The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-05
IRISH JEER WILSON,
YELL 'IMPEACH HIM
Progressive League Speakers
Brand President as Erin's
Betrayer.
SIM FEN FLAGS WAVED
0rangemen's Grand Master
Arrives From Canada and
Gets Applauded.

Branded by several speakers as the
betrayer Of ireland and described by
others as coke" President Wilson
was hooted to the echo at last nights
meeting of the Irish Progressive League
at the Lexington Theatre. The jeers Of
the audience mingled with the cries Of
"Impeach him :" from many parts of the
house.
The storm OF criticism heaped upon
the Executive for his failure to assert
the rights Of the Irish Republic reached
its height when Peter Golden, ridiculing
the comparison made by Secretary Dam
iels Of the signing OF the peace treaty
to the coming of Christ, said that 1t COM
pared better with the kiss of betrayal.
The audience cheered and waved the
tri-colored flags OF the Sim Fein when
Mr.. Golden recited a version of a well
known poem of the returned soldier
adapted to fit the Homecoming of the
President. He Pictured Columbia, in
the role of the soldiers old sweetheart,
saying:
Your fourteen points all out of joint
no EntilSn slew yer
Darlln dear, yer look 30 queer
woodrow, ! hardly know yer.
\ feature of the meeting was the first
appearance in this country of Lindsay
Crawford, grand master of the Inde-
pendent Order of Orangemen. as a cham
pion OF the Irish cause. introduced as
a Protestant and an fisherman. he told
the audience that neither religion nor
race had anything to do with the Irish
nj ID la ftrfh I'd hA
Ulster problem to British influence and
asserted that he had found sentiment
among the Unitarians and Presbyterians
us strongly and uncompromisingly for
freedom as the sentiment further south
Changed From His Ancestors.
''As one whose ancestors dispossessed
the Irish took their land and drove them
into the mountains" he said, II feel that
/ owe retribution to you people. Those
who have lived in Ulster as l have lived
have never seen that talked of enmity
between the Catholics and Protestants
except on July IL.
THE place Of Ulster is with Ireland.
No one more bitterly opposes partition
than the fisherman. Economically ire
land cannot be divided. Politically IL Is
as impossible us was the division threat
ened b. your civil war
Speaking of sentiment lin Canada,
whence he had come TO deliver his ad-
dress, he said:
In Canada We are trying to get as
far away from Dominion home rule as
possible. We sent half million men TO
Europe to fight, and their contact with
English officers and English methods has
sent them home determined national
lists"
Denouncing home rule rs a trap, he said
that II England were able to dispose of
the Irish problem in such manner she
would straightway curtail the liberties
of her other large dominions.
Mr.. Crawford. who is editor of a
Canadian journal, tried to avoid Ameri-
can politics in his address. He re-
marked, however: - have always been
an admirer of President Wilson, and
cannot believe that he will be rccreant
10 the faith that we place in him"
This brought bowls OF protest from
the house, with many shouts of I'VE
don't. We don't" and "Impeach him :"
Fears Some of ErIn's Friends.
Golden in another part of his address
remarked that there were certain people
whose interest in the Irish cause was
to be viewed with distrust, and he ex-
planned himself as follows:
= NLS some VINO nave n Sulint
or one eye turned toward Ireland and
the rest Of that eye and all the rest OF
the other eye turned toward the Demo-
cratic party. Some people fear that the
present trouble will destroy the Demo-
cratic party. They fear that the Irish
won't vote for il any longer but what
are party issues at time like this?"
Brandon lyman, presiding at the meet
ing, deplored that it was day of indie
pendence for many nations but not for
Ireland.
Lincoln Colcord brought the people to
their feet with enthusiasm when he re-
ferred TO the cause of revolutionary
Russia" regarding which he said the
world is being kept in ignorance. DR..
Norman Thomas provoked an outburst
\ with another allusion to the Soviet Gov
lernment. J. G. Walsh. just returned
from Ireland, declared this place to be
living under tyrannical subjugation.
, Liam Mellows and DIR. Patrick NIcCartan
were also on the programme, but did not
speak until a late hour.
One of many placards draped over the
boxes read, England. damn your con-
cessions; we want our country" At
frequent intervals the speakers were in
terrupted by the noise OF large firecrack-
eTs beng shot off outside OF the stage
door and directly in front of the East
FiftN-first street police station.