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i)L XXVIIII.
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 21, 1914.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
7th Anniversary Eelebmiioh of the
lidriyrdom of hilell, haalllrill and Whirled
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, TUESDAY EllENlNG,’N0llEllBEll 24th, 1914
Hililllllillillllllll
FHIJM VHLUNTEEHE
Provisional Committee Takes
Decisive Action Against
Him.
NO LONGER CREDITED
His Program at Variance With
Principles and Aims of
Real Irish Patriots.
As an attempt was being made to
identity the Volunteers with the recruit.
ing meeting in Duhlin, the following
statement was issued recently:
Headquarters Irish Volunteers,
. 4 Kildare street,
the Irish Volun
ago a Provisional corn itt
the Irish Volunteer movement with the
sole purpose of ecuring and dcienilin-g
the rights and liberties or the Irish peo-
mavenaeut on these ‘nos,
though thwarted and opposed for a
time, obtained the support of the Irish
he Volunteer move-
,. e‘.
5
:r.
e
F
the national question, Mr. Redmond de-
cided to schiowledge it to en-
deavor to b ‘ ' mi 2 his eon rol
Three months ago he put I rward the
eded, to proceed
with the disineinberment of the Irish
Volunteer organisation.
It is clear that this proposal to throw
igiior.
ing the Irish volunteers as a factor in
the national position, Mr. Redmond had
conscnted to s dismemherllient or Ire-
land, which could he niuile permanent.
hy the same agencies that lorced liiiii
to accept it as temporary.
prepared to risk another (lisrllytion and
the wreck or the cause intrllstcd to luiu.
e Provisional coiamittcs, Wllilt:
recognizing that the reaponsiliility ii.
that case would he altogether Mr. Iioil.
mond'E, decided to risk the lesser cvil
and to admit his nominees to sit and
2
nominations were received the commit-
tee raised no uestion as to how I
. u
-i
try. Mr. Riedm s nominees were
admitted purely and simply as his nom-
E
consulting
Provisional Committee, the Volunteers
themselves, or the people of Ireland, to P
whose service alone they are devoted.
Having thus disregarded the Irish vol.
Mr. letlluond is no longer
t . .
organization. Those
Mr. Rs-dniond’s nomv
to act on the Provisional Committee, ar-
curlllllgly cease henceforth to belong to
that body, and iroln this date until the
the admission of Mr. Redrnond's nom-
illt-es.
At the next meeting of the Provisional
Committee we shall propose-
1-To call a Convention of Irish Vol-
unteers for ‘Vednesday, November 5,
1914, the anniversary of the inaugural
mec-ting oi the Irish Volunteers in Duh-
n4
2w'l‘o reaffirm, without qualiucation,
the ruunilcsto proposed and adopted at
the inaugural meeting.
3- o oppose any diminution or the
measures of Irish self-government which
novr exist as a statute on paper and
Wllltll would not now have reached that
stage but for the Irish Volunteers.
4’To repudiate any undertaking, by
given, to consent to the
the present gqrernment, who un
pretense that "Ulster tounot he"‘co-
ed," svoi theinsclvsa prepared ro ed
erce the xaticnalisra of L
with honor or safety, talrc part in lor-
cign quarrels otherwise than through the
tree action or a national government of
or the sons or Irishmen and Irishwumen
to the service or the B
whilo no national govei-sine
could speali and act for the ‘people of
Ireland is allowed to exist.
3- o demand that the present system
of governing Ireland through Dublin
ry power,
a system responsible lcr the recent out-
nntury with us.-(signed)
Neill, chairman Provisional Committee;
Uii Ilatligliuillc, treasurer as
Ilaclinniigh, Joseph Plunket,
llcaiiliii, Michael J. Judge, Peter Paul
Mnckon, ex-Ald.; ssan lllaecichiiin, I’.
II. Pclirae, Pailraic o'Riain, Bulnier
llohsiia, ssiiiann Martin, Coilchnhhair
0’Colhsird, Eamonn Ceannt, Sean Mac
Iiiariinaia, scamus 0’ConL-hubhair, Lean
Ila Cogan, Peter White, Liana Mellows, I
Calm >0’Inehlainn.
DON'T FORGET
celebration of AIlon,.Lar-kln and
O'Brien, Academy of Music,
Tuesday evening, November 24.
Tickets on sale at lrlsh-Amai-l-
can Club, 126 Spruce street, or
at Academy on night of enter-,
talnmont. i
TM
Tile messages or congratulations cs-
hlod to John Redmond hy the United
Irish I1.:iizuc, the Illbernlnns and othe
for ll at t years w u he rath-
r unpleasant rrailia i i t
niiv rolu now her g lled by “the chos-
l odor of Irish m ho nd
broad” r recruiting sergeant
ior John B
JIIVI LARKIIV
The Great Irish Labor Leader and Grand Nephew of the
Manchester Martyr, Michael Larkin, Who Has Come
All the Way From Dublin to Address the
Meeting in Honor of His Kinsman
RIDDER SEES LOSS OF COLONlliS
.
Is not the picture which England pre-
sents to the world todn
handful of Englishmen, big-waisted, hig-
pursed, swaggeriug before four‘-fifths of
the earth as the proprietor of the rest,
‘ and all this without the ability to put an
array in the field as large as Montene-
zro's! She has gathered her allies from
far and near, her colanials lroni the ends
of the earth, and what has it availed her
Strip
her 5 India
Africa, of Ireland and linslly of Canada,
which clings to her only because of its
proximity to the United states,
what have you? And the stripping pro-
cess is not so far‘ from its inception.
The revolt in South Africa is but one
of the symptoms which mark the rapid
e Protest of Ire-
et in insur-
s no less unmistakable.
Is it unthinkable that those distant
art: of the Empire which are reserved
by England to hght her battles for her
will see in ' picture of wh
English support and protection is worth!
ill they not possibly ask themselves
if in a similar hour of need they would
iare better than Belgium fared.’ What
support could Australia, for example, ex-
pect as against Japan, when, clgiuni
is
:3
in.
is
sent to her grave with so little ado?
And when they have thought these
thoughts and answered them as they
any can he answered, will not the de-
composition of the Empire on which the
sun never sets, though at times it must
blush to shine, have set in!"
A sad one? A D
THE SPEAKERS
The speakers of the evening will include
0. . Hexomer. of Pliilildclphia,
president of the G9l'l'llBnrAllICI'i(IJIn Alli-
ance or the United statcs. and onc oi
the most popular Genllnhaknlerlcunu ii.
this city. Dr. Ilcramrr has always
worked in sympathy with the Irish pcoplc
or this city. lie has 1Ilmln[,Ii0n<‘ll the
cause or the Deere and other victims or
England's greed.
From New York will come one of the
ahlest Gennnu-Americnll orutora in the
United States, Henry “'eiiu.mnnn, ]41<q.,
a lifelong irieaii of Ireland and the Irish
people. I his co-operation and many
acts or kindness he has Elltlcllretl lumaa.-li
At a iiicotinr recratiy
w York, he
hrought the audience of 5000 Irish and
Germans to their rest with rousing
cheers when he declared that the German
Eagle would are long lioat ovcr West-
miuster and that an independent Ire-
land would he one or the results or s
German triumph over the allies. It is
to be hoped that the Irish people or
Philadelphia will give these crrmaa
rrieads oi Ireland a genuine Irish wel-
come.
DON'T FORGET
Celebration of Allen, Larkln and
O'Brien, Academy of Music,
Tuesday evenIng,’Novomher 24.
Tickets on sale at lrlsh-Amer-l-
can Club, 726 Spruce street, or
at Academy on night of outer-
tainment.
SIH HUBEH liliililllll
WAHNS AGAINST UJHE
Ill SAXUN SHILHNG
Home Rule Bill at Present Is
Trick to Secure Enlist-
menls.
FACTS AND FIGURES
investigation Shows That Ger-
man Nation Is Not Enemy
of Ireland. .i
The lollowing statement was issued hy
Sir Rioker Casement to the Irish papers
Tile Irish Iadeiiendent" mutihitcd the
document, suppressing whale ,,,,,,,g,,.,,,,,,,,
‘“'‘d lllihlisllinlz it as if it had been writ-
ten in the form it appeared;
a
of the hill on the Statute Book would
induce Iriahniea to rush to enlist for the
war. Instead. , or rg,,,,,-,,
as I ‘Bill for the Better Enlistment of
Irlshlnen in the British may!’ Thur.
are“ ready for more Irishman in the
Brltwh truly. in proportion to the papa.
lation or the two countries, than them
are Britons. vrnperly speaking, i.e
m 2 beginning or this
year. or these, the war omce returns
aliowrd that slixhtly over 30.000 wer
Inshmrn. The population of Ireland
win: some 4.350.000 persons; the pop“.
lotion or Great Britain slightly under 42,.
It will be seen that Ireland
in the British army is much greater than
these lizures reveal.
‘It is admitted in the War more re
turns that many csscntially ‘Dlglish' reg-
imonta are in reality composed mainly oI
Inahaicn from the great manufacturing
districts of Great Britaiii. Thus so per
cent. ol the ‘South Lanushire Regiment’
consists of Irishmen. The late Duke
of Cambridge, when Commander-in-Chief
of the British army, said, in unveiling 1
memorial at Reading to the Berkshire
Regiment. that it should rightly be call-
ed the ‘Corkahire Regiment,’ o many
of its men came from the South of Ireland
and its Colonel bore ‘Io singular an Eng-
lish name an Mat-Cal-thy 0’Learyl‘
“Poesihly one reason Lord C1-ewe in so
anxious that the promissory note on Irish
Home Rule should induce Irishmen to
‘rush to enlist’ in to he found in the
great disparity of sexes revealed by the
census returns of Great Britain.
the 1911 census. it appears there were 1,-
322,556 more females in Great Britain
than men. while in Ireland the exceu of
females over males was only 8346. While
these names may explain the (arse or
the sufirage movement in bgland and
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