Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-08-23
IRELAND
Offers to Dwell in Peace and
Amity With England AS
Neighbor.
Refuses to Be Shut Out Of Her
High Place Among the
Nations.
irish People Determined Not to
Remain Only White Race
in Slavery.
WOULD FORGIVE AND FORGET.

Hon. Daniel F. Cohalan. Justice
OF the Supreme Court, New York,
commenting upon the Irish question
in statement issued from National
Headquarters of the Friends of Irish
Freedom, New York, said last Sat
urday:
IF the question between ireland
and England were between two in
dividuals no jury sitting in any part
OF America would have any diff
Guilty in disposing of the matter.
Ireland does not ask anything OF
England except to be left alone. She
only wants what belongs to her. She
wants to govern herself and her own
people in her own way, according to
her own standards. She does not
ask one inch of territory that is not
contained within the four seas of
ireland. She does not ask to i'm
pose her will upon a single person
who dwells beyond her shores. She
appeals to the free peoples Of the
earth for the opportunity TO go her
own way, in peace and harmony
with all the rest of mankind. She
offers not only to forgive, but as far
as she can even to forget past deal
ings with England and to dwell in
peace and amity with England as a
neighbor.
But she refuses, as she has re-
fused for $50 years, to permit the
stranger, England, to govern her to
control her resources, to shut her
Off from contact with the other ma
lions of the earth, to keep her out
or her high place among the nations.
and she says with voice of a united
people that as she has fought for
$50 years for her independence SO
she is prepared to fight, if necessary.
as long again in order to attain that
independence and to resume her
place among the independent ma
lions. Ireland's sons say for her
that England, with all her power.
with all her barbarity, can not de-
stroy them or wipe them out: that
the fight which England waged
through so many centuries can only
end when England shall Withdraw
her last soldier from Ireland and
leave that country, which she has
been robbing for centuries, to gov
ern and rule herself.
England has tried for centuries
every form of cruelty, of tyranny, in
her treatment of the people of Ire
land. Lloyd George himself ad-
mitted in the House of Commons
last year that England had made an
absolute failure of her government
of Ireland and that today she was
as unpopular with the mass of the
people OF Ireland as she was in the
days of Oliver Cromwell.
I'm the early stages of the late
great war the world was made IA
miller with the story of the treat
ment the Belgians received in their
own country from the invaders. 1t
was only the recital and summary
of England's treatment Of Ireland.
Not an atrocity was charged against
the Germans in Belgium, not a
| cruelty practiced, not a crime COM
| mitted, which could not be dupli-
Gated one hundred fold in England's
| treatment of Ireland, with the proof
to be taken from the admission of
| English historians, from the declara.
tions of English statesmen, the only
difference between Belgium and Ire
land being that the atrocities in
Belgium were alleged to have ex-
tended over a period of three OF four
years, while the atrocities of Eng
land in Ireland have extended over
| the centuries.
! Belgium today, with chorus OF
Thanksgiving from all over the
world, has resumed her place among
the nations of the earth. Ireland
after seven and half centuries of
greater suffering, still lies PROSTATE
at the feet of England, but liberty is
In the air, and ii will be given to
Ireland as to the rest of the world
Men of Irish blood, joined by patri-
otto Americans everywhere, are de.
termined that the Irish people shall
not remain the only white race In
Slavery and they have put theiI
shoulder to the wheel and are moi
going to surrender until Ireland i,
internationally recognized as free
and independent republic The Irist
nation was refused hearing a.
Paris, but America realizes full vel
that just and lasting peace can no
be made until the question of Ire
land is settled. And it can be set
tied right only by granting to tina
country her absolute freedom from
the chains of the tyrant that hat
hound her fhr0uph fha centuries -