New-York tribune., 1919-06-30
Declares Faith in Intrust,
ing Cause to America;
Calls Peace a Mockery
of a True Democracy
10000 Hear His Plea
His Lieutenant Declares
War Will Not End Until
His Native Land Is Freed

BOSTON, June 29.-Eamonn de Va
lera, "President Of the Irish Republic" ;"
appealed to the United States to-day to
frame at Washington new covenant
for league Of nations whic would
give Ireland a place among the nations
of the world. The peace treaty signed
at Versailles yesterday, he said, was q
mockery and would remain so unless
Americans drew up a covenant founded
on 1.-The equality of right among ma
tions, small no less than great"
Speaking to more than 10000 persons
who thronged Fenway Park, stands and
field, the Irish leader measured his
terms. He must be careful what he
said in this country, he explained, as
he read from his prepared address.
His lieutenant, Harry J. Boland, a
member of the Irish Parliament, was
more direct. He said the young Irish
"republic" asked America to finish un-
der President Wilson "the proud work
of emancipation began by Washing
ton," adding, Eve will guarantee in Ire
land that there will be no peace until
Ireland is free"
Senator Assures Support
The appeal of the Irish leaders to
the American people and to the Senate
as a part of the treaty making power
of the country brought a response from
United States Senator David I. Walsh.
who asked Mr.. de Valera to take back
to Ireland the word that the Senate al
ready was pledged to support the as
pirations of the Irish people.
eve in Ireland clearly recognize"
he continued, "that if the wrong turn
ing be taken now, if violence be re-
established in it's former supremacy,
humanity is faced with a period of
lei and with a series of irregular con-
ficts vastly more terrible than the
tragic conflict now ended.
"Peace was nominally signed be-
tween the two great combating sides
yesterday, peace that gives up twen-
ty new wars instead of the one that
it nominally ends.
Calls Peace IA Mockery
Does it not already seem a mock
ery-and mockery it will remain un-
ity for the moral leadership Of the
world to which her consistent tradi-
tions, no less than the aims she set
herself in entering this war, entitle
her.
"The present opportunity is never
likely to recur. The idea of a commu-
nifty Of nations, recognizing a common
law and a common right, ending war
among nations as municipal law has
ended private wars among individuals,
is to-day a possibility if America does
what the people of the world pray and
expect America will do. To lose this
would be impossible to repair.
"If America disappoints, then the
right minded, the good, the just in the
world will be thrown back to a cynical
and sullen despair. Democracy dies or
else goes mad
"a new holy alliance cannot save
democracy. A just league of nations,
founded on the only basis on which it
can be just-the equality Of right
nations, small no less than
great--can. America can see to it that
such league is set up and set up now
She is strong enough to do so, and it i )
her right, in consequence Of the ex-
plicit terms on which she entered the
war Snc VIII DC packed up by the
of the whole world, by
all but perhaps the schcming diplomats
or the financial interests that back
them.
"lrcland offers herself unreservcdly
in that case A league Of nations and
a covenant for a league Of nations can
be framed in Washington as we'll as
in Paris. Now is the time to frame It
it IS not enough to destroy, you must
build"