The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-02
THE GARDEN THEATRE MEETING


 TN WORLD vast groups are fighting Central
 Powers, of enormous intelligence and high organization who represent 100000 Allies rep resent billion three hundred million sous sided bat which the smaller number maintaining with great MSand vgor though closed to them they left up their resources , In the United States it's population of hundred millions and it's relatively tring little in position to settle the dispute to arbtrae be- tween the combatants without their consent than tiny South American Republic would be-
 Among all the forces engaged and against all the armament employed the United States has barely enough to demand in her behalf reasonable compliance with those customs of by the violation of which the people of this country would be seriously injured.
 To obtain reasonable compliance with American rights under these conditions and at the time to avoid entering the war; great delicacy difficulty; difficult delicate that single misstep single error might upset the balance of things and precipta disaster
 Thanks to the broad lines which this government was the beginning formed the gates of the nation have been to the peoples of Europe who might desire to seek unes not to be found in the lands of Europe
 So there to these shores multudes from Britain France Germany Norway Sweden Denmark Ireland And later, other mutudes from Russia aHungary, Poland Finland, Italy and from Turkey in Europe and Asia
 In this country there millions of these people and their descendants sypmahies the war; with fight the side of the communities from which they
 These the hostages of fate binding the United States peace No for either side could be entered into with the whole hearted support of all the elements of the nation
 No matter what European/so these millions derive they blood brothers the declaration Independence They Americans first and they put the we'll being of Amer above all.
 They are sorry those in the old land They glad America is prosperous and peaceful.
 They vexed because agtaors, of whom vio lent Republican parsans and some of whom padwith nobody knows whose to nflame this group and that, in the interest of foreign
 The sypmahies of be controlled. is nat ufal that of German anecededens would sypahize with Germany that British antecedents should sym p9thize with Britain.
 But it yet more natural that all should sympathze with America, for home wife, children prosperity the long tomorrow with its fair, growing prospect.
 There should be American expression of foreign sym pahy that tends to make difficult for America keep the path of honor and of peace.
 Here is point that Jeremiah oLeary and his type look point that not to have been understood in The Garden Theatre meeting
 spirit that meeting expressed by Koeble who said, speaking of Great Britain:
 And will fight that country which has been my counrys greatest enemy, until my Hast breath is gone"
 The Garden Theatre meeting called to embarass the present government in its dealing with foreign It effort to errorze the president into action dictated by pahy for foreign powers that sympathy which puts first the best good of America. +4
 Any American who proposes to the president and to the government with good faith dignity anything for the good of America to the responsibility of patriotism
 But American who proposed to the government of action based upon anpahy to favorsm for for eign is doing unAmerican hng doing disloyal thing.
 balance peace holds just by little side peace It would long weight the scale the other sde by throwing into it the passions of prejudice born other shores.
 In America there Irish than in Ireland These Americans of Irish antecdens mighty in the state They administer of great cities They orators statesmen senator's judges, governors.
 they shared the passionately preudced views expressed in the Garden Theatre meeting they would compel war in very short order There could be long resistance such demand from such numerous citizenship
 But the Irish of America do not want war; They are Americans first They would not have the fortunes of hun millions of people here determined by the mserunes five millions of people in Ireland whose opinions divided to the extent that Ireland sends the Allies half Canada sends which has population of mil Hons,
 the president the United States conded the duty protecting this people Russia that people in the Congo another in RegRm aReheE R efesae and aaeter