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VOL.L NO. 31.
A JOURNAL OF IRISH NEWS, IRISH OPINION, AND IRISH LITERATURE, PUBLISHED IN THE
THE TRISH PR
—PHILADELPHIA. OCTOBER 26, 1918.
iS.
INTEREST OF AN INDEPENDENT IRELAND
PRICK, FIVE CENTS
ASK PRESIDENT TQ SECURE RELEAS
New York Meeting Calls Attention to Treatment of Irish
Prisoners—Dublin Again Takes Action Along the Same
Lines—Strong Speeches Made at New York Gathering.
Edward Cassidy Says Ireland Is Only Country Subject to
England That Has Not Yielded—if England Is Worthy
to Enter League of Nations She Must Release Irish Prison-
ers, Declares Colum—Golden Tells of Projected New
Plantation—No Peace Possible White Ireland Is Under
Alien Rule—Example of the Irish'at Home Should Inspire
the Race Throughout the World
E -|CONGRESSHAN FOR A FREE IRELAND IRELAND'S CLAIMS EXCEL BOHENIA'S
The following is the reply received from Hon. B. K. Focht in
ply to the questionnaire sent out by the Local Council of the’
Friends of Irish Freedom:
House of Representatives, U. S. Committee on War Claims,
Washington, D. C., October 20, 1918.
James B. Givin, Esq.
No. 504 Lincoin “Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
ear Mr. Givin:
Gathering the purport of your. purpose from the circular
which came to me, I wish to advise that I believe Ireland has suf-
fered only too long the oppression of a foreign power, and that
the day: has come for her liberation in order that there may be a
full and free expression of the consent of the governed. This
must now not only obtain in Ireland, but throughout the rest of
the world, where divine right Kings rule and Nobility inherit
privileges while the masses toil and labor for them.
elieve, as a Member of Congress, I was the first to publicly
; The English Plot of the Czech Sinn Czech Sinn Feiners Leads, Not to
Jail, But to Recognition for Their Country—Have Suf-
| fered From Alien Rule Three Hundred Years, as Against
| Treland’s Seven Hundred and Fifty—Ireland Has Clearer
Boundaries—Bohemia Already Has “Home Rule”—En-
joys Much Greater Prosperity Than Ireland—Large Pro-
portion of Population Favors Foreign Rule—Has Kept Up
No Such Constant Struggle as Ireland—Until Recently
Asked Only “Dominion Self-Government”—Ireland Has
Rendered Greater Services to America and the Allied
Nations—Irishmen Have Best Wishes for the New Nation
By SEOSAMH O’SEASNAIN
The movement to bring about the
release of the prominent Irishmen
who are heid in English prisons in
the hope that the Irish people will be
deprived of competent leadership at
this critical time, continues on both
sides of the Atlantic. At a mass)
meeting held by the Irish Progressive |
League at McKinley Square Casino,
Bronx, New York, on October 17, reso-
lutions were adopted asking Presideut
Wilson to use itis influence to havel,
these prisoners released. A mecting,
of which mention was made in the
last issue of the Irish Press, was held
in the Dublin Mansion House, under.
tho auspices of the Cumann na mBan,
and took action similar to that of the
Dublin Corporation a short tine
previously. ,
The resolutions adopted
York are as follows:
‘Whereas tho leadors of the Irish
people are sill held in fail by the
English Government on charges for
which there is not an atom of founda~
tion; and
‘Whereas the treatment to whica
they are subjected, as atiested by evi-
dence that is incontrovertible, is such
as io make the name of England even
greater reproach than it has been;
ani
"whereas ihe continued incarcera=
tion af these Irish men and women is
a violation of every canon of decency
and ju
Be i resolved, that we ask Presi-
dent Wilson to use his influence to
have these men and women immedi-
ately released, so taat they may
guide and advise their people on the
great and momentous problems whick
coniront them.
O'Keeife was the chairman of
the evening. There was a full and
enthusiastic aitendance despite the
epidemic which prevails. The chair-
man opened the address by explaining
the reasons for the meeting, and,
pointing to tho Irish Republic flag, he
exclaimed: “There is the keynote of
all Irish meetings today.” Continu-
ing, the chairman said, “We claim
that when all nations—the Czecho-
Slavs, Jugo-Slavs and nations we
in New
never heard of before—are given thejt
right of self-determination, we, as
American citizens of Irish extraction,
should stand behind onr President in
his demands, and sec to it that Ire
land, too, should take her piace
among the nations, and if reasons
should be demanded, I say that on
the buttlefields of Flanders the Irish
Sixty-ninth and the Irish Ninth are
doing their work (cheors), There aro
fifteen to seventcen millions in these
United States of ours of Irish extrac-
tion, and it is for us to bring beloro
them the facts of the case, to give
them a new birth of nationality, so
that they may lend their voices to
ours in demanding that Irelund shail
and aust be free.” (Cheers.) The
chairman’ then introduced the first
speaker of the evening, Mr. Edward
Cassidy.
Foreign Domination Never Accepted
‘Mr. Cassidy said:
“England was the first great mauu-
facturing country, the first great capl-
talist country, where the workmen
received back for the worth and the
good they produced, wages which
were a small part of the worth of the
‘product they -produced. England
built up a wonderful military ma-
chine, and a still more wonderful
naval machine, and with these at hor
command she prowled the earth. She
first sent one of her missionaries to
some half-civilized country; later, the
trader went, and then it was only a
short time when differences followed,
and the trader came back to his
mother country to demand protection.
Then would follow intervention, and
“England either took ‘protection’ of
the country, or used her dominion
over it. But what seems most re-
1
rmot surrender its interests, is Ire-
ithe son of an Irisaman.
jRistory of Ireland from my father
that all these small nationalities that
have been subjected to British mili-|
lary power, all have in time yielded—
all except one country. Even the Boer
trace, that for four years fought the
arms of England, have apparently
settled down to English dominion,
but the one country which stands up
slike a bright gem, which has not sur-
rendered its interests, and which
Jand. (Cheers.)
“I am here tonight because I om
I heard the
until it was indelibly impressed~ on
my memory. The ono country that
‘the British ruling class could never
erush the’ flame of liberty out of was
Ireland, and during the seven hun-
dred and fifty years that Ireland has
been under the eel of England, Eng-
land has used every manner of de-
ceit. She robbed Ireland of he: man-
ufactures; even such a primitive mode
of industry as tho fisheries were dis
eriminated against; she bas taken the
bright and brave men of Ireland ont
‘of tho country or put ihem ‘e death;
sae hes done more devi ings
than these in the hope of eriishi g
their love of liberty, And, bavi
robbed the Irish people, they then
(Continued on Stxth Paxey
BRITISH PUBLIC LIFE
Rapidly Degenerating—Canada| 1,
Opposed to Idea of Interfer-
ing in British Domestic
Affairs
British public life must be rapidly
degenerating to the level cf ihe days
of the rotten boroughs when Premicr
Hughes of Australia,
brook, and Sir Cliiford Sifton, of
Western Canada fame, are permiticd
to dictate terms 10 the English eles.
tors and to run the election campaign
Yor the Lloyd George party. Despite
special pleading of Mrs. Pank-
burst, now visiting this country, tne
people of Canada do not take kindly to
the idea that the Dominion should
ely concern itselt in the~domestic
irs of the old country. A corre-|
spondent has sent vs extracts from
the Australian press which indicate!
that a similar feeling prevails there
Tegarding the interference of Al
tralians in the domestic politics of
England. The greatest offender in
this respect is Premier Hughes, tie
flamboyant and discredited
leader, who has constituted himself!
the champion of Lloyd George and the
Imperial protectionists. The Stand-
ard, of Sydney, Australia, has the
measure of Mr. Hughce: It say
“Tho political madwan of Australia
is again at large in England. He is
the same facile instrument in the
hands of the Tory landlords as on
his former visi. He scems utterly
Incapable of political decency when
abroad. Suppose Mr. Lloyd Gcorge
came here and lectured us upon the:
iniquities of the Australian tariff in
@ most abusive manner. Would we
Stand it? Unfortunately. all he could
Say upon the subject would be true.
Our tariff is monumental evidence of
the ignorance @nd barbarism of the
Australian elector, But it is our busi-
ness, The fiscal policy of the United
Kingdom is a matter for the people
of the old country. Mr. Hughes gas
neither the right nor the authority
of the Australian people to make in-
correct, foolish and misleading state-
ments about it in London or in any
other country. Northcliffe and com-|
Pany ere not particular as to the
methods they employ, or the men they,
use. They know what they want. It
markable to me when I think of it is
(Continua? on Sixth Page)
Lord Beaver-] 3
labor | x
declare that in compensation for our assistance in saving Eng-
land, Ireland should be made free and independent, and a Re-
ublic.
, You are at liberty to use the above for any purpose that will
help raise the hopes of humanity and give a new vision of life
to the oppressed and downtrodden,
With kind regards, I beg to remain,
Very truly yours,
B. K. FOCHT.
On the 18th of October, in a spot:
remote from the soil of the land
Whose liberty they proclaimed—in
Paris, not in Prague—the Provisional |
The document setting forth
this declaration says, in part:
‘We do this because of our belief
‘that no people should be forced to
ive under a sovereignty they do:
not recognize, and vecause of our
‘knowledge and firm conviction that
our nation cannot freely develop in!
Mapsburg mock federation, whieh j
Feach in bail of £50, with Uwo suroties!
£50 each.
Galway—Guardians learlily wel
ENGLAND GETTING READY,
Prepares for Election and Peace! v. D. C., on ‘his relense trom ‘ail
: ‘The U. D. C. decided that in future! is only a uew form of the denation-
ntinuing
Conference ae Conti t © all checks be issued and signed in! alizing oppression under which we!
Terrorism Throughou' rish, and Mr. Ruane intitaated that| have suffered for the past three hun:
Ireland Ihe had signed all documents in Irish! dred years,
day—his answer to Mr.
allegation that Ireland was| y,
“We make titis declaration on the
is of our historie and natural right. |
England jot a nation because she had no lan-! We have been an independent Statel »
way for 2 ¥ y ‘since the seventh century; and, in
Mon party, and wen use thi . — Guardians 1826, as an independent Stale, con-
ry as evidence that Ireland is. protested agai he treatmem ot ain ting of Bohei i
in bondage continues without Irish prisoner: . lesia, we joined
any slackening. The Irish Independ-; Jundalk.—The premises of Mr. P. J. | Hunats in a defensiv
i Daly. U. D. C. were raided by t elthe ‘Turkish danger.
h of “seditious litera.
Dut none was found. |
go he presided at a leciur
‘en by Father O'Flanaga
Youghai—Police raided Knockmon | illegally trauseressing our rights au!
tor a young man named Foley,! violating ihe constitution of our
(ed." but they did not- State, which they hed pledged them
ster of 3 selves to uphold, and we therefore re-
We have never
voluntarily surrendered our
an independent State in this con-
federation. The Tapzburg:
their compact with
i
yared—io the number
and political apprehensions &i
nee May, when the ‘round up’ of]
the leaders of tke movement—at the ‘te
time the ‘plow’ wi
wm
A
More Lady Bay Penalties ty in any form.
ft was in no foreign efty, but in
Following ave furuier reports 28 (01 (he eapital of their own country, not
jPrecinmation ae 4, {in the sufoty of distance, but in the
alvar—d. ateNamara, Cullagh, midst of the soldiery of the enemy
;Slrokestown, was found guilty at aig whom they flung defiance, that the
courtanartiat at Renmore Barracks’ provisional Government of Ireland
or ee Henry Shields, Franels| proclaimed the Irish Republic in 2946.
Galway, was found guilty (1) do not mean to suggest that the
jot ariting party of women at} Coen thereiore would not readily
Barna on August 25, (2) resisting ar-j riste (heir lives for thelr own land;
rest and assaulting pollee, (3) TeIUS-liyu a eomparicon of the history and
ing w give his namo and address. circumstances of Ircland and Bohemia!
was slated by police that Shields was shows in every other respect, as in
ivescued by the ladies and that ho Was this one, the superiority of the sacri-
jsubsequentiy rearrested, and Serseant| jay whieh rishmen have mage, the
nane said stones and boitles were| heavier the weight of oppression
jown at the barracks, from whic} ynger which ireland has sttuseled,
Constable MeCormack fred a re the clesror the distinct ouitines of
|voiver shot over the heads of the] ing nation—all bearing out for
crowd, Decision later.
Poter Garrahan, Cullagh, was ac-
yuin-Hung
g to pay a fine!
Baling). Two 6! 6 and 17)
wont 10 jail, one for ‘asslting tel &
police’ and the other for attempting!
to rescue the former from the police.)
ir. Fleming, a Sinn Fein organ-|
izer, was rearrested on the completion:
of a term in Belfast jail and imme-!
deported to England—andi
ali this is a Govern-
Sinn Foin to kill
movement.” |
his ‘constitutional
Incidents at a Cavan Trial
‘The foilowing are further reports
consequent on the proc-:
Ir. P, J. Cahill, ‘Tralee,
sted on Saturday. He had]
been von the run’ since May, Whe ouiuted on a chargo of drilling on
Ue general arrests were mude, his| igus: 22, at being found that ac-
homo being Vistied at the time, leused never left his home afior leav-
Cavan—Laurence MeCrudden andl ine on ork.
Lalke Smith, Gowna, were sent to jalj aes Hoe!
for three months, and then in defauit
Ire ‘land a stronger claim to liberty
than that which Bohemia poasesse:
If a fair choice had to be made be-
tween the two, it would be Ireland, by
rivtue of having euffered longer and
being tolay more hopelessly crushed
that should recoive the
‘gvenue, Seereiary bray, Sina Fein! YS "Aad a settlement!
feed aaa ane jaaaiuonal, cI Garrett Waliron, Harlewell iat ee ov ber. to tho Ceschs cam
illegal assembly on June 21. Sor: ea a. and Peter Leggott, Sutton V vi! dong it to Ireland without being
Sant Curran swore dat MeCruddea|ia5) yetnswd to give bail and were Nee, lons Mt to Treland withodl
in charge of the crowd and Bav2; sonteneed euch to three months inj oY ~ .
words of command. McCrudden as Hal ‘by Mr. Sullivan, Te ML. ‘when! Ireland's Case Stronger
eil him if he, the sergeant in a previ:
ous case relating to the samo alleged
ical assembly, swore that tae
was nobody in command, but Mr. Ger-|
rard, R. M, said: “That fs not a legal!
question.” ithe
Deiendan: then declared that Ser-j no
geant Curran swore that nobody was!
in command on tho occasion, aud how |”
he came up and swore that he (ae-/
cused) was in command. Ho did not}
recognize the Court, and mercly asked
the question vo show the character of of
ged with iMegai assombly on)
i anon 15, when the Sinn Fein mani-
sto was Toad. After the meeting, |
uid Head Constabla Mulligan, fe. the
‘owd mnarched an “fou
“Soldier's Song,” and shouted "
Rebels
‘The foregoing quotation which
forth the principal gromis on which
Czechs base their claim to 2)
raic existerce makes oat @ Cac.
Gal whieh cannot compare In strength to
ithat which Ireland hes to present.
woul dispersed by we he Irish, no more than the Dohe-
mians, should be forced to live
‘hanna Boys Resist Pollco under a sovereignty they do not]
Ballina —When the police attempt-| recognize, and the denationalizing op~
ea to scize a flag bearing a portrait| pression which Ireland has suffered
‘Yhomas Ashe—with the words) has endured no: only for three bun~
the evidence. emember Ashe”—from a number of| dred, ‘but for seven hundred and fifty
Bernard Rudden, who, for ilegaliyouths on Sunday their efforts werel years, The sevonth century saw Ire-
assembly at Batlyconnell, was sen-' resisted, and in the resulting meleejland already ancient as an inslepen-
tencod to a month in jail, said tho! soveral boys from 16 years down|dent State, Ireland never willingly
police evidence was deliberate and xere struck with batons, while Mr.. joined with England in a unton of anyi
wilful perjury, as he was not in the: Sheehy, D. L, was knocked down.|sort. Yet tho rights of Ireland were|
crowd at the time, He declined to!Five boys were arrested, one of them| violently transgressed, and since’ suc
eall witness Thomas Dolphin, also! Uadly cut on the head as the resulti transgression absolves tho Czech
ident the police as being in} ot a baton blow. Some of the boys|from any allegiance they may have
the crowd, declared he was not there. ‘on being asked their names gavelowed the Hapsburgs, it cannot
them in Irish. Subsequently the re-istrengihen in the Irish a duty which!
County Derry Proseentions cruiting offices were guarded by| they never owned.
Coleraine. , Francis MeNickle,! police. Much excitement prevailed. The editor of a well-known Amer-
Brocklaghboy; James O’Raw, Knock-| Clady (Strabane)—A Sinn Feinj ican periodical in a letter recently
oneill; John Tohill, Culnagrew, and|acnidheacht arranged for Sunday was] stated that most Irishmen “seemed
M. O'Loughlin, Keady, charged’ with! prohibited, a largo force of police and|to hold” that Ireland is a separate
iNegal assembly at Kilrea on Septem-| military taking
Americans a type as distinct as tho
words “Englishman” or “French-
man" or “Italian.” On the other hand.
istaken if the name
still less “Slovak,” conveys
‘any definite illea to the minds of tho
Some brie? definition may therefore
be necessary, in order that wo may
havo some idea as to what the
Czecho-Slovays are.
‘The name Czech is properly ap-
plicable to the Slavic inhabitants of
Bohemia, who in 1910 numbered about
4,200,000 out of the 6,700,000 inhabi
ants of that country. Tho Slays in
the adjoining province of Moravia.
‘who make up about the samo pro-
Portion in a population of two and a
‘half millions, are in part Czechs,
.though those in the east and south
belong to a Kindred race, the Slovaks.
‘fhe Slovaks, who inhabit districts
the northwest of Hungary as well, ar
vag {207 the most part a simple aid in
ntelligent people who have cut no
tr figure in history. They
have in the past been inclined to look
of jealousy on the
sive Czechs, Tiey would
perhaps prefer a government of their
own if they could get it; but failing
uy Eat will probably be willing to unite
w Cz0
e Czecl hs ‘ihomsctves at one time
played a considerable part on the
(Continued on Second Page)
WOUNDED AT MONS
Sentenced to Two Months in Jail
for Working for Ircland
In this country we are often told
that the G9th Regiment effectively
answers to Irishinen who demand an
Irish Republic. ‘Rho fact that Irish-
men and Irish-Americans, who havo
distinguished themselves in this war,
think exactly re Ireland's rights as
the men who are imprisoned in Ire-
land and slandered by a section of
the press in this country is complete-
ly ignored.
‘The sentence imposed upon a young
ox-soldier of tie British army in Ire-
laud for imparting to-his countrrmen
the lessons learned on the battle-
fields of Enrope shows that even the
Irigy en who fought for Bngland
worl 'f they bad tho chance, gladly
Tisk\, jor Ircland. Commenting
upon t.. incident the Netion of New
York, o: Yetober 19, say
“On Se 2mber 12 the voluntary
Teeruiting ,
he
aeription, had produced only 3000 of
the 50,000 recruits demanded by Octo-
ber 1. Six weeks of the two months’
campaign had passed, and it was
thought impossible to obtain more
than 3000 additional recrults in the
time remaining. Some of tho difficul-
ties were illustrated the other day by
tho sentencing to two months in
prison of the recruiting sergeant at
Nowbridge, County Kildare, Wounded
in the retreat from Mons, this ser-
Geant not only.failed to try to cnl
men, but was actually drilling youths
for the Sinn Fein army. Moro-than
that, he was also guilty of tr
to win British soldiers to the Irish
:eause. Conscription was to have gone
into eifect on October French
declared that he would enforce it on
that very day if the 50,000 volunteers
were not in hand. As nothing took
placo on October 1, Lloyd George is
plainly temporizing and it {s most
earnestly to be hoped thatthe coming
of peaco will make the question o%
Irish conscription a dead issue and
spare us much shedding of blood on
up positions in the) national cutity. Yet the term “Irish-
ber 8, were remanded to the P. S., (Continued on Eighth Page) man” undoubtedly describes amoig:
Trish soil.”
