If a people have a right to be free they have
a right to organize and to use the most effective
means to that end. If a man enter such organi¬
zation for the purpose of betraying it he merits
no sympathy for whatever fate awaits him. So
the Patriots of the Revolution thought and so they
acted, the cackling of the pro-British press to the
contrary notwithstanding.
England is responsible for all the blood which
has been and which shall be shed in the strugg¬
le for Irish freedom as truly as the burglar is
responsible for the murders committed in the course
of his nefarious operations. All the same.
The world knows now who the heads of the Clan
na Gael are, i.e. J. J. Bradley, Phila. Pa., Chair¬
man; Thomas H. Ronayne, New York, Secretary;
Thomas Tierney, Brooklyn, treasurer. Patrick
Egan, Lincoln, Neb., Luke Dillon, Phila., Pa,
John M. Leonard, Fall River, Mass., E. O'Meagh¬
er Condon, Washington, L. R. Buckley and Mor¬
timer Scanlan, Chicago. Here are nine men, com¬
posing the Executive. Who gave the names of
these men to the public ? One of the nine must
surely be a traitor. Who is he?
Let the Clann-na-Gael call a convention and
elect a board of officers who will be known to all
the members
The Clan-na-Gael is credited with being a pow¬
erful secret organization, and hence the pro-Bri¬
tish cry for its suppression. If there be nothing
in its constitution to conflict with the duty of citi¬
zenship, it has as good a right to exist as Free¬
masonry and the other secret organizations which
abound in the country — no more and no less:
It seems the heaviest punishment which the
constitution inflicts is expulsion. How then can
it be such a fearful combination as its enemies
would picture it?
From the developments in the Cronin tragedy
no one outside the British government could have
derived any benefit from his murder; hence (if
he be murdered) it is by the paid minions of that
government in "camp 20."
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