The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
MINNEAPOLIS RESOLUTIONS
TEXT OF GREETINGS PRESENTED
TO EAMON DE VALERA BY CITY
COUNCIL OF MINNEAPOLIS.

At the monster meeting in the Ar
mory at Minneapolis last Sunday,
Louis N. Ritten, president of the city
council, presented to Mr.. De Valera
the following resolutions, which had
been adopted by the council on mo-
tion of Alderman Meagher:
The Resolutions.
To Eamon de Valera, President of
the Irish Republic:
We, the members of the Council of
the City of Minneapolis, extend to
your excellency hearty greeting and
most cordial welcome on this, the
occasion of your visit to our city, the
gateway Of the great Northwest. We
recall how when, on other occasions,
an appeal was made to alleviate dis
tress in the land over which your ex-
cellency so worthily presides, the
citizens of this favored portion of the
United States regardless of creed or
racial descent, promptly responded be-
cause they realized that the afflicted
people of Ireland were not given an
opportunity to secure for themselves
those blessings which we enjoy-the
blessings of happiness and plenty
which ever accompany Self-governing
nations. Knowing what liberty means,
appreciating it's advantages, we can.
not but SympathiZe with your land
and your people who have for centu-
ries valiantly striven for it and who
have never hesitated to cast their lot
with any country in it's struggle for
freedom. We recall how in the dark
and gloomy days that greeted the
| birth of this infant republic, the peo-
pie of Ireland gave to Washington and
| his army not merely sympathy but
| their bravest and their best. We are
not ungrateful. We have paid back
to France the debt we owed for her
| assistance in our successful revolu
ton, and we have paid it with blood
and with tears: it is now the oppor
tune time for us to redeem the prom
ises made by Washington and Jeffer
son to the land which equally with
France fought side by side with us
from Lexington to Valley Forge and
from that midnight of despair to York
towns cloudless day. Hence, We sa
lutte the newly-born Republic of Ire
land, and we greet you, Mr.. De Valera
it's president After the great worlds
war we desire worlds peace; and we
are convinced that there will never be
peace and harmony in this world as
long as the Irish question remains un
solved. We realize that the future OF
civilization is SO closely linked with
Ireland's grievances that these griev
ing, should be at once removed, and
removed by the only method that is
now admitted to be just, the method
so distinctly and emphatically an
nounced by President Wilson, the
method of self-determination. We
cannot understand how any of the AL
| lied powers who SO gladly welcomed
us to their assistance and on the con
! ditons laid down by us, the chief Of
which was that every nation great anC
small should regulate its own desti
MES, should now insist on freedom fOl
those who fought with our enemies
while it denies it to the one who sc
nobly shed it's blood on every field il
France and Flanders that liberty
might enlighten this earth of ours
Not our enemies alone but our friend:
also shall be free. Again, Mr.. De
Valera, we welcome you to our city
we hope that your mission will be sue
cessful, we extend our best wishes tt
the Irish republic, and we trust tina
with peace and contentment in Ire
land, your nation will enjoy that pros
perity and progress which your peo
pies perseverance and genius have 81
richly merited.