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French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
WILKES COUNTY LEADING ~
IN MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS.
Fffty-Fiye schools Had Three Hun
dred and Twelve Adults Enrolled.

drAd and Twelve AHulGS EulOHOu'
of all counties reporting Moonlight
lSchool activities during the past year,
iWilkes led with three hundred Il
twelve men and women enrolled III
6ftv-6ve schools. Sixty-four of Mese
learned to read and write, aceordlng
To the report of Superintendent Z. !.
wright. of the Wilkes school. Inc q
est Moonlight School pupil in the coun-
ltv was seventy years, n the young
est was Twenty-Five Only 'eighty-tWo
of the three hundred and twelve were
a number Of reports have just been
received by the Community Service
Bureau, piling up the totals Secre-
tary Crosby is just now ienceunterlng
tine great snag of the undertaking. An
army of. teachersfaroSe almost at cal
to sweep ilhteracy of the State. In all
hut, very few, of the counties the III
cess has been little short of m1racui-
GUS. But with results achieved that
will put North Carolina up toward the
top Of those states which have slasned
the ~iTliteracy column by the wholesale.
the, county authorities become strange
reticents modest, perhaps.
in Madison county, thirty~eight ul1t-
crates. were, taught in. thirteen schools.
Twenty-three of them learned to.zread
and write. The oldest student enroll
ed was seyenty-tWo. years Of age and
the youngest was twenty7three.
Sampson county schools operating
from December S to January, 80. taught
4eleVen' silliterates, seven men and four
women. Four of them learned to read
and -Write.ft& ~ y
Out of one. hundred. and twenty illit-
crates. reported by teachers in Robson
ounty thirty learned to. read and write.
Eight schools. were, operated. The old
est was seventy years and the young
est twenty-three.
alexander had twenty schools, a
hundred and eighty pupils. The schools
operated from December 80 to January
81 and eighty men and women learned
to- read and write The Oldest was
sixty-two- years of age and the young
est was eighteen.
Nash county had fifty-siX illiterates
to. learn the fundamentals out of a
total moonlight enrolment of a hum
.dred and twenty-five. Fifteen schools
were, operating.
Pennsylvania, with schools open
from October 4 to December "a, had
thirty-two illiterates in six schools.
Twenty-four of these learned to read
and write. The Oldest was ffty-eight
and the youngest thirteen.
Seven schools were taught in Macon
county, Forty-three illiterates were
..enroTledE The oldest was fifty-threes
years and the youngest was twenty
one.-Raleigh News & Observer. II
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
100000 FOR DOCKS.

Washington, May Appropriations
of $500, 900 each for the building of
new dry docks at Norfolk and Phila-
delphia navy yards have been includ-
ed in the naval bill by the house naval
affairs committee. 'Fhe proposed docks
swim be among the largest in the Uni
led States and will accommodate the
biggest ships in the navy.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
AIRMAN BREAKS WORLDS RECORD.

Newport News, Va May 4.-Rec-
|ords for duration and distance with
six passengers were established today
before pilot E. T. McCauley, flying the
.Curtiss hydroaeroplane, the largest in
the world, was forced to abandon the
hight to- Baltimore and back on ac-
count of rain.
The machine had reached the NOUN
OF the Potomac River a distance. OF 50
miles from this city when a heavy ain
storm broke as Point Lookout was be-
ing passed.
The total distance of ITO miles was
covered in two hours and 90 minutes
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11

A. w. Horton, president of the Spar
tanburg creamery states that on last
Wednesday eleven hundred pounds of
cream was received-the heaviest TO:
any one day since the establishment O.
the creamery.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
sINN FEM PRESIDENT TO BE
CALLED FOR covRTMARrlAL.

Dublin.-A court-martial soon will be
called to try John Macneill. president
of the Sim Fein volunteers and pro-
fessor Of law In the National univer-
sity. 1t is announced that he will be
allowed to be represented by counsel.
Prof. Macneill. on the Saturday be-
fore the outbreak Of the revolt in Dub
lin, sent out a notice postponing in
definitely the parade of volunteers ar
ranged for Easter Sunday. He dis
appeared on the day of the opening of
the disturbances, but later was ar.
rested. His arrest was declared to be
considered one Of the most important
made by the British authorities in con-
nection with the uprising.
Prof. Macneill was the organizer and
vice president Of the Gaelic League in
addition to being president of the Sim
Fein volunteers. During the fighting
in Dublin he was reported to have
been wounded.
John Dillon in his recent speech in
the house Of commons, said but for the
action Of John Macneill, "who broke
the back of the rebellion, the military
would have been a hitting still"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED At NEW
YORK MASS MEETING.

Resolved, That we denounce to the
conscience Of the world further con-
tinuanee Of the present relations be.
tween Great Britain and ireland,
which, according to the admission Of
English authorities themselves, can be
maintained only by slaushterins or
savaseIy prosecuting in each genera.
tlon the nobiest, and elevatins to the
highest places the least worthy Of the
race; and we demand in the name not
alone Of ireland but Of all civilization
that In any plan Of paciticatlon which
may be adopted to end the present
war every small nation, including Ire.
land, shall be aoeorded and secured
the right to decide for itself the politl.
cal conditions under which It shall
live and work out its destiny.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
ENGLAND'S ATTEMPT TO De.
STROY THE RED CROSS.

Ex-President William Howard Taft,
chairman of the central committee Of
the American Red Cross, has put up
to the administration the duty of en-
tering an immediate and emphatic
protest against the inhuman action
Of Great Britain in refusing to per-
NIT supplies for the sick and wounded
to be forwarded to the central pow
ers. The British government asserts
that 1t will not permit supplies for
the sick and wounded to be passed
as non-contraband of war because Ger
many has not consented to like treat
ment. Mr.. Taft shows that Germany
consented to this course on October
Is, 1915, and that the British govern
ment was officially notified of the fact.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
HISTORY. AIMS AND
AMBITIONS OF Sim
FEIN ORGANIZATION
Insurrection Contains Warning to Big Nations 1of
Danger That Will Ensue From Not Satisfying
National Passions Which Shoulder
in Hearts of Cypress Says
French Statesman

creek are insignificant in the perspec-
tive of a Washington habitue - and
Enniscorthy and Ardee are immeasur-
ably farther from London's towers.
This insurrection in Ireland has not
set back the hour Of home rule. The
man is playing with words-or with
votes-who says so. Men of pure
purpose Offering their lives for their
country do not defer its legislative
liberty in this century. (Nor, as Gus
tave Herve stated in Paris last week,
is this insurrection without its warn
ing to big nations "of the danger that
will ensue from not satisfying the ma
tional passions which smolder in the
hearts of all the oppressed peoples of
Europe.D
The insurrection was not, as we
have variously read, a movement
urged by a self-seeking Germany or
a few remote Irish-Americans upon
hot, unthinking young Irishmen. 1t
is something vastly more compli.
Gated.
The men who led it are not mere
catspaws of Germany, as the parlia.
mentary spokesman Redmond has
stated. They used, and we're used by,
Germany in 1916 exactly as their pro
totypes used, and were used by
France in 1898. Their one aim was
Irish freedom.
They are of two classes-the lead
ers in Connolly's small socialist-Labol
party, which is identical with such
parties in every country, and some Of
the more ardent from that distinctive
ly Irish body, the Slim Feins.
These last are not wild.eyed mer
with knives and bombs, agitatinl
force. Their Gaelic name signifiei
ourselves alone" or Gin our OWL
fashion" Their aim is to revive II
Ireland Irish laws, thought, speech
and ideals, as opposed to the past cen
tury Of Anglicization. Intellectual
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
AID FROM GERMAN.AMERlcAN
sYMPATHlZERs.

The Communications Of Danvers,
Mimi, have shown their sympathy for
the victims Of England's murderous
policy in the recent revolt in Ireland
by taking up generous collection for
the aid of those who have been left
bereft and who are dependent upon
contributions of friends to aid them
in alleviating their distress. Thou
sands of Irishmen have been trans
ported to Dublin and their families
left dependent upon charity. The
practical sympathy of German SYM
pathizers at Danvers deserves the
hearty thanks of all friends of Irish
freedom.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
ULSTERITES UNWILLING TO ACCEPT
GOVERNMENT IMPLYING home RuLE !"

Belfast, 1reland.-Stubborn disinclin-
alton to accept anything in the way of
a government which might imply the
future subsection of Ulster to home
rule was evident on the occasion Of
Premier Asquith's visit to Belfast.
So far as can be learned, the pre-
micr's conference with a large body
of representative Ulster men was dis
appointing.
1t is understood that the question Of
the general disarmament of forces in
ireland not authorized by the govern
nent was discussed, and although those
present were pledged to secrecy, it is
rumored that cold water had been
thrown on the proposal.
The discussion was very full and
frank, but it is asserted that the re-
suit was unsatisfactory.
Sir Edward Carson's telegram to the
Ulster Unionist Council, to the effect
that he had no knowledge Of rumors
respecting the government of Ireland,
did not bring about an alienation of
the situation.
Belfast itself, does not show any
signs Of accepting the compromise,
which it is understood Redmond ia
ready to offer. listers capital was al
most entirely unaffected by the recent
rebellion and the provisions of martial
law have not been enforced.
Everything is outwardly calm, but
the keenest interest underlies the sur
face appearance and many Ulsterites
declare their determination to have
no dealings with the Nationalists.
All newspapers in Belfast advise
caution in regard to any promises the
premier may have made, but which are
not yet public property.
Asquith returned to Dublin where,
it is reported. further court-martials
! will be conducted.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
IRISH Weep FOR THEIR SLAIN
PATRIOTS; SYMPATHY UNIVERSAL
MASS MEETINGS IN ALL SECTIONS OF COUNTRY SHOW
SENTIMENT-PUBLIC MEETINGS FOR ST. PAUL AND
MINNEAPOLIS

Seven thousand Irish sympathizers
recently held monster meeting In
San Francisco where an able address
was give given by Rev. P. c. Yorke.
editor of the San Francisco Leader.
In New York City memorial meet
ing was held in Carnegie Hall where
a protest was issued against England's
oppression of Ireland. The audience
was visibly affected as the orators
described the death of sixteen slain
patriots. Among those in attendance
at Carnegie Hall were: Miss Agnes
Newman, sister Of Sir Roger Case
ment, Mrs. O'Donovan Rosa, Monsig-
nor F. H. Wall. the Rev. John j.
Wynne. s. j.. Dr.. Joseph M. F. Egan,
]. D. Hackett, Sheriff Kinkead of Jer-
sey City, Thomas F. Churchill. James
K. Mcclure, John Mccormack the
singer: Justice Martin J. Keogh. Seu-
mas MacManus, the author; Padraic
Colum. the poet; Justice Daniel F..
Cohalan. Thomas H. Kelly and scores
of others.
The meeting was presided over by
Victor Herbert, the composer and ma
tional president of the Friends of
Irish Freedom. One of the affecting
instances of the meeting occurred
when the speakers table was draped
with huge flag Of the Irish Republic.
The emblem covered the casket of
O'Donovan Rosa when he was buried
in Ireland last fall, and had been pre-.
sented to his widow by three of the
men who were executed by the Brit
ish-Pearse, Clarke and MacDonough
Justice Gavegan said, in part, after
telling of ante-bellum conditions which
resulted in Irish dissatisfaction:
Patience had ceased to be a vir
tue. Sickened by England's denial o1
Justice. and threatened by the domi
nation Of an armed minority. lrishmel
we're found who were willing to sac
rifice their lives in order to qualif,
Ireland as belligerent and thereby
entitle that misgoverned country tt
her day in court when the great tri
bunal of the powers now at war shoult
meet for the purpose of concluding
terms Of peace.
"As we believe in just God, We
must look for some good in return
for the horrible sacrifices which are
being made in that awful conflict
and no student of current events cal
fail to see that one result of the Eu
ropean war will be the lessening i
not the destruction of the power o
tho dominating classes and an in
crease in the spirit of democracy ii
all the belligerent countries.
"Is it vain to hope, under the con
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20


the immediate achievement of their pa
triotic projects, and all have suffered
the fate that would have been that of
Washington and other revolutionary
heroes had they met with similar mis-
fortune.
"Irishmen fought with Washington
from Boston to Valley Forge, and in
the final victory at Yorktown, and their
descendants and those of the men of
that race who have to their credit the
record of more than seven centuries
struggle for the achievement of the
same ideals cannot fail, and chal-
lenge any loyal, true American to say
he does not sympathize with them"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
SPEAKER COMING TO Twin CITIES
PRAISES SPIRIT OF THE IRISH RACE

The parallel between the Boston tea
party" that preceded the American
revolution, and the recent Irish revolt
centered in Dublin, was drawn Monday
night by Judge O'Neill Ryan, leader
of the Irish in st. Louis, in a speech
before the Town Club, a woman's or
ganization.
"In 1775," said Ryan, conditions in
Boston paralleled those prevailing re-
Gently in Dublin. The history of Am
erican conditions in 1775 is too we'll
known to this audience to be recounted.
Preceding the recent Irish uprising the
conditions were the same in Ireland.
Irish leaders, who were men Of &C.
knowledged intellect and judgment,
received information-the authorita-
tiveness of which believe they were
better qualified to judge than we are
that campaign to arrest them, their
principal neutenants and to suppress
civil laws. was planned by England.
They acted accordingly"
This epitomizes Judge Ryan's expo
sition of the Irish question:" which
was prefaced by a condensed state
ment Of Irish history, which he de-
clared to have centered, since the be.
ginning Of British rule in a constant
struggle for republican form of gov.
ernment. He challenged, in his perora.
tion, any loyal American to withhold
his sympathy from the men who led
and fought in the revolution, after
reading the Declaration of 1ndepend.
ence, coincident with the American
declaration of 1776.
"The men," he said, "who signed
the Irish declaration of independence
did so, as did the signers of the De
claration of Independence Of this coun
try, with the full knowledge that fail
ure made it equivalent to signing theil
own death warrants. They failed II
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20

ditions which exist, that Ireland may
successfully present her claim to the
world tribunal?
After the proof which the glorious
young manhood of that country has
so recently given of their readiness to
fight and die for Ireland. who shall
say there is no ground for the hope
that their noble sacrifice Of life may
result in a united Ireland whose peo-
pie north and south will have an op-
portunity to work out their own des.
tiny as self-governing and independ.
ent nation.
THAT which was falsely represented
at first as riot, now proves to have
been battle and siege requiring
10000 soldiers with machine guns and
heavy artillery to decide.
I'VE may safely predict that the
battle Of Dublin will 60 down in his
tory as the first and only victory in
the worlds great war which was won
by English troops. Ia 1t not most
natural that like another Concord or
Lexington 1t should surge in our
American memories as the beginning
Of campaign to end in Ireland's
freedom?"
Bainbridge Colby began by telling
the audience he felt envious as he
caught the warmth of their pride of
race, that cheered even the name of
a river or town. Then he went on:
Il cannot stand by mute and passion.
less as these votive offerings of hu-
man lives are laid upon the altar of
patriotism. The death of your mar.
tyrs has called into existence millions
of 'lrishmen by principle who cannot
claim Irish Lativity, but are proud to
claim share in Ireland's struggle
for freedom.
i Conquest Never Completed"
There is not even scintilla Of
! legality in England's claim to rule
: Ireland. Her only claim is by con.
; quest, and that conquest has never
; been completed
} Mr. Colby said he saw little differ
ence between the visit of Sir Roger
Easement to Germany to obtain aid
for the Irish revolutionists and the
visit Of Benjamin Franklin to Paris
} to obtain French assistance for the
| struggling American colonies. He pre-
} dicted, in conclusion, that Ireland
never would accept the rule of Eng
| land, and eventually would not have
to accept it.
The Rev. Father p. j. Duffy, chap
plain of the Sixty-ninth Regiment,
stirred the audience with the declara-
| tion that the English conquest of Ire.
land was started in 1172 and was not
: yet, and never would be, completed.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20

not physical, force was the weapon
they normally advocated.
The party has been led by group
of high spirited young men of remark
ably keen intellectual powers who in
any country more happily placed
would be the leaders Of a progressive
constitutional party. The rank and
file have been merely incredulous as
to the sincerity of England's promises
to give Ireland its rights. But all
alike objected vigorously to the sub
tie ,Anglicization of Ireland which un-
til the last decade had proceeded as
rapidly ever since the famine. To
them Anglicized 1rishmen, whether
spokesmen in the house of commons
or at home in Ireland, were national
nvertebrates-"neith fish, flesh, nor
good red herring"
ireland as whole did not rise last
week; most Irishmen have learned
the inefficacy of physical rebellions.
Yet the Sim Feins have the personal
love, the kin sympathy. open or covert,
of 70 per cent Of the people of Ire
land as we'll as of the Irish abroad.
This is particularly true since the
1914 anti-climax in the home rule
drama, the 1915 threat of conscription,
and the early 1916 threat of disarma-
ment of the volunteers-as we'll as
several imprisonments recently for
speaking Irish!
The sympathy in Ireland is more
often covert than open to any but
other sympathizers-for Ireland in
peace times lies under the cloud of
social intimidation and in war time
under another kind.
This statement will not tally with
some of the Dublin reports, for the
very reason that with one exception
the papers of Dublin that remain un
suppressed are financed and con
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
lRlSHMEN SLAUGHTERED
BY BRITISH ARE HEROES,
GEORGE 3. SHAW SAYS

George Bernard Shaw, noted author
and playwright, discussing the execu-
tions of the Sim Feiners, in an open
letter says:
"My view is that men who were
shot in cold blood after their capture
or surrender were prisoners OF war.
and it was therefore entirely incorrect
to slaughter them.
Relation of ireland to Dublin Cas-
tie is in this respect precisely the
same as the Balkan states toward
Turkey. Belgium toward the kaiser or
of the United States to Great Britain.
Until Dublin Castle is superseded
by national parliament and Ireland
is voluntarily incorporated with the
English Empire. like Canada, Aus
tralta or South Africa, an 1rishman
resorting to arms to achieve the inde.
pendence of his country is doing only
what Englishmen will do IL invaded
and conquered by the Germans.
"Such an Irishman is as much in
order morally In accepting assistance
from the Germans as England is in
accepting the assistance of Russia in
struggle with Germany.
"The fact that he knows that his
enemies will not respect his rights ii
they catch him, and that he must fight
with rope around his neck, adds
in some measure to his glory in the
eyes of his compatriots and in the
eyes Of disinterested admirers of pa
triotism throughout the world.
"The slaughter Of a man in thi.
position makes him a martyr and q
hero. The shot Irishmen will now
take their places beside Emmet and
the Manchester martyrs in Ireland and
beside the heroes of Poland, Serbia
and Belgium in Europe. Nothing in
heaven or earth can prevent it."
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
SYMPATHY
YER THE WORLD

men. outside the circle of the Sim
Feiners. and made many brave and i'm
petuous spirits yield to the idea Of
striking the blow which they hoped
would emancipate their country from
British rule.
"The stupid blundering of the Brit.
ish government gave it national.
even a worldwide Importance, made
its leaders political martyrs, grossly
'insulted the great mass Of the Irish
people by putting the entire country
under martial law. and a military des-
potism which wreaked it's cruel ven
geance even upon men who never par
ticipated In the insurrection, and even
counseled against it, and-I believe,
has alienated the sympathy and sup.
port which they received in other
lands.
ut is morally certain now that the
government authorities in Ireland had
full knowledge of the projected insur.
rection long before 1t broke out, and
could have suppressed it, had they so
desired. Why they did not do SO ID
another exemplifcation of the devious
Shiny paths through which British
statecraft seeks to find it's way to the
accomplishment Of its objects. Many
Of us in this country who supported
the constitutional movement in Ire
land have had our ideas badly shat
tered within the past few weeks.
"If the British government, with the
blood of their victims still fresh upon
their hands, continue their shinanni
gan policy regarding the establishing
of the Irish parliament, putting the
government of the country in the hands
Of its people, and substituting there
for martial law, and the disarming o.
the volunteers, it will, in my judgment
unite the entire Irish race in q move
ment aimed at severing the last linl
in the British connection in Ireland"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
PILGRIMAGE TO THE FRANCISCAN
MONASTERY.

A pilgrimage of three thousand peo.
pie from Brooklyn and New York came
to the Franciscan Monastery, Wash,
ington, last Sunday, and it was a
most beautiful as we'll as cdifying
sight to see this great crowd of the
faithful gathered around tho "Grotto
of Lourdes" in the Monastery grounds
where the closing exercises of the
day in honor of the Blessed Virgin
took place.