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camp and a guard with a rifle for ing and serene, and see: every two prisoners. ularly excellent spirits. Awaiting Report of "We rode all day and all night. PASS THE RANKIN RESOLUTION Handing him the petition, I briefly Irish Twice I put up the window to jump stated its nature and thanked him for and lost my nerve. It looked too Congress Should Give Expression To many who have given the matter his courtesy in receiving me. I added Ukrainians much like sudden death. As I put it American Sentiment On {Careful study and consideration— we women already owed him a debt up again, about 4 a. m., the guard Irish Question. First, that as individuals and as or­ of gratitude and that we hoped he The Times Advises Government to Be ganizations we bombard the House of would consider the appeal of Irish­ The Descendants of Early Irish Set­ gave me an ugly look. I knew it was tlers Still Preserve Their Celtio Ready to Deal With Situation If then or never and dove out. Friends of the Irish Cause Should Representatives to demand a hearing women on behalf of the suffering Convention Does Not Solve Urge Their Congressmen to Get a on the Rankin resolution before the motherland. Names—The O'Briens, O'Rourkes Escaped From Train. and Others of Unmistakably Gaelic Problem. "For nearly a month I thought my Hearing on the Matter—Such an Ex­ Foreign Affairs Committee. Your The rest I may not divulge, but I pression Might Be Welcome Even in own congressman will help you get left feeling that our request would re­ Origin Still Survive in the Russian left eye was gone. The scars are Border Country—John Field, Who POSSIBILITY OF A BREAK there yet. By the time the train Great Britain, as Showing the Uls­ that hearing if you ask him. Such ceive consideration and attention— CAUSES UNEASINESS ter Irreconcilables the Pettiness of hearings are not hard to get; you and that, at present, is what we want. Rose to Distinction in Russia as a stopped, half a mile farther on, I had Composer, Came From Dublin. stumbled to a hiding place. Those Their Position. merely have to show that you really Previously no envoy, official or un­ Importance of Settlement to the War, want it and the committee will give official has been received by the Presi­ Germans looked everywhere—on the George Raffalovich, an Ukrainian to the Empire and to the United side of the tracks toward the border. The resolution introduced in Con­ it to you. dent. It is not too much to hope, then, States Emphasized. gress on Jan. 4th, last by Miss Jean- But suppose we get our hearing. that he is not unfriendly to Ireland's and an authority on the history of his I was in the opposite direction. country, tells the readers of the New "It was a month before I got rid of nette Rankin, of Montana, should not Suppose the committee hears Miss claims and they will not be forgotten Following is the Associated Press be "interned" in the pigeon-hole re­ Rankin in support of her resolution. by the United States government York Sun that the names of O'Brien my English uniform. I stole a pair of and O'Rourke are still preserved V, *• despatch regarding the Convention: overalls one night. I got a cap the cess of a Congressional committee. It Suppose it hears representatives of when the time comes. is "up to" the friends of Ireland here the friends of Irish Freedom, the Irish there. Speaking of the free institu­ London, Jan. 14 (by A. P.)—In an­ next and a shirt later. A Belgian tions of the Ukraine before the Czar gave me a scarf. That was all the to see that this should not be its fate. Progressive League, the Clan-na-Gael $100,000,000 FOR IRELAND ticipation that "the present week and what not. Suppose it hears all subjugated the country, he sayB: must see the final phase of the dis­ help I got." The fact that the resolution was in­ troduced by a woman may be of tre­ the arguments and still refuses to re­ United States Prepared to Advance "Many people would leave the sur­ cussions of the Irish Convention," the As an appetizer Lieutenant O'Brien rounding countries and go to settle Times discusses the prospects with ate turnips. The entree was sugar beet mendous significance, when it is re­ port out the resolution so that the That Sum for Home Rule. House can vote upon it. The pub­ in Ukraine. Such names preserved in evident anxiety over the result. and the meal closed with a cabbage called that the female element is a new and powerful force in politics that licity will help convince some of the American Capitalists Ready to Invest the Ukraine as O'Brien and O'Rourke "Everybody," it says, "is still en­ stump that even the Germans scorned. tend to prove that people came from "And I never did like vegetables," it is about to "come out" simultan­ committee, some of the members of Liberally There If Home Rule titled to hope that the last days of the House, some of the public, that much farther to settle in the happy the Convention will yet produce una­ he said. "I hope I never have to eat eously in America and Great Britain. Is Established. the issue is not an academic, but a land." nimity, but it would be sheer folly to another." This force must be reckoned with ignore the risk of a different result, One night a German soldier saw in the future in all political plans and live, one. Dublin Hopeful of Convention. The Ukraine is the southwestern him swimming a river and raised the calculations, and those who fail to Secondly, we can bring pressure portion of Russia. The founder ot or to minimize the disastrous issue upon Congress to force the Rules Com­ which would follow failure. For this alarm. note its potential and actual strength (Associated Press.) the O'Rourke family which Mr. Raf­ "I felt sure they would be on top are apt to be swept from their moor­ mittee of the House to report out a London, Jan. 24.—Telegram's Dub­ falovich informs us still exists, waa reason we emphasize that the plain special rule yanking the resolution duty of the Government is to be pre­ of me in a few minutes," he said. "So ings to disaster. An Ajax defying the lin correspondent says a report from Count O'Rourke, born in Leitrim. He out of the Foreign Affairs Commit­ pared for either event. I ran upstream and swam back to lightning would have an easy job as Washington the United States is pre­ became an officer in the English the other side. They looked every­ compared with the stubborn statesman tee and setting a special date for a pared to loan Ireland $100,000,000 to army but had to give up hiB commts- "We ourselves disb&ieve that total who would defy the insistent demands debate and a vote upon it. obtain the fullest measure of home i sion on account of his religion. He failure is any longer possible. Sir where on the other side. Swam River Half Mile. of the women of a nation for what Let's see how much political strength rule and American capitalists are then went to France where he served Horace Plunkett's (Chairman of the they believed to be fight and just we have. Let's see who our real ready to inveBt a like sum in Ire­ under Louis XV. He got an introduc­ Convention) public utterance that at "One of the hardest things I did was measures of government. friends are. What we want is, first, a land if the question is settled, 1B prom­ tion to Stanislaus, King of Poland, worst, 'we shall leave the Irish Ques­ to swim the Mouse river. I had all my clothes on, even my boots, and Why not, therefore, take advantage hearing before the Foreign Affairs inently displayed in all Irish papers and resigned bis commission in the tion better than we found It,' does rep­ of this tide in political affairs, which, Committee. Then, if that is unsuc­ and has caused lively interest. French army to serve under Stanis­ resent to common knowledge the ac­ the river was half a mile across. It nearly got me 25 feet from shore. I is now reaching the flood stage, in. be­ cessful, a special rule from the all- Dublin correspondent of the Times laus. Becoming impatient at the de­ tual facts of the situation. There no­ half of Ireland? The gist of the Ran­ powerful Rules Committee setting a says the report furniBhes friends of a lay he went to Russia where he be­ toriously has been an approach to ac­ was choking. And I admit praying. My boyhood on the Kankakee saved kin resolution is contained in the dec­ special day for a vote on the Rankin settlement with a new and powerful came major in the Czar'B regiment of quiescence In certain broad principles. laration, "We count Ireland among1 resolution. It isn't much to ask, in argument and will serve to increase body guard. Russia and Prussia soon If, as we fear, the Convention has not my life. "When I got up the bank I fainted. those countries for whose freedom' view of the profuse rhetorical tributes the disrepute of the Sinn Fein policy, afterwardB went to war and O'Rourke yet reached that substantial measure which Ireland gets from these gentle­ It was the only time I ever fainted." and democracy we are fighting." It whose violence and abuse now embrace distinguished himself at the siege of of agreement which would merely re­ also recognizes the right of Ireland to, men in every congressional campaign Berlin. At the end of the war Fred­ quire the blessing of the Imperial It was some "10 lifetimes" after the President and government of the swimming the Meuse he found the political Independence. The resolu­ when they want our votes. Let's get United States. erick the Great expressed a desire to Parliament, it will at least be able tion was at once referred to the Com­ together, and see what we can do! Dublin reports regarding the Irish meet O'Rourke to whom he presented to give the Government a new lead nine foot death fence of the Holland mittee on Foreign Affairs, where, al­ Gentlemen of the Ancient Order of convention continue hopeful. Dis­ a diamond studded sword. He died in dealing with the problem." frontier. Death all but got him then, as his improvised ladder dropped him ready are buried five other resolutions Hibernians, and other Irish organiza­ patches to the Chronicle contain mys­ in Russia about 1782. Critical Day* Ahead. bearing on the same subject and hat tions, now is the time to pull together terious references to "certaia eventu­ The O'Briens have been prominent The Times then appeals to the Gov­ on the charged wireB. "A few minutes later," he said, "I ing the same purport. for victory. The report of the Irish alities following the convention," in Russia since the early part of the ernment to have their own plan ready could have tripped the guard with my These fere the resolutions introduced Convention will Boon be forthcoming. which might induce John E. Redmond eighteenth century. dealing with the problem immediately by Congressman Medill McCormick Of The indications are that it will not be to regard his retirement from leader­ Another famous Irishman, George and dwells on the great Importance of ladder. After he had gone I dug—dug as I never dtig before in my life. My Chicago, McLaughlin of Philadelphia, as satisfactory as was reasonably ex­ ship as obligatory and makes an earn­ Browne, went to Russia in 1720 and a settlement to the Empire, „ta,the. t, ! -Supreme President of the Ancient Or­ pected. Unquestionably it will re- est plea in Redmond's behalf, saying: was given a commission in the army. progress of the war, and to relations '6ack " $^ai "-ffiilT'ISnrinch' "Worn* "death when I crawled under and Into Hol­ der of Hibernians, Morin of Pitts­ quiret great effort to secure its en­ "If he Is driven from his position He distinguished hiingelf in the cam­ With the United States. land." burgh, Cary of Milwaukee, and Mason dorsement and ratification in the Brit­ wherein he would feel obliged to re­ paigns against Poland, France and Prominence to the question is also It was King George who told him of Chicago. Of all these the Rankin ish Parliament, and we can conceive of sign because of an action or failure Prussia, and was created Field Mar­ given by the Chronicle, which prints he could not be sent to the front resolution is the most uncompromis­ no more potent argument in the eyes on the part of those who get support shal before he was thirty years of a four-column article from the Dublin again, as the Germans would shoot ing and frank, but nevertheless it is of the Britishers than a duly adopted from him, the cause of Ireland, as far age. He died in 1792, and his descend­ correspondent under the head: "Criti­ him as a spy if captured. the one that is most apt to receive resolution from the American Con­ as the war is concerned, would go ants have held high positions in Rus­ cal days for the Irish Convention." consideration and discussion. gress. Who knows but what the Brit­ down with him and all consequences sia, one of them being Governor of The writer makes a strong plea for Now, of course, the Congress of the ish statesmen themselves might wel­ would have to be. faced of what would Livonia a few years ago. agreement, and referring to Sir Hor­ MORTIMER SCANLAN United States cannot make Ireland come such" an expression as furnishing appear to be a betrayal of Ireland, for But Peter Lacy was undoubtedly the ace Plunkett's statement, as quoted free. Nevertheless, the passage of them a solid footing on which to bring so tlie world would read what would greatest Irishman in Russia. He was by the Times, which has been con­ DIES AT CUCAfiO, III. the Rankin resolution by the House the Ulster irreconcilables to a realiz­ appear a betrayal of Redmond." born at Killeedy, Limerick, in 1678. strued in some quarters as foreshad­ of Representatives would help. It ing sense of their grotesque pettiness First Fenian in the West Dies at Chi­ He took to soldiering under Sarsfield owing possible failure, says: would give the Irish question at the and unreasonableness—of their utter at the mature age of twelve. He "This prospect of a possible break­ cago at the Age of Over peace conference great prestige. No failure to grasp the fundamental prin­ Eighty Years. DEATH OF RIGHT served in the Irish Brigade in France down of the Convention makes ob­ one knows what the future has in ciples of democrdacy. ' and Italy. After the Peace of Rys- servers a little uneasy." * store for Ireland, but under any con­ The adoption of such, a measure will Prominent in Clan-na Gael and Other wick he entered the Russian service ceivable situation we would be meas­ not be an embarrassment to the Pres­ REV. M'GOLRIGK where he received rapid promotion. Irish Organizations for Many urably nearer our goal if we could ident. It is the inevitable and logical Years. In 1720 he led the Russian army in Thrilling Adventures] secure the passage of this resolu­ result of the application to the Irish Bishop of Duluth Diocese for 27 Years. Sweden and at the end of the cam­ tion by the House of Representatives situation of the principles which he Distinguished Prelate Succumbs to paign he was made Governor of Li­ A STALWART CHAMPION of the United States, IteaTft possibly has so often and so ably enunciated Attack of Acute Indigestion. Of Aviator O'Brien OF PARNELL MOVEMENT vonia. In 1723 he commanded the ex­ hurt, and it might greatly help in in his several messages and pro­ pedition against Poland and entered these revolutionary times. nouncements to the democracies of Celebrated Golden Jubilee of Priest­ Warsaw in triumph. It was Lacy who The Boldest Imaginary Exploits of the Mortimer Scanlan, brother of Mich­ But it requires work. Chairman the world. hood in June of Last Year. Movies Outdone in Real ael Scanlan, the poet, and uncle of in 1742 took part of Finland from the Flood of the House Committee on Friends of Ireland, act now! Strike Swedes. lie died in 1751, laden with Life. Judge Kickham Scanlan, died at his Foreign Affairs is probably no friend while the iron is hot, and while the Began His Sacerdotal Career in home, 4333 Indiana avenue, Chicago, honors and leaving a large estate to of the Rankin resolution. Not as question is open for discussion. Your America as Assistant Pastor his children. One of his descendants IRISH-AMERCAN GENIUS VAN­ on Friday, December 14, 1917, after a things stand today. His committee action may not only win freedom for of St. Paul Cathedral. QUISHES GERMAN EFFICIENCY protracted illness. was in recent years Governor of Riga, will not report out that resolution Ireland, but go a long step toward whilst others held high positions in Mortimer Scanlan belonged to a until it has to. winning the war for the democracies Pastor of Immaculate Conception . 72 Days and Nights of Toilsome and famous Fenian family and was him­ Austria. It has been suggested, therefore by of the world. Parish in Minneapolis 22 In contrast to these Irishmen who Dangerous Travel in the En­ self the first Fenian in the West. He Years. emy Country. was born at Castlemahon, County rose to distinction as soldiers in Rus­ sia, there was another Dublin man, Limerick, considerably over eighty A Faithful and Tireless Worker In years ago. The family came to Amer­ MRS. SHEEHY-SKEFFINGTON RE­ John Field, who made his reputation OTHELLO'S RECITAL OF WAR the Lord's Vineyard Called to as a musician. The Century "Diction­ ADVENTURES OUTDONE ica in the late 'Forties of the last CEIVED BY PRESIDENT WILSON His Eternal Reward. century, and lived for a while in ary of Names," calls him a "British Chicago, Jan. 22.—Patrick Alva Massachusetts, but moved, in 1851, to composer." He was about as "Brit­ Her Plea in Behalf of Irish Freedom thus linking up the older Parnell The announcement of the death of ish" as Lacy or O'Rourke. He was a O'Brien of Momence, 111., is' on his Chicago, which then had a population Receives Courteous Attention—Irish movement and the new Sinn Fein. Rt. Rev. James McGolrlck, first bishop way to his home town today to see of only 34,500. It was then a week's student of Clementl, the Italian pianist Woman Leader Expressed Confi­ Another signer is Annie Kent, of the Diocese of Duluth, which oc­ and composer, whom he accompanied his mother. journey from Boston. Arriving there dence of His Friedliness to National whose husband, a well known Irish curred on Wednesday, Jan. 23, was to Russia in 1802. He lived twenty His only regret is that it's meatless as a boy, he saw the city grow dur­ Aspirations—The Apparent "Dour- musician, was also executed. Louise received with a profound sense of re­ day. He hopes never again to eat a ing the sixty-six years of his resi­ years In Petrograd and two in Mos­ ness" of His Pictures Was Not in Gavan Duffy, another signatory, is the gret among his innumerable friends cow, when he moved to London. This vegetable. dence in it to the second in the United Evidence at the Reception. daughter of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, and acquaintances in the Twin Cities. In the British flying corps he is States. famous "British" musician soon shook who was exiled for his share in the During the period of his sacerdotal the dust of London off his feet and known as Lieutenant Patrick Alva Obtaining employment at Heath's (From the New York American, '48 revolution. Afterwards he became service of about 22 years in this com­ O'Brien. His real story began when candy factory, the first one started in returned to the Continent. He died January 14.) Premier of the Australian Common­ munity, he had made thousands of in Moscow in 1837. He was the orig­ he made a descent of nearly two Chicago, when he grew old enough to By Hannah Sheehy-Skefflngton. wealth. acquaintances and friends, who held miles in his airplane after a German go to work, he later became traveler inator of the "Nocturne," and Chopin Washington, Jan. 13.—Some little I received a notification previously him in the highest esteem by reason is said to owe much in form and spirit bullet had rendered him unconscious. for the firm and built up quite a trade that I was to attend at the White of his general disposition and public- The fall cost him a bump on the head. along the only railroad line then run­ while ago a petition reached me— to his compositions. His son, Leonoff, how I may not say, except that the House at 2:15 p. m., on Friday, and spiritedness. Not only among the became a famous Russian tenor. Later he jumped out of the Window ning West out of the city—the Chi­ there I went. I was presented to the Catholic laity did he enjoy popular­ of a moving train on his way to a cago and Galena, now part of the British censor assuredly did not "pass" it—from the leading women in President after" he had received and ity and confidence, but also among German prison camp and escaped. Northwestern system. When his said a few gracious words to a depu­ the general public. He was a per. IRISH WORLI BARKED FROM! Then he spent 72 days getting to Hol­ brother, Edward Scanlan, bought out the Irish Women's Council (or Cu- mann na mBan), the women's organ­ tation of California suffragists, who sistent worker in the cause of char­ land, a distance of 250 miles as the Edward T. Heath's interest in the came to thank him for his champion­ ity and never flagged in his efforts U. S. MAIL FOfOiE WEH ization of the Sinn Fein party. . airplane flies. And the story ^nds candy factory, he retained Mortimer ing of the Federal amendment. along this line, even to the hour oi y-i with one of the longest interviews as the traveling salesman and he built I was asked to present it with my . From the distance through the part­ his death. His splendid scholarship Other New York Publications May up *a flourishing business. In the own hands and not to give it to any­ ',? with a king on record—52 minutes. ly opened door, I saw him pat the and intellectual ability were recog­ Also Be Penalized. Banquet Promised Tonight. course of time Scanlan's candies were body but President Wilson himself. It was a petition for democracy for Ire­ curly head of the youngest member nized by all who came within the Lieutenant O'Brien reached Chi­ being consumed in great quantities range of his magnetic personality. It Washington, Jan. 23.—The postof- from Manitoba to New Orleans and land, as one of the Bmall nations of the deputation, a solemn little cago yesterday. An early train today maiden of about twelve—her first dep­ was in St. Paul as assistant pastoi fice department has sustained the de­ took him home. Tonight the boys from Detroit to San Francisco. which America seeks to free. The petition is signed by Constance utation doubtless. at the Cathedral that he began his cision of the postmaster at New York ' I back home will do him honor with a Mortimer Scanlan worked for Ire­ priestly functions in America. A short in excluding from the second class land, as well as for business on these Markievicz, nee Booth, condemned to They passed on—the White HOUBO banquet. Every man, woman and seems a place of wide and spacious time afterwards, in 1868, he came to mailing privilege the issue of the child, in Momence is expected to be trips. While he was the first to join be shot, reprieved and given a life sentence, of which she served nearly vistas—and then I was presented Minneapolis and built the first Cath­ Irish World of January 19, which con­ there if the hall is big enough. the movement, his brothers were all in olic church in this city on the west­ tained editorial matter held to be In it, and Michael and John F. became one year; by the widow of O'Rahilly, alone by Mr. Tumulty, an Irishman Many timeB during those 72 nights originally, his family, I believe, from erly side of the river—that of the violation of the espionage act. In of travel through Germany, Luxem­ very prominent in it. It was founded head of the old Kerry clan, herself American born; by two women pro­ County Cavan, and had the privilege Immaculate Conception, at the corner making this announcement last night, burg, and occupied Belgium, Ameri­ in New York in 1357, out of the rem­ of Third avenue and Third street Solicitor Lamar said the decision nants of the Emmet- Monument Asso­ fessors in Dublin colleges; by the of shaking the President's hand and can strategy triumphed over German reminding him that he had some Irish north. This parish was afterwards would not affect future issues of the efficiency. ciation, and Joseph Denieffe, a fellow- widow of Tom Clarke, executed for his part in the Irish uprising; by blood in his veins. consolidated with the ProCathedral paper unless objectionable matter Is "Usually," said Lieutenant O'Brien, townsman of James Stephens, was of St Mary. found in them. The department had sent to Ireland to start it there, bat Grace Gilford, girl-bride of the Irish I had seen pictures of the President "when a bunch of fellows get together previously—who hasn't?—but It seems He remained as pastor of the Im­ under consideration recent issues of it made little progress in America for poet, Joseph Plunkett, executed two 1 they talk about women. But in our to me that they misrepresent him as maculate Conception for 22 years until the Gaelic-American and New York < first prison, in Flanders, we talked some years. It was in its infancy hoars after his midnight marriage. Mrs. Wyse Power, one of the found­ rather grim and unbending, almost his consecration as Bishop of Duluth, Freemans' Journal, other Irish papers only about escape and food and got when Mortimer Scanlan joined it, and in December 27, 1889. held up at the New York office, tor he was instrumental not only in start- ers of the Ladles' "Land League," who "dour." His mood yesterday was of very little of either. There were eight the blandest; he was gracious, smil­ (Continued on page S) alleged violations of a similar nature. officers going to an interior prison (Continued on page 5) worked under Pamell, also signed,

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