The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-30
THE WHY OF IT.
Clos Angeles Times)

Edward de Valera, fugitive president of the mythical Irish repubhc,' received from Los Angeles on Wednesday frigiC greeting. The mayor absented himself from the city hall when De Valera called the doors of the Shrine Auditorium where he was to speak, were locked to him; hun dreds of persons in the crowded shopping mobile in which he was riding passed FOl once the cordial hospitality for which Los Angeles is famed was nowhere in evidence
 De Valera comes here posing as the president of a "government" without exis tence. He comes seeking to promote the sale of bonds of the Irish republic' whose security is only a myth. He represents not the Irish people, but the Sim FeIners who are the l. w. w. of Ireland. He IS al alien Red, the most conspicuous one II America, and he should be deported along with the other Reds who are now locked uf in federal prisons awaiting deportation His Offense is the greater because he acts with full understanding. Born in this country, De Valera is an eXpatrated Amer ican: he is attempting to fOment revOlu tiOn against the government to which ne pledged allegiance when he renounced his AmcrcaniSm. He is banned from present. ing any cause before the American people because, by reason of the Sim Feln pro German activities against Amerca, seek ing the murder of our soldiers and sailors during the great war he cannot come be fore the bar of public opinion with clear hands. Admiral Sims has barred his record It is self-explanatory.
 Thank heaven, there is one free city 1T America where an enemy of orderly gov, ernment is not welcome!
 In barring the doors of it's auditorium to him the members of the Shrine organ ization of Los Angeles were actuated by loyal and patriotic motives. The reason assigned is amply sufficient. Permission to use the hall had been granted ''in ignor ance of the real purpose of the meeting which we are now advised is for the ap- Ipearance of Eamonn (Edward) de Valera to exploit a certain doctrine which the as sociation believes is not consistent with the principles of Americanism.
 Why this rebuff? The answer is writ ten in the report of Admiral Sims on the pro- German activities of the Sim Fein or. ganization, of which De Valera is, and was at that time, the head, during the crucia months when America was rushing it's Lib erty Army to the rescue of the free people of Europe The Sim Feiners plotted with the huns to massacre, thru undersea at tacks, American troops on their way to the front
 Further explanation is unnecessary The record stands as written by the Sim Feiners themselves. They were traitors tC the cause of world freedom, traitors to the government of which they were themselves Ia part, traitors to their own blood in Ire land and America De Valera tried lamely to deny in Los Angeles that he was Brit ish citizen; yet within year he stood fo1 election to the British parliament, where the first qualifications of every candidate lis that he must be a citizen of Great Britain.
 Los Angeles looks upon De Valera as an unwelcome guest. Our hospitality does not extend to alien Reds. The atmosphere lis polluted by his presence and the sooner he shakes the dust of Southern California from the soles of his shoes the better,