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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
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Yo). XIIL, No. 32, Whole No. 673. at
NEW YORK, AUGUST 5, 1916, | ere
second-ciaxs matter, Oct. 1, £503. at the Post Office at
IN. Ya under the nct of Congress of March $, 167%
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
U.S. SENATEMAKES PLEA FORIRISH PRISONERS :
After Remarkabie Debate, in Which the Right of Ireland to Freedom and to the Sym-
pathy of the American People Is Forcitty and Eloquently Stated, Resolution Is
Passed Instructing the President to Ask the British Government for Leaiency in os
Senator Martine Quotes George Washingtoa’s Many
Expressions of Approval of Ireland’s Struggle for Freedom and Gratitude for Irish tor
“Mr. Phelan of California Justifies the Right to Revolt and in
Aid in the Revolution:
Its Treatmeit ef Irish Rebel
Cites Nany Historic American Precedents. to Justify the Action-- Points Out How
England Discriminated Between Ulster Rebels and Army Chiefs Plotting Against ce
Home Rule and the Men Who Fought for irish Freedom in Dublin During Faster
Week
WASHINGTON, July 29—By a vote
of {6 to 19 the Senate to-day adopted a
resotion Airecting President Wilson
to transmit to the British Government
an exresion ot Boos ‘that: it w
erciee ‘the treatment of
ish raat Prisoners
Meny the . Senators‘ urged . a
strony more ite expression
of the sympathy of the Senate wi
hate
of New Jersey breath-
@ the 3} oirit of Uberty:and true Amer-
anism,
ARTI QUOTES, WASHINGTON,
Senator, Martine said in part:
God know: heart is in this case.
According to the latest report, it is de-| ator
creed that this unfortunate man is to
day. of August,
than the one I have read. .The address
was signed by the immortal John Hi
jated Philadel-
1778:
n had the courage of thoir
convictions. Then. it wa ques-
tion how the British Parilament would
feel, The Continental Congress were
sxprescing thetr sentiments of buman-
y and of justice.
NATOR PitBuax’s GREAT
Phelan said ee {had the fionor
ot ubmitting one of the resolutions to
te, I was naturally interested
ia the action of the Committee on For-
eign Relations; ani ver uch
surprised to hear that out of the mem-
thi
(ur. » Pittman),
and enator from New’ York
now 50 ¢l hand and I'shudder at} Q-Gorman) dissented from the insjority
the very tho My efforts have been| report which recommended that no ac-
Arce tovara ‘seopplog this ‘crdel and ton be taken on the subject matter by
but ¥ step t
im : a not, account for it in)
me isin has beon ‘et’ with tha: accom that they
mentary rebut sad technical objection, t informed elther of the pur.
leaving my efforts over and/ nose of the resolution or-of the rece:
jeven for woke, “antil the fatal hour 1s from the earliest day:
neat at hand, ‘and
| smth,
tha the ‘spi
van ‘today! »
of what our Washin, gton said, think ‘o!
what our Washington, did, think of his
ireland, ‘and
feel we must do
Sir Edward’ Newenham as follows:
“Moun t Vernon, uy 20, 1788,
“To air Eaword New
reland were
690 miles ‘farther “aistone from Britain
the case with respect to the former
‘would be speedily and matertally chang-
ea joe the better.
1 hav we the honor to e, etc.,
WASHINGTON.”
Then, as vthoving a mee
thy with Tran, asm teh we
e tho ‘folowing kt
igton
Mount Vernon, Jemuery 20, 1784.
"To the Yankee
Storrs, ‘County ‘Tyrone, Ire
nd.
is with unfeigned
filstaction that r race your congratu-
Jetion on the e happy and glorious
Tevol ution,
“tt in the
a new source of feli-
citation to-all who | respect the interests
oft humanit;
“l have the *ponor to be, with due
connderatioe
* “Gronce Wasntnaton.”
he writes:
Uberty
in all lands—be strong in hope!
Your cause is identical with vine, You| py,
‘Te calumnlated fn your day; rv wa 3 mis-
reeented, by the loyalists of my day.
i Had I failed, the "yeaftold
ola be my doom. But
mes pay me honor. Hed I failed, I
Mould have deserved the same honor. I
nana my cause when yictory
a fed. Im that I merited success.
You must act likewise.
“WASHINGTON.”
He had the courage of his tnonghtss
ma ‘the courage to express his 8;
IR I presented to the Senate and
ae hare printed in the Record an
the © Continental Congress to
Tish Pevten ent fa I
acte from it
ae stnpathize meh you in youl
thegsS_ and are ple eased ve find tht
tu design of subjugati » has pe
waded the Adm! inletration: 40 alspense
¢ Ireland some vagrant rays of minis
fal sunshine.
Tatoughout the addrets there are ex-
even stronger
Prettions sof sympathy.
irtt - it pre-
Oh, . Mr. president, think t
course of our srocegetut a1
gain
“ Ther
mee of telona—Champons of | The
have Seem established tn
ns by the Congress; or pos
been intimated, they fear
gages out attention? It is simply the
express! sympathy, in a broad way
—depar' ag, from the language of the
Feotion ith the aspirations of thi
ft another country for berty,
tor autonomous government;
this particular» connte, Ireland, that
struggle has Ing on for a very
ber of years, and therefore
who recently en-
ged England was
engaged in a foreign war. If I recol-
ject aright, she was engaged in trying
to suppress the independence of the
United States; and the Irish, taking a
the other day, rose
finally established in Dublin a Parlta-
ment, Ww ‘onsisted of 300 members
during, watch tim
ship men as Heni
cnacted Togislation which led to the 6
tension of Irish commerce and the pro-
jotion
factures; and it was so eminent & site
cess that this same British Government
at the end of elghteen years plotted t
destroy it.
re was no revolution to put down.
e
2
4
2
pat!
Trish. nationality as expressed’ in @
focal Jegisiative body and indertook its
0 excuse whatev!
domestic tumult; there were no threats
against England, ' It was simply, in an
orderly way, pursuing its owe Proper
| interest, as expressed by its legisla.
ve body in awe, just as 0 ur American
tates are doing every di
In order, however, to "gestroy that
Parliament England. resorted to
thods of Walpole, ands as told by sit
in “Histo
titles. And so this Parliament was le:
“|quiring. thelr cherished and
it’ must have led them to| t
of Irish industries and manu-|M
at] a)
d | when
sign State, e
All True Americans Must Recoguize the Right to Fight for Liberty. °
to dissolve itself, and, as Lord Byron
paid, that celebrated “Act of Union,” so-
called, was simply the uaton of the
shark with its vic cm. .
Coming down hastily to “ne present
day, the present Government of Eng:
squith, promised
ven a local legis.
Inve body, What apn ened? At that
ery time, when the nati on | was frembl
Ing in the balan
peace, the men or | ‘the North of I Treland.
under Carso » incites
mutiny amo! ops, and Gener:
of the line aid down their batons, in-
subordinate; and hence ‘the © British
farliament | hesitated, and finally de-
cided no’ int at that
to reprobate treason under « such‘ cir-
cumstances, the” men of " Uister—
ate ea
thin. the covstitution of ace
promis
rights; ‘and that
this recent revolution. .It was appare:
that no of accomplishing
anything except by violence. That‘ is
govern-
ote. There is
no excuse for treason, as there is no
excuse for violence, because within the
Constitution we can acquire’ whatever| when
benefits we may desire.
1 do not belleve that the people ‘of
Ireland a ngland, whether
to
in|in the North or im the South, and I find
much paliiation for their, ‘course. It
has been said by a piilesopher hat
liberty is“ impossible without ier,
order is impossible without eovernment
s| and. governmen any worthy sense
of the term is Tpossible without a me
ea conviction on the pi he
je of its legitimacy and. “nein obliga.
ton in conscience to obey it:
opinion of tin authority.
Mr. Seward, Secretary of Stat
dressing Mr. Adams, the minister to
England, December 9, 1867, satd:
“The judgment of mankind is that in
are
es and whi
to popular sympathy capital exe-
cutions of indivi ines who fall withi1
he power of the Government are un-
wise ae often njusk Such severity,
acticed pon a citizen ore on
enlisting fee Hines of nationality md pa-
triot! The soundness of
this *Srinel le is quite easily under-
stood ater the revolutionary movement
destruction, having m
outside of the fact that I have stated.
Ireland was at peace. ere was no/is
wn Stesident, we are in the midst of
autte easily recognized after the revolle ju
ary movement is ended, 1s quit
ie goes on to sa;
“it is Gimeutt to accept the truth in
ed| up thetr lives.for a cause which is dear
ricans, ’.*" .
| willing to lead an almost
{any rights for
a
between Greece an:
un-] Webste!
at the same time obtained, through the
wise counsels of Sir Frederick Bruce
nd the Gove vernor-General 0 ot Canada,
capital punishes te
e cons
i
practically at continuance of
peeee geen the Canadien border.
eT am to believe, Mr.
President, thet ieaeland, if indeed she
di
the
the duty of directing our foreign affairs,
would .so transgress if there were a
clear intimation from England.
It appears, according to the philo-
sophy ‘ot Seward and the facts of his-
ory, thet carrying out ne extreme pen-
nite the law in poli ulti-
mat Jey operates to the etrien
Goxerane engaging in such a busi-
88. io not know that we consult
any foreign’ Government when we
a
®
sire to make a protest, believing that
our protest, however, is rd
sound judgment, - patriotic , considera-
tions, and ample precedents,
know. that’ this Government has fatlen
away from the virtues of the gamer
days; it a o.
strange that there has not been ore
spontaneous demand for an expression
or sympathy and a req’ rest for F mitiga
m of sentence in these
phasize this matter, to the
Roger Casement. He but on one @ of the
Irish prisoners of war; and I do no’
believe, although his fate 1s thminent,
in making at this tim
in his favor. If we pass
which has been presented by t
ty of the Foreign Relations commit ee,
it will be entirely -agreeable
pane 1 balers it will affect “not only
in Case IF theothert
I want to emphasize “as Americans,”
because this is not a plea we are mak-
ing for Ireland. sIt might be Poland or
it might be Hungary or it might be
It might, ss in other days, be
. ' We are pleading for the cause
f-liberty, expressing sympathy” with
the aspirations of a brave peopie; and
en die
r cause it is a cause
worthy. of our consideration. Those
men went agains st the power of “Eng-
land, whos
e morning arombeat." tn the
language of Daniel Webster, “following
the sun and keeping company with the
hours, encircles the earth daily with
one continuous and-unbroken strain of
the martial airs of England.”
went against the power of that nation.
was almost futile, but they made
‘The his-
paved by t
Frenchmen, and all those who partici-
vated from time imm mortal in every
land in the struggle for Nberty which
a; rew Kingeraft and gave
used those eloquent words to d
the power of England, just quoted, had
reference to what? Under what circum-
tances were they uttered?
uttered in order to sl
rica, who notwithstanding
the strength of that power, matched the
Continental Army against it. -That is
identically what Treland has done
our time and from time immemorial—
hopeless bat-
tle for rights which we all concede sl
jg entitled to, because we can not claim
ourselves woth we are
not silting to accord to othe
surprised, Mr. "president,
oat. there should mot have been © mor
spontaneous. demonstration in the cause
of liberty in this body.
as
ery—Grecian independence.
There is ho such intimacy betwee
is between Ireland and America.
It was shown here the other day that
t
home, because,
convenient to
that conflict at that tme.-
rand this should convince the
wenate as as to the propriety of our action,
T | the partition of Irelani
They | ri
-| their indictment let them
he| enthustastically received, said he came
le Downing Sti
America as there not
f it es
Enuiskilien Speak Out For The
And Former Followers Of
- Brands Them
Ulster Nationalists will not submit to
ey will not
allow the rotten Parliamentary Machine
off from the rest
of Ireland.
Meetings are being held all over the
Party is a staggering blow ,
and their repudiation or dim ie without
qualification or reservatl
Below will be found briet reports ot
some of these Ulster meetings.
BELFAST’S GREAT MEETING.
ELFAST, July, 18—There was an
ry's Hall, Bel-
Hngent, the assembly contained a
rom outside districts,
eating accoramodation was taken up
an early hour, ‘and by i time ene re
ceedings opened the
thronged. On the crowded lattorm
were several priests.
mnard Campbell, solicttor, who
presided, said they were met under the
shadow of a1
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mn were prepared
determined, in opposition to the wish at
the Irish people, to barter away th
“The storm is gal rertng.”
cheers,
way to Dublin, the Iris
ising and clamoring to give expression
to their opinion: e matter.
Had the people of Ireland been con-
sulted? No. the people ot these
six ‘counties been consulted?
If they averse
stand forws
before their countrymen and prove ie
nce Ginnell, M.P., who wi
to Belfast to ascertain, if he could, what
they had done that they should be cut
away fro what we
all want te answered a voice, at
which there was loud cheerin,
Mr. Ginnell went on to say that Ire
land never elected any man or any
Party to get jobs for themselves and
their hangers-on. The Irish Party was
created for no other purpose than to
obtain Home Rule for Ireland. But it
was engaged to-day in » torpedolng Home
Rule. *
That, however, was not @ surprise to
the few who had watched these men for
e time, and
4 2m were motoring over the
Continent in the same cars with
ey Were no’
getting the fruits or ‘the breakfast 0
ret.
sed to be stated that the Irish
dust in the people’s eyes by telling them
ony, temporary.
manent,” declared Mr
sina ‘ae the cutting off o:
“| TYRONE'S STRONG PROTEST.
who knew that when| number of con
: ULSTERMEN WILL NOT SUBMIT TO EXCLUSION
ve Meetings Of Nationalisis All Over The Province Protest Vigorously Against The
Partition Of Ireland, Deny The Authority Of The Parliamentary Leaders To
- Make The Bargain With Lloyd George And Repudiate The Packed Con
S— yentions Which Endorsed The Treasoa—Belfast, Omagh And
ir Counties—Bishops, Priests .
Redmond Denounce The
Parliamentary Party For Selling reland— Gin
nell, In The Heart Of Devlin's District,
4s Traitors.
nation were.caught red-handed with
their knife in her heart. squith
and his Government 2] nestly
meant to give Ireland Home Rule, and
the men he had to fac e t to
ut an e!
didn't. They had stood b;
thick and thin, and now they we:
Coalition, not only by English parttes,
but a Coalition of English parties and
Irish tra
ad been created an Im-
Northern: Province to protest ae ttlement of
the infamy and to deny that the ‘ked | the Irish trouble. Had an Irish leader
and rigged Convention in Belfast rep | ever Bor renter chance than that?
resented thee Nationalists of Ulster. The| Mr, Asqi me to Belfast and told
men, priests and’ laymen, who speak them feat ‘ihe Trish trouble must be set-
out most vigorously and who denounce
edmond’s most strongly are S leader in Treland—it they had one
all former followers of the Pariiamen-| “tay the tall at ‘oot, and could
tary Party ‘whose loyalty was undues-) have got for Ia - that England
ned. eir turning against one was capable of gi
mutilation, “or the
however, agreed to. In spite of ell, the
Irish pepote would maintain the integ-
rity of their country and the purity of
the! alr cause.
‘A. Lynn submitted @ resolution
octets against the acceptance of the
jonala of Mr. Lloyd George for the
mutilation of Ireland, repudiating the
m of Mr. John Badman and thos
Party w
yuntry Ww:
ts
ed the recent Conference in
Hall
to be totally
ople,
Au characterized
ly unrepre-
-| the proposed partition of Irelandves ©
1
gtoss betrayal and misuse of opportua-
ity.
Mr. Louis Smyth, Magherafelt, added
his protest against what he considered
the greatest outrage yet perpetrated ty
even the English Governme
Savag: mG, also spok
The resolution assed
cheers and tne proceedings. t terminated
with the singing of “A Nation Once
Again.” : .
OMAGH, County Tyrone, July 18
St. Patrick's Hall was crowded
night when a meeting of the National:
fsts of the town andidisirict was held
to protest’ against the’ cutting off of
Ulster or any part of It from Ircland.
‘The Right Rev, Monsignor O'Doherty,
P. y had’
ut now
there was no doubt that it was to be
permanent.
Up to that time the Nationalists had
implicit confidence in their leaders, but,
fortunately, the Natfonalis
if
land. The Natlonaliste thoueht that te
was thelr time to protest against ‘exclu-
sion,
He belleved and hoped that at the
whether the Jeade lers of the Party had
been hoodwinked, deccived, and -
ugged, we “there ‘as no longer any
on the authority
of the Prime Minister and Lord Lans-
downe, and he didn’t think that even
the most loyal supporter of the Irish
whe did not
know the state of affairs in the Cab!-
net and the House of Commons, as well
as even the leaders of the Irish Party.
f Ty-
rone of the O'Neills if they submitted
humbly to being divided from the rest
of Irelan Ly what woul
happen if the Nationalists ot Ulster
rse of further reterencee to
m, i
‘Joo, bre Fall of the ets Nation,” the, of revolutionary | terror or
$5,500,000 as bribe money. ce. When the President .of the,
The rotten boroughs were all bought. United States dismissed the rosecu-
The members were corrupted, not only] tions in the United States courts of the
bd: whe re necessary, but by that { so-cal {ans who attempted an un-
wore "pa woiite and insidious method of|jawful and forbidden invasion of Cana.
conferring honors and baronetcles and) ua, and returned them to their’ hom
at the expense of the Government and,
(ontinued on Page 2). - ~
the Trish Party he sald a
elected. to make Ireland a selt-goveruing
(Continues on “Poge 6)°