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the final concIave of the executive
session tomorrow afternoon. Cardinal
O'ConneII, of Boston, who was sched.
uled to be present, win be unable tc
come to Philadelphia.
The convention proper was opened
with prayer, offered jointly by Very
Rev. Dennis ]. DOugherty. archbishop
of Philadelphia, and Rabbi Joseph
Krauskoff.
Irish Overtaxed, Says COhaIan.
Comparing the alleged injustice of
England toward ireland with the ef-
fort of Bismarck to break France
economically and industrial;y, Jus tice
Daniel o. Cohalan, OF New York.
permanent chairman of the Irish
race convention here, today asserted
that England had overtaxed Ireland
1880, GOO, 600 since 1901 and 500, OOO, 600
in the year just closed.
In addressing the convention Jus
tice Cohalan took occasion to de-
nounce the only living ex-President
of the United States, who said last
week that, of course, everybody
sympathized with the former wrongs
of Ireland. but that the Irish question
was a question of domestic policy
within the British empire, and no
one outside the limits of the British
empire had any right to interfere in
anyway with the solution of the
problem"
ut would be impossible" Justice
Cohalan added, ito crowd more mis-
information into a shorter statement
than the one which was made by Mr..
Taft The wrongs of Ireland cry out
for redress, and Ireland today is suf-
fertng from the misgovernment of
England as grievously, in the finan-
cial form, to take but one veiw of the
subject, as she ever did in the long
history Of misgovernment from which
she has suffered"
Referring to the overtaxing of Ire
land, Justice Cohalan said:
When we remember that Bis
marck. after the close Of the Franco
russian war, when he had France
at his feet and hoped to break her
economically and industriaIIy for gen
erations, imposed an indemnity upon
her, up until that time altogether
of the immense sum
OF $l,OO0OOo,O00, we get some no.
ton Of the size OF the sum which
england has taken out of ireland in
direct overtaxatiOn since the, act of
Union went into effect"
declaring that England took 30
UOO,OOO pounds out of ireland in 1918
IN direct taxation and expended only
IZ,OOO'OOO pounds in the government
OF ireland, Justice Cohalan asserted
that England, therefore, derived a
pIoht Of $90.000.OOO through over
taxation in that period.
He also charged that England has
stlhed the Irish market and stunted
the population by oppression. The
population, he added, has fallen from
more than 100000 in 1901 to less
than 100000. You can find. in the
same period of time, no other country
IN the world, under whatever govern
ment it may have lived, in which the
population has not, during that time,
actually increased" he added.
when our great President laid
down the fourteen points upon which
peace was to be made, he placed no
restrictions upon the application of
these doctrines" contended Justice
Cohalan- He said all nations were
10 have the right to choose the form
OF government under which tbev
should live. II now those doctrines
are to be applied only to the peoples
who were oppressed by the countries
that were in arms against America.
then our struggles will have been
largely in vain and no just or perma-
nent peace can come as the result
OF this partial application.
War and continuance of war will
be the necessary outcome of the set
tIement which fails to apply the doc
trine of self-determination to all those
who seek to be free"