The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-18
REDMOND BEGS
 IRELAND TO SEND
 BRIGADE TO WAR
Declares It Is Duty of His Race to Give Aid to Great Bri-
 tain in Her Emergency.
ASSERTS ENGLAND HAS
 KEPT FAITH WITH THEM


 London. September 17-To show that his fellow countrymen can keep faith with the English just as the de- nocracy Of England has with them, John Redmond. the, Irish leader. has to-day issued a call for the forming Of an Irish brigade. He calls on all stand ready to do all in their power to aid Great Britain in the present war.
 s@The Irish people," MT. Redmond continues, "know and appreciate the fact fully that at last after centuries Of Understanding, the democracy Of Great Britain has finally and ire vocabiy decided to trust them and give them back their national hber- ties
 .'By overwhelming British nlajorities 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 has opened in, the history of the two nations.
 s'During the long discussion on the Irish problem in Parliament and on the platform we promised the British 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 Afri- ca; that dissatisfaction would give that Ireland would become a strength instead Of weakness to the empire
 MT. Redmond then goes on to speak of the war, eaying:-
 Says War Is Just
 Tt -issa just war; provoked by the intorable military despotism of Ger many. It is war of high ideals of human government and, international relations and Ireland would be false to her history, to every consideration of honor good faith and seIf-interest did she not willingly bear her share in it's burdens and it's sacrifices.
 i've 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 lines and we shall do so now.
 We have a right to claim that Irish recruits for an expeditionary force should be kept together as 9 unit and officered, as far as possible, by IrishInen-to form, in fact, an Irish brigade, so that Ireland may gain ma ttonal credit for their deeds and feel Iike other communities Of the smpIre that she, too, has contributed an army bearing her name in this historic struggle ''
 Asks Quick Action
 with the formatton of an Irish bri- gade for service MT. Redmond asks that the volunteers be put in state of efficiency as speedily as possible for the defence of the country. T would appeal to our countryEaen Of a d3fferent creed and of possible political opintons,' MT. Redmond says in conclusion. Ito accept the friend ship we have so consistently offered them and to allow this great war; as to which their opinions and ours are the, same, to swallow up all the small Ter issues in the domestic government of Ireland which now divide us. That as our soldiers are going to light and shed their blood and die at each others side in the same army and against the same enemy for the same high purpose their union in the field may lead to union in the homes and ! that their blood may be the seal that will bring all Ireland together in one nation and in liberties equal and com mon to all.@