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Full Title	Irish Press, Vol. 5, No. 8, May 6, 1922.
Contributor	McGarrity, Joseph, 1874-1940.
Date Added	29 March 2017
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1922-05-06
Publisher	Philadelphia: The Celtic Press
Source	Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection
Topic	Irish > United States > Newspapers.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR A JOURNAL OF IRISH NEWS, IRISH OPINION AND IRISH LITERATURE, PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE REPUBLIC-OF IRELAND f VOL 5: NO. 8 nti office, Philadelphia, Pa, ees an second-class matter Jan. 8. 3810, at tho poste ‘under the Act of ifarch’, 1879. PHILADELPHIA, MAY 6, 1922 DeVALERA GETS T _ PRICE TEN CENTS Remarkable Series of Questions From British and American Journalists Answered in Detail JS SOLDER COMMENDS ISH PRES, EXAMAPLE TO JOURRALIGTS Of BOTH SIDES Lucid Explanation of I. ‘R.A, Difficulty A. Difficulty—Soldiers as Citizens— Politicians as Soldiers—Distribution of the Fighting Units. Real Effectives in War Time—Army Will Keep Its Head and Its Objective—British Must Clear Out of Ireland; All Ireland. Dublin, April 19.—A-Chara. The tone of your paper is very dignified and sets a headline in the matter of common decency which journalists on both sides here might copy with advantage. ‘o read a pro-treaty paper one would think that ail who did not accept the 6th of December agreement were lunatics, anarchists and Anti-Christs; while some Anti- ‘Treaty publications would give one the impression that the soul of a Treaty advocate is lost forever. Both sides agree in this: They suppress all expres- “sions of opinion which do not fall into line with the or- thodox Pro or Anti-Treaty. ‘The result is seen in the action of the Army in saying] t ~ “You be damned” to both parties and réadopting their old Constitution under which an elected Executive has b supreme control of the Army. ihe proportion of the I. R. A. tnder control of this Executive| still do as an excuse for accept- is about 80 per cent. of the Pre-|ing the 6th of December agree- Truce Army. A false impression] Ment. (There have been so of this percentage is given by| tween the same nary tint one taking the Army by Brigades,|has to refer to dates.) which are in Ireland geographi- Difficulties of Unity. cal rathet than military units, ‘The agreement most desired, i. , Wo explain, an area is mapped] e., a working agreement between out as a Brigade area, keeping in those who were comrades up to view facilities for communica-| January ‘last, is fast becoming| tion, control, etc., little attention Gare Siificuts, owing go the ace being given to the number of ef-|aiso (with one exception) the : fective men in each area for this | Provisional Government. - purpose. In this way it comes| Since the Sinn Fein Ard-Fheis about that a Brigade in one| Money has been lavishly spent to County numbers more effective) Puy, Over men who were opposed fighting men than a Division in| they will have sufficient bought another County. There are three] over to get a pro- ‘Treaty verdict Divisions, which contain two-|at the resumed Ard-Fheis. thirds of the whole army, the| Had half the money which is other ousthind tring, vided [nee Sone hen buy of op “amongst 16 other Divisions. In x this way, while the Army Execu-| t0e State Army: been spent on arms and ammuni ion, we could ive have the men, the Free State|soon settle the 2 the same plea afterwards and| irom # HONOR THE TREATY ‘OH REVERT TO WAR England’s Alternative Never Put to a Democratic People in History. SURRENDER THE REPUBLIC And Enter British Empire as a Conquered People Is Policy of Treatyites, Claims Childers. Dublin, April 30—I approach the question as ove who is deeply avd ve- hemently, opposed to the tevaty says 6 Cities i in the New York ut I will try to aemime fine Me Tesh people gives, its sunct treaty at the coming lectins Sut that t the’ Ere Seate fa ct up. st extra ordi Position would result from the election will have been ‘on an obsolete register, giving no flection "of the ‘electorate as, it ‘took a most important share si destiny of their ante is a wider question still, The a election will be fought under the threat of renewed war by the British. Mr. Grit 95 hough these young women ‘ith thas declared that the issue will bel of jontinued on Seventh Page) FRAUD TS REPUDIATED AREAL FOR LIBERTY Count Plunket Replies to a Chi- cago Critic of Irish Repub- licans, TREATY A CRUEL MOCKERY lrish Shocked That Any Dele- gate Would Dare to Agree to Such Terms as Suggested, 26 Upper Fitzwilliam street, Dublia, Iceland, April 19, 1922, 1 Sir: I have read with curiosity at ‘Bterest your letior in today's Trish Independent on Jrish-America and the eal | pation Br. AMAINTAIN POSITION WON ONLY WAY TO FREECOM England Was Beaten in Recent War, or She Would Have Im- posed Her Own Terms. SUPPORT THE REPUBLIC The Men Who Itand Fought for It Will Not Retreat, Appeal of Sean Nolan, T.D. Mr. Scan Nolan, T. D., speaking at a public mecting in West Cork, sai ‘Our nation is faced today with a sraver question than ever before in his- tory. What is the question of one set of its trusted leaders asking for the dis- stglishiment of the Republic by the wil ople, and auother set bi Ireland's sovereign right soverei ifith and the whole of Dail Bireann applaud ‘hole population, We ‘alt sound aus (Continued on Soventh Page: ign | Irish public life. REPUBLICAN IDEAL EMERGES INTACT; ROT A SINGLE LOOPHOLE LEFT UNEXPLORED Complete Replies to All His Traducer His Traducers—Aititude on Coming Elections Explicity Stated—Straightforward Arguments. Onus for Situation on England—Army Will Stand Fast for Republic—Every Means, Excluding Only Those Immoral, to Save the N Never More Opportune. tion—Time for Real Mr. De Valera in all his public utterances has given a frank, open and manly statement of his attitude on the present crisis in Ireland. It is impossible to conceive of a leader in such dif- ficult straits as he has found himself from friends and foes alike, from his own countrymen and from foreigners, who has conducted himself with such dignity and for« bearance as Eamon De Valera. Arthur Griffith in an extract from his speech in him to Parnell. grave, * 3 \the Ard Fheis, which we published last week, compared The parallel is almost.complete, only he has not yet been forced'a Parnell was the victim of a deep laid British living victim into an early scheme to kill him and kill the great Irish movement that Britain succeeded then by us- ing some of the best elements in ‘The flower of the Irish church, lay and clerical, united with tried Irish patriots ——|to hound him to death, and his ment of the Republic of ' May 7th, at 8 P.M. [GH REPUBLICA us HEI IN GEREAANTOWE Austin Stack, chairman of the Irish Republican delegation to the United States; Rev. Michael O’Flanagan, Vice President,of the Sinn Fein organization in Ireland; Captain Thomas O’Connor, Easter Week veteran, and financial representative for Philadelphia and district of the Republican party in Ireland, and Mr. Peter Golden, poet and orator, will speak on the present position of the Republic of Ireland and the effort made by England to subvert the demo- cratically elected government of the Irish people. Only by the strong protest of the free people of the world can England be made to withdraw her threat of immediate and terrible war against the govern- Ireland. The meeting will be held in St. Vincent’s Hall, East Price street, Sunday, Party claims to have the adher-| question for all Ireland. nce of a proportionally large A Glugger State. * number of Brigade and Division- | , TH, whole thing is disgusting to Bi al Officers, some of whom have | mu “been repudiated by their own | independ nee oad now to see i gett ‘which I was associated was up oie fain truth is obvious that B: , 1921, Jand_ wi to conced to July, 1921, abie to put only as | nt, #5 pot prengred fo conce hea many men in action at any time as-a Battalion in whose area 1 was previously. Politicians or Soldiers. 15 LASHES’AND 3 YEARS FOR ROBBER IN BELFAST Baltes April.27,—Fifteen ashes with Tudge in the case of Frederick Lemon, convicted of robbery with violence. ‘The use of the “eat” has been strongly. udvocated as punishment for looting, but |e the first instance where it is to be > |conk STILL HOT FOR BRITISH]? ‘Two men charged at Fishguard ‘vith deserting from the R. A. M.-C, at Co: aid they were: taken prisoners by" the I. Ru-A. as spies three werks ago, strip-| he ped of. their uniforms and. threatened with shooting. ; Ench ‘prisoner produced 4 passport, signed by a: Republican-brig- 5, anytiow,| aiier; permitting them. to pass" through got y¢-:theth ;.the: politiciaa of-| Kingale and.get away frou Teelsud | im- es lade excuses: for-not' get-| Bedintely. ot toyed: nid atin fAvers.got-arms, al our own form = CONNECTICUT DEMANDS WAR THREAT RERIOVAL a Boycott of All British Goods Un- til Ireland Is-Free to Decide tor Herself. Resolutions, ‘Whereas, we, as Americans, are in of. government committed to the principle that all just government rests upon the consent of the governed; an ‘Whereas, the Irish people have since the year 1172 fought and died for that principle and eres, Premier Loyd George, of ey, thatthe realted Fre ed under ‘Wher Exelund, as declan ish signatures to" the. xo: Sate document were ot threat of immedi \ercas. be-held in Zreland in the menr future, at Pil cietion the Irieh electorate Will 15 to England's Bremiet sate ‘avo af Beee* the | en ee Stats or be extern “Now, dieretore, we, officers and mem bera-of' the Conncetest ‘State Directorate ‘of the American Association .. for the | tei Resoen ion of the fake blic, renre- 25,000. Americans). in ineeting 25th COYLE AS CANDIDATE REMARKABLE RECORD Was Never a Man Official Or- ganizations Could Handle. TRUSTED BY RQOSEVELT His’ Career Here Marked by a Continued Series of Suc cesses. Mr. Coyle was born to humble par- cats ii modest circumstances, in a sub- urb of Pottsville, in Norwegian town- ship, Schuylkill county, Jearly youth-in'that vic later the family ‘removed to Mahanoy township, where the subject of thié brief) $744 ketch dttended public sebbol uu other bors, he breaker’ at an earl ie was | fe, thot the ‘umnbition, and ent to work in the, thi DE VALERA’S REPORT ON PEACE CONFERENCE Gives 0. K. to Labor Sugges- tions and Appeals for Post- ponement of Elections for Six Months. Dublin, May 1—Hemon de Valera issued tonight a detailed explanation of his attitude at the peace conference last, week, in which he calls the proposal inde by Michael Cobian for a plebiscite on the question of acceptance or rejec~ tion of the treaty one for “stone age machinery. ~ Mr. de Valera in his explanation deals Srot with his objection to, ap dection or a plebiselte, except for all Iceland, Ye Tenews his objection, to ‘the Finn convention agreement at ot ely the treaty, but the consti- nat form should be before |i Mr. "De. Valera make, a ny -to “18 to oblivion. All unconsciously we believe the foul work was done, ‘The Irish people, sensitive to-a de-| Re gree unknown amongst other na- tions where national honor is in question, will tear limb from limb their hero of yesterday if the foul breath of dishonor but} dim the lustre of his nam Is England in her machiavel- | lian unprincipled - conduct to wards Ireland preparing the way for such another sacrifice? The newspapers of America are car- rying such vile editorials on Tre-| Jand and the Irish cause, and on De Valera in particular, that it] a were blindness not to see a uni- form: effort through them all. The big leading dailies of New] x York, Chicago, Philadelphia and the petty little weekly echoes of these are carrying the poison gas to millions of Irish readers. Ire-) § land is flooded with journalists who are given a latitude un- known in any other country passing through such a’ crisis. ‘They are allowed to interview whomsoever they wish and pub- lish as much or as little as they wich. forts to rally the people to their allegiance to the Republic of Ire- land has had a thousand ques- tions ‘a day. fired at him from every angle from every conceiva- ble type of a journalist, His an-| conn swers are clear, concise and to the point, carrying conviction in} | d. every wor f Let us consider some of these questions and the purpose lurk-) ¢ At ling behind them, and then read|"% the answer very carefully. <r. Collins cays the treaty ives im only, be interpreted. De Valera in his hesculean ef- | #50 uE grew up and solidified around his remarkable personality. that the Irish people can be deprived of free government and violence is being used to aeorive ther of it, namely, the violen ish Government thet threatens “inmediate and terrible wae” unless we accept Britain's terms, No Legal Authority. Af there is a movement toward a mili« tary dictatorship it is because the pres+ ent executive of Dail Bireaun hes broken its pledge to maintain the authouty of ity from Dail Biresna wa derives bony solely from a forei Parlicinent "The interpretation which Mr, catins, the, Dress porting bim, choo: et om ond my contcol. Tspeak ‘the teuth and vee hoses argu ments now ag before and I shall continue 10 do 0. Q—The London Daily b saya Teland 35 threatened. Sith he ettiog ip of @ military despotism of a new and Biaey monstrous kind—a “tyran- maintained by arm What does vot concern us, I go-not know what is cela fy but this 1 know, th the threst of war by which Enelan im e the Republic who svould not abide by fhe -resuit of a free ection. ‘The action of de solely by the desite to ze, the pale from tho ‘besianing, 36 es salesea be rights and iberties of the Trish peo- Barta Available Meanc, there 20 the sister’ ‘and the £ a, ie'agees with: yiolei ~The Pree Beaters aod the I. R.A. even should that mublie, ‘The difference are solely by England’s threat of war oa the Irish poople valess they abandon their Tight to independence, .—If the aims of the Republicans ot be attained a other ‘means, they seek to obtain them by violence and armed force? On 8 proper understandigg of the eople. ‘Their spirit and espira- tans Ge never. be feconelted to euch an