Arizona republican., 1916-05-01
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

lkepuDliCdn "A r. Leased WHcI LONDON. April 3O 11:45 D. m.-The proclamation issued by the insurgents at Dublin at the outbreak of the revo- lution is as follows: The provisional government of the Irish republic, to the people of Ire land: Irish men and Irish women: In the name of God and of the dead genera tiens from which you received the old traditions of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to- her flag and strikes for her freedom. Having organized and trained her manhood through her secret revolu- tionary organization the Irish republi- can brotherhood, and through open military organization, the Irish volun teers, and the Irish citizenry.
 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, by rely ing on her own strength, she strikes, in full confidence of victory.
 "We declare the right of the people cf Ireland to the ownership of Ire land and to unfettered control of Irish destinies. 10 be sovereign and inde- feasible. Long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and govern ment has not extinguished that right nor can it ever be extinguished ex- cept by the destruction of the Irish people.
 "ln every generation the Irish peo- pie have asserted their right to nal- tional freedom and sovereignty. Six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it, in arms Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world. we hereby proclaim the Irish republic as a sovereign in- dependent state, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades in arms to the cause of it's freedom it's welfare and it's exaltation among nations.
 The Irish republic is entitled to- and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irish woman. The republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal oppor- tunities to all it's citizens and de. clares its resolve to pursue the hap piness and prosperity of the wholS nation equally and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by ar alien government which have di- vided the minority from the majorit, in the past.
 Until our arms have brought tn, opportune moment for the establish. ment of the republic, representativ, of the whole people of Ireland anC elected by the suffrage of all her meT an1 women the provisional govern. ment hereby constituted, will admin ister the civil and military affairs O the republic in trust for the people
 We place the cause of the Irisl republic under the protection of tn most high God, whose blessing We in yoke upon our arms. and we pra. that no one who serves that caus will dishOnor it by cowardise, inhu manity or rapine. In this suprem hour, the Irish nation must by it valor and discipline and by the readi ness of its children to sacrifice them selves for the common good, prov itself worthy of the august destin, to which it is called.
 Signed in behalf of the provisiona government:
 Thomas J. Clark, g. MacDiarmaJ Thomas MacDonagh, J. H. Pearce; E C. Ceant, James Connolly, Josepl Plunkett"