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The Saelic Gmenican.
August 26, 1916,
OFFICE OF
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he Cactie Mexican
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 26,1916.
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'*. SOME CHUMPS ON KEWSPAPERS:
The New York American, like all the
yw of O'Donova’
othe trish patriot’s third wife.
June 29 last
who plotted. to slay, the-enemies of Ire-
land with dynamite.
a prisoner, held for treason-felony,
d bis
in prison, and the House
refused to seat him. Lo
The galoot- who’ wrote that the
Fenien movement “plotted to slay the
ice
or run errands, but he is out of place
writing or other work requiring
ordinary intelligence. :' And the -copy-
reader. ho let his “story”, p no
r 'y Editor ought to to know,
if bis assistants don't that dynamite
been invented’ in . 1865-67, but
thinks thet’ Fenfanism
land” was with powder and shot in
battle,
The statement that “he fought dis
Chairman, in 1870, admitted that the
to nullity them and to insult the ma-
Jority ofthe: readers of his papers.
There are chumps and noodies on all
newspapers, and it is hard to eliminate
them, but it ought to be easy to get rid
of vicious men who seek to frustrate
the good intentions of the owners.
DULCE EST PRO PATRIA MORI,
June 15 last a troop train of old
ramsbuctle cars stuffed to the limit
with a thousand British soldiers was
sent from Karachi i
journey seven men
died soon after being
‘The sensation caused in England and
India over-the gross brutality of the
authorities through‘ whose culpability
this occurred roused the higher author-
ities to action. The loyalty of the Brit-
ish troops in India might be under.
mined if something was not don
with India in a state of dteattection
bordering on revolt, it had to be done
quickly. A commission was ordered. to
enquire and the result
nding at Karachi,
—were removed
What the people of fndia may think
of this typical British business can be
imagined; what the rest of thé British
army may think of it iso}
quence, They may
00 | the Greek troops
hghting “for the Empire,” High Finance
and the maintenance ‘Upper
Classes in England in their privileged
positions. Their officers’ names are in-
| scribed onthe “Roll of Honor” in the
British papers, and their! carcasses, no
Jonger of any use, are chucked in fester-
ing heaps into hoies in the ground to
furnish food to worms and maggots. It
1s sweet to die for one’s country.
+ THE COURSE OF: THE WAR. :
Whether the commotion over affairs
in the Balkans in’ our Anglomaniac
rags is really duplicated on the spot is
hag been on Greek territory from which
and the civil popula-
tion haye withdrawn. What the medley
of races and languages composing the
army of the Allies, some with no par-
ticular regard for the others, is going
to accomplish against the solid Bulgar
jan army With its allied contingents,
who know every. inch of the country
both before and behind them, is still :2
the future.
Bulgarians © are
ie comparatively
open country in the Vardar Valley could
not go far until its wings were fn firm
Possession of the mountain ranges
either side, and that, would be difficult
to obtain as the topographical features
the Allies may
plotted and staked out for resistance in
the event of their ‘being obliged to fall
r to joted that] f,
the population is Bulgarian throughout
with a perfect knowledge of e defen-
sive capacity of their country.
the Western Front the Allies have
Practically been brought ve a standstill
what operations are going o1
costly beyond their value expec
oe
sR
the Crimean. War that an omelette can-
not be made without breaking eggs, in
allusion to the French losses at the
claimed 2,559 officers alone of whom 737
N
‘oss the| ofti
d| France and Russia
were killed, 1,658 w-unded anc 134
missing. What the number of common
soldiers were has nat been stated, but
it must have been proportionatel:" great.
The Roll of Honor, as the London Timcs
calls the officers" list; might fm the case
f the men be called the Roll of Horror,
r
perially*
seems, attribute these heavy losses to
the amateurish training of the British
cers and men. It really never was
anything else, but the fact was lost
sight of that all England's own wars
have only been against naked savages
or poorly armed and {ll-trained troops.
Now they are.up against something,
and that exposes the flaw in the British
. | military’ system.
if Maxim Gorky’s description of Rus-
sian social conditions which was puv-
Nshed in the New York American last
Gi
nL
FLIC Aménican
has said before, the alliance between
is an unnatural and
unholy union, brought about solely by
ization bringing the greatest amount ~f
benefit to the mass of its people. The
assistance rendered byathis country to
Russia and her Allies therefore con-
stitutes a crime against humanity for
which it must answer one day at the
bar of historical justice. -
“It is therefore interesting to note that
the great Russian
throughout the country behind the Cen-
tral armies may be constfered safe for
the populations, e efforts to force
Roumania out of its attitude of neu-
trality romain so far unsuccessful. The
Roumianians hav
. | The
particularly
his-| at
oad} LON!
Council, Sssued todays th
mde that
. then, fitteen yeats old wi
try, and though High Finance pretends
hostility to those countries where Jews
are’ “persecuted,” it can always find
means of adjusting its prejudices where
profit can be made through third par-
ties, say England or Fr
The Italian Drive tows ards. Triest has
e Treas
proving stronger’ than the New York
Herald and Telegram and King Victor
Emmanuel’s Government anticipated.
eagerly to Venizelos and Mr. Megalosto-
mos.
the different Asiatic fronts the
Russo-British Allies are being held in
check
of Erzeroum, and are still pushing the
Russians back in Persia. Mr.
Probably at the instigation of Mr. Noel
Buxton, “Viscount”
oe
&
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region there |
nothing of importance.
TO ISOLATE IRELAND, .
New Order-in-Council’ a Virtual
-Blockade—Forbids Anyone. to
inter or Leave ‘he Country.
0 Order-in-
has been
's empowered under the Defense of the
may
© to the Daited Kingdom
om parte “peyond the sea
“any wich persons ‘embar ing for or
found in Ireland will be Tenerded as
gullty of @ summary offense, says the
ord
‘Action of somewhat similar’ nature| F:
fs een faves in regard to Australia,
“ Announce
roved by British authorities. Per-
sons sailing from. foreign countries
must have passports vised by a Bi
ish Consul.
Whatever else you may
or may not
b you may unfailing-
ly look forward, the seizure somewhere
by England of an American ship,
ds | paths and m
They listened too| o1
Lansing, | ¢
er:
ou | inhibition,
eggs.
no person more | nel
DR. O'DWYER SCORES FAKIRS
Bishop of Limerick Denounces
Pamphlet | on ~ “Patriotism”
Issued by Commissioners of p
National Education to
tio
“Trish Children British Iuper- or
ialists,
The Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer, Bishop
ot Limerick, has re dered Ireland an-
other priceless service ouncing
the new atte empt to make Tish children
“happy English children.” This brazen
schemé has been laid bare by the pa-
triotie Bishop in a letter to them
the ‘National Schools
Diocese of Limerick. It is sought to
carry out this politial proselytism in
jools by means of a pamphlet en:
ted “Patria by Mrs.
kie, wife of Dr. Starkie, Real
missioner of Education nm, end ‘feu ned by
the National Board of Education for use
in the schools under their furiediction,
In this manner it is sought to divert
Irish children “from
ists. Bishop O’Dwyer's letter is in part
as follow!
The Commtestoners of National Edu-
cation have issued for use in the schools
which are subject to their jurisdiction,
a pamphlet on “Patriotism,” wri
Mrs. May C, Starkie, » T pre
sume, of Resident Commissioner.
Dr. Starkie has been quite enough for
us for many years without inflicting
upon us the activities of an educatiénal
Mrs. Proudie, and I suggest
as for an assistant
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as
ae
would ‘be simply intolerable if the
ladies of his family exercised a right of
semi-official interference. = —
The painphlet, he says, is in reality
only a recruiting manifesto, and if any
attempt is made to impose it upon the
children the Commissioners will prob-
ably meet with unexpected opposition.
moment there
tealing m a country than nem-
ber f a day. Recent ‘tate
Dublin, the | perfidy of the English Gov-
it on Home Rule, the dishonesty
phases of the cnplictty
which has just been revealed rlia-
ment, have e Irish peor ple in
temper that will ndt brook the trifling
of England's retainers, or accept les-
sons on Patriotism from them, | Patriot-
ism has been burned by centuries of
wrong into the soul of Ireland. We
drank in the love of Ireland with eur
mothers’ ik... The whole history of
our country is one lesson in Patriotism.
The Yellow, Ford, Benburb, The Curle’
Mountain, Limerick, Font , these
are the memories that thrill the heart
of every y . but the Com-
little to say up
wrongs and su! ftevings or her national
rights.
-is not a word in this prectows
pamphiet. about Grattan, or Emmet,
O'Connell, or Butt, or
so at the risk
e to revert to
jays of Whately, and teach nee
pupils to bless thel goodness and th
s| grace that made them happy oelish
childrer
T need not point out to “you, gentle.
men, the vpoatedlty of this latest at:
tempt at political proselytism or its|
e plenty of boys
anxiety for their patriotism by suggest-
ing that she might be more usefully
employed in teaching her nal
andparent the way of extracting, by
thes semi-liquid matter of
IRISHMEN MISREPRESENTED
Bogus Story That Irish Residents
in Rome Sympathized With
Redmond’s Treason Exposed i in
the “Catholic Bulletin.”
The Catholic Bulletin tor July scores
the methods which have been practiced
to make it appear that
John Redmond,
race. To carry on
London adler printed what purported
0 be the ial ions of the Irish colony
in Rom story is pronounce
fabrication oy the Catholic Bulletin,
whiten refers to it as follows:
‘cording to the Roman correspon-
dent of the London Tabict of May 20,
“over two hundred Irish residents
ome, the initative - of
‘ather White, Rector of San Sil-
vestro in pite (church of the
English colony) and Chevalier Con-
Han, sent tele, to Mr. John
Redmond expressing their sympathy
| and solidarity with him.” Thé tele-
Freeman's
Journal of the 11th ef the same month.
-| As there was some reason to doubt the
curac: t nouncement and
legram, © en jes made of several
gentlemen resident in Rome at that
since ned to Ireland, have
eiltted the thiowing facts and figures:
There were Rome at the date fn
auestion 145, Irshines: of that number
| er in Fron;
Range er | a
‘0-/ coming near-sighted from
the traitor, |
te were not consulted and naturally
e no assent to the telegram; not
oat this, bat they keenly resented the
sen of a message obviously meant
t they were consenting
who were connected
and gave their consent—some fourteen
mber—consisted for the
the wir
scotland and has lived but little in Ire-
jand. On the whole, the impression
made amongst Irishmen by the send-
ing bh a message is thi 8
of chicanery ever perpetrated in the
Eternal City.
hora :
‘| ENGLAND AT, HER OLD GAME
Keoping Prisoners in Solitary
‘ Confinement and Tying Their
Hands Behind Their Backs as
She Did to Rossa,
" When the truth becomes known as to
how England is treating the Irishmen
Oni
piercing learnest that Engl
verted to her old time savagery, if in-
deed, she ever abandon rison-
goch who is ‘Tetls more than
e
was recently, while lying
ell, without any justifica-
physically,
down in his
tion or reasén whatever, kicked and
struck on the back of the
jallor, The
with
English jailors sed to do-thet ‘to the
Fenians, and particularly ‘0 poor Rossa,
so they are no ve orices
Nevertheless, they will not n Sable t to
a this stripling’s spirit. for al-
though the fellow is rapidly be-
finement he remarks jocularly that he
is losing his sight looxing for a mouth-
ful to. eat. “Scratch the Russian,” said
Napoleon, “and you'll find a Tartrr.”
Scratch an Englishman and you will al-
ways find a savage.
What a ‘heaped up debt we Irish peo-
ple have to pay England. God grant 4t
will be given us to pay it fully and
soon. - .
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ALLIES 8 WAR TOLL.
ce tensor en As Result. of ‘Two lite
t .
ighting.
Frankfurter
e BERL!) i on
Bel- 1 | Zeitung publtats an estimate of the
losses in the war based o1
w
two years’ fighting are, it is claimed,
very conserva Ave.
ngland’s losses are siven as: Army,
808,900 ‘iio, wounded missing;
navy, nearly 19,000 prisoners, more
than 50,000 total losses.
‘ance in all categories shows about
the same losses.
Italy is said to have lost more than
200,000,
Russia’s colossal losses total 8,500,-
000, including about 1,500,000 killed.
jans have Jo st 200,000; and
Servia twice that n
“ent rente Pow-
10,000,000, of who
more “than "7800, 000 are dead.
SPRING IN IRELAND, 1916,
By James Srernexs.
(From the London Nation.)
In other lands they
With public joy or dole “along the way,
p and pageantry and loud Ja-
ay
of drums and trumpets, and with merri-
Of grateful hearts, lead into rest and
The nation’s dead.
If we had drums and trumpets, if we
had |
Aught or heroic pitch or accent glad
To hon
Jn
mournful
And ora corte these would we
For your iat journeying!
We have no drums or trumpets; naught
But some green branches taken from a
And flowers hat grow’ at large in mead
Nothing of choice have we, oF of avail
To do you honor as our Rover deems,
And as your worth beset
Sleep drums and trumpets yet a little
me:
All ends and all begins, and’ there is
At last where discord was, and joy at
Where roe wept out her eyes: be not
dow
Here au “prosperous and> goodly
For ite “done follow death, and death
0 dealing with Irishmen who| man
- fall into her pow ol
icular shows with
land has re-| *
the close con-| e1
results of | w
DUBLIN CASTLE LIVERY,
How the Dublin “Freeman,” the
Official Organ. of the Trish
Party, Became the Most Obse-
quious Instrument of the Brit-
ish Government,
The Dublin ‘Freeman's Journal tg
described as foljows in a pamphlet, en.
tit ea “Through Corruption to Dismem.
The Government set itself to con.
vert what was
PARNELL ‘LL FORETOLD
How an Trish Party Party Would Suos
cumb to Demoralizing English
_nlnenes at Westminster,
¥ O'Brien, in his “Life of Pars
following toatenee
in maintaining an Irish
Panitamentary Bae permanently at
Weatm
on ” said Parnell,-“one of
thove pre believe in the permanence of
their constituencies, or
legislating or fete jo legislate
for Ireland at Westminster,
BRITISH OFFICERS LOST,
NDON, , Aug Tho
usta “continue.to show
3.— Officers’ casualty
‘uly 16 ‘to -23— rere 525 ‘Killed, 1,070
Toon? and 201 missing, a total of
Ismere was
and ariteen Meutenant Cole
onels were kille
“A MONTH'S 'S LOSS AT SEA.
BERLIN, ‘Aug. 16-6 16 (via London).
an official statement issued here to-day,
ays nat during July seventy-four
chan ig to the Entente Als
and Austrian
mines, rhe anips had
a total tonnage of 103,000 t
WOODEN STORES IN DUBLIN,
* DUBLIN, Aug. 18.—Almost
tl
buildings are making their appearanca
mn the midst of wreckage and desolae
tion.
The t majority of these struc
‘ures are dainty little buildings, pers
fect houses, whose - white an
gold frontages, fixed around sparkling
lass windows, contrast striikin ly with
the shapeless ma: of brick and
stone and contorted “ronwork forming
their backgrow
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A LONGING,
Eire to RB. C,«
The following poem was handed to
oe Roger Casement in the Dock on the
he was convicted .of Treason,
at the conclusion of the oe of the
Lord Chief Justice to the
Teds, and sent to
10 leave the Dock while the Jury went
out to deliberate upon the verdict.
To ios your hand,
And. ay its blessing” Test upon mY
The hai na whos se magic brought to life
‘The love 1 feared was dead.
To kiss your fee!
Weary with -constatt halts upon the
or Freedom—Yea,
those in service
mi
Have bitter load.
To kiss your bro:
Hard pressed (co alten eyes) with
crown of
Whose thoughts and noble , courae®
rough oo
Dustin eee, 1916,
My resurrection morn. “
eeaonoo:
pesyese