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g ‘A JOURNAL DBVD'l'ED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE‘. AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH BAGE.
W, x1., No. 9. Wbo1oVNo. 546.
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 28, 1914.
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IQlIYaqlI.N.Y.lAnduIhcAaMl:vllgruAuiMu<h.nH)
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
lit lit enecutlvc s -sion at the united
suites sen-nte on Feb. 19, senator innit-s
ii olsorhlan, arcorlling to the n iy
timel d much-ncedcl
ea
<1
are." As the Mississippi senator is n
.h.rhhrtsr oi Prohibition in public, hut
. triend or John Barleycorn in
prime, his irnpertlnence was .vory
prnhahiy insulted. .
The proceedings at executive sessions
and the
e
every senator had in mind. the larger
uesllon or accepting President wil-
rone sdlice to surrender to lansiwd hr
ltptzllillg the rice rolls provision or
the pension Canal is
1EI7I ol wlthh .1
congress. sending or senators and itch-
atives and connding
o many-senators were
not on their own judgment of the merits
or the question, but in obedience to
Presidential pressuic.
lished in the daily pattern may not he
The debate arose n no ameudnn-ht
proposed by senator Chamberlain to the
Mill ' ’itll Spain.
9.
o
‘E’
not he described as the first step to an
Angio<Al.l:eril:al:i Alliance, as that one
undoubtedly was .
and the admission or the children or
alien. to Amel-luau schools.
senator O’Gormall'ii speech was dwelt
on more iuily in the daily paper reports
nsaiuul rarial prejudice
his an e n Fen. l9
"Du.
9: OM uud American arguments,
“"'W0': indlsputahle tests, but.’ helng
in
mm“ lnswv-r thosn a
n
iarguulent. either in America or in
sin. whatever obstructs reunion,l‘,htr,
' " ' to-
iniiiiiiiii BABES GAliNEGlE’S iiiiliinilvis
giinies For ‘The Senate His “ Ntirth American Review " Article Favoring In-
ch.-puration'0f The United States In The British Empire-Big “Peace
Fund" Used To Hire Speakers To Attack Senators For Exercising I ‘
Their Constitutional Rights And Freedom 0Uudgment-Root.
Makes Futile Reply And TllelEver Exuherantwilliams Talks
Flippantly Ol “ Celtic Exulierance" -British Organs
Attack 0'Gorrhan And insult Irish Citizenship. ’
gihen to him in these papers and vote
for lllri pl’onloi.lon oi the iluanrlll and
other iuteI'eslii D I all" tiwners. II
that the
North mrtcrlcau Re-
view in 1893 on tile question at the War
for‘ Independence, in the course or which
the Laird otaskiho said:
“Both Briton and American being now
one who mule
the colonists vludicalr
ed their rights as laritish citizens, and
tlicrerore only did their duty. the q
tio arises. is a separation thus torced
upon one or the n rties, and now thu‘s
deeply regrettrld ny the other, to he her-
miment? - = -
a partisan in dealing with uless quas-
"Let no man imagine that I write as
clone. 1 now u ‘ is great
mit-
:pivse; whatever. in ins-veiiqlo 1
var. i judge all political qllestlons
trout this standpoillt. All part divi-
sions sink ‘o nothiogness in my
thoughts compared with the reunion of
o . a
ollr race.
“Let men say what they will, theler
lore i tell that as so e sun in
the ill.-mend ‘um: shone ‘upon Iiri u
no cd, so surely
one moi‘ ivlg ta
2 upon a Ll
Liritlsh-American Union.‘ "
ll
Altar reading this lllSt'l0Sill‘E of An-
drew Caruegics real purpose,
D’Garma'll. according
Endowment for
The senator charged that the
peace and in n D!
Alliance between Great sritaln and the
united taes- ' ,
. "All this pi-opagan-da ho’: henciited
parties." he contin-
s
Carnegie institute. and negotiated the
o be
in colieag it! were “new
e explained that
a .
tore the peace endowment was ever
couside
But
the hiring oi spcnlrena to attack
re . .
he appears not to havehdenleil
sena-
iia is. or allsaisaippi,
to heal the breach between the
nators from New York -by saying
did not ‘consider the remarks or
Senator o'uol-nlan as meant to he per.
sonoiiy olrcnsile. .
"The senator iO‘Uoru:ixl'l) Dcrmltu his
Celtic blood to piny'l=Ww with his Judg-
t n matters where Great. Britain is
concerned." said senator Williams. “i
ran appreciate that hecaiise l have a lot
or that same 5 lrit in me."
senator Williams is or welsh desccntr
' ‘l loll to a delegation
' u him to
sought
twa Se
tberu cordially‘ ‘Mush. In ill
told them he was opposed to “hy-
henntcd Americana." Hc roxlld under-
stami the. lrishrnnn hating England. he
liilil. but he lied no right to bring his
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greet again ‘tile rcunitcri states‘-‘tile:
iii iliiigiyinlisis
Meeting in the Dublin Mansion House
Representing the Whole Country
Denounces the British Government
for its Boycott ol‘ Oueanstown and
cThrcateu Retaliatory Measures-
lr-eland Must Have Direct Commu-
nication With America-An lris
American Line Sug ested--Fresi-
dent of Belfast Chamber of Conl-
merce Proposes the Resolutions.
The iollowing special cable despot.-h
appeared in the New York son or lived.
nesday inst: e ‘
DUBLIN, Fab. 24.-rhe dream at a
"Unlveal Ireland" WIS Ell
sihility
Line to abandon Queenstnwn as I port
or call. I
. Threats were heard that an appeal
would be made to the united states for
. tters ot sylnp-.ri.h
'<
5-‘
o
E
nhlic men In
states and organize nieetings them in
the hope or ootalnlng direct mail der<
vloo Queenstown and New
York, it not through a British steamship
company then through at German or an
irish-American line.
Air. Gamble, President or the aeirnst
chamber or commerce, rhposed a
strong resolution protesting against the
"unjust. if not illegal. violation or n
contract." and Postmaster-General sam-
uel a ltrarr and diseourteous action
in disregarding Ireland's rnullcst.
K
Sunday. February 2': isll
late Senator James A. 0'(iorman on h
rllallleli’. the promotion of
hhratihu
Th
chnl-at-ler or the P
llsh lnmtcncei '
S
lnent.
tinl-is or unworthy motives. Derso
tors. are
and sordid ii-ialznlal reasons. i
alloy in iileliro is n
F
rraiest Power on mrthd Such
can riE0i7lF-
1
a
United states. to the .
the United States to the interest: or I
Roger Casement crltfctlocd the
real meaning or the so-called Peace illoverncht nuanced
i‘ostniaster-ticneiai SEl'rl'(‘i!‘. He said
the. only way to rival with an EI1EllklI-
k
Iran who tirnke his word is to Mt bur
- said that h it
possible obtain in the United
states tlnnnclnl tiupport to enable-lu.im
pendent communication between Ireland
and America to he ealaliiisilcnl.
iered by sir Roger
ed with Enthusiasm
CHAMBERLAIN ATTACKS
‘ . GAllllElllE'S S(‘.llEll'lE.
United States Senator George E.
Chamberlain, was greeted with B storm
of applause, last Shlturclily night at the
Silver jubilee at the New York Alumni
Association of the Pill Karma Psi at
the Hotel Astor when he (1 :
on which will be peace
with honor to the United Slates. i hm
opposed to any Peace which seeks to
ny other ountl-y Never
[ stand for Lily peace which will
make us : united suites or America and
crest Britain. .
"l wollld rttlmr die in I (‘unaltered
11 live as 1 nlemller at
y we n
had a lanston Tea Party or at Dec-
laration oi independence.
“I stnndior those prillrlilll-sdgnjryh
rnadc Aoiericans and loLJ,Dal.’lnclelvclld-
once which niaYl'5,zl3El's”il7le the Declara-
tion or i9il-%'ih:lTn'qnce.'-
I-‘J'“[
‘Wiiliiic lillsli-iiiliiiicllil-iSilciiilliis' R3SOL'tTTl0iiS.
The touhwing i'l:solulml'ls-,Wem passed at a meeting ‘oi the united lrl>.il-
American societies, representing all the organized irlchrncn uf New York cil,
hell] it the hall of the IrisllrAmerlcal1 Athletic Club, 159 E. Gilltl street, on
“c. the United Iris]:-Amei'lralx Societies of Greater New Yollo. t:uIlgriaili-
llrlmly and truthful exponllro ol the
by Andrew Carnegie-,
an Anglo-American AliIal.li;e and the eventual loror.
oi the United states in the Rritish r:rnpirc,
e correctness oi senator 0'Gornlul.1’s statement rcirarding the irauduleut
care illovement is proved, not alone by
iicie in the North Amcrit-(in. Revicll‘. which the senator circled, out by runny
other puhlic utterances. ootnhiy hy his statement published in theixclv x'ork.iro..
erioim on saturday, Fehrunry z1,1ilii; by spec:-bed of sir ladwnrd Grey, tiiesrli.
' the published sneecncs or practically every
prominent puhllc manpin England; by those at many’ American cltlzens.en-
gngod in promoting the movement; by editorials constantly appeari
British press and in those American papers which are notoriously under Ens-
Itrldl-ew (.i1l'llrgie's ar-
rig in tl
enator 0'Garl:nnn's calltentlons are iurthse demonstrated to he accurate
hy the annual expenditure in this country or the interest on andrew cnrhegiea
donation or s1o,oilo.ooo and the iailure to publish an itemized account Ttzlat
this enormous amount is apent.in hiring speakers mid rollege proiesshrs and
suhsidizing newspapers tcrmiereprcsent the (acts to the people. to l
American history Ind to nttack senators and other public men who stand tor
the old American ideals and oppose entangling alliances in unouestionahle and
leaves no room ior doubt that it is in all
is prnhuhly-supplemented by other nrivatesionatlonr by illr.
we tlenoullne and resent as a vicious and wholly uhiusiiilnhle assault on
the whole hody oz irish citizenship the impudont attachs published in the xew
‘York world. the Times and the latching Post on'seuator 0‘G0rman tor his
statement or the undeniable (acts regarding llr. chrneglc and the Peace More
Unable to retute his statements, their articles eoolainl-ll only impuls-
nal ahus
attacks on;n race which materially contrlblited to tho vlrtory over ldllgland in
the American Revolution. which has rendered loyal and priceless aervi.-,a.-sin
the Rt-pultlic in cvory crisis or its history and which emails on guard today
against the insidious wiles or rcrnigu ihes und thc treachery or domestic trai-
mhdo by men who have more than once llalle serious luiul-y to the
foreign relations or this Government by rlcnuinlis that it intcrrerc in ralor or
their own race in the internal ailairs or other countries. These papers uuaiigh
irish citizens on the ground that they are actuate
willie they themselves are notoriously Brltisti organs, which
l.'ngl-and against me United states in every controversy that involves Amcrl
tau interests and leaving little, it mil‘,
slfy
essentials L cnrrllptloll fund. which
chi-negie.
and slahdcr or thc'lrisil race. 'i‘hcsi.-
ti only hy hatred oi England.
taitc sides with
room tor doubt that ttlry do so ior basc
Woyasslirc Senator O'G0l'illnn of our Ilniterl Incl vigorous‘ silmvart of him
nnol his colleagues who are standihg no for the best interests or tile American
people by ‘resisting the attempt to repeal the liner
Panama (‘anal Art, at the dictation or England.’ a surrender to lcosiand, who
violated the ClE)'U)l.l-Billie!’ Trout)‘. on
rislon violates the llay.r-nuocolote Treaty-is an insult to thearnerlcnli Urin-
grplss Ittlrll passed the Cami! Art. and ti) Fresidvut Taft. Wlin signed it, The
, plea that its repeat is oerossoryio vlln English sunpon for president lvileorrs
shmneiul ulid humiliating lonerlns or the dignity or the
e surrender '
cousurnniat;-d would he a pnlctlral step in ttlc tcrroaiion or on Ari5lu-Amt-.rl-
rln Itlllnrlce fraught Illh danger ii) the host lutcretsts -nil Ideals of tile Alluvi-
Tolls pl-olision oi the
the pretense that the Free Tolls pro-
is utterly tlnnecee<ary and it
Resolved-That en;-in in! this dt-Clnratlotl be rent to the President or the
, Ali)’ nl slots. to senator uwiornlah, will! a yea...“
that it be printed in [tin corlgrrrsrorinl Re.-urn. lo senators charnherlaiu aim
Polrldexter and to the other senators who are iinlldlildl for Anwrlrnu rights
against an anal: and liudlsgllised atlrlllltll to suhnrtlinate the lurclsll policy or
iorolgn gavernluenl.
(,,
Caiemelil, was utopi-
“ .
WE SHOULD MEET BUYBDTTVWITH BUYGDTT
jam
The Combination 01' English Shipping interests To isolate Ireland, Should,Be
Met By A Universal irish Agreement To Reluse To Patronize Any British
Ships-While Waiting For An irish-American Linc, We Should
Travel‘ Only On Friendly German Vesselsw-The Base Urldeihand
Intrigue Whicli Barred The Hamburg-American Linc From
Queenstown is A Challenge In The irish Race
’ Which Should Be Promptly Taken Up. l
To understand British dealings ulth
lrslahd one must hale a long emu
who hope with the devil needs a long
s on one who thinks that Brltinh
policy has cldullged and tlingxngland
to-day intends to deal straight with‘ ire-
land Ind grant her a "measure or irre-
doin" for the control n
o
Queenstown to kriuw
The iacis with regard to the breach or
contra:-t by the slxbldized cunnrd coin-
any. nou d rmal contract with
the liritish coverhment tn cnrry the
American l-nails irorn tzueenstown, are
reirly w'ell knoll) to rcaders or Tut
G
-.r
ASLI4: A not x.
gard to the promised visit at the Harn-
burg-Aluerii-an
re p a
some of them; an
in
leled in the history or one white he
with another. '
the eritein or today i. in essentials,
y lelrec in intention‘ to-ardr Ir-lxrid
mild ponder well the iollowlog torts,
then he decent. honorable Amerirus
nu
sii
citizens mi.-ti thclnheiles or who .-right
can tile)’ and their country heccnie allies
villa in stranseiy dirrerent. '
am not going to recall hart misdeeds or
go back on an old story i am going
to hring thdttale or British straighzrdr.
nardoess right down to 10-day. r
e Cunard (‘ollipluly is the rhiel
British trans ri line and stands at the
‘o
m
n.
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s
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respects. the in s
com-rrn in the not-iii. it en .
orn-ions sulrsl.i,l- oi plltille monies pni
oui. oi the British thud irish) I'lHlJlll'
l
v-lived on highly iarorahle
e puma. it Is. in
d sietecontrolled
h use see aenice. and
in everything orienting h trade or
Great. Britain it is as much a machine
or the British (loljernmenl I l
launched-at any naval dot-be - .
The mail contrtavl, the huge huiidi g
advance. the flavors oi the state have
' g to ensure the Cu-
ig ask ., the
announced that its llrgcr sleznlerli, the
lid mm Lilsiih n
tortil, have to he erllherked at Liver-
D0
rhc protests that arose in lrclnnd.
lrutll Belfast to Carit. were met with lul
dent Ind lintrllllllul amt:-,nlc-Ill that
this nleaamre had l-K"‘li rendered utters-
snry owing to the dangerous character
ol the entrance to Cork Harbor tor ves-
scla or very tonnage and‘ bill’.
These nrlcclesa “greyllollllalhi ol the Al-
lantir,“ he wrre llltorlllrd. l‘0Illd llul DE
lnlpcrllled by risking the terrors I)! I
call! at Qlleenstow
tllnse nho lerlnetl
pail)": excuse n ‘t-lur
a the Cunard Company
which required their lc s to call at
Qlleenniown tor ‘the embarhation at the
. ontrnct.
He publicly --rleplorecl his ltinlallity"
rr-sport
fulfil the contruct. B t
was iret. “ire as the sen
llBelf4ll.IBl ocean that has for its chlel
earth. N
‘could dictate to n Elillsll
company in rnallers of
econurny. He added that the Bonn] at
Trade experts c<ll'li‘ulre(l in the arilnlan
at the Culurll Cnmiasni’ that Queens-
town was a dangerous port or co
the larger vessels or the mail serrice
Ind that e was hound to accept this
llew.
At the same time as the Postmaster-
C3
o
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its
E.
a
it
e
r the First LOEJ ol ll
Ml’. “'iDEIOn Churchill,
tom: had was publicly entertained to
luncheon there, when he made a mo
meulolls statement.
1 is to qlmle Hr. Churchill‘!
actual words. They constitute the best
reply to his call? e, Lbs Postmaster-
cenersl. and the best deieoec of queens.
ih pa:tiouia:.s.pd.,.to irish commerce in
general.
Ctn scptrrnher 2, ms, rehliins to the
Ill(lTE’FB or lveirnmo from Lhe Qurrnsr
tin Conlnlissioners, Mr, Churchill
said:
"run Admiralty recognized the im-
portance oi Queenslhwn as a centre ior
- - - i stratesie
changed during the
7 i base
importance has not .
w- as
iiorlnl standpoint.
inwn was the. gateway to the most im-
porirlnt trade route in woridmn
trade Vlusl to It
cruiliog tor the navy in the district."
T e Lo n Daily Tciogroph hailed
is speech as an admirable pronounce
menl. and in a leading article declared
that Mr.‘ Churchill's scheme or recruit-
tug at clueeuslown might well turolsh
“matter for tollgrllulallcils. u irish ony-
nihlre excellent hiut-incltets, happy or
dlswsltioli. arucnable to discipline and
ehlrtmlrl)’ duiclr and hand).
Mel me lrlsh u ic bodies
throughout the country had set to work.
Protests from (T ry ixuarter poured in
and the Cllaintuer at Commerce DI Bol-
fasl. vied with that of Corkror Dublin
in pointing out the iniury done to irish
intercourse Vlllll America, the chief (ur-
ods‘, by the
ll
breiilh or the
abdlldnnmellt of Queensluwl-a Is the
hurt of departure. '
No atten on was naid to these pro-
tests, and the 1.u.vi:nuiri. lioureihhio
and nip-opic leil irish Ilinlls nli.l pats-
ellgers to H
Liverpool. or as best they co . on
several occasions they were lert on the
bench or QilCI7Vi1IloWll> llnrtmr.
on pg. representing loony pnhilc
A m ti
bodies of Ireland. was hPl!l I: the Man-
sioo House at Dullilll on septeniher 9
var.
great courltr).
Th! resolutions of the Dublin Blun-
e meeting were aunt
l‘l Post
master-General, responsible (or the mill
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Sir Roger Calinlblllr who was at the
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