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The Saelic Amenican:
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May 27, 1916,
DUBLIN MURDERS AGAIN:
DENOUNCED IN CONGRESS:
Representative Gallivan of Mass-
achusetts Introduces Resolu-
tion Expressing Horror at the
Deeds of British Government
in Ireland and Sympathy With
the Families of the Victims. -
WASHINGTON, D. ©, May 20.—An-
other resolution condemning thi
Massachusetts, submitted the following
resolution, which was referred to the
mittee on Foreign Affairs and
ordered to be printed:
“Resolved, That the Congress of the
United States expresses it
is \nimical to
humanity, calculated to deepen ‘the dis-
content of the people of Ireland, and
defer the day of peace and understand-
ing Detween the Irish“ and English na-
tion’
“Resolved, That this body extends its
of the men executed by military courts-
martial,
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“TABLET” EDITOR REBUKED
BY A CATHOLIC WRITER.
Childish Babbling in the Editorial
olumns. of the Brooklyn
Weekly Characterized as Quib-
bling Over a Serious Subject.
ooklya Tablet,
Catholic weekly,
eat and serious question, 1s most
astounding.
In attempting to canonize or super:
naturalize the centuried sufferings
relan that wleorial
Vsh and Latin together and speaka of
it jon columns of
the Tablet, and very much that is slob;
bery, too, but, for expressing anything
that is affectionate as far as pertain:
to Irish interests we are convinced that
the editor has but a very slight ac-
quaintance with such subje ‘ould
he pdl
don the words of the Stabat
later:—"Quis est homo,”
benefit we will “quote from 99
on the
ath—
a body rotting away wotte ihe soul still
teebly gasps in work,
the listiess poverty, the ‘hopeleas mien
of th in the midst of a
The Psion it presents fs life in de:
war scourged town in Bel
er ne Tobiet’s eaitor tele us that
the England o ng-
land of yesterday. tt acknowledges its
sin and fs or has been * trying
to make reparation.
we t very much if one who can
write such slobbery nonsense as that fs,
in Intelligence or any other noble trait
of tanhood, worthy to loose the shoes
of those dauntlesa Therees ourage
oualy tried to shake off thelr country’s
chain: ‘who were, in consequence,
ruthlessly murdered by John Bull—the
brutal and much slobbered-over friend
'y nobly g thelr
face ‘h
false and Aippant quibbling with
the
serious problems of men.
{the Trish sponers published {n Amer-
on shipped
ing creatures as the editor of the Tablet
seems,to be, The descendants of no
to-day can com:
in craven, snivelling want of al-
e to the {deals of their fore-
e reneged les that we
sh There ts
jess wi
Republic, for which the
wise in their generation, Dat many chil
dren of Irishm
According to the New Sor rk
land’ fs. the wi
Christendom,
Sua, Ire
y in
fault with.
Ta
to conclude that it is only
in dealing with the people of his own
race that the alton coneldera it safe to
play the part
Will the Trish Cathoites of Brookly:
who support that paper, or the eccles!
astical~ authorities there, tolerate any
further display of childish fMppancy
from the Tadlet's editor in reference to
the noble people of that race
Reruse.”
CLAREMEN VOTE $500 FOR
~ RELIEF OF IRISH SUFFERERS.
A solemn high Mass of Requiem for
deceased ‘members ot the Claremen’s
Assoclation will be celebrated at St,
Veronica’s Church, _£hristopher and
m Me-
morial Day, at 10 A.M. Rev. P. Hi
meeting last
Sunday voted $500 for the relief of the
families of the latest victims of British
tyranny in [relani
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CONFESSION OF BRITISH
INCAPACITY -BY BIRRELL,
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(Continued from Page 1.)
Augustine Birrell, former Chief. Secre-
tary tor Ireland, asked Lord Kitchener
‘rench, Commander of
round that théy had no
's own answer to-day
to the charge that his laxness was
sponsible for the outbreaks in the Irish
Capital. He said he always felt very
ignorant of what was going on
3
ey
rehearsed the taking °
t.
Birrell th en read a statement of his
chiefly mm the growth of
Fein moveme:
Birrell said that the ‘ienant attitude
made
ans for warfare in Belfast with nll
the pomp and ceremony of @ rebellion,
MOND «STOOD
“This affected those inclined to be
disloyal elsewhere,” he said.
said it was Impossible to over:
estimate the bad effect created among
Irish Catholics’ by the advent into the
British Cabinet of Sir Edward Carson,
Ulster lea
Birrell sald he keew that the Irfeb
revolt was doomed
start. If the German landing of arms
and ammunition had succeeded, the
whole population might have join-
ed fighting on both sides.
He explained that drilling of
armed bands of men was not suppressed
before the rebellion because it would
have been difficult to prove the men had
hostile intentions and that methods of
repression would have encouraged
bloodshed.
“vas. th jolicy of non-intervention
in dealing with the vite Vojunteers a
Cabinet decision?” he wi
“Yes,” was the respo ee.
“Did the Cabinet make a similar de-
cision regarding the Sinn Fein Volun-
teers? ked, 1
“No,” he replied.
BISHOP opwYER AND THE
r, Birrell sald that ‘there was a con-
ber of priests who made
One of the
rmidable anti-recruiting pam-
phlets ever -written, he said, cam
the Bishop of Limerick, ten we sold
by, tens of thesoands of
ction taken ‘0 “mop this
y sent Sherman.
procedu
No,” vpald the
‘The state of “feeling varied ver:
ys
felt that. I was very ignorant of what
in the cellars of Dublin,
d, I was exceedingly nervous about
B
that. I hed beard that the Castle was
to be taken
Reply! juestion from - Lor
Hardinge, Presiding, Birrell agreed that
the ranks of the Sinn Fein rebels were
oy mallitary, 8 slackers
have been at the He
e rebel movenent hed
disarmament would have. been danger-
“Me, Redmond always considered the as M
Sin Feiners negligible,” he added, “but a
jm
don, implying
mt Troland in closer touch with the situ:
ae lon.
Birrell replied thet it was necessa
3
5
n the Cabinet was
discussing bills would have done just
as well.”
commission then adjourned its
hearing until Monday.
Wimborne was
——_ .
PRETTY STURDY “SLACKERS.” _ | Miral had failed to send back to Dublin
In the Light of the magaificent fight-| castle, the news whlch Dubin core
jag done by the Irish Volunteers for| Ein tries meanly to “inake out ot this
ven days in the streets of Dublin, Bir-] SY rsni” compicine. ‘proot. that. ‘the
roll’a statement that there were many | treacherous warning dld not come from
mijitary slackers who ought to be at Aiport
e front” among them paren
idleton, among other rnings,
sald that al Ireland had turned agains!
nd, that he could not be
ed In any constituency in Munster,
ee © vere his life would not be safe if
P OpPICIALS QUARRELLED,
Birrell ‘was recalled on Saturday and
gave further Evidently
Lord Wimborne, Birrell and Nathan had
warrelled and are now trying to shift
Or whole, the evidence given be-
fore he Royal Commission supplies the
most striking story of the ineffi
of Bnelsh
er
pollticlans, 80 tr as Ireland fs concern-
responsibility for what took place ia
» While admitting that they | ed, are like the Bourbons: they learn
ere powerless to it. “Every man | nothing and forget nothing, Asquith is
with real knowledge of
that fhe Ei ettsh and Anglotr ih nin-
com, no be-
cause more or ingen t repressive meas
ures were not taken are simply “talking
through their hats,” but they have
now sai ma plan to
replace one monstrosity by a worse one.
‘This plan is reported to be to admin-
ister Ireland by a sort of mixed commis-
sion Carson’ mites
the
drawn out admissions which show that| and to put “Home Rule” ‘operation
competence and incapacity are en-| in Leinster, Munster and Connacht,
throned in Dublin Castle and that the| cluding all of Ulster. This will satisfy
le pystem of administration is a| nobody in Ireland and fan
Bopeted Jam je. flame . of hostility to England into
Lord Wimborne was called before the! a white hea
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Royal Commission on Monday, as was
were dangerous. Mr. te always howling for repressive meas
ed the policy of non-intervention in| ures, Wimborne was because
Irtsh affairs by the British’ Govern-| he was treated by Birrell as all Lord
a" Lieutenants are treate Chief Sec.
_ CABINET DEAF TO IRELAND. etaries, ‘complained petulantly about
: Hardinge inquired why Mr. Bir-| being Ignored, said that he also had
tell spent so much of his the In Lon eked for more troops and then admit
be worl
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deterring, only stimulate the Irish race
of the fact
American Public fs heart and soul wit
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dents, ‘etc., should be feat
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In preparation for the day—to arouse
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Finally,’ae tle time Js short, instant
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I the day itself, it should
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make'the tenth of June
! most remarkable and’ most“ compelling
ish day ever known on thls Continent.
make
world on that day hear, and feel, and
to avenge the butch-
and to free
the. land for which their ives were given.
- Britain
resolve
eland’s bravest; al
@ great work!
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GAELIC LEAGUE OUTING. ve
annual outing and games of
Gaelic League of the State of New York
will be held:at Celtic Park
Sunday, May 28.
ill
fore the working
‘an meet, I desire to make .
places could, meanwhile,
if there are only
of Irish
to-morrow,
the weather condi-
. will be a fve-mile bicycle race, re)
IRISH MARTYRS DAY. jig and hornpipe competitions ang,
> ladies’ race—all open competitions, Tye
By Senna Tuas’ MacMas football match will start promptly at 3
the Frien t Trish "Freedom o'clock, Professor McIntyre will sop
Bly the mausie for the Irish and Am
TO OUR FRIENDS THE
POETS, AN AND UTHER.
AELIC “Awrmeas MERI
“Tne Gal receiet
in their fight to the finish: that comes from Ireland and the reports
n the second place, it is of the ut-| of the activities of Irish-American oy,
most importance that there should be| ganizations, which are increasing in
secured interest and co-operation | numbers every day, have the first claim
Americans and American bodies—| on y;
trades unions, councils, clubs, and s0/” Many reports of public meetings are
crowded out again this week, but 5
will be given to them next week
}
Mac NEILL AND WHITE CONVICTED
A cable despatch from Dublin on Wed.
nesday afternoon stated that Eoin Mac
red
tence would | be pronounced later, The
jespatch ade
“He was ‘tea secretly. It was
Te
ported that he clashed with Sinn Fein
leaders regarding ‘the advisability ot
starting the rebellion and left the Irish
capital before the revolt broke out,
The authorities, however, charged that
he was connected with the plot.”
Another despatch from Aberdare,
Wales, reports that Captain J. R. White,
the Government to deal leniently with
the Irish Rebels.
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