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Show IRISH ARE TO HELP OREATJRITAIN London, Sept, 16, 10.42 p. m. "The democracy or Great Britain has kept faith with Ireland and It Is now tho duty of honor for Ireland to keep faith with them," says John Redmond the Irish leader, in a manifesto issued tonight, in which he calls on Irishmen to bear their share In the war in which the empire is engaged. He continued ; "The Irish people know and appro ciate the fact fully that least, arter centuries of misunderstanding, the democracy of Great Britain have finally fi-nally and irrevocably decided to trust them and give them back their national na-tional liberties. "By overwhelming British majorities, majori-ties, a charter of liberty for Ireland has three times been passed by the house of commons and in a few hours will be the law of the land. A new-era new-era has opened in the history of the two nations. "During the long discussion on the Irish problem in parliament and on the platform we promised the Brit ish people that a concession of liberty would have the same effect in Ireland as in every other part of the empire, notably, In recent years, in South Africa; that dissatisfaction would give way to friendship and good will, and that Ireland would become a strength instead of a weakness, to the empire." em-pire." Mr. Redmond then goes on to speak of the war, saying: "It is a Just war. provoked by the intolerable military despotism ol Ger-many. Ger-many. It is a war for high ideals of human government and international interna-tional relations, and Ireland would be false to her history, to every consideration consid-eration of honor, good faith and self- , ht,T,.Ht l) ill vl-., nnt 1 1 r. , t .. t.Anl. - "ui nuuiigij ucui her share in its burdens and its sacrifices. sac-rifices. "We have, even when no ties of sympathy bound our country to Great Britain, always given our quota, and more than our quota, to the firing line, and we shall do so now. "We have a right to claim that Irish recruits for an expeditionary force should be kept together as a unit and officered, as far as possible, by Irishmen to form, in fact, an Irish brigade, so that Ireland may bain national credit for their deeds and feel like the other communities of the empire, that she, too, has contributed con-tributed an army bearing her name in this historic struggle. ' With the formation of an Irish brigade for service, Mr. Redmonds asks that the volunteers be put in a state of efficiency as speedily as possible pos-sible for the defense of the country |