New-York tribune., 1918-05-22
Irish Leaders
Praise u. S. for
Its Part in War
American Labor Mission
Ends Visit With Luncheon
Given by Lord Decies

DUBLIN, May 2O.--The three days
visit to Ireland of seven members of
the American labor mission closed to-
day with a luncheon given by Lord
Decies.
Unionists and Nationalists were we'll
represented at the gathering and off
cial Dublin attended in a body, includ
ing Edward Shortt, the new Chief Sec
rotary for Ireland and Major General
Shaw, the new commander Of the Brit
ish forces in Ireland. It is obviously
impossible that an" members of the
real revolutionary school Of the Sim
Fen could be present at the same table
with Secretary Short and General
Shaw, but the more moderate wing of
the Sim Fein was to have been repre-
sented by Laurence O'Neill, the Lord
Mayor of Dublin. But Mayor O'Neill
sent message of regret, with a re-
quest that the delegation meet him at
his office Immediately after the
luncheon.
Efforts of United States Eulogized
The principal speakers were the two
highest legal dignitaries in Ireland,
cellor, leading Nationalist, and Sir
James Campbell, the Lord Chief JUS
tice, a close friend and supporter Of
Sir Edward Carson, the Unonist
leader. Both the speakers eulogized
the great part the United States was
taking in the war and expressed the
hope that there would also soon be
greater cooperation from Ireland in the
work of defeating the Germans.
"The American delegation" said the
Lord Chief Justice, who has lost two
at time when we are unhappily dis
tracted and divided. The sky of Ire
land is dark and heavy with lowering
clouds of anger and suspicion, and
these clouds have for the time OBJ
scured the vision of peace and recon-
ciliation which a few months ago
seemed so near, and for which many Of
us so earnestly waited and zealously
labored
"But do not despair, nor have I
abandoned the belief that the common
suffcrngs and sacrifices and heroism
of the many gallant 1rshmen who have
fallen in the great war will bear the
fruit of peace and good will in Ire,
land.
To Vindicate Ireland's. Name
"rhe situation here to-day is crit
lcal. One thing alone can save it, and
that is the cooperation of every sane
and patriotic Irishman in a final ap-
peal to our young manhood to take
their place in this world struggle and
fill the places of the gallant Irishmen
who have fallen IN the defence of free
dom and liberty. If we get an ade-
quate response to this final appeal we
shall succeed in indicating the fair
name of Ireland before the world and
+swill save our country from tragedy
and despair"
!. During the day the members of the
American mission conferred with John
Dillon, the Nationalist leader, and later
went to the bedside of Sir Horace
Plunkett, who was the chairman of the
Irish convention. He is recovering
from q, severe breakdown.
One Of the incidents of the day was
the conference between the American
women delegates and deputation
from the Sim Fen women's organiza-
tion, headed by Mrs. Wyse Power, who
is one of the members Of the new Sim
Feln executive committee. She laid
before the American visitors the Irish
republican point of view.
During their stay in Dublin the
American visitors were housed at the
Shelbourne Hotel, the windows of
which were shattered with bullets dur
ing the Easter rebellion of 1916.
One of the first Sim Fein figures
whom the Americans of the Labor Mis-
sion encountered in the lobby of their
hotel here on Sunday was Maude Come
Mcbride, widow of Major John Nc
Bride, one of the men executed in the
spring of 1915 for his part in the
Easter uprising. She lives within a
stones throw of the Shelbourne Hotel
and was constant visitor there after
the arrival of the Americans. She was
arrested last night, however, while she
was returning to her home
Maude Come is a striking figure,
nearly six feet tall, dressed in black,
and she attracted the attention of the
Americans by the fact that she is
always accompanied by her dachshund.
Her arrest apepars virtually to have
completed the list of Sim Fein leaders
whom the government has decided to
render inactive.