Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-17
CALLS IRELAND TO
ARMS FOR BRITAIN
Redmond Says 1t Is Erin's Duty
to Keep Faith With
England.

LONDON. Sept. II. = "The democ-
racy of Great Britain have kept
1alth with Ireland and it is now the
duty of honor for Ireland to keep
iaith with them" says John Red
mond, the Irish leader, in manifesto
issued last night, in which he calls
on lrishmen to bear their share in the
war in which the empire is engaged.
The Irish people," Mr. Redmond
Continues, "know and appreciate the
fact fully that at last after CEN
turtles of misunderstanding, the de-
moeracy of Great Britain has finally
and irreyocably decided to trust them
and give them back their national lib
critics.
BY Overwhelming British MAORI
ties charter of liberty for Ireland
has three times been passed by the
House of Commons and in a few
hours will be the law of the land y
new era has opened in the history of
the two nations.
During the long discussion on the
Irish problem in Parliament, and on
the platform we promised the British
people that a concession of liberty
would have the same effect in Ireland
as in every other part of the empire,
notably in recent years in South AT
RIGA; that dissatisfaction would give
way to friendship and goodwill and
that Ireland would become a strength
instead of a weakness to the en-
pire."
Mr.. Redmond then goes on to speak
OF the war. saying:
1T is Just war, provoked by the
intolerable military despotism of
ftprD1nTW js 70,
high ideals of human government and
International relations, and Ireland
would be false to her history, to every
consideration of honor, good faith
and self-interest, did she not willing
ly bear her share in its burdens and
its sacrifices.
We have. even when no ties of
sympathy bound our country to Great
Pritain, always given our quota, and
more than our quota, to the firing
line. and we shall do so now.
I'VE have a right to claim that
irish recruits for an eXpeditionary
force should be kept together as
unit and Differed, as far as possible
by Irishmen-to form, in fact, an
irish brigade, so that Ireland may
gain national credit for their deeds
and feel like the other communities
Of the empire that she, too, has con-
UlDuIed an. army bearing ner name IN
this historic struggle.
II would appeal to our countrymen
of a different creed and of opposite
political opinions Mr.. Redmond says
in conclusion, ito accept the friend
ship we have so consistently offered
them and to allow this great war, as
to which their opinions and ours are
the same. to swallow up all the small
er issues in the domestic government
of Ireland which now divide us, that
as our soldiers are going to fight and
shed their blood and die at each
others side in the same army and
against the same enemy for the same
high purpose, their union in the field
may leads&o upionyin their home, and
that their Blood may be the seal that
will bring all ireland together in one
nation and in liberties equal and COM
mon toeall." - 4a{
Parliament will probably eispro-
= rogued on Friday. The new session,
it is understood, will begin the first
week in November, unless some ma
tional emergency should demand the
earlier attendance of the members