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Full Title	Irish Press, Vol. 3, No. 23, August 21, 1920.
Contributor	McGarrity, Joseph, 1874-1940.
Date Added	17 March 2017
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1920-08-21
Publisher	Philadelphia: The Celtic Press
Source	Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection
Topic	Irish > United States > Newspapers. Irish Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Newspapers.
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OCR ‘A JOURNAL OF IRISH NEWS, IRISH OPINION AND IRISH LITERATURE, PUBLISHED IN THE’ VOL. CALL 3. NO. 23 Entered ae second-claes matter office at Philndelphia, Pa., undi Jan. &, 1919, at the pont- 9. jer the Act'of March 3, 187! N U. S.-TO B PHILADELPHIA, Ww WE AUGUST 21, 1920 Meeting Here Demands That America Sever Diplomatic Relations and Abrogate Treaties. GREAT MAGS-MMEETING IN NEW YORK PROTESTS ARREST OF OF. MANNIX Fifteen Thousand People Attend Mighty Demonstration in Mad- ison Square Garden—Denounce New British Attempt to Establish Coercion in Ireland—Han. John W. Goff Presides. Frank P. Walsh !s Cheered for Sixteen Minutes—De- clares England ts Beaten—Rev. Maurice Murphy and Rev. Norman Thomas, Protestant Ministers; Right Rev. | cov Monsignor Mooney and Lawrence Ginnell Speak. On Sunday evening, August 15, the = “We also bere & fe Americans ans Feast of the Assumption, the citizens| t0 protest gain e Righty-eightl , r t bi a of New York turned ont en sonsee to] co*cion at wwhiek hae Jost been paste rotest against the piratien! seizure by the forced on, the citizens of the Republie| ¢ lish fleet of Archbishop Daniel | of | Ire Mesum on the ial seaw and algo to] | “This is a meeting of American efti- est aK a the cichty-cighth Trish | zens, and one ‘rst duty is to open. the| P ercian net. mst passed by the Eng: meeting with the. plaging of the “Star- Spangled Banner,’ ‘and. the audignee will tige and sing. it in conjunetion.” ‘The “Star-Spangled Banner” was here ¢ band, withont any. with the playing ish, iaviament Madison, Squiare Garden, the seene f the mighty massmeeting, was TCdldom “or never. wae picked played. ant oe Tndnncenne, followed LAWRENCE GINNELL, T.0,, WISITS PHILADELPHIA Ireland Will Never Accept Less Than Recognition of Re- public, He Declares. Lawrence Ginnell. T, D., former mem- ber of the British House of Commons, who has often beeing imprisoned by the itish, visited this city Inst Saturday. Mr. Ginnell came to, the United States al weeks ago. He reqnived nevispaper men Saturday in the Bellecue- Strat fors ing the reporters Mr. Ghinell Wold “hem that he was open to answer any Hons they wieued toast. He was then what Ireland ze jues- | reste MAYOR OF CORK 13 DEPORTED 10 ENGLAND Terence MacSweney Seized by British and Taken Away After “Trial.” Terence MacSweney, Mayor of Cork, hins been arrested, tried before,a British Conrt on a charge of “edition yored to Bngland. | Late Tenorts declared that the Mayor had been on hunger-strike since his ai ‘The follwing dispatch wae published Friday of Inst Cork, Aug. tthe Tord Mayor of Cork and 1 sociates were, ar z tending fon Tein. Court im the were. taken Sin ‘They questioned as, to would | Cr to the ink of the latest suggestion of “do-| military barracks, maine” vale ‘This dispatch ‘appeared Monday: oetreland will accept nothing lees than | . Dublin,” Aw .—Terence Mac- Sweney, ‘Lord Maror of Cork, and 10 cognition of the Trish Repub- ie was his direet reply, “Ireland to 03, i te quly giese "These officials have bs more, than $0 per cont. of the popula. a for grenter percentage than that Winch elected’ Washington, for hie fret ern, “Since America has fecured her inde: of the “Soldier's Song,” the whole audi- pendonce, 14 other nations have succes: ce ‘ully declared national independence. onthe. Judge. Goff said these 14 nations which America hus al- t “In the paskage of a” eperion at there ready recognized, Hot one of theia ‘has & and ilemonsteative a Hvers | is nothing new to Ireland. Better “right to "such recognition than nie if “Kinglish “isenthvinesss and|en conturies, she bar lived continuensly ogt, bleeding of th was hieeed and | under pena Jaws An cnere of si Dood vigwai Selle every mention foliowed each ot te Ene e 8, eer Sule ine in quick’ sue- eSmgeniity of mam ha 0.0 of the Trich, Republic, of i pave Valera, a Eamon De dof AFenbishop Mani been exhausted to find some enactment] Take it today, fhe British Isles land for one applauded and] that would cause Ireland t race in| occupation, Sith at het modern eqniy love,and loyalty English rule in Ireland. Yment of war. Ts ghe ruling Ireland? ont “hen Hon. DP. Walsh, the} OT the pnastments of ern | ent treland? ne in re American Jeader and years have failed, and oi ennetieat will] British army o¢ combined could not do it.” jAmericnn Commission | fail,” Trichmen ‘and Trish mm bave| “Mr, Ginnell he en Irish adeneadence rane to | fren driven from there counter to. seek | placed fhe number of British troops in Feeeived one of. the moat germerke Merand linerte im almost all the elimes| Preland: at 500,000 sehen Teugland only ovation. ever Cvitneswed in Now York. | pt he world but. above all Ue were at-| claims § notwithstandmg the for 16 minutes, tracted to, thig intense heat, and here by the me Fok We Gor, ies eeause of ‘the alniming heat and _humadity, ize_ Gof, Bache aor “Micnadl eels, Norman Thorans and Rev. Mr. Rey. Monstmnor Tight to sneak ng American citizens and to denounce an infamy committed by a nation that but yesterday was associated with us in the fight for, small nations and the liberty of humani Ireland Stronger ’ ‘This fs nothing new, 1 have said, to England can exhaust ments of Jerisiation and she will faily a3 she bas failed for hundreds of years, t¢ Bronk the spitit of the Irish people oF to destroy the Irish ri standing the successi 38 appeared on stand he was generously The Irish Carmehte Father: Ree, Denis O'Connor. 3 coercion acts and penal laws, Yee national Tife is throbbing with the implse of hope as it never throbbed before, ‘and the Irich rnee 1ore militant than’ it has ever been in at the ma: meet- ee mere Right Rev. Monuznor Luke $, Bre Jobn H. Doo or 34. T Benge Roe Joh Talbot Smeh; | Hs, history LL.D.; Rev. 'T. J, O'Donnell, of Aus-| |, “From State Department, during tralia, and Rev. Patrick O'Donnell, of | the past week. there hing issued a very New York. ipportant, State paper which contains ‘itude of vernm to tl Eacort of Veterans, Government of Russia, and anyone who eakers were escorted to the| will take the pains to read that doc- pletion by 8 see of warld-war| rent, by oR Oh the word ‘Ireland’ se 3 0 Boe of See Bol Heck | fore ward ‘Russia? will see with what mrerosco ic our State Depart- aed a splendid selection of! ment has Segribed the condition of Ire: during the meeting. Toad funder English rule, eel mbers of the Irish Women’s censton denounced a o The treaty. with Russia because weonnei ‘of the Tsish Women Piekets,| what we condoned besentira tone “ind the lady members of the Irish| tice, May we not with equal jrice one Progressive League and Irish Speak-| and to be consistent nd to our gre), Bureau, ‘all tm their, picturesque . x Trish costumes, lent color to the 8 ne. ‘The hail was profusely decorated with Anjenican and Inch Republican flaxs. romptly at 8.30 Major Kelly called the meeting ‘to order aud delivered one the most. effective addresses ever] py Beard Shs Madison Square | Garden. e of the Pan "Rennblic, hse va proent ‘broke loose | Pin into its first ‘remarkable outburst of ‘enthusiasm, Judse Goff. | In introduci the, hues Judge ce. We are to protest against the in- ze one erson here and humiliation accorded by ire, whe dee the British Government to a freeman of Dot ied ‘the ae, lemme of the present our great city, Ww stood on, this plat ovcasion, and, that solemnity, form here 2 onthe tonight, side by | there is no one, tT "enton® fide with the President of the Republic concerned’ to Se iclands CApplayse and clieeriae for) dent several minutes.) He then received one| instincts of m: of night,” Monsig- ‘ ch they speak uD atetng the war dred te vexe t into the hieh seas and remove by m the Bultic a prelate of the the venorable and uni- ico rights’ ine fone tse Ks Aigo a ‘rou heated tone bis ne ose OF f you who were print om hut occasion can alae ° ness ier hh Soe aud that, et pert ot za of Be the better (Continued on Soventh Pa: yer and Feitleme, after ail, there “The English were not telling the truth,” he replied. Expects an Amritsar. “The struggle, as Intest develonments| ble to arrest unde indiente. mar be a one.’ he contemplating ere, kathering all strength available, he turned to the reporters and sai “May I not ask a question now: And be both asked and answered his own questior The massacre of Amritsar in India (Continued on Seventh Page) PLAN EXTENSION GF IRISH TO ALL IRELAND The Government of Republic Launches Scheme to Make Language Universally Used. Dublin, Aug. 14—Important work for the language was done in a represente- tive conference last week at the Mansion Dublin, pted the heme as adopted contemplates a specified number o ih will "Beco ‘the medium wall be sega srded e regarde naiifed watess able ss the program, andthe c the National University to provide 0 enable teachers to on ‘he conference, under tbe auspices of Aiveashe ae Gacdhuls, of the Govern i. rom England and Scotland, 2 O'Gellaig, TD, siding. ell expltined that the committee” whieh hai managers Schools, universities, ete, Cardinal Logue wrote: gortpST sh it young priests ith have’ tried to gt a ook knowledge of e Trish; but ym would is not true,” observed. Rev. P. he Moran, P. F., Claregelway, amid laugh ter, Rev. .’ Wall said there were sev- eral good Irish ipealcre irom, the Arce flocete in Comman na Sagért Guoed- Nominating Rev. | WV___ O'Keonedy, president St. Flennan’s Row. ‘be: Fogarty wrote: ort to, make the @ cea of the trish lane suage.2 9 t me ing has my:heart- Sra ‘on .8econd "Page) , je | have f oe Trish Republican Parliament, aud of hols, | e were also present Guels 501 | Government. men arrested with nm ‘Thursday night, fused fond since they: were placed | in a military barracks, and have been jomed in their hunger’ strike by other risoners, w] ‘The Lord Mayor and other members |twé of the eoiporation will he tried on the charge of sedition, according to a state- ment made here teday. ‘Terence Mac- swenes tort "Fiayor oF Cork, was toung guilty by Courtmartial of having wae! farrived apparently only in, the ick BRITISH SLAY INVALID AND BOY IN LIMERICK Town Where De Valera Spent Boyhood Is Scene of Out- rage. Cork, Aug. 11.—The quict little vil- lage of Bruree, situated about three miles from Kilmallock, County Limerick, was vn Thursday night the scene of an appalling tragedy. Bruree is the place in whieh Prosident de Valera spent his boyhood. Thursday, British troops, porsted in an encounte armed Forces near the valinge. took reveuge by tarderiog aly vali tad a guild ‘Those slain f 10 years of age, m ic Duggan, and. t other in "invalid named Thomas Harris, aged al 34, who was subject to epi- lentic its, There had been military raids early in the day in the locality. and these were followed ‘by an attempted anibush of 2 pmty of the Butish military and pole which resulted in a ain cneounter Ne armed lyitiang, and the military, pasty outside, the, villus This Insted’ for about. urs, AN large relief purty of vel ‘e and militar ’ all to ane thete besieged 5 ovo oy) tuken refuge in a cot- en lowed hy fur a under MtacSweney. aloo was found guilty 6f ai as erdncxment in his possession uke olice and ealtarg, "who, as “evening | Joxed in, again catered the villdge and hots at random in ly to fel, a of erat ie Cork Cory poration ne principal st Heglames te the Dat win,| Tt was.on tl ious speech on the oc- "The trial was con- se of the Realm made a casions of his clection, ducted under the Defen: itter oceasion—abou! 7.30 in the evening—that poor Duewn and Harris met, their deaths, | Harri was shot through the eart in, bis own home, eonet as he was taking his eren- Act regulators. | ‘The veutence imposed] ing will be ‘promulgated ta lat Mayor, MacSweney, was weak when | whi called before the Court, as a result of his i \sal to take food at the prison. He End “Tam the Lord Maror of this sity and Court i ‘ork, Ireland, Avs, 17,—-Terence Mac: Swoney, Lord Mayor of Cork, was de- ported fo Lingland this morning a destroyer, after having been found reun of sedition Court-martial yesterd MacSweney at refused to as Teftsed food since night, voney createed tase was convicted of having ‘ander his on! rol the secret police ember, of having made as ‘occasion of his election, und of hay Pentiament whiell th glared ‘mari Defense of the Itealm Act regulations. WILL APPLY 10 STATE DEPT. FOR-REGOGHITION ion Must Lie With Says Final -Deci : lrish Government, De Valera: Washingtov. D. C., Aug. 15.—In ref- crence to a statement which appeared in the daily press to the purposed in a short" ‘time making formal] 1. for, recognition i it was lication would be whic! Freedom" is without ‘any foundation r. is obvious that in matters of this lst the, advice of ows frieuds final deeis tive is determined in rel world situation as a whole being > of course, on the in bined action it sible only by tegarding Ireland as the co-ordinating centr MELLOWS’ FATHER DIES We learn with regret of the death of the father of Liam Mel- lows, member of the Dail Eir- eann, and commandant of the Trish, Volunteers,in Galway dur- ing Easter Week. The death of | Mr.-‘Mellows,- Sr., took, place-in Dublin last month. effet that he] Nett ondon for the Continent. situation i o the evel Tite store of the events of Thursday, 5. is cast such a pall over, Bruree, ig simple, yet tirilling, At 8 ove fhe nfterndon a party sf five soldiers an wo policemen, in Thi ge of # jong Tew: fenabt, entered the village of Bruree, a1 parently wi ject of carrying ou some Taide, and ‘eure rhe iKalted fatel, where they bnc Mine annie he barmaid, seeing ther enter and thinking they were about to rai S the officer, in barge that the proprietress, Mrs. at the Rail any. searc} ile ther were bar, (Continued on Fourth BRITISH PREMIER AND UBOR LEIDER POT = Pro-British Minority in N. E. Ul- ster Province Rapidly Becom- ing Republican. (Special to, The Irish Press.) Paris, Aug. 18—It is learned on good authority that a serions split has oceur- in the ranks of the Loyalist minority 7. thenst corner of in the nor! of Ulster, / The utter helplessness of the Bi dm ‘Loy pressed many aly it ix snid. bas 3 lists that they are. rapi reconciled to the Government of the R of this ele- oF | Bices -| will continue to be | attention Province | The g Ireland, | tak WOULD STOP BRITISH WAR ON IRELAND Intense Heat and Short Time for Arrangements Do Not Prevent Demonstration at Metropolitan Opera House From Being Great Success—Crowd Fills Big Auditorium—Abrogation of Treaties With England Called For—Michael Francis Doyle Presides—Speakers Are Rev. E. 0’Shea, J. L. Faw- sitt, Dudley Field Malone, Rev. T. J. Hurton, Dr. Arthur Keegan, Rev. John Martin and Wm. J. Boyle. Despite the intense leat, and the short notice on which the affair was arranged, the mass-meeting held Sunday evening am the Metropolitan Opera House was an overwhelming success, A crowd that filled the great anditorium cheered en- thusiastically all the speakers and ap- proved resolutions protesting against the action of the ‘Tuitsh Goverament in barriug Archbishop Mannix from his country, and calling upon the United States to break of iplomatic relations with, Great Britain thecause of the war win ritish are waging against the ineeting was held under the aus- of the American Commis) Trish Independenee. aff MES Eo BP oD only about fort: jourr’ notice. Michael Francis Hoste, distinguished lawyer, presided. Cablegrams of support ere. forwarded: to Archbishop -AMunaix and to Arthur Grifith, actmg President of t public. Speakers were Rev. Edmoud O'Shea, of the Church of the ‘Aununation ; J.D. Pawsitt, Trish nsul General to the United States: Dudtey Field Malone, former, Collector ‘the Port of New York, and Farmer- Tabor candidate for the at § Rev, Thom: hur P. Keeway, ‘i Rey. John Hi Mit "Pathe O'Shen on bebalt a mittee on arrangements, prevent M Doyle as chairman, chairman. Fath a told of the der tne Seleetire Service a of ho been soured by vie sa ea the world. which Trish Rept States. reeognize the ible should We these United 5, and T we that these meetings ti Of the Amerienn’ Goversment and the world that Ireland must be ree ognini howeyer,-a yong clerical stiaent, the | onder.” Visit of Dn Mann joxle recalled the bishop Mannix to © s0 very disturbing to pi he the British Government, these meetings which you are holdin ait over the ved.” nd fe Archbishop off the Battie “Phat isan example of their confidence in thats pecaming| navy, “This good man is being Punished for m isl terime’ public. ‘The rapid, geeess! a not, committed ment to the republican cause 3 have the effronters ee eect ane OF tae 95] say tiat though this man oe wate Government. Councils recently | made these remarks in America, he must glectea cn “proportional ‘representation |be punished for them br the Tritish the Province of Ulster only 19 are ake it upon. themselves opposed to the re munis spenking in Amer: It is rumored that Sir ‘ard Car- con, leader of the. died chards, ‘Das Decors gusted with the situation, and has "The bel- the British Bremer e House of Com-| wag seemingly dictated wy a desire to. conciliate the wounded Haines of Sir Edward and his friends. ‘There is no mistaking the fact that) the relations between this country Great Britain are strained t¢ the Timi he" reneh Government i thoroughly disgusted with f Lloyd George t licose attitude, of toward Irela mons on foward Russia, and itn en ‘H. Thomas, the English Iabor leader, who is.as great an Smnperialist as the Premiet hhiemselt 1e Ang over Russia creates fig “Interesting situation 80 ras the British are . Tt is ho seeret iat, the representatives of the Tinsel ‘ian Republic now in Lon ¢ than skeptical about the altruistic Intentions of the Lloyd George Govern- ment toward Russia. Taken fa a whol itnation bodes no. gond for the tm? Detialie ‘Mlottere of Downing street, "7 war against Ireland goes of whnbnteds Towntare being, destroy- ed.nightly,-and the Irish. péople‘are anz- (ontinued on Seventh. Pagey it. | stronger fear over which they have ‘uo dominion, is it not time that a mericans, shoud enter our protest? Ne Ghaieman, ‘tien presented Mr, Fagwitt. who said: 150 rears there aud bas, not ‘been imder coercion imposed by Sretnud has survived, and Trish ism bas survived, ‘and it wi em han it is tonight. espite thelr coercion acts. the fact remoaioe Yoat | epublig is now an estab- ‘he ne' h act sete un mi Courts to try he teak Ree public Courts are snetoning the Brit- dish Courts are not’ Told the Truth. Fawsitt told of goin San Francisco to greet Archbishop Mannix 5a the name of the Trish Republic and of its President. “I traveled with across the continent, and listened to his speeches. and the one crime he sta mavieted of in the eyes of the Bri Government is that, of felling tbe truth, They landed bim in Cornw non on | th ‘on, | four or 40, m) hare, dased! ta take bi tl ‘Jn'introduemg the O'She: cos Hegatty held ase by | in the elt ly 15 years in which’ Ire. me form Great Britain, Bot fan nation- | f ‘all because | Con; “Archbishop Mannix recognizes the Irish Republic. The Irish people in Ire land have recognized the Inish Republic by establishing it, Whe Republic i Poeling has now issued instructions to er forces to break ese Go rts, the Tord Mayor of Cork bers of a Court have b ngland’s ts will not prevent those Courts from functioning. “The Trish Republic has a network a plonatie and consular representa- all over the world. ‘There has fren snore direct trade promoted between Treland and other gount excent Great Britain, ip the: revius 0 years, I say with truth that I have met with considerable en-operation from. business men in this country in Promoting trade ~ here is now a. direct ee between the Lrish, and ‘American’ market s. “We have been ‘tndeavoring to, get American Passenger ships to eall ‘at Trish ports (\rehbishon Mannix, in acenrdauce witht hit with, as. ex: pressed to me in San. Fravelseo, ber enabled to travel across the vAdianibe on an American ship, the Eng! or 440 0! them, would him ereat reas of immi- geation from “Feeland hat the country, mand women were being replaced y bullocks, ‘The Government of Ir lund has determined that the people all be put back on the soil, It bas established a land bank. and many of the ranches already, been, broken up, Muli work, has also, been done for the fisheries, When you are asi your Gi o recoguize the Trish Republig, remember that you are asking for the recognition of a myth. The fepublie caste in Ircland; it exists people of Ireland, i¢ shalt 60 not and, God wilting, Matone's Address. Mr, Malone said i MWe meet here tonigit as Americans who love liberty vertavhere, Wott tall and pass resolitious, but to demand that our Government at Washington make immediate representations to the Brit- ish Government on the situation in Tree ago when Louis Kossuth,, the great. ‘Hongasian patti ceived am New York with 2 pubhe celebration as the guest of the minded u with’ ebarming tact that there was no ‘thing as ‘American hberty,’ but Tine ranking, ‘Insh the Mion ight ’ we demand liberty for he Ireland: And what is this strangetpara- spoken in the terms of British aganda but printed in the some of our that it ig. highly this slander are the conscio Us 0 thee. sinister ‘financial talking in our Swe land, aad whieh is trying fo bolster up the shambles of the present British ernment itself de- nounced and rejected by. the combined n_and women workers of England. “ie wag mdeed patriotic and an ex. country's view of libert} welcor e, Paderawokt inthe name te 9 shower with un Staesal Jofire for the scious agents pression of our c ice fro an nile ism; it was “in ‘the very spirit of our the freed our of the world, Car. dimal Mercier, vo. enme to spe: of elgium. But when a great and patriot comes from far ia to usk our support for the Ireland, the Hand “ef his blood and his birth. be scarcely leave: gur ‘shores before He i serzed, ange miliated, placed on board the Bri destrose find escorted under guard into ngland because he hns dared t Tait’ the unspeakable offense. of asking ae ip, Amenea to aid the cause hee. fx American citizens well. -acqante he tradition and policy of the republic toward the 0 presied. We are not the Provneiais and ‘Tories in this country. In 1824, ress, speuking on tne of the Grock Revolution, Daniel ey dared not land him at Liverpool oF ster tune Southampton or London. ‘They knew| nounced the fixed ‘policy of our republic at _in those places he would have re-| toward ‘ptresnel Peowles when he said, ceived, & reception which would have ‘Our pln he side of free insti: made Lloyd George shake, This much is| tu ¥ we not owe to the certain: ‘That the ‘igbbishon will land ea. the, soil of Treland, ions causg of clvil and religious liberty? (Continuod on Seventh Page)