The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-26

the country immense rnajorities proclaimed their desire for independence and for the establish ment of the republic. The representatives elected accordingly met in national parliament and formally proclaimed the independence of Ireland and ratified the republic which already proclaimed in 1s16- It remains for the other nations the world, and in particular for the American nation, to decide whether they will nize the supremacy of the peoples will and choice or whether they will abandon all their pro- fessions and, in Americas case constitute national traditions as we'll and admit that they nfu- enced not by considerations right, by a shameful regard for might. Their choice s 0 champion the peaceful Irishmen by them selves or by the imposed blood-staned rule of land by English foreigners.
 Read any impartial history of Ireland, and of these sufferings are listed in Irelands of fcial case presented in Paris. depopulation exampled in any other country, howsoever badly governed; wholesale destruction O industries and commerce; over-taxatfon enormous scale; d- version of rents, savings and surplus incomes Ireland England; opposition utilization by the Irish peoples of the economic of their country and to economic development and cial Improvement; exploitation of Ireland for the benefit of English capitalists fermentation of gious animosities; repression of the national cul ture; mantainance of nlonstrous system of police rule, by which, in the words of English minister. all Ireland is kept under the microscope" per version of justice by making political services and political subservience almost the qualification Tor Judicial positions by an elaborate corruption of the jury system by the organization of police espf- onage and perjury and the encouragement of agents provocateurs, and recently and at present, by using for the purpose of political oppression in Ireland the exceptional powers created for the poses or the European war Under these powers mili- tary government is established, some being treated hostile territory occupied in ordinary warfare; censorship Is maintained the press and publications generally; printing offices invaded and dsmantled police and military empowered to confiscate the proper ty vendors of literature without any legal pro- cess; persons imprisoned without trial ported from Ireland; Irish regiments in the English army removed from Ireland.
 Every line of this indictment might be expand ed into volume; item of 1t swells with the sighs, and suffering of noble, patient and 1ovabe people telling, those who under stand, of centuries of misery and of millions of broken human hearts That misery can be ended if America so wills it.
 Englishmen deplore always matter of course their fathers, and their yesterday but the sins of today, the sins of init Each generation tries to make it appear that wckedness of the past has disappeared in its day It is the next generation that will dis the sins of the A very clever proceed doubt for the world does not visit with reprobatton of the sins of ones ancestors. But it is crimes of the progenitors of the present English rulers of Ireland with which are concerned. is much with their crimes of today, and in particular with the one continued crime-the usurpation of Ire1ands right to rule herself.
 If England s believe in her sincerity yyhe she s bemoanine her conduct toward Ireland in the past, she will withdraw her bayonets