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Emmet Pearse and the Irish Martyrs--Second Annual Celebration
Tlll Gllll-lla-Gael Journal
Published by the
IRISH-AMERICAN CLUB
7:6 SPRUCE STREET
AN ENGLISH CONVENTION IN
IRELAND
The English appointed Convention
is still trying to talk itself to death
in Dublin, or some other part of
Ireland. The Convention is the
meanest and most barefaced attempt
ever made in the history of the
' world to deceive a people. That its
members have not been hurled into
the Lee, the Leify or the Lagan by
the Irish ’people speaks well for
their patience and forbearance.
Dr. Mccarlan has said of Sir
Frederick’ smieli-“we like your
brutal candor.” Smith said: “I hope
the Convention will keep on talking,
as in A few months whatever hap-
pens, it won’t amount to a damn,”
so this contemptible fake has been
going on in an effort to deceive the
world and keep Ireland quiet. Yes,
Ireland is at present quiet in the
firm belief that the Hand of God
is at work, and it ' >
The people of Ireland are not
quiet in anticipation of any results
from the so-called Convention, as
-from the very beginning they saw
but look on at its antics in silent
scorn and amusement.
That the American Government
and the American press can be so
gullable as to believe that there is
any sincerity in the whole perform-
ance is beyond comprehension, but
President Wilson’: remarks in an-
swer to Senator Phalen’s speech at
the presentation of Emmet’s statue
to the President would indicate that
'he really believes that England in-
tends through this, her self-appoint-
. cd body, to eettle tbelrialr question.
If the President has any such
thought, he will soon be undeceived.
People may say-Why should the
Pl'$Id9IlC interfere with England's
internal alfairsi’ We answer-That
Ireland is not and never was by
right an internal affair of Eng-
land's, and for the sake of argu-
ment let us say it is an internal
affair of England. The world ack-
'nowledges it is a serious alfair,
dangerous affair, an adair on one
side of which is right and truth, and
on the other side is cunning, decep-
- tion and falsehood. An affair that
2-!
has sent to death by the sword and
the scaffold thousands of pure-heart-
ed, brave, heroic men. An alfair
that keeps 100,000 armed men where
they have no right to he, suppress-
in and tyranizing over a people
in their own land, while their own
countrymen are calling out to the
world to come help them beat the
H .
Americaihas a right which has a
precedent in the case of Cuba; she
has a right because of the fact that
we entered this war and our war-
cry was the right of the small na-
tions to self-determination. ‘She has
is right in view of the fact that all
the other great nation: of the world
have tried to defeat England’: pres-
ent enemies and have failed. They
have ‘tried to save England and
have failed, and if England's ene-
mies are to be defeated and Eng-
land is to be saved from the ven-
geance of Germany, it can be done
only by this Great Giant of the
West. It America is to save Eng-
land from Germany, let her save
England from herself. Let Amer-
ica tell England to‘ fight clean, and
act clean, by giving up her plunder
which she holds without any honest
right or title, and against the will
and wish of the real owners. “He
that is without sin among you," said
Christ, “let him first cast a stone at
her." Before England accuses oth-
ers, let her give up the Broad Green
Acres of Ireland which she has held
for hundreds of years; let her re-
turn at least a part of the many bil-
lions of wealth she has taken from
Ireland in Galley‘ and Ship, and
with which she has made of her
own land a garden and a treasury
of wealth and power, while Ireland,
patient and long-suffering, bleeding
from every pore, fought on and
hoped on, believing in the Divine
Justice of God, who in her darkest
hour has never deserted her.
Ireland is coming into her own,
and with the assistance‘of America,
let us hope. As to no other people
in all the world does America owe
such a debt.
It America fails Ireland in this
day and hour and allows herself to
be deceived by English hypocracy,
it will be America's shame and
America's loss.
Let the English appointed Con-
vention be brought to an end. Let
the vile subterfuge disband and let
its very name be forgotten as a men-
ace that came and went without
. ii
accomplishiu its evil oblect.
Ireland wants her Independence,
and will have it, or she will war on
England ‘til the Shannon runs dry.
IRISH VVOMEN’S PLEA FOR. NATIONAL
- ‘ INDEPENDENCE, ’
Mrs. Sheehy-Skedington Presents Memorial From Irish Women Asking
at Ireland's Right to Independence Be Recognized-Mr. “Wilson
Treats Iler Couxteously and Listens lo Her Plea
(From the New York American, Janu-
ary 14).
WASHINGTON’, Jan. 13.-Some lit- "
tle While Ago a petition reached iue- .
how I may not say. except. that the
British censor assuredly did not “pass”
it-from the leading women in the Irish
“'omen's Council (or Cumann na Ban), 0
the women’: organization of the Sinn
Fein party.
I was asked to present it with my own
hamlsrand n t to lve it to any
but President W'iIsan himself. It was 1
pe tlou for democracy for reland, as
lllarkievixz. n , condemned to be
shot, reprieved, and given ll life son-
tence, 01 which she served ncllrl' one
year; by the widow of 0’llallilly, head
0 mcri
l’ the old Kerry clan, hersolt
, by Grace Glilord, ya.-l.
Im a o the Irish pout, Jcsepll 1’ un-
kett, excl.-utcd two hours uilcr his mid-
k
Irish uifu-iviur
rrlage. u
Mrs. Wyse Power, one of Ihe ‘laund-
era of the ladies’ "Land League.
worked under Parnell, also a’ ncd,
linking up th align ‘Parnell movement
in el
revo
2
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2
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m
a
I x-came I"rcmiei- of the
Allstralliln Commnnwc ih
received
I notification pnzviously
llmt I was to attend at the ‘White
llollsc at 2.15 P. Ill. n Friday,
(II-plllztloll. a solemn little maiden of
iibmit twelve-her‘ drst deputation doubt-
ass.
They passed on-the “'bl'te House
seems 1. plate us Wi((3 and spacious vis-
. 1'. y, . ‘origlna y,
his family, 1 L‘! imiu County Cavan,
n (I hal the privilege of shaking the
Pro.-ill-nt'a hand and reminding him
that he had some Irish blood in his
ueiu-.
I had mu pictures of the President
ylrcviollsly-wllo liu.-u‘:-luic ‘
hey isri-present him I-1
I9? gum and n ndin l u
a mood yesterday was at the
. , I16 Vlas lolla, smiling an
rI‘IzI‘, uuq seemed‘. in 1ml'licul:lrly ox-
ts.
im the prlitinn, I briefly
ulalr-d its nature and tlianlu-ll him for
' is receiving me. 1 added
cl.-iimv. and they will not be forgnttrn luv
the rniml Slates (.i0VDl'llm(‘Ilt when this
l.Il‘nl' 1‘ me
Casement’s Speech from the Dock
“MY lord Chief Justice: x
“There is objection-possibly not good
in lulv, but cuiely good on moral grounds
-against the lipplicnlinn to me bere of
this English statute, five hundred and
sixty-Five years old, that seeks to de-
prive an lcleliuuui today of lite and
honor, not I!‘ ‘adhering to the King's
enemies,’ but for adhering to his olrn
Feonlel
“Being tried, in truth, not by my peers
of the life present, but by fcarll of the
ead pest; not by civilization of the
twentieth century, but by the brutality
of tbefollrteentll; not even by a statute
trained in the lauguuge oi the land that
tries me, but emilmd in the language of
an enemy land-so antiquated is the law
that must be sought today to slay an
Irishman whose offense is that he puts
Ireland Erst.
“Loyalty irsentinlent, not law.
rests on love. not restraint. The govern-
ment of Ireland by England rests on re- “
straint. not love; and since it demands
0 love it can evoke no loyalty.
“But this statute is more absurd. even,
than it is antiquated; if it be potent to
hang one Irishman, it is still more po-
tent to gibbet all Englishmen.
“Ed I was mg not only of
so of the
:1
In , iv
althoullli it czlnwttra
n. Frenchnlans throat. ‘whose sovereign
e was. V ,
“For ocnturnes [lie successors ‘of Ed-
Ward III claimed to be the Kings of
n d the arms of Franc
ueld down to the union
a
resident
don Ilvtln , draw and quarter as a traitor
every Frenchman for years yvuu iell
into '1' power with arms In their
bzlnrls? .
embassies of ese
n a
mu these traitors, even kuilzllthood it- u
self at tho lmndsol these trilitotlii feast-
, with them. nlted with them. iauglil:
fIl0l'l‘l'-IJLIIZ did not assassinate them by
aw.
“ judicial asuslination of today
was reserved for o , e of the Kluge
subjects-for the ln.vlinieu;,ior t use
who cannot forget their allezlaace to the
realm of term . '
Kings of England, as sueli. had
no rights in Ireland up'to the nine of
Ienry VIII. save such as r . ed ou the
contrzu:
n m
ter of an nglishu-lan‘s liberty? That
I: bet'edh l' .
8 n Y "5 muiusen lliah: this
“With all respect, I
court is to me-an
the Englishmen themanlves umert
fundamental bone or the lalv coimecuug
the two kingdoms. ,
"To Enelialuuuu I set no evil examfie‘
for I make no appeal to them. I as
no Emzllshman to m I asked
lnvluueu to fight for their rlzh
or-.
e
g .
55-
E
.
lc ed to ave (injured by ‘evil ex-
ampe,’ and clalrn that they alone are
ompclent to decide my guilt or inn
is
aged me here
judgment ‘ but
it no Verdlct except at
M
,1
their llilll -i
‘I assert from this dock [bat I am
being med here, not because it is just,
because It is uniusc. 1’ ca me
d
m zlie ktatllte nnll all its pcuu es.
“IE illlty adjudge me guilty, than I
gill 15'.
not I who nm afraid uilliuiv
verdict; It is the Crown. If this is not
(V), why gear the lost.’ I fear It um, but
demand it N! my rlzbtl
j‘l wollld add that the tfeglerolls expres-
e to roru
on of nmpuchy extcn me
no y quarters, partlI:ularLV in AIIIFIV
Ion, have touched me v ly ( In
tlla l ' . rn
mo vi-s arc, mire I ,
lnunt of their llllcrtles has been an l'lIllII-
. h
“To the contrary, they received clie 5
h traitors
sary m -e
< It. was our boundeu duty to get
- -‘ituuu not 1 who landed in England. "'9
n w o
in: inspiration to Irishman and all else-
vlicre i-iglillv struggling to be live.
“I to be 81‘f.lUllte(I of IIre!nLrnp-
w
the people cl Irelan . , ,
"since in the acts which led to tlllrl
trial ' was e ple of Ireland I
souuliu to serv%anld cliuiu e. ,
leave my jurlgruvm and sentence In their
has outlived the failure of
llands of the same povlvr and M la 1,
a. eneratiou IIBS passed on to with-
stand tie same ow-vision. , ,
“A cause that be-gets this indomitable
faculty, pres:-rvmz it rough can lines
of misery and the rvlnelnllrluloe or lost
li ,--this surely is the noblest cause
iueu ever strove for, ever lived for. eve
I 01‘.
“Mv counsel referred tn the Ulster val-
: n
leaders of the I sh Volunteers. foul: -
in ‘Dublin in November. 1013 had
ny qua el with th Ulster vulumeeis
as such. who were born ear earlier
"IVS: at wi ng [er Volun-
e t cli cause of a united Ireland
I 9 t we Ii-lei Volunteers vl.
b
The Government permitted the U
Volunteers to be ui-uied by linglisllmell;
to threaten not merely the En ‘party
in its hold -on office.
that party through tlle’Iives and blood
of li-islimeu.
I “Tile battle was to be Ioulzllt in lie-
and in order that the political ‘Outs’
today should lb us’ to or-row i
mat Britain The I w to llonrlit I c-
I d was I. t on I
ere
in, each other for some Engllsll uuvtyxi
eam. -
“The British nary was to be cllartcrcd
‘transports’ that were buingim; to our
did not hesitate to c nose.
Irish Volun-
a public moetini
in on ..ov-eiubeu 2.1, 1913. stated
ujtll sincerity the aims of the orgnnimr
tlon as I outline rn.
“’ government that permitted the
v-liueeleudeiv dc-cl:ire<‘l
.. ,
:-
to
arming of those
3;‘-
, , an-leusneis sat in high places
In England and lauvlied at the law all n
cue!-o<lia.n's aw, what WOHGET that Irish-
lnen refuse noel; e Ver al pro cs-
td.tlI)I1-5.0‘ En lands Lord Chancellor us
‘I sufficient in eguard for their lives land
1 rues?
Z”
5:.
3';
5
our orcnnimtion vi reality,
than those envoys o
a or t ejr Week-end
Ireland or their appeals to (ucnnnny
“Within a few weeks of my arrival in
the States is fun
r
came Elt 0
, men or the vein
readler Eiocket o c e,poor man, was
. nz . .
“Then came the war. As M llir
rell sud, frlie War has upset all Ju‘. cal: ' “Y
ous.
, unset mine none clie less than Mr.
Blrrell'a and put an end to my mission
and aceful ellom in Amerlcn.
"l u lul seen the working or the lviul.
ution in the re sell of c
culntl
‘It
’ gian 9. I saw no real: n
m should shed her blood in luv cake but
her own, and if that be treason beyond
the was I in nut is ruled t '
or to answer for it .
“T i,e,dii=ren-uce between us was cliuc
the Lrllollist champions chose t
that they felt would lead to
3
a
s
E
alter zlie war Ireland whlllll
o
- get Home Ilule-as a reward of her life-
ll ood
sh for a cause. omcvrr (‘.2
cu
WI)’ cl nt bench! ntlnn .
"What will Home Rule be in rctllni
for what the vague romise has L1li't'n
imdvstill hopes to la e away from lu-
um .
Rule when it ovum, it it Iluru, ‘
“linme
will find Ireland drained of all tllat is
vital to her very] ex‘l‘st,ence"-lllillsal H
n 9 le t at We mil
“'8 are
arms [re- eve;-its
ccoss of which uliulilrl lieui.-ill, it in
lm
for Belgium-for a patch of sand on the
derscrt Ieso Lomia or a
trench an the lieiulicu of Gullliiolpclley
iwill ho winning self-government for Ire-
dl'l(. -
“llut if they dare lay down their lives
on their native mi, i iey dare even
renm lat cm can he won
at liome by men resolved to light ior it
ilim, then My are traitors to their
8
untry. , ,
"If we are to be indicted as criminals
-ito be sliotac m ’ '
umiu umnomoreto o tau
ivitlilielvl from ILA by another pee le than
right itself-than me right to ice) the
es n or smell the flowers
W .
no dominion over at ere-Irela is
today among the nations of the world
as if it were u convicted crilnlna.
"If there be no right in
a
once, then I am sure ,
to liulit and die without ‘right than to
live in such a state a X'l%I1 t is.
“where all your rights ecome only ac-
iere men must beg
to lie a rebel against such circumstances
2!‘! this than to mmely accept them as
the nntllrnl lot 0 .
“My I4lr<l,,I have done."
.
MRS.SKEFFlNGTON TO SPEAK .
Last Opportunity to Hear Her Won-
derful Story-Mel President w
son ‘
Mi-s. Ilannall Sheehy Skeftinxton,
uuluw of in slieeliy Skcftingtan, one o
tho iumyi-ii of Easter week, 1916, will
deliver zlie memorial address at the
Academy of Music on Tliuisduy evening,
March 7. Mrs. Skeifinglon forced the
want this murderer brought
Mr . Skeffinnton h
the United States and
spoke s c e 9. Drofound impres-
xion uu
PRESENTS l’I:'I'I'I'ION FOR IRISH IN-
D]-?Pl')NDl3!x'CE TO PRISID
VVIISON. ‘VHO RECEIVED
HER COIIDIALLY
llri-u. Skeffinlzton ii. the
(:1 to from any 01
in Ireand'a etrnzggle for ‘ladle
pun enoc.
0 LAST CHANCE TO IIJZAR MES SK ‘ <-
FING
To those wliu desire to learn tliia st
of the Enster weer Rebellion from one
lived zlimugli It and lost her hus-
van rcsu 0 it a
that this will he Iiilysz Skeflingtonh last
in
nineties a he cademy, on
The Bi-ltiali autliorities. who
the past six mouth: refused
to ‘us lllis. -e, , ,1: , rt. ave
decided that she is doing lndnltf damage
to En lisli intereatcsalileie
in informinil t
‘ truo conditions in Irelan .
II.-XS FRIENDS ON BOTH SIDES
a Mn o I-?n:l’sh intri 2 emp. -
lion. llenr the mitli and d‘rl‘au?‘;‘our own
ronrlllsn ns.
ll.-up bkcliflnggonjs-fntller, David Sllccllv,
u u times in ml in the land luimie
Inya. Ilcr uncle, 1 le Rev. Eugene slieeli
uu mi. ilillu Emrl .1 fn II.
ion. in rclan ‘u cause. “I e v.
and tried to an orp an o n
my, Owen, who has ar-
.7.
=4?
-0:
men a by the llinlmiuils ti.
die, not for Ireland, but for 1-luuduis null
Ilf‘I'
llmllull uuly six ycllrs ol .
everywhere me
on her lecture tour,
