Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-21
WILLIMA ANTIC

Irish question is a domestic one for
 England to settle and one in which
 we have no right to interfere, He says
 that according to the Act of Union of -S8 Ire1allds freedom from England
 is analogous to the. case of the south
 trying to. secede from the North But
 the act of union of which he speaks
 was not alaogous to the American
 union. The Act of Union was passed
 only at cost of one million, two hun
 dred and sixty thousand pounds ster-
 ling in bribe money The report of
 the conditions in Ireland was held up
 for two weeks by member of the
 which have been committed in Ireland
 are just as bad as those which have
 been committed by the unspeakable
 Turk. Armenia has nothing on Ire
 peal only to the sense of Justice of America. America has never failed to
 help the oppressed nations of the
 earth and she will not fail now.
 The second speaker was Frederick Corbett, also of Hartford. He said:
 am always ready to talk on Free
 dom. I was educated here in Connec-
 ticut where we are murtured in the public schools on the old New Eng land spirit of freedom I studied law
 at Columbia university where per
 haps more than at any other univer-
 sity theer is spirit of freedom. He then read a set of resolutions drawn up by the Bridgeport Pastors asso- ciation protesting against the, flying of the flag of the Irish Republic from the town hall in Bridgeport. The res olutions stated that to fly the Irish flag beside Old Glory would be an in, suit to every true American. They asserted that the object of the pres- ent campaigns being carried on by the Irish in this country was hatred of friendly ally-England. They de- clared that the Irish Republic was aiming to replace the democratic gov ernment of England with one which they asserted that the men who were trying to do away with the government which had done so much already in way of reform had been allies of Germany and had been ready to sacrifice all to Germany at a most critical period of the war in order to gain their own selfish ends!
 MT. Corbett said that he had no knowledge of the Bridgeport pastors association, but he had a strong He, asked for proof of the widespread reform already accom- plished. He declared that the mem bers of the pastors association were using Ulstsr logic and acting with the old time -honored New England big
 otry which he had hoped was long since dead, but which persisted in showing it's head every now and then.
 Continuing he said: think that the Catholics have ever been more toler- ant than the Protestapts. This pas tors association is using the same sort of logic that is used with the crackers of Florida and Georgia to win elections. Governor Cass got their vote because he told them that if the Catholics got into office the Pope would be president of, the United States. The religious issue in Ire land is one of wide cleavage. Of the signers of the Ulster Covenant, ninety per cent of the men and eighty per cent. of the women were Protestants.
 MT. Corbett detailed the history of Ireland during the summer of 1914 when the country was an armed camp and said that while in the north Car son was allowed to drill and equip his Ulster volunteers, when McNeil tried to arm the southerners for their own protection the British govern ment sent troops against them and fired on them killing and wounding them, who were doing no more than the Ulster Volunteers in Belfast.