Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-05-05
IRISH INSURGENTS
DECLARE RIGHTS
CALL TO ARMS AGAINST RULE OF
ENGLAND WAS MADE IN
FREEDOMS NAME
CLAIM LIBERTY FROM BRITISH
Leaders in Movement Claim Support
of countrymen in America-Six
Times During Last 800 Years
Rights Have Been Asserted

London.-The proclamation issued
by the insurgents at Dublin at the out
break of the revolt reads as follows:
1.-THE provisional government of the
Irish republic to the people of Ireland,
Irishmen and Irishwomen:
in the name of God and of the
dead generations from which you re-
ceived the old traditions of nationhood,
Ireland, through us, summons her chill
dren to her flag and strikes for her
freedom, having organized and trained
her manhood through her secret revo-
lutionary organization, the Irish re-
publican brotherhood. and through
open military organization the Irish
volunteers and the Irish citizentry.
Having partly perfected their dis
cipline and resolutely waited for the
right moment to reveal itself she now
seizes that moment and, supported by
her exiled children in America and by
her gallant allies in Europe, but rely
ing on her own strength she strikes in
full confidence of victory.
Sovereign Rights Declared
1--WE declare the right of the people
of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland
and to unfettered control of Irish des-
TIMES, to be sovereign and indefensi-
BILE Long usurpation of that right by
foreign people and government has
not extinguished that right, nor can 1t
ever be extinguished except by the de-
struction of the Irish people.
''In every generation the Irish peo-
pie have asserted their right to ma
tional freedom and sovereignty Six
times during the last 800 years they
have asserted it in arms. Standing on
that fundamental right and again as
sorting it in arms in the face of the
world we hereby proclaim the Irish
republic as a sovereign independent
state and we pledge our lives and the
lives of our comrades in arms to the
cause of its freedom, it's welfare and
it's exaltation among nations.
Liberty Guaranteed
"The Irish republic is entitled to and
hereby claims the allegiance of every
Irishman and Irishwoman. The re-
public guarantees religious and civil
liberty, equal rights and equal oppor-
tunities to all it's citizens, and declares
its resolve to pursue the happiness and
prosperity of the whole nation equally
and oblivious of the differences care
fully forstered by an alien government,
which have divided the minority from
the majority in the past.
ftTTpfil Our arms hauo brof,Ohf tha
opportune moment for the establish
ment of a permanent national govern
ment, representative of the whole peo-
pie of Ireland and elected by the suf-
frages of all her men and women, the
provisional government, hereby con-
stituted, will administer the civil and
military affairs of the republic in trust
of the people.
I'VE place the cause of the Irish re-
public under the protection of the most
high God, whose blessing we invoke
upon our arms, and we pray that no
one who serves that cause will dis
honor it by cowardice, inhumanity or
rapine.
Sacrifices Necessary
"In this supreme hour the Irish ma
ton must by it's valor and discipline
and by the readiness of its children to
sacrifice themselves for the common
good, prove itself worthy of the august
destiny to which it is called.
Signed in behalf of the provisional
government, Thomas ]. Clarke, S. Mac
Diarmad, Thomas MasDonagh, ]. II
Pearce, e. Ceannt, James Connolly
Joseph Plunkett."