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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1919-11-06

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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1919-11-06

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
WHATCOM
NO. 1850
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF LOLKTJE HIEMSTRA, DE-
CEASED.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
Delegate
Asks Admission
zEAN O'CEALLlGh ASKS ADMlS.
SION TO PEACE CONFERENCE
AS DELEGATE OF IRELAND.

Paris, Feb. 24.-Zean O'Cealligh
presented himself to the peace con.
ference today as the accredited en-
voy of the provisional government of
the Irish republic"
O'Cealligh has sent to Premier Glenn
enceau, to Paul Dutasta, secretary
general of the peace conference, and
to each delegate, letter in which he
brings to their notice the claim of his
government, in the name of the Irish
nation for international recognition of
the independence of Ireland and for
the admission of Ireland a constitu-
ent member of the league of nations.
This communication was accompan-
led in each case by copies of the Irish
declaration of independence of jan
uary 81 and of the message of greet
ings from the Nation of Ireland" to
the rest of the world.
In his letter O'Cealligh states that
Professor De Velera, Arthur Griffith
and Count Plunkett have been dele.
gated by the national assembly to pre-.
sent statement to the Peace confer
ence and to the league of nations in
the name of the Irish people. He
acks date be fixed for the reception
of the men.
Ever since it was declared the Irish
would send delegates to the peace
conference it has been generally un-
derstood here that their credentials
would come before the committee on
credentials in the same manner as
those of any other nations applying
for recognition.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
The ENGLISH PRESS
on TIE REPUBLIC

Several of the English weekend and
Sunday papers comment on Dali Eir-
eann. Common Sense" says if the
government and British people wish
to rebut charges of insincerity. phar-
isaism, and hypocrisy in connection
with their proposals for a Just and
fair peace they will have to be pre-
pared to adopt at home the principles
which they are trying to impose by
force of arms in Europe"
but perhaps it may be said," it
adds, chat the expeditions to Russia
are on all fours with the coercion of
Ireland"
about as fatuous blunder as one
could conceive" the political cores.
pondent of the Sunday Times calls
the censorship of the Declaration of
Irish independence, and he says that
'Stupidities, almost amounting to
malignities, continue to mark the ad.
ministration of Ireland. In
consenting to conference with the
Russian Bolsheviks they have un
doubtedly given handle to the Sim
Feiners of which the latter will hard
ly be slow to avail themselves"
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08

Chicago, Feb. 22-An American
merchant marine carrying the Ameri-
can flag into every port of the world
is the accomplishment Edward s. E.
Hurley, of the Shipping Board, hopes
to see realized through the combined
efforts of all lines of business, he
told the members of the Illinois Manu-
facturers' association today. A thoro
democratic exchange of views is Mr..
Hurley's scheme for laying the basis
Of the necessary legislation.
The Shipping Board has asked the
United States Chamber of Commerce
to call national conference of busi-
ness, banking, shipping and labor in
terests and have their experts prepare
a number of plans for the new mer-
chant marine, Mr.. Hurley explained.
The Shipping Board will supply data,
both foreign and domestic, covering
routes, cost, fuel and supplies and gen.
eral facilities.
Ships of the world are one of the
most vital problems before the world
today" Mr.. Hurley said, after the
conference, "and it is being discussed
and planned for daily on the other
side, but the problem will be worked
out, think. agreeably to all nations,
because the shortage Of tonnage and
growth in manufacturing will re-
squire extra tonnage, and 1 believe it
/ vim take eight or ten years to get this
surplus tonnage.
There are some who are inclined
Ito be discouraged, but we are not par
ticulaFly alarmed. We are interested
In having ships built as opportunity
affords.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
lreland's Vote For
Determination

The great victory of Sim Fein in
the irish elections is made more re-
markable by the number of votes cast
for its candidates than by the fact that
1t captured 73 out of the los seats.
Here are the votes actually cast for
and against Sim Fein, as summed up
by the Dublin independents:
For self-determination ZOO. .221
Against .................. 2S9, 9,O25
Majority for Sim Fein. All 1876
The 2S9,025 votes recorded against
the Sim Fein policy include those cast
for the six Irish party candidates who
were elected, but which, on straight
issue between the Union and Home
Rule would be cast against the Union.
This reduces the vote for the Union
to less than 100000. But there were
twenty-five constituencies in which
the Home Rulers put up no candidates
and in which the Sim Fein vote NAV
therefore be safely assumed to be
overwhelmingly strong. On the as.
sumption that contests had taken
place in these twenty-five constituent
cies, the Independent estimates the
figures would approximately be:
For self-determination ....1.1O2 221
Against 289,O25
Popular majority for Sim
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
llibernian Ball In Philadelphia
LARGEST and Most Successful Affair Of its Kind Ever ued Un-
der nbernan Auspices. Over -Four thousand
Present. Resolutions Were Past

Resolved, That this assemblage of
the Hibernians of Philadelphia joyfully
greet the people of Ireland upon the
Threshold of the door of a new epoch,
for the aspirations of long centuries
of sacrifice and denial are now firmly
fixed in the minds and hearts of a
united race and exhibited in all their
immortal truth to the public opinion
of the world; and it is further
Resolved, That this vast assem-
blage attending the Fifty-Third An
nual A. o. H. Ball, the chief Hibern-
ian Social event in Philadelphia, ball
noted for having attracted during the
past half century the intellect and
beauty of Philadelphia, congratulates
the representatives of the United
States upon the conjunction of Cir
cumstances which endow them with
mightier powers as the advocates of
freedom than have ever been held
until this tribunal in the keeping of
governments or of statesmen; for
those powers are of such illimitable
potency that their just exercise shall
subvert, with a single utterance in
the potent voice of this Great Re-
public, that intolerant and arbitrary
system which has so brutally op-
pressed the inhabitants of Ireland, and
so despotically denied their claims to
sole lnf0 mot CT th4
ments of that small nation and re-
pressing by military massacre, it's ef-
forts to establish a democracy; and
it is further
Resolved, That we express our con-
viction that there can be no permanent
peace until Ireland is free, for just as
those generations of our ancestors be-
queathed to us the heritage of liberty
and faith, we shall pass it on to other
men and to other times, and just. as
we of this assemblage demand the
inalienable rights of our race, so also
there are innumerable assemblages of
our blood in other nations and con-
tinents who are ready to defend the
principles of Irish democracy in the
hall of debate or on the field of action.
Resolved, That we thank the For
eign Affairs Committee of the National
House of Representatives for urging
the claims of Ireland to the right Of
self-determination; that we thank also
the members of the Senate and House
of Representatives of Pennsylvania
for the passage of a resolution Offered
in the Senate by Senator Daix and in
the House by Representative Heffer-
mani, calling upon the Senators and
members of Congress from Pennsyl-
vania to support the Foreign Affairs
Committee resolution, and for order
ing that President Wilson be informed
| that it is the desire of the Senate
and House of Representative of Penn
sylvania that Ireland be included
among the small nations which he has
declared shall be given the right of
/ self-determination.'
Resolved, That we endorse the SEN
timents enunciated in the declaration
Of principles of the Friends of Irish
Freedom, at the great two-day Irish
Race Convention, held in this city, un-
der their auspices, and which closed
so splendidly and successfully in this
building last evening""
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
Is Dry Amendment
Constitutional?
The Principle Of Home Rule Seri-
ously Impaired by the Amend
ment.
No Trace of Purpose in the consti-
tuition to Determine Questions of
Individual Morality.
Reserved Rights of the States and the
People Impaired and Abridaed.

Chicago, Feb. 22.-James M. Beck.
former assistant attorney general of
New York, at Washington birthday
celebration here today, said revolution
ary changes in the life of the republic
have made certain adaptations and
amendments to the constitution neces-
sary, but that public sentiment must
be kept alive to the fact that it's basic
laws must not be seriously impinged
upon.
''1t is not necessary" he said, Ito
sacrifice wholly the basic principles of
the nstitution-especially that of
home rule, for if the principle of home
rule be very seriously impinged upon
it will inevitably lead to a spirit of
civil strife and possible ultimate dis
unity"
+ Major Parties Question Basic Law.
Mr.. Beck said that in the platforms
of the major parties in 1912, taken as
whole, one or more of the funda-
mental principles of the constitution
were called in question, particularly in
the matter of the initiative, referen-
dunn and recall.
,, In the period 1914-1917 he said, 79
! amendments to the constitution were
proposed, relating to "a different sub
jects, most of them being subversive
to one or more of the principles of the
constitution.
whatever our opinions may be as
to statutory prohibition" he said, mo
fair minded man can question that in
the adoption of the eighteenth amend
, ment-if, indeed, it has been legally
adopted-the principle of home rule
has suffered serious, if not fatal, i'm
pairment.
Nowhere in the constitution is
there the slightest trace of purpose
on the part of the fathers to deter
mine questions of individual morality
or personal habit.
"In a country of 1OO,000,OOO people,
it is, in my judgment, hazardous ex-
pertinent to impose by rigid constitu-
tional amendment a doubtful principle
of morality which justly offends the
pride of individual liberty.
Whatever the merits of prohibition
may be as a local measure, it's adop-
tion as an unbending national principle
destroys the symmetry of the constitu-
tion and invades those reserved rights
of the states and of the people there
of which the tenth amendment was de-
signed to preserve inviolate. I regard
the adoption Of the eighteenth amend
ment as the destruction of the princi-
pie of home rule, and, as such, the
deadliest menace to the perpetuity Of
the republic that has arisen in the last
half century,"
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
Futility Of British
Bayonets Aainst A
Determined People
1.-THE Consent of the Irish Community
Not Behind the Repressive Eng
lish Laws in lreland."-Wilson.
(From the Irish independently

(fTOlu tue 1rlSu independently
I have discovered book written
by President Wilson thirty years ago,
when he was a young man, some very
sapient sentences on the relation of
minorities and of majorities to the
law, together with very pointed ref
erence to the misgovernment of Ire
land as an example of the truth of
his sayings on this subject.
In view of the Presidents unique
exercising in the Peace Conference
more potent influence than any other
member of it upon questions involving
the fate of small nationalities, it is
only right, in the highest interests of
Ireland and of international justice,
that his remarks upon the iniquity of
the system under which Ireland is
denied freedom should be given the
widest publicity.
Wilson on English Misrule.
Mr.. Wilson wrote "the power of the
community" must support law or the
law must be without effect. The bay
onets of minority cannot long sue
cessfully seek out the persistent dis
obediences of the majority. The ma
jority must acquiesce or the law must
be null.
''This principle is strikingly illus
trated," continued the future Presi-
dent, Gin the inefficacy of the English
repressive laws in IRELAND. The
CONSENT of the IRISH COMMUN-
ITY is NOT BEHIND THEM, though
the strength of England is, and they
fail utterly, as all laws must, which
lack at least the passive acquiesence
of those WHOM THEY CONCERN"
These weighty words are reproduced
from the Presidents learned and CO.
gently reasoned book 'sThe State Ele-
ments of Historical and Practical Pol
itics," written in 1889, when he was
Professor of Jurisprudence and Poll
tics in Princeton University.
Ireland will be intensely anxious to
know whether President Wilson ad-
heres to the principle enunciated in
his younger days, when he referred
so scathingly to the scandal of Brit.
ish misrule of Ireland, and whether he
will stand up for it at the Peace Con.
ference. This principle in relation to
Ireland applies with the same force
as when laid down by the President
three decades ago-indeed, with in.
fnitely greater force now in view OF
the refinement of Prussianism mark.
ing the coercive activities of the mill
tary regime in that country.
Litera scripta manet. If Ireland
should fail to secure the right of self
determination by means of the Peace
Conference, history will Judge Presi
dent Wilson's record in connection
with her fate by the standard of right
which he proclaimed in the extracts
taken from his book.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
Making It Unsafe
For Hypoeriey

Lecturing in Enniscorthy, Ireland,
the Rev. J. F. Sweetman of Mount
st. Benedict College, Corey, President
of the North Wexford Executive of
Sim Fein, said that if Sim Fein did
not succeed in making Ireland safe
for democracy, they would at least
make it a very unpleasant place for
hypocrisy.
They had in the country, he said, a
class who aped the ways of the enemy
aliens among them, and it was the
duty Of Sim Fein to tear the mask off
these people. The people who had
criticized him for what they described
as mixing himself up in politics were
the very people who came to him a
few years ago begging him to go on
recruiting platforms. They were full
of praise for the patriot priests of
Belgium and Poland, but when the
priests of Ireland attempted to do
something for their country they were
told to keep out of politics.
The only constitutional step taken
in ireland during the last seven hun
dred years, he continued, was the set.
ting up of Dali Eireann. While Ire
lands position was becoming stronger
England's was growing weaker. AS a
member Of the Benedictine Order he
was regarded by England as an outlaw
in his own country, matter which
did not cause him much concern.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
s.. Clements Parish
CARDINAL ADVISES WAYS
RETURN.

OnNs
Philadelphia, Feb. 22.-"The quicker
the railroads are returned to their for
mer owners, the better for the public
and the investors" declared Cardinal
Gibbons tonight.
1--WE are all aware that under gov
ernment control an enormous deficit
has been entailed by the transfer from
private control. Wherever government
control exists, my observation has been
the roads are operated at loss. /
hope they will soon revert to their
former operators"
The cardinal expressed fear of
bolshevism. He said Americans must
have but one country-America- and
it must be for one country only. All
movements contrary to peace and tran
guilty must be crushed.
He declared "the water was too
deep" for him, when asked whether
the Catholics would support the
League of Nations. But when asked
for an opinion, he said he considered
former President Taft an able man"
Reports from France, he said, indi-
Gated the American soldiers, as a,
whole, had been credit to their reli-
gion.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08
Carry Flag Into AL Ports, Says Hurley

'The American flag must fly over
every American ship, whether that
ship is owned by the government, or
by corporations, or by individuals"
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08

THINK IN 1NrEREsr-sAvE-
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08

The Fifty-Thir Annual Ball of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians took
place in the Academy of Music, Broad
and Locust Streets, on Monday even
Ing, February "a. It was the largest
and most successful affair of the kind
that has ever taken place under Hi
tbernian auspices, upward of four thou
sand five hundred being present. Past
State President Patrick Donohoe, who
was Chairman of the General Com
mittee and Grand Conductor was con-
graduated by hundreds on the good
attendance, on the beauty of the ladies,
on the grandeur of the decorations,
on the excellence of the music, on the
fine display of Irish dancing, on the
perfect order that was maintained
throughout the evening-on everything
appertaining to the ball par excellence
Of 1919 in Philadelphia.
+ Patrick j. McGarvey, County Presi-
dent, was the Assistant Grand Con-
ductor, and James B. Sheehan, Past
State President, was Master of Cere-
monies. Patrick Cannon, Clinton,
Mass, National Vice President of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians; John
Donnelly, Past State President of the
A. o. H. of Massachusetts, and John
B. Boyle, State Treasurer, Pennsyl-
vania, occupied seats in the private
box of National President Joseph Nc
Laughlin. John T. Flood, Past State
Vice President of Virginia and Mrs.
Flood viewed the march from a priv
ate box also. Mrs. Mary F. McWhor-.
ter, of Chicago, National President of
the Ladies' Auxiliary, and Miss Ada M.
Cannon, National Chairman of the L.
A. Irish History propaganda, Daven-
port, Iowa, saw the festivities from
the private box of Mrs. Mary A. Gal
lagher, State President of the l.. A.
of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Ellen Ryan
jolly, Pawtucket, r. l., and her son, a
student, at Notre Dame, Indiana, were
other prominent guests of the commit
tee. Mrs. Patrick H. ODea, Washing
ton, D. c., and Miss Whyte, Limerick,
Ireland, were guests of John O'Dea.
Ex- Congressman Michael Donohoe and
Judge Bonniwell headed the local list
of prominent Hibernians.
On the superb Grand March being
over Master of Ceremonies sheehan,
called the assemblage to order and in
troducedE Eohn O'Dea, National Chair
man Of Me A. o. H. Irish History
propaganda, who offered the follow
ing resolutions:
Whereas, The President of the
United States will present to the
Peace Congress of the world those
principles of government upon which
the world war was waged and won by
the free Nations; and
Whereas, The Foreign Affairs Com
mittee of Congress has officially
pledged our Government to urge the
inclusion Of Ireland among those ma
tions entitled to self-determination of
their own destiny, thus recognizing the
Righteousness of the recent Declara-
tion of Irish independence, the legal
tty of a free Irish Government, and
the unqualified justice of admitting
the plenipotentiaries of Ireland to
share in those discussions and deci-
sions which shall guarantee peace and
liberty to their own land and to man
kind; it is therefore
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08

Sim Fein has fused the traditional
culture of the nation with all the pro-
tury.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08

"The denial of freedom to Ireland
would alone be sufficient to defeat
the American peace program and
would justify the contention that
American manhood and American
money had been hopelessly sacrificed.
Bishop Gallagher of Detroit.
The Irish standard., 1919-03-08

This is world of scandal, and like
wolves we fall on the wounded
Crowley.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1919-02-06
THEIR FIRST IDEAS OF LIFE
Why It is Matter Of importance to
Provide Appropriate Toys for the
Children.

That pep and all the other charac-
teristics which temper the American
are bound up inextricably in the toys
we provide for our children is the rea-
soned belief advanced by Sarah Com
stock in Good Housekeeping. To
quote:
look over the drama Of life that
your small son and daughter are re-
producing there on the nursery floor.
What is the basis Of the girls idea Of
the real world? It is playing house.
Isn't that profound and beautiful
fact? Already she is carrying out
those instincts that are as old as the
race. She mothers her dolls, rocks
them to sleep, trundles them in a car
rage She furnishes their house and
keeps It in housewifely order with lit
tie broom or carpet sweeper. She
launders their garments with tub,
dashboard and tiny iron; she cooks
Tin imagination) their meals upon
stove and sets them forth in dainty
dishes.
Trains Of cars, motors, boats,
Noah's arks, reins, fire engines, all Of
fer the boy the opportunity to act out
the primitive masculine life that ap-
peals so strongly to his youth, the life
Of simple, manly prowess. He would
far rather be a brave. soldier, fireman,
engineer or sailor than q lawyer, pro-
fessor, painter or poet. He revels in
those sturdy playthings that he can
arrange and rearrange, draw, propel,
sail-in fine, can direct and operate
with his own lively young energies"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1919-02-06
why Red Cross Is Loved.

Guatemala's catastrophe in ordinary
times would fill large space In the
newspapers. Now it falls in among
the many stories of disaster and suf-
fering that have marched In long pro-
cession through the columns of the
press for the last three years.
But 1t Is good to know that there
exists an organization which Is never
deaf to the cry of humanity for help;
an organization whose responsiveness
grows with need, and that, burdened
as never before in its history, is able
to meet each new demand with prompt
ministratiOn.
Already a shipload Of supplies Is
leaving New Orleans, bearing the flag
of the American Red Cross. Thank
God for the Red Cross, keeping alive
our highest ideals of merciful service
and making the small bounties Of mill
lions Of individuals mighty force for
the relief of anguish.-Terre Haute
Star.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1919-02-06
IN Coed American.

My cousin vas driving an ambulance
loaded with french and American
wounded soldiers along q road which
was being shelled. Some Of the shells
were exploding uncomfortably near.
At length one burst directly ahead Of
their ambulance, forcing them to make
a detour to avoid the shell hole.
"Pres, pres!" cried a Frenchman,
which expression means in good Amer
lean. "Qse, that was a close one"
An-~American, doughboy, however,
Iuisintsrpreted IT, and cried out in dis
gust: I'LL, I've been praying for
half an hour l"-Chieago Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1919-02-06
GIFT THAT AvERTED STRIFE
How Doll, Presented to Papoose, In
fiuenced Redskins 70 Return Peace !.
fully to Reservation.

A band Of Apache Indians were once
induced to go back to their reservation
! by the gift Of doll to a papoose. The
incident was as follows:
General Crook had been trying to
put these Apaches back on the re-
serve, but could not catch them with
out killing them-an action that did
not appeal to him. One day his forces
captured a papoose and took her to
the fort. She was quiet all day; but
her black eyes watched everything.
When night came the child broke down
and sobbed.
The fort was in despair, until Major
Burke, the generals aid-de-camp, Dor
rowed from the adjutant's wife doll
that had been sent to her little girl the
previous Christmas. When the young
Apache understood that 1t was hers to
keep her sobs ceased and she fell
asleep. When morning came the doll
was still clasped tightly in her arms.
She played with it all day, and SEEM
ingly had given up all thought OF ever
getting back to the tribe.
Several days passed with no sign
being made by the tribe, and finally
In despair the papoose. with the doll
still in her possession, was sent back.
When the child reached the tribe with
the prize grasped In her chubby hands
It created a sensation among the In
dfans, and her mother later went to
the post with 1t. She was received In
a hospitabIe manner and kindly treat
ed, and the effect Of her visit was such
that through her overtures were made,
with the result that soon afterward
the entire band moved back 70 the re-
serve.