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Show was begun by Robert Emmet more than a hundred years ago." IRISH LEAGUE OB8ERVES EMMET'S ANNIVERSARY New York. March 8. Two celebrations, celebra-tions, commemorative of the 131st anniversary an-niversary of the birth of Robert Emmet, Em-met, were held in this city last night. The United Irish league had a meeting meet-ing at the Lyric theater and the Clan Na-Gael gathered at the Herald Square theater. Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia, president of the United Irish league of America, said during tho course of an address at the league celebration: "John E. Redmond has done more to advance tho political, material, Intellectual In-tellectual and industrial Interests of Ireland than any other man in the last century. Never since the day of Emmet has . the future of Ireland looked brighter with the promise or victory than it does today under the leadership of Redmond. He represents an Ireland united to an extent unparalleled un-paralleled in all her aheckcred history and he is the unquestioned leader of an organization that has done much for the cause of Irish freedom. If Redmond would today forget the cause for which Ireland is fighting, he, would become the prime minister of England. Eng-land. Intellectually, ho la the most powerful man In all of the British empire, em-pire, and he is devoting all the talents tal-ents with which he has been endowed en-dowed to carrying on the work which |