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BRUNO IS ACCUSED
BY NEW EVIDENCE
Handwriting Data Brought
From Europe—Defense
Stresses Alibi.
(Con'.fnued From First Page.)
Edward J. Reilly, chief defense coun
sel, had wired tor details of a Mont
real man's statement that he had
seen Fisch in Montreal, with a child,
ihortly after the kidnaping.
Michael Barry, a former newsstand
owner, signed an affidavit before a
Montreal notary last week that he
thought he saw Fisch in Montreal
with a child "closely resembling" the
Lindbergh baby about 15 days after
the kidnaping. Barry said he had not
mentioned the Incident until now "be
cause friends advised me to keep
quiet."
Another Montrealer—John Harrow,
owner of a tailor 6hop and small
hotel—came forward today, the Mont
real dispatches said, with a story
eimilar to that told by Barry.
Harrow "positively identified" a
picture of Fisch as that of a man he
saw with several other men in a
United States car about the time
Barry is supposed to have seen Fisch.
Couple Entered Hotel.
He said the car drove up before
his hotel and after the occupants,
who seemed very nervous, had dis
cussed something m a low tone the
man he believes was Isador Fisch
came forward and asked to see a ;
room. He said he had a woman
and child with him. Finally, the wom
an carried the child into the hotel,
screening its face. They refused to
sign the register, Harrow said.
During a conversation Harrow said
he distinctly heard the woman ad
dress the man as "Isador."
Harrow said the picture of Fisch
"nearly knocked me off my chair,
because I remembered every feature
of the man's face because of his
odd behavior." He said he was
sure the man had spoken with a Ger
man accent.
Reilly, In New York over the week
end, said that certain "surprise" wit
nesses would be called to weld the
"ironclad" alibi the defense is seeking
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Dog Enters Case.
A dog—the proverbial "lean's best
friend"—will be an important factor
in the testimony of or>? of Reilly's
witnesses.
The witnesses, said Reilly, will be
called to the stand "at the first op
portunity" after the trial, in recess
over the week end, resumes Monday.
The man's story will be that on the t
night of the kidnaping, March 1,
1932, he had gone to White Plains,
Ν. Y.. from his heme in the Bronx—
where Hauptmann also lived—in j
* search of a police dcg.
Returning unsuccessful in his,
search, the man saw an automobile !
at a filling station, and in the car !
was a dog so similar to the one he !
had been hunting that he thought it ;
was his own.
The witness, said Reilly, '«'ill say ;
that he approached the car and told
the man in the car that he believed
the dog was his. The man in the car j
denied it, saying the dog was owned
by a friend.
The witness then threatened to
have the man in the car arrested,
and even went so far as to have the
man write his name on a paper, to
gether with his address.
The name the man wrote was :
"Bruno Richard Hauptmann." and '
the man who wrote it, the witness will
swear, was Hauptmann.
The witness will say that he is able
to recall the exact night on which
this episode over a dog occurred be
cause, on returning home later, he
heard over the radio the first alarm
concerning the Lindbergh baby kid
naping.
Other Witnesses.
Reilly said he had two other new :
witnesses whose testimony would help ,
the prisoner's case, but that he has !
had difficulty in gaining their con
sent to take the stand. He did not
explain what their objections were.
As the defense, now launched on
the presentation of its own case after
weeks of testimony for the State,
made plans for the presentation of its
alibi case, the State laid equally de
termined strategy to break down the
defendant when he resumes the stand
for cross-examination Monday.
Somewhere along the road of his
cross-examination, the State expects
to trap Hauptmann.
The lawyers for the State have ex
pressed confidence that Hauptmann
will lose the remarkable self-control
he has shown throughout all the
months since his arrest.
The little red memorandum book of
Hauptmann's, which Attorney Gen
eral David T. Wilentz shoved under
his nose as he shouted questions at
the pale defendant yesterday, the
the first of several surprises the State
has prepared.
In that book appeared the word
"boat," written "b-o-a-d," apparently
in Hauptmann's hand, just as it was
written and spelled in the note which
"John" gave to Dr. John F. Condon
in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the
Bronx, on the night of April 2, 1932,
when he took the $50,000 ransom.
To Attack Story.
There was something else, too, which
must have heightened Hauptmann'e
dread as Wilentz pounded away at
him. At the prosecution table the
"brains" of the State were busy set
ting up the groundwork for fresh at
tacks on the story he proffered in de
fense of the charge he kidnaped the
baby, collected the ransom and used
a major share of It to speculate in the
Etock market.
The prosecution, Wilentz said, "has
only Just started" on Hauptmann.
Wilentz desires more than a mere jury
verdict of conviction. What he hopes
and what he will try for on Monday
when Hauptmann comes back to sit
alone and face the long hours of ques
tioning is a complete breakdown, an
admission of Hauptmann's that he is
guilty.
Defense attorneys are confident no
such thing will happen and will con
tinue their fight to show not only that
Hauptmann is innocent, but that the
crime was the work of more than one
man.
The defense Is keeping the names
of all its witnesses secret and would
not disclose today the identity of a
taxicab driver who observed four men/
according to the defense. In the
cemetery around the time the ransom
was paid.
Hanptmann Unshaken.
Hauptmann, in cell No. 1 of the
county jail behind the court house,
was reputed tonight to be unshaken
by his first taste of cross-examination.
He had spent most of yesterday on
the stand when Wilentz began his at
tack, interspersing his demands for
the complete truth from Hauptmann
with questions bearing on the prison
er's old Ûerman police record and his
illegal entry into the United 8tates.
Hauptmann was tired, apparently,
and it was WUentz'| manner in many 1
Must Answer Hauptmann Riddle
Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. %
The jury
that has been
listening to
the intricate
evidence in
the Haupmann
trial for more
than
three weeks.
Reading up and around the question mark: Lls
com C. Case, Charles Walton, sr., foreman; Mrs. Ethel
Stockton, Howard V. Biggs, George Voorhees, Mrs. Rosle
Pill, Robert Cravatt, Charles P. Snyder, Mrs. May P.
Brelsford, Philip Hockenbury, Elmer Smith and Mrs. ,·
Verna Snyder.
SUSPENSE MARKS
RECESS OF ÏRIAL
Hiatus Between Friday and
Monday Leaves Audi
ence Semi-Dazed.
BY ANNE GORDON Sl'YDAM.
FLEMINGTON, N. J.. January 26.—
Do you remember when you used to
read those penny thrillers of the Nick
Carter school, and just as your hero
was about to deal the villain a merited
and manly thrashing you turned a
page and came across the unbelievable
words "to be continued"? Do you re
member hew impossible it seemed
that any one with a grain of heart
and imagination could so abruptly
leave you in that tense and breathless
state? Do you remember with what
bafflement you looked at those mad
dening little asterisks, and wondered
how you could possibly wait until to
morrow? ;
We in Flemington are remembering
those things well today, as the week
end adjournment places it incon
gruous hiatus between Friday and
Monday. We have left our potential
villain cringing and glaring in the
witness chair, we have been snatchid
suddenly from our righteous -hero
while yet his scalding denunciations
were ringing in our ears, we have at
the very climax of our emotions been
confronted with the words "to be
continued Monday."
Can't Get Back to Normalcy.^
We wander around the town in a
semi-dazed condition, bccau3e it is
almost impossible to sw ing back into ,
the ordinary pursuits and diversions
of a normal week end. We start
casual conversations which trail aim
lessly off. We speak brightly of going
to New York for the day. or riding to
rrenton for a movie. We achieve a
spurious gayety in an attempt to get
back to normalcy and to freshen our
minds and nerves against tomorrow's
tension, but sooner or later we are ar
guing, declaiming, rehearsing the last
chapter of this amazing serial.
Living from day to day in the weird
atmosphere of that court room, i
watching the actors who come and
?o. straining to catch every word and j
every impression emanating from that
room, we are attuned to such a high
pitch of receptivity that we ourselves
are no longer normal.
Some reporters have dashed away
In an attempt to escape the whole
thing for a few hours, others roam the
streets for bits of local color, many
have gone to bed from utter exhaus
tion. Flemingtonians themselves are
calmer, and enjoy with complacency
the use of their own streets and
shops. The little boys still run up and
3own the town hawking papers, and
pennies with a copper impression of
the court house stamped upon them,
ind alas! men still stand on street
corners and sell to misbegotten mo
rons small replicas of that ghastly
ladder which led to a baby's death.
These hideous symbols worn on the
lapels of men and women are a sick
ling, disillusioning sight.
VT«ii;cnf)iu>p ΓηΜΤΐ»ϋίΙηη.
Abram Parker, aged 8, has started
heavy competition against bulky jour
nals which threaten to snow us under.
His paper is known as the "Haupt
mannville News," but last week he ne
glected crime for a day when his big
jest lead was the advent of Joe Pen
ler in Flemington. Certain Fleming
ton citizens have protested against the
incontinence of newspaper people "be
cause they don't keep regular hours."
Very few-of them take us seriously,
but most of them are good natured
ibout our odd practices, and have
come to expect the unexpected.
Except for a few isolated incidents,
there is not much comic relief in
Flemington. The loudest laughter is
from those half-wits who crowd the
court room, and grin or guffaw Jor no
apparent reason. They have gotten
under Justice Trenchard's skin, and
he has promised to have them thrown
jut. Reilly's chorus of mink-coated
lady friends still holds down the front
seats, dropping powder and ashes on
Dur copy. So-called subpoenas con
tinue to be issued as freely as coupons,
ind as the court room becomes more
»nd more crowded, chairs snap, elbows
crash through windows, and people
buffet and trample each other for
seats, texeept for his half hour be
neath Wilentz* scorching tongue,
Hauptmann has often seemed the
calmest person in the room.
All Types Gathered.
Human nature in all its forms Is
{athered in Flemington, and some of
:hem are not so pretty. Ofle woman
fcnlts impassively through the cor
•espects, rather than his questions,
vhich roused the prisoner.
"He Is vulnerable, very vulnerable,
tfait until we realty >get .started,"
ffilentr said.
Wilentz put his fice close to
iauptmann's and shouted in the best
reditions of prosecutors. Afterward
ïauptmann commented:
"It seems the attorney general was
rying to get me excited. AC I can
lay is that he will haveto tfy a lot
larder. I am on to that, because I
lave been told how . prosecution
awyers act. It i#st wont work. It's
10 use.
BRUNO R. HAUPTMANN.
oner's dreadful testimony, and has
seldom been seen to raise her eyes.
She Is a modern prototype of the
crones who knitted at the foot of the
guillotine, as the heads dropped Into
the basket. She has not dropped a
stitch to date. Hauptmann may burn
or Hauptmann may go free, or Haupt
mann may confess, but she will finish
that sweater, come what may, and
then maybe somebody will tell her
what it was all about.
The strange hiatus, which has been
anything but a lull, is almost ended,
and we wait restlessly and half-fear
fully for the next installment of this
blood-curdling story "to be continued
tomorrow."
armIphbs
3 CHAIN STORES
Two Escape in Coupe After
Hold-Ups on 18th, 17th,
and 0 Streets.
Three chain groceries were robbed
in quick succession last night by two
colored bandits who escaped in a
light coupe bearing Maryland tags.
The pair first robbed a store at
1023 Eighteenth street managed by
Wesley Vandercook, 1432 Clifton
street. Producing guns, the bandits
emptied the cash registers and then
demanded to know if any of the
clerks had an automobile outside. AU
denied they owned cars, and one
bandit said:
"I'm going to search you for per
mits and shoot the man who has
one!" The pair fled, however, with
out attempting a search. They ap
parently had feared pursuit.
Many customers were in the sec
ond chain grocery at Seventeenth
and R streets when the bandits ar
rived. They emptied the cash reg
isters and departed in their coupe.
The manager, Thomas Brown, 6815
Eighth street, told police he did not
know how much money was taken.
The bandits then went to a grocery
at 1400 Ο street, where they trained
guns on the manager, Lawrence Pen
dleton, 1843 Monroe street northeast,
and scooped up the contents of two
cash registers.
All managers denied they knew how
much had been taken.
The coupe was reported to have
Maryland tags and police set up a
watch on roads leading from the
District, but the robbers eluded them.
Jap Politeness Dropped. >
Because passengers ignore the signs
"please refrain from smoking," In cars
of electric trains in Tokio, the Japa
nese ministry of railways will sub
stitute others muling "no smoking."
Violators who ignore personal warn
ings will be subject to a fine of $S.
Smoking will be permitted on railway
trains as befor^|
Old-Age Pension Level Held
Too Low by Many—Some
to Oppose Plans.
By the Associated Press.
Recognizing strong sentiment for
liberalization ol the administration's
security program, House leaders yes
terday anounced that those who seek
changes would be given a chance to
air their views formally this week.
Speaker Byrns said at a press con
ference yesterday there was "consid
erable sentiment" for an increase in
funds carried in the measure, although
he did not know how widespread the
feeling was.
Many House members, like thoee of
the Senate, have criticized the old-age
pension features of the bill, holding
the proposed (30 a month was not
enough.
Immediately after the Speaker's
conference, Chairman Doughton,
Democrat, of North Carolina, of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
in a formal statement said the hear
ings—which began Monday—had pro
gressed far enough that the Ways and
Means Committee "expects to be able
to call witnesses other than those
representing the administration nest
Wednesday."
40 Outsiders Seek Hearing.
More than 40 persons or firms out
side the administration have asked to
appear. It was generally understood
most of those were opposed to some
phase of the bill, although they did
not so specify In their requests for a
hearing.
What one objection might be was
I brought out yesterday while Kather
I ine Lenroot, head of the Labor De
partment's Children's Bureau, was
. testifying before the Ways and Means
group. She said she had heard of
j fears that under the measure the
j Government might force physicians
J to work for fixed fees. She added
there.was no foundation for that fear.
Miss Lenroot estimated that al
though $25,000,000 would be enough
to pay the Federal Government's
share of aid to the mothers of fath
erless children next year, but added:
"The total amount that ought to
go into this, if there is adequate aid,
is around $120,000,000 a year."
Asks Third as U. S. Share.
Of that, she said, the Federal Gov
ernment should supply a third.
To show the need for the expansion
of work, she pointed out that infant
mortality increased the first six
months of 1934, and that the United
States has one of the highest mater
nity death rates in the world.
A move also developed in the com
mittee to supply material for House
members who choose to support the
administration old-age pension bill in
preference to the Townsend $200
a-month plan.
Representative Knutson, Republic
an, of Minnesota, asked Douglas
Brown, professor of economics at
Princeton, and an advisor of the
President's · Committee on Economic
Security, what he thought of the
Townsend plan.
Other committee members assumed
that Brown was speaking for the ad
ministration when he replied that it
was "both lllusionary and dangerous."
It would, he added, break down the
economic system.
KILLING OF SWEETHEART
IS CHARGED TO MAN, 24
Coroner's Jury Asks Probe of
Death First Blamed on
Fall From Car.
By the Associated Press.
GREENSBURG, Pa., January 26.—
After months of investigation. William
Leatherman. 24, was jailed today on
a charge of murder in the death of
his sweetheart, Viola Dennis, 23, on
a lonely road last August.
Miss Dennis' death had been at
tributed to a fall from Leatherman's
automobile, but a coroner's jury recom
meded on September 27 that the case
be investigated by District Attorney
Richard D. Laird.
. The jury found that death had been
caused by shock, a fractured skull
and a broken neck.
CRIPPLED MAN SUICIDE
HOPKIN8VILLE. Ky„ January 26
(Λ3).—Telling his wife he could stand
conditions no longer, W. A. Ray, 45
year-old cripple who had been on re
lief here for several years, hanged
htnwif in his almost bare one-room
home near here today. Coroner W.
J. XSe returned a verdict of suicide.
Relief headquarters recalled Ray
had come there with a shotgun two
years ag{ demanding more aid.
SIDES UEO
IN BAI m
Reserve Board Shows
Fewer Than 200 Not Li
censed to Reopen.
Br the Associated Près».
Long strides toward the rehabilita
tion of America's tanking structure
since the crisis In March, 1933. were
reported yesterday In the monthly
bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board.
Due to Federal activities, the board
reported that the number of unli
censed bank·, or banks which had not
obtained licenses to reopen, had been
reduced from more than 4,500 to less
than 200 at the end of last December.
Investments,
At that time, the board said, the
Government, acting through the R.
F. C., had authorized Investments In
the capital structure of about S.6M
banks In an aggregate amount of $1,
202,000,000.
Bank suspensions In 1934 were re
ported fewer than in any similar pe
riod since 1920. The year's failures
comprised 56 Institutions with depos
its of $37,000,000. Only one of these,
with deposits of only $40,000, was a
member of the Federal Reserve Sys
tem. ,
inciuucu in ΙΠΓ usures, uuwcrci,
were eight other batiks with Insured
deposits.
Preliminary reports to the board
showed that 920 banks which were
not licensed to operate on an unre
stricted basis were placed In liquida
tion or receivership during the year.
Deposits Involved amounted to $647,
000,000. These included 398 national
banks with deposits of $402,000,000,
23 State member banks with deposits
of $40,000,000 and 501 banks, not
members of the Federal Reserve Sys
tem, with deposits of $205,000,000.
190 Not Restored.
On April 12, 1933, the height of the
banking crisis, a total of 4.215 banks
with deposits of $4,000.000,000 had
not been given license to operate on
a 100 per cent basis. Of these. 1,108
were national banks with deposits of
$1.819.000.000 and 148 were State
member banks with deposits of $841,·
000.000. All but 190 banks had been
restored to either an active status or
placed in receivership for liquidation
by the end of last December.
Six of the banks remaining unli
censed were national banks with de
posits of $6.800,000. Four were State
member banks with deposits of $1.800,
000, and 180 State non-member banks
with deposits of $88,000,000.
utilityITegdlation
DATA OF D. C. SOUGHT
Chairman of District Commission
Is Invited by New York Legis
lative Committee.
.
Riley E. Elgen. chairman of the
District Public Utilities Commission,
has been invited to present data on
regulatory machinery used here to
a committee of the New York Legis
lature, which is studying utility mat
ters.
Particular interest has been ex
pressed in the Washington plan o(
adjusting electric light rates here. It
i* said. This is done under a con
sent decree of District Supreme Court
by which rates are adjusted annually,
portions of excess profits above 7 per
cent being set aside for rate reduc
tions.
The annual power-rate adjustment
Is to be considered this week by the
Public Utilities Commission. It Is
expected Mr. Elgen win go to Albany
to discuss District utility regulation
some time this week, if local business
permits.
The average electric power rates
of the country vary from 5 to 5.5
cents per kilowatt as compared with
an average of 2.47 for the District,
according to recent studies.
Others Interested in power rates
have expressed Interest In the Wash
ington plan, officials say. Among
these is an official of the Detroit ad
ministration.
KERMESS INCLUDES
MANY ATTRACTIONS
"Old Heidelberg'' Club One of
Side Lights of Event to
Begin Saturday.
A number of attractions, including
a night club, "Old Heidelberg," with
music, dancing and * floor show by
professional entertainers, will be of
fered each night at the Knights of
Columbia Kermess, which opens next
Saturday and continues through the
following Saturday at the club home,
915 Tenth street.
The opening night will be known as
Archbishop Cur ley night, with all
members of the order as special
guests. Each of the following nights
will be designated with a distinctive
bearing on Christopher Columbus.
The posters submitted in the recent
contest conducted by the Kermess
Committee, which were on display at
the Willard Hotel and the Knights of
Columbus Hall, have been moved to
the show windows of the old Barber &
Ross Building, Eleventh and Ci streets.
First prize was won by Betty Past of
the National School of Fine and Ap
plied Arts. Belisario Centreras of
Eastern High School won second hon
ors, while third place was awarded to
A Brown Hurt, also of the National
School of Fine and Applied Arts.
Mrs. Cooke that Scarlett, who entered
her husband's employ three months
ago, had disappeared from home with
her two daughters and had taken
with him $5,000 worth of Jewelry she
had entrusted to him to take to a
jeweler for cleaning.
She said Scarlett never appeared at
the shop with the jewels, which In
cluded three diamond and platinum
rings, an amber necklace and a cameo
pin.
Mrs. Cooke, who lives at 105 West
Bradley lane, told police earlier in the
day that she feared her daughters
had been abducted and made a verbal
offer of $5,000 reward for Scarlett's
arrest and the safe return of her
daughters.
Her fears were dissipated and the
reward was withdrawn early last night
when a telegram, which gave no Inti
mation of the marriage, but assured
relatives that "everything is alright,"
was received from the two girls.
Police Had Started Search.
It had been wired from Raleigh,
N. C., and said:
"Decided to go south. Everything
is all right. Please do not worry. See
you soon. Love."
The wire was received several hours
after a general radio alarm broadcast
by Washington police started a city
wide search.
It was learned, shortly after the re
ceipt of the wire, that the girls had
parked one of the cars in a downtown
Washington garage Friday night.
Cooke is the 78-year-old heir of a
wealthy New York minister. Jane
studied until last year at the National
Cathedral School for Girls, while her
sister is a graduate of Holy Cross
Academy.
Young Scarlett was an cutstandine
athlete at the Salisbury, N. C. High
School, from which he was graduated
in 1933. He was a star halfback on
the foot ball team and was a main
stay of the track and field squad. He
went to Washington several months
ago to seek employment.
INK PLANT FOREMAN
SOUGHT FOR PR1NTERY
Civil Service Examinations In
clude Those for Dredge Engine
man and Shipfitter.
The Civil Service Commission will
hold an examination to fill the post of
foreman of the ink-making plant,
Government Printing Office, for which
applications will be received until
February 14, it was announced yes
terday. The base pay is $3,200 annu
j ally·
Tests also were announced for
.dredge engineman. Engineer Depart -
'ment, $135 to $175 monthly, and
shipfitter, Portsmouth, Va., Navy
Yard, 77 to 87 cents an hour. The
former examination will be open until
! February 8 and the latter until Feb
ruary 18.
All base wages are subject to a statu
tory cut.
Details are available at the com
mission, Seventh and F streets.
Peak Scaled Again.
The second known ascent of Can
yon Peak, a mountain in the Bitter
Root Range, Montana, was made by
a group of the Montana Mountaineers
last Summer.
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*
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MISS ANNA COOKE.
CHEVY CHASE GIRL
WEDS CHAUFFEUR
ACCUSED BY MOTHER
(Continued Prom First Page.)
U. S. URGED TO BUY
GAME RESERVES
"
Cotton Man Suggests Tak
ing Over 1,500,000 Sub
marginal Farms.
By the Associated Press.
A plan for the Government te^buy
jp 1,500,000 submarginal farnft and
develop them as game reserves ana
reforestation projects was advanced
here yesterday by J. S. Wannamaker
αI St. Matthews, S. C., president of
thé"American Cotton Association.
Under the plan, unemployed farm
ers would be placed on the lands and
given a 15 to 20 year option to pur
chase them with proceeds from hunt
ing and fishing charges that would be
made. ·
Fanners Jobless.
Wannamaker estimated 40 per cent
of Southern farmers were unemployed
because of crop reduction programs,
and said his plan would help to
remedy this situation and at the same
time remove millions of acres of poor
lands from cultivation, thus minimiz
ing the necessity for compulsory
control.
Counties and States also would be
given an opportunity to buy the land
from the Government after it had
been stocked with game and fish or
reforested by the Government.
Confers With Officials.
Wannamaker conferred with of
ficials in the forestry, fisheries and
game divisions of the Government
here, quoting F. E. Silcox, head of
the Forestry Service, and Charles E.
Jackson, assistant fisheries commis
sioner, as warmly receiving the sug
gestions. He also saw Senator Smith
of South Carolina.
Wannamaker said he believed his
plan could be worked out without ad
ditional legislation by co-ordinating
various submarginal land agencies in
the Government. He said money for
the program could come from the
$4,880,000.000 relief fund.
WISH POLITICIANS'
HAILEDJVJARLEY
Pride in Race Is Declared
Reason for Celt Interest
in Public Office.
By til· Aiisociated Press.
NEW YOKK, January 26.—The
Irish are "politicians in every land,"
Postmaster General James A. Farley
asserted tonight, because there never
was "an irishman who denied he was
descended irom a king." t
Denied sovereignty and nationality
in their own home, Farley continued,
the Irish "have always devoted their
talents to the establishment and pro
tection of every nation to which they
have given their loyalty."
The Postmaster Genera! addressed
the American Irish Historical Society
at iu thirty-seventh annual dinner.
"The Irish people who were most
denied the right of nationality," he
declared, "were those who have most
helped others to achieve nationality.
• · · The Irish were like slaves who
fought to make others free, or poor
men who worked that others might be
rich.
"If we search for the profound rea
son why they who were nationless be
came the nation makers, I think it
must be found in the lofty conception
they have of their ancestry. Has it
ever struck you that other races are
content to have their origin traced
back to a monkey in a tree, but the
Irish proudly insist on tracing their
ancstry to a king on a throne? · · ·
"Don't blame men of Irish blood
throughout our land for being poli
ticians. Blame the long line of Kel
leys and Burkes and Sheas before
them whose lives were bound up with
America. Blame the Celts whose
names are found in the role of the
Minute Men who fought at Lexing
ton and Concord and who were found
among the Colonists."
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