The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-11
Cut the world for Ireland's liberty.

cut the world for Ireland's liberty.
 'Is it the Bolsheviki only who are to be acknowledged as free? Is it because, being Catholic, the Irish peo- rsfe repudiate BolsheyikisIn that they are now to be repudiated and their justi claim forgotten and neglected?
 Let them beware in time who encourage by their actions and words today before the court of the world such dangerous conclusions as these.
 "Is it really true that the blood of millions has been shed that right alone should rule the world, and that the monster of brute force, might. which in many places besides Ger many has dominated the fate of mil lions of human beings, should be de- posed forever? Is that really true
 Ask Justice For All.
 "Is the law of justice to be hon. estly applied to all, or it is to be still merely a cloak to hide indefensiblo selfish purposes and to be dispensed ad libitum as governments have the brute power to observe and ignore it as they like?
 .''Was the great war a conflict for true freedom under right for all alike, or was it a grim hoax played upon the ingenious by the shrewd manipuIatores of clever phrases?
 '"The deepest purpose of this meet | ing Is that faith may prevail-faith in Governments, faith in rulers and congresses, and all that set of divine f principles and influences and human agencies by which the world is held in order.
 This war, we were told again an6 again by all those responsible for the conduct of the war, was for justice to all for the inviolable rights ot small nations, for the inalienablt right, inherent in every nation, of self determination.
 'The purpose of this meeting to night is very specific. The war car be justified only by the universal ap plication of those principles. Let tha application begin with Ireland.
 IRELAND LONGEST SUFFERER
 Ireland is the oldest nation ant
 the longest sufferer. In these prin
 cipIes are not applied in her case, nt
 matter what else may be done ther will be no complete justice, no geEu inc sincerity believabIe, and the wa |. not bringing justice will not brfn. peace"
 America has fought in this war no for selfish aims. She has given bes ! blood, her hardest toll and her enor
 nous wealth and in return gets no F one foot Of soil, not a, single materia gain. She has a right to demand tha l for which alone she has made sue . tremendous sacrifices-justice for al
 "Let the test of sincerity be Ire s land. Then we will be convinced tha : truth still lives.
 Ireland must be allowed to tell tn
 world freely what she wants, how sh q wishes to be governed. Speak up Ire ! land; make the world hear you! Walk . up England, for the world is watchin e you!
 May God grant the voice of Ire q land be heard and that at last peac Q entering Europe through Ireland 5 freedom, brl--gs even to England il blessings and it's fruits. Q I firmly believe that the day ths b England honestly faces her full dut . to Ireland and fulflls it faithful = God will bless her as she has nt l. known His blessing for many cer turies. For as win the individu ', soul, so with the soul of a nation II a clear conscience is the only doC n to happiness.