The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30
IRISH TO HOLD Big
MEETING TO-DAY
Plan Demonstration Here to
Voice sympathy With
RevOlutiOnists.

Syimpithizers with the IRISH revolt
were preparing last night for a big dem
onstration at the meeting to be held IN
the Conan Theatre at s o'clock this
evening. Meetings viii also be held IN
flttsfcld. New Haven, Paterson n
other cities al the same time.
Among the speakers Will he john De-
voy OF the Gueiic imercdn: John Je-
rome Rooney. sN-Judgc OF the Court of
Claims Father She.hy of .Notre Dame
church ia" Rev, James W. Poer, pastor
II All Saint Church Alfred Talley,
Police Inspector Cornelius =. Catalan
and Thomas H.bhs Magiuu's.
\ collection will probably he taken
up, hut not for III. purpose, it wa said.
~ supplying the r"volutiou,sts with
arms and ammultion. The fund will
probably =" to AID the widows and or
phans OF 'hos" killed IN the uprising.
The Irish rebellion liz not the act OF
u hdrehrained few, according to John
- Moore, national secretary ~ the
Friends ~ Irish Freedom. hu, an out
hurst OF thousands of well organized,
we'll armed patriots who hate England
and love Ireland, and are willing 10
die for the oausc.
THE Irish al. determined that Ire.
land shall lie free, that Is why ia ~
have r;Sen,' said Mr.. Moore. with -
hrn reliance on the protection Of ,
divine Providence they have piedg" 4
TO each other their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor. Just a. did
Franklin, Hancock and the other stgne =
- the American Declaration Of indie
p~endence. The circumstances surround
ti.g the Irish rebellion and the American
revolution are precisely parallel.
Twin or lose. the Irish have st,ked
Al! or the outcome. If they win the
Republic OF Ireland will take its position
among the leaders 81 the world.
"A few weeks ago Asquitl went In
Rome to secure aid against the Irish,
and this morning the papers print d
cable from London TO the effect that the
Pope has disapproved Of the rebellion.
I 10 not believe that the Vatican l,as
acted n way or another in what 10
solely a temporal matter"
John Dewey, editor Of the gaelic Amn-
lean. yesterday renewed his charge that
United States Government officials had
betrayed Sir Roger Easement into the
hands of the British. In "a statement
Dewey issued he said
MIR, Lansing Is made to deny that
the state Department had given any
Information to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
that could have led to the capture of
Sir Roger Easement and said that the
Won lgel papers were not in the hands
Of the Secretary of State at the time
that Sir Roge was made prisoner. The
editor Of the Gdolc American had not
mentioned the Won Igel papers.
The admission that at tho time Sir
Roger Easement was captured IN Ire
land the Won Igel papers were not In
his hands II very interesting Mr..
Lansing does not say they were no,
In Attorney-iicneral Gregory's hands.
lie does not deny that while they we'e
In the hands Of the Federal District At
tnrney in New York statements we're
given out to the effect that they revealed
AN Irish plot, in which prominent New
YORK lrishmen were implicated.
There statements were certainly
given for publication by some one in.
side the District Attorneys Office and
contained threats OF prosecution against
there New York Irishmsn for their anti.
English activities. The truth OF these
statements was never denied by MI
Marshall n they We're distinctly part
Of AN anti-usrman. pro-British propa-
ganda."