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Vol. XVII, No. 3. Whole No, 853,
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH- INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE [RISH
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WASHINGTON GIVES DE VALERA GREAT OVATION)
Reception To President Of Irish Republic At Liberty Hut The Greatest Irish
Gathering Ever Seea At The National Capital—Presided Over By General
Sherwood, Distinguished Soldier Of The Civil War, While Scores Of Cea-
gressmen Occupy Seats On The Platform—treldud’s Leader Makes Un-
answerable Plea For American Recognition Of Goverameat Buly Elected By
The People Of Ireland—Principles On Which America Is Governed And
-Wilson’s Deciarations As To Reasogs For Entering The Earopean War All
Poiat Imperatively To The Course
The United States Should Follow Im Re-
gard To Irelané—Opponeats Cite’ No Reasons Against Recognition Because
No Such Reasous Exist, But Confine themselves To Misstatements And
— “ Secession” As Inappropriate A Word As Divorce Ia The Case Of
Ireiand—-Rev. J. Grattan Mythem And Lindsay Crawford Also Speak—Re- | “1s it that as "ria ‘Nation ts not a ni P At The Lexisgton Theatre Om Jam. (7, And A Ball Op. Jaz.. 22—Preos
. Nation a0 all?) History, a8 T hava from the train a few minutes after 10/
solutions Demanding Passage Of Mason Bill And Insisting That All Further present-day facts, which are there o'clock thi ng, and was given a dom Of The City To Be Preseated. To Presidcat De
Finacial Ad I for everyone to tuveatlgate, are against recoption which showed the hearty { Valera ia Kew,
i vances To Engiasd To Enable Her To Carry Ga Mer Work | those who would hold such a view. { torest le of this city have in York At Rooa On Opening Day Of Dri
OT And Oppression Be con leave fair the Irish struggle for Independence. 'y ve, 000 Canressers
‘yranay And Oppression Be Stopped. minded person for himselt Whea in he Work Ia New York City Alea.
or herself, confident that no objection ; | was met by a reception committee com:
WASHINGTON, January 8—The re) “primary object in the United States be raised to I 's claim on the posed of Unt tes Commissioner
tion to President De Valera of the| ts to obtain official nt d of ty. Frederick J Corbett.” Former State |, The following statement in t is not 8
gnition for the the Bond Certit
el Government of the Re ic of| “Is it that the Irish Nation has sold| President De Valera. ator Tho J. Malloy, Major 1 cates of the Republic ot that there i Taefe
Ireland.” Ireland's moral bi a or ™ Lyons, Captain Thomas J. Ban | reland has ‘been issued by the Amerl- b:
claim tor by | can Commiss!
itton nesta 7, oa Oe aes anit last? “outside the pels | ay Gane Sunes nwo was inthe uniform of a|#® Commission on Iriah Independence: and bit associate ead
foundations: choice and National In- ae, rs, Edna Hill oe Sowonh end 1 Cantein of the United States Army—| NEW ary call for Mr. Lindsay Crawford, who ts .\
First—That the people of every na-| dependence? History hes no record of Nosed with “America” Mine "Agnes #82, Dominick Marphy ican Commalasion on Iria Independence) 22°00 Sat a Pr .
in are entitled fundamentally to such jon, Refusal to sell! Whalen also sang “The Wearing of the! Although the . are now able to give thi ce that | ao authority ail fore
right of choosing for thi fives the| thelr birthi to allow ir there was a i the Bond Corti: is active ority all its own, If one could’
form of ment their Nation shall erwood, greet the spoi.esman of the Irish Na-| ly in progress all e try: The ju dge by the demand 4 from Ta Cae
¥- | have—on basis that Governments work of organization ts farther advanc-| Composed matnty
derive ail thelr Just powers from the e States than in others, but in| @Very speech <nade a Gets United § States
consent of the governed.’ there, are city committees actively Robert Emmet’ ‘this
“Second—That at Ireland is @ Nation, cngaged in the preparation of lists and year would be deltvered by a nonCath- f
as such her people have o the Secruiting of workers, might | le. ‘
Tleht t> determine for teeta toe eee of Which the mocting wi ur, bave been expected. the most rapla pa | An Mlustration “of the aptet tuts
they shail be governed. t man without ¢ drop of irish blood Vat sees are thee Bare ‘Seated |
ird—That the people have, in his veins.” re
in fact, determined how they shall be| wish, Irelan to-day: General Sherwood hailed President |, Three cheers for De Valera’, were | inxs during the nést ere there
foverned and have declared thelr will Ireland will not give up ber own to:/ De Valera as "wee greatest moral bere roposed by a member of the committee has been plentiful publielty, and where
fo an le manner. “By their | dtviduality as # Nation her | ‘round the . and there was a dee oe grasp | on eee aly “to” the
surages ve an In-| title to a MYTHEN Bo’ CRAWFORD SPEAK. i Y : ro
i . ident De Valera’s hand. Two burly | pic ~
pendent Repa| P necessary. to-name
vernment. tb lls and chosen av thelr NEVER ADMITTED PARTNERSHIP. | ‘The Rev. James Grattan Mythen, of | policemen elbowed a way through the| a campaign Derloda anit the. scampalen
bebalf, as {ts Chief tive Teen it. 1s certainty true the British | Christ Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Va.,| crowd and dent De Valera, hat in
bene re, Government” clatms jn] whe began bis career tm the malnet hand, walked down. the platform and :
. bound tr a partnership with Britain, but| gt. Jobs do: n the steps to the concourse, where Fran WALSH'S}
altio the "Irises Dave never “admxitted x. 8 as achat AF
iy, BS aeealy based, as our claim is,.oa oa | gr acconted thet jerabip 5 another crowd ova ‘De Valera ma Abe}
Sleewons, Daniel F Quigley, Thomas artoies thst | refused tt apd fought ee passed outhide the station to 8 wait: “Mr. Fran Walch ‘has Sorued tf
Teorey A. mas | are so! universally htmost of thelr power. ton te the following circular:
Fat, Willlam E. Needham, John ‘rant and on pects which can be 20 this respect Is, im itself, ample evidence Ce cee once the hotel a. number se AMERICAN ‘ Comission ON TRIS!
Rev, John J. Callaghan, Or. 1 ee ae een to epee te than | of, the hollowness of free f prominent, men gathered to greet EPENDENCE. | »
jel A. Callaghan, Joseph * ‘Reeves, | no would reject our claim td at | E2siand, of Britain, has id a . him. He received the newspapermen ~ wlan
James L. Feeney, Thomas P. O'Dea.| eats give some good reason shou san nacent by forces never for a siz-| "sie-enld Pucl Commissioner, Garfield | ret and talked with them of his NObeS | thir machinery. The uniform desire te st Fin ‘Avene New York,
John 3. Conroy, Daniel Hassett, Hono, for doing gle Engilsh an intimate friend of President, Wilson | for the trsh Republic over @ breakfast gq make the campaign very UhCTOUgh | ay Like of due Bietad Gs
josep! er eard him mal jeclaration, and | of ES. 1d eMrfent once it fs und: . ected vernmes
Missouri; Hon, Baall Manly, former |. “Really, we ought 9 aught not be eaked at all told him he had echoed the edntiments| At x President De Valera tor | oe robasiy the caont fore a tn the mat Republi ot of Ireland.
Chairman War Labor Board; John J. to its ma- Presid ent. for the ‘tate C jas int
Chair Independence. or that the Irish, people 7 God's world tw going to| duced to Major Jonn Duckiey, Heemntive F of preparation are the territ ivan
WASHINGTON “TIMES” REPORT. | th te tar See ca , aeonve 1g of the frutte of our victory.” | Sec y Froderic 3. Corbett, Prost: | TO". om Morey and Pavadelrmn| Dear Sir—To make a ‘clear
The following report of the meeting rather be for those who den °O to make dent of the Hartford Branch of the) 4.1. Wel) known, contain more people) Surscribers the method of issue and the
vi food on the last war, or the men who | Friends of Irish Freedom, and was tn ‘ purpose of the Bond
spveared in the Warntngton ‘Times to-|liberty to show cause why that liberty \of Irish descent than are to be found
‘ould be dent i volunteered will not answer the call rn presented to the or Wim many Southern or Wertern States ‘en to recall
. again.” te
“The Spirit of 1776" and Ths Spirit] WHAT GROUNDS FOR DENIAL? tract? a hat the root of the quarrel | vine” Buckley In the Governor's private. .bined, In these five Boroughs every
* of Ireland” lived at «Hut last} “why should I bave to prove ‘a genuine political unton. or ts it evi- Bat 4 and England lice in eer Holcomb greeted Mm cor ‘ on District now hes is
a whi mon eyelets where where the elements of democ- dence of ‘the union of the shark with et iaitaee Lindsay Crawford, var one mort of them neve thelr ne
dent of the tah Republic, wan accatm egy ary aniera the consent |its prey? 1a prejudice treland's te an, ow editor of the Forento iste arene in the ‘New Jersey,
¢ people governed ts th |.| “Those who would prejudice Irelan: Past President the
thusiastic reception ever bel the people governed fs the one legitl | | °THO ns eyes of Americans talk of | Order "ot Ora aid an. apire |e 25nd also, fa “the, cites and
ington in the interest of Irish eee of any Nation “founded: | Ireland's ‘attempt ax secession.” There| and a Nation cannot exist side by side. cs Sadeleht eo et gantation had!
It was a long to’ be remembered n! e all, should 1 have to prove it here|can be no secession there RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. rept Oe een. pet ere | Oral
tol'ihe ons of Erin, The hero of thelr |n the United States of and,| been no union; ‘no divorce where thi noes lovelty during. the a ner down to the small
? At the conclusion of the meeting the ext electoral unit, the cities and towns
cause stood before them be all, here in Washing-|has been England's Act HOD OE oe Eee net te bee
given an ovation which rang true to| ton, and, time:of all times, at-the very | of ‘Union’ ‘against the will of following resolution, offered by, Rous F an 1 Pennsylvania te rapldly completing | Dy
sp’ Unsmiling and moment when your Nation's Represen- the Irth people bya body legally tn-| Pe’ anaplmously a ¥ their plans jer States, as for ox
ingly «invincible, with ti of bar- co enact ite body that was | audience: nl
De Valera ex} q
land’s claim to liberty in the battle for
which he has spent much of last
four. years tn British prisons.
dm
, the
een Scmblem ot the
those ta at attend.
among
‘At the outset President De Valera de-
clared he disdained rhetorical and ora-
torical rte ae as he proceeded to
bold up his, case for Ireland with
Mathematical precision any o1
real ‘Houta be denied the Nation of Ireland.
ke
tatives here—your Con;
ecutive—are considering the final act
jar waged by
2
re} of a great and bloody w:
America avowedly for hts very prin: | ena
st foal that ies prinetple could. only
1
se
deny {ts application to Ireland and to
th
D 18 A NATION.
you to believe),
back further than any
existing Ei ‘ation except Greece,
sod with a corresponding totenatty of ‘of
national uusness among
. It Nations in general are satitied
to the right of Nitlonal Self-Detormin-
ton, som reason should be
Nowght forward as to why that right
every ere to re
fect for a moment and to ask your
selves tf you know ot any, good
or the denfal to Irélanc
key
Président De Valera declared that bls
ori reumstan
ft} ‘foul and vile’ that. i had: ‘no moral
Y | individual Irishman and irishwoman in
cess of
la ment mi
|taken as fair proof that no such argu-
ment exists. When one bas good argu-
jaments on one’s side one does not
ally reject them and instead, on,
misstatements, misrep! ions,
F ons and abuse. I would lke
|to know if anyone here
| reason which seems to
|enough to justify the exclusion of the
|Nation of Ireland from the general
| right of National Self- jon, 1
mi as a genuine challenge and
not as @ rhetorical question
HISTORY supports IRELAN D's
ant of Renunciation, pre-
tences to rule Ireland and ted
us ‘torever bi 3 joned and
unquestionable’ Ireiand’s sovereign
rights to ind t exist:
ence: Thia is the only basis
be
sald
title to existence
EIGHTY SIX SOBROION ACTS
PABEED.
“Eighty:
those 11 virtue of
time regulations, Ssubetiuating
ta)
tis arbitrary rile
for constituted ciel * duthorlty ‘tnd de
priving the individ zen of
safeguards r
nmen tarana obtaining among cl
ows how Englan nd main-
tine her ooalled ‘Union’ toey and
how she bas maintained it for the past
Divorce,’ in-
stantly on the watch for any argument
good 4
cts, that prac:
ere | tically deprived a triah «people of
w | civil
ry | P. M., he was
Al
about as fust.to burl sh!
“Whereas, The principle of National
of the ex:
nited
pending annu-
on her
not: to speak of the vast.
on similar armies in rindia and
Egypt: be it
Resolved, we recognize that principle
10 Ireland ant urge
upon.-the Coited States Goverament the
to. Britala whilet othe mon
misused strangle “Nations
rend
struggling
CROWD AT DNION STATION.
era stepped
trom the train at Unton Station at 7:20
met by a committee
ed by Connor and eso
toa waiting automobile through @ lane
—<-+—_
HOW. THEY WORK IN
IRELAND.
med to the la
PAgRIOTIO BONGS 8UXG.
meeting was opened with the
The
tial law; ‘newspapers
and every avallabl
was set to make
event @ financial f
y|Heads of State Government
,|RECEIVED BY GOVERNOR |
AND MAYOR IN HARTFORD. | |
of
Gonnectiout and City Govern-
t of Capital of That State|
Give Cordial Official Welooe
to Chief Irish |
Act as
ed | formality
had become a genuine part of
tion.
Governor President
thanked the Chief Enecuttve “or the
jovernor Holcomb
ke
after whieh rene Morlert y of Wi
jury and, Mi te Molyneux Hol
loway of i city ‘ia Ukewise.
‘The
Lind
ged with men
and women the
from the Governors office, and the guest
was. imi rroun
by persons desiring hand, |
to wie ne smilingly ac.
ceded. was made Yor bim b
soucemnen and ‘members of the commit
‘Continues. on Page 4.5
jut Irish patriotism knows how
to
end
Sowa tingle to read of such patriotic
bett
At the. close of the andlence with the
Valera -agi
PREPARING EVERYWHERE FOR THE BOND:
DRIVE
‘State Chairmen, And City Aud Assombly District coanites All Over The Cozstry
Work'ug S:eadily To Raise The Quota Assigned Theas—all trish Orgasizas -
tions fa Lin:—Greater Unani
ily Thaw At Any Previous Period In The\
History @i The Race Ip Amerca—No Rivalry Except As To Whe Will Bo: 7
The Best Work For The Irish Republic—The, Only Backward. States Ares
Those ia Wich Our People Are Not Numerous—New York; New Jersey,
Pluasylvauia, Massachusetts, Couuecticut, Ohio Aed Ulinois In The Forte
frodt—Severe Wintry Weather In Some Paris Of The Country A Handicap
That Will Be Overcome Later—Mostings To Boom The Bond Certificates’:
Projected Iu AU The Big Cities—FllMd FYUH'The Old Land Te Be A Netablo
Featare Of The Demoastrations—New York Leads Off With A Big Ray «
carly weoks of Febri
Perhaps the Tort “formidable ot the
Gimeulttes to be fared
wT President De
Valera could in ‘rome way contrive to
niultiply his physical existence: about
atty fold te would be possible, fo the
articular speal
fna life much
In a score or so of plar
The Protest
|bave been sw
rs ever since the
ed, ai d eapectally since “the arrival of
the delegation from the Northeast con
One difficulty about this: ts that
ter Soraya,
th
ea the ratate and: ‘City
cam
at and there are
committe,
Chairm:
mien a a0
in almost ¢
arises from tne and
t) Tact that it ts bhyateally impossible
2 | supply the demand are made ‘or
rect.
Avenue, New
fours very oi ,
Fraxk P, Was, Chairman
——— .
FREEDOM OF NEW YORK FOR Di
‘ VALERA.’ ‘
as
