Arizona republican., 1919-02-24
GIBBONS PLEADS FOR
 IRELAND'S FREEDOM
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 any other people. the form of govern ment under which in future they shall live
 We urge this claim in the first place in the name of justice, recognizing and insisting upon the truth set forth by the founders of our republic, that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
 We urge this claim in the name of America, insisting as we have just shown in the case of France, that we are not an ungrateful people. and re- calling that no other people have con- tributed more than those of Irish blood to the creation, the upbuilding. the de- Velopment and the preservation and defense of our great country.
 We urge this claim in the name Of l Ireland, because of the unparalleled struggle for now seven and half cen ! turies that Ireland has carried on for | national existence and liberty: because l all efforts to break down and destroy ! that existence have failed, and because l of the extraordinary ma jOrity by which less than two months ago the people of Ireland declared, not alone their dis satisfaction with the government of | their land by England, but also their ] determlnation to govern themselves without interference from any outside | influence or power.
 England Has Cajoled
 l We urge this claim in the name of | humanity, because We believe that war cannot be ended and a justice and per manent peace cannot be brought about, unless the doctrine of self-determina- ton be applied to Ireland and the peo- pie of that country be permitted to decide for themselves the form of gov
 ernment under which they shall live.
 We point out that England has tried in every way to coerce or to persuade or to cajOle the people of Ireland to give up their devotion to their national traditions and tried them all in vain.
 Lloyd George within the last few months has been compelled to assert that Ireland is at present as much op- posed to British rule as in the days of
 Cromwell.
 The industries of Ireland have been
 destroyed; her trade and commerce
 wiped out; her population cut in two;
 her leaders deported and held in Eng
 fish jails, without indictment or trial:
 and yet within the last two months
 the people with an unanimity never before attained, have declared their utter dissatisfaction with English rule
 and their determination to be free
 England refuses to listen to the voice p of Ireland. but we point out. that Eng
 land likewise refused to listen to the voice of the American colonies. Eng land was compelled less than century
 and a half ago to recognize the inde pendence of the colonies, and within
 the last year the efforts of our coun-
 try saved England and her allies from total defeat at the hands of the central
 powers. The land to which England
 was thus compelled to do justice has
 just saved England in her hour of need
 Let England now realize that justice
 to Ireland, which she has so long de-
 nied, with grievous loss to Ireland, but , also with great loss to herself. will now ! remove from her path the bitterest hos tility which she has to encounter al over the world, and will convince man D kind in general of the sicerity of hei declarations, when she says that sh, , believes in liberty and justice fol s others as well as fo rherself.
 Avoid Vienna Mistakes e Finally, We urge this claim. tha 2 peace and order may be brought ou T of the chaos with which the whol. t world now seems to be threatened. II I this great hour when governments ar, I being reformed and when peoples lon, Q oppressed by tyranny are emergin. I again into the sunlight of liberty, le % there he sincerity and unselfishnes
 upon the part of those who are con Q trolling the peace conference to tn il end that the mistakes of the congres
 of Vienna may be avoided. and a peac !, made that will be lasting and perma. nent because it will be just and right h Upon the shoulders of our presiden T and congress rests, in the last analysis :. the responsibility for the peace tha A hall be made. We urge them to act il U accordance with the doctrines lai,
 down on our behalf when we entere, the war and in accordance with tn e resolution recently adopted, aImos q unanimously. by the foreign affair r committee of the house of representa- n tives, to the end that autocracy an,
 militarism may be forever destroye. T and that the right of self-determina Q ton shall be given to all the people
 of the earth
 - Declaration of Principles n With the adoption of the cardinal 1, resolution. Michael J. Ryan, Philadel - phia- read the declaration of prin 2 ciples, which he said. had been draw up by a committee representing ever