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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.
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