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A JOURNAL OF IRISH NEWS,
VOL. 2. NO. 44
TRISH
Entered cont
office at Phitadeiphia: Pe,
d-clase matter Jan. 8, “iors, at. athe pos
WAM
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OPINION AND IRISH
der the Act of March 31879
LITERATURE, PUBLISHED IN
PHILADELPHIA, “JANUARY
17,
1920
THE INTEREST OF THE
REPUBLIC oF IRELA ND
PRICE FIVE CENTS
GREAT LOAN DRI VE OPENS NEXT WEEK
Mass Meeting At Academy
Tuesday Night To Launch Campaign
For Irish Bond Certificate Issue.
NO OUTSIDE ENEMY GAN NOW OVERCOME
UNITED IRISH AACE
in New Year’s Message From Rome, Head of Carmelite Order
and President of Friends of Irish Freedom, Warns Workers
in Cause Against Errors That Have Led to Defeat in the
Past—Unity Compatible With Diversity of Opinion—Lead-
ers Must Not Be Regarded as Greater Than Cause.
*" <Chiefs Today Preach Doctrine That A! Individuals Are
Subordinate to National Cause.
By VERY REV. PETER £. MAGENNIS
‘Superior General of the Carmelite Order
' Friends of Irish Freedom
Rome. January 1, 1920.—At festive
& e mind wanders bac! old
times und to old places 2s if in eure
of friends that were truest and places
that were dearest. Friends of the
present need not blame us, planes that
urs need not gro" ealous for,
ler it o "gals an in-
inet, The Year is not ouly a
ime for. fest
critica
fle is our battle, at such times as this
We swish them new forge, new courage,
‘as it were, a
‘Few catiees "hae Degotten more fer-
yent friendships than the cause of Ire-
Tind,’ Because the material fuceoss of
the cause has been, thus
menzs ericouraging, the goo
to have lavished on the spiritial side 2
more than counterbalancin
pensation, Men und‘ wom
fought, honestly and straintforwardly
in the sacred of Ireland have
been blessed with n great big enduring
love for all who have loved as they
huve loved and dared as they
dured. This love is, indeed.
spiritual,
Privilege to Be in the Fight.
Tt bas been my privilege ‘to ha
been in the ‘turmoil of fight for the lund
my birth. It is my privilege to
possess the love gifted to one
has striven to do hi Best ina holy
lence what wonds
and
ae
to friends and places sacred. to the
f the days that wore, and
com-
me ie me heart
God of pray
Keoderent eave on those who adil stand
i blame raise
he | have unity.
sounds
Time:
ut
or mock their feeble echoes?
‘would be ed, hearts wonld
be-ehunged, aye, and even the cause it.
self should’ be changed if the men and
Yonten whom I have known in the pant
do nut listen jeuts and
igh the words, at lenst, for the love
of ira ‘who utters them.
‘There is no pluce in the world where
ch an objective lesson in
Re ‘He the heudquarters of |,
the one Church, Against this Church | freedom of the nation that has been iu
are hurled all the powers of earth and|the vanguard of every fight for op-
hell, - Princes conspire against it, kings| Pressed nations and righteous causes.
for centuries, Serene estic,
Ghat Gaureh stander although Bes who
is the head of it is practically a prisoner
in afew acres of ground around hit
so-called palace. ‘although the head of
is a prisoner, elthough the
t-on the. professors: of soe, reli
Of that Church, nevertheless, it is the
Only ‘Churelr that defies the ravages of
time, that thrives in the haunts.of men,
to which'men look when they, want as
sistance in-adversity or advice im um.
ee ., Whether one-be convinced
1: Chu
ond ‘ok ‘down, wit
rent characteristic
‘attracts attention: “Indee:
ming ite clairas 4s the only true Ghat
its theologians’ méntion as ‘the fi
ita. antes, ‘unity.
Unity ‘Necessary to’ Victory.
- he-caitse thatimeans to triumph over:
ihe. "silon and “the machinations of ite
tand: the treachery
base |i
OAS FR MAGERRIS
and President of the
zo matter how brilliant its follovers, no
matter how tgarned
Grits: does not imply @ ‘ia th onc
esi, neither docs it expe!
riety, joes ft destroy individ
spend x few
val initiativ
is season of
elightfully’ varied
Church ean be anc
np this unity
this unity of. thi
how euch nation eun take +
and reproser
aspect,
delle Vane one can see the ritual of the
Chureh_exemplitied in the various na-
‘the ebuirch of \dren
i During thé “Octave ot
ipbany one cun assist nt the
Holy Sacrifice of thle Mars in the rituals
the Bast and tl est aml of the
aad the South.
e doubts of the value of the
Sacutice ‘expressed in the various Zorms
the diff en’
streets,
real unity, the only religious
unity of the world or of history. he
S008 the brown habit of the Hrancisean,
e black mantle of the Dominican. the
white cloak of the Carmelite, the sombre
K Pate nia}
me never. of hem in
different, . trne
Chieeh is | big enoigh, notwithstanding
might seandutze the iknorant’ to
know that sot
mutters a variety of opinions end
tenets so long as any member of these
Orders would give his life for the unity
of the Church or. fer one of the demas
of the Church, Here, in Rome, we
tru
at least prevents monotony.
Ireland?s Cause Universal.
‘Tho Srat lesion for us to learn from
regoing is, at’ ence apparent,
our cause: is really a jus use it must
cctv ithout van. is nO
x how fervent
Bar tions, no. matter how alvinteruuted
our motives. Thi ss
uow the second ig of
Such is the eause of Ireland that pen
$2 any nation or of all vations ean with
the upbuilding of America.
jen wwe solicit the nid of the Amor:
the | of lovers.
ive | ter
e rated the two vessels
err | terday,
Fr,
PROTESTANT FRIENDS OF
IRELAND HOLD MEETING
Demonstration at Parkway
Building Here on Same Night
at Coote’s Anti-Irish Meeting.
While Mr. Coote. and his associates
were holding their ‘“mass-meeting’
the Metropolitan Opera
day evening of Ins
little best to injure the
freedom and of Irish independence in
Particular, an opposition meeting, for
an American purpose, took place
Packway ‘Building, Broud and’ Ghersy
the side of oppressed. peoples everywhere,
and above all on the side of ireland.
Despite the fact that there was scant
reparation, and bardl; dvertising,
for the Parkway meeting, this hu
audience was on band. ‘The news that
there was to be a demonstration for a
purpose that out command the support |
of right and sunt ‘
mers ‘eke s
Ber the anipteus nt
Mrionds of Ireland, All
g Protestants. Ridgway
Kennedy aeted a8 chairman. ‘The ther
speakers, were Rev. James (rattan
Mythen,’ Professor Arthur U
Rev. “George Chalmers Rieko’ Sad
Lindsey Crawford.
‘ind all these
se representative Prot-
ost ants expressed the vlow that the great
jority of theh i
‘of Rome, the ceuter| torts of
alan:
hr. Ridgway Kengedy. who,
man, onened the mecting, wepiained its
purposes and the purposes of the Prot:
_ Be dealt
in Amer-
nnsylvania.
Grattan Mythen, - of
Rev. Jam
Gh Chureh, Norfolk, Va, announced
‘conn
bis connéetion with -ihe,chureh at
Norfolk had been a" because of
hhis activities in the Ieish movements 1
expressed his detonation to keep .on
‘il the fight is we
ven ten
re bere with their
whisperi of calumny to rouse
Catholic. against Protestant, there is
dieally wrong ith. minis:
rs of meet them,” sai
Nythen, “When Christ was, Touna a
the Temple, He answered Mary's ques.
tion by taking ‘Do you wot know that i
ist _be about my Pather’s busin:
“(Continued on Fourth Page.)
BRITISH OFFICER WIPED
FEET OW AMERICAN FLAG =
Banner Lowered on Former Ger-
man Liner. Was Trampled on
by Briton, Say Sailors.
New York, Jan, 13—How a British
naval officer insulted the American flag
that formerly flew from the masthead of
the Kaiscrin Augusta Victoria, when
that vessel was transferred ‘to the
Cupard Line, became known yesterday.
least six seamen on the U.
President Grant. saw, this British off
cei the Stars and Stripes
em under his fect. These
aeross the eighty feet of water that sepa-
els were
the Aray . Supply Base, Brooklyn,
when the ‘altair gevurred on the mora’
Theat December Si
‘McCennon, Bosteato’s emote
of: the “President Grant, who in
f the men who’ naw the et.
ish trample the American’ fl
tinder big feet, told of the in cident yess
when Summoned before: Thomas
Be,
officer
ferent modes jon in the South.
He Js surely, “aniiieat if the Amerienn-
is
Sust aot secortiug fo his nequiced abe
Hitles ond bis natural endowments. It
s not, only ‘aos but its ruinous to a
ent 0» battle
a the smor of a
Many Type Work ‘Together.
Nations that. are far apart seldom
ros!
“We were workii ng ray aud
denly a mau on a passing tugboat shout-
to us and pointed to. the i
€
of the Kaiserin” An English officer was
mations
e
jumped op it: The fa
Hamad doen from ntraik, hdl been
faithful sons, th
punt the alps te ox ther end thee | the same language, and even sound on ie “Aaj
te:bas. pi mont. of the end Chat | Cheon they do mpeak tho exche Jonguace,| | “All the boya:yelled at hii and asked
its -prominent. :note,. or characteristic, individual. ¢ Shavacterte ties. what he though he was doing. . In an-
6 -ca embraces .dis.| matter fon may" atrive to swer he picked ge ise BPs ‘Stopped fe
its properties!| $t¢ nat tondencies. |.and jumped on'it again.”
tare are repugnant ‘ot. gar shall the language ‘be 1 oe «Here a: Quine aaked it af the man
ath waren ought-and pectiar Rat Bablie of mind. Slene.-MeCeuion re"
way:
failare;
cwritten sop ttg charter. ‘mo:mattes
oly; its «purpose “may.
matter Dhow. ardent its.
‘In ;the..same
equ Th
COOTE’S ACTION BRUTAL
PIECE CF BIGOTRY
Orange Leader Never Took Ac-
tion for Charges Made Against
Him by Newspapers,
BY PATRICK. McCARTAN,
The following statement in reply to
| Bx. Coote was sent to the Philadelphia
daily papers.on Friday, January
Mr. Coote bases his denial of the
charge df bigotry I made against him on
the ground that the Court of Appeals
reversed the decision of Justice Barton
It is true two'of the Judges, PitzGibbon
and Holmes, were of the opinion that
Mr. Coote was not guilty of any illegal
act. Judge Walker, of the same Court,
held a different opinion, result
Mr, Coote escaped the penalty imposed | f
on him by Justice Barto
"The leeality or iMegality of Mr. Coote’s
couduet does not affect my co
Subinitted the exigen
Barton's Court and saa ea by hina
no attempt £0 deny that evidence in bis
te made | C
LONDON PEPER ASSAILS
BRITISH (N IRELAND
Policy of Dragooning Subject
People Into Rebellion an Old
One, Says Nation.
‘The following article appeared in the
London Nation of December dex
the title “How We Govern Ireland.”
‘The desperate and fortunately unsuc-
cessful attempt upon the life of Lord
French is the result of a system of
government in Ireland which has stamp-
ed out all forms of political self- expres -
sion save one. When such things hap
pened in Ci ussia one heard
tnuch, of the viftues of 1 eoustitutjona!
overnnien agsassiuinted
Eomerrove we ‘showld ‘read of the retsr
bution which follows’ clase tyranny.
Happening in Ireland it will be used
to jnstify and reinforce measures of
whieh it is the consequence.
"e inure no, desire, to ntinimize the
situation or to con-
ce dine tad poutien, morals of grave ex-
this inoment when the
d will be industriously
than ever necessary,
Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, of ofjom etfects
Day 1S, 2005, commenting upon Mr. ine Parallel of a deadlock the Cont
vas not a single pallating feature, | Xt fon where, a9, Sic Joh ate
Sate © bratal and! disguating exhib ins any chanee of, recone!
Of biystry ngoinst-a poor young nevis fete whieh make e uti
tencbor, whose only ol Hanae ay that al segs Nbich jake concilistion ipsposs)
fencher, whose only offense was that a ave and onder is
pointel as a manual fastructress to tl . half: fine words, in “uth ‘it ‘tact
National Sehool by the manager, aw were legal, and order, uot anarely,
re Mr, Batley, the Presbyterian clergyman
‘ish, Carntall School wat
tions. and iittended by Presbyterian
Episcopalians and Catholics. Coote sai
the Presbyterian minister was guilty of
scandalous conduct, and indicted’ the
Episcopalian minister before the local
Orange Lodge because he told the people
not. to join the b
"tte object of the ‘conspitacr wae
£ course, clear. ‘This poor Catholic git)
was dismissed from her small position to
please Mr. Coote and the rest of the
bigots. “She was to be ruined for the
gro8s, being a Papist, and, in
default, of, her F Gismfosal, the schoo! was
y
Bailey and to the Episcopalian clergy:
man, Canon Hore Fostor, who acted ag
Christian gentlemen should, and declined
to rhe Orange drummer,
belonged.
ghildren were withdrawn from the, school
glrl lost_her emoluments.”
der, Dublin, eomnienting
the ecigion of the Court of Appeals,
“fhe man Coote has been wl
‘ached, nnd boycotting bas been legally
indicated. |The wan Coote and
guilty of” a particularly
(Continued on seventh Page.
BOMBS USED AGAIN
The following Associated Press dis-
pateh is dated Dublin, January 10:
Police barracks six’ miles from the
Tillage of Tuam, County Galway, were
eked Thursday evenin: a large
party ‘of men, according to reports reach-
ing this ci
‘The attacking party, said to pumber
100, besieged barrack:
gue wall being demolished and one police
sergeant being slightly wounded,
gecupents OF the barracks ‘returned the
re,
Be
Four epastables patroling. the neigh
bortoed "heard "the explosion "of the
Bombs god hastened 0 th scene,
atuacked the beserers be vigorou tha
they abandoned the fel sorousty that
fo
FIRST SUBSCRIPTION TO
“ BOND CERTIFICATES HERE
‘The first subscriber to the new
Republic of Ireland bond certificate
issue was recorded last Monday aft-
gmoon, when Thomas MeCann, of
No. 511 Mount Vernon str
“with the, request that it be exchang-
ed for a $100 bond certificate of the
Republic of Irelan
Str. MfeCuan ta a ‘type of Irish en-
thusiast whose love of home pre-
wwents his participation fn - public
‘manifestations, but his Jove of the
old country. fs ot lesséned, by his
absence from meetings.
He is engaged in the shipbuilding
industry in Camden.
Mr. McCann's Liberty Bond was
forwarded to: the “headquarters of
the American: Commission on Irish
Independence, No. 411 Fifth avenue,
(New York. city.’ Camden: and
Sefer .wil he! credited’ with. Ste
id locks waists.
the | sume ag
Hones 11 on his
the nurs vice.” But the plea
Tie did mot and 1 does
not
the. ts for the repressive
measures. i Foreo, in Ireland are out.
the existence and program
When the repressive
et
I Hiréann,
s stem set in the Archbishop
ce
bunds of ‘ordi
more numerous in Ireland,
since the war.
These | attacks, show no sizus of de-
, and it does not insure p
cousdeuee to find it an apparent polies
to fix Sinn Fein with the stigma
(Continued on Second Page.)
ee
* GAN FIND NO INFORMER :
IN RENKS OF SINAN FEIN
Correspondent Astonished That
They Were Able to Get Hold
of Secret Police Orders.
The* following London Siopated ap.
=
233
Bz
z
"2
e
2
as
Host the statement ets
Feiners have dealt out violent deaths | fe
many prominent, meinbers of
police force” tirely without ob
dence to support it! 2
‘There are two secret services in Dub-
lin, one representing the Government—
which contains all of Scotland’ Yard's
expert Ivish political men—and tbe
Fein sgstem.
he Scotlind Sard men gradually are
trac sacking dow: ities of the seat
tered forces of the Irish, republiean
I prominent member
Republican League are ‘suepects
an ind when one travels by train
Shadowed the whole of the way. and full
reports of his poine 3 are docketed dai
Scotian records in Dublin.
jal men are engaged for work of |e
4 have a very ef-
fective ter-espionage force and bave
dealt out violent deaths to mai
nent members
Goings of th
e men
riddi it
ball in some lonely ‘street of roadwa!
te In all
secret,
ie Trish drama,.“The Shaughraun”—
ut: in the present agitation "informers
we
we etkape the Qu epldenee
of the coplonage orgastsation fa Ts
was the bubitenon in Parle of ories
of the,chief of the. Dublin metropolitan
olier to, aid in detectives , thronghiout |
roland. ccoptain
‘Second’, Page)
s his authority | ¢P
‘ “to exteipate from ‘the, Tord 5 viveyar
lis ubsolutely fue.
2c
n | and we
“the | tions
is| servi
ry
nea | mighe 250
(000,000 WORKERS WATT WORD TO START
DRIVE HERE BEGINS WITH MEETING
Great Organization
Throughout
Monday—Formal
Penna. Districts in
Shape.
New York, Jan. 11—At
quarters of the American Commissivn 01
at the Hotel Wal-
dorf-Astoria, last (Saturday) night, the
following statement was issued by W.
Bourke Cockran, State chairman of the
Irish Bond Certificate oan, for himself
and his co-workers on the Commission :
Irish Independence,
“On next Saturday (Fanu
there will be inaugurated in tl
try, under the direct auspice
American Commission on Iris!
amount of $10,000,000. ‘There ix not the
slightest: doubt in our minds tl
‘n{bonds will be bought by the lihert
oot mean that these
be ig it as a
‘The pnrehaskes are gol
of the Government which _the peo
Treland have et = rl
Chi xe name
(De vater
ple of our “country.
“It is mot genet
is. Go
outside the cities
administeri
Ubrough Courts whose judgment
And these
fbrvah the uhounded authoriee 3
dures” to” dispute.
to Cun volgntaril
ing.
C ter particularly to labor
ve pe
but wate is
fling 1
Moped’ voluntary H fhe a
without semblanes oF sindow
Shows Way to Other Countries.
“A country where Inbor disp
be settled (and every day ure sel
in a mauuer that commands tn
and obedience of
gher countess 5 the
th vest difficulties
ise “society iu every
es a matter ‘of fact. this
of these bond certificates win
edly be overaubseri Whe
they will not bought prima
commercial investment
to doubt. the ability
public when it shall bav
nizer that is to when
armed forces are withdrawn
Ieland, to make good any debt i
by its authority.
women who will purchase th
cerned primarily to, slow their faith
cont
inthe future of
ment and their desire that a country
pable of
not “be gented all opportunity
ice by oppressive tyraun:
alien "Government,
“adi this should be made
er
cause there is a distinctive class in this
count a large
easonably expect
ough understanding than
shown of: the eo!
ct a om
it
in the minds and actions of
what Ireland needs and’ what
have in the way of. self-determi
that. clase is the one. whicl
contiols the public
ete
n to every other nation throuzh-
een
out vice world that ‘ha
ask -€¢ a
Fr Ataeriesn, x¢mba
(Continued ‘on; Seventh:
bonds will
commercial Investment,
Fimong of thete faith in (he staniity
ot unknown to the peo-
plexed our own
ibn
nwa ty settlen nt
iv: fides
nt, I do not mean
of the Tris
we been recog:
that the m
ant to efvitisation shal
completeness of the Feral.
tlon that has taken place in Ireland a:
owns and
f this country wall
Ready
Country—New :
York to Open. Campaign
Reception
to President De Valera Will
Be Feature—New York and
Best
fhe _head-
ary 17)
his coun-
sof the
ish Tnde-
'“We Could Today,” Said Judge
Bonniwell Wednesday—State
Is Prepared Down to Small-
est Electoral District—Prom-
inent Men Will Address Mass-
Meeting at Academy on Tues-
day Evening:
“we%could start today.”
a those words did Judge B. ©. Bom:
niwell sua ndition of the or
ganization will have charge of
the Trish Republie bond certifieate drive
in Pennsylvavia, He was interviewed
a Wednesday.
As chairman for Pennsslvani:
Bona vell has built up a remarkable
to Landle the:important job in
our a the most important States, In
of Pe sania he bas a
an, @ prowinent
wn, whose splendid reputation will
ure the smecess of the drives
eu have =
all of them have
up the
hat these | held) meetin
tins. the
alls known, though it |,
verument | f
ing them
= MO one
Cours,
fielded
“peop
disputes
spun
I
putes cum
ttled)
ce reset
ily as
ish Re-
English
from. the
incurred
meu
jovern-
of such
y of an
clear be-
will be the pen:
figures in the
re colebrated eitize
who are tified with. Ireland's
Batt wit tiger gidves ees,
“Tndge Jobn M. of
Pleas Court, No,
was man, of
of the ‘Safation
whe
hich public. trust in
. who served with ex-
WL aft joint
Harry Boland to spent
y Boland i
f
or the country for
udge “Ronniwell will set forth the
ie, on cert
‘will ex
nubs criptions are to be paid.
sition is to be made of the
audi ences. that
cotings
eu favoring recon
his idea 2 mind. he hi
hundre
With
several
amony
h
merchants and
fessiona! men, who so'dom hear th
issue disenssn idle Ronnie pe
Hewes ‘men. like Boinuid, Walsh,
ore thor ne
lias | yet
orn
i
citizens of this country: with respect to |g
I 5
she
ina
ish ca
hich bas
‘compelled |
resist-
Reve of
on Wed
inembers
the simp y to Man
oath is pe of the foe
onen Eireann
t tional Assembly of {he Republic of
Hreland)- Harry Bolan:
| the bods, il touch upon the ehteasee
stances ‘of ite establishment and its car
One of the first meetings tn behalf af
the issue w: et ‘beld last Sandee, afternoon.
in Butler, -Butler- counts, "The
State. chairiuan delivered the principal:
(Continued ‘en: Seventh: Pega)’