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ARMS, NOT MONEY, WANTED FROM AMERICA
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Letter From Eoin MacNeill, Chairman Provisional Committee, Irish National
Volunteers, So Informs Joseph McGarrity, National President Of Ameri-
can Organization—Full And Satisfactory Explanation Of Necessities
Of The Work In Hand—“‘ Our Supporters In America Will Do
Best By Keeping The Power Of Expenditure In Their Own
Hands And Limiting Expenditure To Purchase Of
Arms And Ammunition,”
The following letter from Professor Eoin MacNeill was received by Mr.
Joseph McGarrity, National President of the drish Volunteer Fund Committee,
on Thursday, July 9:
1f Herbert Park, Ballsbridge,
Dublin, July 1, 1914.
Joseph McGarrity, Esq.,
Chairman National Provisional Committee,
Irish Volunteers.
Dear Sir:
The Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers, at its meeting in Dub-
lin, last night, requested me to write to you on the subject of the co-opera-
tion of your Committee in the equipment of the force.
The Irish Committee heartily endorses my cable message sent you on
22nd June acknowledging with warm gratitude your remittance of £1,000 noti-
fied in cablegram of the 20th. The remittance has come to hand in due
course,
We understand that your Committee was called together in the early
days of June. The fact that within a fortnight they had been able to organize
the work of collection so as to collect and send on £1,000 is sufficient proof of
their energy and capacity and of the generosity, patriotism and earnestness of
the friends of the Irish Volunteers in America,
By the unanimous desire of my colleagues, I write to impress upon you
and those acting in concert with you, and through you upon the supporters of
the Irish cause in America, that, grateful as we are for your prompt and
munificent help, given in money, the Irish Volunteers look to their friends in
America not so much for pecuniary aid as for a supply of rifles, to be pur-
chased and sent to us.
We do not desire to accumulate funds, even though we have done our best
since the outset to safeguard ourselves against the diversion of funds to any
other purpose than the arming of the Volunteers. Our Committee, soon after
its formation, bound itself by resolution to devote all money raised by gen-
eral subscription to the sole purpose of acquiring arms and ammunition. AN
the current expenses of the organization are borne by the Volunteers them-
selves. All money subscribed to us on this side we trust to expend to good
effect in the arming of the Volunteers, notwithstanding any obstacles that may
be placed in our way. It is evident, however, that our supporters in America,
so long as obstacles exist, will do best by keeping the power of expenditure in
their own hands, and by limiting expenditure to the provision of arms and am-
munition.
