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In a Speech at St.. Brigid's Banquet,
Chicago on Feb. 2nd. by Hon. P.
H- O'Donnell.
I am asked tonight to talk upon the
Freedom of the Seas, and show its re
lation to the Freedom of Ireland, and
I cheerfully accept the invitation be
cause the widest possible crusade is
on in America to leave the supremacy
of the seas in possession of England
and to hold Ireland as a part of the
British Empire.
It is extraordinary that the papers
are teeming with arguments ac
knowledging the right of England to
control all the waters of the world
and advising the American people that
Ireland must remain as part of Great
Britain.
The city of Chicago has been stirred
within the last week by powerful edi
torials which necessarily carry great
influence and stir up a mighty propa
ganda against the rights of Ireland
and the equal rights of all nations to
the waters of the globe.
The friends of free seas and of free
Ireland, however, are not in despair
because their views are also repre
sented in the powerful newspaper or
gans that advocate the establishment
of an Irish Republic, and, at least, the
division of sea power between Eng
land and America, and thereby show a
hope and a promise to every true
American.
"Eternal Vigilance."
If "eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty" it now becomes essential that
the Irish-Americans become "sentinels
upon the watch tower" and sound the
warning of danger approaching.
Whence comes this propaganda to
leave Ireland in bondage and the seas
In chainst
Is it because England controls the
raw material out of which newspapers
are made and the cable news that is
printed upon them?
Is It because England can crush any
newspaper in America within a week
that they are advocating in their col
umns what England wants and what
America muBt not give?
A 8olemn Contract.
By a contract, higher in authority
and more sacred than a treaty between
nations, we entered this war for the
freedom of Bmall nationalities and the
freedom of the seas. The Allies ac
cepted these propositions offered them
by Mr. WilBon and America ratified
that acceptance by the blood and
treasures of this republic.
We must no longer chide Germany
as considering the right of small na
tionalities and the freedom of the seas
after it was solemnly agreed upon by
all nations and sanctified by the blood
of American heroes.
We, of Chicago, do not need to be
told what is meant by freedom of the
seas and how to obtain it. We live
on the greatest inland waters on the
globe. They carry immense com
merce, roll up to the feet of mighty
cities, separate two great nations and
yet there Isn't a fortress nor a gun
protecting any city on their shores,
and not a boat upon their waters is
molested by any ship of war. These
lakes are free these cities unmo
lested and this commerce safe, because
by mutual agreement between the na
tions we have stripped their waters of
every battleship and war craft and
parole those seas by vessels sufficient
ly powerful to collect revenues and
check piracy. It peace, tranquility
and safety could come to all the lands
and all the people on the five great
lakes by the Bimple agreement and ful
fillment of disarmament, then it shows
the 'clear way how the world may be
safe on all its shores whether those
of civilized or uncivilized people by
forever sending to the bottom the ves
sels of destruotion and covering the
seas with the vessels of peace and
commerce. No nation will need pro
tection when there is no way to attack
It, and no nation can be subjected to
foreign rule from the sea when there
are no battleships to assail and de
stroy.
England Possesses All the 8eas.
England possesses all the seas to
day therefore, she possesses all the
world. America included, for we can
not bring our soldiers home from Eu
rope without her permission we could
pot send them food without her con
sent and we never can make an over
seas campaign to enforce our rights or
protect our colonies if the nation with
whom we contend has an alliance with
Great Britain that will call their fleet
into action. We are as helpless In our
foreign relations or our foreign owner
ship tt that be' the will of Great Bri
tain as Is the smallest nation on the
w'r' England has gripped the seas
^jjronglL her three great sea rovers
maklngwar on peaceful commerce—
Hawkins, Drake and Sir Walter Ra
pSJjtfgfc,' and she has extended It ever
ifcce both on land and sea.
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is Completely Explained
Sir Walter Raleigh, when he had
completed the domination of the seas
and subjected them to Great Britain,
said:
"Whosoever commands the sea
commands the trade whosoever
commands the trade of the world
commands the riches of the
and consequently, the world it
self."
England has known the truth of Ra
leigh's declaration for centuries and
has made her grip absolute and com
plete. She chose the six great lanes
of interoceanic trade—the Straits of
Malacca, the Red Sea, Cape of Good
Hope, the entrance from Suez into the
Mediterranean Sea, the Straits of Gi
braltar and the English Channel, and
has captured the land and fortified
the shores with such immense fort
resses and powerful batteries that
America, with the rest, must dip its
flag to the English Jack and salute the
British gun in every water lane of
every sea, and from the land alone
England has placed the commerce of
the sea under the very shadow of her
batteries. She has, moreover, builded
a navy of such proportions that even
the proudest nation cannot dispute the
control of the world's waters with her.
This is the power, this is her grip up
on the world, this is her control of
peoples and nations that the English
propagandists in America want to con
cede as a matter of right to England
and offer in exchange therefor that if
England quarrels with us we hold
Canada as a hostage to her good be
havior. Canada, our cousins, joint
bbuilders of democracy on the Western
Hemisphere, our co-builders ot the new
world, our peaceful neighbors, to be
held as hostages to check the greed of
England, as though America could
ever think, or would ever look upon
the proposition in any other sense
than that of horror that America
should make a Belgium of Canada to
accomplish her destiny or achieve her
military ends.
Why Does England Want a Mighty
Navy?
It is because through that navy she
has possessed all the seas and rules a
quarter of the globe and her rule up
on the world would fail her seizure
of the commerce of the world might
be lost her intimidation of the weaker
nations could not be maintained, ex
cept by the broadsides of her giant
warships. It is not for protection, it is
for coercion it is not for fair trade,
it is for unfair trade and unjust deal
ings among the nations of the earth to
her advancement and her aggrandize
ment.
The men who speak against her
speak against mighty strength, but the
papers who write against her make
the great sacrifice as they are more
in her power than any individual may
possibly be.
How may these seas be made free?
The most effective way is by writ
ing into the treaty of peace now in
session in Europe and bringing it to
fulfillment and complete disarmament
as completely as the disarmament of
the Great Lakes and simply parole the
waters against the free booters that
might infest the deep. If that be not
done and if the solemn promise of free
seas is not given to the world and if
America's sacrifices on land and sea
in treasures and lives bring us no vic
tory upon the waters, then their rem
edy must be supplied and that rem
edy calls upon the patriotism, the loy
alty and the devotion of every Ameri
can to his country and his flag. The
remedy is to build an American navy
out of our resources and our national
strength—to build It mighty, build It
strong, throw out the flag of Perry,
Farragut and Dewey from the mast
head of the greatest sea squadron, to
carry those banners into every sea
and curb or destroy the naval autoc
racy that now grasps the oceans as
our sons destroyed the military autoc
racy on the plains of France.
God speed the day when there Is
enough of patriotism, enough of self
sacrifice, enough of devotion to Amer
ica found under her flag to place the
American nation as the leading nation
of the globe and bring the gift of free
dom to every race that hopes for light
and that prays for emancipation.
Ireland's liberty is as essential to
America as the freedom of the seas.
In fact, the seas cannot be free unless
Ireland is free. She has the greatest
harbors in Europe. The entire fleet
of Great Britain rode at anchor in
Lough Swilly. She projects out into
the Atlantic. From her land-locked
harbors. warships can pass out into
every lane of trade that crosses the
Atlantic Ocean and destroy it, ere It
lands. From its harbors destruction
can be sent against every ship that
leaves the American ports for Europe,
and we are as much at the mercy of
the nation^ that controls Ireland In
seeking trade with Europe as we are
at the mercy of English guns In pass-
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ing the Straits of Gibraltar and then
the argument is advanced that the
freedom of Ireland is not an American
question and that while all other races
that think of the freedom of Ireland
must not think of it because it will
not come.
For America's Interest.
Ireland must be free, or America,
in her future wars, if they would come
with Great Britain, as they have in the
past, will be helpless and puny before
Great Britain's military strength
The future wars will be from the
air rather than from the sea or land
and with Ireland in England's control
the aerial base and flying fields would
be in the valleys and fields of the
Emerald Isle. To strike England, we
would be required to cross Ireland and
to overthrow England, we would be
required to destroy her military bases
in Ireland. The destruction of Ire
land or the humiliation of America
would be the necessary consequences
of that war. Another Belgium, an
other Servia, would lie out in the At
lantic ocean and the misery of the ages
of Erin would all be re-enacted in a
single struggle.
Ireland has given her centuries to
the cause of freedom she has been
the pillar of fire and the cloud by day
guiding all oppressed nations to the
promised land. She has fertilized
every field where liberty has won its
victories with the blood of her devoted
sons. She gave to this war 58 per cent
of her man power and they went will
ingly and without compulsion and
stood in the trenches in the first years
of the conflict, while the Allies were
forging their thunder bolts in the rear.
She has a dead or wounded man for
every home in Ireland. God has set
her boundaries, has purified her people
through the fire of the years gone by,
has lifted up her hopes in the darkest
periods, and has set her face toward
the dawning and the sunrise of an
Irish freedom. America has promised
it, the world has accepted it, God has
ordained it, and it will come.
THAT IRISHMAN, GEORGE
MOORE.
(Benjamin de Casseres in New York
Sun.)
Tremendously human, tantalizingly
lovable, flamboyantly erratic, the
Irishman i$ one of the great adven
tures of hiftnan spirit on the planet.
And he needs the rod of the church.
The soul of all is in each. All of
Ireland is in each true Irishman whole
and undivided. And George Moore is
of its very essence. He maunders and
keens, brags and gives, dribbles and
lies, is legendary and profane, prays
and whistles simultaneously, is insip
idly egotistical and impulsively gener
ous. He drinks his cocktail while say
ing grace.
In his confession semi-comic records
of his life as intellectual dilettante,
hayrick Don Juan and studio transom
lizard, he recalls to us for all the
world Marie Bashklrtseff. In her mir
ror each day, each hour, Marie fol
lowed the progress of the physical
disease that was eating her up. Moore
also coquets with himself, although his
disease is physical. He literally swims
in mirrors. He examines his mus
tache, his wrinkles and his style each
day with the anxiety of an o'erdone
ballet dancer. He has the sickly self
consciousness of a Jean Jacques Rous
seau. He puts down each event of
the day with the precision and meticul
ousness of the being who has nothing
to say, but who knows he will be read
for the splendor of his resonant empti
ness.
His effrontery carries our breath
away. When it comes to immortality,
he will have none of the absent treat
ment. He walks, whether in Dublin,
London or Paris, in his home-made
Valhalla and wears his literary croix
de guerre even on his pajamas. Pos
terity is always drawn up in serried
show before his eyes and their Ecce
Homo beats against his ears even
through the drawn curtains of a Lon
don taxi, where he dreams his lorn
dreams of fair Parisian chamber
maids.
NOTRE DAM E SCHOOLS.
Notre Dame, Ind., Feb. 10.—The
Rev. E. P. Murphy, former Instructor
at Notre Dame, returned to the uni
versity Saturday after having served
six months as a Knights of Columbus
chaplain. He returned with the dis
tinguished Service Medal which he re
ceived as a recognition for gallant
service rendered to the wounded and
dying on the battlefields of France.
The Rev. Ernest C. Davis, another
Notre Dame Instructor who served as
a chaplain in the famous Rainbow
division will return to the university
this week. He was discharged a few
days ago at Camp Devens, Haas.
Students of the university today or
ganized a large and enthusiastic
branch of the "Friends of Irish Free
dom."
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Prelates Te Greet
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Invitations Sent to Bishops of Entire
Country to Assemble in Wash
ington, February 20.
Washington, D. C.—All the members
of the American hierarchy will assem
ble here on Thursday, February 20,
to greet Archbiship Cerretti,, the Holy
Father's special representative to con
vey the felicitations of His Holiness
to Cardinal Gibbons in honor of his
episcopal golden jubilee.
Invitations to the ceremonies, which
are expected to be among the great
est in the history of the Church in
America, have been sent to all the
Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops
in the United States by Bishop Thom
as J. Shahan, rector of the Catholic
University of America.
The Archbishop, who since he left
Rome, has been visiting the hierarch
ies of Belgium, Holland, France, Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland', was In
Canada last week. On Sunday he re
turned to the States, arriving in Phil
adelphia in the evening as the guest
of Archbishop Dougherty.
To welcome the distinguished prel
ate from the Vatican special commit
tees have been formed. On the morn
ing of February 20 the ceremony will
be held in the Franciscan monastery
here. Dinner will be served at the
Catholic University. In the evening
an elaborate program will be carried
out at the Franciscan monastery or
in one of the Washington theatres.
Archibishp Mundelein of Chicago
will be the speaker at the morning
ceremony. At the exercises in the
evening the address will be delivered
by Archbishop Hanna of San Fran
cisco.
It is expected that His Excellency
Archbishop Cerretti will also deliver
an address.
What The Peatifi DM
lot fay To Wilson
Rome, Feb. 3.—The PariB paper,
Oeuvre, having made a statement al
leging that it had been informed from
a most reliable source that the audi
ence,, which President Wilson had with
the Pope, consisted mainly of a plea
made by His Holiness for the consider
ation of the Roman Question at the
Peace Conference, the Osservatore
Romano officially declares that this
statement is unfounded.
PERSUASION FAILS, TRY COMPUL
SION.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 5,1919.
The Pastors Federation had a count
made, on two recent Sunday nights, of
the attendance at 47 Protestant
churches and 35 theatres. The totals
reported were 15,000 at the churches
and 38,000 at the theaters. As a re
sult, the pastors recommend that
every denomination get behind mem
bers of their denomination in Congress
to have a law passed closing the
theaters on Sunday.
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INDORSE WORLD LEAGUE
Congress of Northern States
Pledges Support to Body.
Resolutions Adopted by 2,500 Delegates
Would Put Membership Restric
tions on Germany.
Minneapolis, Feb. 14.—Pledging the
support of the northwest to a world
league of nations, more than 2.500
delegates to the- Northern Congress
for a League of Nations to Enforce
Peace, in session here, adopted resolu
tions commending the efforts of Presi
dent Wilson for abolition of wars. The
resolutions, which were drawn by the
platform committee, consisting of four
representatives each from Montana,
North and South Dakota and Minne
sota, were adopted unanimously.
The resolutions also contained reo
ommendations that the proposed
League of Nations be composed at first
only of the five great Allied nations,
and that Germany be permitted to en
ter the league only after making fun
reparation to the countries devastated
by her during the war.
Endorsed by Northwest.
"The northwest is solidly behind a
League of Nations," declared E. A.
Couper, congress chairman. "Many
people who had a wrong Impression of
the movement have had their eyes
opened. The congress has been one of
the most inspirational conferences ever
conducted in Minneapolis. The gen
eral feeling is that a workable league
nations will be formed."
Former President Taft, Henry Van
Dyke, former minister to the Nether^
lands, and E. A. Filene, director of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
Btates, were the speakers at the final
lession.
REVIEW RAINBOW DIVISION
Qeneral Pershing Will Arrive at Cob
lenz Saturday.
Coblenz, Feb. 14.—General PerBhlng
will arrive at Coblenz Saturday for
a visit of several days.
He will review the TMrty-seSond
and Forty-second divisions, which, ac
cording to present plans will be the
first two divisions to start homeward,
possibly by way of the Rhine.
No date has been set for the de
parture of either division.
CROWDER SUCCEEDS SELF
Named Judge Advocate Qeneral of
Army for Four Years.
Washington, Feb. 14.—Major General
Enoch H. Crowder, judge advocate gen
eral of the army, was nominated by
President Wilson to succeed himself
for another term of four years begin
ning Feb. 15, 1919, with rank as major
general from Oct. 6. 1917.
S0L0NS MAKE LONG FLIGHT
Paris, Feb. 14.—Representatives PaV
rick D. Norton of North Dakota and
George White of Ohio returned here
from London by airplane. They made
the trip in 2 hours and 26 minutes.
Takee Patent Medicine, Dies.
A coroner's inquest has been ordered
Into the death of Hugh McMahon,
sixty, of St. Louis, who died follow
ing the taking of a dose of patent
cough medicine.
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Bin oa British Wheat
Irgod Bofore Seaata
Placing of an embargo by the Unit
ed States against any shipments of
wheat from Canada, Australia or other
portions of the British Empire, was
proposed in the Senate last week by
Senator McCumber of North Dakota,
as a retaliatory measure against the
embrago order issued by Great Britain
against American manufactured goods.
Senator King of Utah, said he be
lieved the resolution was impertinent,
(as introduced by Senator Weeks)
which asks to combat the British re
striction. Senator Walcott expressed
a similar opinion.
Senator Smith said: "Suppose we do
place an embargo on Canadian wheat?
Does any one doubt that if we do so
Great Britain would inquire about It?
No important act takes place here af
fecting the commerce of Great Britain,
which is not given very careful con
sideration, and we know exactly what
Great Britain thinks about it."
BILL PROVIDES FIGHTERS WORK.
One hundred million dollars for re
lief of the unemployment condition
which is confronting discharged sol
diers and sailors is provided by the
terms of a bill introduced in the House
last week by Representative Kelly, of
Ponna.
The money would be authorized and
spent under direction of the President
through a director and commission on
public construction. This commission
would include the Secretary of Labor,
Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of
the Interior, Secretary of War and
Postmaster eGneral.
A RED CROSS FACT.
The Red Cross Magazine for Feb
ruary carries the following significant
statement: "In a census of national
ities at the Red CroBs Hospital near
Paris, soldiers of Irish descent were
twice as numerous as those of any
other nationality." The children of the
Gael, both in Ireland itself and in the
greater Ireland beyond, have done
more than their duty in this war, and
the pathetic part of it all Is that, while
they were fighting to preserve the life
of England, the leaders of that country
were trying to stifle Erin's cry for free
dom.—Indiana Catholic.
The Rev. Dr. Othmar of the Minor
Conventual Franciscans of Rens
selaer, N. Y., has been appointed Eng
lish Confessor in St. Peter's, Rome.
The Papal Delegate at Warsaw,
Mons. Ratts, has made representa
tions to Rome regarding the situation
at Vilna and vicinity, asking the In
tervention of the allies and protec
tion against the Bolshevlki In Lithu
ania, where- there are Polish Roman
Catholics.
By granting the Irish Convention,
England admitted Ireland's right to
"self-determination."
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COURTS TRIED 870^000 MEN.
The fact that there were more than
870,000 court-martial trials of Amer
ican soldiers during the war was dis
closed by Secretary Baker In a letter
to the Senate last week. Of this num
ber 22,000 cases were heard by gener
al court-martial and about 360,000 .by
special or summary courts, the of
fenses being of a minor nature.
Complaints of the infliction of pun
ishments ranging from 10 years to lite
Imprisonment for minor offenses, all
have to do with general court-martial
cases, rather than those which were
heard by the lesser courts.
MEMORIAL MA88 FOR MAINE.
Following an annual custom, which
he Instituted at the first memorial ex
ercises in Washington in honor of the
victims of the Maine, which was blown
up In Havana Harbor on the night of
February 15, 1898, the Rev. Eugene
Hannan, rector of St. Martin's
Washington, will celebrate a Memorial
Mass on that day, which will be at
tended by soldiers, sailors and nwrfnt
stationed in and around the city.
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