The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-08-01
A Call for Volunteers
Irish Nationalist Asked to Aid the Irish Cause
by Supporting Volunteer Army.
To the Friends of Ireland in the Uni
ted States and Canada:

To the Friends of Ireland in the Uni
ted States and Canada:
Under the leadership of John F.
Redmond, the centuries old struggle
of the people of Ireland for National
Self-Government is on the eve of vic.
tory. The battle has been won by
constitutional means, and within
the limits even of English law. II
has been a contest of intellect fol
justice. In the train Of Irish prog
ress and as result of Irish agita-
ton, there has come an awakening
of the people of Great Britain with
the resultant legislation for their
betterment and the forecasting OF
the era of Democracy Triumphant.
In England, Scotland and Wales the
old antagonisms of race and creed
skilfully fomented by official power
and privilege. are passing away and
men like Asquith and Birrell and
Churchill and Morley. as Gladstone
in another day, have Joined hanls
with Ireland.
To secure the defeat of the Liber-
al party and thus restore the power
of an hereditary House of Lords with
it's veto upon beni1cent legislation,
the wealth of Tory England has
seized upon the prejudices of small
portion of Ireland and by appeals
to all the baser passions of men, has
sought to fan into new flame the
fires of irreligious hates.
Through it's agencies, it has sought
to poison the wells of public informa-
ton. Cablegrams foretelling civil
war, forecasts of riots. false and
fraudulent statistics. misleading
statements about the wealth, re-
sources and population of Ulster. dis
torted stories of receptions and wei.
comes to the nearly seventy-year-old
lawyer chieftain of the Orange
forces, make up the regular news in
ficted upon the American public. We
assert that f1ve-sixths of the people
of Ireland are in favor of Home
Rule. We assert that the majorit.
of the people Of Ulster are in favo,
of Home Rule. Both statements arr
susceptible of mathematical demon
stration for the elected parliament
airy representation from the whole o
Ireland is made up of o5 Home Rul
ers to 16 Unionists and from tn
Province of Ulster, there come 1
Home Rulers to 16 Tories, ever,
county and the City of Belfast, hav
ing at least one Nationalist repre-
sentative.
We assert that in aggregat
wealth, instead of being the first
Ulster stands second to the PROVING
of Leinster, and that in per capt.
wealth, both Leinster and Munste
exceed Ulster, the latter being tn
third of the four provinces int
which the island is divided
We deny that Home Rule is re
ligious question and we proclaim
that those who assert otherwise, vii
fully attempt to deceive. The fore
most Catholic in Great Britain is tn
Duke of Norfolk who is bitter or
ponent Of Home Rule, and he, a
we'll as the chief whips of the Tor
Party in the House of Commons, ar
avowed Catholics, and radical sur
porters of Carson and his tactics. o
the other hand, the whole histor
of Nationalist Ireland is a protes
Robert Emmett, Wolfe Tone, job
Mitchell, Thomas Davis, Charlie
Stewart Parnell, the best loved leai
ers of the Irish people, were all Pro,
estants and today in the ranks of til
Irish Parliamentary Party are Pro-
estants like Stephen Gwynl
William Abraham, Captain Done
Ian, James Hogg, Swift Nj
Neill, Richard MCGEE and
w. Russell, and outside of Parlis
ment, there are staunch supporte,
Of the Irish cause like Lord Pirri,
head of the Belfast Ship Yards, an
other of the great merchants of Be
fast.
1--WE assert that ''Ulsteria"