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The Clanr a-Gael loumal
I'oL. XXVIII.
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all
ow,
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 21, 1914.
liiiiileisdliy dpelohraiion of the
dityrdom of Allen, harliin and William
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24th, 1914
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
llEllMllAll llHlllEN
‘ lllllM lll]llJNllEHS
Provisional Committee Takes
Decisive Action Against
Him.
N0 CREDITED
His Program at Variance With
Principles and Aims of
Real Irish Patriots.
LONGER
As,sn 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,
September 24, 1914.
To the Irish Volunteers-Ten months
8 0 a Provisional Committee commenced
the Irish Volunteer movement with the
sole purpose of securing and defending
the rights and liherties of the Irish peo-
Hg .2,“ 'I‘Iie.Jnoa-cniorit.- on‘--t ‘n s,
xliougli thwarted’ and opposed-fogs
time, obtained the support of the Irish
nation. VV-hen "olunteer move1
ment had become the main factor in
the national question, Mr. Redmond de-
‘ c nowe ge it and to en-
deavor to bring it under his control.
Thrcs months ago he put forward the
e threatened,
, conceded, to proceed
with tho dismemberment of the Irish
Volimtser organizatio .
V i -It is clear that this proposal to throw
, the country into turmoil and to dsstroy
- the chances of a Home Rule measure in
the near future must havs heen iorced
upon .IiIr. Redmond. Already, ignor-
ing the Irish volunteers as a iactor in
,. the national position, Mr. Redmond had
h consented to a dismsnihormcnt oi Ire-
, .,land, which could he made permanent
- ’ by the same agcnciss that forced him
to accept it as temporary. was n
prepared to risk another disruption and
the wreck of the cause intrusted to him.
T e Provisional Committee, whila
recognizing that the responsibility in
‘that case would be altogether Mr. Red-
mond’a, decided to rish the lesser evil
and to admit his nominees t '
2
ones as to h f
. Redmond had fulfilled his public
undertaking to nominate "representative
variance with their own published and
accepted. aims and pledges, but with
which his nominees are, of course, iden-
tified. no has declared it to he the
themselves, or the people oi Ireland, to
whoso service alono they are devoted.
Having thus disregarded tho Irish vol-
unteers and their solemn engagements,
Mr. e o s no longer cntitlso,
through his nominees, to n l e
the adnnnistration and guidance oi the
who hy rirtuc or Mr. no
indtion have heretofore been admitte
to act on the Provisional Committee, ac-
cordingly cense henceforth to belong to
that body, on from this date until this
holding of an Irish Volunteer Conven-
tion the Prarisional Committee consists
of those only whom it comprised before
the admission of Mr. Redmond’: nom-
inees.
Al the next meeting of the Provisional
Committee we shall propose-
1-To call 1 Convention of Irish Vol-
unteers for “'ednesday, November 25,
, the anniversary oi the inaugural
meeting oi the Irish Volunteers in Duh
Lin
2-To reaidrm, without qualification,
the manifesto proposed and adopted at
the inaugural meeting,
To oppose any diminution of the
measures of Irish self-government which
now exist as a statute on paper and
which would not now have reached that
legislative dlsrncmhsrmcnt oi Ireland:
and to protest against the attitude oi
the present ‘g0I'er‘1IWk“I'lC,LW34h-vr;ndC'.'7fi'-4?’ I ii
that “Ulster cannot be to-
cannot,
with honor or safety, tolze port in for-
eign quarrels otherwise tllun through the
tree action of ii national government of
her own; and to repudiate the claim of
any man to odor up the blood and lives
H
o
a government '
could speak and act for the people oi
Ireland is allowed to exist.
6‘ demand that the present systr-in
of governing Ireland through Duhlin
Castle und the British military power,
a system responsible for the recent out-
rages in Dublin, he aliolisllcd without
delay and t in a national governnicnt
be forthwith established in its plut-e.
The signatories to this statement ore
the great majority oi the msnihci-s of
the Provisional Committee of the Iflllll bu
Volunteers, apart from the nominees oi
Mr. Redmond, who ore no longer meni-
bers of the committee. We regret that
the absence of Sir Roger Casement ‘in
:4
31
o
Neill, chairman Provisional Committee:
Ua Rathghoille, treasurer do; Iomns
MacDonagl-1, Joseph Ylunket, Pinrua
Benslai, Michael J. Judge, Peter Paul
Macken. ex-A]d.; Sean Macciohuin, I’.
II. Pearse. Padraic 'R.iain. Bulmer
obsnn, Eamo 11 Martin, Conchubhair
0r‘Colhaird, 'Eamonn Ceannt, Sean Mac
Diarmada, Seamus 0’Cc-nchubliair, Leon
Ua Cogan, Peter White, Liam Mellows,
Colin 0’Lochlninn.
DON'T FORGET
celebration of Allen, Liarkln and
O'Brien, Academy of Music,
Tuesday evening, November-.24.
Tickets on sale at lrlsh-An-lerI-
can club, 126 Spruce street, or
at Academy on night. of enter-
talnment.
.
The messages oi congratulationsnca
bled to John Redmond hy the united
' Le t e Iliherniuns and others
e an
oad” that recruiting sergeant
of a
ior John Bull.
.. IHE Hlllllllllllllllll
ii llll
IHE WALL ‘
HERMAN RIDDER SHOWS IM-
PORTANCE OF MOVE-
MENTS IN SOUTH
AFRICA.
Boers Have Never Forgotten
British PlunderingmRevoIt
Regarded as Beginning of
England‘: Decay. '
Under the heading "The VVar Situa-
tion from Day to Day Ierman Kidder,
editor of the Stnots- eitiing, says:
An attempt in hcing made, quite natur-
ally in England, hut entirely without
reason in this country, to discount the
significance of the revolt in South Africa.
I say naturally in England, because to
the !Elff0l'l'I]'llz(!('nC Englishman it never
occurs that the Ilritirih '
crumhle like the
To‘
into a concrete
agroclilo one. Ilut, untortunotcly ior
Eniilanil, it cannot be.
I am not going to Iiziil thc disaucctisn
in South All-icn as “tho Erst. atop in the
lu-calring up or tlic llritii-oh sinpirc."
am no prophot. I wish only to point out
tho inly0l‘l.mI<'e oi the niovcnicnt as a
sign of tlic tuncs, land as evitlizllce that,
having lost the uhility to rule, England
no longer rf.-tains the right to cinpiro.
LIOERS HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN
The British uutlt-roetiiliated the Boer
strcngth bi-fore the war, which placed
the yoke oi lcngliind upon thc na-ch oi
the Transvaal linrghcrs, and alter the war
thcy nndorcstimatcd the Boer spirit
when they thought to wipe out. the bit-
ivas like asking in pnsscrby for his jewels, “I
aud,‘whL-n he rcfuscd, lrnoching him
down with a hludgcon, robbing him,
heating him into inscnsihility, and then,
when you had taken what you wanted,
picking l.in. up and saying: -“Sorry, ol
chnp, but it had to he done; go home
But the huve never [0 otten.
llcaton, broken, unable lurther to right
for the oslics oi thcir homes, thcy were
a crushcd pcoplc. Thousands or t em
lcit for this country, ior Mexico, ior
anywhcro under tho sun hut where the
dog or Great Britain iloutcd. The re-
mainder stayed to miss the best of
what was left-left of what hut a row
months before had hson a happy, peace-
ful nation, one of those "small States"
or the world lauded so highly hy vis-
count Bryce.
And what was lcit: A country dottcd
with the charrcd ruins oi villages and
has long told hcrscli and thc world thut
ihcy have lorgotten. She dcceivcd only
hcrseli. writing at tho time he was
called upon to lend his command sguinst
Gcrman Southwest Africa and rcsign
said," he writrs, "the war is hcing wig.
cd against the hnrbarity of the Germans.
ave iorgirsn, but not forgotten,
War.
vith very few exceptions all the isrms,
not to mention man towns, were so
many or the Louvains, of which we now
hear so much."
SEES LOSS or coL0xII:s
Is not the picture which England ‘pre-
sents to the world too. a sad oncf A
hsndiul oi Englishmen, big-waisted, hig-
pumed, swsggering heiore isui-liiihs oi
ths earth as the proprietor or the rest,
and all this without the ability to put an
army in the field as large as Martens
gr '.l She has gathered her allies from
in and near, her coloniala irom the ends
oi the earth, and what has it availed hsr
against noisy and Austria? strip
her of India, or Australia and south
Africa, oi Ireland and finally of Canada,
which clings to her only because or its
proximity to the United States, and
what have you? And the stripping pro-
cess is not so far from its inception.
The revolt in south Africa is out one
of the symptoms which mark the rapid
advance of ecay. The protest or Ire-
land has not culminated as yet in insur-
ble.
r
o
pcct us against Japan, when Belgium,
close at hand, and to London a much
more vital defence oi Bow Bells, s
ant to hcr grave with so little ado?
And when tiicy have
thonglits and answered them as
only can he unswered, will not the de-
composition of thc Empire on which the
sun never sets, tliougliat times it must
blush to shine, hovc set in?"
.
THE SPEAKERS
Tho spcrihors of thc stoning will include
Dr. C. J. Ilexumer. of Philadelphia,
prcsidcnt oi the (ierrnin-American Alli-
is city. Dr. Ilcxamcr always
worked in sympathy with the Irish people
or this city. He has championed the
cause oi the Boers and other victims of
England's greed.
From New York will come one of the
ablest Gel-man-American oi-store in the
United States, Henry lVeismann, Esq,
a lifelong friend of Ireland and the Irish
people. By his coo ration and many
Germans to their feet with g
chcers when he declared that the German
Eagle would ere long float over West,
minstsr and that an independent Iro-
hind would he one of the result: or a
German triumph over the allies. It is
to ho hopcd that the Irish people of
Philadelphia will give these German
lrisnda oi Ireland a genuine Irish wel-
come.
.
DON'T FORGET
celebration of Allen, Larkln and
O'Brien, Academy of Music,
Tuesday evening, November 24.
Tickets on sale at IrIsh-Arnei-I-
can club, 728 Spruce street. or
at Academy on night. of enter-
talnrnent.
Slll HUBEH BASEMENT
WAHNS AGAINST UJHE
lli SAXIIN 5HllllllB
Home Rule Bill at Present ls
Trick to Secure Enlist-
ments.
FACTS AND FIGURES
Investigation Shows That Ger-
man Nation Is Not Enemy
of Ireland.
The rouowing statement was issued hy
Sir Roger Casement. to the Ir! pa
The “Irish Independent" mutilated this
document, suppressing whole paragraphs,
and nuhlishinr it as it it had been writ-
ten in the fund it appeared:
“I ohs that Wlf he
' tutc Book,‘
e
sly dchorrcdoperstion ior one
year. or the duration of the’ war.’
government. the Marquess or Crewe, the
Liberal leader in the Hoiise or Lords
ventured the-opinion ‘that the placing
induce Irii-ihrnen to rush to enlist ior the
r
are alrcady iar more Irishmen in the
British armyi in Proportion to the popu-
lation of the two countries, than there
are Britons. vroperly speaking. i.c., inhab-
itnnts oi the island at Great Britain. The
British rerulsr army numbered shout
"4 e beginning of this
e ‘population of Ireland
was some 43511000 persons; the popu-
lation of Great Britain slightly under 42,-
. . It will be seen that Ireland
contributed to the army about I in 145
0 er Dobulationg Great Britain some-
thing like 1 in 200 Moreover, the dis-
proportion oi Irishmen actually serving
in the British army is much greater than
these fiirures reveal.
“It is admitted in the ‘Var Ofiice re-
turns that many essentially ‘English’ reg-
iments are in res ity compose main y of
Irishmen from the great manufacturing
districts of Great. Britain. Thus 80 per
cent. of the ‘South Iam.-eshire Regiment’
onsista of Irishinen. The late Duke
of Cambridne. when Commander-in-Chief
of the British army. said. in unveiling I
memorial at Reading to the Berkshire
Regiment. that it should rightly be cell-
ed the ‘Corkshire Regiment,’ no lo many
of its men came from the Soutlfoi Ireland
and its Colonel bore ‘so singular an Eng-
lish name I! Y 0'I.e.arY!’
"Possibly one reason Lord Crewe is an
anxious that the vromissory note on Irish
Home Rule should induce Irishman to
‘rush to enlist’ in to be found in the
great disparity of sexes revealed by the
census returns of Great Britain. From
the 1911 census. it aphenrs there were 1.-
322.556 more females in Great Britain
than men. while in Ireland the excess of
females over males was only 83-16. “'hile
these figures may “Pain the force of
the sullraze movement in England and
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