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Full Title	The Gaelic American - Vol. XX, No. 34, August 25, 1923, Whole Number 1041.
Contributor	O'Reilly, Michael.
Date Added	9 February 2020
Format	Newspaper
Language	English Irish
Publish Date	1923-08-25
Publisher	New York [N.Y.] : Gaelic American Pub. Co.
Source	Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection
Topic	Irish Americans > Newspapers.
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OCR BEYeTED TO” THE CAUSE: oF first INDEPENDENCE, ~ TRISH LITERATURE’ and the Interests of the IRISH RACE Vole EX. No, 34. GEDDES VIEWS AMERICA AS CROWN COLONY " Sabmits Impudent, Sneering and Lying Report to Lord Curgon -Demanding Changes in Ellis Island Immigration System ‘ REGULATIONS “DIABOLIC” Forgets About Wanton Slaugh- “a o Hada as He Inveighs he ‘Temporary and Deavoiable Hardships Here The Colonial Government of- the United States is falling into high dis- repute with the Imperial Parliament {m’London, which is deeply distressed at the treatment meted out to pessons from the Motherland coming here in reh of and decent living conditions. Sir Auckland Geddes, acting on the ‘ssumption or presumption that he is Gove General of the United ‘The Geddes A visit to the Island while it-was under the rule of om- is edmfatatering the considering the com- Job ne nee on his hands and ple Geddes’ p th atlgmpt to besmirch the humanity of “the United States. GEDDES'S INPUDE} Here are the changes the Gmeral” would 0: &! Put the suing buildings into a State of repair and alter the , Mae armnogemet “Governor 8. é for these buildings to be |, ane feretoraly and to be kept Cgotahi ct Trange through structural alter- se ‘or rapes medical examination . At least\refurnish, but ff vorstble replace, ihe resent first and lass ro Sosa ith windows botlng ‘e “we putelde, as the thir. room! & it possible, through structural Akeration, improve the tention of it they can sed in the re ot handling the crowds of immigrant Whole No. 1041, ne. British League of Nations Court Coy 6 of Chicago . held » -# | Anoual Pte on ‘Wednesday, August rand’s Mr. Tod, “a gentlemar’ of | 207 tne: ‘off Published Wes at Subscription, 2 year, Ha DE VALERA IS Witag Sty N.Y. Postage free. ence,” torial omphusising t the advantages je Five-Power naval treaty, which reads in part: “When the conference met, the |. become equally as strong as Britain “When the conference” coved. it clency in’ battleships, this, al that such an achievement | tt *Dritish to be absurd. “Where'd great diplomatic victo what lesser degree, by Great Brita! triumphs were a consequence of In! NDER the title. tn Ameren Interests ‘Hurt at ‘avy Jou won by Great Britain. mal deposit Of ratifications, by the’ nat! British Diplomacy Dealt U.S. Navy Crippling: Blow in Pact Washington ‘ournal wf August 17 published an edl- and Japan under took effect the same. day with the for- ions concerned. United States was in a. fair way. to e seas. ‘ett the United ome a relative defi- erself. To contend iplomacy wis unintentional sooms . ry was gained by Japan, and, to some- in, it can be ‘tainly deduced thst such itial intent.” JAMES LARKIN REVEALED IN TRUE COLORS) Career in U. 8 an §. and Ireland a Record of Unparalleled Incon- sistency, Shiftiness and Dis- honeaty, Dublin Man Shows SHIRKED MISSION HERE Could Have Returned While Going me When It was Safe n— cHIcAgO ‘TRISH. FOIL ATTEMPT TO STOP PICNIC United Societies Assemble, 4,000 ) Strong, in Brand Park After enegades Are Denied In- junction Against the Outing O'DONNELL -IS ORATOR yurt of Preindenset inst. Libert; gainst| - Universal Tastioe," He Says CHICAGO, | Aug. Inisb_ Soc! 14.—The United Park, 3259° Eliton ue, cujcage a nd a crowd of about four thousand people attended, Micheel W. Delaney, ‘National Sec- retary of the Ancient Order of Hibe fang, was ‘chairman the Piente Committee and William J. Grace, as sistant States Attorney of Cook County, was Secretary. The -afternoon was spent in games and sports under the auspices of thé pict th NOTION "REFUSED. des made a strenuous ef- of a Well-eat \w School to obtain °/an injunction to prevent the United aga! Irish Societies of Chicago from holding fello ell, who thrilled te “pudtence by his eloquence, and spoke in part as follow: Tam highly pleased to see this splen- did audience of Irish-Americans gath- ered here to celebrate the. victory by a great Irish army and General, but I am mich m so universal and the ‘bond of friend- his 80 Senerat that at the call et the they e in the immense throngs that we have here today. Ireland, as a State, has reached near 1 of her Mberty and hi = (Continued on Page 6.) IRISH PRIESTS KIDNAPED BY BANDITS IN CHINA OMAHA, Neb., Aug ae —The Rev. Michael MeHuct and the’ Rev. Daniel Wai h Catholic priete tofmeriy | rthey, Superior of Catholic nese Missions, which has headquarters here. Both prie: ladies of the Friends of Irish Freedom. | recent use | who ;]ened. “Nothing ts more n for won |It 1s, in fact, bot to know | when {t doe: that the Irisb-American sentiment 18 bas to goal proj prosperity credit and an induatry that J. prison or on-the-run; | no freedom for propaganda or ‘public 8 were attached tothe} not kno T|demand fair play. There is in nm VALERA SENDS $.0.5. CALL © TO.FR. YORKE| Urgea Him to Reorganize Forces . Hers and Rush Money to Use| fy’ in Election Contests, in Which] body He ADMITS CAUSE I8 LOST Confesses He Is Unable'to Re- sist Temptation to Quibble, Begs Friends Not To Be Too Logical in in Judging Him} Sees, Complete Failure om fotoing te letter from De Valera. to. Father ¥¢ (Goverament a ana, Republic of Olfg an Cotta ‘[President's ‘ Baile Atha-Cllath [Dublin], ‘aly 4th, 1923. Rev. P. C.-Yorke, D.D. A Athair, a chara [ (Dear Father}: We have sent ‘over ‘Donal O'Cal- laghan, Lord Mayor of Cork, fod until tly a member of our en to succeed Mr. Ginnell.. I hope you will be able to give am the same as. sistance you gave m Tam anxious that ‘the AAR ER |e , A dig organ- to influence. 4 ecessary tab- form. colic opinion. The sight of our ciplined united body corresponding Srmphthetie hére and give fresh cou! many are now tired out aad _disheart- “movement ecessary us than an cxample and a stimuli uch as. reorganization over would give. . It is vain to hope for any substantial success for any ne of policy so long as the main body of the national forces are divided into opposite cen, Re- unfon of the rank and be brought about, tho’ © “a ie time und to come. “What am mainly ‘concerned about is shat. s come, it should be on the of a policy nt the yight aims and objective, a feasible pro- gramme. I anticipate that for’ many years the tendency itor polit{cians to lay on the natto ut. The people will be led alone ts ihe way which was so common some ‘ago—by the old device of “dang: | a e carrot before the donkey's nose. Everyth! depends on next few years, and these depend large- ly on what we The coming of the election 30: 2000 puts us in a t position.” ood reasons can be ‘orged why we have no political organization; all nm and women, are there is really meeting: the press is .completely con- rt themselves or addl- the money * ateieulty. We who s. Wontinued ‘on Page 8.)° (Continued on Pose 8.). | Easter Week by t in| § ; the people are cowed and do! trom truth to tell {s, they. were not at all of to Divide the Ranks of Labor, DUBLIN, July 28—It oa phil. cnober and not a plain mutter ot fact to’.support my wife and tans and © working hard to “make ends as thet the row James La Larkin has Kicked up since his forcible return we It fs a well enute lahed eile that once a nation or y begins to split and divide on Deron and non-essentials, the unless checked, works ‘ite way throu every part and organ of tie polit! Labor was the only factor in linfand that was not split on through, the mistakes at our poll- tlelans and “statesmen. miracle indeed if Labor since miracles no. 10 did ultimately. fall a victim of the json of factionalism’ ie have not the inclination to play the that 1s more ad Ww. Buses Dol “ECW get dows, to facta rear the. situmtion,, bere? Tre AELIC: fosraten to hand tell ay that Irish-Amertcans are well! informed in ral sort of away of Irish olit!- and. economic matters. matrably done by Georse ir worthy. ni void. It ts to T am writing this 0 Labor and Larkin’s feel yr disadvan- OBrien, ot ne Dall Bireson and Ltb. id the other is Mr. of U. 8. As Mr. Patrick ouintans OBrien ‘has cleared wu Larkin tried to arin around historle Asquith meeting, from that, he docs not Easter Week’ details much. He si he has not the time and he {s too loyal to.the imemory of James Connolly to be the now but aside row created by’ Larkin and bis ors, W ir. Quintan was with us Te) he refused to talk very much on Lar. d kin or anyone else, for he § sald he was here seeking light too. e know that he could, e he wanted to. clear up much the eter Attending dar kin's tt to Ame rick stlp with James Connol ally. in was sent to America to "raise funds to put the Irish Trans al jeneral Qn his rel 3 3 3 4 3 5 a oe 5 5 3 8 Its legs. or lockout of 18, in ornch most the unions and ir business men, or cap! tat, were «involved, the union nkrupt. It is also ‘stated that ne ntorded Connolly an excellent excuse to get rid of Larkin's mischlev- ous presence for a considerable length of time. Before hi Larkin was given credentials from the union authorizing him to represent it He also got > @ brief note from broad. Toin Clarke, who w: eral Friend, at the bidding of Asquith. jonal Labor Party here then, ‘term {s understood now, and could not represent an organ- the I: R. B. sure of Larkin. - His speeches though and senseless | © Since I am but a plain, blunt man 1|! role of the learned: philosopher; bestdes t nebula that | go: into pre | st fiery were mést of the time full of | eri Emered as sccond-clase Gfice at ew York, Ne WHEN DUPES OF DE VALERA RULED CORK Letter Flom Former Massachu- setts Man Describes Reign of Murder and Looting. During Occupation of -Southetn City BURNED PATRIOTS HOME Blackguards Who Shirked Fight With the et nd te a Out For Plandege}Pért0 d De- cent: Men, “Who Protest ster written last me following” March by @ forme} Srevident“of Masna Massa-|Cathal Brugha was killed, and during chusetts o his aurt, who still Mves| which he left all the fighting to his tn that Bute one vivid deteription followers, he is now in the hands of bs fat thet time: |the Free State authorities, and {t if serch 10, ‘os. mains ti what they will do Dear Aunt me ith him. They have shot some of his followers who only a, minor wi * oun ae} a few days ago whe? | sponsibility for. the § destruction| Sor Side walked ie and veld me te wrovght in (ireland by the Civil War] Saxonville | Which De incited, and ordered, where: she worked with William and Agr 5 | to be married after. drives a motor-lorry timber merchant. ° a o carpet mail Lorry driving at present " a ae i 8 kn rregulert Job as the fellows known as are. in the able of noldlog up a jc and destroying. the contain The young jady, stayed here a few hours, but: she are houses all the way up Water Saxonville must be some town Miss — ae oe ‘Saxon- ville mm Roxbury. She know all about the little towns “round Boston, said she was in. the habit of rains around occasionally in a frien We a sot an invitation to the ding, but I reckon I will be. getting ag busy soon over the coming stectlon and | !28. t form unable to-go. 1 don't care wh: am in, I am going to stick it out and éo all I can to keep the cowardly ecoun- drels who have brought ruin and dis- Grace on our city from getting into the Were it not for the Treaty, the First Cork Brigade would have, kept distance from the barr acks were used as a base for phundering “tne city. About a week be- fore they “evacuated,” lorry Inden with cases of egg “cot 8 mandeered” from’ a “mei Kinmonth, and the fellows who bad been living. previously on American and Anglo-lrish charity indulged in the pleasant pastime of pelting each other with eggs around the Barrack Square. Thou usan city were e but that ‘ta not weigh with the funny yhen about 200 boys of the National Army tanded at Pass: tee and fought and beat ‘the Brigade; the “waders through blood” beroed the barracks and ran for the all “parties: sneak ‘nto ‘the ‘elty for the purpose of tego rine Vombe 1p cr streets or A De Val- Collins's sister): thi ‘a's gang call war. (Continued on Page 9. .. (Gontinact om Pope 3) jr Haughton, the |/ | the “Ministers | these things may be, De Valera ts now wed. | !n1 Ennis, County Claro, on Wednesday, ¢| friends, the impr: ¢{ cool, calm, {acon daneer with forever. (was. m- tional circumstances De some widow like Me. “Sowell wee pao also “eran that what gamer, Jan. 18 1919, at the Post Wy wader the Act of March 5.1875. The Splitter a Appears at Ennis, a When Troops Arrive and - De Valera has been captured at last. Aner thirteen months of immunity -fol- lowing “his. running away from the nd tnd tf.be 8 to g0 so unpunished the world |. will wonder what Kind of an idea of Justice prevails in Irelan: “close, eople E Treland ate many Talered that the ‘ree "Biate cond have ken him at any time, but that as decided that his arrest would moré harm than It was well known that his followers tatended ve assassinate Felons leaders’ as could get at, as well as or three | men nl foes | it he ould: be executed, and some believed that this explained hie Ratantvel Spat were in danger of being this theory’ does not fit. But, however ® prisoner. ARRESTED IN ENNIS. + arrested by Free State troops August 15, during a campi ‘There are several versions of the event, a all acre tails, each contains a, record some theltents not contained in the others. The Associated Press report is the fullest, but the Times and the American supply many Interesting de- 8. between z 2 away: platform were all his latter ‘account Ia wholly obable, and it wili be a matter of {controversy for some time whether he fainted or threw himself down volun In etther pictur watch be friends have drawn of te self-controlled man an fron nerve ‘Us. THE CROWD STAMPEDED. ‘The, Associated Press report follows: COUNTY. CLARE, triland, 5.—Eamon De Valera, rested by Free ne Au publican leader, * we State troops here to-day on bis appea: ance to address a Republican meeting in ‘he aleetion campalgn. made under sens Valera was addressing | Market Square when Freo ‘State troops IRISH LABOR'S PROGRAMME DUBLIN, August 16.—The - pro- gramme of the Irish Labor Party, made public today, proclaims the right of the ‘Irish people to the owneship of trol thelr. dest! eretgnty of the! peoples i uerta the pro. gral every ,mai wom! welll as atl tte material reat and resources and al producing’ wealth. The work and Uving wage be “TRIS Ter p “Bodi fighting in orconnelt Street in which | rests murdéred. all. the-time—and. Uteraily +? eatried their lives in thelr hands, so or were turned e the firing rushed out of houses al a meeting of electors in the 1 thetr country and to Be complete con- The sov-|™ LITERATURE - “the'Yaterests of the IRISH RACE . PRICE FIVE CENTS. ) "> i LAST d Quitter Arrested as He Disavows ng, Trembfer, ae and Faints. Cut Short Speech Shirking Responsibility For structive Civil War He Suggested And. Encouraged While Keeping, His. Own Skin Safe came orf. the scene and volleys over the heads of the crowd, A Hampeds occurred and @everal ar The troops, then sur- Founded. ‘the platform and took the Re- publican leader into custody, When De Valera appeared on the Scene many thousands of Beople were around the pla’ nd he a _tumultous we e heard thouting, com Srand peded- in. all direc- one’ as one soldiers fired volley after volley over the Platform and over the \hoads of. the crowd. Women’ shelled and~fainted and sonia < ogflously injuredtn~the an ed @that were d. ate TO THE COUNTY JAIL: De Valgra was taken to the County Jail. At tnd first volley ‘De Valera seen to “fall to the platform and this added tg the excitement, : He was-un- fp fail wos pers lately malerye sens armored cars, the platform. ‘The: athe solalers are large It’ wi & number of Persons sate era, the utset on the. platform by men and supporters, but-soon after the fret ‘volley sthe square, which had con- tained thousan men, ‘women and children, was practically deserted. Ad- ditional shots were fired, however, ani the few civilians who till lMngered \ yy at the point of the 0 of ten. miqutes De val era was brought dor e plat form ‘s6rrounded by hoa military and plain clothes men armed with reyoly- "ytundréds of Persons who had fied at along O'Connell Street, pressed through ‘the ranks of the soldiers, and shook’hands with the captured leader. dimeulty that the troops the! way, darracks with thelr captive, te. to the M} who was wildly.cheered en UP IN OPEN CAR. The Republican leader drove up ta an open car, und! He given a wild welcome or ‘a crowd of 1,500 people. De Valera had been expected t ear in’ disguise. Free cond ting a keen. search of pas: ins motor cars outsid the town all morning. ‘ As o'clock. a crowd began td assemble in the vicinity of the Republfcansplattorm opposite the Bank of Ireland's Bullding, where the meet- ing was held.. There was,a sentry Posted at he door of the som ie in antd’ that be "Vatern had not been arrested ft would have been 2 sidleatove _manites: tation of w e part of the Governmegt, ‘whieh is " suponed to have for him with a It ts considerab) rofessor John MacYein, the Minister of Educa- ton, who 1g the Republican Chief's op: on the other | hand, 8 pointed out that the ar: Valera -w! je. triumphantly - returned at the head of the poll. Valera had not been’ taken {nto custody today he lnvinded-ta ad- yutdoor antitreaty ymon- a “orconnell Street, Dublin, oeanbbonan WITH HIM. oe Martin, tn Thursday's Ameri. clhres in favor of peace freedom. . sire, O'Callaghan, widow of the mur. * 5 apoh Vo fired several. | - ve the: arrest will detach . was sur

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