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Patriots Again
Found Incur Midst

Minneapolis, MINI. A. F. P. S.
But Bibb has been in st. Louis and
THE Western Watchman" notes his
presence there in part as follows:
The bigots who mask under the dis
guise of the Independent Voters Lea
que had rally at the Odeon last
Sunday night. They mustered about
a hundred and fifty, women and chill
dren counted. This group listened to
fellow by the name of Bibb SLAYER
out nonsense about the Catholic
Church and it's political conquests ana
ambitions. A few candidates for pub
lie office were scattered through the
audience. These are now busy en-
planning how they were present at the
meeting by mistake. Their story how
ever, doesn't agree with the account
given by the "Post-Dispatch" reporter.
The latter says only the initiated or
those who passed for initiated got in.
We might remark right here that these
same aspiring gentlemen should be
given ample opportunity before prl-
mary election to clear themselves OF
the charge of consorting with bigots.
At present it looks as if they were
caught with the goods in their posses
sion. A man that will use dark LIANT
ern methods of getting into office is
not the kind to entrust with public re-
sponsibilities.
Still the incident has a greater i'm
pOrtance than the accidental bringing
to light of few clandestine Office
seeking bigots. % Can't the
public see that Bibb unintentionally
disclosed the whole animus of these
alleged patriotic associations the other
night when he declared he had hated
the Catholic Church for thirty years
and would continue to hate it all his
life? The charge these confessed big
OTIS bring against the Church literally
describes their own attitude.
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BISHOP PRoNoUNcEs APOSTOLIC
BENEDIcTIoN ON 6eTH.

When the Sixty-ninth Regiment of
New York City left for the border,
1,5OO men were mustered for inspec-
ton by Colonel Conley. In the center
of a hollow square stood Bishop
Hayes, pronouncing the Apostolic
blessing, bidding the guardsmen fight
the good fight and saying, before a
brief prayer in Latin:
Il speak in the name of that grand
old Church which has blessed armies
and sent them forth to battle since
the time Of the Caesars"
The officers knelt before the Bishop
and kissed his ring. Then a suden
shouting of commands the band dived
headlong into "The Rocky Road to
Dublin and in column of fours the
Sixty-ninth emerged from the armory
into Lexington avenue, preceded by a
group of officers wives and daughters,
not at all light hearted.
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Recruiting at StandstiIl in ireland
Pending Outcome of Home Rule
Negotiations.

Dublin, June 2S.-The wastage of
the Irish regiments is being supplied
since early spring by British and over
sea troops. No speeches in Ireland,
favorable to recruiting, have been
made by members of the Irish party
since April. All factions are watch
ing the progress of the Home Rule
negotiations. Some surprise is caused
by the declaration of Mr.. Redmonds
Volunteers that they will not follow
him in the dismemberment of the coun-
try. Rev. DIR. Crozier head of the
Church OF England in Ireland, de-
nounces the conditions in the country
adding that some of the Irish bat
taliOns in the British service are be-
coming Irish in name only and certain
Irish regiments are at only half their
strength in numbers"
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Captain O'Hern,
A Real Soldier,
Is Successor of
Father KelIv
Rev. j. J. o'Hern Of Chicago Is Given
This Title by Members Of Seventh
illinois National Guard.

Captain O'Hern is surely SOL
der" That is the word passed around
by Chicagos Fighting Seventh Regi-
ment of the Illinois National Guard,
now encamped here. The Captain
O'Hern referred to is the regimental
chaplain, not so long ago better known
as the Rev. ]. O'Hern, assistant pas
tor of All Saints Church. Chaplain
O'Hern leaped into FIR. Kelly's place
when i'll health barred him from ac-
companying the troops from Illinois
to the border.
FIR. O'Hern is fast winning for him.
self the same place in the heart of
the regiment that his predecessor, FIR.
Kelly, held for so many years. Nor
is he winning it by sitting in the shade
of his tent, willing to listen to any one
who comes up to him. Just now the
Chicago Seventh is going through an
experience that will never be forgot
ten. Part of that experience consists
of forced marches. good. long ones,
too, that have for their purpose the
seasoning of the men. The first march
was in pouring tropical rain. Chap
lain OHern was in line. The men en-
pected, in fact, requested him to ride
in an automobile that brought up the
rear. But he would and did not! The
next day there was another forced
march, this time in glaring sun with
a temperature up around one hundred.
Again FIR. O'Hern was at the side of
the boys, tramping step for step with
them
Mass Every Day.
This is FIR. O'Hern's answer to the
protest that he should spare himself
some of the hardships that fall to the
soldiers lot: Il am physically able
to endure all conditions and hardships
that the men Of the ranks are sub
jected to. l will go right along with
them wherever they. go. No! I've
never seen service before, but I've
grown up with many of the officers of
the Seventh" .. ...
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FORMER MINNESOTA RESIDENT
RECEIVES ROUGH TREATMENT
AT HANDS OF BRITISH AU.
THORITIES.
John Sweetman, Founder of Sweet
man Colony at Currie, Minn., Held
Prisoner for Twelve Days.

Arrested, thrown in prison. taken to
London and held twelve days, then
released without being told why he
was arrested or freed are some of the
incidents related by John Sweetman
of Drumbaragh OF Kells, County
Meath. Ireland, in recent letter to
the Reverend Martin Mallony of Men.
dota, MINI.
Mr.. Sweetman, who is seventy -one
years old, attained considerable no.
toriety in Minnesota in the early sos
as founder of the Irish-American colo.
niZation colony, later known as the
Sweetman colony at Currie, Murray
County.
A few days after the Sim Fein out
break in Dublin, Mr.. Sweetman was
walking with his wife and family in
his garden when two policemen ap.
preached. He was taken in a motor
car to the Richmond barracks in Dub.
lin.
He arrived at the barracks about .
y. m. and was placed in small dingy
room with twenty-eight other men.
Once each day the prisoners were
marched across the barracks under
guard and allowed to wash at faucet
without soap or towels.
Two days later Mr.. Sweetman was
allowed to send word to his wife that
he was well. 1T reminded me of some
of my Western experiences in Amer.
lea thirty.six years ago." he writes.
After a week of confinement, Mr..
Sweetman was marched with 400 men
about three miles to North Wall, where
they were placed on board cattle
boat and taken to Holzhead, England
On arrival there, 1877 of them were
taken by train to London and lodged
IN Wandsworth prison.
In Wandsworth, each man was given
cell, which was clean at least, he
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(Irish Press and News Service !

(1rish Press and News Service)
New York, July 14.-Miss M. Man
gan is in New York and made the fol-
lowing statement concerning the sit.
uation in Dublin:
"The question Of self-government
for Ireland is the all-absorbing topic
as all agree that the rebellion has
forced to an immediate issue the para
mount question OF freedom. Those
who favor Ireland from an imperial
istic point of view advocate the home
rule bill as sign that England wishes
to make Ireland PARTNER in the af-
fairs of the empire. The results of
the revolution vindicated the attitude
of the republicans. They called for
crucial test of Englands real inten-
tions toward Ireland, and events have
shown through the execution of pris-
oners of war that England is just as
cruel in 1916 to Irish men and women
as she was in 1848 and in 1867, in
fact, more cruel. 4,
I'VE hear much OF English law as
it is written which says a man is ad-
judged innocent until proven guilty.
That Is not the law they have applied
recently In the cases of Celts charged
with crime.
II can quote from my own personal
hor y{v 1nf%
i'll June. In the town of Killarney
five of the local volunteers were ar
rested just because they were volun-
teers, notwithstanding the fact that
on the previous Saturday they had
given up their rifles; under. a guaran-
tee that IT, ttreyr1tidT sssrthere. would be
no arrests and no searching of their
houses. But this guarantee was
like many another. The boys were
arrested after their houses had been
searched, they were taken to the local
barracks, where they had to be sup
piled with food by their friends; also
with bed clothes to make their beds on
the floor. The next morning they
were taken off by carly morning train
handcuffed, under strong military
escort with fixed bayonets. Joined at
Mallow station by a boy of ID years
similarly escorted kept for six days
in the military barracks in Cork, ex-
cept for meals and one hour exercise
during which they were not allowed
to talk to one another. For food, cold
cocoa without milk or sugar and a
lump of hard, dry bread each morn
ing-dinner being beef and potatoes,
supper of porridge. described by one
OF the prisoners as paste with which
the local billposter sticks up bills.
visited them in Cork inside iron bars
while visitors stood outside, soldier
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delivered at City Hall, Cork City,
June 23rd, 1860
Ladies and Gentlemen:
never addressed a meeting of my
fellow-countrymen with sadder
heart, or, on the other hand, with a
more resolute purpose. With sad
heart, because must avow that if Ire.
land can still be saved, it is not lead.
ers who will save her-
1t is the unbought masses of our
race who will have to save Ireland
from her leaders. have told you l
speak also with resolute purpose and
that is that
Are we going to allow the liberties
of Ireland to be strangled in secrecy
In a packed convention in Belfast by
the terror of batons and revolvers, or
OF threats of resignation more coward.
ly still.
If ] know the Nationalists OF the
North, once their blood is up, they are
not the men to quail as their Cardinal
and their Bishops have not quailed be-
fore the brutal secret tyranny which is
now tOttering to it's fall But what
ever may happen in Belfast, If any
man wants to know the uncomfortable
power of Irish Nationality. we are CIV
ing him a specimen here tonight in
this free public gathering of a people
whom Martial Law cannot silence, and
whom Mr.. Lloyd George can never
bribe to do his work.
You have been advised by certain
politicians to give full and careful
consideration" to proposals that would
blot the very name off the worlds
map, and would force you to invent
two new names for her dismembered
fragments. Full and careful consid-
eration!" Good Heavens. How can
any man calling himself an Irishman
ever have said it, A man might as
we'll be asked to give full and care
full consideration" to Il plot to murder
the mother who bore him!
Good men and good lrislmen have
been divided too long about methods
or about individuals. But none of us
have ever differed about the most sa-
cred ideal of our hearts love, and that
is the determination to make Ireland
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a nation once again and indivisible
from Antrim Head to Cape Clear. The
treasury-paid politicians are past pray
Ing for, but as for the people surely If
ever there was crisis which should
make the unpurchasable masses of
our people forget everything except
that we are Irish Nationalists, first of
all surely we have here at last sa-
cred bond that should unite every hon.
est man of our race in resistance to
the most villainous crime that was
ever attempted by England against
Ireland and even against her own high
est Imperial interests. The Bishop of
Derry, who has rendered services in
this crisis. stated truly the other day
that 1t was to him inconceivable how
many responsible statesmen could
make a proposal unless his object was
to ALLEVIATE the goodwill of Nationalist
Ireland forever The astounding thing
is they have got it into their heads
that they are doing some tremendous
service to their Imperial interests The
English papers are all openly proclaim
ing that this crime is being attempted
not In the interest of Home Rule, but
in the insane hope that it will strength
Ell England's electioneering interests
III the United States. The brilliant
idea apparently is to effect some grand
coup in the United States by winning
back the sympathies of Irish America,
which have been estranged by the
shootings and atrocities in Dublin-a
most desirable object only--they for
got that this proposal to dismember
Ireland will make them thousand
deadly Irish enemies in America for
every one made by the shootings in
Dublin.
So far from capturing the Irish
American vote they will fling away
their last chance of ever making them
friends. The bare announcement has
already created such a feeling of hor-
ror among the Irish race in America
that they have resolved to raise two
millions of dollars for the f. miles of
the Dublin insurgents and the prin.
clpal speakers at that meeting were
Dl,r 9
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urally does not want to enter Peace
Congress with the blood of Irish Mar.
tyrs dripping from her hands. She is,
therefore, trying to force an absolute.
ly worthless settlement on the Irish
people, with the connivance of the
renegade Irish representatives, while
the bravest of our race has been shot
in the streets of Dublin, or have been
murdered under the name of English
justice, or languish in prison in a for
eign land. And we in Ireland have
military law forced upon us to keep us
dumb.
Then, when great question like
that of the present arises, men like
those who have called this meeting to.
night, and who have for the past cou-
pie of years, and especially within the
past couple of months, proved them
selves dead to all real National feeling
these men now come along to make
party capital out of such a question.
Shall we permit them?
No. We maintain that neither the
Irish Party nor the A. F. I. Party rep.
resent any considerable portion of Ma.
tional Ireland. They hold no mandate
from the Irish people for any of their
actions since the outbreak of the war.
They have put Ireland in a false posi-
tion before friendly foreign countries.
The blood of the Dublin Martyrs has
proved to the world that the Irishmen
of today are prepared to pay the full
price for complete independence. The
Irish question has now become an In
ternational one IRE American Press),
and must be settled as such at the
proper time. When that time arrives,
the true voice of the Irish people, sup
ported by the exiled millions of our
race, must, and will be heard, as then,
thank God, neither Martial Law nor
British Gold can obscure the issue.
We demand full and complete retri.
button for the blood of the Irish Mar
tyrs which was shed in Dublin for Ire
land, All Ireland and an Undivided
Ireland. We will not desert our fell
low Nationalists in Ulster and, thank
God, there is the material for another
resurrection if necessary to defeat par
tition.
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Cork, June 3O.-It is a well-known
fact that most of Cork County is af-
fected by the spirit of revolt. The
Irish Volunteers were on the point of
rising during the recent rebellion, pre-
pairing to march on Dublin, when the
clergy succeeded in convincing the
leaders that the men were poorly
armed and the struggle futile. The
city, and county, the largest in Ire
land, is seething with sedition. The
Volunteers have issued printed pro.
test against the suppression of news
papers, the holdings of meetings and
the rigors of martial law and strongly
condemn the Home Rule bill as be-
trayal of the Nationalist cause.
In a circular, addressed to the citi-
zens Of Cork, defending the men who
died for Ireland in Dublin, the rebel
notes are seen in the following para
graphs:
"For generations Ireland has been
oOChAA6 ACulCoS AAO1u IA6AdAu, WAACA,
though constantly promised in the
shape of Home Rule bills, has never
materialized. But by the outbreak of
the present European war splendid
and unique opportunity was afforded
for forcing a settlement of the ques-
tion, as England entered the war as
the avowed champion of small nation
alities. Owing to the perfidy and be-
trayal of the political leaders the op.
portunity was lost, and Ireland was
made the poorer by the loss of thou
sands of her brave sons, who were
told that the place to fight for Ire
lands freedom was on the battlefields
of Flanders!
The Home Rule Bill was then
shelved indefinitely. nationality prosti-
tuted, and Constitutionalism proved an
absolute failure A weeks glorious
fighting for Irish freedom on the
streets of Dublin has regenerated Irish
nationality, and, in the words Of the
Most Rev. DR.. O'Dwyer "again gal
vanized the Irish question into life"
England now wants a settlement of
the Irish question-not for Ireland's
sake, but for her own. England, the
protector of small nationalities, nat
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LOCAL MAN SECRETARY OF Or
GANlzATiON SENDS OUT CIRCU-
LAR URGING ALL THE FAITH
Full TO BE PRESENT..

Full TO BE PRESENT.
Minneapolis is again to be blessed
with gathering of the patriots"
The American Federation of Patriotic
Societies will hold it's first convention
at the Masonic Temple, July 22d to
Oath. 1t has been two years since our
city has been honored by the presence
of men of this caliber, in fact we have
heard nothing of them since the May
orally campaign of couple of years
ago. We presume they have been
busy all this time, and trust that they
have succeeded in their admirable
life work of telling the great Amerl-
can people what terrible menace
exists within the boundaries of our
land. We all remember what P. T.
Barnum said of the aforesaid great
American people many years ago and
it appears as if his comments on
their gullibility still hold good. The
following circular has been sent out
calling together all the faithful:
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES.
We hereby beg to announce that the
National Convention of the American
Federation of Patriotic Societies which
was tentatively announced last year
for Pittsburgh for May, 1916, will be
held instead at the Masonic Temple,
Minneapolis, Mimi, July 1924, 1916.
Minneapolis has earned the name of
"City Beautiful" and it is in every
way equipped to handle large conven-
tions and extend every convenience
and courtesy to them. The patriots
may be fully assured of the royal well
come and treatment they so we'll de.
serve. Remember, brothers, this is an
important year and an exceedingly
critical time in our country's political
history. We should rise to the occa.
sion and act with full realization of
it's importance. This convention ia
yours, and will be just what you make
it.
D. ]. REYNOLDS, Nat Pres.
c. w. B1BB, Nat Sec.,
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Sir Lloyd George
Promised Carson
Exclusion of the
Ulster. Counties
EXCLUSION is TO BE MADE PER.
MANENT - LLOYD GEORGE
WRITES CARSON MEASURE
IS NOT TEMPORARY.

In view of the declaration by Irish
Party leaders that the proposed exclu-
sion of six Ulster counties, with Bel
fast and Derry, was to be merely a
temporary measure, the following ap-
peared in the Irish Times on Friday,
June %, the announcement being
made apparently, on official authority:
"Sir Edward Carson has received
from Mr.. Lloyd George written
promise of the most specific kind, that
the exclusion of the six northern coun.
ties under the present scheme of set
tlement is to be permanent to the
fullest extent which the Ulster Union
list Council has demanded.
This fact explains the confidence
of the six counties in face of the state.
ments of Mr.. Redmond and the prime
minister that the exclusion is to be
merely provisional"
Clear and Explicit.
Commenting on this disclosure, the
Irish Times editorially says:
Questions which go to the very
root of Mr.. Lloyd Georges proposals
have arisen during the last fortnight.
Did he lay the same proposals, or two
different sets of proposals, before the
Ulster Unionist Council and the Ma
tionalist Party? Will the Nationalist
Conference at Belfast be asked to vote
on the same scheme which the Ulster
Council has accepted, or on an entirely
different scheme? The Ulster Union
lists have been told that the exclusion
of the six counties is to be permanent.
The NatiOnalists are assured by Mr..
Redmond that it will be provisional,
and the Prime Minister says that Mr..
Redmond is right.
"One might have supposed that the
Unionists of Ulster, who are hard men
in matters of business, would have de.
manded an immediate explanation of
this contradiction in terms We shall
tell the public why they have not de-
manded it. Sir Edward Carson pos
sesses written promise by Mr.. Lloyd
George that the exclusion of Ulster
is to be permanent. There is no doubt
about the terms of this document. 1t
is clear and explicit. 1t means, if words
mean anything, that Ulster is to be
excluded from a Home Rule Parlia-
ment in saecula saeculorum, unless
and until, of her own free will, she
makes another choice.
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Archbishop Glennon, in an address
at the laying of the cornerstone on
June 25 of the new orphan home be.
Ing erected in st. Louis by the Cath
olic German Orphans association, de.
clared that German Catholics "allow
neither creed nor race to stand be.
tween them and their duty" He as.
serted the hyphen simply bound them
all the more strongly to defend the
Stars and Stripes.
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MALE IMMIGRATION PROHIBITED

(Irish Press and News Service.)
Dublin, Ireland, July l, 1916-The
order is renewed for the prohibition
of the emigration of all male adults
from Ireland.
Harvest men refuse to work in Eng
land until their safe return to Ireland
is guaranteed. The exodus of children
is remarkable. Strikes on the docks
of Dublin are noted. Irish laborers in
England have been assaulted.
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c. o. F. WORK IN MINNEAPOLIS.

&. .. F. WORK IN MINNEAPOLIS.
State Organizer Wm Lozkiel, for
MINI. Catholic Order of Forester
Courts met with Nicollet Court, 2O24
Wash Ave-, Tuesday evening, and a
plan was set on foot for the rehabili-
ment of the roster and an assured in
crease in membership of so candidates.
Nicollet Court charter members was
made up of the early French settlers
Of Minneapolis. Age has decreased
the membership slightly and the
younger generation now at the helm
has given assurance to the state organ
izer that, ere the year closes he will
be called back to witness a class ini.
tiation Of so candidates.
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coNTENTMENT.

One contented with what he has
done stands but small chance of be-
coming famous for what he will do
He has lain down to die. The grass is
already growing over him.-Bovee.
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traveller from
IRELAND GIVES A
Statement 0FTHE
true CONDITIONS

Question Of seIt-Government for
ireland Is Al Absorbing Topic"
Says Returned 1raveler-AII Fac
tions Agree That Rebellion Forced
to an Immediate Issue the Para.
mount Question OF Freedom-Events
Have Proven That England Is Just
As Cruel to ireland Today As in
1s4e or 1867.
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I|IreIand - = e. ;;sss@;:saeth-
ing With SedIt.)n"


Latest Reports Say Country 10 Affected
Protest Against Suppression of Newspapers Rgo
forbidden to Hold Meetings
Bill Betrayal o Cause.
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Yankee Doodle" is derived from
the Persian "Yanki-dooniah," mean
ing the New World, or America.