The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-15
DEMAND LIBERTY OF
IRISH PARLIAMENT.
Lexington Theatre Speakers
Urge Withdrawal of the
British Troops.
RAP LEAGUE OF NATIONS
kilograms Of Protest Are Sent
London and Manchester
Editors.

The Lexington Theatre was filled from
pit to rooftree and the streets outside
were damned with crowd bigger than
that inside last night at the mass meet
ing called to protest against the British
suppression of the Irish Parliament and
to demand the withdrawal of the British
army of occupation from the territory
of the Irish Republic" The meeting was
called upon publication OF the proclama-
tion Of the Lord Lieutenant, Lord French,
on Saturday. but 1t made up in number
and enthusiasm for any lacks caused by
short time for preparation.
Frank p. Walsh presided. and de-
nounoed England, Lloyd George. the
Peace Conference President Wilson and
the League of Nations, to the wild de-
light OF his audiences, both within and
without the building. Col. Moynihan
and Major Kelly of the old Sixty-ninth.
the Rev. Henry Grattan Mythen, an
Episcopal clergyman of Norfolk. Va !;
Martin Conboy. Assistant District At
torney Alfred ]. Talley and Alfred w.
McCann raised the enthusiasm of the
meeting with their pledges Of American
ism and their demands for American
justice for Ireland, and Brandon lyman
started the meeting subscribing TO the
Irish liberty loan about to be raised by
canon de Valera.
But 1t remained for Father Francis
Duffy, chaplain of the Sixty-ninth. to
startle the crowd, to set 1t thinking and
finally to bring the house about his ears
with a thunder of applause
II have come to speak a good word
for England" he began, with his pug
nacious jaw thrust forward into the
chilly silence.
81 was raised In an atmosphere Of
English history, and the most encourag-
ing thing that / know in the present
situation is the remarkable growth of
liberty in England itself, the steady at
tainment of freedom under the English
Parliament"
There was still a silence almost omi-
nous as he reviewed the struggle for
constitutional freedom in England, mem
tioning the great Liberals from the time
Of Runnymede down.
Keep Liberty Mt Home.
But" he cllmaxed. they have al
ways been remarkably successful in
keeping their liberties at home. Now,
however is the time when that liberty
must begin to spread. This meeting has
taken the right course tonight in adj
dressing cablegrams to two Englishmen
and a Scotchman. leaders in England's
present fight for Industrial freedom.
at is the same crowd in England to-
day that is resisting Irish freedom that
has resisted Irish freedom all along.
Only now they have an eloquent, tricky
democrat Lloyd George, for their mouth
piece"
He pointed TO the presence of clergy
men of other faiths than his own on
the platform as mailing the British made
lie that the Irish question Is religious
one He Knocked at Great Britain for
being the only nation in the world who
feared to have neighbors.
within our own time Holland and
Belgium were separated from the large
contiguous States of which they were a
part and have got along without menace.
Sweden has permitted Norway to go its
own way. And they have a long. long
mutual boundary.
Spain keeps up with the British thorn
in its side at Gibraltar as does Italy
with Malta, and in this connection ]
hesitate to mention the Dominion OF
Canada and the British West Indies. But
England alone of all the great nations
fears to have near her shores a neighbor
who, she thinks, one day might be hos
tile
"Now / want to say this: That II the
Irish republic is established and II
doesn't behave, II 1t gets cocky toward
the United States, I'll be the first mar
into the war to fight Ireland. The Moy-
nihans and the Kellys will be with me
when it's a question of right against Ire
land-but it won't be-"
The kilograms to Englishmen anC
Scotchmen to which Father Duffy al
luded were sent from the meeting to the
editor of the Manchester Guardian, t.
Mr.. Lansbury. editor of the Londor
Daily Herald, and to Robert Smillie
president of the Trades Union Congress
Glasgow.
Text of Telegram.
The telegram to the Manchester Guar
dian paid a tribute to that paper as TIT
custodian OF democratic rights through
out the war and asked 1t to appeal t
the English people In behalf of Ireland
THE act to end the regime of British
terrorism that lately reached a crisis
first in Ceylon, next In India, then Il
Egypt and that now fast approache
another horrifying crisis in Ireland. w