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But only a good beginning has been
made. The field of work must be en-
larged until it embraces the whole race.
r efforts must be concentrated and
co-ordinated towards the achievement
of final victory.
woman who wis
take her rightful place among the Na-
ticns must be enlisted in the work. The
American people must be enlightened
and the falsehoods, calumnies and mis-
the venemous English Propaganda, with
the aid of hostile newspapers, must be
thoroughly refuted, so that the fairest
minded and most justice loving people
in the world may have the actual, un-
“ deniable facts of the situation in their
possession when the time for action
m
es.
SERIOUS WORK BEFORE US,
hat is a serious task which we can-
not underestimate. The English Pron-
United States on the battlefields of
France, is supplied with enormous
funds and is spending monev lavishlv.
It has the support of some of the most
influential newspapers in the country,
d has succeeded in imnregnating
many powerful and influential officials
of the Government with the virus of
anti-Irish prejudice. We are treated
men as enemies
mies of this
country whose liberties our race helved
to win. whose integrity was largely
maintained by Irish valer in the Civil
War, and to whose prosperity we have
made a contribution second to no other
race in its composite povulation. And
Irish citizens are insulted daily by
their underlings, who use vile and
brutal laneuage towards e use of
Irish libertv. The cireulation “ot the
vilest Fnglish slanders against us is
permitted and we are left voiceless in
our own defence by the suvpression of
our pavers which contain the refutation
of infamovs falsehoods, on the false
pretence that they are injurious to
America’s conduct of the war.
600,000 IRISHMEN IN THE FIGHTING
FORCES.
are now more than 5.000 mem-
bers of our organization at the front:
have been killed and
Everv
evidence of
readiness to die for the United States.
More and more the desvatches tell of
Irish heroism, but ther o abate-
meat of ae campaign of falsehood
ABA OW
we met meet that campaien of false-
Cae AE CASES TE EE HEE KEE
wns. TO dd sd eestvels TRQUETES OG
ganization and TEAaNization
embracing the whole noatted States and
money sufficient to carry on our
confronts us to-day.
We are held up to the world as in-
grates who fail to perform the duties.
that devolve upon us inthis great
wotld conflict, but there is no duty our
efen- .
sive campaign. The task of raising that.
money is one of the most important that.
In this
Re-
of our race lives
» we have performed every duty
of citizenship and contributed to the
Army and Navy a larger proportion of
fighting men than any other element in
race has failed to fulfil.
public, where the bulk
to-day,
the population. There are in the fight-
ing forces of the United aes at the
lowest computation, 600,000 of
Irish birth or parentage, and the. new
Draft will add to their numbers in
equal proportion.
The majority of the adult manhood
of Ireland is to be found outside of Ire-
land, as a direct result of English mis-
government an economic system
imposed by England which makes it im-
possible for them to live and thrive in
their native land. From England and
the British Colonies they ‘have gone in-
to the British army in the same propor-
tion as in the “United States, so that
since the beginning of the war fully
1.500.000 Irishmen have taken part in
the fighting. In’ proportion to popula-
tion this is by long odds the largest
contribution made by any race in the
countries engaged in fighting Germany.
IRELAND CANNOT TRUST ENG-
L.
But because the people of Ireland, op-
pressed, held under a rigorous military
tyranny and deprived of the most ele-
mentary rights of citizenship, refuse to
sacrifice the remnant of their young
manhood in the interests of the power
that holds them and that ha
broken faith with them and violated its
solemn pledges in every year of this
- war, they are described to the world as
enemies of human liberty. Lloyd
George, the present Premier of Ene-
land, has proved himself the most faith-
less of English statesmen for a whole
He has violated every prom-
ise he made to the Irish people and has
shown himself a wors? tyrant than
even Balfour, now his colleague, whose
reign of ‘Coercion in Ireland brought
disgrace on English rule. And he has
been able to carry on this tyranny be-
cause of the fact that the American
Army atthe front releases the large
British force now riding roughshod over
‘the Irish people and which ought to be
fighting the Germans in France.
We tell the peonle of the United
States that the Irish reovle canno
trust England and least of all will thev
trust the present Premier, whose faith. .
lessness and insincerity have be-ome a
byword, and are only equalled by the
deliberate falsehoods against Ireland
ich he has spread through the world.
" he American
Government to intervene In behalf of
Ireland, not only because of the past
services of Irishmen to this Repwbic.
tut tn recaentéton of the ortceless serv-
{ees whfeh they are renderfne to-dav.
We here 2 Ashd Demand Yyod fee
reatlian eecauce “amectoat cele
France {$ the one thing whiten enables
England to, break faith with Ireland,
and, prevents, Ireland from comrelling
odo. her justice
favor of the right of all peoples to gov-
ern themselves are not made good in
the case of Ireland.
