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October 13, 1917,
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917.
ROOSEVELT WANTS 10 CVE UP RUSSIA,
months past THe Gastio
somces x hae? been stowed and its sup
pression demanded ty ine _propritich
its ks on “our
United States.
never heard of in America before, and
does mot represent the views of one per
cent. of the American people, who have
always been friends of Irish liberty.
the men who have backed up
this heresy is Theodore Roosevelt, me
yanted ridiculously sbout
loyalty” of Irishmen who demanded
that England make good in the case of
“ Jreland her professions that she is fight-| make
ing for the Hberty of the email nations
and the promotion and presorvation of
democracy.
ea hithoust Roosevelt is the most ir-|
and inconsistent public man in
the Tnited States, he has a very con-
siderable personal following, composed
ho
in the same way. What is sauce for
therEnelish goose 1s not to be sauce for
The British Em
_ he Re
“ velt. cleime fg America's only protection
‘a t German Autocracy. She must
“held tndia in the Interest of English
event
Quarrel with the United States, Ber-
iquda was the great clearing house for
her dtockade runners in the work which
‘ protonged the Civil War for two years
hogond tts natural time and as a naval
8 her command of the whole
i Dactern ~Coast of the United States and
the Panama Canal, England
menaces
\ conkienot put her claims for Worid Do-| agi
j minton -haif so forctbly as Roosevelt
‘ puts-itefor her on the false pretence of
‘sqyaiing the world safe for democres:
y Was, strug:
lom on the
Then he
I these con-
He
0
e side of the Allies in the
orton and ought to get ft, but
velt’s champfonship is suspect
he fe hitting Russia, vecanse, under
-the new regime, she fs not doing what
ke thinks she oveht to do in the war.
about this left-handed at:
not
Misprisien of Trease!
coher qualifications of the article in
OnéYears’ Subscription » = ~ 62.00,
‘Months’
1 “our Allies” are not to~be treated
He had
- | sides politically and retool ‘yetone,
io be 8 n jo
which our English Allies excel. As
re imitating everything English now,
espectally their worst. blunders and
eannesses, their nicknames and terms
haps we might say that the gallant Col-
onel {s guilty of Miaprision of Treason
in insisting that “our Ally” Russia
ould be carved wants to gic
e War
again ig the m In the
White House, so all be can do is bel-
low, to make the world believe that he
1s dictating what is going to be done
and must be Ustenea to when the set-
tlement com
But Roosevelt says nothing at an
about Ireland, or any other subject ni
tion held in bondage by England.
does not even say that she must “re-
main a part of the British Empire.
Why this silence on a subject
be has been vociferating for the past
three years? Finland
must .be fri not Ireland? She
has fought for her freedom for seven
hundred years, the last fight she made
last year being the most gallant of all,
a
as
es
termination to carry the struggle to the
bitter end.
m IRISH CAUSE WILL LIVE ON.
war with-
out waving Ireland freedom, the Irish
Question will -rémain to trouble Eng
land and disturb the world until it 1s
settled according to th and the
rights of the Irish people. It is tn the
interest of the United ‘States that tt
should be settled in this way. The men
who think it can be settled by a little
measure of Home Rule. calied by a big,
the
up to,England.
cians to be statesmanship of the first
order.
The Irish Cause has survived the ut-
inflag-
ging vigor until victory finally perches
on {ts banners. The vitality it ‘has
shown Is proof that it {6 indestructible,
Irish liberty is disloyalty to the United
States, the American people will re
@-j main warm friends of Ireland and will
undo and repair at the frat opportunity
whatever blows 1m: vered
against the Irish Cause in the tatoresta
gland.
gling for Iiberty, and using ae in the ine
terest of a tyrant, who
=
a
BRAYDEN THE DIRTIEST LIAR IN IRELAND
against their own people, and Ireland,
owing to pecullar circumstances, has al-
ways had a plentiful crop of all forms
of the pest. Since Easter Week
the rapid growth of militant Nations
tam whieh It produced, these creatures
have kept largely under cover ii
tend, but orcasio: me of
we his venom into ‘the congenial col-
tng omnes of a pro-British newspaper in the
United States. papers do not
reach Ireland, so the ruffian escapes the
physical chastisement he would surely
there. But the people don’t even hear
of his blackguardism and he goes scot
‘Att these countries have a right | free.
t end most malignant of
The nest
. | these creatures is a.fellow named Bray-
n, Who was once editor of the Free.
creditable
so that it ca
that he coal, tlees himself as oreadly
with his left hand as with his rtght.
He is a man of no real convictions and
is always ready to serve ‘any man who
+} veals his
which | othe
a righteous cause, The Irish Cause will be
fa she .
ever been, the deadly. omen ot | torte of plotters in Now York doe
this Republic.
as
get if his offence were committed over jr
ke! of them who may
we|pays him. At present he ts supplying
a syndicated cabled et tn
and one| I
Irish “new
ter which the New York
or two papers in other cities eccasjon-
ally use, and then. let it drop for long
perio ods,
cablesram from Brayden, pub-
lishea in last’ Monday's Globe,’ he re-
malignity and capacity to Ne
characteristically,
ished
the English and Irish datty avers we
were a fairly good summary,
naturally shorter, of the document me
Ushed in the United States. Neither in
e was
‘eference, of course, to a sum of $1,000
for Sir Roger Casement being “handled
-}by Devoy,”. but the document did not
say whether Devoy banded it in to be
sent Casement ether he re-
ceived, “te to send to Casement in some
of the question at that time, the natural
conclusion for a reasonable man to ar-
rive at was that, if there was any such
transaction at all, Devoy handed in
$1,000 subscribed by Irishmen to be seat
to Sir Roger Casement. It will be re-
membered that in his death speech Sir
Roger solemnity declared that he re-
ceived no German money whatever, and
ti were pal
found, either in England ox the United
this assertion, while.there is ample
proof of its absolute and entire truth.
The statements published in the Brit-
ish papers about the revela-
tions” make no attempt to ‘contraatet
Sir Roger Casement’s statement an:
say preotutely nothing about Irishmen
receiving pa: rem “Gel
man mon
a
thet
silent about them,” knowing full well
that ft fs a subject on which those of
them who took part in the Rebellion
cannot speak. Then, not being able to
find even a Tory paper in Dublin or
Belfast to make a faise charge not oven
hinted at in the “revelations,”
cabled, he has to go to Waterford to
get an Insignificant paper of no stand-
ing or influence, the Waterford Star, to
and to say that " Devoys,, Judge
Cohalans and ot! , three thousand
miles away om the .conse-
and sate fr
renee a the mischief, are plotting in
exchange for German gold.” We give
the whole despatch, #0 that our, readers
selves the carefully |
hat other way was out! by cre
States, to throw the slightest doubt on|s
that were neitHer in them, nor implied
the ctually made.
ad @ lot of brazen
service of England, ,but
Brayden i the Alrtlest and meanest
to Engtand and the world is. asked to
look on in‘ admiring wonder at the
at Peti
spectacle of a philanthropic John Bull
Czardom.
and a real Revolutionary Government
ce hounded the}slaves do. wonder and. do adulate and | Government cann mot otord to neglect, if
Young reland. Waders for British pay.|do praise John Bull for his great and of prudence;
— overweening kindness, It is useless to| while the French “ours and the
. bring figure or fact to bear on them to;small investors mptied their
MITCHEL’S CRY OF DISTRESS.
Purroy Mitchel, knowing he
would surely ‘be be: in the coming
election, decided as a forlorn hope ,to
himself in ert flag,
shouting that all votes cast against him
would be counted as against President
Wilson and his war policies, If the
Adminfstration had any sane friends in
nonsel t once,
as Mr. Wilson's trusted friends here are
not good politicians and are completely
out of touch with popular feeling. So,|and
instead of restraining _Mitchel,.
m until he had inflicted
President's candidat!
All good judges of popular feeling in
New York knew from ‘the start that
Mitchel was doomed to defeat, and that
support of him by the Administration
would mean. inking tte fortunes with
those of a doomed man. Every new
thing he did Tost otc tome votes that
he would have had some chance of re-
taining by ordinary prudence and com-
‘The exposure of the gross
ballot box frauds committed in his: in-
tacks on bis own country:
that thelr work for Irieh freedom con:
stituted disloyalty to America, removed
his last chance of retaining a shred of
Trish su When he made. these
attacks “ putt meetings men stood
him in errecttvenees vsalnet the 3 aitehel
candidacy
And now the poor figures of the regis-
tration have alarmed him and he sends
out a cry of distress, He berates those
who have failed to register—whom he
knows to be largely the men he expect-
ism.
pend-
ed on to turn out. Evidently many thou-
sands of these men are disgusted with
e
2
3
5
ize that his
And, judging from
planned distortion of the facts and mi
representation of what even the Creek
“revelations” actually say which‘ thts
shameless liar his friend, the edi-
tor of the contemptible ttle ‘Waterford
Star, want t im off on their readers
a fair account of what the Creel
er it is:
‘hese men are
not an, Their claim for in-
dependence Jmplies independence with
reape' ect to ‘y Eng-
in Central E'
8
en 810 the moral which ts
live on and will flourish in Amorica| Qrecevely put by the Waterford star,
after, its enemies are all and|published in the constituency. of the
thelr action in trying to Kill it wifl|Irish leader, John E..Redmond. It
Vhile the young men in Dublin in
faster Week, 1916, were sbot, and
in
shote of British "warships cannot reach
‘hem, nor ran ine Jon, 1 Brit:
ish Governm This
onest
against the country that sheltered them
and handling checks for promoting the
destruction of Ireland, the bulk of the
Irish people in America were loyal to
the land of thelr adoption, thelr mother-
land;
The same pretence is used over there
that’ is used here now, that Irishmen
who sought German military help when
the Ansurrection had deen actually de-
Ml cided on by the Dublin leaders, and
when America was not in the war, were
plotting against the cated States. and
doing It for German mo; There ts
also the same pretence that ‘every ttle
Irish renegade has authority to speak
the whole Irish race. Thes
“My deat iy
discredited in Ireland, even among the
Redmondaites. panied would believe
anything on his unsupported word, and
no man of itteonce values his opin-
ion, The few. people in the United
States who
in Ireland eighteen months ago. Those
have read his con.
coction will see at once that he and his
venemous Waterford friend ere put
into the Creel “revelation ony
trustworthy as they were, Tutewents
the biljion to the Allies.
er 4
re
frankly opposed to
. mea:
t|reasons why a
very bad mistake to’ allow Mitchel! to
pose, even for one day, as its candidate,
‘There never was a more absurd thing
in American politics than Mitchel set
ting himself up as the o1
the Mayoralty candidates who is loyal
0 the Untted States, Mr, Bennett, the
Republican candidate, has never done
a thing or said a word that would jus:
tity any suspicion of his loyalty. dee
Jan is as fervidly loyal as the
Congresenien for th aration
for Conscription, for the Spy Bill
ana ‘for all the money appropriations to
rand supply tunds by
Mes, Mr, Mitchet
has said or done absolutely ‘nothing
that would indicate that he 1s willing
‘ogo an inch further than Tammany fn
support of the war and of, every war
measure decided on by the President.
‘The utter foolishness of his attack from
that point of view was apparent to
every man who reads the newspapers
and only evoked laughter.
There is only one candidate who ts
to the war and to all
sures, and that is Morris Hill-
Voting for him will
8
aut, the Soctalist.
Hiligutt and emphasized the wien.
icance of ‘his candidacy. The only
thing that 16 certain about the election
is the crushing defeat of Mitchel and
Mitchelism.
WHY IRELAND IS POOR,
Constant repetition of the most ort
become so much his Ife tn-
deed that he almost comes eventually to
believe them. This is particularly the
caso regarding Ireland, about which
English offictals seldom write or
anything that is not fatse, In this they
are unfortunate ly abetted by the Irish
place-hu pologist who repeats,
parrot, whatever his English mas-
ter says, an will not hesitate to
say ‘anyd kta, no matter how deroga-
tory about his country, if it but serves / grt
his private ends.
One of the pet fables trotted out
eternally by England ‘when explaining
conditions in Ireland snd when giving
it the
Irish peop ountry them.
selves, as that Ireland is so small and
that she would be utterly un-
able to pay her way and would go bank-
rupt if England did not superintend her
affairs.
that Ireland is being run at a great loss
e and moved out of the] been
| Men
Mitchel fs his own worst sem and 3 no | wert
ids | anti-Mitchel campaign:
- | mates
| Ie
say| 0
m-|ism, with civil
Indeed, we are blandly assured | of
the blighting grasp of England she
would immediately push her way into
the forefront of the Nations.
80 small ttunted in mind and soul
themselves that they think Ireland
must be poor and small also, and they
continue adamantine in their unbelief.
' One thing only has left Ireland poor
weak, namely the strangle hold
‘kept on her by England. That strangle-
hold is being loosened daily. From it
Ireland will soon wrench herself com-
pletely free, and when she does she will
again assume her place among the Na-
tions and be clothed with all the spirit-
ual and mastertal story and riches that
by right are hi
AN IRISH REPUBLIC THE GOAL,
People who will not greatly qsion
will never greatly achieve.
cause the Irtsh peaple have eon ” able
always to vision greatly that they have
ging | of Nationhood to-day es unclouded as at
profit-to them personally, if they had
‘willing to renounce Ireland's right
to Nationhood and to her assum-
ing the status of a mere English shire.
and women in every
laughed
little soul because they refused to b:
ter the Natfonal faith thet was as dear
and precious to them as their very life
blood... It is because of thelr splendid
devotion and thefr_unfaltering adher-
ence: to principle that. the Irish, people | ¢}
possess the spirit that thrifis and ant-
them
To keep that spirit of: Nationality
pure and free from eny of co
promise Irish men and
women have
"| gone gladly to death and exile, cheered
and upheld only by the. consciousness
thet was theirs -that, some time in the
future there would come the fulfillment
of all thetr alms and the crowning with
success of all their labors. . It was not
m to see that Blorions consum-
mation, "bat it will be given. us. * ~
” Hence,
people
thefy vision of Irish Natlonhood more
strongly than ever, and see that there
no abatement of the National, claim.
All the proud generations of our. dead
who went in sacrifice for our sakes de-
a
full frisistence that Ireland, be restored
to the full status of Nationhood that
was destined for her by God, and that
at the mandate of no body of men inust
over t be lessened or changed.
of this uncompromising ‘ate
tttade we may have to go. through a
crucible that will try us severely. Even
50, achievement was never won ex-
cept. by vIn Bghting for the
rights of small nations let us inscribe
an Irish Republic. on our standard and
stand fast by .that uncompromising
claim.
THE COURSE OF THE WAR.
Looking for the kernel in the husks
of news that have been published dur-
ing the week past from all fronts, has
been very much. Iike. searching . the
bundle of hay for the needle that could
not bbe found. All that can be gath
3
&
London apondent in the ‘eee, en.
tence, phere 1s no Government in
sta.” The latest phase of the political
evolution in Petrograd ts the constitu-
tion of what is called a Parllament ap-
and a Kerensky Cabinet stron;
meated with resionarie wate calls
itself the uss
neither of these “odes resronstbte to
or controtling the other, and each hav-
certain amount of military force
Outside the circle of Petro-
re appeard to be a general
state of anarchy, the peasants in the
provinces - occupying them: selves solely
with the land aitestion, while a rebel-
Mon 1s reported, in way Turkestan
it may scaly ‘ren ad into Bokhara,
Khiva and other parts of Asiatic Rus
‘sia,
‘The English press which sees more
clearly the meaning of what is going on
in Russia than ‘the reactionary press of
bebind we
tl
archy or even a constitutional Czardom
rather than a Kerensky Republic bal-
ancing between the two extremes of
Bolshivikism and Bourgeots Menshirik-
war always imminent
and a steady disintegration of the ter-
ritorlal components of the former Em-
going on. The collective respon-
Sibnitey to High Finance for the debts
the Empire would, in the event. of
‘a general dissolution, completely cease,
e | tral St:
| materialists and men of little mind and
com-| their ‘ Colonial Hoos.
1 Phe - political - situation
sf
om Russia Pear the '
to political oat is condense
parently dominated by the Bolshevik
wot
the other allied countries, is becoming | stré
er the pri
hoardings into the voters of the Rothe
‘hilds who promoted the Russian loans
in the latter half of the last century,
must be having some hours of uncom-
fortable reflection.
to the war reports emanating
from Petrograd and London; they’ are
arejof very little value in estimating the |.
Front,
the Germans before Winter sets in. The
Finnish Parliament bes apparently
taken the necessary steps to the Inde-
pendence of Finland, coincidently with
the reported German naval operations.
On the rest of the Eastern Front down
to the Danube there has been no ser!
ous fighting except on the Roumanian
section and the edge of the Bukovina,
and with no definite result. The gen-
eral contour of the line remaining what
it has been for several weel
be-| Macedonian Front there has been ilette
activity at any point, and in Greece
throned King, Constantine.
King seems to be such a nullity in ons
announcement by King Ferdinand of an
important event which is imminent and
would forcibly impress on the Entente
Allies the unity between the Allied Cen-
tates.
On thé Western Front the British
“have driven a sharp salient into the
suit of thelr plan of.throwing the Ger-
mans back from the Belgian coast. Al-
though Belgian’ and Portuguese con-
tingents have their share in thess
operations, they are panel over and
the credit all given to the British’ and
me Germans
be massing strong
armies on this front have another Win-
ter before. them in the trenches seems
now fairly certain unless the earl:
peace which High Finance ts credited
with working for matertalizes soon
nee “ re-
c madi
In order to’ distract
public attention and it is attempted to
connect M, Caillaux with the Bolo peace
propaganda in alleged German interest.
At the same time’ thé Socialist Party
and the Radicals’ continue their policy
of observation,
alestine matters seem again ata
erations reported under way by the
King of the Hedjaz, the transformed
Grand Scherift of Mecca, This new
feaged ona is sald to be bringing
cus and Medin:
British Expedition now halted at Gaza,
the object apparently being in conjune-
tion with the Bedouins of the Syrian
desert and the tribes of the Lebanon to
te by evacuating Pales-
The British success at Ramadiah
on the Euphrates appears to have been
very complete, and undoubtedly wilt
us [aid more or less directly the operations
in Palestine end Syria by the influence
ft will have on the Arabs of the Hauran,
over to
one of
watching for
many reasons, especially as efforts are
being made to have a United States
contingent sent to Palestine, The Rus
sian part in thp Mesopotamia campaign
may be sald to be definitely ended, and
the reported fighting in the Erzinghian
and
military importa nce, now that Winter
is setting in. *»
The nrest in Central Asta conse-
quent on the Russian Revolution and
the disturbed condition of India have,
of that force belng furnish-
ed by Australia and New Zealand. A
| considerable number of these troops are
posted along the Afghan frontier and
the Samuels, have been for yea
silver brokers for the British indies
Government, hich capacity they
situation is, moreover, one that our own | hung
o
establishing
in
edited by George H.
land.
eserves behind this section of their tine Leavini
based
the ist, in the relgn-of Baws
I
standstill probably waiting on the op-|#
S| large number:
dy.
it is said on good authority, caused the| 4 ,,
have emassed febstous wealth. One of
these Samuels {t w:
“THE TRIAL OF SIR R
casket POSER
Law mpany ° o}
Eniiadetphia, ‘ahch Die a melieh,
nadian, British ‘Colo
tow ks egaely, vs “at fi
“The Trial of Sir Roger Caseme: eas
e of a series of volumes on famou:
English fists.
port of the trial is bas
the vrenagrap hic ot on
notes taken by the
Brit! ernment reporters during
the proj case, As
where the direct narrative form is fol.
lowed instead of that of question and
ae ts stated in the bretace eiee &
the report of the trial has bee ad
prosecuted, has revised the report of
his speeches, but the extent of the At.
torney General's ot . the
come up through all the persecution] himself as a dictator, playing the part|ish Crown a:
, gainst Sir Roger Casi
-|that has, been visited upon them and of a petty tyrant his personal op-|was one of the most prominent figures
-| that they are able to retain their vision | ponents and the ‘partizans of the a in the activities of
Law of the Middle Temple, and is 4
cated by him to the Lord Chief Fotis
of England, who presided at the
ot Casement, and to Justice Darling,
who presided at the appeal taken to the’
Court of Criminal Appeal. This of it-
set indicates that. the viewpoint of
Mir. Knott is distinctly British and not
or. disinterested edi-
showing his entire: agreement
with the attitude ot the prosecation and
judges, to fortify
which he ‘throws in a few words of!
| backing whenever he finds it necessary
or sdvantageou
The editor
ate of the Untverelty of Bainbureh, |
and the book has been printed in Scot-!
the opinions of Mr. Knott
out of consideration, he report’ of this
famous case great!
fe
nglan
The -Andtetment Green sesinst Case-
in
and
based ue denial” of ‘tne prison
er’s demant be tried in Ireland on
a statute dating pack to the reign of
Henry VIL,-in 1
COLUMBIA TO RESUME
COURSE IN MODERN IRISH.
‘We desire to inform our readers fut
for the pndvanced class ot students, and
it 10:30 A. M. to 12:10 P. M., on Sat-
any, 20th inst., for. the elementary
and intermediate . clas the
ses are a Tecognitfon on the part
of Columbia University of the value of
to stud int
the valuable erature of..the Gael,
there should be a bearty response .0!
the part of those of Irish blood, and
this response should find expression by
‘8 of them taking up this
atu
Studer nts: are required to register in
the
the office Registrar, 315 Univer
sity Hell, and to Pay their fees in the
office of Bursar in the same build
ing. The course will be under the direc
tion of M. A. O’Byr:
+
BELLEW M'MANUS BRANCH.
MacManus Branch,
Frlents ott rk Freedom, held its Test
lar-meeting on October 4, at Murphy's
Hall, Forty-ninth eet and» Eighth
Avenue. With the ré-election of officers
of the branch throughout the coming
year, The tng officers were elect-
ed: President, Jota Bolger; “Vice!
ident, jacNamera; Financial
Seoreiary Sonn, Lennon; Treasurer:
Mrs. ugh MacNamara; Ser:
Arms, James Ryan: Secretary,
J
Annie Rice, 970 Whitlock Avel "
next meeting | takes see Setaber 25 al
the same hi
HIBERNIANS RESENT ATTACK.
Division 49 of the Ancient Order of
America, at a meeting:
‘One Hum:
Justice Daniel F, Cohalan and
tor of Tue Gariic Astentcan and pleds:
ing their fullest confidence in both.
en
EATING RABB:
Eating rabbit has been suas pe
the Food Controller
overcoming the high cost of vine.
If by chance you see a rabbit,
Go right after it and grab it,
w you stick or