The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-04-21
CHICAGO IRISHMEN Demand
THE FREEDOM OF IRELAND

nSooiueiou demanding the fFeeQom
Of IreIand-This Resolution Should
Be Endorsed BY Every Patriotic
Citizen in the United States.
Chicago, ILL.,, April 16-The Irish
American citizens of Chicago are work
ing zealously to place before Presi-
dent Wilson the cause of Ireland and
through their representatives resolu-
tions will be introduced asking that
the cause of Ireland will be recognized
as nation. Meetings have been held
throughout the week by the United
Irish Societies and every effort is
made to induce every patriotic citizen
to recognize the claim of Ireland to
freedom and to support Congressman
Gallagher, the Illinois representative,
in his resolution, demanding the free
dom of Ireland.
There is no better opportunity than
at present for all loyal Irishmen of
this country to make a concentrated
effort to impress this nation with the
claims of Ireland to an Independent ma
tion. The United Irish Societies of
this city are asking similar organiza-
tions throughout the United States to
forward the interests of Ireland
through Congress at this time, as nev-
er before in the history of the world
could the claims of Ireland be so favor
ably pressed when the United States
is so great a factor in the world war.
Irishmen all over the United States
are responding more generously to the
call of the President than any of the
other citizens of the nation, and for
this reason, if for no other, Congress
and the American people should assist
in breaking the yoke of tyranny and
abhorred rule of England and free Ire
land forever. The following is the Gal
lagher resolution:
Whereas the president, in his great
plea for Americas honor before the
to establish an international league
of honor, and in speaking of the up
rising of the people and the destruc-
tiOn by them of the aristOcracy of
Russia said
'The autocracy that crowned the
summit Of her political structure, long
as it had stood and terrible as was
the reality of its power, was not in
fact Russian in origin, character, or
purpose; and now it has been shaken
off and the great, generous Russian
people have been added in all their
naive majesty and might to the forces
that are fighting for freedom in the
world, for justice, and for peace;;" and
Whereas, justly apropos to the Ion
guage of the president is the Irish
appeal, wherein they say:
"When Russia, the nation of slav-
cry, has successfully broken manacles
that enslaved it's people, deposed mon
archy, dethroned Czardom, and estab-
lished a republican form of govern
ment on the ruins of autonomy, is 1t
not time that the people of Ireland
emerged from their centuries of mis-
rule and take their place among the
nations of the earth, vested with the
power to govern themselves, and left
free to determine their own policies,
their own development, unhindered,
unthreatened, unafraid?
Therefore be it
Resolved, that, in the language of
the president, "Steadfast concert for
peace can never be maintained except
by a partnership of democratic ma
tions 4. a league of honor, a part
nership of opinion. :. Only free peo-
pies can hold their purpose and their
honor steady to common end and
prefer the interests of mankind to any
narrow interest of their own;" and be
it
Resolved further, that as one of the
conditions of peace that Ireland and
Poland be made free and indepen.
dent and given a rightful place among
the nations of the world; and for the
purpose of accomplishing this object
be it
Resolved further, that upon the final
termination of this war and In the
adjustment of peace, the parties ne
gotiating for the settlement and ad-
justment thereof shall insist as part
of their settlement that Poland and
Ireland, respectively, be given their
freedom, predicated upon the prin-
ciple laid down by the president IN
his plea for an international league,
that GAIL governments derive their
lust powers from the consent OF the
governed"