Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-24
AN OPEN LETTER.
(To a member of the Advert ser staff
in answer to an editorial OF Satur-
L.

| Ito a member of the Advertiser staff
! in answer to an editorial OF Satur-
day, May 20. 1850
Sir: What manner Of man are you
| that you SANDER the dead The dead
who died for Ireland, and why nave
! you the audacity to do it openly? Is
/ il because with true Entente" III
| stinCt you realize that there is safety
in numbers" or is il becaus" England
Is the land Of your love. or because
| Pearce, Connolly and the rest have
! displayed a strength OF nationality
and patriotism of which you, sir, may
be utterly incapable
Any fair-minded man-"not. hater
i.of the Irish''-wilI grant at least that
these men, who died defiantly espouS,
! ing the cause to which they had
pledged their lives, felt that they hal
nationality worth dying for. and tn,
declaration of Independence for which
/ they shed their blood in an enIeaVOr
to perpetuate was worthy of the
sacr flee. Following is said dcClara.
ton:
The Provisional Government of the
Irish Republic to the People of Ire.
| land:
''Irishmen and IrishwOmen, in the
name of God and of the dead gen
erations from which you received the
old traditions of nationhOOd, Ireland,
through us, summons her children to
her flag and strikes for freedom,
having organized and trained her man
hood through her secret revolution
| organization, the Irish Republican
Brotherhood, and through her open
military organization, the Irish VOlun.
| teers, and the Irish citizen army.
Having patiently perfected their
discipline and resolutely waited for
the right moment to reveal itself, she
| now seiZes that moment, and, sup
ported by her exfled children in Ame".
| lea, and by. her gallant allies in Eu-
rope, by relying on her own strength,
she strikes, in full confidence of vic,
tory
We declare the right of the people
of Ireland to the ownership of ireland
and to the unfettered control of Irish
! destinies to be sovereign and indefaas-
ible. Long usurpatlOn of that right
by foreign people and government
has not extinguished that right, nor
can it ever be extingUished except by
the destruction 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 past 800 years they
have asserted it in arms. Standing on
that fundamental right, and again
ti,oo IL in in, 70 Of hn
world, we hereby proclaim the Irish
Republic as sovereign, independent
state, and we pledge our lives and the
lives of our comrades IN arms to the
cause OF its freedom, its welfare and
| its exaltation among nations.
''The Irish Republic is entitled to,
and hereby claims, the allegiance OF
| every Irish man and Irish woman.
The republic guarantees religious and
civil liberty. equal rights and equal
opportunities to all its citizens, and
declares its resolve to pursue the hap
| piness and prosperity of the whole ma
ton, and of all its parts, cherishing
all the children of the nat on equal,
ly, and oblivious of the differences
| carefully fostered by an alien govern.
LtcHIJ WHICH nave uiFluSu the llluOlIIJ
from the majority IN the past
Until our arms have brought the
| 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-
| frage of all her men and women, the
| provisional government hereby con-
stituted will administer the civil and
military affairs of the republic, in
| trust for the people.
1--WE place the cause of the Irish
| Republic under the protection of the
Most High God, whose blessing we in
woke upon our arms, and we pra!
that no one who serves that cause will
| dishonor it by cowardice, inhumanity
or rapine. In this supreme hour the
Irish nation must, by it's valor and
| discipline and by the readiness of its
children to sacrifice themselves for
the common good, prove itself worthy