The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-31
THE PEOPLES SAY
DeVALLERA AND THE
 IRISH REPUBLIC
HaiI tI,a Irish Rnnrl,1ic.r

Hail the Irish Republic,
 It exists because it's right that it should exist.
 It's the only real solution of the Irish question. The pills that Lloyd George offers will not cure There is but one cure, and there ought to be but one, and that is the same cure that was effective in the case Of America.
 The condition is the same as exist ed between America and England 150 years ago, when we were exploited for England as Ireland has been. worthy. knew the only solution, and the American Revolution was the answer and the only answer.
 Great Britain says: "The British Empire needs Ireland in case Of war"
 Does the British Empire need an enemy in the camp in case of war? Of what use in war would an Ire land, filled with rebellion, revolution and hatred, be to the British Elm pire? Such reasoning is the reason ing of folly.
 If the British Empire needs Ire land in case Of war, the way to have her is to make her her friend. and the only way to make her her friend is to give that complete independence which is her due.
 The fact is Britain has despised Ireland and the Irish, and we Ameri- cans have likewise done sO-
 It's time to look up to the Irish, and not down. It's time to consider these patriots in line with Washing ton, Adams and Jefferson.
 Let any one study the faces of the members of the First Irish Parliament and they vii see men of high intelli- gence and high purpose, consecrated to the highest glory of all, the glory of national independence.
 Where could 9 finer. more noble looking young mans face be seen than that of the first President of the Irish executed by the British?
 Independence, the word we have forgotten the significance of. We to whose forefathers the breath Of independence was dearer than life, feel that Irishmen. Indians, Egyptians, Boers can be content while their nations are without national in while in fact their desti- nies are in the hands of a few British diplomats in London.
 DeVallera will have a great recap tion in Bridgeport. There will be tre- mendous crowds and tremendous en- thusiasm, and there ought to be but 1t will be mainly the Irish. but f should be the Americans together with the Irish. We should feel for them q glory in their inspiration for complete and liberty.
 The word of our great, prophetic President, Woodrow Wilson, for the seIf-determination of the governments
 Iea- cause it's right that it should come.
 The glory of the great British Em- pire will be ended.
 The glory of the great German Elm pire, and of the great Russian Empire have been ended, IS they should he; and as the glory Of the French Elm pire. the Spanish Empire and the Ro- man Empire was ended
 The glory of all empires built on militaristic aggression was ended be- cause it's right that it should end,
 It is not right that 3, few British diplomats should determine the gov errment of the 200.O0o-Co0 in India. and it shall not continue. India shall be governed by Indians because it is right that it should be governed by Indians, and there is no other right.
 Britain already sees the handwri-- ing on the wall She knows that the great British Empire to continue must be supported by America Hence, the eagerress for coalition which eE- ists in England; and which was eVi- denced at Versailles: and which caus- ed Lloyd George, the clever fox, to submerge his personality, and to do all he could to make our President the apparently dominating infiu- ence.
 The world has witnessed the defeat and humiliation of the Russian Elm pfre and the German Empire, built as they were on military agSres- sion.
 The world needs to see the defeat and humiliation of the British Elm pire, because it was built on military aggression: Brain. brawn and gun powder.
 But there is another way. It is not the defeat nor the humiliation of the British Empire; but it is the com plete recognition by Britain's states men of the spirit of the times; of the fact that world power,-''Velte pow er,"-shall be done away with, be- cause it is not right, and what IS not right shall not live.
 If England would avoid the defeat and humiliation of Germany, she will be wise in time, and great 10 see Ihe signs of the times; and she shall be- come the greatest in peace, as she has been the greatest in war; and she shall not lose but infinitely gain by this wisdom. And not only she, but the whole world with her. And there shall be a beginning of the greatest of all empires, the only real empire that shall continue, ''The king dom of olr Lord and of His Christ
 JOSEPH w. NORTHROP- Ryan and Timothy Mulloy. There -..ar -.rorornt Q dalaeca tin1l of the a dH