New-York tribune., 1919-06-24

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cross the ocean coming this way"
when did you arrive?"
"A short while ago."
But how?"
That's secret"
What are your plans for the fut-
ure?
They are not complete now"
"Will you go to Washington
POSSIBLY"
"Are you an American citizen, Presi-
dent de Valera? ?"
"Ah, now that's a question. No. |
expatriated myself by fighting as an
Irish soldier"
4suse of His Birth Gone
What is the address Of the house
you were born in in New York? ?'
We'll, now that is something l tried
to find out for myself to-day. But it
has disappeared"
Then, after greeting numerous Irish
men, Professor de Valera sought his
apartment.
From MIR. Boland it was learned that
de Valera had spent Saturday and
Snday in Boston, where he STAYED with
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Wheelwright, Redemptionist priest,
pastor Of the mission church there
Father Wheelwrght came to New York
with his brother to-day.
While in Boston de Valera endeav-
ored to see Cardinal O'Connell, but
was not successful However, he has
been in Baltimore since he landed and
did see Cardinal Gibbons. He has also
visited Washington, where he talked
with Several Senator's" and Phila-
delphia, where he was joined by Dr.
Patrick MacCartan, the Ambassador"
from the Irish republic to the United
States. He also saw in Philadelphia
M. j. Ryan, one of the three Irish
American delegates, who sought to
place Ireland's claims before the peace
conference, and several other promi-
nent friends of Ireland.
Has Visited His Mother
But best of all these visits, said Mr..
Boland, was visit to Rochester, N.
Y, where he saw his mother, Mrs
Charles Wheelwright Mrs. Wheel
wright, however, has steadfastJy de-
MED that she had seen her son.
In New York President de Valera
has stayed in the Carmelite priory,
1923 East Twenty Street, and it
was from there that the start for the
Waldorf was made yesterday afternoon.
Father Ffter Magennis, president of
the Friends of Irish Freedom, is the
assistant general of the Carmelite
Order
Those who escorted Professor de
Valera to the Waldorf yesterday were
Justices P. ]. Hendricks, Daniel Coha-
Ian and John Golf. the Rev. Father
Peter Magennis and John Dewey, ed
itor of "The Gaelic American De
Voy in the automobile carried large
Irish flag.
Among those who shook hands with
Professor de Valera were William j.
| Spain, Dairmuid Lynch, Liam Mellows,
Sim Fein leader; Patrick Quinlan,
local radical; Basunta Koomar Roy,
an East Indian and the biographer of
Rabindranath Tagore, and scores of
/ others, including at least a dozen
Roman Catholic priests.
Mr.. Boland said de Valera would re-
main in the United States about twelve
months.
Text Of de valera's Statement
Professor de Valera's statement fol-
lows:
From to-day l am in America as
the official head of the republic estab-
lished by the will of the Irish people,
in accordance with the principles of
self-de termination. Last December Ire
land, by a more than three to one ma
jority of deputies--chosen by ballot
on adult suffrage (the exact figures be-
ing n to 26)-demanded her rights
under this principle.
THE deputies chosen on the direct
I issue of the establishment of the re-
public outnumber their opponents by
more than two to one (the exact fig
ures being 73 to 32). nor are those who
consider the republic undesirable as
numerous even as the 32 would indi-
cate.
"The degree of unanimity obtained
in Ireland on this issue is higher than
that claimed by the American colonies
when they declared their independence
and decided that they would no longer
allow themselves to be exploited by
England in the interest of her imper-
| ialism You had your tories" and
your "loyalists," to whom Washington
very properly sent the ultimatum that
if they preferred the interest and pro-
lection of Britain to the freedom and
happiness of their own country they
might forthwith withdraw themselves
and their families within the enemy
! lines.
America "Greatest Nation"
"The degree of unanmity obtained
in Ireland is higher, too, than that by
which your iwn glorious Union and
Constitution were established. Had
complete unanimity been insisted upon
as a precedent to your independence,
as some people pretend to believe it
/ should be insisted upon in the recogni
ton of ours, then you would not be
to-day as you are, united nation,
the greatest on the earth, with unified
territory that is a continent and a
population and prosperity that are the
envy of the rest of the world, but
merely thirteen miserable disunted
colonies, with your people kept per-
manently divided by the intrigue of
English statecraft into opposing and
contending groups. 1t was the hope of
reestablishing such a condition among
you and not love for the Southerners
that was the inspiring motive and OBJ
ject of England in aiding the South
in your Civil War
"The factories which everywhere dot
this land, the industries giving en-
ployment to your many millions of
operatives and providing profitable
local market for the products of your
soil would not exist. The jealousy of
English manufacturers and merchants
would have moved English legislators
and English diplomats to compass their
I destruction al the very moment thew
were conceived. They would have de-
/ stroyed yours as they have DESTROYED
| ours and as thew will continue to do