Douglas Island news., 1919-08-08
DeVALERA's APPEAL
 TO AMERICA The Statement Given to the Pres. in New York by the President
 of Che Irish Republic

mysterious NNNNNINNNN m NNNl INN |is yet iu ,his country making a iou |ondcavorIng Go raisc funds and sc. |cmo tho sympathy Of tho citizons of Iths country for Che land which hC was elected chiof executive. The Republic of Ireland has not yet bcou recognized by tho government of Che United states
 Tho following is President Ds Valera's statement as given Co Che press of Ono country at Now York on June 23:
 "From today. , am in America %. ! ho official head Of Che Republic cs. tabllshcd by Che win of tho Irish people. in accordance with Che prin. clplcs Of sclfdotcrminauon Las, December. Ireland. by more chan a throc-to-onc majority Of deputies chosou by ballot on adult suffrage echo exact dgurca being seventy. .uinc Co twcnty-sixl. demanded her rights under this principle
 Tho deputies chosen on Che direct issue of tho establishment Of tho Rc. public. ouuumbor their opponents by more than two to one tthe exact figures being 73 to 32l, nor aro those who consider Che Republic O. undesirable as numerous os the 52 would indicate.
 Tho degree Of unanimity obtained . in Ireland is higher than chat claim. ed by Che American Colonies whom they declared tbor independence ond decided Chat ihoy would mo longer allow themselves Co be exploited by England in Che Interest Of her Inn. porIalism.
 "You had your "rorios' and your "Loyalists" to whom Washington very properly sent tho mtImotum Chat if they preferred Che interest and protection of Britain Co thc freedom and happiness Of thc.r own country they might forthwith with. draw themselves and thoIr fam.lic. within Che enemy lines.
 The degree Of unanlmity obtained u Ireland is higher. too. than thai by which your own own glorious Union and Constitution woro cstab- ushcd. Had complete uuanImity been insisted upon os precedent to your independence. as some people brctond Co believe it should Doc in- sisted upon m Che recognition oi ours. chen you would not ho today as you are. united nation thC greatest on earth. witch uni1cd tor ritory that is a continent and a population and % prosperity chat is One envy Of Che rest of thc world but merely thirteen miserable dis united colonies with your people kept permanently divided by Che in. rimc Of English stotccraft into opp. posing and contcndIug groups
 It was Che hono of ro-cstabl.shinr such a condition and mot ony iovo foi thc southcrncrs that was thc InspIr iue motive and object of England h aiding Che South n your Civil War
 The factories which cvcrywhcr, dot this land, Che industries giving employment Go your many millions of operatives and providing a prof iablc local marhc, for the producu of your soil would not exist Th, Jealousy of English manufacturer. and merchants would havc move, English legislators and English dip lomats to compass their destruction at Che very moment they were com ceived. They would have destroyed yours as they have destroyed ours and as they wu continue to dostro, them il they can but retain mastery over us.
 Your mercantile marine. whicl now carries thc fruits Of your In dustry to every land. would also bO non-exIstout England would havI seen Co it that only n hcr ship would she allow you Co trade ThO mistress Of thc sens does not nur
 urc possible rivals and your har bors. now busy with Che ships an, commerce of an nations. would bl as idle and undcycIopod as ours
 Has Che fathers Of your countr, waited for this unatiaiuablc mm imity. your population. which with |m living memory has ncrcaso. from about twenty millions Co ovo one hundred and dvc millons.would Instead. have boon reduced by one halL as ours has been -an ozompi unique among civilized peoples tre or unfrcc
 Had Ireland been under Kaiser | Emperor or Czar. its poulation woui have boon doubled or troblcd ns th population Of Che three divisions O Poland. Of Bohemia. Of Alsoco-Lor raiuo havo boon. Our populauo should normally have Increased fror eight millions to sixteen. instead ou population. though we arc tho sec ond most fccund raco in the world has decreased through English rul
 from eight million to four.
 England would have contrIvcd fo you. oven in your abounding land
 Che artificial faminos recurring i every docade which she contrived ' ours. which has been no less favoro