The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04

of the movement which John Red mond referred to in 'S6. The people of Ireland who are at present stand ing by John Redmond did not want to be thought as turncoats if they de- serted their leader. Let them remem- Der they are not deserting their lead CT; their leader had deserted them. Let them think for themselves. and not allow the thinking to be done for them by journals here. The war could not last a day, and oppression could ont last a day at the present time were it not fo1 the influence of the reptile press. The message sent to America and sent over the world is that what Ireland wanted is to be free from England, to be allowed to live her own life, free from the in- reference of foreigners, free particu-
 larly from the interference of that power which has been crushing them, as John Redmond himself said, for
 seven centuries.
 We want Ireland to bet set up as an independent state with no closer bonds between us and England than there will be between it and America
 or between 1t and Germany, or be- tween it and France. That ought to
 be clear enough for anybody.
 We say that if those who go about moutfling about self-determination do not take that interpretation of it then they are hypocritesS and we tell Pres | ident Wilson. in view of the state
 ments he has made. if he does not
 take that view of it he is as big a
 hypocrite as Lloyd George"
 Whether President Wilson is in the
 same category as Lloyd George or not
 time alone will tell, but the Irish peo- pie told President Wilson-and now
 is the time to tell it when he is seek. ing solution of the Irish question that if he is out for the. principle of giving liberty to small nations, anC if he is out to satisfy the aspirations
 of those small nations he could sat, isfy the aspirations of the Irish peo. pie by giving us what we, who really
 represent National Ireland-the Sim Fein party-demand, and not wha might come from the Lloyd George convention
 In order to misrepresent our posi-
 ton, and to prejudice the people O
 America as far as they could agains
 US, they found articles by Nationals members in certain papers, and whe1
 I saw that John Dillon had writer an article at the head of which h.
 put sim Fain Treachery to the Uni ted States I asked myself was trossible that the son of John Blak Dillon should be such a renegade, ant
 I said to myself if he wrote that ar lticle he was a fit companion for Jon1 : MItchePs grandson It rcmlnced m ] Of what the poor Clare woman sait
 to MT. Parnen during the Parnel isp1it: ''May God forgive you, MT. Par nell, for you broke my heart
 What obligations to the Unite } States have we proved false to? } Must we alone take it that if friend of OUTS has an enemy tha enemy also must be OUTS? I do no believe for a moment the things "
 heard about the Irish in Araerics 7 Until England has taken her grip of . Ireland tken we old our friends I : America that we did not want thei 7 advica and would not take it. If the
 wanted to help US in America-an t believe they do, and I believe the . were helping uS-the way to do f to back up our demand, not to substi = ute demands of their own. Our post 3 ton in this matter is clear.
 ] I say we are ready to put Ireland
 honor in the hands of Armagh, Nun 3 ster, Leinster, and Connaught hay = voted that Ireland should be free, an 7 they could bet that Armagh would nc T vote that Ulster should be cut froI a Ireland, and should be partitionet e MT. Dillon has challenged them t Armagh. He told them the Sout d and West were for them They sai = not for them because they as part
 were for nothing; the South and Wes = and East were for IrelaDd-Irelan = that her sons could be proud of, ths s her sons could die for, not a dismen 8 bered province. They depended O n Armagh and were certain Armag l. would not fail them. They depende r upon Armagh to show that the Mort t would not cut itself from the rest ( d Ireland.
 = We are going down to the Nortl e and going to face all the organizatio 6 they can put in front of us, and W o arc going to depend on one thing, th Il natural instinct of the Irish heart, tn