The Irish standard., 1917-05-05
CHICAGO IRISH
CITIZENS PASS
RESOLUTIONS


Meeting Held in Hotel Sherman-I
One Hundred Leading Citizens Sign !
Resolution.
Chicago, April 28.-At a meeting Of
representative 1rish-Americans in the |
Hotel Sherman last night resolution [
was passed unanimously urging con-
gress to favorable action, to grant to
Ireland her rights and liberties by per-
hitting her to establish an Irish Re-
public. Former Congressman George
e. German was chairman at the meet
ing.
The following resolution by Hon.
Hickman Scanlon, chief justice of the
circuit court, was adopted:
In the present crisis of the republic,
we, as representatives of the American
people of Chicago, who are Irish by
ancestry, declare to the nation, that
the allegiance and patriotism of
the Irish-American - unquestioned by
Washington and Lincoln-is as strong
and answering today as it was at
Bunker Hill and Valley Forge, where
the fathers fought the British for their
freedom; as strong and answering as
it was at New Orleans, when Irish
Jackson and his Irish troops defeated
the British, in the Second War for
independence; and as strong and I'M
swerving as it was at Fredericksburg
and Gettysburg, when the life Of the
nation was at stake.
And whereas, the president of the
nation in his war address to congress
on April 2, 1917, solemnly declared
that the country would fight in the
present world war for the liberties of
small nations" and ito make the world
itself at last free"
And whereas, on April 8, 1917, Hon.
Medill Mccormick, congressman at
large from the state of Illinois, intro
duced the following resolutions in the
house of representatives:
Whereas, the United States is now
at war with the German empire; and
whereas the other great powers at
war with the empire have voiced their
purpose to secure the rights of the
small peoples, no less than of the
great; therefore be it
Resolved, That the house of repre-
sentatives send its greetings to the
chamber of deputies at Rome and at
Paris, to the duma at Petrograd, to
the house of commons at London and
Ottawa, to the house Of assembly at
Cape Town, and to the house of rep
resentatives at Melbourne and Wei
lington; and that this house express
to the other chambers the hope that
peace shall witness the restoration of
Belgium and Serbia and the establish.
ment of united and self-governing
Ireland and Poland.
Resolved further, That the speaker
of the house of representatives trans
nit these resolutions to the presidents
and speakers, respectively, of the
chambers herein named.
Now, therefore, be it resolved, Thai
we, the descendants of race thai
has fought for it's freedom for 8O(
years and that during all that period
one of tyranny and cruel oppres
sion-has ever preserved an uncon
querable love for independence, re
joice that this great nation, the birth
place of freedom, through its presi
dent, has declared to the world tina
the time had arrived when all nations
must be free, and assuming, as we dc
that the aforesaid resolution is in
tended to mean that the house of rer
resentatives express the hope tina
peace shall bring the restoration Q
complete liberty and independence t
Ireland and her suffering sister, Pc
land, we heartily thank Congressman
Mccormick for introducing the sal
resolution, it being the first resolution
that was introduced in congress dull
ing the present world crisis lookin
towards the advancement and better
ment of Ireland.
And whereas, Hon. Thomas Ga
lagher, congressman from Chicago, Ill
introduced in the house of represents
tives on April -, 1917, resolution
declaring that one of the condition
of peace to terminate the present wa
shall be that Ireland and Poland b
made free and Independent and give
a rightful place among the nations c
the world
Now, therefore, be it resolved, Tha
we strongly indorse the said resolutio
of Congressman Gallagher and W
heartily thank him for introducin
the same, and we strongly urge tha
the committee on foreign relations, 9
an early day, report to the house
representatives, with it's approval,
resolution declaring that it is the sens
of the house of representatives ths
one of the conditions Of peace tha
shall terminate the present war sha
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