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EDITED BY EOIN MAC NEILL. Vol. 2.
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tive, lVIr. Sherlock, the11 Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Colonel Maurice llfoore. Since then the repetition of it has been confined to safe places and to· such pillars ··oi Law to 0rcie1' as District Inspector Hicks, whose valour completed the Imperial victory won at. Cahirciveen.- over an A.rklow fisherman. But the lie that was shamed down: in Ireland is thought good enough still for Mr. Redmond's Chicago editor.
PRICE ONE PENNY. 'I'he baronetcy conferred on Judge Boyd has roused the spirit of Ju(Jge Kenny, whose record as a Catholic Unionist endears his words to all Irish people. judge K@uy thi-Bks tha Empire. and the Union will be benefitted by a more vigor9us persecution of Nationalists who don't take their orders from the Government. Among the signs of woe that have .met his eye in Dublin is a poster of the IRISH Jlf OLUNTEER displaying the words "Pretence of the Realm Act ." Will the honourable and learned and impartial judge deign to answer a question? When the Defence of the Realm Act provides that an accused person shall be tried where he is found, can he per-suade any honest man that the' words of the A.ct empower the Government to bring tl1e accused. person w)lerever they choose and then to find him where. they put him? And if so, will he· explain why the words are in the statute, seeing that their omission from it would make no difference? The Government's administration of its owp. statute, and the acquiescence of its· incorruptible and upright tribunals, eithei.~ justify 91: do not justify my words-the Pretence of the Realm A.ct. It is a remarkable fact that, while a ~w.hole crop of prosecutions and punishments are taking place under that A.ct, throughout al! Ireland and especially in those parts most , lamented for their disaffection, there is an unprecedented dearth of punishment§ under theordinary; law. When the chief disturbing element in Ireland, Dublin Castle, is abolished, Ireland will be the most peaceful and orderly country in the world . I s that what Judge Kenny does not want to see?
There is an Irish-American journ;f that supports Mr. Redmond's compulsory policy, - the_ "Chicago Citize.q.." For months past no new_spaper from America was allowed to reach me by post. But the " Chicago Citizen " of March 25 * * reached me on April 1.4. It contains an article He begins his editoxial with a confession of beginning as follows : " Is German money being uneasiness. "Advices from Ireland," he writes, used to foment an armed insurrection in Ire" tell us of a growing disaffection among cerland? Is the German-Irish alliance preparing tain factions in that severely-tried country." to set Erin· ablaze for the purpose of creating a diversion in.favour of Germany? Is there a plot You can judge faction from its own mouw. Mr. -afoot to deluge t'he Green Isle in blood in order Dillon is a guest at 1VIr, Asquith's Coalition banto discredit Mr. Redmond and his colleagues? q~et. There he is smrounded by F1·iendlies. Information in possession of the writer warrants Irish. Nationalists who do not take their· orders affirmative answers to these three ques_tions. -from Mr. .Asquith a1•e proclaimed to be the From sources in which he places entire reliance enemy. "The old enemy," says the Chicago the writer has JeaTn~d that the beginning Qf mouthpiece, " so long stim ulated by funds from the coming summer has been fixed upon as tlie across the Channel, now receives nutriment from another source . . . . However, we do not time for an insurrection in Ireland." think the. Teutons gain much by the vast expen* * * diture of money a mong men and women of the The writer of the article goes on to show tka.t his information or his inferences are based en- -Irish race. . . . The hirelings that have tirely on his interpretation of . statements made been. secured here and in Ireland can bring in America. If I answer him, I can ha_r~l.Y hope neither help 1101· credit to anyone. . . . We trust .when the wair is over, as we think it will be that my answer will be allowed to reach . the public in .America . He shows, in the course of before many months, the_.tra.itors of the Irish his article, that the in.surrection in the begin- race will have the deeencv t6 be ashamed of their ning of the coming summer is to be the work of bloud-money." .All calc11lated; -no doubt, to earn the respect of Englishmen and increase the debt the Irish Volu,nteers. My ai;iswers to his three questions will be ·plain enougk The Irish Volun- of gratitude . * teers have never received and never sought Ger* * Just a,bove this editorial pronouncement I see man mone>. The purpose of the Ir~sh V olunc Colonel Sharman-Crawford, lVI.P. for Eastfour mottoes. They are part of the standing Belfast, has been telling his constituents what teers remains unchanged since . it was first announced in November, 1913. It did not then, · heading 0f the.. eclitoJ·ial p!j.ge T they ''"ere rn- other members have not- been telling tJ1eirs. and does not now, include "creating a d!version moved, readers might miss · them and ask After the war, he says, there is to be an Imin favom· of Germany." The Irish Volunteers awkward questions . The· first motto is quoted perial Parliament of the whole -British Empire, from John F. Finerty: "Europe, not Ehgland, and Ireland is to have an extension of local will not make the interests of Ireland suhsidiary to those of any other country. I do not kn?w is the mother countrv of America." The second government. I s that the private arrangement,. what is meant by " deluging the Green Isle with ·motto is this: "¥\Te. must tolerate one another and if so, when will the voters of confidence beblood in order to discredit Mr. Redmond and his or else tolerate the common enemv." The- third - taken into confidence? Will there be anothe1· colleao-ues " but I do know that I did my utmost is from Henry Grattan: " '\'hat " Great Britain tour by motor in Ulster , and lJ,ssurances that it tramples on in Ireland will rise to sting her in is all for the best? The whole British Empire while I co~ld to maintain Mr. Bedmond and his colleag;ues · in a position of independence. of America." The fourth is from Thomas Davis: outside of Britain and Ireland contains only a Englisll party dictation; that, owing to' the few million inhabitants of Etiro'~ ean race, ancT It is not strength and 'tis not steel "adroit management" of Mr. Asquith, they the other races will not have much to say in the Alone that make the . English reel, treated the Irish Volunteers as an enemy to be future Imperial Parliament . The total European But wisdom working day by day kept in suojection; that their presei;it position. of population of the' self-governing colonies of the· Till comes the time for passion;s s"·ay. impgtent depende~ce on the good-will o~ English Empire is smaller than the population which IreThe patie11t dint and po11·der hock poli'ticians is m ainly the result of factious h<?sland would now have only for the ravages of Can blast an Empire like a rock. tilitv to the Irish Volunteers; and that to disImperial peace no less renowned than war. Will Fye! Mr. Redmond . . Uncler such colours it is to these self-governing colonies, whose l~yalty ancT credit them is the policy of their own allies and be feared that your editor's sincerity , if not your united front is held up for our admiration, be' not the policy of the Irish Volunteers, even though l\Ir . Redmond acquiesces in the Dubfo1 own,.may become suspect. Men are sent to jail invited, like Ireland, to take on their " fair· in Ireland with your acquiescence for expressing Castle programme of exasperation . sha.re " of the Imperial Debt and the Imperial sentiments that ai-e mild in comparison with the taxes? I shall regret if this question cannot be ·• * * asked without giving the Irish Party cold foet. In the coui·se of the article in the " Chicago standing mottoes of your Chicag? organ . Citizen," the writer seems to be under the im* * * pression that the Irish Volunteers are under the A. fool's bolt is soon shot. The grand attempt If Mr. Asquith believes Mr . Redmond's assurcontrol of Irishmen in America. No Irishman to stifle free discussion of the prospective ruin of ances that the Irish people, not to mention the and no number 'o f Irishmen in America have ever Ireland by Imperial taxation has been made. Its Irish in America, are at Mr. Redmond's ba.c k, advance~ the slightest claim to control or dictate failure is assured . The confidence voters who at keeping it from being stabbed by a contemptible the action of the Irish Volunteers. 'Ve have re- one meeting declared against the ruinous taxa- minority, why should Mr. Asquith 'be reported to ceived from the Irish in America funds which tion and at the next mee-ting swallowed their own have "drawn the Pone's attention to the role have been pu.b licly acknowledged. Not one declaration, not because it was not true but be- which the Catholic Bishops of Ireland could cent of monev has ever been sent to us from cause the Irish Party did not like it, have fulfil in an opportune ma:i;mer, by intervening America "-ith' anv condition or stipulation at- justified the famous opinion expressed by Dr. with the people to bring about a union, so desirtached to it as to "our plans, policy, or action. Me Walter some years ago in regard of an01;ner able at present, with the other parts of thepublic question: they have "returned like dogs * British Empire?" It is Mr. Chesterton who * * The writer of the article in the· '' Chicago to tne vomit." Do the leaders of the Irish Party wrote that Gladstone " stood d isgraced " by his see any real gain in this game of making publ~c request to Cardinal Newman, which Cardinal Citizen .,, seems to me to be sincere and wellmeani ng. He U,..Mr. Bernard McGillian and, if fools of their own supporters? Do they imagine Newman indignantly rejected , to induce the Pope that their present allies, from Lord Lansdowne to influence the Irish Bishops against the LancT I mistake not, he has been for many years a supporter of the Gaelic League. The voice of round to the cynical Chief Secretary, will be im- Agitation. Mr. Asr:nith is said to have accomposed on by the sort of strength exhibited in panied his plea with an a.ssurance that " afte1· faction , which alone has free passage from Irethe war the Home Rule ouestion would be settled land to .America, has led him to fear that the such performances? ih an eq uitable manner." Mr. Pitt 3ssu1.·ed the Irish Volunteers may allow their na.tional duty * * Irish Bishops that a.fter the Union the Catholicand purpose to be subordinated to the advantage I af'. glad to note that , as I surmised last of another country or to the petty aim of dis- - week, the Right Honourable Sir Walter Boyd. Emaucioation question would be settled in an crediting )fr. Redmond. A.part from this, I ob- the Liberal Queen's .Advocate who had charge of equitable manner, and Mr. Pitt was then the· most oowerful Minister that England eve1: had. s.e rve that he does not use the language of insult the Crossmaglen Conspiracy, has retired from towards fellow-Irishmen which is the distinguish- the Bench of which he' ,vas so long an ornament Bu.t Daniel O'Conn-ell testifies that the Union ing mark of the J::\ew Imperial patrioti m. To for no r easons of impaired health or increased delayed Catholic Emancipa tion for a quarper of a cen,tury, and even then the concession was only judge, ho"·ever; from an editorial in the same incapacity. Since his retirement he has turned issue of the "Chicago Citizen," those who from up -as vigorous as ever, and wearing the new dis- made to fear of insurrection and was -accomthis side of thEt Atlantic inspire that organ of tinction of his eminent merits, a t a meeting of panied by a measure of disfranchisement that theirs 1Yith the gospel of the pew Imperia l the Zoological Society . As a result of this rather caused wholesale evictions. ,;re want nq more· promises and postponements. Airgead sios! patriotism taken even a baser view of their frag- singular phenomenon in the annals of the Irii;h . * * * ment of a following in America than they take -_ Bench, Mr. James Campbell, pending his lrecomof their bewildered and hoping-for -the-best ing Lord Chancellor in the Provisional GovernThe "bloodmonev traitor hireling " inspirasupporters here in Ireland . The "German gold" ment of Ulster, wil-1 have charge of the legal de- tion of Mr. Redmond's Chicago organ is supplelie, it will be remembered, was first communi- . partment of the war in Ireland. _v;re shall see mented by a politer and more reserved style in a cated by "responsible members of the Irish whether the new Attorney-General will supple- weekly pa.per called " Ireland," published in New Party" to that great friend of Irish liberty, ment the motto of his political chief, Sir Edward York. Owing to the attitude of the Irish Press Lord Northcliffe's "Daily Mail." The state- Carson, " there are illegalities which are not in America. this new organ \ras launched at the ment \YaS promptly and publicly repudiated by crimes," by ~howing that there aTe crimes which beo-innin()" of the presen't vear. and is " devoted two members of the National Volunteer execu- are not illegalities. especially to supporting the Irish P arliamentary
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