to hold them for a long time.
During the course of yesterday after-
noon and evening the enemy succeeded
a cutting our communications smith o our
other positions in the city, ‘and Head-
quarters is to-day isolate .
The enemy hae durnt. down whole
dlocks of houses, apparently with the
object of giving themselves a clear field
for the play of artillery and field guns
against us. mbarded
during the evening and night by shrap-
nel and machine-gun fire, but without
damage to our position, which
i ot rest stren
re busy completing arrangements
for the fnal defence of Headquarters,
and are determined to hold it while the
buildings last.
desire now, lest I may not hav
opportunity later, to pay homage to the
gallantry of the soldiers of Irish Free-
dom, during he past four
with fire and steel
Mglorious. chapter In the later
history. of Ireland. : Justice. can never
0 their heroism, to their. dis:
On The Day Before The Final Surrender He Informs The Irish Volunteers Of The
Exact Situation And Commends The Sp'endid Work Of His Men, Their Bravery
In Action, Their Cheerful Obedience To Orders And Their Heroic En-
darance—Connolly Comes In For Special fraise—Puts Re-
sponsibility For The Failure Of A General Rising, Which
Would Have Probably Brought Victory, On The Count-
ermand Of The Easter Sunday Parades Issued
By Eoin MacNeill—Not Afraid To Face The
Judgment Of God Or That Of Posterity.
Let me, who have led them into this,
speak, in my own and fn my fellow-
commanders’
4 to come, their
k {hose wre come after
me remember ¢
r days they nave fought, and
tlie ‘inost without cessation,
pute sleep in intervale ot
Aghting, they sung songs of thé
freedom of Treland, No man has com-
plained; no man has asked “why?”
Each individual. has spent self,
f
fight, they nil at least
d to win it, But win it they
will, although they may win it in death.
great
in from many
splendid
f I were to mention names of indi
viduels, oy Ist wor
ald be a long one.
will name only that of Commandant
General Ja: ‘onnolly, ‘commandin,
the Dublin division. He lies wi
but fs still the guiding brain of our
resistance.
If we accomplish no: more than we
the Irish Republic as a
d our ‘arrangements for a simulten-
eous rising of the whole country, with
a combined plan as sound as the Dublin
plan has been proved t
the judgment yr the
judgment of posterity.
‘ (Signed),
P. raAnse, Commandant<General,
commanding in-Chiet of the Army
of the Irish Republic, and Prest-
dent of the provisional Govern-
ment.
TRIBUTE TO IRISH WOMEN.
Red Cross Nurse Says Dublin
Girls Fought With As Much
Bravery As Their Brothers—
Their Marvellous Coolness in
‘ace of Danger—Were the
Chief Despatch Carriers and
They Never Failed Unless Shot
to Death. .
The following account of the part of
Irish women in the
out by the London Central News a1
passed for publication by the Dries
Censor:
The Central News Bee peeekved from
a lady who acted as a Red Cross Nurse
the following graphic story of the part
played by women in the recent revolt
in Du abla
“The Irish Rebellion is remarkable
for one fact not, so far, recognized in
England—namely, the very prominent
part taken in it by Irish women and
sirls.
aster Sunday, which was the
day aret, appointed for the Irish vou
which
id their work with a cool
and reckless courage, unsurpassed by
any man, were in the firing line from
me first to the fast ier of the rebel:
her were en of all ranks,
from titled Tadies to shop sssyatants
and they worked on terms of
equality, caring nothing apparently b but
for the success of the movement.
Many of the women were snipers,
th in the Post Office and in the
Imperial Hotel the present writer, who
was a Red Cross nurse, saw wome:
opties to their gay and unconquerdble
spirit, in the midst of peril and death.
(Continued on Pege &.)
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