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New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
paper
Rights

Administering Jobs comfort to those
who complain against abuses by soldiers
against civilian rights in New York, "The
CaP says:
The rights guaranteed by the Constitution
arc merely "paper rights" They make good
material for Fourth Of July orations by pif-
fling politicians spouting wordy nothngs to
fool the people, in order that they may more
efficiently rule and rob them.
This journal never for one moment has
believed that revolutionary Russia would con-
clude "A separate peace with Germany, and
consistently secuted the idea that the Amer
lean delegates who were not permitted TO go
TO Stockholm would in any way favor such a
policy, seeing that in any event it i'm
possible under the circumstances.
And Frank Harris writes in pear
sons:
Why should not President Wilson seize the
opportunity now TO bring about general
peace on fair terms? All one can say is that
capital appears to have seized the reins Of
power in the United States and is resolved
70 prosecute the war bitterly in order to save
Great Britain, and incidentally to make
money and get It's foot more firmly than ever
Oh the neck Of labor.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01

II means the conscription Of man power
and the conservation of wealth. 1t means
that human values are transcended by ma
tcriai wealth; that men must be sacrificed
and the owners Of wealth left undsturbed
II means that men will be under compul-
sorry service for military purposes, while the
profteers will thrive under the volunteer
system; that men must be sacrificed. and that
owners Of wealth will be left undisturbed in
the enjoyment OF their riches.
The greatest service that Canada can rem
der the Allies, therefore, is to conscript mot
borrow the wealth Of the nation, to take
over and operate the mines, railroads, NUM-
ton works and other establishments neces-
sary to the prosecution of the war (including
the banking SYSTEM, to eliminate the last
vestige of profteering, thus giving the ma
tion the benefit, instead of the prof.eers, Of
the work done.
consider it my duty to sound a note Of
warning to the organized workers not to per-
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01

TNVERY day in the news of lreland's
II, ups and downs one reads about
- the Sim Feners and the things
they are about. Yet it is doubtful whether
one American reader out of thousand
mas any clear conception as to who the
Sin Feiners are.
Francis p. Jones furnishes a definition
in his History of the Sim Fein Move
ment and the Irish Rebellion Of 1916:
The Sim Fein was not secret oath-bound
society. and had no relation to plans or
schemes for revolution No doubt but that
many Sim Feincrs were revolutonists in
spirit and act, and equally so there were
many Sim Feiners opposed to revolution by
force.
OF itself, the movement might be termed
patriotic political economy, and for unself-
sh aims coupled with patriotic purpose has
not had its equal in modern times. Indeed,
it was moro. 1t was altruistic in its project
ed service to country and humanity and its
spirit is expressed in a free translation of
it's title, "For Ourselves
Il was born of the terrible condition of
Ireland fertile country, always on the
verge Of famine; an island favorably stu
ated on the worlds great water lanes, its
coast line indented with capacious harbors,
without shipping or commerce; land with
fine water facilities and rich mineral de-
posits, without trade or industry, and \
vigorous, fecund population, decaying so rap
idly as to bring into view the vanishing point
Of the race
A true perspective OF the acts and motives
Of the men who organized and led the rebel
lion of Easter week can only be had through
sympathy with heroic endeavor. l. would
be as unjust to their memory as it would be
misleading to the student of history to meas
ure them by the gross materialism of the
day. Granted that they were idealists, but
they were idcalists with very practical turn
Of mind, that had a clear conception Of their
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
MIR. Shaw Says Ireland Will Make q
Mess of Home Rule-Dublin and
Cork Riots for Breakfast

Both convention and mission have thu,
meaning to The New Statesman" H..
dom:
The Sim Feiners argue that the aim a,
the government is merely to get right v,,
American opinion. The convention is to tb.,
4 pitfall. In their opinion Ulster has ,r
vatcly guarantee tina, she will not b. >.
creed, no matter what befalls in the conv,.
..on. Should the convention fsil, then I,,.
land jus,ihes her continued occupation !,
'te country.
But this conviction Of incompetency win
not be registered without protest, SAN
"The Catholic World" New York;:
The English government because Il La
made this offer cannot throw the blam. II
non-settlement upon the people Of Ireut
The blame rests upon the English gov,r.
rent, that has always upheld, even wkc
they threatened rebellion, and that upho.,
LOW, a few recalcitrants Of the North. I,
small minority who have refused to ace,,,
any proposal that would allow the vast NJ,
jority of ireland to govern themselves
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01

TIME issue of conscription is convuls-
ing Canada even more than it did
the United States. While the
French Canadians are threatening revolt
in case of the adoption Of conscription, the
executive committee of the British Coum-
ba Federation of Labor, which is a part
of Canada's labor federation, is taking a
vote on the question of general strike in
the event of either military or industrial
conscription. At the recent convention Of
all the unions Of Canada, held in Ottawa,
j. c. Waters, president of Canada's
labor federation made the following state
ment, according to "The New York Call":
The proposed conscription act calls for the
conscription OF man power alone. Its out
standing feature is the recognition of the
sacredness of material wealth and the sane
tity Of privileged interests on the one hand,
with the cheapness of human life on the
other.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01

rights as well as their duties. They knew
planet, that He gave its people language
and implanted in them an instinct Tor racial
and national existence that He conferred
upon them the right. to make their own laws
for ireland ard in Ireland, and that he had
never abrogated that right By transferring it
to England. They knew they had been de-
prived of that right by force, and that 1t
could never be regained except by duty
fulfilled and the fulflment of that duty was
life's highest law. They were convinced that
nation that h2s lost its freedom does not
deserve it, unless to regain it it is ready to
march to victory through constancy in
sacrifice.
Said the Sim Feiners: Nature has
blessed our country; it has been cursed by
man. We cat English bread, we wear Eng
lsh clothes. Industrial enterprise depends
on English capital, and the best products of
our land arc taken to English markets. We
arc taught to think and speak in English
and fashion our morals on English lines. Let
US encourage, as far as we can, home indus
try. by refusing to buy or consume articles
Of foreign manufacture or product; let us
stimulate Irish trade by the aid of Irish
capital being applied to Irish enterprise; let
US retain and employ our men by cultivat-
ing the soil, reaping the harvest, and feeding
our people. instead of raising sheep and cat
tie for the Englishmans table; let us have
a system of national education that will in
still into the heart of youth love of country,
reverence for it's historic past, and hope for
its future welfare, instead OF the present
system that denationalizes and degrades and
fosters contempt for everything Irish"
These and kindred objects constituted its
programme, and they were capable of attain
ment by means Of association only.
II is noticeable that, even under the ex-
traordinary powers conferred by the De-
fence of the Realm act Sim Fein has not
been proclaimed, nor has there been one pub
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01

breakfast. No sooner had the bewildered
British government set free the Sim Fein
prisoners in the hope that the oil of British
grace" would smooth the waters than
sllull-cracking and solder-baiting became
the rage Arthur Griffith, founder of the
Sin FGin movement, declared that the
Gaelic party would not enter the proposed
convention until the prisoners were re-
leased. Now that they are released the
devil himself can't tell what is going to
happen to the convention.
One of the first acts of the Russian Re-
public was to request of Britain the release
Of Countess Markiewicz, the Russo-Irish
woman who drew a dungeon for her part
in the Irish Republic of three memorable
days duration in 1916. There was re-
leased also the gentle scholar and teacher,
Eoin Mac Neill representing the culture
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
Sinn Fein-"FOY OuYSeIveS"

lie trial or prosecution for espousai OF II:
principles. The reason is plain-its princi
ples do not violate even clause Of Englisr
law, and, while the society has not oeen
placed under legal ban, its members nave
been prosecuted upon the vicious, but ott'
applied, principle that he who seeks to bene-
fl. Ireland thereby becomes the enemy OF
England.
The bedrock of the Sim Fen policy
which embraces every phase Of Irish national
life and activity, may fittingy be summed
up in the following words:
National self-development secured through
the recognition of the duties and rights OF
citizenship on the part of the individual and
with the aid and support of all movements
originating from within Ireland, which, IN
stinct with national tradition, do not look
outside Ireland for the accomplishment OF
their aims.
This was the policy outlined at the First
National Council Convention, held at the Ho-
tunda. in Dublin, on Tuesday, November 2S
1905, under the presidency Of Edward Martyr
at which the programme Of the men who later
became known as the Sim Feiners was pro-
mugated by Arthur Griffith.
The first basic principle OF the Sinn Fem
policy is that the Irish arc free people,
and must possess the rights Of a free people
until, of their own free will, they renounce
them. A glance at the history Of ireland
shows conclusively that this remuneration has
never yet been made.
If we accept this principle Of government
only with popular consent, we are forced also
to accept its necessary corollary, namely,
that any external power that attempts 70
control, or does actually and by force con-
troll the free actions of a people, is tyr
amy. We are also forced 70 accept the fur
ther principle that it is the first duty of the
citizen to oppose and seek to end that tyr
amy. Such may we'll be termed the Sim
Fein philosophy.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
"A Rich Mans War and a
Poor Mans Fight"

But now business is not to be disturbed. The
people are to pay This is democracy, We
are told but when it comes to raising revenue,
the world over, the same people pay the
bill.
"The American Socialist" (Chicago)
also regards the registration returns as
referendum thus:
But Registration Day showed that while
this nation is absolutely law-abidng. and
had conformed to the registration law, it is
by an overwhelming majority opposed to the
war. We feel that every one of those SIX
million FIVE hundred thousand young men is
thoroughly in favor Of the move to repeal the
conscrption act.
Conscription legislation will be wiped from
our statute books at the command Of the
American people and in spite of the lingo
now on the ebb.
Editor H. w. Watts, OF "The Northwest
Worker" Everett, Wash, refers to the re-
cruiting station as an employment agency
for "gunmen and legalized murderers."
"The Milwaukee Leader" (Socialist)
says:
Our Ambassador to Russia, David r.
Travers, tells the Russians that America S
motives are ideaistic.
Somehow, when we consider that Mr.: j.
Perpont Morgan and his colleagues, friends
of our own Elihu Root, who is at the head Of
the commission, have slathers Of money in
vested in the bonds OF the Allied nations it
doesn't seem to be clear to us that our mo-
! tives are idcalistc.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
II RELAND sends two missions to the
United States; France, Italy, Britain,
Japan. Russia, Belgium and Norway


- Japan. Russia, Belgium and Norway
each send one mission.
The inadequacy Of two missions to IN
terpret Irish dissent for America, the ar
bitter, is felt on all sides, both IN the United
States and in Ireland, among the Sim
Feiners who are Celtic revivalists and re-
publicans, the radical Laborites wno daily
taste dire Dublin poverty, the Irish Ma
tionalists of mixed race and religion who
feel their way under Redmond to Home
Rule within the imperial bounds by Par
liamentary compromise, and the Anglo
Irish Protestants of Ulster who swear to
fight England before they will consent to
detachment.
Impossible as it is to represent al these
Irish factions, the celebrated and attrac-
tive Thomas Power O'Connor arrives with
lis brogue and his Establishments TO make
the best of it for Ireland and the Allies.
"Tay Pay" has lived so long in England,
where he publishes his 'T. P.'s Weekly
that he is able to feel the English attitude
and. with Redmond and the other office
holding Irishmen, to hope for "nationalism
within the empire"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
Canada and Conscription

nit themselves to be shackled with the chains
of conscription. In the event of its being
established, any effort on the part OF the
workers to ameliorste conditions can be
frustrated by simply calling them to the
oolors and placing them under military dis
ciplne when orders must be obeycd on pain
of punishment meted out by court-martial.
1t is imperative also that organized labor
should be untouched by the wave of hysteria
which is passing over the country if the
power to reason is not to be destroyed.
II the government is sincere in its deter
mination to "consecrate the power OF the
nation" to the cause Of the Allies and democ-
racy and no. be dictated to nor Influenced by
Downing Street." or the dominating privi-
legged interests in Canada, nor simply actu-
ated BY miserable political party considera-
tions. the conscription Of man power will
follow and not precede that of wealth ard
the naturalization of every industry neces-
sary for the prosecution Of the war.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
Arnold Bennett
Speaks

In "The Daily News Arnold Bennett
endeavors to aaalyze the British state q
mind to-day. He write:
The country as whole IS somewhat o.
pressed Yet the military situation gives
no good ground for depression. The sn'
work of the army is incombarably better
than last year. Munitions of every kind an
more plentiful. In both men and munitio"
we have passed the Germans and are leaving
them further behind every week. The SUE
mer offensive has over three full months
run, and the results so far are very good.
The Importance of the American inter
vention, for the war and for after the val
is colossal; it can scarcely be measured. Say
what you please about the state Of RusHA
il is immensely better now than It has bee'
since the beginning of the last Russian re-
treat Even the direction of our navy, thour
il still leaves great deal TO he desired ."
improved. and nobody now believes hat wv
German navy is so much cleyerer than Wv
British navy that IL can force Us 10 SUI
render through starvation. Nevertheless Z"
country is somewhat depressed.
Why? Military casualties will not sceoun'
for it. Strain and fatigue may account J"
some Of it, but only for some Of IT. ~
surcdly our priyations will not account :"
it. In my view, much OF the depression
The unconscious result OF the in!udieIo"
application of the governmental yoke. J."
spectacle Of a reactionary and oppress''
autocratic machine, machine when o0''
ousy does not understand the masses OF '.'
nation. a machine which seems to enjoy V.
curtailment of liberty. driving where NmH.
lead and choking living ideals at the etP'1.
Of dead ideals-the spectacle Of such M
chine at work cannot inspire demoef''''
What it can do and what II does DO u
hoe and harrow the ground for the see'
pacfsm. The activity OF a paeit't e'e"' y.
has already been referred to. ! 90 nO'
lieve that up TO the present paeih'm
made any appreciable headway in Britain
am quite unable TO share the sppreheH''.,.
of certain notorious reaetionary eHp0"
of ideals which find their most pef''' -.
preston in Berlin. But the temper
nation might well change. And u ''"s .,.,s
ably will change il the government pes
in the astonishing acts OF folly WHICH 49,,
committed of late weeks-every Ss'
at democracy and liberty ~
Were the temper Of the nation 'n"' ,.,t
undermined, the subterranean' P'.Al,
work of the pacifsts would be e0hs'a. .,d
smplihed and the future of democracy
liberty accordingly endangered
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
Although 1t Is Impossible to Represent
All the Factions, "Tay Pay OConnor
Has Come to Make the Best of 1t

And this is his welcome at the hands Of
Justice Cohalan:
England does not intend to do anything
for Ireland. A convention that would meet
with our approval must be a free one. Eng
land is merely trying to fool the people OF
the United States.
And this from jeremiah a. O'Leary:
The best thing that lrishmen can do is to
stay in Ireland. | doubt whether the Brit
ish government will permit the Sim Fem
mission to come to the United States.
And from Robert E. Ford, of "The Irish
World:
Do you believe that the case of Ireland will
get fair hearing in convention whose
members arc chosen by the British govern
ment?
And Francis Hackett, of "The New Re-
public:
The same hand that wrote distrust over
the Home Rule act dictated the nomina-
,ions to the proposed convention. Instead
,f an Irish convention we have a convention
loaded for the empire. We cannot express
astonishment when Sim Feiners lose all faith
IN effective English liberalism and follow
Americas example into revolution
But Mr.. O'Connor, of the Anglo-lrish
mission, hears another chorus and more
soothing one Mgr. Lavelle, rector OF St.
Patrick's Cathedral, speaks:
Important results should follow the irish
missions to this country on the eve OF the
Dublin convention. Mr.. O'Connor, for his
eloquence and genial character, has always
been a favorite here. We could not get
unanimity in any convention in the world
If the majority does not rule the minority
will be the masters. The rule of the ma
lority is the great secret of the success OF
the United States.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
THERE Is 4 VERY GREAT
y VARIETY OF OPINION

But while T. P. O'Connor comes to
Washington to lay before the Admlnistra-
ton the position of the Irish Parllamen-
tary party in the war Tin response to the
Wilson hint that a settlement of the Irish
question would enthuse the United States
in its fight for world democracy he has
at his heels menacing bodies of unrecon-
structed Irish rebels who cry him May
The Sim Feiners disavow OConnor'
Redmond and the compromisers. They re-
gard the Lloyd George convention of lOl
delegates as an English trap another
Dublin Castle trick" loaded plan for
continuing garrison government and abb
surdlv demand, "in place of this insincere
convention of Crown-seected delegates a
convention elected by the suffrages of the
Irish people"
Making Ireland safe for democracy is
q herculean task. Mr.. O'Connor brings
this message:
All the forces Of civilized opinion through
,ut the world now stand behind lrelands
demand for self-government. In the United
States remains the most potent factor in
working out the Liberation of Ireland. |
hall attempt to consolidate all Irishmen in
.,pport Of the Allies. and take back to the
irish convention a true understanding OF
American feeling.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
Modern Irish Fairies

No consideration the Irish and their problem could be complete @
aluson fact strong racial belief r,
leaning ouard uha might perhaps be styled folk meta
phycs These examples of fairy lore from the pens and the hearts
of contemporary Irish riters may illuminate this point
about the fairies
n little hole and
heard in the before
mainland ireland
thought
he had
at al-Jn
NJ. Synge, The Islands"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
A IR RAIDS, heat, labor agitation,
n the Irish question, exorbitant food
n nr;ces submarine activity, war

A IR RAIDS, heat, labor agitation,
II the Irish question, exorbitant food
n prices, submarine activity, war
WEAKNESS, all combine to create state OF
serious unrest in the United Kingdom.
England seems nearer to a government
crisis at this moment" cables Charles H..
Grasty to "The New York Times" than
at any time since the Asquith ministry
fell"
The Socialist and pacifist movements IN
England modified their resources for the
convention held early in June in Leeds.
Twelve hundred delegates, representing
trade councils and unions, Socialist and
women's organizations and various demo
cratic bodies, met to discuss the interna-
tional situation. Among the delegates
we're Miss Pankhurst and' Bertrand Rus
SELL Robert Smillie presided. After call
ing upon the government to repudiate all
aims at annexation and indemnities, the
convention passed resolution urging the
establishment of council of workmen's
and soldiers deputies, as in Russia, which
would "work strenuously for peace made
by the peoples of the various countries
and for the complete political and economic
emancipation Of international labor"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01

Irish institutions will there have delegates
to represent them.
Most papers quote dsapprovingly the
Sim Fein declaration for an elected con-
vention, pointing out that ''the finest type
of Irishmen are in the trenches where
they cannot vote. They also disclose the
weakness of the Sim Fem movement,
which is by no means united in purpose
and which is at variance with ''the eco
nomic hereses of Jim Larkin." Others are
Mortified at the idea of republic, the es-
tablishment of which will be averted by
any tolerable settlement" in the con-
yention.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-01
THE HARSH CRY
l. OF IRISH POVERTY

Mingled with all this idealism and these
political dreams is the harsh cry of Irish
poverty. Larkinism was the expression OF
economic distress, and Larkinism fought
half of the il-fated Republics" battle.
Jim" Larkin, now in New York, thus re-
rudates the proposed convention:
To recognize the British Empires invita-
ton to Irshmen to meet in conference 10
decide what England shall permit Ireland to
DO is to recognize the British Empires right
to do what she will with Ireland and her
people.
We also refuse to recognize the right OF
any faction or number Of factions in ireland,
be they who they may, Redmondite, Carson
ite or O'Brienite, or any of the chosen place.
men or nominees of the government OF Eng
land. to decide in conference or convention
the fate of the present four million inhab-
itants of that country or the future OF the
Irish nation.
Nor is there lack of sympathy for the
actual Irish sufferer among the people OF
England, where the masses Of the people
are Home Rulers. Lord and Lady Aber-
deem are typical in their gentle regard for
the Irish people, trying to allay that ter
rible poverty where in Dublin 2,5OO,oOo
pawn tickets were issued in year. His
lordship would thus unwittingly take away
from Ireland the very political dissensions
which may be second nature to this in
teresting gladiatoral, forensic and con-
troversial people;
| While on the one hand there are many
things which urgently need to be remedied,
vet on the other hand. in view of the sue
cess which has attended efforts and facill-
ties for improvement in certain directions,
there is ground for confident expectation
that under new system, which will re-
lease energies hitherto concentrated on po-
litical controversy and effort, and which
will provide scope for united endeavor, there
will be great and benehcent advance IN the
welfare and prosperity of Ireland.
The American press is more nearly in
accord with O'Connor and the nationality
within the empire" following. 1t sees in
the proposed convention a fairly repre-
sentative Irish arrangement, inasmuch as
county councils, chambers of commerce
and city councils, the Church and purely