The Irish standard., 1919-07-12

Nf1ONNf1 OALENOAN.
Week July 1919.
July Saturdays. Felix.
July 13-Sunday-St Anacletus.
July 14-Monday-St Bonaventure
July 15-Tuesday-St. Henry.
July 6-Wednesday-Mary of Mt Carmel.
July l7-Thursday-St. Alexius.
July 18-Friday-St Arnold.
DE VALERA WINS THE AMERICAN HEART.
President De Valera took the cultured and in
tensey American City of Boston by storm when he
made his initial American public address at Fen
way Park in the Massachusetts, capital on Sunday,
June %. 1t is estimated that seventy thousand
people assembled to greet the great Irish leader on
that memorable occasion, and the reception accord
ed him will pass into history as perhaps the most
enthusiastic one ever given to any man within the
gates of the "Athens of America" The spirit of
70, of Faneuil Hall and of Bunker Hill was revived
and embodied in the renzied cheers of welcome that
issued from the vast throngs assembled to honor a
patriot of the American type, an Irish reincarna-
ton of the heroism of the revolution. 1t was a
reception such as is given not to man. but to the
head of nation. 1t was president of the Irish
republic that Eamonn De Valera stood before the
great American multitude and received from them
hearty acclaim and recognition of his official posi-
ton. There could be no mstakng of this concep-
ton of the colossal outpouring of American citi-
The Boston Post of June 30 contained this edi-
torial comment the Irish leader:
president de Valera repeated colossal scale
yesterday the nle impression ne mad made BOS-
tonians the day before 1t is impossible to and
hear the man, all witnesses agree without feeling
the profound conviction that the cultured lead
er of the new Ireland is Supremacy in earnest and
full of the fire of faith that he is capable of finishing
the work he has set out to accomplish, and that he
knows that the sympathes of this country with
the cause he so ably presents.
"Boston is enthusiastically for independent Ire
land If there are doubters of this salient fact the
wonderful outpouring at Fenway Park would have
convinced any of them who may have been of that
cheering throng."
The Boston Globe said in it's editorial on the
meeting:
"The whole question has been put on a new plane.
1t has risen above party strife, religious differences
and factions, into great, dignhed national move
ment, and it will not be satisfied with political soph-
"The issue is plain. If people that has been
struggling for national life for 700 years is not en-
titled to recognition under the new ideals of de-
mocracy-who is?
"President De Valera and the Irish republic
are the answers to that question in the minds of
those lrish-Amercans who have been fighting the
past few years to save democracy to the world and
to substitute the right of selfdetermnaton for sub
jugaton and conquest"
In contrast to the scanty space and begrudging
mention that have been given to such gatherings in
many of the American metropolitan newspapers,
the journals of the Hub devoted many columns to
the meeting and the excellent speeches delivered
there. thus recognizing the genuine news value of
the matter and the nsistent public demand for ade-
quate and fair publicity for the cause of Erin
Notable among the addresses that of United
States Senator David I. Walsh, who pleaded earn
estly that the Irish question should not become in
voved in American partisan politics. cit is too big,
it is too sacred to be possessed and controlled by
any political organization any element in Ameri-
life. It belongs to all America" This is a
phase of the American campaign for Ireland that
should receive careful study by all who con-
cerned in its success. Great must be exer-
clsed to guard against such possibility. Our
presidential election close at hand that astute
politicians of both parties quite likely to seek
material for partisan purposes in this direction The
interests of Ireland should not be allowed to be
used as a pawn in the hands of these gamesters to
boost their detectives. Ireland's appeal is
recognize and support without regard to party afli-
atoms, and it would be it's perhaps fatal injury
if it appended exclusively to any party plat
form, since it may properly and justly belong in
all that genuinely American in structure.
The proptious opening of the Irish campaign at
Boston will be renewed in scores of other metro
Z politan American cities. A triumphant American
progress is indicated for the heroic and cultured
Irish president throughout the United States. To
use his own words, let us hope that America will
now recognize Ireland definite claimant for her
full rights, ready to enter the world family of ma
tons"
A BLASTING INDICTMENT.
During their stay in Ireland Messrs. Walsh
Dunno and Ryan, the delegates of the Irish race
convention held at Philadelphia in February, took
occasion to note the conditions of the prisoners
confined in Irish jails, with special reference tc
the treatment accorded those unfortunates who