NATIONALITY EDITED BY ARTHUR GRIFFITH.
Vol. I. No. 7. (New 8eries). S A TU R D A Y MARCH 31st, 1917. PRICE ONE P EN N Y.
resistance which Canada, Australasia and mark it well—they are expressly forbidden all WfiBK BY WfiBK. South Africa hold.. She cannot retort by im the rights England affects to be championing — .Ireland, publishes in its ob • # Alienage, or Naturalisation. They are for scure columns a “ refutation” of the “ misre In 1893, when Mr. John Redmond was pos bidden every right possessed in these matters presentation ” of the Home Rule Act. The ing as a ParneUite he demanded that a guaran by Serbia and Belgium, Roumania and little refutation is a series of falsehoods and false tee should be inserted-in the Home Rule Bill Montenegro. All these rights Grattan’s Par suggestions. If there be any of the few that the British Parliament would not exercise liament possessed. It could legislate with re- persons who buy the “ Freeman’s Journal” its power of legislation for Ireland over the I gard to the Crown; it could deal with peace yet who has doubts on the point, he can solve head of the Irish legislature in respect to the and w ar; it could deal with the Army and them by purchasing a copy of the bogus Home questions committed to its charge by the Home Navy; and it could decide what constituted Buie Act from Messrs. Ponsonby, Grafton St., Rule Bill. He pointed out that so far from Treason and Alienage and Naturalisation. Dublin, and reading it for himself. the presence of Irish Members at Westmin • • • « • • ster affording protection against unfair use Under the Home Rule Act Ireland is forbid The “ Freeman’s Jo’’ nal ” boldly lies about of the veto powers, their presence there would den the right the pettiest State possesses— the the Veto Power. I- does not really exist, it be an invitation to have it regarded as a Court right of maintaining a territorial force. It argues, and anyhow the same power exists over of Appeal from the Irish- legislature. “ Men is forbidden to make political treaties, it is ' the British Colonies. Let us see what the would go there with the purpose of wrecking forbidden to make commercial treaties, it is .veto power is according to the Act as printed the Irish constitution by initiating debates ou forbidden to make trade treaties even with the ■ by the English Government: every'Irish question.” Under such a veto- British Colonies, it is forbidden to make Na It expressly declares that the Power and power, he said, Ireland’s position after Home vigation laws, it is forbidden to make Quaran Authority of the British Parliament to legis Rule could be rendered worse than her posi tine laws, it is forbidden to appoint consuls, late for Ireland will remain unaffected and un tion without Home Rule. He stated that it is forbidden to alter the Merchandise Marks diminished after the Irish Parliament is estab Ireland could not tolerate the setting-up of the Act, it is forbidden to mint :money, it is for lished. British Parliament as the Court of Appeal bidden to use any weights and measures other . At any time the British Parliament may im over the Irish legislature’s proceedings. than England^uses, it is forbidden to appoint pose a tax on Ireland without reference to the That was 24 years ago. Now Mr. Redmond tax-collectors, it is forbidden to collect its Irish Parliament. has accepted all this and a veto-power more own taxes, it is forbidden to receive them into No Act of the British Parliament extending stringent than that of the Bill of 1893, and its own Exchequer until they have been Sent to Ireland, passed after th’e establishment of the * Freeman’s Journal” brazenly denies the to London and it is there decided how much the Irish Parliament, may' be altered or re fact. shall be sent back, it is forbidden to protect pealed by the Irish Parliament, even though • • • I its own industries, it is forbidden to charge the n%w British 'Act .infringes.the. powers delo- With a cynical contempt for the intelli Customs on any article not taxed by England, gence of its readers, that no jloubt is-largely it is forbidden to* levy an export tax on Irish ~ rUrtherfAore, Sny Act passed by the Irish merited, the “ Freeman’s Journal ” pretends to produce. It is forbidden to exercise every Parliament in pursuance o'f the powers con deny that England will collect and receive Right and Power and every function of a Free ferred upon it under Home Rule may be de Irish taxes and decide how much of them Nation ^ • • • clared void by the British Parliament or may she will return. Thus it is. Not a penny of be altered by the British Parliament in any the taxes imposed by the proposed ‘ * Home When the grafters of Belfast and the place- way it deems fit. Rule Parliament ” can be collected by an offic hunters of Dublin described it as a Charter of In addition to these powers it is provided ial appointed by that Parliament or responsible Liberty they knew it to be a Statute of Pro that any law made by the Irish Parliament at to that Parliament. - Every penny of taxes scription, but this at least it could do. It could any time in pursuance of the powers delegated levied in Ireland will be collected by officials create jobs to any extent and tax the Irish to it becomes. void automatically when the appointed by England, and responsible alone people to paj* for them. It spelt graft in British Parliament passes a general Act in tc England. Every penny of the taxes thus ; Excelsis for 70 M .P.’s, 700 relations, and 7,000 which a different law is made. The only ex collected in Ireland will be sent out of the hangers-on. And so for years the corruption ception to this is in the case of Customs and country to the British Treasury in London, and ists of the press and the platform led the people Excise duties, which the Home Rule Bill gives thereafter, a Board consisting of three persons to really believe that the Ilome Rule Act was it power to vary. (including the chairman) appointed by Eng a measure of legislative and fiscal liberty Apart from these powers of the British Par land and two persons appointed by Ireland • • • will determine how much of the money lodged liament to annul or reverse tta legislation of The history of the “ Freeman’s Journal ” the Irish Parliament, the British Cabinet can from Ireland in the British Treasury represents Irish taxes imposed by the Irish Parliament is a history of Irish traitorism from direct the Lord Lieutenant to postpone for an the days of the Volunteers of 1782 to indefinite period his assent to any. Act within the limits of the powers conferred upon it. On the .warrant of this Board with an the days of the Volunteers o f 1916. passed in Dublin. And even though an Act Henry Brooke was a gentleman employed passes the Irish Parliament and receives the English majority, and on Aits warrant alone, the proceeds of Irish Taxation may be paid out by the British Government to write pamph Royal assent it may at any time be impugned lets pointing out that the French, who were by any person or corporation as invalid. The of the British Treasury to the Irish Govern ment. From the decision of this Board with then at war with England, were robbers, mur question whether an Act of the Irish Parlia derers and sacrilegious ruffians, who wished ment, signed in the Monarch’s name, and which a permanent and absolute English majority the Irish Parliament can have no appeal. to confiscate the farms of Ireland, thus show has been for a term of years regarded as ing it to be the clear duty of the Irishman in • • • settled law is not and never has been law is defence of Religion, Morality, and his country then to be decided by the Judicial Committee And this shadow of a Parliament, this Par to help England to beat the French. Mr. of the British Privy Council sitting in London. liament that cannot appoint or control a single Brooke’s pamphlets were distributed free and The tribunal is to consist of not less than four tax-collector, this Parliament which can his labours were handsomely rewarded with British lawyers and one Irish lawyer. neither protect Irish Trade and Commerce, English gold. He was the first editor of the • • • collect its own taxes, or borrow money in the ** Freeman’s Journal.” The pettiest diet in the Central European open market, is the thing with which the « • * Empires has no such veto-power imposed place-hunters of the “ Freeman ” deceived Ireland for ten years—in return getting Co. Mr. Frederick Jebb was a near successor of upon it, as is here provided to be imposed Mr. Henry Brooke. Mr. Frederick Jebb’s upon Ireland. Court Judgeships and Local Government Board Inspectorships for themselves and finally business as editor of the ‘ I Freeman ” was to The power of veto and interference thus re destroy the Volunteer movement of 1782, while tained to England bears no analogy to that £63,000 compensation from an obliged English Government, for property not worth half. affecting to support it. Mr. Frederick Jebb’s nominally retained ever the British Colonies. name may be seen on the Secret Service Pen-< • • • These Colonies control their own Custom sions List of Dublin Castle, unearthed by Dr. houses and their armed forces. If Ehgland The corruptionists who wallowed for ten Madden, with £300 a year opposite it. attempted to exercise a veto on their Acts they years past in English gifts and English favours • # • could retort by increasing the Customs duties —from Mr. John Redmond, who got his son- on British goods and in the last resort by armed in-law, Max Green, appointed Chief Jailor of Mr. Francis Higgins was successor to Jebb force. Under the Bill Ireland is prohibited the EngHsh prisons in Ireland at £1,400 n in a “ Freeman” editorial chair. Mr. Hig from imposing tariffs of raising arMed forces. year down to the M.P.’s who got for their gins, who is known in history as the *? Sham In the event of the British Parliament exercis relatives posts in munition works—told the Squire,” received a very generous allowance ing its powers to' annul, alter, amend, suspend, people that this'Statute of Proscriptions was from Dublin Castle,for vilifying Irish Nation alists. In time Mr. Higgins became proprie or override Irish legislation', enacted in pursu a Charter of Liberty.’ ance of the'powers kssigned to it by the Home • ” • • tor of .the ** Freeman’s Journal,” and the next Rule Bill}' Iijfeland' is bereft of the'powers o f Under this Home Rule Act—let the people editor-—Brennan—was placed on the Dublin 2 NATIONALITY. Saturday, March 31st, 1917.
Castle Secret Service Pay Boll. The betrayal stronger and purer, and there was work for the three Bishops illegitimately exeroise their of Lord Edward Fitzgerald added a thousand “ Freeman” again—work but no money. power to prevent their priests from opposing pouuds to Mr. Higgins* store, and the “ Free Its ramshackle premises were destroyed. that party. man” became a first-rate paying property. Ireland had come to loathe the “ Freeman ” — • • • • « • America had cast it off. No discreet govern If with the help of these three Bishops, the ment could hand it over money privately. most corrupt party that has ever existed in Mr. Higgins was balled to the et^bnity ap What was to be done. Why, claim for com Irish politics maintains a footing in the west pointed for “ Freeman’s Journal” editors pensation of course. of Ireland, then for every consequence that in 1802, and Whitfield Harvey became pro # • » ensue these bishops will be as responsible as prietor. 0%ings were dull for a time, but So the “ Freeman” sent in its claim for the Bishop of Elphin and his Whig Episcopal towards the end of 1802 the faces of the oolleagues were responsible sixty years ago “ Freeman ” staff brightened up. . There were compensation, and the British Government paid it—£63,000 down on the nail. And the for the misery wrought on the people of Ire more felons to be set. An imprudent young land by the scoundrels Sadlier and Keogh. man named Hebert Emmet had been away to other night Mr. Ginnell invited the British • • • France • looking for military aid for Ireland, Chief Secretary to give the name of the r and the sleuths of the “ Freeman” got wind valuer on Whose advice the Government “ No priest in politics ” is the pry of Con of it—so they warned the country of the “ Erin- ha'd enabled the “ Freeman’s Journal” Co. tinental anti-clericalism. “ No priests in poli go-Braghites ” primed with French gold— to issue an enlarged paper in war time by pac tics except they think as we do ” seems to be as the Freeman” called the Irish National ing £27,000 for machines insured for only the coming cry of these three Irish bishops of ists of those days—and when Emmet and his £ 15,000 ,- £2,600 for furniture insured for only 1917. Fortunately up. to the present only oomrades perished on the scaffold more blop'l £1,000; £6,837 for stock insured for only three Irish bishops have attempted to money was divided upt in the “ Freeman ’ £3,326; £3,700 for loss of revenue insured for interfere with their priests. We trust office. only £ 1 ,0 0 0 ; and £21,286, for buildings in they will cease the attempt as a matter • • • sured only for £1,000; and would the Govern of justice and in the interests of the Things languished for a while, although ment obtain and act upon the valuation of the harmonious relations of the priests and the Dublin Castle, to its credit, continued an an same valuer in compensating for the news people. But so far as we are concerned we nual subsidy. Then. O’Connell arose, and the paper plant destroyed by the military and shall turn the fullest glare of publicity on “ Freeman” was instructed to earn its Castle I police in Ireland during the last two years. every such attempt. No priest who stands .Wages. It did so by attacking him and point The amounts paid to the company repre by Ireland in this crisis will be penalised to ing out’ the danger of Ireland following the sented, said Mr. Duke, what the Property our,knowledge by any Whig Bishop without rash counsels of a more or' less obscure Irish Losses Committee found to be the actual loss the people of Ireland. being made acquainted lawyer, instead of the wise teachings of Dr. upon an insurance basis. A good deal of the with the fact. We are fighting in the open, Troy and Lord Kenmare, two Catholics whom property was only partly insured, as the com and if the majority of the Irish priesthood, Dublin Castle could rely upon never to out pany had its own' arrangements for security who are with us to-day are to be prevented rage its traditions. against an ordinary outbreak of fire. There from freely aiding us, / ’ose who by abuse of • # • was no ground for the suggestion that these ecclesiastical authority £ revent them shall claimants received .any exceptional treatment But O’Connell won, and the “ Freeman” receive from us the fullest attention in Ireland became his sycophant. Also it gave up for a from the Committee. and the fullest advertisement in Rome. few years its connection with the Castle, and l Pressed by Mr. Ginnell to give the name of » • • 'old harlot as it was arrayed itself in the garb the valuer, Mr. Duke said: “ I have not the least idea. I had no doubt he did his duty Father O’Flanagan was removed from his of respectability. It of course condemned the parish the day after he made a speech in Sligo Young Irelanders, and after O’ Connell’ s death, properly in giving evidence before the Com mittee. He was not employed by the Govern-' displeasing to Mr. T.W . Russell. Mr. Russell finding the British Government had no use for is a foreigner, a member of the British Govern it—that Government then being at the expense ment.” “/Did he not succeed in getting £63,000 of public money to start a- paper in ment, and, we believe, a Freemason. We hear of keeping three organs in Dublin—it offered a great deal of denunciation of Freemasonry, itself secretly to Sadlier and Keogh for Dublin, to support the Government P’ ’ asked Mr. Ginnell. but we see a Parliamentary Party whose £ 2 0 , 0 0 0 down to smash up the tenant-right leaders were entertained jby the leaders of the movement. There was no business doing Grand Orient Masonry in France supported by however. W e have before us the balance sheet of the • • # some Irish eccelesiastics. Mr. John Dillon tele “ Freeman’s Journal” for the year ending graphed the other day in the name of Ireland— Then came the Crimean war, and the “ Free 31st December, 1915. The following items for which he has as little right to speak as he man ” discovered that it was the duty of every appear:-^ has for the people of Russia—to congratulate Irishman to think imperially and go forth Premises, plant, machinery £27,902. the new Russian Government. Well, the new and fight the Russians who were proclaimed Addition during, .the y.ear ___ 32. Russian (government is not. a government of the enemies of Religion, Civilisation, and Stock, ineluding horses,' vans, etc-. 4,321. the xtussiah people, l>ut a government .o f the Humanity. An appreciative English Govern Making a total of over £32,060. The British Grand Orient Masons—of whom Miloukoff, ment provided it with a subsidy for its service. Government has supplied £63,000 to replace the new Foreign Minister, is the shining Rus • • • the premises, plant, machinery, and stock. sian star. The Russian people may have After this it began to languish again—but And so the “ Freeman” has blossomed forth risen in Revolution, but the Russian Okhrana in the Fenian time it bid bolaly for a place on again—-doing its old work for the old party— has seized the Russian government, and we the Castle Pay Roll by its vitriolic denuncia the work it did in 1782, in 1800, in 1803, in observe have declared “ seditious” the cry of tion of the Fenikns. After John O’Leary’s 1820, in 1854, in 1865, in 1878, in 1891, in the Russian people for peace. If the Russian arrest, it pronounced him guilty before he was ■190?—the work of the Sham Squire— the work people displace the Qkhranists, and get the brought to trial, and Isaac Butt thereupon of Bolding Ireland for the English, by defam government of the country into their hands, publicly denounced it as the most contemptible ing and felon-setting the Nationalists of Ire wil Mr. John Dillon send another telegram journal in Ireland. land. to them congratulating them on the overthrow of Miloukoff and his brethren P, A party A Western priest writes us a letter not for that dines with Viviani, congratulates Milouk Next came Parnell. It opposed and vilified publication, in which he regrets our references off and incorporates'in the Home Rule Bill a him for years and made a last supreme at- t-' the three Western Bishops last week. He Freemason-Ex tension clause may for some tempVto destroy him by forging a story to the believes any criticism of the Bishops may in reason we cannot fathom be deemed worthy of effect that he had spoken of Irish Catholics terfere with the success of our policy. ■ support by three Irish Catholic bishops even as “ Papist rats.” Beaten by Parnell it licked These bishops used or are using their author to the ex-tent of forbidding freedom of speech his boots and fawned on him until his power ity on behalf of the Irish Parliamentary Party to the Catholic priests who oppose it, but it was undermined. Then it turned around, and and against us. Fr. 0 ’Flanagan has been for would appear that these bishops can see no stabbed him to his death. From that time bidden the public platform; priests have been thing of the ramifications of the Freemasonry until 1916 it became the humble .-(slave of the prevented from honouring Count Plunkett; they annually condemn in their pastorals. English Liberals. priests have been penalised for congratulating « « • • « « • Count Plunkett; priests are to be prevented The following is the Freemason clause to In 1905 the Sinn Fein movement arose, from taking part in future elections on oui which we refer in the Home Rule Act ” :— the “ Freeman ” set to to write many articles side, but they .are to be free to the fullest ex Clause 43 (Section I.), It is hereby declared to prove that Sinn Fein was anti-national. tent to support the Parliamentary Party. The that existing enactments relative to unlawful The articles were chiefly written by Mr. suggestion of our correspondent is that we oaths and unlawful assemblies in Ireland do Matthias Bodkin, Mr. MacSweeney, and Mr. should be silent about this; that we should not apply to the meetings or proceedings of the Donovan. Mr. Bodkin was rewarded by Dub hope even with this secret handicap against us, Grand Lodge of Free and Accented Masons of lin Castle with a County Court Judgeship, to win; that we should conceal the fact, since Mr. MacSweeney was made a Sergeant-at-law its publication may do injury. Ireland or of any Lodge or society recognised by the Grand Lodge: and promised the Solicitor-Generalship, and • • • (2), The Irish Parliament shall not have Mr. Donovan became a Professor of English W e utterly disagree with our correspondent. power to abrogate or affect prejudicially any Literature and a Commissioner of National Two-thirds of the priests .in the dioceses of privilege or exemption of the Grand Lodge of Education. • • • the three bishops we refer to are with us. Freemasons in Ireland, or any Lodge or so No question of faith or ;morals is involved in ciety recognised by that Grand Lodge, which Then the war came, and the “ Freeman,” the matter, and the action of the three i>- enjoyed either by -law or custom at the time as in the days of the Crimea, preached the bishops is not only tyrannical l?ut indefens of the passing of the Act, and any law made whole duty of Irishmen to be to die for Eng ible. Ireland submitted to the Whig bishops in contravention of this provision shall so land—to fight for Religion, Morality, and Civ in the days of Sadlier and Keogh—when the far as it is in contravention of this provision ilisation—against not the Russians this time Bishop of Elphin of that day and most of his be void. but the Germans. To die anyhow that the brethren silenced the priests and smashed up This clause puts into the hands of the Grand * Freeman” staff might become Local Gov the National movement. Ireland refused to Masonic Lodge of Ireland the power by recog ernment Board Inspectors, County Court submit to the Whig Bishops in the days nising any Society to place it largely out Judges, and soforth. And some went forth of the early Land League, when once side the scope of the legislation of the Home and died, and the Local Government Board again they attempted to silence their priests Rule Parliament. The Grand Masonic Lodge filled itself up from the “ Freeman ” office, and prevent them helping to emancipate the of Ireland is absolutely controlled by Irish and even the /Lord Chancellorship of Ireland Irish tenant-farmer. If Ireland had not done Unionists and * the strength of the weapon went to a “ Freeman” man. so, the tenant-farmer would be a slave still. thus placed at the disposal of Irish -Unionism * # ’ • Now again in 1917 a party as corrupt as the cannot be exaggerated. The clause was passed But Hibernia was not thus pacified. Out of. party of Sadlier and Keogh slinks in the west with the assent of Mr. John Redmond, Mr. the bloody furnace Irish Nationalism rose of Ireland behind three Bishops, and these John Dillon, and Mr. Joseph Devlin, President Saturday, March 31st, 1917. NATIONALITY.
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. We sug our Bishop, Most Rev. Dr. O’Dwyer. Repre- Ap An t>c4ippi$ t oubpAOAp: CuippimVo Cum a gest to the bishops who are trying to muzzle sentatives of men and employers attended at m u C C A nuAip a t io c p A i O pf C u § A in n . the Catholic priests of the west in the interests St. Munchin’s College and' laid their respec 7 . ACc b o neApCAig Ap ati oce m e 50 tnOp *j of Mr. John Redmond, Mr. John Dillon, and tive cases before his lordship, who ultimately i ■00 061$ pi ci$ te ha ivoAoine An in f nA *0611*1*10 ; Mr. Joseph Devlin that they will do better made his award at the figure above stated, to 1 nA ■OAome W w a gcootA O , toipe pi m A p A o n work for the Catholic Church by demanding the entire satisfaction of both parties. Our ■00 ten a' ■ocigtib ia*o. publicly from Messrs. Redmond, Dillon ana hearty congratulations to the Painters’ Society Devlin the reason for their support of the on their success, and to the employers on the 8. gAn AtfcpAf 01 poinnc OAoine mipneAititA tx> Freemason-Extension clause, than by interfer good sense and intelligence they have shown. ppeAb AmAC Af A *OClgtlb *J A tAinig 1 £CAbAip ing with the right of their priests to regard This is another link in the chain of affection Ap nA corfiupfAin bA $oipe O61O ; aCc 6 CAptA nA Messrs. Redmond, Dillon, and Devlin as mis- which binds us workers to our beloved Bishop. pAib loncA aCc burOeAn \ beAg niop
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Irish Press, the “ Limerick People” and i gconcAbAipc. ST. ENDA THICK RICH CREAM **The Harp,” Waterford. The “ People” is ^ 2 . 'Oeip An cOilitpeAC potAnnAC: An ce McGREAL’S LITTLE IRISH CHEESE issued by the Limerick printers who are on a leAUAnn An cSAoippe, pA^Att p 6 a t f p , ^ c u i p e A O strike for an increase of wages, and is a per ST ENDA CREAM CHEESE fect bijou newspaper, well-written and well- p 6 a An Am i gcontAOAipc. Manufactured with utmost care. 3 „ O i p , A n c 6 pAnAnn inA tfp *j fruitm geAnn printed. The printers, pointing out that food- To be had from all Purveyor* and Family Grooera. prices had risen enormously and yet that wages An O Aoippe, ■ofonri a An Am v o Cotm eAo, cAitteAnn remained stationary, asked for an increase of pe a tfp *) a An Am ; aCc An c£ pAgAnn a tfp Cum WHOLESALE DEPOT:— nA SAoippe ioo CopAint 5 0 tnm ipc ah Am a , b e i O 7s. per week. The employers refused, but 24 SOUTH CITY MARKETS, DUBLIN. later offered a “ war bonus ” of 3s. ^?he men a tfp Aige *j niAippiO pe 5 0 pfoppAiOe. offered to accept 5s. increase, but the employ- 4 - Sa . tpeAnAim pip, nuAip a C 6 5 AO An Ceut> L. NUGENT, Proprietor. ’Phone 3027 'ors declined, and so the strike took place, and CAtAip plAtfl Ap An OCAtAlfl, VO pAllllg $Up Opip all the Limerick papers disappeared, and the cem e AmAC pA CAtAip pin. T h e film Co. of Ireland, Ltd. “ People” arose. In No. 2 of our contempor 5 . ' O ’ e i p i g euro oep' tia oAoine inA. puiOe ary we read— T opeuCAOAp AmAC An pumneog, aCc nuAip a WILL PRODUCE “ The weekly wage of the members of the .ConnACAOAp 5 0 pAit) An cem e 1 OpAt> AmAC uAtA M Knocknagow or the Home of Limerick Painters’ Society has been increased tU^AOAp An_teAbAlO OppA p 6 l 11 *1 0 0 tUICOAOAp oA Tipperary.” by 4s. 3d., the minimum being fixed at 38s. 3d. S C O O t A O . per week. This satisfactory agreement was 6 . Asup nuAip a ConnAic cuto eite aca 5 0 pAib THE FILM CO. OF IRELAND, arrived at to-day through the arbitration of An ceme n f bA $oipe O 6 1 O opAnAOAp inA peApArfi 84 DAME ST., DUBLIN. Saturday, March 31st, 1917. 4 NATIONALITY.
word a Nation at all, you will not 6 olve any Quiet, yet Central, -for Business or P le a s u r e . of the difficulties that arise.—Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P., in the British Parliament, EYES RIGHT | FLEMING'S HOTEL, March 22nd—Hansard, 2113. 32 GARDINER’S PLACE, DUBLIN. The Soldier’s Song—Full Musical Score and Two minutes walk from Gardiner St. Chapel or Trams We in Ireland no longer look to this Par Pianoforte Accompaniment. Correct and or SELECT. MODERATE. CONVENIENT. liament for the goal for which we are aim iginal version of both words and music. 1 /v ing. . 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Verses in All literary communications should be addressed to never have achieved. As a result of the Ros the simplest of Irish, and delightful pictures the J£ditor. common election—the smashing of the ma by Michael O Riada. 1/-, by post 1 /2. All business communications to the Manager, 6 Haroeurt St., Du Min. chine by which corrupt Irish Parliamentarian Sentinel 8ongs— 120 pp. of Brian na Banban’s For Subscription and Advertising Rates, see p. 8. Songs and Recitations—humorous, patriotic, ism held Ireland at England’s service—Eng and sentimental—very popular. 1/*, by post lish Whig and English Tory are now vieing 1/2. with each other in their haste to put Home Fun o’ the Forge—Humorous short stories, in Brian O’Higgins’ beet style—laughter on every Rule into operation. page — good, strong, artistically designed NATIONALITY. cover. 1/-, by post 1/2. But let there be no misunderstanding in the mind of the people of Ireland on the matter. S A TU R D A Y MARCH 31st, 1917. England’s eagerness to put “ Home Rule into WHELAN & SON, operation ” is dictated solely by fear of Ireland 17 UP. ORMOND QUAY, DUBLIN. at the Peace Conference, where,, as Major Hilla WHEN THE DEVIL WAS SICK. admitted, her voice will be no less listened to than the voice of England. It is believed by English Statesmen that There is only one remedy for Sinn Feinism Church Furniture. they can humbug Ireland into silence by the and that is the concession of the reasonable Designer and Manufacturer and legitimate claim of the Irish people to immediate gift of a sham Home Rule measure Self Government.—-London “ Daily News,” —that Ireland will not discover the sham until March 22nd. the Peace Conference is over. JOSEPH P. KELLY W e have to reckon with the Sinn Feiners While the leaders of the Parliamentary (Late Manager T. &C. Martin’s Pactory) who are now the most powerful party in Ireland.—London “ Sunday Times,” March Party are publicly proclaiming that they have Specialist in Ecclesiastical Woodwork 25th. ceased to hold negotiations with the English Sinn Fein threatens unless we act Government, they are in active negotiation promptly to dominate the situation.— “ Rey with that institution to have a measure “ im F a c to rs : Inngier Place, Jtongier S t ., Diblin nold’s Newspaper*” March 25th. Every day you delay settling the Irish posed ” involving' partition by county option. Best Designer in the Trade. question you are recruiting a new soldier Once again the corruptionists believe they can. to the physical force party.-—Sir Henry Dal- throw dust in the eyes of the Irish people, and ziel, M .P.— Hansard, .2083, March 25th once again they are intriguing with the Eng £jeA$Ati 6 P a i a i S The question the Right Hon. Gen lish Government to do so. tleman will have to answer [at the •ifr Peace Conference] is : “ What is the W e have, after the experiences of the past Irish view of your Government? Has your twelve months, an abiding belief in the illimit Government the assent of the governed ? . . able stupidity of English Statesmen. We Suppose that at the Peace Conference we are are convinced that these men do believe that met with a united and free Poland. I think they can humbug Ireland into acquiescing in t>£cdf SftAiT) An even then the Prime Minister will admit that it is not a case for mere words, but that partition under the guise of county option and he will have to show something of the same can humbug her into staying away from the sort in the case of Ireland. . . . It will not Peace Conference by erecting a mock Parlia be pleasant for us if> have to go to a Peace ment in Dublin. We shall watch their “ set Conference with Ireland standing in the corner as a naughty child. It will want tlement” of the’Irish Question with curiosity, some explaining to the world, and I am and their faces with amusement when they wait not sure that the world will not listen to for Mr. T. P. O’Connor and his colleagues to t u i m n e A t f . Ireland as much as to ourselves.—Major deliver the, goods. English Statesmen will Hills, M.P., in the British Parliament, 22nd succeed in settling the Irish Question when March.— Hansard, 2090-1. The Sinn Fein Party is growing stronger they restore to Ireland the same sovereign M. COUNIHAN, every day because of our neglect to settle rights they profess .to be fighting for in the Wholesale and Family Grocer, this question.— Sir Hamer Greenwood, M.P. case of Belgium, Serbia, and Roumania. To British Parliament, March 22nd.— Hansard, claim these rights, Ireland is going to the 39 Lord Edward St. and 80 & 81 Henry St., 2102. Peace Conference, where, as Major Hills con LIM ERICK If you are going to treat Ireland as a Solicits your enquiries for Tea, Confeotionery, Jams Nation you will be driven to separation, be fesses, her voice v^ll be listened0 to equally Skipper Sardines, Salmon, and General Groceries. cause it is only in independence that Na with England’s, and while the English Gov Prices will interest you. tionality is fully realised. . . I do not sup ernment and Ireland’s misrepresentatives con pose that the Peace Conference will trouble, spire to try and prevent her going there, let We rit and Suit you with Suits that fit you. itself about the question of Home Rule for our countrymen in each constituency prepare any portion of the world. . . I am quite when opportunity copes to elect an Irishman AlcArdle and O’Carroll, convinced that the Sinn Feiners will go on Stafford aid Froasocb Tailors, succeeding as long as they Lave logic on to go, not to the London Parliament where their side, and until they are firmly convin they break treaties, but to the Peace Confer 136 Up. Dorset St, Dublin. ced that Ireland is not in their sense of the ence where all Europe will make Treaties. Saturday, March 31st, 1917. NATIONALITY. 5
FOOD AND FAMINE. they appointed to represent them, from being quickly, it will be considered as acquiescing their agents, became their masters. In conse in its dependence on another country. Also —t— •»— - quence the daily needs of the country and the the terms in which the claims to national free In 1846 when, the Young Irelanders called on material advantages upon which its life de dom are stated will be taken as defining the pends, have been made secondary to the little tthe English Government to close the ports to rights and aims of the particular nation. plots and plans of the Party at Westminster. The claim of Ireland must be made as though •the end of keeping that food in the country In this condition of affairs it was an easy mat Ireland were already a separate entity. No for lack of which people were starving^ the ter to transfer to the English Party dictators consideration of existing restrictions of na Government replied it was a most ridiculous the allegiance of men pledged to Ireland. The* tional expression, no sufferance of the present proposal .v How could the people carry on their payment of Irish members by England severed interference with Irish liberty,' no subservience a natural tie between the electors and the elec trade if they did not export their foodP to the prejudices or convenience of another ted. The Irish member of Parliament is in power should be allowed to mar the national On Monday, 3fr: T. W» Russell, represent most cases no more than an English pensioner. demand. W e are a Nation ; we should be less ing the English Government, said he coul4, not By the English Government’s refusal to allow than a Nation if we accepted or suggested conceive how sensible men could ask for the a general election to take place during the war, terms that limited our Freedom. the expression of Irish opinion through '‘ihe prohibition of the export of food from Ireland. I have therefore decided to convene an As electoral system has been silenced. sembly of the representatives of the Adminis How coiuld Ireland pay for goods if she did The position of the Irish Party during Easter trative Bodies and National Organisations, and not export food? Week was deplorable. ■; The Leader of the Irish other public men of Ireland. The first of its The Government of Ireland, it will be seen, Party accepted the points of view of the Gov duties will be to address itself to the Peace perfect continuity. ernment. He speaks like an Englishman, in Conference with a view to obtaining the sup tent on maintaining English supremacy, not Nobody, we think, has asked for the total port of Nations which will be represented at as an Irishman who believes that his Nation that Conference. With its representative prohibition of food exports. There is, we agree, has the rights common'to all nations, and the authority this Assembly will claim the recog no immediate necessity for prohibiting all duty to wrest her liberties from foreign control nition of the Sovereign Status of Ireland; that food exports. There is a real necessity for by every means in her power. Status to be guaranteed by the Continental the prohibition of the export of potatoes and The Irish. Party’s. Alliance with the Liberals Powers of Europe and by the United States of and the nondescript administration that fol oaten meal. America. lowed is ostensibly come to an end. But inter I ask your Council to give in their adhesion Mr. Bussell has affected to prohibit these communication between the Party and the Gov to the principles and methods enunciated in exports. And yet since December 21st last he ernment is not ended, although the Party are this letter, and so having expressed their ap has issued 144 licenses for the export of pota at present in a position of absolute hopeless proval, to appoint two of their members to take toes from Ireland, and while oats are supposed ness. The nominal Home Buie Act is a worth part as delegates in the Assembly to be held ies measure that it would be injurious to Ire in the Mansion House, Dublin, at 11.30 a.m. tc be prohibited, oaten meal is being exported land to put into operation. But the Party can on the 19th April. ia large quantities. Mr. Bussell issued a licence not take even the mock Act from the war shelf If your Council adopts the principle which for the export of potatoes from Sligo. The where it lies with other “ scraps of paper.” the Assembly is convened to put into action, people of Sligo, on our suggestion, had formed The alternative plan fathered by the-Party, by please have the appended form filled up, and a Watch Committee. The transport workers which the Irish people were to be permanently forwarded to me at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam St., divided for the convenience of England, may Dublin, as soon as possible. of Sligo .declined to load Mr. Bussell’s licensed ac any moment be revived, if .the Irish people I am, potatoes, and there is no shortage of potatoes show weakness or unpreparedness for national Tours sincerely, in Sligo now. emergencies. The immediate problem is to bridge over the Even from a material point of view not only GEO. NOBLE COUNT PLUNKETT. next sixteen weeks. We shall have a full was Ireland made, as far as these men could make it, a part of the accursed Union, but her A number of the Public Boards have re potato crop by the first week in August—Mr. progress, nay her very existence, has been sub fused the invitation. These bodies have been Bussell suggests June, but a vice-president jected to the convenience of the enemy. in existence since before the war and the of the Department of Agriculture in Ireland Ireland at this moment is without any con people have had no opportunity of purifying cannot be expected to know the difference be sultative body representing popular feeling, them. This year the opportunity was due for experience, or judgment, regarding the condi election to the majority of them, but the tween June potatoes and the potato crop. We tions of the country and its future. W e are British-Government has arranged to “ post shall have the oat crop a few weeks later. faced with taxation for a' war which pone ’ ’ the elections—that is, to disfranchise W ith abundant oats and potatoes there dan be would reduce our peoplet to hopeless poverty the people of Ireland. Not until after the war no fear of famine. 4 and keep them 3 in misery' for- generations to will the people have the opportunity of getting But in the four months ahead of us there come. W e are faced with the danger of famine at their local representatives—meanwhile if we do not take measures to protect our re let the names of those who vote, as at Wex ij a real danger to the community owing.to sources and keep the people’ s food in the ford, against proper treatment for Irish.Poli the shortage of wheat and potatoes. The dan country. tical Prisoners and as elsewhere against Count ger can be averted and the four months tided English devices to control our labour and to Plunkett’s invitation be noted and their over by three measures: lead up to the forcing of our population into public career be put an end to by the voters First, the total prohibition of the potato ex the English army are already in operation* and when the British Government again permits the Irish electors to have an opportunity of port. require to \>e met at once by the wisdom and determination of the people. The whole ma exercising the franchise. Second, the total prohibition of the export chinery of England, because of England’s ne of oaten meal. cessities, is being turned against Ireland, with Third, the utilisation of the stocks of barley out ‘any regard for Ireland’s rights and Ire The following is a list of the Public Boards up to Saturday last which have adopted Count left on the hands of the distillers and brewers land’s needs. vXt is the business of Ireland at once to take control of her own resources, na Plunkett’s letter—Nenagh Poor Law Board, under the new restrictions, for the baking of tional, and material, and to secure and protect Corofin Poor Law Board, Westport Urban Dis bread. her own authority for her own people. trict Council, Nenagh Rural District Council* Let this be done, and food will not only be The dominant body of resolute men left with Galway Bural District Council, Corofin Bural plentiful but will be cheaper than it is at out the opportunity of enforcing their opinions District Council, Mitchelstown Bural District Council (No. 1), Athy Bural District Council present to the people. We await the action or the hustings in the various constituencies throughout Ireland, demands representation (No. 3), Ban don Bural District Council, and of the Department of Agriculture. by other means. Killarney Bural District Council. We want a free Ireland. We want liberty • • • Count Plunkett has sent the following letter not merely for those who are free in soul, but There ase now several dispensary districts to Public Boards, National organisations and also for those whose souls need liberation. in Ireland without a doctor, owing to the prominent Nationalists throughout Ireland:-^ We want one people, composite and various as action of the British Local Government Board they may be an moods and aims, to be knit in Ireland in penalising young Catholic doc Dublin, March 17th, 1917. into a vigorous nation. Such differences test tors who do not wish to be conscripted. This Dear Sir, the fibre of our patriotism, the largeness action on the part of the Board—staffed by I am returned to Dublin pledged by the Elec of our view, and the sincerity of our the way with Inspectors of military age, tors of North Roscommon to recognise no for principles, and none but men strong enough partly recruited from the “ Freeman’s Jour eign authority over Ireland; to maintain the to bear the trials of a nation, and single- nal ” office—should be met by united action rights of Ireland to Independence; and to in minded to think: of Ireland only, can win on the part of the Poor Law Boards. The itiate Ireland’s work, of taking control of her Ireland's liberty. No foreign power must con Boards affected should act together in ignor own affairs. \> * . * trol tile incomings and outgoings of her trade; ing the attempt of the L.G.B to deprive the The duty has been cast upon me of inaugur the raising of necessary taxes, the establish people of proper medical assistance. To act ating a policy for Ireland. ' If the declaration ment of her national army of defence. - There together, they must first meet together, and of policy may seem new, the principle upon shall be one authority in the Nation, and Ire appeal—not to the L.G.B., but to the people which it is based is as ancient as the Irish race. land’s representatives must be subject to Ire of the country to stand behind them. Then Ireland will accept nothing short of complete land, and answerable to the Irish people alone. the issue will be knit, as to whether an auto liberty. The Irish Party have refused to make any cratic body can override even what is the sup To bring this affirmation of the National claim for the representation of Ireland in the posed “ Law of the Land ” in dealing with faith and the National will to a practical issue, Peace Conference, and have allowed to go un mere Irish doctors. If there were a public it- is necessary to organise the whole country. contradicted the statement of English Minis spirited medical association in the country it The vast majority of our people hold, as their ters that Ireland would not be represented in would be impossible for this Castle Board to fathers held, tjie principles for which Ireland that Conference. act as it is acting towards members of the has fought through the centuries. If the mem- Ireland has reclaimed her title to separate medical profesion. .•bers elected in Ireland represented the opinions nat.imnd existence. She should proceed at • • • of their constituencies they would be sitting once to establish her own Council and state as an independent body in Ireland, not as a her own oase for recognition among the Na The Keating Branch of the Gaelic League minority accepting its defeat in a foreign Par tions. The world is looking forward to .the is producing two Irish plays at the little liament. assertion of National rights from the various theatre at Hardwicke Street, Dublin, on The complaint of those who trusted the so peoples claiming independence. If the Nation Saturday night. We trust a crowded audience -called constitutional movement is, that the men fails to state such a claim, or fails to do it will reward tjhe enterprise. e NATIONALITY. Saturday, March 31st, 1917.
the men are well-known scholars and writers realisation of our own national aspirations— THE IRISH PRISONERS OP WAR and it was promised on their transfer to Lewfes an energy to work untiringly for Ireland andi that they should be given facilities for con, in the first and foremost place to learn,.our tinuing their studies and literary work; this language, spread it over Ireland and tyfflfce it We are requested to publish the following promise has however been very imperfectly ful the universal tongue of the Irish Nation again. report:— filled by merely issuing paper and pencil to the Without the language we have no foundation- The Committee of the Irish National Belief men and no adequate time is allowed^ to them for our nationality. Thfc speakers who con Fund (Londion Branch of the Irish National for literary work; in addition to which there tributed to the discussion emphasised the same •Aid and Volunteer Dependents’ Fund) having seems to be a doubt as to whether they will be point. been closely in touch with, all the events which allowed to retain their writing when they leave Count Plunkett will lecture next Sunday: led up to the release of the interned prisoners at as originally promised. evening on “ Some Irish Artists.” In spite Frongoch, Heading and Aylesbury are con The men are allowed one visit per month, of the many calls Ireland makes upon his time vinced that the release was due to the sustained . they work in association and have one hour s the Count has kindly reserved next Sunday public protests in Ireland culminating with the communication exercise per day (i.e., an hour evening for the Gaelic League. H e fully" resolutions of the General Council of County during which, they can converse with one an realises the vital necessity for the Language* Councils and the Dublin Corporation on this other whilst exercising). These conditions are Movement to prepare the Ireland to come. matter; to the several reports published by a considerable improvement on the former The results of the language collection are branches of the Irish National Aid and Volun ones, but whilst agitating for their release, not yet definitely available; but'all last week- teer Dependents’ Fund, and to a volume of their treatment as political prisoners must be our workers have been opening boxes, count communications from private individuals and secured in the meantime. The privilege of ing and tabulating their contents. The total' Committees to the Home Office and other Gov one visit per month is greatly counteracted by obtained will be published next week. One ernment Departments. The Committee de the great increase in railway fares, which box contained the sum of £3 10s. 9d., a re sire to make this opinion known because they makes it harder for intending visitors to go to cord collection of small sums that make no- feel that similar action with regard to the men Lew^s. It will be remembered it was publicly one the poorer. Another was unfortunate at Lewes, the Countess Markievicz at Ayles stated that the object in view when increasing enough to bring in collectively less than a* bury, and the men recently deported from Ire the railway fares was to stop unnecessary tra shilling. With a levelling-up process won land will also have a similar satisfactory re velling, but the Government having granted ders could literally be affected in collecting in- sult. the condition of one visit per month can hardly Dublin. A good many boxes contain over £1. claim that the visits are unnecessary. The The Dublin Feis Committee are taking every Countess Markievicz. Committee has been in correspondence with the precaution to make that institution a success* A great number of candidates are expected to- The Countess Markievicz is still detained Home Office on this matter but so far they present themselves for examination. Students as an ordinary convict at Aylesbury in have refused any concession in this respect. are also reminded that a careful perusal of the association with the vilest criminals. She has Oireachtas syllabus'will reward them: a num not been accorded any of the better treat Deportations. ber of its attractive competitions with big ment promisfed by the Government (and already The total number of men recently deported prizes must inevitably appeal to the advanced in part carried out in the case of the convicted from Ireland is 28. They have been placed in student. men) except that she is allowed one visit per three different centres in England. The Gov The Gaelic League Choir under the very able month from friends and one visit extra per ernment whilst depriving them of their means leadership of Mr. Robert O’Dwyer, meets each’ month from her'sister; the most valued of the of livelihood, and their families of their sup Monday at Craobh gCuig gCuigi, 19 Plas Ely, better conditions (i.e., conversation) is not port has made no provision for their mainten allowed to her. The Home Office states that ance, and so far refuses to recognise any re at 8 o’clock sharp. The committee is anxious this cannot be altered because she is a woman sponsibility in the matter. Most of the men to increase the membership at once, as it is and cannot therefore be placed with her male are without any means, so that their mainten intended to compete in the Dublin Feis after companions at Lewes. In the meantime, ap ance and that of their dependents falls on the Easter. It' is therefore earnestly requested parently because she is a woman, she must Irish National Aid and Volunteer Dependents’ that all who wish to lea^n choral singing in- continue to associate with the scum of the earth Fund. Irish and are free to attend on Monday even ings from 8 to.9 o’clock should join without and only have an opportunity for suitable con The Irish people, as individuals, and through delay. K. versation during two hours per month. Be it their elected bodies should inaugurate a strong remembered that by their action in altering and sustained agitation for the treatment of the conditions of imprisonment of the men, the the convicted prisoners as political prisoners English Govenunent tacitly admitted that the and for the^ return of the deported men; if Irish OutfittingTHeadquarters. former treatment was wrong; yet tkey make they maintain such an agitation they will force THIS WEEK’S SPECIALITE: no effort to discontinue this treatment in the the English GoverrimeiTt'-fo give way to their “ ROOK” HOSIERY (Irish fMade) case of Countess Markievicz. The Irish people wishes. F r o m 3/11 p e r G a r m e n t . must eventually obtain the release of ail the The principal organs of the daily press in X. J. LOUGHLIN, convicted prisoners, but pending that result Ireland have been all through too supine in Id PARLIAMENT ST. the same conditions must be .secured for*the their treatment of the questions affecting all Countess as those given to the men. It is the prisoners, both interned and convicted, In the Goods,of MICHAEL DOHERTY, late of Money-- quite possible for the Go\ernment to make ar merely treating these matters as ,news items. Sharvin, Connty Derry, Retired Farmer, who died rangement for the Countess at Lewes, but puri- In any other country, leading article would on 6th January, 1917. tamsm and officialism will prevent them doing have followed leading article for the redress All persons having claims against the Estate of above so unless great pressure is brought to bear of the treatment of their fellow-countrymen, Deceased are required to fnrnish written partionlare upon them. and the question thus be kept as a burning thereof to the undersigned Solicitor for Messrs. John* The Committee have been in constant cor Mooney and John Friel, deoeaied’s executors, before 1st one before the minds of the people. May, 1917, and notice is hereby given that after said' respondence with the Home Office about the The Committee will be very glad at any time 1st May, 1917, the estate will be distribnted having case of the Countess, 'and have made various to furnish any information in its possesion to regard only to those olaims, of which notice shall have been given as aforesaid. suggestions for better treatment, amongst relatives or friends of the prisoners, either as others, as a via media, that she should be (Sighed) regards particulars of travelling facilities, visi . LOUIS J. WAL8H, Solioitor, brought to a London prison and. allowed a visit ting hours, or in any other way to render any Ballyoastle, Co. Antrim. of one hour’s duration per day, but the Home assistance in its power. Office so far content themselves by merely stat ing that they cannot adopt any of the sugges The release of the interned prisoners from ctLAot) Ati C6icinni$ T>e connnAt) tions. Frongoch and elsewhere seems to have brought tlA FAettllse somewhat of a lull. Very many appear to be Political Prisoners at Lewes Prison. . under the impression that with the release of A n s p n w these prisoners our efforts are at an end. This Of the men sentenced to penal servitude or is of course actually far. from being the case. & teimti 's e stiA hard labour four with sentences of six months With regard to the financial aspect there is t n u l l A C A i n have already been released, and seventeen with undoubtedly a greater need for funds now than sentences of one year’s hard labour were before as on account of a campaign amongst SAfi AtflAttCtAtltl 1 StldlX) HARDWICKE released oh various dates from Tth to 2 1 st many firms and the Government Offices in Ire oi*OCe -oe s
of Parliament should connect themselves felt he had failed in Rome. Both Duffy and THB PLACE-HUNTER IN IRISH with the Liberal Party, especially when in he agreed they had failed in Ireland. The POLITICS. office,1 that such of them as are suited for the country which three years before seemed to minor places under the Crown should try have within its grasp a bigger victory than — ♦ — to get such places for themselves; that all Emancipation was lost—sold by- the place-hun- ■ V I.-L U C A S ’S APPEAL TO ROME of them should try to get smaller places ters. Lucas’s doctor told him to prepare for such as are obtainable for themselves and death, but not to give up all hope of life. “ I AGAINST THE PLACE-HUNTERS. political supporters; that they should thus would rather die,” he answered. He died a (Continued). bind themselves to the Ministry by personal couple of months later, two weeks before Gavan obligations and the pursuit of personal ad Duffv quitted Ireland, writing in his farewell BY ARTHUR GRIFFITH. vantages, and that for the Church and the this, indictment of place-hunting and its apolo poor they should exert themselves just as gists :— I {[These articles were written and first published much as is not displeasing to the Ministers, The Irish Party is reduced to a handful in 19131 The three years of Irish history by whom they are patronised, and as will —the popular organisation is deserted by which have elapsed render it certain that the not in the smallest degree interfere with those who created it—prelates of the Irish moral they point will appeal to the whole their own personal interest and that of their Church throng the ranks of our opponents, people of Ireland to-day. Hence their re friends. No one who understands the work priest is arrayed against priest, and parish publication .—A.G.] ing of our constitution could look for re against parish; a shameless political pro dress of grievances from any such mode of fligacy is openly defended and applauded, ^acting. the special opportunity sent by Heaven for Lucas at Rome. Describing what happens to the office-taker, our deliverance is bartered away to an Eng At Borne, Lucas was received with distinc and pointing out that no English Ministry will lish ’fashion, and the ultimate aim for which tion, foi* Ijis fame as a great Catholic publicist do more in the way df redress of non-English alone I laboured—to give back to Ireland her was world-wide.' Archbishop MacHale and grievances than English public opinion will national existence—is forgotten or disdained. ■Cardinal Wiseman gave him their support, but permit in the absence' of pressure, Lucas shows Till all this be changed, there seems to be that was far from- a counterbalance to the ex that no subordinate officer of the Government no more hope for the Irish cause than for the traordinary influence Dr. Cullen possessed at can ever' ask his Minister to endanger the ad corpse on the dissecting-table. I have done ithe Yatiqan. At the request of the Pope, ministration by conceding .demands, which, my best to change it. For the last twelve Lucas drew up a statement on affairs in Ire however just and right, are not popular in months I have spared no pains in public or land, an exhaustive and valuable document on England. And he goes on:— “ I f Mr. Monsell private to rally the National Party—but in the position of Ireland in the middle of the (afterwards Lord Einly) were to press upon vain. A preternatural apathy broods over nineteenth century. Dealing in it with the Lord Palmerston the redress of any particular the country, disheartened by corruption and treason of the Place-hunters, Lucas wrote:— grievance, and Lord Palmerston were to pampered by a false and temporary prosper By the sacrifices of the people a large answer that redress of that grievance could not ity. When all external circumstances favour • number of ^embers were returned to Par be attempted, $fr. Monsell’s mouth is shut by a national movement, it is repudiated at liament, pledged in the most solemn man that rejoinder. If he wishes to carry the mat- I home. God knows- I have done my best. ner to pursue a particular course in Parlia- ter farther, he must resign his place and speak One step alone remains*:1 I promised in such ment which the priests told, the people was to the Minister as an independent member.” I a fatal contingency to throw up my seat in indispensable to the service of the Church. The Place-hunters’ Novitiate. Parliament in order that the truth might not Seduced by offers of place, and Government The Catholic place-hunter’s novitiate was be screened from the people nor the crisis patronage a great many of those represent next described to the Pope:—“ He spends pass without some warning and protest. The tatives have broken their pledges in the most months, perhaps years, as an expectant. Dur time for this duty has come. . . . disreputable manner. A great many priests ing that time he has to earn the office which The Irish Party commenced with fifty ad and some bishops have leagued them ho expects to hold; he must show a certain herents—to-day more than forty have gone selves with the betrayers o f. the people, amount of industry and capacity and influence; over bodily or in spirit to the enemy. Some have . given sanction to this scandalous he must show that he is both willing and able I of them sit on the Treasury Benches to mar breach of faith, and are now before the pub to serve- the Government; that he is discreet, shal our opponents and employ the know lic as men utterly indifferent to public mor not too zealous to seek redress of Catholic ledge learned in our ranks to divide and de ality, men who by their acts teach the grievances; not too Catholic in his sentiments feat us. In three years the country has not people that even Catholic politics are a sel or his language, careful in avoiding the utter sent us a single Recruit from county, city, or fish game to be pursued for selfish ends and ance of any unpopular Catholic pnciple, and, borou&h. The Archbishop of Dublin, fore by the use of the most abominable means. better still, ready to deny, renounce and vitu most and loudest to pronounce for the prin As to the Archbishop of Dublin’s plea'that perate any such principle if advanced by others. ciple ofj Independent Opposition, lends all all he aimed at was to keep the priests out of In a word, the expectant must show in the th,e weight of his authority to our opponents. politics, Lucas xyrote to the Pppe>—“ The rule embyyo the virtues which as an. official-' he is A/ majority of the Irish Hierarchy follow in recommended by the Archbishop ‘ of Dublin expected to display in full maturity. His main his ^ake; and we have been disparaged from is a mere rule of party politics. The priests object, as that of the official must be is to serve popular hustings and in pastoral letters for may give open opposition to the Tories, they, and please the Government of which he expects no sin that I know of, but because we will may give open support'to the Whigs or Peel- to be a member. This must be his leading not sell ourselves to the enemies of our ites, but under no circumstances may they purpose, and every act and every word must be country. try to replace treacherous Whigs or Peelites regulated so as to serve that end most effective by Independent Catholics, so long as the for ly. He must be ready to renounce and condemn the 11 Catholic Leader’s ” End. mer find it to their interest to use smooth lan unpopular doctrines and advocate false views.” Thus passed the great movement of the guage and do us all the injury in their power The suggestion that the “ cause ” gained by Fifties—sold in the hour of its supreme power without actually professing open enmity.” men who supported it accepting office under by the place-hunters and place-beggars as they “ The greatest scandal of all,” Lucas described Government, Lucas dismissed in a dozen words had sold Repeal. The year 1866 dawned on to the Pope as “ a regular system of corrup —office did not make'them more articulate— an Ireland more hbpeless, more degraded than tion, organised and methodised by which Whig it made them dumb, and it was conferred to the Ireland that watched with despairing eves statesmen have contrived year after year to make them dumb. He treated the matter of Sarsfield’s soldiers embarking foi* France. But augment the numbe'r of Catholic clergy whom place-hunting, he said, in abstract. If he the grass had not grown on the grave of Fred by the basest methods they used as the instru could render visible to the Holy See the place- erick Lucas—the ship that bore Gavan Duffy ments of their perfidious hostility against the hunter in the concrete— “ If I could make it into exile had scarce cast anchor in its port— Catholic Church and the Catholic poor.” understood what depths of public and acknow when the chief of the band who sold Ireland, . The system, Lucas explained, consisted in ledged baseness the greater part of these men to maintain whom and his friends the League offering to influental priests whose near rela have had to go through in order to become ser of the North and South was broken up, the tives were known to be in want of situations, vants of the Government, and what indecent Irish tenant-farmer thrust back under the foot places for these relatives in return for co-opera beliers of principle they became when they did of his landlord, and the Nationalist priests of tion by the priests on the Government side at become its servants,” the Holy See would ad Ireland punished, silenced, degraded, and per the elections. mit that “ my delineation has been a very faint secuted—-died a despairing suicide. Mr. John Lucas, after describing how the venal and copy of the original.” Sadlier, reputed to be one of the wealthiest perjured place-hunters had been supported by men in the Three Kingdoms, was— in the years Dr. Cullen while the honest Catholic politic The Death of Lucas. of his posing as Catholic leader, backed by ians had been assailed as enemies of the Before Lucas had completed the statement Archbishop Cullen, and sitting as Lord of the Church, exclaims“ W e, of course, are law his health broke down. The news from Ire Treasury in the British Ministry—a swindling ful game. Every ipriest may indulge to the land was, week by week, growing worse, and forging miscreant. The extent of his trans utmost in public vituperation against us. It in Borne he saw that the influence of Dr. Cullen actions as a forger have not been fully gauged, is ‘ not politics ’ to come before the world as far outweighed that of the Archbishop of Tuam for even this present year (1913) one of his for our assailants. W e are the offscouring of the and the prelates who sympathised with Lucas’s geries has turned up to complicate a land sale. earth, and if a priest holds us up to the general object. His depression of spirits reacted dis The autumn of 1855 witnessed Sadlier’ s organ, indignation he performs the true work: of a astrously on him bodily, and in May he .had to the “ Catholic Telegraph/’ describing as a priest, he is doing God's service—he is earn return to- England. When he arrived there manifest act of Providence the overthrow of ing a Dublin Canonry.” The reference here his “ countenance was cadaverous, his eye Gavan Duffy and his Independent Opposition. is to Father Redmond of Arklow, a renegade feverish, his cheeks hollow, and his«flesh had The winter of the same year found the pro from the Tenant League. _ In reward for his so fallen away that he seemed to be wearing prietor of the “ Telegraph ” making his last recreancy and his writing in the Press letters the clothes of a bigger man.” “ He told rus huge forgeries to save himself from ruin. abusing Lucas as a “ whitewashed Quaker,” with a painful smile,” says Gavan Duffy, On the 1st of February he caused a dividend 'Archbishop Cullen created him a Canon. “ We “ that the doorkeeper at the House of Com of 6 per cent, and a bonus of £3 per cent, to see in Ireland,” said Lucas to the Pope, “ the mons had stopped him as a stranger, and in be declared on the shares of the Tipperary. Government doing its utmost to render us fact he was barely recognisable by his intimate Bank, through which he had sucked up the powerless by practising towards men who had friends. The news he had to hear was as dis money of the farmers of South Leinster and sworn to .take the very course which we have couraging as the news he had to tell. The In North Munster; while, at the time, he knew, taken—corruption open and shameless.” A dependent Party had dwindled to half-a-dozen, that unless by a miracle or a stupendous and reign of terror, he told the Pope, prevailed in and the Land Question had fallen back to the successful forgery, it must close its doors with Ireland under Dr. Cullen, and no clergyman condition in which the League had found it. in a fortnight. “ The directors,” said the dare appeal to the Holy See. The favoured ..... In short, all our labours had been official report of the Bank published ten days policy of place-hunting and place-begging he wasted by the policy of the Whig Bishops and before it collapsed, “ are happy to have it in then describes:— the success of the deserters. •’ The notion is that the Catholic members The Independent Party had gone. Lucas (Continued on next page). 8 NATIONALITY. Saturday, March 31st, 1917.
their power to report to the shareholders that your hbnoiir— perverted the purpose of those IRISH-ENGLISH PRAYER BOOKS the course of the Bank continues satisfactory, who led you and weakened the faith of those PRICE 6d. EACH. and the improving aspect of affairs in the who followed; your national character has been Repnblican Beads, 6d. & 1/- each country (that isrthe silencing of the ariti-Place- more demoralised and your national cause more imnters and other troublesome agitators), in- dishonoured by 25 years of servility to English STORY OF THE G.A.A., 1/- dnces them to feel confident that the'business Whiggery than by three hundred years of bon Postage on the above extra. of the Bank will go on extending and that the dage. You condoned place-hunting, but the annual profits will be thus increased.” price.you paid for the condonation was your All Irlsh-lreland Papers Stocked: On the night of Saturday, February 16th, own blood. The corrupt and profligate repre 1856, John Sadlier was at the end of his tether. sentatives who trafficked with British Govern J. J. W ALSH’S He knew that the Tipperary Bank would col ment were bought, not for themselves, but for lapse on the following Monday and his ruin and their influence with you, and you, the people IRISH EMPORIUM, exposure as a forger follow. He addressed to oi Ireland, pay the price of their treachery in one of his tail— Robert Keatinge, M.P. for eviction, expatriation, misery, and oppression. 26 Blessin^sn St., 19 Berkeley St., Waterford, an industrious place-beggar—a let Trample the accursed treachery— drive it for ter in which he implied he was about to commit ever from the land.” This was the exhorta DUBLIN. suicide as he could not witness the ruin he'had tion of George Henry Moore to the people of brought on the innocent. “ To what infamy Ireland. v have I come step by step,” he wrote, “ heaping J. T. LEMASS, brime upon crime, and now I find myself authorl Hatter and Outfitter of numberless crimes of a diabolical character and the cause of ruin and misery and disgrace e. ■ m a c
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