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The Saelic
May 6, 1916. Cmenican. . ° 7
q here to-night.” The Tooley ‘Street “ma- British Crown and that, all potitcal | ravazes have reddened the lands ot
EXPLAINS WHY HE LEFT iertsnies the, Todge room, under connections between them and the State | Europe for five hundred years.
police protection Inst Friday ntght, en- of Great Britain is and vi Where will a priest's sympathies ft
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REDMOND: IN DISGUST. | «
(Continved from Page 2.)
ed here tonight in such a way
0
por bigot, cam say that we are not
find the men who are fighting for
freedom in Ireland, as thi
fought in '98, tn 87, and at every stage
e.)
eard, with shaviass of the
f ‘te SAinwisdom of those who
Years Dot whether they
Sviee or wise; whether
udent_ oF impradent.
of our history: (Applau
we
5 are we going to sustain them
in. thelr. fight? (Cries of “Yes!” id
applause.) We have heard little drivel-
ere in a oe
phy and others, but there was not one
oi those 0 are to-day sending
out statements in vehalf of the United
Irish League of America. (Applause).
Neither Coyle, nor McFarlan
hers—not one was heard
Redmondites but United Irish Leaguers.
League
Redmond and the
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y more time
press have got. their
stuff and the press is going to print it,
and gcme of us may be anisled by the
fact that it appeared in
you need not isl
Redmond speaks or the safety se us
closed doors.
they are dishonest—I simply
are utterly misguided and are trying
to misguide other men; but they are an
absolute failure, and they have no ef-
fect. . CApplause.)
~ JOHN DEVOY’S SPEECH.
On being intoaced Joba Devoy sald
he knew thet irish ae fie
like to have spewcen Tea » pa
this wag a solem| asion a and bi ish-
ed to take full responsibillty for Now
word he said.
he might stick to his text. He then
Before starting 1 want to say that I
have received a few anonymous threat-
ening letters from contemptible, cow-
atdly Englishmen, all posing, as Irish:
men, and full of gbscenity which no
tant or Catholic, would
8 treat t
now. We
(At this there were roar
ot rauehter, but the Englishman failed
to respond.)
Cownewrrnec, GRAVEN
mo glad o see That tho “small but
dorsed John 's treason to Ire-
land, and cond mned the en who in
the streets of Dublin have been heroic.
ally siving | thelr lives for cause for
which Robi mmet, Wolte Tone and
the Manchester Martyrs died.
These cor ble, craven creatures:
fon of the
e Oran;
know now that that is ‘he kind oft a
tionality “the Irelan
fighting for. and that fact will count for
much in
crass EDITORIAL IGNORANCE.
The New York papers are giving the
ews fairly enough, so far asthe Eng:
h Censor allows them to get it, bul
their editorial writers are greatly con-
cerne
fort to enable her to destroy the trade
of a commercial rival which threatens
‘0 supplant - is the place in
which the moet is shed that bothers
them, ae ie cause for which
shed. only interest in Ireland is
for the preservation of the British Em-
pire. .An_ Independent Ireland would
be of enormous advantage to
States, as well as to all the
tions of the world, ‘oa it they dont want
it because they are controlled
lish interests and man; hele edi-
torial writers are Gamaturaliged Eng-
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oo they display their crass ignorance
of real conditions in Ireland and reveal
the bitter*hatred of Ireland and Irish-
of New York. One of
their favorite methods is to print inter:
views and proclamations from ho
Redmond, the ‘eat wr who has sol sa. tre.
land, who’ dares not go to Ireland and
has to issue his tsi atone from ¢ the
capital of Ireland’s
salaried ometal of the Bat
cial eer in the ar, because. he is
shareholder 4 in ynoch’s, the
great danturers of explcelves John
Redmond e. authority ‘to
speak “for island shen has Asquith or
Lloyd Geo! ish leader who
orders his "Foilowers te fight for Eng-
lend in putting down an Irish insur-
m is a double dyed traitor. An
fae SHAM HOME RULE BILL.
. mond
tnis: Insurrection
final settlement
Rule which denies to Ireland every at
tribute of self-government, which .for-
ids Irish legislature by
jons to do anything what-
Farliament intact on which pi
ration
and that ail local inten legislation shall
pproval, re-
vision or reject ction. Well might
Bishop O'Dwyer of Limerick cail it “a
im of self-government.”
supplemented aa ig Bill
which provided "at a the parts of Ulster
which heve a Protestant malty shall
be exempt om Irish control, thus
creating a wholly inworkable legisla-
tive monstrosity and perpetuating the
a intre oduced
and has
her own sinister purposes. And this 1
what T. P. ‘onnor, in
Patch published in New
arta
for as
acted unt theend of the war, And i
itude for this “Charter of inst
ing the Irish people, or even the
of his own Party, John Redmond
pledged Ireland's support to England in
this war and has since, for ten pounds
a speech, been urging his countrymen
to enlist. | Ireland repudiated him and
rity of the young m
defend thelr
try ang have been | hoping and
praying. ‘for German victory as the only
means of making Ireland free
Mince that treacherous act, without
getting anything whatever for Ireland,
Redmond and his Part ty have voted for
every measure provi for the sup-
pression of Ireland's iIherties and the
exhaustion of her slender financtal r
roles minority” fa 80 well represented
sources and have sacrificed Iretand's in
is bimselt reo for |
THE CITY HALL, DUBLIN.
terests to those of England. The latest
Budget which imposes $40,000,000 addi-
tional burdens on an already exhaust
ed people aroused the most remarkable
protest that Ireland has seen’ for many
years, of all creeds,
Glasses and political parties Joined, and
Redmond
used them, saying the agitation was
fomented by German money. That was
the ast straw which broke the camel's
back. Thomas Sexton, the greatest
financial authority in Iretand, in a pub-
lished letter, said that these intolerable
burdens would ruin Ireland
im an exodue from her shares es creat as
that which followed the Famine of
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ANTICIPATED THE GOVERNMENT'S
~ . STROKE.
Ireland was not included in the Con
scription Act because of fear of the
rish Volunteers, so the Government de-
termined, with Redmond’s approval, to
disarm and disrupt the Volunteers. The
Volunteers knew the stroke was coming
and ti mas only a question of a
when theCoalition Gov-
to repeal the wretched little Home Rule
MN, enforce Conscription and earzy out
a ruthless reign of terror in Irel
So they took time by the fo! velo an My
struck while they retained the initia-
“ase GERMAN ARMS ONLY.
is the real truth about the
voit ‘a “reland. whereof yy
speak one I defy eontradtetion when I
say that tras pou eed ey advised
in either erica 'y. Abso-
lute. proof at ‘this statonment exists ond
history will record it. German aid,
the shape of arms and ammunition, ‘yt
in unsuccessful ifort to land
the supplies waa made... That the effort
xin be renewed and will Destuny suc:
ceed goes without saying. All the men
of Ireland want is arms. and ammuni-
tion, and they will take care of the rest.
avan in his splendid
poem, “The Muster of the North,” di
cribing the insurrection of 1641, says:
“Tittle § vee reck their founers! sons, the
of the
It Intsh 2 nearte and Tan ‘hands had
Spanish blade and mail.”
In the days of Owen Roe O'Neill Ire-
land looked to Spain for the arms to
enable them to fight England. To-day
they look to Germany for that kind of
help, and they will not. be disappointed.
(Great cheering.)
MAGNIFICENT. ElgnTis@ IN
The fighting in Oe saint courage,
the vatliry skill and the readiness to
die—have demonstrated
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a
ihe Nations gives Ireland her place in
CuspuENT AGAINST PREMATURE
Now a ord coo r Roger Case
it, The actual, Incontroverti tact
as strongly oppos
facurrection in Ireland im the resent
stage of the war and sald eo in letter
after letter. le was asked
Yotutlonary leaders to remain o “cor.
care “of Irish interests
there, and nobody in Irelan
ica believed
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id or Amer-
dized Irish papers, and the hirelngs of
England in America, so he py ly de-
termined to take his life in wis hand
and be with his people when the blow
as struck. .
REPRISALS FOR IRISH LIVES.
Now, I don’t think it probable that
England will dare to execute Sir Roger
He fs not spy, but,
an Irish prisoner of war. Germany has
hundreds of English officers and Ire-
d will some time hb m2
(Cheers.) I cannot speak for anybody
but myself in this matter, but my opin-
one proper
the noces-
°
ang two Englishmen of equal rank fo
every Irishma! ut to death in cold
blood by England. And John Redmond
id be one of them it he could be
“ FroHT TO.A FINISH.
No matter what happens during the ;
next few months, the old situation in
Ireland can never be resto Th
t and unpatriotic political
machine the world has ever seen will
disappear forever, and no matter how
leaders are shot or hanged new
een stunning and paralyzing,
and the effect in France and Russia can-
not fail to be very great. ey
now that Redmond does not speak for
Ireland, that the fighting manhood of
Ireland is ready to fight desperately for
freedom, the effect in Germany
will be most important of all—except,
perhaps, in America,
The American people will be with us
and will tolerate no Coercion for Eng
Tand’s benefit. And if Coercion comes,
Irishmen here will refuse to be coerced.
Their fighting blood is up, and if their
rights as American citizens are to be
violated, they will contest every inch
of the ground and go to prison if neces-
full ‘confidence thatthe
people is still
its history trom the
Revolution to the present day.
REVOLUTIONISTS NOT
TRAITORS, SAYS MAGINNIS
mas Hobbs Maginnis began his
speech by quoting an extract from the
“Struggle for American Independenc
by George Sydney Fisher, who, he said,
the founders of the American Republic
failed in realizing thelr “vision” Amer.
ica, saute have become another Ireland,
"Mir" Maginnis’ con
““The Irish people, too, have had a
vision, They have dreamed of the de-
cline and fall of a Power that has
despoitod, slaughtered, and * defamed
em, and that, with the tall of that
country ireland would rise a nation of
freemen. and her’ sons be given an oj
portunity to develop in their coun-
try the abilities they have developed in
other country
“The Irish in America ade
big, mistake. Instead of tending mil
lions of dollars abroad to secure Home
ule a eetslati jon nate shout have
bough newspapers
of teneral creation (aughter and ap-
plause), and used the methods hat
England, throughout her. whole
tory, has found so effective.”
Justifying. Ireland's attitude, the
Continental
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er-in-Chief (applause); and it adopted
resolu ‘tions denouncing En; gland's ee
ods in ali parts of her empir
couraged the Colony of "neiaies ‘to
rebel, and sant an addrees to the people
of Irelani
Further on Mr. Maginnis said:
“If Sir Roger Casement is a traitor,
then George Washington was a traitor,
tor the reason that. for three years
eorge Washington was in the employ
of the British Crown as surveyor in the
Fairfax district of Virginia. He held a
commission signed and under the seal
of the King of England for many years
lone! of troops in Virginia. Yet,
t the call of the patriot party im this
country, pe renounced his allegiance ‘°
Englan
triots to suctesa" (Applause.
conclusion Mr. Maginnis said:
“The Irish. people hold a vision. It
means nation: life, ‘sonal libert;
and intellectual unity, Not until Ire
land takes ber place among the patfons
the earth can-the vision becom
reality,” (Applause)
JOHN D. MOORE JUSTIFIES
IRISH PATRIOTS! ACTION,
Joba D. Moore, National Secretary of
the _Rriends of Iris! $
Tiel
e Irish,
national spirit behind this great revolt
an Ragen is farther than i froi
her goal.
“The Irish have risen because they
are determined that Ireland shall
tre
believe that it should be a
‘free nad independent’ nation; that they
;ere absolved from all allegiance te the
nation
ngs which
“Win or
a ‘silken cord’ or a hi
the French Court during the Revolu:
tion, if they were lucky enough to
catch him,
“Every American, as well as every
Irishman, should resent the British ef-
fort to stamp as traitors gallant pa-
triots whose only crime is that they
love their country’ and abhor her op-
pressor.”,
WORLD REDEEMED BY BLOOD
SAYS FATHER POWER.
Rev. Jai W. Power, after pang
that he had expected to" be kept aw:
by another engagement, said:
truth there wa:
had partially
nd not to speak
evening, because more than one of my
Yriends in the cloth had advised me not
to attempt anything of the kind (laugh-
ter), becai
Pl
tory ts on
A ‘priest’
nation lke that? No!
to a question really as between a!
¢ murderous nations of Europe at the
Present moment, if my sympathy goes
any Blace, st goes to the Kaiser! (Ap
plau
(Here a Utile fat Englishwoman in-
terrupted Father Pow asking, in
a@ shrill voice: ny one you priests
talk of bumanit ty 2"
w it is a question of humanity,
and when it is a question of civiliza-
tion, or of anything else that stands tor
refinement purity and g
and bollness, : think—and history “i
say—in the past, tl
present and surely in 6, tbe
best ideals and the highest ideals of
civilization are those of tl
they been anything else but friends?
(Applause,)
in conclusion Father Power said:
Well, “Liberty was never
that she did not hav ve e be baptized the
moment she set her it on earth, bap-
tized with blood. appianees Libert:
ceived in the streets of Dublin.
(Ap
Dlause). '
me of us fee) about it;
that my opinion
is not the opinion of those who wis
that. I should not speak this evening,
lest possibly I might give my approval
to what they considered a page of dark-
est tragedy in tho biatory of Dublin
contrary, my 0 opin: aion is that tt
is the brie test a ost glorious
the future historians wil ‘record of the
biatory of “dear
identify you. with
Kaiser (lapghter and applause}, and
the bloodshed with which by
luged Europe?” (Laughter)
dear frionde, my answer to that diff-
8 What you might every after-
noon read in one of the daily papers
from the witty caricatures of the car-
toonist whe fale o the fellow who is
eirays
takes, that bs ‘didn't look at it in .that
lght—I never thought of that.” (Laugh-
ter.)
If it comes to a quetsion of sympa:
thies Ta like to know where, if you ex-
amine closely, a priest should stand as
at
with Blood The Allies? (Cries of “No,
no.”) land? France? Italy? A
priest ro a yepathize win
Sha des of Henry VIII. and his virgin
daughter, Queen | Beas; shades of Quen
‘one and the Four Georges
thize with England, the breeder of bere.
sies and schisms for the last three hun-
dred years. (Laughter and applause)
priest sympathize with
a nation like England in a difficulty?
jobn Redmond may give her his sym-
rathy (laughter), and the Parliamen-
tary Pary may give her their sympathy,
but get something for {t—their
a year. (Laughter), Where in
f view or consideration a priest's sym-
pathy comes in for England is more
u ” understand, and
tier etore She doesn't get it. (Laughter
and applau
Srmr fathy f tor France.
France; Gallaut F
Yes. Glorious
But you haye
oF
twean two thieves (laughter), the Ru:
jan al English Lion, that
(Cheers), She has
ade h ed and, sorrew for her, there
she must .
If {t comes to a question of owing a
the balance is o
rish soldiers, their troops
usands, have Trance;
and it. is true what ‘Davie has said:
“In far foreign fields from Dunkirk to
rade Oo
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish
Brigade,
Glorious France! | We appreciate er
ideals in the past, but
leges and we threw the ruclixes out
of the schools and c
Sympathize with Gor ernment that
has a demoniac atheist like him for a
Premier? No! mpathize with Rus-
fa the Russian ‘Beer, the emblem of
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