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Full Title	The Gaelic American - Vol. XX, No. 12, March 24, 1923, Whole Number 1019.
Contributor	O'Reilly, Michael.
Date Added	7 February 2020
Format	Newspaper
Language	English Irish
Publish Date	1923-03-24
Publisher	New York [N.Y.] : Gaelic American Pub. Co.
Source	Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection
Topic	Irish Americans > Newspapers.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR t “onstration ever witnessed BEVOTED TO TRE CAUSE GF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, TRISH LITERATURE aad (he Interests of the IRISH RACE TE ENT ree a asd the Interests of the - IRISH RACE- Vol. XX. No. 12, Whole No, 1019, Published Weekly at 16; Suabectiptio jon, t year, $2.50; ‘oreign, William: St. N.Y. $y Postage free, NEW YORK, MARCH 24, 1923.. Hee MY. gamer. Jan. 18 1919. at the Post ja-wader the Act of March 3. 1875. PRIOE FIVE CENTS. ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE MOST CREDITABLE EVER HELD IN NEW YORK ‘Witnessed by More Than One Million Persons and Em- bracing the Types of Men and Women That Have Done Most to Advance Race in America----It the Interests_of the Irish Wins Warm “Praise From}: Governor of State and From Archbishop Hayes, _ Who Review. It on Placid March Up Fifth Avenue. NOT ONE INCIDENT OCCURS TO MAR SUCCESS -Some of the Anglomaniac Newspapers D Disappointed Becatse The. Degenerate Element That Threatened to Break Up Demonstration in Honor of Ireland’s ~ National e Apostle, Wilfully and | Grossly Exaggerate Numbe™of Marc! Policemen on Duty and Underestimate —— St. Patrick's Day Parade on nnn Avenue, New York, on Saturday “ast was one of the most impressive, as ft was the most orderly, outdoor dem in the city, reflecting the highest credit on its cap- able promoters and all who took part in {t, won the admiration of those wont to jibe at everything Irish, and put to shame the vaunting of the' few who set out to try and mar its success. It established one’ record in that ‘more than one million persons—the “largest peace time that ever | assembled. fh the-elty—viemed the col- orfal processio: And it catabitahed yet another rec ord—and the one of which its organ- izers may feel, most justly pred ao that froma} rast, ale the--wart ‘was not one arrest ‘made, GOVERNOR SMITH PLEASED. incidents they believed would be to‘result from the threat lodged by D1 Gertrude Sag unidentified inerenta F Hylan a rier in the number of Police and "“under-estimated the number tn ¢! hough it 1f manifest that a de- tail of 2,500 police to handle a holiday crowd of more than a million persons Was not extravagant. REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RACE. : ,While there is no disputing that the de did not come up absence of the unthinking, vacillating Cement is a matter for deep conerat u lating, for {t(gave New York, and’ the lac ‘editors an Spporeantty ot undfiuted, the (witnessing, types of Irish manhood’ and woman! hood. that Binebed in sustaining American never And Irish: ideal TROUBLE. MAKERS SHOW DISCRETION. It {s customary for those fesponsible tor {matntatning order to no chances in face of a threat, but it the theoug ‘Onest' ayenue, there inspired more thao penal * hers. REVIEWED PARADE GOVERNOR ALFRED E. SMITH.* 2 A.ALR.L R. MULTI-MOB, MIKE KELLY LLY ADVERTISES Writes to Mayor Hy! Hylan Disavow- ing Threat of One Faction of De Valera’s Mob to Break Up St. Patrick's Day Parade— Abortiye Attempt to Scare City Officials Was Sponsored by His Oo-Worker, Dr. Ger- trude.B, Kelly. ottke Kelly, the Mick Mequald poll- e attempt made.to have the Ms Probibit the parade—efter the attempt failed. “But Mike can't dodge respon for the fiasco, no matter hor uch irs out his “scorn.” The abortive conspiracy to stop tl rade was in. ut the gopenda nies. and those present had ‘to uch, yy someone in {-parad had to to be pried apart by the police re- serve Mike now pretends that the disgrace- ful exhibition by the {lliterat! of which he {is the Chief, were engineered by | “the Cohalan-Devoy group to advertise|. the parade.” But, talking of advertising, Kelly's letter to Mayor Hylan is a striking ad- vertisement of the fact that his Amert- Association for the Recognition of De Valera’s Fake Republic has degen- erated from one grand rabble Into a number of smal) rabbles beyond all control. His ‘statement that “no Irish Repab- wld out in tl a genuine arrepublican, t which he himself never wi be] 6TH REGIMENT ATTENDS MASS.IN THE CATHEDRAL. ter Known as The 165th\Infantry, ; “The, Fighting Sixty th" Regiment, attended Mass in a body on Saturday morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral and with the parishioners in| thelr ast day ot saint of the cathedral. the patr The men, in ful unfform, marched up from their armory, Lexifgton Ave- n. cout had alwa held out its \gand to he | Pointed out that Police bad made any inquiries as to a + Pa suits of the “unkown Neer |and, Arenbahop Patrick J. Kayes ‘abatun ot onentities to Mayor stan sang the Mass. Father. Du tty. wn “ ‘to “warn him of trouble if he perm thelr cr hana ee tandine in. the {Continued on Page 2.) crowded cathedral. FRIENDLY SONS HOLD THEIR ANNUAL BANQUET Governor Smith Soc Scores Literacy Test — Declares New Yo or ky Under. Charter Suggest-; arly Irish Governor, Is Bost. Governed City in U. S— Theodore Roosevelt Assails Religious and Racial Disorim- ination, —_ The Mteracy test and restrictions on red Theodore it, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, woleed bis stern dis approval of religious and racial dis- crimination in this country. SCORES LITERACY TEST. Dealing with the immigration Drob- said: | lem, Governor Smith going to speal cause I feel qirongiy about them; and also’ against lit- Sup- had had the Ifteracy test sixty ntry,- the Gofernor sald, a] t about reatrie-| 1 ras tions on immf{gration,” he said, GETS DEATH EDITOR OF “THE GAELIC AMERICAN” ‘THREAT FROM DUBLIN laigh in. (IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY) Genera! 1 ftendauarte SPi ff “togea” h-Eireann * ot set ith November oa eES™ DE VALERA IS WORKING GET. ENGLISH ARMIY | BACK DE VALERA HOPES 10. FORCE INTERVENTION Series of Qutragee Planned ~in England by The Splitter Foil- y Free State Government; sine Government Trying to “ire Country From Hopeless That Would End Establishment of Permanent The Editor of Tre Garzic Aaresicax has received numerous threats against his life In the past few years from de- hmented followers of the man, who has Gestroyed so much of th 6 good work oe @ genuine Irish Republic and ~ AttPiltuted a reign ¥ terror. in Ireland i vain, effort to’ uphold his fraudu- ed aitiy substitute. The prospect of the fulfilment of these threhts 1s not causing him th ich. coi a 7m Dublin this tifpe, 1s made bere to record the dé- velopment of a schi at is well known to the object of De Valera’s malice. Document from rk production at the head m this colunn | was made goes o TO ALL WHOM ms “way CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the death yy | usurping Goverment. Where such in- formation me 1 () 7 DEATH. (b) THE “WOUNDING, , “THE REPUBLICAN FORCES, GOVERN MENT OR LOYAL ADHER. ENTS. Drastic penalties will also be in- MH upon any person or persons found gullty of conveying or ‘circulat- ing o1 eserve: orner persons aang or abetting the lemy es afore By order ARMY COUNCIL. rad eae} AL pS m2 & g ; g g ran tar Le: & t ip per ek & : HE i te x Tho ,above letter accompanied the parcel which were scribbled threats. The last paragraph, which shows the writer's scant knowledge of Gaelic, trans!ated, reads: “When the Republic will be over top. Ireland will be yet but not Freak Btate with help of God.” Your friend, The Republic to victory.” S 3 3 that a man be a tre 4 student before he could be samitted to this country. He said that of some men in the ate institutions who could.write thelr own names perfectly, as well as the names of other men, and still are not good citizens. FINES A GOOD CITIZEN. ‘My {dea of a good citizen,” he said, “fg the man, who puts everything in him to the Job before him, who raises a st citizen as the h an unbroken Ine of New England ancestors.” Turning to the subject of the Irish and the’City Charter, Governor Smith there was nothing in that document today that could not be ed to the trac y fundamentals as they were rongented by an early Irish Governor. He spoke of the government led that when the “smoke sod dust of politics had been blown and political prejudice ended” there were few Persons who would not admit that “New York is the beat governed city in the United e is do everything we can to keep iriah names off the cal police courts and the divorce courts,” said Governor Smith in a final exhorta- tion to his bearers to do their utmost to preserve ena advance good cltizen-| Freedom ship one fur ‘CORES BIGOTS. -y Roosevelt spoke of the sac- rhices ‘nade by soldiers of all religions, creeds and races during the war, end said that the country should not per- (Continued on Page 2.) alendars in the| menu BOSTON HAS BIG. Freedom—Prominent BOSTON, March 18.—The annivers- color striking a promincnt note in the decoration scheme. In the morning Mayor Curley was host at a breakfast in honor of former Senator Thomas F. Cassidy, of Pitts fleld in the Copley-Plaza Hotel, when. in honor of the an SMeyoe on the | r paid gi ing tributes to ireland’s Snerbution | to human Hberty. In the cvenane the Frlendy, of | Irish , Benen ner in the Hotel Westminster, and heard a ringing speech {1 jeir ae tinguished guest bearing mn out panding fasues of the day as velating 1o America and to Ireland. - “. declared Do V 7 otmene the other speakers were Mr. CELEBRATION; JUSTICE COHALAN HONOR GUEST = Itish in the “tab” Participa Participate in Huge Parade Commemorating Evacuation of City by British, and lov torce Later Hear Address. by Distinguished New York Jurist at Dinner Given by Friends of Irish State Officials at ‘*All Green” Banquet Laud Service of Irish Race to Liberty Throughout World. ‘. . Joseph Lundy, Mayor; Mr. Dan Philip O'Donnell. Private counsel to the, fel O'Conzell and uld be made y the full penal mae Cohalan in bis speech deciar. ed that if tte ae in Iretand were between te and a Republic, | no Republican in ‘Ameren would be in favor of the Free State, but the fight as between the Free State and a lesser form of freedom than a Republic. Concluding Justice Cohalan sald: OUTLOOK MUCH BRIGHTER. “What ts the situation in Ireland to- day? ‘xo sensible ‘man will deny that {t {a immeasurably better then it was, even a few yea a sure, Ireland bax not wt reached the goal for which her have fought and bled and died tor ¢ cen 4 turies past. She has not yet taken her /the end of that period to make {ts full (Continued on Page 6.) of Irregular pamphlets upon 2° ae Domination, Says P. J. While ne © ra was here in Amer- ica sowin f disunfon and squandering, the money encrusted to him fo equip an army, the mén he has now’ ordered hie dunes: "to op sight” were fighting to drive the Brit- ish army out of Ireland—and they suc- ceeded. se Now. De Valera wants to bring the British army back and {t won't be his fault if he doesn’t aacces e lengths to which he is prepared to go to achieve this end ured by the eee ctenog the round-up of his followers in England and ‘Scotland last week The manner th which th Government though they were inclined to. do so while De Valera ts doing thelr work, 6 dec! ted to start paign of out rage in England IRELAND FOILED’ PLOT. . .{ This plot was folled, not by the, Brity| ish Government; but by. the/Iriati, Ge] ve whi expressed In subsequent debates in the House ‘of. Coin ‘The operetions that’ the, saat ites planned to carr) % led, General of the Irish Rapubttens 8 Army" gretted tho Impossibility at present of sending to England any grenades. TRYING TO SAVE COUNTRY. ‘Id, who knows his | ireland well and who has @ reputation a fair and impartial commentator, deals with this question of British in- tervention In the sixth of hi thes articles on Ireland printed on.March 16. Declaring that the Justtfcation of the Anglo-lrish Treaty the bellef that the Irish could ved vin Independence by force of arms, votbe ‘Justification of the Anglo-lrish + Which brought the “sae Tito existence, was the fact that could ‘his political | treaty colleagues attacked the that was its advocates’ line of oat Is because the Irfsh+Republicans’ militant -policy, if It succeeded, would linvolve Ireland in a hopeless /war Jagainst a superlor force and bringeon the establiehment ‘domination that the ernment has undertaken tte, tash_of sail the ing to crush the fe Ministers hold that thelr the country fro: ape destruction Inevitable tf the rail tant policy were to succeed. STEP TOWARD FULL FREKDOM. Repeatediy Michael Arthur Gritth declared the imitations of the treaty did not, in their mind, tiark the furthorest frontiers of na- tional progress to’ indepe! ‘The | colleagues and supporte: ja ‘leaders hold less strength ' The ma oh street, polding tim: self aloof trom arguments, urged more specifical! iia ita was allow- able infsters and Dail Deputies janie eland, \with/ five years of com- parative freedom of action for prepsra- tlon, would be in a better position at the same view with no Irish Free| 0 are _p:lliny rrtiat. One « Independence. but | When Civil War Is Over Ires land Will Not Have “The Heart to Fight Another \War for Generations,” He _Advises McGarrity of Phila- “delphia in! Letter Intercepted by Free State—Appeals for More Money to Keep His Murderers and Looters at + Work of Destroying Vitality of Nation. : QUARRELS AMONG. CABAL8 HERE MAKING HIM UNEASY. Urges McGarrity “To Keep An Eye’ on His Envoy, O'Kelly, and Counsels O'Kelly to Go to Australia and Take oO the Motley Crew to Whom He Entrusted Ireland’s Des- tinies Here Are Fighting Like Kilkenny Cats—Is Determined to- Sacrifice’ Ireland to Win “Glory” for Himself. t in Ireland that De Valera co mesg his last remaining hop vengeance on the Irish- siatlom ton its Ae refusal to set him’ 8 payrol rbre- think, we would finally smash the yre. Stat Smashie his poittieal opponents i bout, of its best military leaders the sssassin's bullets ‘broken | met into bitter factions and so discouraged that it “would not dave the heart to fight, another war. fc 8," fe something he cou ‘contemplate “vith Pleasure, » With tl tmashed his sinister Purpote would be served and the Nation that spurned the Jew's Crown Republic could "be lott. to suffer for its sins. re are dark clouds on the: Splitter’s horizon. With cold-blooded cunning bé played up control bis mobi doubt his ability to do shin Thy : no stability In the mob, His letter to.» x feGarrity reveals his goxiety it Tepresentatives here. The tao thet he enlisted under ‘ he banner yen ho broke the unprecedeated unjty the race has broken up into ipdurner abie cliques and subeliques 4a they sing his “envoys this way and clique curses reeence of, Laureueé Ginnell and another inveighs against O'Kelly and ‘Father O'Flana- and| of at all, probably in the hope that they might contribute something to the long list of outrages by which he hopes to me the Enigliah army to return to Tee, De Valera knew what the ou! would be when he embarked on:the en- ferprise of committing Ireland's inter- ests in the United States to a feeble- minded rable, but he did not foresed_ that ‘the F demoratization ot thet taba has no‘leaders of any stending and no “cursed secret society,” except it be Mc: (Continued on Pags 3.) LS Kote \. Continues on Page 2.) 7 IRISH LITERATURE a : & letter to Joseph McGarrity, of za. aed

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