Arizona republican., 1919-02-24
Fouoht 75O Years

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 Fought 750 Years
 After stating that Ireland is clearly entitled to self determination and that she has asserted that right for 750 years the declaration continues:
 Tt is Irelands inalienable right to govern herself in her own way. without interference by any people outside her own shores. and the attempt of Eng land to rule her against the consent of her people is the most conspicuous 1 failure in all history. It has failed in { every essential thing for which gove- ernments exist-the promotion of the welfare of the governed, the protection of their natural rights and interests, ] the development of their resources and ! their contribution to the sum of human happiness and the worlds prosperity
 Even if conquest be acknowledged as giving one people the right to rule another. England has forfeited that right by centuries of continuous mis- government and injustice, which are practiced by the English government today as relentlessly as at any tim. in the past and in utter disregard of ] lDtOpiiloDS. NlSHeS anu plOltSlS Ol lHt Irish people.
 The condition of Ireland. which is the direct result of the deliberate aC- ton of the English government. is an international scandal and a constant menace to the worlds peace. Three times during the last three hundred years her soil has been invaded by foreign armies to aid her people tu ] England holds Ireland by military force, and denies her right to govern herself. the Irish people will continue to assert their rights by every means in their power. In 1916 they rose fl rebellion and on January q, 1919, their elected representatives. supported by the overwhelming majority of the peU- pie, met in the national capital, issued a declaration of Independence and pro- claimed an Irish republic. They elected three delegates to plead theil case at the peace conference. two ot whom, with thirty-nine other elected representatives of the people, are helC in English prisons, without trial anC with no charge formulated agains them.
 War State Exists
 "A state of war, therefore. exists be tween England and Ireland, which il the interest of the peace of the world the peace conference cannot ignore and President Wilson's great task o establishing permanent peace will no be completed until the Irish question is settled on the principle of self de termination, to which he has unequivo cally committed himself and the Unite, States
 We, therefore, in the name of man millions of American citizens of Irisl birth or lineage, who have contributes their full share to the winning of tn war. and with theapproval and sym pathy of the overwhelming majorit, of the American people, now deman' that President Wilson place before tn peace conference and support with al his powerful influence, Ireland's righ of self determination, and secure fo the elected delegates from her con stituent assembly to the peace confer ence, the same status and recognition which have been accorded to those 0 other small nations.
 We demand, therefore, if any leagl of nations be made, that all features o it which may infringe on the tradition al American policy, including the Mon roe doctrne, shall be eliminated an that, in any such league, the right o self determination of all peoples to tn American doctrine of freedom of tn seas shall not be overlooked, forgot ten or abridged"
 The Very Rev. Peter E. Maginnis New York. was elected president o the Friends of Irish Freedom, unde whose auspices the convention wa held. Michael F. McGill, New Haver was elected treasurer and Diarmi, Lynch, New York, secretary. Seven teen vice presidents were named.
 The morning session was taken U with addresses in which the histor of freedom for Ireland was reviewe