Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-25
FIERY JIM LARKIN
PLEADS FOR MONEY
TO FIGHT ENGLAND
Grand Nephew of Martyred
Irish Patriot breaches
Revolution Before Meeting
of German and Irish Amer
leans.

Celt and Teuton Joined hands last night
| and made common cause to fight England
the country they termed their common
enemy. That was the spirit which en-
thused 1900 Germans and Irish Amef-
leans at the Academy of Music last
night, when the death OF the MAN
chester Martyrs" Allen LarkIn and
O'Brien, was commemorated. The prin-
clpal speaker was Jim" Larkin, Of
Ireland. the frebrand of the Emerald
Isle, and Englands bitter enemy, grand
nephew of the martyred Larkin.
There was no mincing words. no dodg-
ing, no diplomacy In what Larkin said
He deliberately preached revolution and
appealed TO the Irishmen OF America,
through the Irish-American League,
under whose auspices the monster meet
ing was held, to send arms and ammuni-
tion to Ireland "for the glorious day OF
reckoning with England"
ASKS MONEY TO BUY GUNS
MEN and women" shouted Larkin. and
1000 hearts beat faster as he spoke the
words give us money to buy guns and
by the living God, who gave us life. we
will not fail you and We1l not fail the
mother of our race / plead with you.
For 700 long and weary years we have
waited for this hour. The flowing tide
is with US and we deserve TO be rele-
gated to oblivion II we are not ready 10
take occasion by the hand and make the
bounds OF freedom wider yet Give us
the arms and Wen be ready with the
rising of the moon"
with the feryor that must have shone
from the eyes of savanarola, with the
bitterness that burned the lips OF the |
prophets when they pronounced their |
curse upon the wrongs OF the ancient /
world and with the same enthusiasm l
that led his grand uncle to his execution, |
Iarkin pleaded for the cause OF Ireland |
denounced John Redmond as "a pur-
chased traitor" and ridlculed the home
rule bill as "a manifest lie and tsrmi-
biological tneXactitude."
"Why should Ireland fight for Britain In
this war? What has Britain ever done
for our people?" asked Larkin. What
aver we got from her we wrested with
struggle and sacrifice. No. men and
women OF the Irish race. we shall not
ight for England. We shall fight for the
destruction OF the British Empire and
he construction OF an Irish Republic, We
shall not hght for the preservation OF the
'nemy which has laid waste with death
md desolatiOn the fields and hills OF Ire
and for seven hundred years. We viii
light to free Ireland from the grasp OF
hat vile carcass called England"
Here the audience broke into wild ap-
Ilause and as the curtain was fiunE back,
acins each other with arms i'm hand, a
Ompany OF Irish Volunteers and another
4 German uhlans were revealed on the
tage. The commanders Of the two forces,
dajor p. j. Jamison and Philip Rapp, |
rossed swords and shook hands as the ,
ierman and Irish flags were unfurlsd
bove them. The audience sang die ,
Yacht Am Rhein" and God Save Ire
and"
In denouneing Redmond as a traitor, 1
arSip produced two rides, one OF which, :
Q said, belonged 20 the consignment OF
rms purchased by Redmond and which 5
as out OF date, and Of no use IN facing v
n aFmed body. The rife was a Mauser [
the type Of 1870 This Is the kind of
eapon Redmond purchased to defend
'siand ana her cause with the money
pa sent him. said Larkin He then
reduced smother rife, purchased by the :
roYisionai Committee. the governing Y
lay. Of the Home Rule movement. with o
hieh, he said, 100 Irish volunteers faced =
Of the Kings Own Scottish Bordersrs. q
nslana's bast soldiers. and routed them. =
IRELAND NOT WITH REDMoND. 5,
They tell you that ths men Of ireland
e with Redmond" said Larkin. oIt d
az true. The men Ia ireland who are
lftny % the Hane Of men are abso- n
leis incenaed against Redmond Xou 10
oW our peqpie aant read unfortunate. n
fne sse4t aass Qf them FslF fer their u
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