Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-30
TREATY AGAINST
IRISH INTERESTS,
COMMITTEE HEARS
American Representatives of
Freedom For Ireland Tes-
tify Before Senate Body
By Associated Press.

Washington, Aug. 30.-Asking for
rejection of the Peace Treaty, Amer
lean representatives of the cause of
Irish freedom told the Foreign Re-
lations Committee to-day that the
Treaty would create a super govern
ment against Ireland's interests and
would establish British naval supre-
macy so firmly as to menace the
United States.
Daniel F. Cohalan, justice of the
Supreme Court, of New York, Edward
F. Dunno, former Governor of Illi-
nois; Frank p. Walsh. II. Burke Coch-
ran, and others representing various
Irish organizations. appeared. They
said they voiced the sentiment of
more than 2O.00O,O00 American citi-
zens of Irish blood.
I'VE, citizens of the United States
of Irish blood" said a memorial read
to the committe. but attached above
all things to this Republic and its
constitution respectfully pray that
the proposed Treaty now before you
be rejected as a direct violation OF
the principles on which this war was
fought as they were defined by Pres
ident Wilson.
ireland has been asserting con-
tinuously her claim to independence
for eight centuries. One fifth of this
entire population of the United States
is of Irish extraction. We ask that
ireland be not the only nation ex-
cluded from the benefit of the glor-
ious principles enunciated by Mr..
Wilson as those which the Great
War was fought to establish. We es-
pecially denounce article ten of the
proposed League of Nations as de-
wise to stifie the conscience of civil
nj rnn n
denim and by condenmins to end the
oppression OF weak nations enslaved
by powerful neighbors. 1t impeaches
the most creditable page in our his
tory and discredits the circumstances
and conditions in which our republic
was born and our liberty achieved.
Must HIVE Aid
THE conscience of civilization, the
only force to which the oppressed
can appeal would no longer be able
TO take effective jurisdiction of
wrongs perpetrated by powerful ma
tions on weaker people. No strug-
Cling nation has ever accomplished
it's independence except through the
aid of other nations"
Taking particular exceptions to the
League of Nations proposal Justice
Cohalan declared 1t would be i'm
tolerable" to give Great Britain six
votes in the League as against the
United States one.
I'VE fought" he said, ito destroy
autocracy. which means not only mill
itarism the control of the land, but
also navalism, the control of the sea.
We contend that the position of the
British feet is made such by this
treaty that it can be used only against
the United States. Germany and
Russia are in no position 10 contest
it and France practically has been
turned into a continual vassal of Eng
land.
To Give Up Doctrine
IF we enter into a scheme which
leaves to another country the mas
terry of the seas, we place ourselves
voluntarily in the position where we
shall carry on commerce with other
countries as a matter of providing
instead of as matter of right. We
are asked also under the proposed
plan practically to give up the Mon
roe Doctrine.
I'VE insist that this is in no sense a
League of Nations, but is simply a
cover for an Anglo alliance
under which the Freedom of America
would be abridged and the power of
the governing classes in England per-
manently secured"
Would Start Rebellion
Mr.. Walsh, chairman of the Amer
lean commission on Irish independ-
ence declared the League would put
more than half the world in rebel
lion. He said he always had been a
Democrat and almost a pacifist," but
that the best friend President Wilson
has is the man who will stand up and
keep him from the great mistake
he is about to make"
Mr.. Walsh offered to give the COM