The Irish Volunteer - Volume 1 - Number 30

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S::.Jl1C game here with success in '98, '4.8 least Iorgiven, the past, and ,,'C, .<t.;;.r.c and '(j7: it failed ill the land agitation, aside now to see if Engiands bul lyir.g . ~ J.1!. ../ .// ~ I and a well sllb,;<li:;eu I'ress was forced which wc s so effective here, wll C3,Y:Y to bow to the, inherent ideas of right and her far afield in her encounter with Gerjustice in rhe Irish people. It will foil many, :'IIeanwhile we must. press fer a ~\~{1' ¥ to-day ;:g2in 1.Jec;::u:ác, txc('~ting only th~ settlement of our own ac~oui1't. We wal;~ \\~ I unc erstrappe-s ot 1,1'; Ca,,:e -who WOuld the Irish nation fer the Irish people, and lY~ \\.p . cn~y attack their m astx rs for power deá our motto should be no part p'lyment ~.:.(., ,..-a nied or place deferred, Ireland knows her no moratorium. Looking' bact- at :::-.~ <' .- \ t 1, f j D y -r-i.: t. 1-' Tl. fri~i1ds and her enemies. \"hen there history of Ireland we have proud tra-:iá1 i'V d(ft 0 au ,,? 1 nut); aile ,. _ , . .' ri' ':2, no 1'.1I r')pran wa r cloud the \ orun- trons of arms to uphold. "e hare hau HI rish .1\ OW ¥ teers sprang to a sp'~ll:aueoU5 and v ir.le victories, ;ll1d. "ictoriC;;. agans; t,.emt'~'l "_ ~\ "\ . . . ,,!lie, not to fight the Kaiser or to help the dous odds when arU1S dec dcd much. \\ e , '_ .~' In our U:1,;' nl.inz past we helped Lngá' . .. , .~~, \ ~. I. l~~';Hl "'" ': Allies, crnongst whom the'> ellow Jap 1S have had defeats when defeat was PeCD.to starve and slay tnt pCOD.C5 of half I, .... .. . 'J \ i I ..' . ' , I the latest to Jom Ill@Whiteman'sconliarl y Litter, but diplomacy teo often ~ ! ~.,.. ~~~ ~ the world. "'thOHt l ri- h arms the Beer _. ~Ph' , b d f fru: f d . t: . .- ~;.1\ \ . \ (,' ) ',,' _. . '.. ". . . "_ n.ct. " en there ,,'a., no. European war rob e us 0 the rurts 0 our a,nue VKá .. ~ ~ -q \\', . V'Reuublics WOUld ,ull ~ ll1 e""tu,cc and ",. , ..' d . 1 h f'l 1'~~"'tJ ~\'." " ~ '.' \ . ¥ . . . . ,cn~.and denied us the heeman's r ight tones an arms retrreved tea; ure 'r; ", \ II' rne people of Il~d!a free . Irish arms p~ll1' to arm, and Lngl~I1U. , , '. , I! ~ . '"'. \'\~'i\~ I, ~\~' aur rt i rorn her COI1á our dip.ornacy. L' ./~;\'" '~I ted the map of the world in the interests., 0 ,'f. " : inferi I 'I'" \. t,\ " h commerce, ali d tlre J uo1 as pnce tempt or us as a race ,", error to the I . \ o~r]' :.ngllS 't\' ' 0 r :It -11 ' . . VZ<S-..!.'<:"'_" I, "C::-, , ... .' a \';~.. s tne Dz,tronl:51ng ccntcrnp ,. . orf J 2P,. had her own reason for her procla- I. Ij .-, ~ ~'\ f ' J'. i '1 ' manon. The ignorant and cowardlv will ~, ¥. a e.\V cccxneys. n spite 0 2.. tne pro-. ~'" i '1' 'J ~:, _,.' \ ,', ~ : , .. ' , ~" ,,' ;, "r maffick oyer Lngl -h vrctorcs and refer' ¥ . ,~ ~,;:~ "'.. '.' Iessed gooc-w I, of rhe Ln",h_,l ucmoci ~c" ". .." . I Gur I ~ Ireta ud ¥ ~~ ~.,.;;,:~. ,to our' troops and "onr fleet 1I'1th al. ... Empire II "~.).i. '-.UII 11I" ~ ~t;. . i It Ll:e< the menace of :: Enrope.m I'oWEr: . i ~. t-~-' á.:.~.hr:á:~~:,...r.",,.....,' 'I.,.~ ~ \' ). i-1~. I::;~ ::'5 .. 'Uá 11 -á'~ u-:c :) l,'lC slaves I'e. j t: \ -{ ~ ¥.1 '_:::r.:..¥.:;:<'I.. '~:~. " ,":;"! \~ . to 1'",,1;e ;,!!,r.nc. ~ J ar]l?-"1"". "J~ us a.s ..' ~, _.' \\'t! 'J' ve ,. '." ." '., delr.,'; \\. ~ ~; f~ _" -".';:?~ ~-.:: r! _ .P.,á... . . .''''? til -"",,:,:: -r;~().;;!'~ -~ ('~;l.~tl_!q:l~ á';,ur.:::.~': [l': lG tnr n a,'á,',lS.;, ., r~h6C"" \\ill: u ,)1(,_ Ire;':;' . ' ,no colones for om foreign trade. If r». I 1 \/ if, l 4 1 gait'-', a. :~.;:e. t o be cajoled _'-, ~~ an ~~ : dia is láuIJb.:.J or ]JlackJ' \..lis tombs blowr f I ~ b" ""-"f'~~<: .. ~ v! Ame rican s.l.iunce. and .IlllP21áC"J!(áu. to . ,to the sky we O'et nothiuo except ' ...... P' "".;;;;;!; 'ráá,1 _ . . l7 T ¥ i ,to 0'. , , I ~~;"'~.....,.,.:=;.,,;r~~:?&~ feed her army of a:;gre:'Slon. _;r~~n\\h ile : . en wal. chance, the right to maintain at our 0\,;1 'I Englund's urny is in Ireland. Tn whose tXpen5e some of those who have helpe.: ',. r d I If :"'11 hF--Or\" J:-i net ., lie 'J cvcrv Ir 'j . intc rest ? Have vwc no count;? to, d "en 'I _ ... -. ¥. " _, .¥. v ¥¥ "_'.:., ':., ",S1 England. "-e pay 011r share for a Drcr."::.' , 'or are y;Û unable to defend n' )Jnst the.~ .. :"Jt Lam O~tJ]1 tQ. ~ull,~l lIcre l,Ot nought to pJ'otect Engli,h trad~, IJllt I Ilu..'3t gr'p of the British. bnll do:~ still f::rs. 1 ~~~~~1~ll1g .foOls, 1f patn,ut"'.l1 .,:sel~ lS ~ot, money that bl11lds it is ~pent in En;), i d 1,'\ 1 ten upon us unt:] he IS loosed by force,,: _,J~,e as hel.l: :Iel:ln~ s d'll). at_ .he pr~. and the money that equips it is ~~c:Jt I" tbough impen';ous to threats. I t~t. J.l.oment b ,0 make tht Jll0~t of tl.e il1 England, Sometimes the D..-eadnon;:,r., cl'l<ts, I.~H1e Belgium, ,the size of an weighs ll1 diplomatic relati~;s ;nd :!=reá IIn5h pro\'llTce, hurled ll5tlt upon the yents German liners from caJ:ing ~. Vlho is the Enerny? (;('r;]1an trool'" to \lipe out the insult of C.)noen5:0",n lest our t :\de miglit flouri':-; : J ~ <::-. nou.:-. She foresaw the result, foreá and we should be a recruit:r,.: I --0It i5 unpcce',;:!ry to go into th" hi,tory; o.,a,,- \,' th .!l h~r b:,.,'ery ,he \I a~ bound ground no longer. As long a' lof the e\'en:s leading up to the pre6el1t,;~0 ~l![ier uefe;lt, but her -"ational pride tbe \'01unteers are true. to thE':> Vr/hose V/ar? war, unn<,:cesscry to inquir,e who COlll-;, hclp"d her and she hdd the greatest army I selYes there is no foe to fear, thce . G l1litted the first act of agO'res!'ion hv moy.' in the \. ",'ld in check and probably is no neces,ity for England's fleet or Er:<;á I' The shadow of the t05s1ng erman. :. '" . I , ,. ' ", . . á 1l1g trOOps mto the neutral terntory of cnanged tbe llltllnate Issue of the war. If land s mut'nous army. The \ olt1nteH~ G erá E20'1e has fullen across E ng I an d¥ ¥ . , . . . I ' ". ~ ."1 fá '10 Bfl::611:11. It is none of Ollr cons.derahon, I the :nnwer of an hour n' cd tbIS sacl'\á I ::re the a;-111Y of Ireland, and agalllst -them m:ll1 leO-lOns are 11,'e honl's sal. \ om ,h ~ . , I '" . 1l' h . on;y we ~honld remember t]J;:!t \lhat I.ohn' fice of blood al.1d mon.: what Enr:'lj:,h coast and á.. ng :~. arrnles on 111.... ~ . . . . . wonld I no fGe ",;11 en~r land . . on Ollr cou,ts, VCj ¥¥I'j like ci,,;'iza:ion, E!lgli-h ru.c by, ferocious, crud and heartless. If we have net forgotten ;:ll the lessens of history that rule must be got rld of nail'. Eng. Iands war is not our war, except in so f~r. as it offers Ireland a unique oppor. tun.ty to achieve fr(~dO:ll,

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,láán g bá;'.1- Dull . lacks in. Ylllonr he more th~n il1~kes,' l~~,\'e ,.been the result..._' 1£ th, . 'f'l':lI'a-dll1g a:,! ", COá" .:r~. c,= L:},plle IS Ireland; our fag n1~bd. . .' ',.-.. l' d hác\áánO' 'il,;) 1!1 dlPlon,a,". ard the 11'lá.h p(ople,á'~'ad ')een In oCCllpa,IOIl fC'l ::>vO Years, and b l!c1a!1~', S:lI11<e ,he COlonrs! un ac I I, \:: . - _ ¥ ¥ ]~'plich "'"rl'i of findmg lhcá11á' -. or that penoe] not a ye.tr pa-sed but I "", ,," . were In ;:;r;;",e dan2'er . ~ .. . 1'" "fi d nd tl1° I-i'h secycs ranged ?l'ong"dc the hercditar). '~:: ,,,I baI]áa"itát$ accull",l.lled' were I ~ son' a:el, ;Pl!1~. "or:~_(: '<1 a. pre enemy cf thc Iri,h people wd ;!!!~inst the, ;"'Q:1 d; .if '.he lll't act of tIll! j"":"ader had '1 \IT k Tt.,lIeálR'{4",e coa:;t ll:e ~<;eng" ent , ". I ',1; 11' Gre \IV \I I '. . .... 1á' Ondb""" and l.arbed race with ;';hich we have no qu:urtI . .c,,"':cJ1 to ~"o.:;t .jo";)l tltf\!:n~e,~.ss r.\'omen I"" . .., agalnst }n";)~l()n, -!) s,_ U 1_ . .-of. 'J ....,., . _. .. _ r..") ~ . Tl C" Fle-t tha the Tr:"h Kno\VJ!1g hOll' the news of the Con centraá :" ld ,:'I<! ~il'" ,.' "I"" (5 ~,;,> hrt1<g~l~ I.. .,./ h .'" ' " ,i WIre. le ,eltnnn c: col ...... .' " _ . . ¥ ,. .~. _', , ~\'\. ~ \;ork \\lfh t . .e ~lLie !!jl ..... U...... ... "-.:;}~ cuuk , refu-eto tJon Camps Jl1 wh:ch Boer WOillen and-.N..,,:;\lá,;e lllen 111 lltlglll!l1 had f<lUugi,leu 'n}"\..i.c " . . á 0 [ht. e d ay. 'T'lle sanle lJo.lns . h < " d 3.1'l Y p..!.ÛSS h as:;o'often " ~ 1"':-'. s O~.:_. .:-! and the ('e"m"n t'oOI)S cnJldren \Vue mterned 2nd st~n-ed. I -~'. \'ieapOns In defiance of Germa.n, law. ,oe t a k'en to t'ram fl,'f! es b 0 t s III ' , t 'h b0 t'~m s t ar ate "u,',' ..,. every COll!",J ' shocked the In,h "'. l:H'ople, the Bflthh Pre:, I. l, ar.ce goes to war ",;;h (,ermaln'. lOr. re" In . I re I and' as 1S no'w b'clll£ t a k'en t 0 t:~. ::1 th at 1 la\'e b een \\1"perluá out so OftCl1 refuoe ¥ . á'd-er t'nen'spl"es de--' nnd IS now sedulous:\' c1[clllat;ng tales 0' I' \'enge for a. defeat of yesterday, :;nd WI' h ur I'1l1t.:Y" an d f 00 tb'lal t earns. T1á " a1 so t 0 con::;l .¥ "~.,. a.u, Co... _" r ur~ln!T .r~r'....L, "f" á'n playina at \"ar that is German crlle](\', The han6ersáon whi I' were in danger of mafficl : b.,ecause the; I' tb 011' i t th --" h en::::e lne e,'ellS ... " 00 '. . -. . .. -;.-. . .. .. 00 a . 1111pOI an as -ey are, call , ..áaL.. . h ere e\,'dent thro'lahout the coun- baye not enough ahJllty for ofilc'al En,á, 1 Press., 'SUhSldlSed by our' enemy, tOjd R't! everyw I ' b " ¥ . . ¥ ,. '. '. ~i' e prac t'Ice csnno,t an d th e sooner we

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try. England's relations \\'ith Germany are a matter of indifference to us, just as England's defence of her coast is also her own look out, but when England sends troops to defend our coast we have a say in tbe maHer. We know what E'nglish

hsh news d,.st~'but.,on are spOIling .t)"", chastened officlal hgh\s on these ternb1e Teutons by overdoing it, und silly stori~s of poisoned sweets dro;ped from GermJ.n aeroplanes are marshal,ed as supports to the legions of lies which the interested

us !lh"it l~la~ old enemy :,s gOll1g to beat a nation wIth whIch I .. nad no qual" reI. There is a balance of power to be I presen'ed toáday in Pl~blic opi~ioll, just as there was U'terday m Parllament and Ireland must presen'e it along its own

make llP our minds on that fac,t the bette' The Gaelic Athletic Association is the be", 1 organised national association in Irei2J:~, and would give invaluable help in brin~iq; into existence a national. rifle associatio The need is urgeut, and if the wori< ;s ta;,en ,_

troops are ~ere; the Curr3~~ and the Ba. cheIor's. "all;: ,ml\1'de~S ~ ere unn-eces: sary to reIterate It. "e know tb,at alá ways nestling at the very heart of our social system, polished ana yeneered to

~magiil:tion :~ English jomn~l~sts t.5 lines, @~ "~to t~~. stru.",,,,le,. for the ca:ptu~,e Of. pubá he op111lon lU Leland, But III spae of Aeutraldy, al~ the interested lying Irish opinon, i~ not But ,a: we pointed. out before, w1 are gomg to be captured, England tNc the a forgn'mg race. \\ e ba"e . fOT.gott~n, at

up with anything like ,the same thC:'O\l~~'11 ness that b.as charact:onse.d the orE'JJ1lsaw:. )1 of the. nahonal pastimes the result shou:.] I soon be evident.

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