Arizona republican., 1919-03-13
EARLY ADVOCATE
 IF HONE RULE
 FUR THE IRISH

The agitation in behalf of Ireland at the present time and the memorials and resolutions which are being adopted by state legislatures all over this country bring to mind that Ire land has been the subject of American concern before this. When Attorney General Wiley Emmett Jones was a member of the Illinois legislature just before coming to Arizona, he presented in the legislature certain resolutions in behalf of Ireland and succeeded. after warm fight in securing their adoption.
 MT. Jones was at that time the youngest member of the legislature and one of the youngest members of any legislature. He was also nominee for speaker of the house. The records of this proceeding are in his office in this city. The resolutions adopted were:
 Whereas. the intelligence comes from London, England, that the pass age of the Coercion act by the British parliament was aided by the employ ment of forgery. calumny and by con spiracy against the greatest of Ire lands living sons: and
 Whereas, said Coercion act in its unjust provisions is a retrogressior from the high standard of human thought. action and freedom of the nineteenth century, and
 Whereas, the people of Ireland. ir tfoir unceasing struggle for home rule. have appealed to the enlightened nations of the world to bear witness to their wrongs and sufferings as the champions of free speech and equa rights: therefore be it
 Resolved. by the house of represent. tatives. the senate concurring herein that the patient dignity, gentle fore bearance and unflinching courag, with which the Hon. Charles Stewar Parnell has borne himself under tht stormy calumny which would hay, subdued many a brave spirit, and hi. complete triumph over the conspira. tors against a struggling nations rights, entitle him to forever ranl among the most sagacious, loyal anC unselfish statesmen that ever piloteC a country through the sea of turmoi and peril to a haven of honor ana safety; be it further
 Resolved, that the Hon. William E Gladstone, by his prolonged efforts {, unite the Irish people and gain th, 1 hearty and active support of increased numbers of the people of England anC | Scotland, and his recent public obeis ance made to the Irish leader upon tn | floor of the house of commons, call ! for admiration and approval iron | every lover of freedoms institutions | Resolved further, that we hereb, ! express our condemnation and un ! qualified disapproval of the polio, 1 pursued by the British ministry, a embodied in said Coercion act, whic | is in direct contravention of the pro gressive spirit of modern times. Resolved further, that the act whic seals the lips of the Irish people | their struggle for the common caus of humanity. the act which tears tn Irish peasant from his humble hom to be tried and persecuted amont strangers for an alleged offense. is palpable injustice. a violation of tn great principles of Magma Charta. tha no man shall be tried except in juds ment of his peers. is a crowning dis grace to the civilization of the az, and merits the emphatic disapproba tion of all who are imbued with tn love for human liberty.
 Resolved further. that the expert ence of over seven hundred years ( coercion, and the past failure of s coercion laws enacted by the Britis parliament have demonstrated, in tn calm judgment of all liberal made persons. that coercion is rSt tn proper policy to be pursued in tn government of the Irish people
 Resolved further, that Illinoi through her general assembly, doe hereby proffer to the patriotic an chivalrous people of oppressed Ire land her profoundest sympathies wit them in their hours of deep distress and assures them that their continue forebearane and heroic restraint in tt face of the prolonged iniquitous treat ment. which is evermore degrading { the oppressor than the oppresse commands the internest admiration every lover of human freedom, of ju. tice and of right.
 Resolved further, that the grie, suffered by the people of Ireland tC day through the inhumanity of Bri ish legislation, resemble much u wrongs to which the American color ists were subject over 100 years az and this general assembly send CT couragement, well wishes and G speed to the Hon. William E. Glas stone, and to the Hon. Charles Stew art Parnell, in their patriotic zeal al
 untiring efforts to secure for an oI
 pressed people those political righ | F~h