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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
Vol. XIIL, No. 2
Wiole No, 643,
7
NEW YORK, JANUARY 8, 1916.
w York, N.Y.
Eptered as sovond-claes matter, Oc. 1198, at the Post Office at
under the act of Congress:
of Mai
rob 3, 1873.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CONSCRIPTION BY STARVATION NEW SCHEME
Dublin Castle Board Refuses ta Sanction Appointments Of Medical Dispensary
Oiticers Unless They Go To The Front First And Minister To Tommy Atkins—
Post Office And Ordnance Department Employees Dismissed To Force
Them To Join The British Army—Opposition Of The Redmondites
i A Sham—They Are Doing Their Utmost To Disarm And De-
stroy The Irish Volunteers, The Only Force In Ireland
That Cau Prevent Conscription—Their Vote In
Parliament Will Be Perfunctory Only. ‘
While Conscription in form legal-
British Parliament has not
has been
of ouacription
is
uardians and
tion the appointment
elected by the Guardians, on the grow
that the dactora were ellgibte for war
service, ant on their 7 return the
Goard would (Gatien their elections.
:Under date of December“t3 the Dub-
lin Castie outfit sent this letter to the
Swinford Board of
in view also of the present urgent
rectly for ‘ston doctors for the
my and Board would sug-
feat that the Cdardiane might endeavor
to make some temporary
Waereby Dr. Sweeney would be enabled
to volunteer for active service until the
Guardi-
manent appointment. —I am,
“I.E, IN, Assistant "Secretary."
wn, with a population
was one of; the largest
cena ttericte in the county, an
porary arrangements would n at
be ‘ena the nes overnment
Board were in ct eubtstances re
{westet to ‘eanction the appointment,
‘PROTESTS 1N THE PAPERS.
. The Castle took similar action in the
cases 1 officers elected at Car-
Rey, County Sligo, ‘Tyrrellspass, King’s
c ymahon, County Long-
‘eek, it would seem
ee not tolerated, and hence
vo not be taken up, by the English
“Without qmishing to detract’ in any
Yay from
th necassity of keeping up
Me strength of tl WAL and 80
te iNe It tn the position of rendering
rout to’ our’ sick and
tuted Soldiers, there still remains @
Y towards thos
3@ at home, who cah-
LCOBROING.... THE... BOABDS. -OF wb
« GUARDIANS. ©
not be left altogether out of considera-
tion in their illness
rhs is particularly 50 it regard
to the sick poor at this season, and to
practically debar Boards ‘of Guardiang
one of their
important duties seems to be bot
en if men
m, at double
What the ,vacancies can be filled per-
manently at
Steal Government sBoawd auditors
nd surcharging Guadians
ihe ca “sailings outdor relief given
on the most petty and triv-
iat “fechntcalities and commenting on
their ‘misconduct.’ ere we have
an attempt to coerce these same Guardi-
ans to’ incur-an illegal expenditure
which may run into hundreda of pounds
in, any single instan
{Irish Boards of Guardians tamely
submit to this hign-handed attempt at
vetoing their appointments, it would be
much better that they at once give up
their work in Local Government, and
leave it in the hands of this dominant
body, which has long since established
a record in the knowledge of ‘how not
to fo it”
GOVERNMENT Eupuovnes DIS-
2
It developed te She course of a dis-
cussion at the Dublin Port”and Docks
‘d_on.-December..16,-that.forty. em
Toyes of the General Post Office and
arty of the Ordnance Department have
been dismissed in order to compel them
go to the fri joard had
under consideration a letter from the
Keerutting Department, asking for par-
itary age in the
service of the Board. Objection was
made by some of the members to giv-
ing the desired information. The Irish
wing report
with the explanation that
decided that a “suitable ents be sen
to the Recruiting Department
“The Dublin Port ad, “Docks Board
yesterday decided, after discussion, that
a suitable reply be sent to a letter from
by eruiting Department asking,
particulars as to men of ‘nilttary ‘age
in the service of the Board.
objected to
supplied, con-
tending that the Board's employes had
received a form through the police, and
y who wished to do so
an his opinion the military au-
thorities were now going behind
men's backgy and asking employers to
2
&
ar
most contemptible form. of Conscrip-
n,? ethod t! he Boal
should arty to.’ If, he .
land had so well that she should
not be asked to’supply any more men.
There were thousands of young men
all ers. ‘And three+
them have refused to fill it” said Al.
germ ‘T have not’ hear
any,” sresolned, the Chairman,
rhe declared
2
the Ordnance Departm
been dismissed, in order to compel them
to join.
“On ‘th e Alderman moving that the
letter be marked ‘rea
Derby schem: ae ere married men, and
single men there told him they would
not go until they were fetched,
POLITICS AND COMMON SENSE.
. in second
gught to permit common-sel
oyded that tbe military authoritics here
should not impose restrictions which
\ (Continued on Page 8.)
ENGLAND'S PIRACY
STILL RUNNING RIOT.
Captain and Crew of New York
Ship “Kankakee,” Plying Be-
tween Neutral American Ports
Seized and Imprisoned on Own
Ship — Congressional Action
Demanded,
President Wilson displays extraor-
dinary agility whenever some happen-
ing in the war overseas seems to place
Germany or Austri position of
hostility to the United States. Future
history will give the President due
credit for this wonderful activity after
a fashion, but it is not so certain that
the sober sense of the American people
when once it is properly enlightened
will endorse it as an example
can neutrality, As a writer o!
manufactu re to justify in the unborn
years the attitude of Great Britain at
this time, esn't, he can be
But the President is not so dense as
some of his actions would go to prove.
For instance he cannot plead guilty to
ignorance of the many crimes against
fnternattonal law committed Eng
He cannot be ‘anocent of the
know wiedge that Engl has seized
American ships, fying ‘the American
8, Sa ween neutral ports of
the Americas, and with non-contrahind
cargoes in thelr vottoms,
know:
fiance of the Dei
of this
knowledge through Trotests filed in the
Department of
President tee promised that the
would make vigor-
Department of State
is kept outside
mit ort Montevideo
under convoy for "three weeks. Cap-
tain and crew were held as prisoners
on | thetr own ship and during that time
allowed ‘to land, although
within ‘slaht of shore, The captain was
forbidden to notify his owners of the
fate of the Kankakee, Finally on No-
vember 25, three weeks after the seiz-
w were
York last
urger, first ‘engineer of the
Kankakee, who was among the men
returning on the. Voltaire,
had understood when they left Mot-
tevideo that the ship.was to be taken to
England.
eemeeh HLL Pao
“We were just ent ntering, “Montevideo
harbor and had signalled for'a. pilot:
sald Mersburger Sesterday, “when the
ed
ey
o
&
about four mes on shore, where we
had to drop ai
“rhe captain “inalated on bis right to
American Consul that we got transpor-
tation home. So far as we know, the
captain {s still a prisoner on board.
Her
opportunity for some Sen-
ator or Congressman who ig not afraid
the power of Executive patronage to
do something for American shipping
d for American honor. The 5
Gent's past. actions hold o e
that he will do anything effective for
3
2
Be
3
5
8
3
A nly to
enter passive protest let the country
know {1 of
the sturdy spirit of American Mott
in our Government, if we are not moral
still, as in the case
of Old Glory, then let us caase prating
our independence and confess that
the Republic has dritted from its moor-
ings and is now merely a vassalage of
England.
‘That ts the plain more} of the situa-
TURN DOWN WIMBORNE.
Irish Public Boards Refuse to
Organize Recruiting Commit-
tees Asked for by British Vice-
roy to Induce Ireland’s Man-
hood to Go to European
’ Shambles.”
Some of the Irish public boards while
showing a timorous disposition, prob-
ably on account Defense of the
Realm Act, are ietting the recruiters
hat there ii arcity of labor, and
at no more men. should go to the front
from Ireland. Under a scheme of re-
eruiting sponsored by Lord
Lieutenant, all
ganize meetings in their respective dis
tricts and endeavor to induce the young
shongens,
M.P.'s, Tories, job hunters and job-hold-
‘8 are, of course, in favor of the Wit-
borne plan to help k ee the Empire, on
the map of the world. 80
tain, though, that the bron is going
to be an overwhelming 5:
Both the Athy No. 2 (Qu leen’s Coun
ty) Rural District. Council and the
Thurles District Council have refused
to appoint the recruiting sub-commit
tee asked for by Wimborne. The Free-
man's Journal of December 15 reports
the action of the Thurles body as fol-
lows:
B: votes to 10 the. Thurles
Rural District Council refused to
tee to join in
recruits amongst the farmers’ son:
ow, of the Dublin
Recralting ‘Council, attended to ask
the Rural Council to form such a
sub-commit
Several “teers observed that
no man could be spared from the
Jana, cil ir the farmers were
‘ . Hackett, Sue, was in favor
of the appointment of a sub-com-
mitt :
The trish Times af December-15 yub-
jishes a report of ‘the proceedings of
the Athy R. D. C., during which it was
the Redmondité Mt.
P’s' should go to the front. While the
Pl
soliciting the young manhood
country to find carly graves in France.
‘The report follo
“Ata quarterly ineeting of Athy No,
(Queen's Rural District
Sonnet held in Stradbally, a letter was
4 from Captain Murray Wrigh|
canzer of the Recruiting Area,
advising the Council that Mr. P. J. Mee-
han, the office of
Hon. Controller of Queen's y
der Lord Wimborne’s scheme of recruit:
Ing, and would place himself in touch
h
His Excellency’s scheme, and agreeing
to form a committee, the functions of
which we: e a favorable at.
the holding of mectings,
and provide local speakers.
“Mr. id the man to repre-
gent them mae their M.P, It was very
asy to ome men into harness, but
the men ‘who should be in it were shirk-
ing {t. Out ‘of eighty there were only
four of : M.P.’s who bad gone to
the fron’
“Mr. Byrne—t think they are very
nd sensible men to stop
“The Chairman (Mr. Timmons, J.P.)
said he had answered the letter,’ and
stated that the Council considered that
already a very
had joined the army from the district.
They should try and save the voluntary
system.
on Dunne said they at knew the
tary system was working very
wal with all classes exept “the ter rmers’
ions. Th: the authorities
complained of.
was scarce, and he who
were re to The aitale of the M. Pi ‘8
should
“The ‘ier —there are sixty of them
over ag
“Me, Dunne—it is a grand thing to
have a lot of old men representing us
in Pariiams
“Mr. Shorta! —They are all the wiser
for that.
er They are willing to go if
they ‘could get a
“ VitkingonTastend of staying
in London, the MPs, if they are in
(Gontinued on’ Page 5.)
—
tion created by y Fagan 's piracy on the
high seas and of which American ships
and crews are victims, undefended by
their own Government,
ENGLAND HAS BETRAYED THE WHITE RACE
Her Use Of Indian And Negro Troops {a The European War Will Have Incalculable
Consequences Iu Africa And Asia In The Near Future, Says Dr. Dernburg In
Remarkable Lecture In Vienna—The British Empire Lives On Prestige,
As Much As By Force, And Has Feet Of Clay—Its Mastery Of
The Sea An Injury To The World And Its American Naval
Bases A Menace To The Panama Canal—Amazing
Ignorance In America Regarding England's Real
Policy And Intentions.
The New York 7
imes of last Sunday
published a translation of a lecture de-
livered by Dr.
vienna, on Decemb
Bernhard Dernburg in
er 10, on England’s
employment of Indian and Negro sol-
diers in the present
European war.
D
Deinburg called England s traitor to
he white race’
calamitous effects
what
ais employ ment of
black and brown troops must ultimate-
ly, produce.
It Is the prestige of the white man,
rather than bis actu
r. Dernburg, on which the
fabric
Africa rests.
they argue in Engl
not win?
al power, according
he whole
colonization in
he ntinues, “the
r gland,
rowing this founda.
gi in
t
‘weapon! Probably
land that this step
e no dire consequences for Eng-
pose England
nd even if
All who know the minds of he eitec
races know
their native land,
how: t
weapons, will tell their. fellow country:
men that they
great” lant
England | was «
and
at the thought of |
turn
that th
their
indian,
glishman. shudders
setting these m
his feason
it is that he fs waging his war against
Gi
out,
she cries
cience,
that England is fehting tor civilization
against the
seeks to forget
arbarians, In
that
this way he
is not only
waging war against barbarians, but by
their side, by m
of
BN GLANDS CnLMINAn, ACTION,
lomin:
erected on an entir;
tion, that what
ust
ely diferent 1 founda.
nd, and ne
England a certousty undermined her
ow!
000, 000 colored hu
when she forgot that
80, ‘00, 300 “whites must rate
be!
hat is what lies behing. the news
whiten comes to ui
England's colon!
dissatisfaction, ©
defection of subject
mean that
“That explains the extraoi
acity which Englani
war, for defeat will
setback from whicl
but the anninilation an er ‘Pos
a
colonial
aceldent that the q
rdinary ten-
id must put into this
mean for her not a
h she may recover,
ition as
It is not i mere
estion of maintain-
ing English prestige in the Orient comes
to the fore everywhere in English coun-
ell
aes
“Wher the
land is founded, in
eet world—or
br woRtD-w1DE NAVAL BASES.
orld power of Eng-
the eyes of the un-
perbape we should
‘hk
land has encircled t
ff the centuries and
‘he seas in the course
In pureuance of a
policy unhampered by party vicisst
r it ig not the possession of
Lue most powerful fleet which is the de-
cisive factor in the control of the seas
whether their
actly as aa Colais
and Boulogne. The salient of
English friendship {s that it demands
the door-key from its hosts.
“tn the United States Seorraphy les-
in the public schools been
suspended for u
also lay under the
fire of British naval stations. After my
lectures were over, this map of mine
was surrounded entire hours by numer-
ous persons who kept up a lively dis-
cussion of my remarks,
MENACE THE PANAMA CANAL.
“That map showed them that five
English naval stations were nearer to
Halifax
is controlled by Wel-hai-Wei, Shanghal,
Hongkong, Singapore, Colombo and
Kow the western portion by Mom-
base, “Ganviber and Durban; that the
of Africa js controlled by
‘mand Aden. This map
helped more than anything else to make
these Americans see the justice of our
cause and the necessity for our victory.
DEMAND FOR of RERDOM OF THE
ese reasons “the demand for
the freedoms of the seas bas found such
United States.
e taught their
theoretical position of vassalage to Eng:
land the practical realization of it came
to them when England
tates Army ts
crease tenfold, it is n
ing ne avowed)
ut
The
history of the world is inexorably con-
sistent.
“The unthinking way in which a
great part of the
itself against
Ba
5
3
a
a
presenting
militarism, but on eo a the a
tacks of that pow has
blazoned the ‘atrugele aeelust militar.