The Irish standard., 1919-04-26
San Francisco Takes Inspiring
Lead i'm Propaganda Fund

I their fate to the common people Of
Great Britain and to abide by their
decision, fairly expressed at the polls.
Professor De Valera, president Of
the Irish Republic, recently ex-
pressed himself as willing to trust
the common people of Great Britain
to decide the question of Irish inde-
pendence, and II the Peace confer
ence at Paris fails to do justice to
the people Of Ireland, 1t will not be
long before the existing order Of
things political In Great Britain will
fall and the Labor movement Of Eng
land win be responsible for this down
fall; and there viii be installed in its
stead an enlightened and democratic
government that will, after seven hum
dred years of struggle. recognize the
right of the Irish people to indepen-
dence.
The Rev. Peter G. Yorke was un-
able to attend on account Of illness,
but sent the following message of
good cheer which was read by Chair
man Gallagher:
1T is high time for the Irish to
put their case not only before their
own people, but to the whole civil
|ized world. England has held a
monopoly of the human ear so long
and so ruthlessly that the very first
place the propaganda has to begin
is among the Irish and the children
of the Irish themselves.
GAS the largest and wealthiest
branch of the Irish race, Irish-Amer-
leans should supply the sinews of war
for a propaganda that will be world
wide, we'll informed, presented in a
scholarly manner, and continuous .
The Rev. Andrew T. Carroll, Cali
fornia's delegate to the recent Irish
Race Convention in Philadelphia,
sopke in part as follows:
when the Irish Race Convention
at Philadelphia asserted the claims
of Ireland to independence, its voice
was the voice Of the American peo.
pie reiterating the American doc.
trine of government by the consent
of the governed.
1.-THE question of Ireland they de.
olorod &c mt a doy, oo<{o n,,oct}on. n
is an international question:. it is an
American question:
Tonight the voice of California is
heard. 1t is heard Enthusiastically in
the clink of California dollars. That
voice declares that we, the citizens
of California, recognize the Irish ques-
tion as our question. There will be
no peace in the world until it is set
tied, and settled by the application to
Ireland of the principles of self-deter-
mination. n ~
"Our boys have suffered and died
that the world may be free. They
have died in vain If Ireland is not
given her freedom.
"This question we make our ques-
tion, and we will not rest, we will
not be satisfied, and we will carry
on this fight until the day that the
independence of ireland is recognized
by the nations of the earth"
Mayor Rolph made a stirring
speech, and said in part:
"The spirit of San Francisco speaks
tonight in trumpet tongue for the
cause of Ireland. All our citizens are
in accord that the storied isle should
have in full measure liberty as we en-
Joy it here. Let us hope that the
voice of this great city will reach even
to the conference at Paris. and that
the principle Of fair play will there
be made manifest In the cause Of Ire.
land.
I'm regard to the Irish cause, we
wish the voice Of this our city to
be heard in the councils Of the mighty
that truth and Justice for the dear old
Emerald Isle may prevail. Let US
hope and pray that before another year
rolls around we will be able to toast:
: ireland, Nation Once Again."
Cables to Peace Conference.
The following cablegrams were sent
from the mass meeting for Irish Free
dom to the Irish.American delegates
in Paris and to Professor De Valera,
president of the Irish Republic.
San Francisco, April IL, 1919.
Hon. Frank P. Walsh, Edward ].
Dunno, Michael ]. Ryan, Irish
American ENJOYS, Paris:
Greatest mass meeting ever held in
San Francisco enthusiastically in
dorses your mission and contributes
over hundred thousand dollars to
Irish Freedom Fund.