The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-18

land she will need the public opinion of the world to support her. I know her cause to be just, and feel certain that it will be supported by the right minded anywhere if only they can know it as it is.
 As l proceed to write these arti- Cles, addressed To tho American peo- ple-who are at this moment about to take a decision on question which vitalIy affects the land I love and have the honor 10 represent-as I re- fleet on the motives l have in writ ing them natural association of ideas suggests to me the opening par a graph of document add.a ssod to the people of Ireland on May 10th. 1775. asd signed by John Hancock: "Ve are desirous as is natural to injured innocence, of possessing the good opinion of tho virtuous and hu- manc. We are particularly desirous of furnishing you with true state of our motives and objects. the bet ter to enable you to judge of our con duct with accuracy, and determine . the merits of the controversy with impartiality and precision"
 have the document at hand. and as I glance through 1t, to refresh my memory l cannot help wishing that every man and woman in America had also a copy of this appeal by the fathers of their country when they, suffering from uubcarJbIC attacks on their liberty, and determined to end them. sought the good will of the virtuous and humane in Ireland, as we today seek the good will of the vi~.uous and human in America.
 know no better introduction to what I propose to write than to give 1t in full. As l may need to refer to it in further articles l would ask those who intend to read these arti- cles not only to study it carefully now, but to keep it for reference lat CT.
 II is interesting on it's own account as a complementary document to the Declaration of IndependcnCc-sett setting forth America's grievances at inc time to a people who could well under stand them. because they were them selves suffering from like wrongs similar abuses of arbitrary power.
 wonder whether Americans to- day can at all understand, by which mean realize. what were the suffer ings and what was the spirit that drove their ancestors to cut them selves off from EnEland's dominion. The Irishnen can realize them the Indian can. the Egyptian can. for the endure even tcday-eyen as I Write end you read-that your fore fathers TTo1 themselves free from
 Fellow Fecling Absent-
 Today. win rclrceIy the change of a word. except those which imply legitimate right on the part of the British Crown to rule us Cthe Irish nation is not an English -lony, and oves now. and has never owed any loyalty to Eng1and's ISi1g). ! might put my signature 70 that ducumen instead of Hancock's and present it to the A-nerirau people on behalf of Dail Elrcaun- the Nation ! Congress in Ireland. TOW sitting.
 To I-iahmen iy would appear per fcct1y natural presentation or tuerr present position. but Americans, ac- curtumed now tO enjoy the liberty of their own laws. caunUl. I fear, uH- dcrstard as our forefa hers under stood as their forefatherB would un. derstand. 1s we understand. The fellow feeling bcgot of actual oEper- fence o< tt.c wrongs complained of is necessarily absent.
 EngIand's Brutality.
 TO make America fc"T vaar feel when I read this document. l would need 10 write a commentary upCn it. The ycaruing to b- understood by those whose good opinion one values what it is-Only those can know who have experienced -he bitterness of heart of Eucing a noble cause sue ceSsfully rnisrCpreseuted. The fierce indignation Hancock and his comrades felt against the -CWer that, whilst trying by brute force to crush them into slaves. added mOoLcry and insult to force thctg charaH as the advan- tase EEslaEd's hyDocrlticai mask hey teput1tl8a as a champion of lib- erty-gaga heg thea as it gives her now--Ir1zss.gen have but to glance through the document to appreciate All thSS must. however. be lost tC the average American reader of to. day,
 The se1fishness of England. the Callous brutality of England. her pros t!tution of law and the artfui devices by which she hides her iniquity from the world, every Irishnan sees thes, in this document, Does every Amer ican2 Read. and realize that those wrongs which burned into the soul! of youy ancestors, have been abid ing eyer present wrongs of every generation of ir5shmen since this do cu1neat vas peHned and are but tith0 of tho wrongs Irishmen suffe in Ireland today.
 Enemies call our recital of thes wrongs an Irish whine '-you1
 
 too, a ''whine''-a Yankee whine nt doubt if tho term was then in use and when you Americans read thi dotlmeat and the lines: insult wa added to oppression and long c9-a bearaaea rewarded with the inpU.a tioa of eowaFdice, think not merei of Hancock, Washington and hi band, but also of Irishmen,
 TO THE PI1OPL{S OF IRELAND,
 From the Delegates appointed b the United Colonies of New Hamp shire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Is land and Providence Plantation, Con necticut, New York, New Jersey Pennsylvania, T'ha LoWeF Counties O. Delaware, Maryland, North Caroiin and South Carolina in General Con gress Rt Philadelphia, the 10th da of May, ITS,
 Friends and Fellow Subjects;
 ], As the important contest, int which T9 have been driven, is no7 becoming interesting to every EuroT