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Che Baclic Gmenican
January 22, 1916,
SHACKLEFORD PUNCTURES HATE OF TORIES,
Missouri Congressinan | in ‘prilliant Speech Exposes the Venom af the Money
Changers of New York and New England Against Citizens of Foreign
Birth Because They Are for Honest American Neutrality—Dectares in
Favor of Embargo on War Munitions.
4 debate In the House of Repre-
sentatives on December
man Saackleford of Missouri, seliveres
a rousing speech against the exporta-
setts for his bitlous attack ou byphen-
bal
ated Americans in a previous de
Mr. Shackleford told Gardner and ‘tne
gress that
our Com:
our civilization were the
d his sort
in the past when the Tories of Boston
gave Irish-American cold comfort, an
ailusion to the period when Boston
Knownothings tried to “drive the Irish
out of Massachusetts
ply reh ite Canvent
which they burned to the ground. This
did not make palatable stuf for Gard-
er to hear: but Mr. Shackleford went
Miscourt, Mr. Shackleford’s nativ.
State.
“We Missourians,”
Shackleford, al ie proud of is
Irieh-America: we 38
through Statuary aa and see othe
statue onetime United
General James
Dealing with the Tories of Boston
and the money changers of New York
and New England, who have been doing
all in their power to drive the United
States into the European war and to in-
nist on violation of American neutral.
lty, Mr. Shackleford spoke as follows:
S FOR UNITED 8TATES.
When the European war first broke
out Mr. Wilson,
t either party to the un-
happy conflict. I presume that’ every
ordinary intelligence sympa-
thizes with one side or the other en-
gaged in thet horrible struggle. Like
most other Members of Congress I have
isfactory solution can now be
clearly dlecerned, and only one, which
both feasible and effective.
X°ftem “and “‘dutatle ‘combination. of
Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia,
and Japan—present belligerents—and,
tes or Pan
ndinavia
at Speaker, I believe the time has
me when somebody should speak
on behalf of our. own cou untry.
Let us overlook the passionate out.
he co carefully ignored. The gentleman
did at one time get close enough to his
subject to say that there Js nothing in
international
t ar mal I: whi con-
stitute it an wnneutral act for the
United States to lay an embargo on thi
exportation of arms and ammunition
1 }
terest fe do ft.
vad hag resulted In @ given state of
facts beneficial to’ one belligerent it
would be an unneutral act for our Gov-
ernment to so change its own laws as
sulted in the British driving the “cer.
mans from the sea, so that the Allies
now have” a ‘ beneficiat ~ mono) o!
buying arms in the’ American market,
and that for us to now enact any legla-
lation which would impair that monop-
oly would be unneutral act, even
hough such legislation were enact
solely fo. own Nothing
more absurd. It shall be
rurposes of this discus-
nto call attention to the fact that
the United States has. alrea en
an opposite view of this ‘iwestion dur.
ing this war.
FAVORS AN EMBARGO.
On March 4, 1913, a fleet of Ger-
man cruisers was afloat on the high
count of the superiority
fleet could not go to hom
its supplies, but had to rely solely
\d be secured from
neutral ports, mainly those of the
United states an fleet
had become a «8 ia Tenace to
British shipping and the transpor-
tation of soldiers from British colo-
nies to the seat of war. Thia was
,# condition brought about by. the
the enact that resolution
the United States has foreclosed
the question whether a neutral
Power may, by the amendment o:
its own laws in its own interest,
change conditions which have re-
sulted from the pro; a war
_ question remaining is whether the
best interests of the United States
would be promoted or retarded by
laying au embargo upon the expor-
tation of arms and ammunition,
Mr. Speaker, I favor an embargo.
CAppiaure.) “There are many urgent
ona why it should be estab-
ished.
LAUDS THE HYPHENATES.
Discussing the position of “hyphen-
ay
@ to the haters of citizens
ot Torlgn birth, In this connection he
voemtbe gentleman from Massachusetts
liad much to say in disparagement o}
hyphenated n-Ami
American history. Among them Pow-
hatan, Tecumseh, Osceola, Sitting Bull,
and Geronimo, But the people. who
built our Commonwealth, molded our
Government, fashioned our institutione
and developed our clviltzation were t
hyphenated America
Re epublie our guiding mois
them to the excluston of the others, and
yet the time is far in the when
n_gave Irish-Amert-
jssourians all
between the States.
That old Irleh-American helped to make
this country. great. We have ha
Franco-Am ericans, Danish-American
Swedish- Amer feans. Even Afro-Amer!-
cans have played their part. Who ehall
@ay that, Fred Donglass and Booker
Washington were not lessin ings to the
have wrought well,
the Prestdent has not hesitated to cata-
logue bimeelf as & hyphenate.
Columbus spec! ow
said with some pride that he was. a
Scoteh-Irishma:
EULOGIZES" ‘GERMAN-AMERICANS,
joes the Tory utter with hiss-
ing hatred the term German-American?
or all of the hyphenated Americans,
ho has been more industrious, honest,
law abiding, or patriotle than
man-American? in what Jine of oman
endeavor has German-American
not played @ leading part? When the
Civil War broke wpon us the German-
American was in the forefront of the
contest, battling for the Union. Had It
not deen for the Germans Mfssour!
with the Confederary.
In that event the southern bot ndary
Jowa instead of the nortbern houndary
n the battle
and Stripes in that war, Go into any
State of the Union and in every voca-
we you wilt find te fermen American
aying a s fending
ea iiyDuenates, As time rolls
mn we wih ‘be prouder and prouder that
We join our fortunes
ride
tion we mingle our blood with, theirs,
Why should they be the victims of so
uch calumny here now?
body point to any German-American in
thls country who has expressed a sym-
thy for Germany. as against the
United States? The most he has done
is to express a symp about a mat-
er in which the Vnited States is no
concerned,»
States “e not
German — could
istory
‘abou
which the Tnitea
party. What
look back on
r
ed] Germany’s, and remember the glorious
deeds of that glorious people and not
feet a just pride and heartfelt eympaths
for his Fatherland in the hour of her
sorrow?) 1 am an Anglo-American,
Every drop of blood that courses
through my veins came from England,
But, Mr, Speaker, I am constrained to
Bay a at no nobler ‘ivteation ever
the world than the
less the Gel rman-America
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goa She
DR. MARKGAN SCORES CENSORS.
Bishop of Kerry Protests Against
igh-Handed Action of Bigoted
English Officials Who Open
Private Letters to Irish
clesiastics.
The Most Rev. Dr. Mangan, Bishop
of Kerry, has condemned in scathing
terms the opening of private retters to
the Irish Bishops by the English Gov-
In the hope
of finding something inimical to Cath-
icity. -
Bishop Mangan made bis pointed pro-
test against the arrogance and bigot
of the English Censor: sermon,
delivered on January 3, in the Killar-
ney Cathedi
Bishop Mangan'a sermon is in part
as follo
M;
3
low:
Dear Brethren—I have mado it
an invariable rule of my life not to
speak in the Caureh of pores secular
t going to depart
ing your atten:
Latme make myself clearly understood, t
do not objec joriug of pri-
vate letters in the critical times
tnrough which we are pagsing, but that
should only be cone under certain well-
efined Bmit ation:
. .
But to assert that a number of Gov-
ernment officlals—sometimes blunder-
ing, and I must add, I fear sometimes
also digoted—should have a free hand
to whom they
is a proposition to
hich T Il never subse: As an
xample, let me give you own -ex-
perience, ©. So twelve days ago I
found a letter, addressed to me, was
opened by the Censor. I wrote at once |:
0 the Postmaster General, enclosing
the censored envelope. jy return of
Post I got a courteous reply, stating
“that he was pleased to refer my letter
to the War Office, which was the De.
partment | concerned, and that, doubdt-
ess I id fr them very
soon.” I vyave walted since without a
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Be
in this Cat hear
enter a solemn protest against
My relations ‘with
the people committed to my charge aro
largely of & spiritual character. Every
day brings me letters sacred to the
writers ant sacred and private
with bot nee letters are
Hable ‘to by. every ire
respons! Gor vernnent omcta the re-
sible
lgious ‘relations existing between a
Bishop and hig people would be at an
end.
I may say for myself that 1 am not
bdicate m;
are ruthlessly opened by Irresponsible
officials of the War Office. What
farce? Hitherto, according to the
TMeasure of py Hghis, | the present Gov-
ernment mpathy and sup
port in this dreadfal war. a this the
Peturn they give to me and my Catho-
lic peopie? We many strange
things of the mane during this war,
but I have not yet heard that they are
opening jetters addressed to the Ger-
oa oS inelte Bishops.
been ad. mitted on an bands
that the officials of the War Office have
been
of the letters of the Bishops a Ireland?
Let mo tell these officials that in tackt-
ing this question they are ‘undertating
ee etn grave an
y peethren, the religious Sister-
country have made willing
sacrifices ot thelr ee for the educa-
tion and nursing @ poor, FT speal
trom close perecnal know eage of many
z
of our convents, and
I need not tell
you that thes mctuari @
should expect then “that
ters addressed to them
relatives should at ieast be free fro!
the gaze of the. vulgar Censor. Not
it of ft. Their letters are ag ruth-
lessly censored ax if they had been the
Diackeat enem:
I feel that te is a duty on my part io
enter a solemn protest against such u
gracious treatment, and in registering
nis protest I am confident | may count
on the sympathy and support of the
Catholic people of this diocese. We have
read much of the blundering of these
can scarcely belleve that
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Mr, Pim, Belfast, and Mr, Ginnell,
MP, ver Interesting Ad-
ronan "t Trish Volunteers’
Entertainment—Complete and} +
Permanent Failure of Constitu-
tional Agitation,
a entertainment, under the
auspices of Company F, Second Battal-
ion, Dublin Bri Volunteers,
Laurence Ginnell, M.P., dolivered’ very
interesting addresses, Commandant T.
MacDonagh presided: “
My. Pim, in o-der to- make it’ clear
that he was not standing on a party
platform, referred to the presence of
Mr. Gi ie read a letter of apol-
ogy for non-attendance fi
of Mar, who stated that Professor. Mac-
Neill was perfectly right when he said
if education rather than electioneering
permanent failure of all Constitutional
agitation, so far as Irelan
cerned. At the next, general election,
provided th a gener:
tive opposition, He outlined an labor
ate programme for bringing the Hi
Rule Act into operation by means of
the formation of a voluntary Provision-
al spovernny
Ginnell said they were spending
an renin in a manner which: would
be spoken of with all reverence at a
future date. Now was the time to act
to put Home Rule into operation. Those
who claimed to have put H
being put into operation: By opposing
form whatsoever they would
ff them-
be making laughing stocks
selves,
FOE OF IRISH IRELAND.
Canon O'Dea’ Scores: English
Hypocrisy — Crushing Native
anguage in Treland - While
Posing As Champion of Small
Nationalities.
Rev. Canon O'Dea, Adm; Ennis, in a
Limerick, said that the pro-
Posed withdrawal by tl
of the grant for teacher
crush Irish Nationalitiy at home, and
all for the saving of a miserable $10,000
‘his {s provoking inconsis-
tency.
“Why should not the Irish Party he
asked to intervene in matter?
Surely they have no sympathy with this
posed * retrenchm
was only an optional subject;
neither did the Intermediate Board do
anything, towards the training of Tish
teach Sums ear t
mt rons that fed this national
7 rather Clancy sald Mabitities” had
been assunied on | understanding
that the payments woutd ‘cont inne,
A
withdrawal was
calling on the Coisde Gnotha to organ-
ize public opinion against the stoppage
of the fees. * :
GRAND CANAL BREAK
CAUSES $300,000 LOSS.
DUBLIN, Jan. 13—Tho Grand Canal
at Edenderry ii
ants of the outlying districts wore cut
ff from the towns and waterway traffic
throughout the region was suspended,
The damage fs estimated at $300,000,
GALLIPOLI RETREAT A
BROKEN BRITISH ROUT.
Censor’s Story “of Evacuation
Proves to Be Usual Manufac-
tured Article and English Now
Forced to Admit Heavy Losses
in Men and Equipment. .
The nonsensical] series of lies sent
British Censor relating to
Gallipoli Penin-
that the
ea, No one but a
bays
without snes
ful contradiction.
but a stupid Eveltsh ‘itll ‘would be
upidity that led
numbering tens 0
rmous stores of itions,
food supplles ang transportation, fool
ties, with no casualtics. save the
of one man.
American newspapers of January 15
tell a different story of the Geonceches
The New York American in des}
from London and Berlin mes: enearet
‘9 the exact truth. was fore
te admit that its rst version was false,
as all of its news from the war zone
has been. Quoting Turkish official re-
ports of the disaster to the Br itieh, 8
the easiest way to get out o!
ward situation: it admits thet instead
spate foncedes the loss of
» but he. hi
subterfuge, “that t his
‘tual embarkation of his
troops, and ignores the heavy casualties
in the retreat trom the trenches before
Krithia to the landing beaches
booty taken by the Turks, and which
Munro and the British Censor conven-
iently forget to mention, includes the
following valuable and serviceable
tor ores: .
caiinon, 2,000 rifles, 8,750
srenates, 4,500 boxes of ,ammunt-
tion, 13 ine throwers, 45,000
bombs, 160 Oe carts, 61
light carts, 67 lighters and pon-
toons, 2,850 tents, 1830 stretchers,
21,000 tins of food," 5,000 bags of |.
maize, 12,500 shov and large
stores of benzine, ron blank-
gs and wearing aj
Another despatch o the New Yo: -
Ameren ated Berlin, January 14,
ane via Gon an
ich
through the "Ss de,
says that the calip atta was
“like a huge store.” ives further
retails. of the Takis * tory as fol-
lows:
wireless despatch was received
the booty taken by the
Everywhere, he says, there were
unexploded. land torpedoes. and
bombs, munition carts and mov-
able barracks for officers with /
“splendid feather beds” in them.
He adds’ that ten war automo-
biles fitted as ambulances were
found, and in additton piles of pre-
served meats, jam and cheese suffi-
cient to stock several large stores
tles of saddles and harness and a
huge rice store.
“The place impress ne one as
huge store, rather than a battles.
field,” the correspondent. .
‘That there was a big loss in Bren is
indicated despatch in. the
New York Sun of Jaouery
rej im ents, according to
tory fered severely.” When
the: British censor admits that the Brit
ish “suffered severely” it can be taken
the light of past experience that they
Cttawa report
5
sure to be chronicled .
Here ts what the O1
tawa despatch concedes.
Reports reaching Ottawa. today
indicate that Canadian troops have
ly stated to have been
535 killed and wounded. The regi-
ighting which have
rd Canadian
fantry Battaiton r Calgary, under
Lieutenant A, H. Bell.
The Third Canadian Mow
is under the command of Lieuten-
~ ant Colonel Whitaker.
men composing regi-
ment are from all corners of the
General hughes cabled to the War
tls.
The one man Killed has increased to
several bundre
the Gallipoll Peninsula. Still the Brit
ish Censor will continue to operate his
le factory, and to fool parts
world including the United stat
his seemingly, limitless resources of
ception and monstrous prevarication,
—+-
HUNGRY JOB SEEKERS
BEGINNING TO Howt,
(From the: Leader, Sa San Francisco.)
The English administration {n
land is engaged in what is k)
feeding a dog with is own
the process is 0 th
mentary
not he overwor!
Of -the
les with .
de.
han, four _ hundred
jounds a year should be paid.
ee
TEAGUERS DENOUNCE
LIVERPOOL OUTRAGE,
Even branches of the’ United trish
League aro beginning’ to show some
symptoms of Nation:
01
to pass the following resolutions
“That we, the mombers of the
od 1. ague, desire to express
our emphatic condenination of the ac.
allow Irish. emigr: ‘0 travel by
their veasels, while allowing English
sengers similarly ~. circumstanced
fous action ie only | in keoping with the
boycott of irish m: mother occa-
sion, In future all ell respecting fet.
men here and in America should
fuse to travel by that Company’e shire,
significant body of bigoted
English employere won't ‘be allowed to
tute them selves’ a miniature
louse of
“That es pespecttully tender our
thenks to his Lor rdship, Dr. O'Dwyer,
for his noble letter, and we are certain
our Members of Parliamen’ for Cou
s! won't remain silent about the
‘eatment of some’ of the most respect
bie of their constituents.” =
time: when* chagrin’ and
ig like a blood-
bound upon the hee! of Patriotism.—
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