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Full Title	The Gaelic American - Vol. XV, No. 3, January 19, 1918, Whole Number 749.
Contributor	O'Reilly, Michael.
Date Added	9 January 2014
Format	Newspaper
Language	English Irish
Publish Date	1918-01-19
Publisher	New York [N.Y.] : Gaelic American Pub. Co.
Source	Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection
Topic	Irish Americans > Newspapers.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR I Chet-Enable Omemcml. .- 'Jhnlml'y 19, 1918. OFFICE or ' mailiiellcfamelltin 1651M Willi” em (30" Building) Published Weekly by THE GAELIC AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY a nee-our“ una- on u" or new so“ ‘ .mel' Dmr. Pro-ism. . lss William st. 3mm York relary. “I“ lWIlIiIlzl EL. ”New“ Var: with r. ‘50 Kosciusko But.” Brooklyn. “New ”Y"!- Jam DIVA“ Edltnr, '3“ WLIIiM'n St. New York. .0- TERMS-POSTAGE FREIE DII Y“ MBuMmptIon . g. . .100 El! In . a n u n . 1.00 SATURDAY.'JANUARY 19. will gr: WHY EXEMP‘I THE ERITISH EMPIREI‘ 0 Se Ilsa President's In A thorough discussion in the Sonata and [here Should be an equ usllyt thn nllro gh discussion by the pehple throughout the nest is the servo ant and people shouldca see that it does what the Deep ple quL The American people are called on to make tremendous sacrifices and have IIreIdy endured much suifering because or the entry at the United States into the Wh-l‘. More than I million men have heen called to the colors, Immense sums taly has, coupled with inopmpetcacy Ind‘soldShnesn on the port oi dealers and oliicials. caused inhnite hardship and suiisring anions iarg a masses oi in th t the oi the war, and the people are thereiore entitled to any car what pnrposa the is being waged and on what conditions it may be pulled i the war is tohe waged make the world safe ior democracy" andt aopeoplas now aubiact to alien rule. is thl DrindDID to he of universal- cltion, or I! democm! to he established Term only in the territories ruled or occupied by the Central Powers had their allies. while the peoples ruled o'er Ind ap- pressed by England are to be left at her mercy? If the latter is to be the case and the British Empire i Palestine. Syria, Ar to be set up as indope udent states thIa irelaud. ludla. and Egypt le leit under ths hes] 0! Elisha nd-rshd England's hold tin their that." strengthened by lite v halter-t uhssident wu- only to Ilherlts peoples hnw nil er Our- man. atrial: LIn r Ish min. or under the military control at a Can- racial and political conditions in some oi the territories all ected but these are com ared to the wholesale exemption or the British Empire irons the proposal to liberate subject peoples and to the utter ignoring oi irelaud. which has special claims on the Arn er- The explanation that the nuo sire ucb de mands oil countries associated uwith it intne r-oisntvallmbecuasethe President has put himseii on record in writing in a statement that the Entente Allies Ire only urocmtrd with America e in no sense "our ritorial limitations. tlons upon it. strictly and honestly ins terpreted. it applies to the British Em- pire as much as to the German. the Aus- triun. the Turkish. or any other. There is a British Propaganda in the American rresl against "embarrassing England" by demanding the freedom at London, In clamoring tor more ' President, the Senator e tives at American help, whil- 2,000,000 trained larltiah soldiers are held in England and 70,000 in lrelsnd to keep the people in the Irish citizenship ol thls country, admitted that reland only by msEhIne gulls Ind that It would take a large array to enioice Con-trip nln thst country. The United Stat” Government ls discussing military to over-lush with ED DI“ n.d Ind III I Th- "Ines of those 2,000. 000 British troops now held In England for mergenclra that are not publicly er- plslned Ind of the 70.000 In Ireland Is a millia measure which the United StItes has I perfect right to WI. up to England. , hould America sacri- dl‘s her sons for Enxllhd's benedt when 2.000.000 irhlned British soldiers Ire held at home Ind In Ireland ivr reason- that an rlargely political it England let gala pol: ire lend those 2,000. 000 [trained Biltlah troops would he re eased i 1- service ht the from; in hunt: Ind Flanders. For pure! millr tary reasons, therriore. and leaving out Ill other considerations, the United Slates would be entirely lustised in de- manding that m‘glsnd set Ireland tree. It Th e an more than 204100.000 citi- seaa al irish birth and descent la the Cult all States. the Revolution down. in every crisism or the Republic‘s history. (110- Irish hIVe finish! and worked tar its iuterests, honor and in- Iegrli]. while England III plolllug lo av :erthraw it. it the United States is mink. h'EngIa-uds aide Ig‘liust Iro- laud-audt hat Is what in all re to dew And lralauri-s liberation would really musk-It will be au act at base lngrutl tuna, and via are sure the American peo- ple will not sauctloa it. There are fully 300. 000 lrlshmeh Ind saris irlsnmen iu the Nat ioull Ann and It Is said on good authority that a BB these Irishmen to tht valiantly Ind shed their blood (or the freedom 0! Belgium. Servle Lithuania, Palestine. ior the help or the Ameri navy England could not do this? Why. then, should not the united States, at a time when England cannot adord to re- iuse its request, demand the indepen- dence oi irela nd‘! This view should be placed before the sand the Con essmen hy lrish citizens throughout cautious of lira. Skedihgton and by the attention he gave to Senator Phelms Sp each at the nreseutaticn oi’ the RD ber Emmet statuette that he is Imenlhlo to is the pmver the to 9 claim. And Ireland’s clhlln is for Chin- plzle NIliunhood, not for I modlhcsr tinn of foreign filial SIR CECIL WAS SHUT DUI. t would he fbrlunaie lor the UnIIEd day oi the President's In: t nddr rsas Congress. Tuesdn all. 1 arrssident had begun his address. The galleries were crowded by ab!”- liant throng-all but the Diplomatic Gallery, reserved there resenlnv rel Governments There only empty beaches were Little dill any one in the athar‘paru oi the Hausa know that outside the or at that Gallery oi Empty! Seats, iamoua diplomat tamed and tossed, doubtless muttering diplomatic cusses beneath hia Dream, And straining iris ear againut the chiak iu the doors in a to Plenipotentiary a ills arlmnnlc llajes str. ‘ Yet so it was. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. having learned at a late moment that the President was to address Congress. had hastened to the Capitol. but arrived alter the doors oi the galleries had been closed. An d do or keeper r,s e at the Diplomatic Gallery, had been ordered in letn no one eater While the president was speaking. The keeper oi the Diplomatic door was a grim old Civil War veteran: to him in- orders meant orderHlplom-ts meant nothing. in Sir Cecil's pleading end'expnstulating. His rar against the crack in the door was as near as he could get to tho Presldent'e speech. May the incident symbolize the waning oi English iniiurnre in our councils. Those lrishmen w know what Dussr ed between Sil- Cecil and the Apostolic quest that a curb be tloualist activities at irish priests in America, and gave as an excuse lor the an iniamous story against the wu or his iamiiy in lrolaud, but for ‘ venuon in advance. (SI II tllms of hi 21110th this discomllturs of 'tho rel)- resenmtlva oi the mighty British Em plre They also keenly enjoying the line Iilhllsl'la answer he received; The by were incllhadt to think well of a Sil- Cecil. knawing him to he I Home Rule:- Ind on account of the good record rmany months he has been the chief purveyor or this dirty scandal, and remarkable real in (In circulation or the Hith. Yet it Is I notorlmll fact that the British diplomatic service la in a glass house in this respect, and that comm on prudence ought to inlka'thaln cnreiul about The record at the British nobility and at the English put an uni- versitloa ought to make Englishmen careful, but they are war mad these tips d,thair chiei antipathy is BEIihst in. Irish. Slr Cecil is probably acting under orders in this matter. He ought to be glad that he is relieved iron: the task or propagating lilth SHANE lESllE AND THE CDNVENIIDN. Th edit or Gan. hill conveyed to him by the butler. Forms Imount to little, however: it is the matter at the wmmunlcltion that cents Last week when very lruey over other matters we received the lailowlng piece or writing in In envelope addressed to Tm: Gmw Am J B M‘i'. Shula Leslie Dresents “This compli- mun In the I Ymnus writer I by 0 e at not received, and is Irielllled to belie" that It Fly“ votes Ention on hell 1?! alleged attacks on Mr. 0 r l. “The Trtb‘lme artlcl 2. "Similar attacks but not quite so vlmnl rap orted in y'milus were not written .Lesile. in fact two have not ya at come ).to Man otlce to this duty. Initials, wlthoutn which no good! are gsheing (air in Irish militias. Mr. Leslie doesn not feel that Mr. Devoy l mu aka any a g s to endorse the irish Cou- snail) e editor oi Tee Gama AMEIICAIV Slim LESLIE. 0 could possibly do him, but was concern- ed only with the revelation or maliguity and luck of moral sense disphyed by the writer, whoever he was. As 1 land in sea there is no use "throwing water on I drown edltor of is responsible tar everything Aunllu! has met the udltor oi irezoad since the paper went down and iormed a high opinion oi him. and he thereiore hopes that the malignant misrepresenta- speech at the lrish Race Convention published in that paper in ms escaped lllr. Walsh's notice. As to Mr. Leslie's statement that "It s ls illogical to condemn as to endorse thI irlrh Convention in advance," the reasoning is unsound Ind not rounded on tha iactr. We wndemned the Lloyd George "ConVenlJou" as o iraud. intend- ed‘xo deceive the world oeoause it was practically appointed the British Government. instead oi being elected by the irish people; because the major- o it, or the irish people were not repre seated in it; because its procedure was delel‘mlned Ind Ila whole machinery in the hands or the secretary. who Iu‘ an Erlgllsh Treasury expert having no canv uection with Irallnd, Ind hlcauss its meetlugs were held in secret in prevent R We said. and we repeat now. that such a body, acting under sue on an could have no authority no speak ior or act on bebsli oi the people oi irelaud. it received its mandate irons and acted under the authority oi the British Gov- ernment a one. tlecenily. when it was reported by very well lnionuerl persons, and the re confirmed in subsmnm by some newspaper articles that Mr. Leslie g oi the , country, the matter became a Iegitimste subject‘ for public discussion and ondemued the things said to have been. or about to be, recommended by the "Convert. tInn.“ There was nothing either illogi- cal or unreasonable in that We are not living under the Daiencs oi the llaalm Act and are iree to discuss public aiialrs on their merits rhaad, it was utterly II‘ or nothing about 9the "‘Conve e”IIIiorl, s of them being wholly uniniormad on lrlah stroll-s. to write‘ or dirtaio an endorse men n! of the “Convention 3" recum- ustc characlzt‘ 9! Sir Roger ClstmtnL an mend-dolls boron ll Ind made any. o I natlons, and-Home Ruled in or Ire hiss spare time to literary investl- h 3. "That malignant distortion" oi a :1 speech i being Illul d hyll cur condemnation oi the schema said above been arranged betw ween Lord :Narthcliiis and Shane Leslie to publish Such a 1proceeding would be a ir and on hownthilmb it we are inoorrectly lniornied on this matter we are in the same has sltion anyo ober lrishmen who are usually very well ini olnr ed The lament ra- urding the publication of these ad- vnllce endur- ants h a‘l‘lWidelyuI Published all:9 not contradizeted. GET ON THE Juli AT ONCEG Eelor- this iss ssue oi Tm: nuc summit reaches its readers theG Fence has for the freedom oi Servln Lithus anla. Poland, Greene.” ther lsnailu do our boasted twenty millions think or that! is this the way irelaud Is to be treated alter all her struggles. and after all she has e for the United States! England and her agents going to euchre ireland again as they have done so (reduently In the past! Don't let them eat ireedo Don t he in leading strings indee Wor k now, not now, and above III, do not, let's whip, spring Ilka a lot of fawning our: to heel. If we had the relivessert- enees we should have we would long Isa hey this entire country hdame with til:l justice: :nd the force 01 our Cause. Do at o Assert yous-salve:- hdame now n being ex- posed by the Districctn Attorneys ein New Yilrk and Bronx ties, posing as the reitcreSehtztireS .ni gthe irlsh people and arranging to t ads on their ownership oi "the irish vote" on n x St. Patrlch's Day. There Ire among them a raw honest, but unthink- iug men who believe that a parade on St. Patrick's Day is "a blow struck ior lreland" and who are willing, tor the privilega oi riding rs r carriage, to allow knaves and tricksters to pose as the leaders at the race. But. no matter who his e the ilgureheads. the Grand hisrsbails and tho De Iilghrockaiorums. the men really manage the show, ii it comes oil is brought dishonor and disgrace to the a m lrlsh people 2 Cooper institute last year, whsra i‘IItrhEI's thugs blacklscked and i‘luhbed decent Irish men and woman. and in the Mayornlty campaign, these a e them it. rick's Day at tha crack oi some sham .loyhl- anon gulls fr the lie to those trickster! Ind shown the absurd diy White, How. I piss (Ur Irish Indepen- dence sign by a woman who taught a Elsi“ Week Rehelllon and ll! the widows oi man who were shot by . the British Government (or taking part in it. He also listened, at'tha White ousa Ilsa. I few dIys ago, to h splenv did defence of them has a! Irish Inde- as pen ndenca by Senator Pheiau oi Culiior- he ore it 1 nl Ind Congress has several resolutions fart oat. Who wl by side with the Stars and Stripes on the streets oi New Y rk a man whether he he an oscial or a private citizen. who undertakes to do so will be buried under the indignation and wrath oi the lrlsh citizens at this Metropolis, The lriah cause is a last and holy cause and must take prem- dance on St Patric In St. Pair lck’s Day is thn,lriah Na- tional Holiday. it it is m be publicly celebrated In New York the keynote at the celebration must be lreiand's jnsl demand ior National independence. lrnavas nu rlckstsrr are allowed by the public Illthorlllus to seine control oi the celebration-and they cannot obtalnco hirnl in an rway-the en the thing should he yi-auaorsaleasiy bo‘y- cottad by the irish prop round as other alternative. Parads mu Nations! Demonstration. arranged in the real representatives oi the man citizens oi New York or there id be no porad a at . THE COURSE 0F THE WAR. the Central Allies within the days for which the Brest Litovsli negotia- tion ,has resulted In their practical elimination (rpm the acorn (e whecome one he- lween the lieu-ESL” of Russia lid th 9 Central Powers. The Germ rian Proposals which were put forward in view or their participation in it have been' with: Russia and part they will continue to be held Brest Lit It will now be extremely interesting to watch the course oi the discussions the rep The only one or the modern Socialist statesmen ou the side oi the Entente who appears to have had a clear comprehension oi the situation in RuSSIs was hi. Albert Thomas, French Socialist lender and iorrner Minister oi Munitions, who had visited be t country on behali oi his party. ht held recently in Paris he told his constituents that the Revolullolll in Russia against the Czar but against the war as well, and that-he hall movie the Govern- ment understand it, but they did not see it to iollow the policy the Social- Nationality and the Trimlor Flag a! the irish Repuhlic-the Green, WhIte and Orange which was dung to the breeze by Fadralc genres in DubIIn on Easter Monday. iota-are to be relegated to abscurItyi And elery man and woman who Insists [list Ireland shall not be disgraced on the National Festival will be denounced as “as or n plotter" an d dIS‘onal to the Unite d States. by the rumahs who trade in Irish votes and by the hired organs or England in the press. The game worked last year and the year before because the rene gade Mitchel was in control oi the police and had the power to issue the Permit lur the parade to his own henchmen. Their parade in 1918 who‘s miserable aascq bonus the majority oi the Irish. people refused to touch it, and last year they were as ed trom a simi- lar exhibition of Impotenne Bnd absurd- It]; by a rainy day This year there is no excuse icr llayor iiylan granting to parnr it-cr orderlng his Police Com- mlssionsr to grant -to a smailga gvmg oi disgraced ward hselers who did their utmost. for money. to detect him, and whose corrupt conduct Is now being ex- posed by two District Altnrlieys in the Greater City. The tact that they will approach him Is representatives of the organized irlshmsn oi the city will not prove that they have any such repre- senmllve character. The real Irishman at the city, organized and un‘orgnnised. disown Ind renudinte (hem and will not marrb behind them or their puppets ou purposes president Wileyu its: givm ist Parly then propoaeil charged it with being responsihls tor Ilhue present situation in Francs and one“. of the moss! Interesting Items 0! paws re gar ln ssnoCe tr l Allies negotiations Is that“ representa- tives of the newly organized and rem nlzadl nUlil’dll'ilull Republic are taking them. This is slgulncaut al luture closer relations between tha new Russian tonomull! tales. AI there has been no mention at Finland being represented. which may mean that that Lnuntry is looking to becam- Ing one at them embers ot a Scandlndy niluleu, and therefore outside tab is ho as p other receding groups detaching thorn- selves irom direct union with Russia, may claim the same right Turitr are among the principals in the negotiations, the question at the has u s. ‘3 a a E. a u a a E E. i vessels or war that o E u eoirerciso oi Turkish ter- ritorial rights , 0n the We stern Front. which now may be said to include the Imlm sec- tion, most or the activity has been c n- llusd to artillery ilring and patrol actions in the nature at reconnais- sanoes. They have led to no changes in the Sellers] line of any Impormnce. but or their pretensions by h receiving from Mrs Ekemngto ll, It thl DIS hell 1.... mars from Clnr prall'ela. while the itslian reslslenm or Mnntul. which would cut across in. railway communications oi the Allied armies Pisve with The intimation Minister at Foreign Allura. tint Auer drawnv Pr all! held in Western Euro BOULD BILLY FLYNN. + , With apologies in Allied perclval . Graves 'ny rum Gouuri'v. y or sleuth: we can alter an endless For rough work or tough work, or work In Soclei Elli I'mu sure we fifth state with the “h Thutm Buuld Ifilly Flynn is the boss I). oh, then hora isc a 0health to you Bahia Bllyl Fl lyun Soon may yyou star in the movies ag'iu, ArtluIF retainer oi “plotting". Silllt s,ner Och Bill, sure there's nobody like you You may tsiluhout sleuths in the pages oi is sy,tor Famed ior unravelling many a mystery. i-lawhsbaw, Shorlocko, or Reginaldna But beside Billy Fly-nu they would under and ion - Cutie the Department looked sure a. w When he jumbled a German, Sinn reins e or nd'i'ur,li Said Bill "now be hlsy, dnn t tliInIi that at crsz. Five thousand is not tn be entered II at all” i . By the slze oi your but Bill cm tell r you’re going And the innermost thoughts oi your mind hell he knowing. And soon, clear as mud, to the press he'll be showin The terrible things that you‘re Plait tln’ to do. ' ‘ by the way you stand ulf‘or sit down on a sea . Elli can tell your whole story toner! mpls act The world never saw such a limb at saw-l What a terrible pity he not the raw). + SUCCESSKY. + By PETER GOLDEN. With an ass-liranrte mild and mucky. tm scli kn pd sleek Behold how withr unbiushing cheeky We recognize the Boisherlki. Yet but a little while agosk y, The entire warldw said to knowsk’ They were the lowest oi the lowiki. An d of humanity the! (lines The moral he who runs ml! mdSka To dwell on it. we do not neadsky. That ncthirlg li- ss euoooedsnky II wondeiluily trim indesds 1 + ENCOURAGEIIEKT To sxralti' (London Times. wookly Edition. December '11. 1911.) .‘l‘he United Sales F‘lel Adminisuo‘ cohl inr home consumption sheen 5," Am ericun producers prodts which lor- Sign dealers the been taklng. the!“ Drums in some new exceeding ‘9" L i As the Ce" + WEXFORD WINS ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL ‘Al Croke Park, Dublin, on Decemb" 9 t play-was unlntorastln Bet 6““ and eight thousand people wwitnoased the ten. M...- sm'lv FEIN HALL 1N GREEAPOIYT The Slnn Fells ball oi the door rto Washington Bruno h or tileFr men ads 0‘ lr iah Freedom will be held on the out“1 or Inn uary 23, Anthony ys Auditorium, Leonar ard smell aresupointia ooiiln AI angenloellls iort be event at ca mpletednn and the committee promise“ an enjoyable evening to all who attend at its last meetla Md “‘1“ ed“ a resolution thanking bliss .lesaam ctlull I" invoring lrlihh independence Kr”: ig-uolSt‘ l

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