The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-14
Ask wilson Urge Peace
Conference To Invite
Fish Delegates
WAITS FREEDOM
FOR IRELAND
Claims for Republic The
Right to Join League
Of Nations
Associated Press

IARIS, May IA special appeal
in ,ehaif of Ireland was made to Pres
idnt Wilson by Sean F. O'Ceallaigh,
tfe Sim Fein representative of the
Provisional government of the Irish
republic, when the Irish delegate laid
the Irish memorial before the Peace
Conference. The appeal was contain
ed in a letter to President Wilson ask
ing him to urge the Peace Conference
to invite the Irish National represen-
tatives to be present at its delibera-
tions Mr.. O'Ceallaigh also urged
President Wilson to support the claim
to freedom which the Irish represen-
tatives wish to lay before the Con-
ference.
Referring to the memorial in which
he had recited the claims of the
"irish republic" to right to join the
League of Nations as an independent
state, Mr. O. Ceallaigh wrote to the
President:
"To what has been said in the mem
orial, urging the justice of letting
Ireland's claim to freedom be heard
before a political status hateful to
her is stamped with the approval and
enforced by the power of the free
nations of the world, May l not add
that the people of Ireland look hope
fully to you i'll a SPECIAL degree for
countenance and support notably be-
cause YOU are the nJn0red President
of that republic which counts among
it's most loyal and devoted citizens
the greater part of the irish race and
because they recognize IN you the
clearest exponent ol the principles OF
freedom the world has seen since the
days of Washington.
'In their latest exercise, last De-
eember, of the inherent right of sell
determination the Irish people, at
this world crisis, have been profound
" influenced and inspired by the
words you have spoken, the principles
you have expounded, the rules of in
ternational conduct you have promu.
gated and have brought the nations
to acknowledge. In these utterances
they have found source of great
encouragement and highest hope. In
particular they affirm, as applying
specially to the case of Ireland, the
following passage in your speech OF
September 81, 1913, in New York.
",The issues are these: Shall the mi
litary power of any nation or groul
of nations be suffered to determine
the fortunes of peoples over whom
they have no right to rule except by
right of force? Shall strong nation:
be free to wrong weak nations ant
make them subject to their purpose
and interest? Shall peoples be rulet
and dominated even in their own IN
ternal affairs by arbitrary and irres
ponsible force or by their own will
and choice? Shall there be a com
mon standard of right and privilege
for all peoples and nations, or shall
there be a common concert t Oh Is
the observance of common rights Z"
''In the clear light of these grea
words the Irish people, filled VIII
hope, ask your mighty influence t.
prevent the exception of Ireland fror
the principles of freedom and justic
to which you are rallying the suppol
of the world, to urge upon the confer
ence the duty of inviting the Iris
National representatives to be pres
ent at it's deliberations, and supper
/. the claim to freedom which they ar
waiting to place before the tribuns
of the nations"