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Vol. XID, No, 42, Whole No, 683.
CTOBER 14, 1916.
ptered as second-ciass matier Oct. 1, 1908, at the Post Office at
‘New York, N. ¥. under the act of Congress of Mut
eb § 1873.
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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE. AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
REDNOND FORCED TO OPPOSE CONSCRIPTION
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Doors In Waterford In Which He Takes Credit For What The People Had
Loug Ago Decided Upo Against His Wishes—Announces His Belated
, Opposition To Compulsion, But Pleads For More Recruits To
_ Fight For The Country That Has Slaughtered Ireland’s
Bravest And Best—Says The Home Rule Act Which
‘ Lies Dead “On-The Statute Book” Is Still
Alive — William O’Brien And - George
: Russell Controvert Him.
. oa : . * | fou
The Discredited Leader Makes Speech Under Police Protection And Behind Closed | '°
ed throughout Irel
_* REDMOND"
“ing of his ccistizvents aust
9 three pronouncements | tion for Treland, fer from helping the
There were thre
trom Ireland ‘within the last few days
which are of great interest, to Irish
people in America. hem was
in all the dally papers and the other
two were special articles, each in a sep-
of th
arate paper. ree’ men
who spoke could have known that the
others coming out with state-
but they all three throw con:
Tiacrabte light on the situation in the
;Jobn Redmond’s statement took the
form of y “speed ech to his constituents in
Waterford, on Friday,
can papers; York Times
Sunday printed an interview with Will-
iam O'Brien, and the Sunday Sun had
fan
body of Protestant Salona eater!
's 2D. ‘For SUPPORT.
nota is the first time that John, Red-
has broken ae since ‘he was | P%
and the meet-
have. been
a very em: air held bebind closed
doors and under police protection.
is always protected by the police. now,
both at his home at Aughavenagh and
twice shot at in
joves abr He has nevi
once since the Easter Week Rebellion
addresset opel
cheers is followers gave when “Asquith
announ 6 House of Commons
the execution’ of Padraic H. Pearse,
Thomas J. Clarke and Thomas Mac-
Donagh, and his own venemous atta‘
on the floor
, but for the Irish people
was a bid—and
of
village in Ireland. This from
who deliberately. oconepired with the
British Government to deprive~ the
eople of the means of resistance
and si stealing from the men in Dublin,
have used them, the rifles
e they knot
81
statement iabat resistance eeenott
Treland ts
vjecompa panies pis threat of
by another
‘ity of “Home
jes and te invitation
eland has
“with
of brats _stapldition
e Ru!
sertption rena never be forced upon
Ire} eland, ad
cannot “bring myself’. to. believe
that, malign though the Infuences a Redi
Work are, the Government will be
with enough to challenge @ ooeintct
th Ireland on this subject. Conscri-
which | peri
“| the two countries, in the wicked hi
r
The not as
r thowsh. they mui
army and the war, would oe the
fatal thing that could happs
ind the
It would produce no additional
6,000 RECRUITS ; 26,000 CASUALTIES
pi
eeruite in si
wounded
“The mere threat is aralyzing re
cruiting, nya, mark you, is not
Rising (Easter Sunday) until Septem-
ber six thousand recruits were received.
“This demand for Conscription is not
It is a base
‘ward by men
‘0 injure ana discredit Irev
and revive by
that ,whtn the wa
people may tolerate some attempt to re-
peal the Home Rule Act.. But, whatever
rm
ms as long
and entitled to speak for Irelan:
WOULD GET RECRUITS.
“The way to continue to get recruits
is far different, Appease the inflamed
feeling in Ireland. Withdraw martial
law. « Make it plain that the Defenc
of the Realm Act will be administered,
st Js administered now in differ
and, but in the same
fh
soicit ts att is administered in England,| mon ground
scotland and Wale: Treat prisoners
end fo
attacks upon Ireland and recoraize gen-
| erally. what she has done.
on these lines the “Government may
eed in recruiting, even after all
that is happened, But as for Con-
srtoton, ia that way lie madness) run
ena “knows, ot nothing the
Goverament ca will Induce the
anhood of rotand "10 oir the British
army, and he is asking. them now to
withdraw the Defence of the Realm
Aét, which he defended and for which
voted. And he knows that the Gov-
ernment will do none of the things he
asks, because he did not ask them at a
time when the Government would have
Hetoned ‘te him.
then he went on to tell them, al-
it have wea the Order
in Council again postponing the “Home
Rule ae that it is still “on the Statute
Book.” 288 woul put in force in
bors I Own F FAILURE ON DEAD
Then he attac! sehet the
fought in the Easter Week Tuevellion,
The Present situation, he went on to| Ei
t| say,
e most trying crisis in his
reatetton “and that blow was
land by the “uprising.
ory,” he con-
ot vet ry 2 dash the cup o:
from the lips of Ireland, and wi
ately aims always that in uence. has the
come from: Ireland herself.”
The constitutional vement must
continue, he declared. we rou be
putting our People down 8,” he
if it was certo ovo
&
&.
that they tbandon tl
movement in favor of. the ‘insane. jaeats
ot who have invited Ireland once
have recourse to arms against
the British Empire.”
TALKS FOR PEOPLE. WHO HATE
HIM,
This_fr
secured reat Home Rule for Ireland at
the ontbreak 0 of the war if he had the
Kill 01 Safed fiase New York poll
tician,
Ir Sana Interests “pefore petty jobs ‘tor
the relatives and friends of his rotten
political machine: is characteristic of
mond. And he concluded with
nglish be-
me rubbish to make tl
Iteve that he ‘still has authority to
speak for the people of | Ireland.
t against Partition,
t |
body
° Veaviog “them at the same
stituents, ‘opped.
@/ any, Government, Liberal or Unionist’
m the man who could have! r
NEW YORK, 0
“So far ar concerned,”
he sata, “atlas vnttitude Is unchang-
ed a g calculated
ly to protect her from the con-
fe
le,
irresponsible now on foot.’
O'BRIEN SCORES THE PARTY,
William O’Brien is as toval to Fos:
land John Redmond and just
anxious to see Irishmen ‘ehtine for
England, but he.is in favor of a larger
In the interview
published in last Sunday’s New York
attitude is put ‘forward
wheth
caused the flasc °
“The ‘breakdown,” he replied, “was
caused by Mr, Redmond and his friends,
first, because they were frightened by
the outburst of indignation in Ireland
and,‘ second, and
vs because the bribe of constitut-
y without election by any-
“Dublin Parliament while
time mem-
‘s of the Imperial Parliament, at sal-
aries ot £400 a year apiece, for a mini-
mum f two years ‘and a half,
east esponsibility to their con-
Dillon ad-
chiefl;
ing thelr
S
scheme hots foot fnroush the riouse.
ney measure’ be-
fore Treland ‘Teallzed Sher fate. It was
he agreemeat for
the bribe that broke down.
ASQUITH'S DISHONEST JUGGLE.
“Do you believe Mr. Asquith’s pledge
a will be ed’ Wi
taken any notice of in the probable
event of a:Conservative-Government be-
ing returned at the next election?”
practical question
fs, can it come into operation under
Mr, Asquith has ‘solemnly pledged nis
party it never can without an amen nd-
ing act excluding Ulster, and it is
Hedmondites
as the Liberals and Unionists
Ulste# can’ in no circumstances
8
that
stands upon the Statute Book.”
Mr. O'Brien was asked what
faction the Irish Parliamentary Party
should pursue, and what kind of Home
ple) he would propose.
“THE “PARTy™ UTTERLY DIS-
EDITED.
“The recent rah
ed, “have disabled themselves. from
actics whatsoever, since they still
stead by their agreemen' surrender
six Irish counties as a separate Orange
State, Irish Nation, now
thoroughly aroused to the facts, would
fs
cessions to the Irish Unionists, guaran-
teeing them solid power in the Irish
Periament Carson's party himitted
ssione would “have
ere, however; pounded
roan
Ulster difficulty? and that Carsonism
all an afar of ‘bluff’ and ‘wooden
uns.”
*“They. have now in’ panic sunk
their knees to Carson, but it ts te offer
he one ® concession
without sacrificing her
the surrender of
Patrick and
im tl
never submit to
Ife as a nation, viz,
Pri
Col
the O’Neills and the cradle of
ns
Volunteers and o Wolfe ‘Tone's Datted
Irishmen, Yo! cer men of capacity
and proadmindedness will now have to
etrieve the situation, The
land will no doubt produce them.”.
RUSSELL'S HOME RULE PLAN
George Russell is one of the most
spected men in Ireland and stands
equally well with men of all political
opinions. The Sun correspondent say:
bim
“Opviously it was tmpossiple te omit
from this group Geo Russell,
famous in England and “reand for his
wer the signature “7E.”. He
in and never has been
foolish and | tion.
and the Irish Partiamentary Party had| wit!
without );
Partition, but]
the Statute Book! tne
-| deney
Rule (acceptable to the whole Irish peo-| Tm
Party,” he assert-| ©
Pinning Home Rule for all Ireland by|
Si country com)
e
Tre-| shores,
from success in an ‘almost unbelievable
combination of activities,
the best known work
best’ known living
authorities~ on gricultural co-opera-
He is well known as a poet, his
‘Homeward Songs,’ ‘By pe
Way, and ‘The h rankin}
among modern classics.) His collected
poems issued in America, have ther
reached great Pola. His various
volumes
Prose volumes include ‘Imaginations |
Reveries,’ and a new pook, ‘The
National Being: Some Thoughts. on
Irish Polity,’ is about to be issued in
the States.”
-| THE PRESENT ACT UNWORKABLE.
Mr. Russell is a Federalist, is op
posed to Separation, but is ly
vinced that the Asquith Home Rule
A Act that is now the Statute Book”
B
5
measures which Mr.
Redmond calls 4 satiofactory final set-
“We come now to the present Home
Rule sche flaw in it is that it
does not really eliminate the element
of friction ‘elween England and Ire-
no reason at all w why
England should give Ireland self.gov-
ernment tess inerety the Irish ques-
tion is to pe led.
said of two Par-
‘h well defined and
isla
Mie indefensible tn
ory and would be maddening in
» ractice.
“Instead of bringing about a settie-| H!
poliey and von
Rule A are more the concern
e
of the Tinperia than of the Irish Par-
there woud be Irish sine
trol over trish domestic affairs.
the present plan not enough
powers are given to the Irish Parlia-
| ment to make it
feltectual Irish Politician to find in
v the ten-
second class men
sake of the
sould be stor
to seek election for the
jobs and the influence rather than with Ta
ve a hope of bringing about the realli
coerced into obedience to the Act as it] tio,
of large constructive schemes
the. building of an Irish civilization.”
‘NGLAND WILL NEVER GIVE IT.
“If such a federation of self-govern-
ing nations, with no one Power among
josition to domtnate the
wera ed.” he sass,
ike France,-Spain, It
ts.
de perfectly clear
that this federation shall allow each
rnal affairs, its trade
civilization, and that the union - shall
not be planned merely to secure pre
dominance ser one important member
f the
ont after r this war Great Britain could
e devise a federation of the nations in its
empire on this basis, showing its sin-
"| cerity by allowing Ireland its freedom
fernal affairs, this would
00) with being,an institution devised for
the
le ageran ndizement merely of the cen-
fam | tral um
The trouble with Mr.
Russell, and
with all well meaning men , is
like him,
tha umes: that England would] herent in the situation and are-not the
consent to any scheme that would do| invention of the Bazaar offictals, This
real justice to Ireland. She wants -to| striking toctdent of recent ‘Irish his-
hold Ireland dow yr two reasons: |tory was taken by the Bazaar Commit-
first, to pr resery ber own mastery of|tee as the feature for its display adver.
the sea; to prevent the|tising, a rtising company
growth of _ industrial rival near her| could ‘talryretase to accept It”
il the facts of Anglo-Irish
istory prove this. Thére are only two
alternatives—submission to England,
which mei and complete
In Russell says that
Independence could only be achieved by
the ie oul bal a the British Empire.
That is 01 f true, for the erection
of an iniiesondent Irish Nation would | ed
mean the destruction of the British
Empire.
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cers, who are not Trish, of the
cel
asian regiments are writ-
ing pitiful appeals for recruits to fill up
is of the most influential men
m Treland none the less, a fuct arising
the gaps in ty y may
officially
| ident of thescompany gave
ing| Raster Week Reb
possible for an in-| pao
1
- gly ated stations,
welc
dera.| 8Teeting and a conanevoas ‘Utsplay. by
GREAT IRISH BAZAAR TO OPEN ON SATURDAY
Most Important Irish Event Ever Witmessed In New York City To Be Officially
Opened By Nora Connolly, Daughter Of The Murdered Patriot, Who Will Hoist
The Irish Tricolor From The Roof Of Madisow Square Garden—trish And
German Societies Working As A
Unit To Help The Victims Of
English Savagery—Tremendous Success Assured In Spite Of
Malignant Efforts Of Pro-
English Intriguers To Pre-
vent Bazaar Being Advertised —injuaction Brougut
By Bazaar Committee Against Ward And
Gow For Defacing Irish Posters.
The Irish, Relief Fund Bazaar’ wl be}
turday after |
noon by Miss ‘Nora Connolly, daughter
of James Connolly, the Irish martyr,
who was executed by English soldiers
‘or his leadership of the recent Irish
Rebellion.» Miss Connolly is now resid
ing in the Bronx, At 1 o'clock Satur-
day afternoon she will raise the flags
of the American and Irish Republics
oa Square Garden, and sim
0 bands will break
forth in pa aerate mule
‘The opening of the Bazaar will be in
spite of the desires and efforts of power
ful influences opposing the activities of
the pitriotic American: charge of
the exhibition, The managers of the
azar, which will continue at Madison
Square Garden for pine days after next
Saturday, were notified
the Broadway Subway
ough Car
had refused to post on 150 elevated sta-
jons ia Brooklyn, the oficial advertie
ing of the Bazaar. P. Day, pres-
“the morbi
ter as the reason for
and Home Bor-
Great surprise was expressed at the
office of the Bazaar, 1482 Broadway,
when the news of the prohibition was
received. Charges that the han
ngland was. responsible for the refusal
were freely voiced by some of the men
omen ..who. are. sacr!
and effort to raise money for the relief
of dependents ot be Victims .of the
‘The rejected roster depicts. the ex
cution of James Connolly. Com.
tired into his defenseless breast. The
Green, White and Orange flag of Ire-
nd is enclosed in an oval a the up.
per right hand come e top, too,
is featured an emaciated Wish woman
- ind Ge jow, who control fre ad-
vertising on the Manhattan subway and
posted the picture,
0 bt
s
later, ow!
ante influence had pos-
defaced. Thousands oe copies of
the poster, in the form of a card, were
distributed by the Bazaar Committee in
stores, offices and factories, and broad-
cast on walls thoughout je lty and
its environs. It come
humanity loving peo
O'Leary, president
Bazaar, on being interviewed,
of the
said of
ction:
e refusal of the Broadway Sub-
Borough Advertising
Company, Incy to post at usual rates
on the elevated and subway stations in
Brooklyn 150 official Doster of the Irish
Relief Fund Bazaar, is a @ exhi-
bition of arbitrary power on their part.
he excuse offered that tue poster is
‘morbid’ is ridiculous.
heroically facing a firing vind could
sug ‘morbidity’ can jained
only the officers of the company that
rejected t picture. Is the heroic and
inspiring statue. of Nathan ute at the
City Hall Park morbid?
“The fact iMustrated on the poster is
known to every one. poster ine
cidentally iNustrates the cruelty of tl
British Government a ie bravery of
the Irish leader, these things are in-
Tremendous enthusiasm throughout
rousing meet-
committee rmemibers
ie
ing of workers and
was held at headquarters
white b ot en
by a remarkable
address by Judge Cohalan, who pr.
ers on ti
were read and showed progress in every
departm
Re an exhibition of Trish art and
antiques this. Bazaar will
thing ever before held. Pictures and
last week that | vac;
Advertising Company, Inc,|a
time hes irs.
-{ picting J
relics will be sold although most of
them will be only on exhibition to show
the public authentic and accurate rep-
resentatives of Irish achievement.
Rea Cross Booth, which will
Be in hon of Nurse Ki
hot in the. streets
an Irish bog oak harp that has bee
in the family of Mrs. Agnes T. Bohan
r two hundred years, Mrs, Bohan
and Miss Margaret Ryan, a Red Cross
Tse, will be in charge of this booth.
“This harp is a relic that 1 would
part ‘vith for no reason less t! the
it th ight mm the pri-
vacy of homes for the, first time, the
Bohan harp has been the cause of
family disturbance, as every
has always regarded the possession of
it as a special distinction, No
aid to the great cause of the
sutering Irish people.
Red Cross Booth also will be
shown cnersency kits and all the ac-
cessories these ‘emissaries
of mercy.
The Dublin Booth, portraying te
and features of the ce i
charge of Mrs. J. W. Brat
M jerei Leary, il have
charge of the ‘AlLAmerican Booth,
sisted .b;
ful
fake the prize for
uty
The Irish Village, Tull of relics of
rish home life, examples of Irish art
and industry, will be charge of
including one of the
dent suffragist worker, will lead a co-
terie of her gaerents in charge of the
Flower and Suffrag th.
Patriotic conoenia, Yocal in-
strumental, by world famous singers
Players and dancers, musicians and
choral societies, will be siven several
times ‘daily
Bs
O'Leary
cally every German society in and nea:
New York has i
at work to promote the success 0:
enterprise. “It is the purpose of the
rma: jeties,” said O'Leary,
“to ore ney for the Irish
INJUNCTION, Acars ST. WARD AND
engers in the subway “and ele
vated stations wh posters
advertising the Trish ‘Reliet tf Fund Ba-
ar somewhat obliterated, will find the
explanation in the granting by Justice
off on’ Tuesday of an injunc-
tion restraining - Ward’ and (cor,
agvertising | agents, frou t
fering = wil the poster:
ta Gow vee ordered
rd
‘appear
| for a hearing on October 11, three avs
before the Bazaar opens
Square Garden.
cording to William Daly,
in Madisoi
of 52
o OS,
of the Dublin Division of oe
antiques will be on exhibition that here-
not have to ny more Englishmen.
But. ‘rishinen ‘tue to: enlist,
sy
tofore have been held in the priva
Irish families. Many of the objects and
publican Army, as. he
t of a firing pausd of ‘Sritiah sok
aiers. .
announces ‘that practi- *
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t