The Irish standard., 1919-04-26
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\ and she entered the peace conference
on those terms. Now that the war is
over, England cannot repudiate them
without accommodating the evidence OF
her historic perfidy with respect to
!; Ireland. This is England's opportunity
y to bring herself within the pale OF
civilized nations whose claim to CIV
!. ilization as opposed to Germany is
4 that they kept faith.
ls, viii Insist on Justice.
I'm There is q greater Ireland across
n the sea, her men in the<pnited States
\ Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa, who stand guard over
the destiny of the Emerald Isle, and
II she is not treated with justice then
ENGLAND shall feel their power.
We entered the war and struck
the decisive blow. We certainly did
not enter it with the purpose of rivet
{ ing the chains Of nations entitled by
every principle stated by the Presi
] dent and by every tenet of the Dec
laration of independence and the Con
stitution of the United States to lib
(. erty and independence.
We entered it to make nations free
The hour has struck in the case OF
ireland and all other nations for max
ing good the slogan of the United
States, when the President declared
for "a reign of law, with the con
sent of the governed, and sustained
bv the organized opinion of mankind
That the workers of England favor
the freedom of Ireland and that should
the present British administration
deny It, England will have new gov
ernment, were the statements of Con
gressman John l. Nolan. He declared
that the workers have spoken on the
Irish question and that England would
do wisely to take heed.
He said in part:
+ The struggle of the labor move
ment throughout the world for rec
ognition and the right to have voice
In determining the conditions under
which they shall labor and live, II
closely related to the Irish race fol
the right to determine the form ot
government under which they shall
live, that has been going on for cen
turtles.
The same methods have been used
to crush both of these great move
ments, the military and others wher
convenient. At other times the
courts have been resorted to-in the
case of labor, an injunction being a
convenient weapon, and in the case
of Ireland, the criminal courts Of Eng
land when necessary to execute or
send to prison for life patriots who
have dared to assert themselves for
Irish independence.
Throughout the world today the lab
or movement stands solidly behind
the Irish republic in her demand that
the principle of self-determination
that is to be applied to the Pole, the
Serb, the Slav, the Jew, and the rest
of the small nations Of Europe, shall
be applied as we'll to the people OF
Ireland.
sThe working people of England,
speaking through their political, as
we'll as their industrial organizations,
have time and again during the last
two years proclaimed themselves
unanimously in favor of absolute in
dependence for Ireland.
Within the past few days the news.
papers carried the following Associat-
ed Press dispatch:
London, April 10.-The National
Executive of the Labor party at q
meeting today formulated q state
ment of policy, demanding that the
Paris Conference put an end to the
protracted discussions and make
peace in accordance with President
Wilson's fourteen points"
1t is hard for the people Of the
world to understand the significance
Of this demand on the part Of the
representatives of the great mass Of
workers of Great Britain that they
are demanding exactly what Ireland
is asking, that America and her al
lies keep faith with the people Of
the world and stand behind Presi-
dent Wilson in having the whole Of
) the fourteen points, enunciated by
him shortly after we entered the war,
written into the Peace Covenant
not the least of the fourteen points
being the declaration favoring the
right of small nations to determine
the form of government under which