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CLAN-NA-GAEL IRISH GAME ,
1‘ .
The Grove. Txfashington Park on the
Delaware. Friday. Iuly 4:, 1932.
‘ CLAN-llll-GAEL JOURNAL
OFFICE :
Irish-Ame.ricart Cltrb
no .l'prucc' Irraet.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1901.
speak for a united Irish race. Not more
than elty per cent. of the electors cast
their votes for them, and the resolute
and aggressive policy of Parnell has been
almost wholly reversed, in spite of some
“tall txlk” and the radinest of some
msinbers to win rbtap glory by “dying
.on'the’-floor of Lhe.Houxe." Since Par- m
.>'. nell was thrown to the English wolves
there has been-diuinct and painful ret
ment which he led Queen Victoria was
assured in the name of the Irish parlia-
‘mentary party of is ‘respectful reception"
and thanked by the leader of the party
IO! “ i I
THE’ FUTILITY OF CONSTI-
-H t’lUTI0llAL AGITATION.
During the past hundred and twenty
years tivo separate and distinct princi-
ples have struggled for the mastery in
Ireland, and the advoutes of each have
followed two distinct methods of polit-
ical .' action. One acknowledges the
conquest of Ireland as final and seeks by
pcacttul ‘methods more or less of politi-
cal ‘amelioration under the British crown.
The other aims at tcttal separation from
England by force of arrrls.
During all that period the Irish peo-
ple have been swayed alernalely by one
or the other of these rival political meth-
ods, according as their hopes of lighten-
ing their awful burden, or of throwing
it off entirely, happened to be in the
aiccndanr. It is safe to say that ninety
per cent. of the Irish race would infin-
attly prefer total separation if the choice
were oliered . Experience has
taught them, however, that Ireland
could only,win in a physical struggle by
strikiilg when England had a great lor-
eign war on her hands. Experience has
also taught them that England pays no
attention whatever to the mere justice
of demands made upon her, and that the
eoncessions she makes are in exact pro-
portion toithe degree of force which
-- -- stands bihind the demand, or the danger,
inconvenience or loss which refusal may
involve. Hence the Irish people. while
waiting for the chance to take all that
belongs to them, have availed them-
itlvesiof every opportunity to better
their condition, and have sometimes sup-
ported both policies at the same time.
Grauan's movment was essentially a
Dhysical force one, and ’s temporary
victory was due to Napper ’l‘andy’s guns
and the bayonets of the volunteers in
front of the Parliament House, not to
his eloquence within it. He threw away
the guns and bayonets and let the volun-
teers be disbanded, and when England
had crushed the half armed people in
"r-"“ 1798 the Union was made easy.
Neither O'Connell's matchless eloquence
nor his great peaceful agitation, but the
threat of mtltiny in England’: Irish reg-
iments won Catholic emancipation. The
‘tithes were abolished, not because they
were unjust, but because the plundered
Irish people used guns, pitchforks and
ecythes to shed the blood of the men
who came to collect them. O'Connell
distinctly discarded all possibility of us-
ing force in his movement for repeal of
the Union, and the greatest and most
ably led peaceful agitation the world has
ever seen was doomed to dismal failure.
h un-
a'r'rned men, but the rescue of Manchester
and ‘ the Clerkenwell explosion made
Gladstone dlsestablish the Irish Protes-
tant Church and bring in his first land
bill. Many of the Fenians gave their
support to Parnell, and the measure of
success which he achieved was wholly
due to the fact that his movement was
distinctly militant. He avoided O'Con-
nell’: fatal error of denouncing force,
and he constantly warned England that
if his demands were rejected she would
have to reckon with men of more ex-
treme views and sterner methods. Par-
nell understood and acted upon the
ssential principle of English politics-
hich is to make no concession that can
be conveniently or safely refused.
be men now in control of the Iriih
p2‘fIl3l7Ienl.2l'yiHIDVCl‘l’IQI‘lI hive neither
I’arnell'I grasp of the Iituation, his hurt-
a.‘
nets of character, not his mandate to I
the valor of Irish sol-
ldisrs," when she went to Ireland to
drum up recruits for the British army in
South Africa. England is assured that
“separation is unatminable and, if at-
tainable. not desirablc,", and while one
organ of the party drapes its columns
lin mourning for the Queen‘: death, an-
other assures King Edward that if he
(grants the Irish, people some unnamed
ri he can count on Ireland as a
"loyal and valorous ally.“ Half the
time and energy of the “Irish'Pany” is
devoted to making the British military
service attractive to Irishman, and En -
land’s continental enemies are thus led
to believe that Ireland looks not to
“England: difhculty" for an opportunity
to win independence. but to the chances
of parliamentary majorities for redress
of grievances.
The Parliamentary party has ceased
to be National, even in the Home Rule
sense. Its leaders have turned their
backs on Parnell's Fenian allies and de-
vote all their eiiorts to winning the good
opinion of England by methods which
have always failed and which always
will fail. And while they are steadily
aiming to VVest-Britonize Ireland and
to smother the true National sentiment,
a handful of their allies in the United
Statess have taken to open dcn'uncia-
tion, by newspaper articles and scurri-
lous pamphlets, of all men who stood by
the old National faith. These peurile
attacks have fallen Hat and have injured
not only their authors and the weak-
ltneed and time-serving politicians whose
interests they were intended to serve, but
they unerringly indicate the decadent
d .
The state of the old world clearly
points to the early advent of a great
war, in which England will have to
light for an existence. The silly scrib-
blers and spouters who accuse the Na-
tionalists of trying to precipitate a hope-
less struggle in Ireland are only making
a "man of straw" so that they can easily
knock it down“ No one thinks of in-
surrection in Ireland NOVV, or at any
time when England is not facing one or
more of the great powers of Europe in
armed conlliet, but evcry true Nation-
alist knows that BEFORE THAT CON-
FLICT COMES IS THE TIME T
to be made of it.
ited amount of
money. It is no time to waste any of
L
‘Mr. John Redmond is a fairly intelli-
gent man and a good judge of British
politics, even if he is not a great leader,
and he said over his name in an Ameri-
can paper recently that nothing effective
could be done for Home Rule for four
or hve years. The present Tory minis-
try certainly will not grant it, and if the
Liberals should come into power they
would have to be whipped back into
adopting it. Not four years nor forty
years of the present weak-kneed and
halting policy will accomplish their con-
version, and before Mr. Redmond’; four
years have run out the late of the Brit-
ish Empire will probably have been de-
cidcd by war.
The Irish people have good political
heads and know how to read the signs
of he times. They see war steadily
looming up and they see the parliamen-
tary movement just as steadily degener-
ating. Hence bfty per cent. of them at
in in America have
buttoned up their pockets. They don’t
want to put their money on a bolting or
spavined horse. Perhaps they do not
clearly see their way as yet, but their
hopes are rining and the way will be
clear enough when France and Russia
move and England is iniher death
truggle. ‘
regression in the remnant of the rnove- W
llllllloallilllllli -
Liberty of thought is one of the God-
like attributes of rnan."Without it inspi-
rationto action is deprived of itslfull
value’: Ibirrtplies-thatta man, in his
harnesssd Jine laid down by his teachers
or followed by the force of habit or en-
'ronment. This development of intel-
lect and consequent broadening of action
is to be found in all the giant minds in
history and has eonributed most largely
to the irnprovunent of the social and
political order. Gladstone, the scholar,
historian, theologian and statesman, is
perhaps the most strkii-lg example in our
times of that expansion of thought
which comes from the study of condi-
tions and txpcricnct.&l-‘rum the cham-
pionship of the Established church hi.-
developed into its destroyer in Ireland.
XVith the upholder of the Union Home
Rule became the dream of political life.
These changes were forced upon his
massive mind by the contemplation of
the failure of all prior efforts for the
betterment of the masses and involved
his Erst beliefs in manifest error and
confusion. He was in no sense actu-
ated by dishonest motives nor by interest
beyond the pride of doing what he
thought was right. they were brought
about by an operation of reason. With
all such cases of libeyy of thought and
expression must go the respect that fol-
lows a true sense of lusticc. but when
men hold and promulgate abstract and
fundamental truths, proved and demon-
strated by experience, when they say
we and two make four and then by
some, at least questionable, power change be
d in a very short time stifle their
thoughts and swallow their words their
motives are left open to suspicion. We
have in mind an ex-champion of a now
somewhat old and well-tried policy of
dealing with the English government in
reland-we mean the policy of Parlia-
mentary agitation. After the Dublin
Convention of looo this miniature
at
at
Gladstone, speaking of its actions, said: w
“ h tmost natinnfracsirc expressed I
med up D
by the convention might be sum
in that miserable term Home Rule-the
privilege of an Irish debating club in
Dublin in addition tb the local munici-
pal powers recently accorded the people!
Irishman call themselves patriots now
because. they go to the alien Parliament
of England and beg that by virtue of an
English act of Parliament Ireland may
be restored to the con ion in whic
Grattan found her and which Ctratlnn
denounced as slavery. Ireland must had
other means than the tragic comedy of
Parliamentary agitation it she wants to
attract the attention and win the respect
of the world. lristimen must rise to the
occasion and be prepared for any emer-
gency. If they do not, if they settle
down in the old rut of Parliamentary
agitation then may God have mercy on
the poor old nation, for God alone can
save her from an ignominious end."
To one thing constant never this mas-
sive mind which expounded these truths
has, in a little more than a year, been
moved from its base by the colony of
ants which has its little hill at West-
minsttr, and calling himself a patriot
now, stands forth as one of the principal
example of a reasonable change in sen-
timent, but as the defender of a propo-
sition as absurd as that two and two
make live. For there is not and cannot
be any question but that petitions based
upon justice and a realization of the
sense of it by the British Parliament and "e“
public will be treated, as they always
have been, with indifference, toleration
for a while, or contempt The men who
truly believe that nothing can be gained
from England but by force or fear, in
the spirit of fairness, even to an unre-
lenting foe, for a time gave countenance
without opposition nor a rhaling sense in
those who hopefully sustained it but
who never gave up one iota of the un-
derlying principle which actuated them
even at that time. The peaceful move-
ment failed, of course, because it w s
based upon a concession of the right and
an appeal to 1 sense of justice which did
not exist in the governing body, because
it wu not the only thing it should have
been, in the very words oi our apostate,
it was not “the demand of a sovereign
and- their cause. 'It must neverbe re-
peated. ' ’ "
- ..;--..m..
The Hon. Judge Pei-my-packer has
been chosen by the Republicans of
Pennsylvania to be their standard-bearer
in the Gubernatorial contest at the No-
vember rlectlcn, much to the discom-
iiturc of our “Anglo-Saxon" residents.
The Judge incurred their undying en-
rrlity for his manly and vigorous protests
against the spoliation and destruction of
the South African Republics. “'e honor
him for the enemies he has made.
THE ‘LATE JAMES STEPHENS
How the Great Organizer was Re-
leased from Richmond Prison
Vin 1865-The Men Who
Did the Work.
The escape, or, more properly, rescue.
of Stephens from Richmond prison on
November 23, 1865, has been made the
subject of more reckless lying in the
press notices of his death than any inci-
dent in his life except, perhaps, the col-
lection by the Dublin Freeman's Journal
of the fund which sustained the old
man's declining years. lnordsr to make
political capital for Certain cliques and
individuals, every fact is twisted out of
its natural sliape, so that at the present
or "grinding axes" no one need be
surprised if certain
, V Brehon laws and
winning the battle of Clontarf.
, e was conceived by John J.
Breslln, .the hospital steward ot the
prison. His is er was conveyed by his
brother Neal to the Fenian leaders out-
side. The siibsequent communications
were carried In and out of the prison by
another brother. Michael, then a sergeant
of police and clerk in the ofhce of chle
o
omas J. Kelly, afterwards rescued in
Manchester, and consisted of John Ryan,
ucrpool, Michael Lambert (recently
president of the Dublin Amnesty
' evoy, Matthew O'Neill,
Iohn Harrison, Den’ Duggan (after-
wards carpenter on the Calalpa), “Pad-
‘S
‘.3
dy" earney, Michael Cod, Jack"
lllullen and ' ack" wlor. or a por-
lon o the time "Fat" Floo was on
the ground, but there being no weapon
or him he was sent . e men
who held the rope were Col. Kelly, John
Ryan and John Devoy. Michael Lam-
bert did not make the keys, but Sled
down keys which nearly titted until they
0
I piloted Stephens from the
South Clrcular,Road through the m
ket gardens of Love lane, to the house
of his sister,
Mrs. Butler, a fashionable
dressmaker living on Kildarc street,
rly opposite the club, which was the
in Ireland.
Poor Mrs. Butler's business was ruins
by the subsequent discovery of the noble
part she played, and she died in poverty.
tephens' escape to America was the
begltinlng.of his downfall as a leader.
e mtasion of Canada largely used up
the resources of American Fenianism,
and the split in America paralyzed the
mfoviment In Ireland. A bro tn remnant
O I E I
-I
n-tent whicbaiirvived defeat in the field.
d the which James Stephens
brought into Ireland still lives in the
race throughout the world a will
heard from in due time.
‘ Bur they sought it in
SllllllE’S HEAD.
Sums: Brim pull.-.i Caertle. Nrcgr
rlayuvnanyf Shane O’N‘rt'll discou-
m lttr [lute]: head upon 11 pole. ‘
I.‘
God's w-nth upon the Saxonl may they
neve ‘know e p ' e, ’
Of dying on the battle-Eeld, their broken
spea s best e;
Vhcn victory gilds the gory shroud of
every fallen brav
Or death no tales of conquered clans can
whisper to his grave
May New light from cross of Christ
that of nlan,
blood before it
For sure. ' d vou know all
whose thought for all’ sulhced-
To expiate '
thesesaxon sins, they'd need
another C risl.
1.‘.
Is it thus, Shane the haughty! Shane
the valiantl that we meet?
llavc my eyes been lit by heaven but to
guide me to e eat? -
Have! no chief-or you no clan, to
give us both defence
Or must I, too, be stetued here with thy
cold eloquence?
Thy ghastly head grins scorn upon old
Dublin’: Castle-towe
Th)’ shaggy hair is wind- toss’t, and thy
row seems rough wit power;
like stntinels, by
st treaeh'ry stung
Look rage upon the world
chain thy nery tongue.
Ill.
'i wrong, but
ill;
gave life and death
to vassals and to k -
And hunted hordes of
ris graves.
The scotch marauders whitened when
[5
whose reckless tones
natcs.
Saxons into holy
Flunr wild un-Saxon war-whoopings the‘
Sttxcn Court among.
IV.
Just think, 0 Slianel the same moon
slnnes on Liitey as on
And lights the ruthless kna
' - do
,--t-.-. .-r
le,
yes‘ on both,
My heart? I had no heart-'twas
yours! to keep or kill.
And you kept it safe for Ireland, Chief,
- our life. your soul, your pri
, your bosom,
with proud O’Neill it died.
and em as Spanish stee
But who had right of
. You were turbulent and haughty, proud,
these, if not our
O'Neill?
lstcrs Chicf- .
who rcarcd aloft the “Bloody Hand,"
un' ' aled the 5 ,
Andhsahed such glory on Tyrone as chief
llc was “turbulen-t" with traitors-he
was “ aiiglhty" with the foe
e was "clue," S A t
he dealt ye blow I0: bldiirolns y
Ile wat frough" n “wlld,‘ ho’;
ri twll to see his heartlistone razed?
Q W3! “n'12YCl!SS 5 ‘km ' ' .
dl tmrhr bis edel a "Q "'"
lie was "prou :"
a preached it till T r n
was ruddy, ready, wild, too, with “Red
hands” to clutch their own.
- VI. .. g '
"The Scots are on the border, Sh:-lnea.
yr Saints. he makes no breath-
I retu-.-mbtr when that cry would wake
im up alntost from deal .
Art truly dead and cold? 0 Cl-iiefl 3"
th
o
t:
-t
is his ghost about-
And yet no tomb could hold his spirit
such a shout:
droopeth northn-ard-ahl
p there,
Antrim‘.t glynns,
' u Foyle or Eann the Fair!
Ill speed me Ulster-wards.
must wander there, proud Shai-i
In search of some O'Neill through whom
o throb its hot: again!
The rack nos adardx more genuine hm
any other event on the programs"
of the Irish Gamer given by the Clall-na-
Gael. Do not inn
ht fo
I . eaing lt., Fart: cant;
Vr aground mp pcket..' ’
eadl he must be dead! nor .
