New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-16
10000 Irish
Cheer Mannix
At Rally Here
Wilson, Lloyd George and
Britain Denounced by
Speakers; Grimes Bill Is
Called Greatest Outrage
Golf Attacks President
League of Nations Is Con-
demned in Resolutions;
Greetings to Archbishop

greetings to Archbishop
Attacks on President Wilson, Lloyd
George and Great Britain were voiced
at an Irish mass meeting held at Madi-
son Square Garden last night to pro-
test against the refusal of the British
authorities to permit Archbishop Man
nix, of Australia, to land in Ireland.
Inc new Irish crimes bill pending in
Parliament also was denounced.
Ten thousand persons greeted with
vociferous cheering a description of
Archbishop Mannix's detention as 1.-The
great victory achieved by the British
Navy Almost as great a demonstra-
ton followed when John w. Golf, who
presided, declared that President Will
son, after proclaiming the right of
peoples to govern themselves, had gone
to London to be entertained at Buck
ingham Palace"
For time it appeared that the mass
meeting would be given over exclusive
~ to cheering. Frank P. Walsh re-
celved an ovation which lasted sixteen
minutes. Hundreds of persons rose in
their seats to wave the Irish flag, and
1T was not until after the intervention
Of brass band which played Irish airs
that the cheering subsidized so that Mr..
Walsh could proceed.
Ginnell Loudly Cheered
similar greeting attended the in
PRODUCTION of Lawrence Ginnell, who
three years ago was a member Of the
House Of Commons and who is now
member of the Irish Republican As
sembly
Mr.. Walsh declared that Mr.. Ginnell
had been imprisoned by the British
authorities for appearing at a mass
meeting held in Ireland similar to that
held last night.
The Irish crimes bill was denounced
as the eighty eighth and most in
human repressive measure adopted by
the British government to oppose the
aspiration of the Irish people for free
dom" Major Michael Kelly asserted
that if the bill is put into execution
people will be subject to court martial
secret trials and secret executions. He
said the American people "would then
regret having saved England from de-
feat in the war"
But the most beneficial thing
Britain ever did for the Irish caus.
Major Kelly. Gust think, the British
fleet which was bottled up during the
war ventured out on to the high seas
to arrest venerable prelate of the
Church,"
Thanks for Britain
Mr.. Goff said that one of the pur-
poses Of the meeting was rather 10
thank England for arresting Arch
prQpagan throughout the world
They may stop DR.. Mannix from land
ing in Ireland, but they cannot stop
his ideas from going there" said Mr.
Golf
When Mr.. Walsh asserted that there
were only two great republics in the
world-America and Ireland-some one
interrupted with a shout, Chow about
Russia?" Mr. Walsh asserted that
British labor was taking care of that
issue, since it had refused 10 permit
Resolutions were adopted protesting
against the entrance of the United
States into a League OF Nations with
Great Britain, against the crimes bill
and against the detention of Archbishop
Mannix.
The following resolution was
adopted:
THE citizens of New York denounce
the action of the British government
IN passing and applying to Ireland
another infamous coercion law which
is destructive to every vestige of hu-
man rights and civil liberty and does
for which the World War was waged;
that it indicates the intention to de-
strcy by barbarism the republic Ireland
has established and thereafter to rule
Ireland by savage force, and thus to
destroy in so far as she can the Irish
race in Ireland
THAT to every American citizen it
should be cause for qualification that
the United States refused to enter the
League of Nations, wherein it would
row be in partnership with a govern
ment which has inaugurated in Ireland
system of Savage oppression in or
land has established by the suffrage
Of her people.
I'VE further denounce the piratcal
raid of the English navy upon a peace
full passenger ship and the removal
therefrom by force of Archbishop Man
nix in order to prevent his intended
visit to his native land as an act of
unbridled and indefensibe tyranny
and an open defiance Of President Will
sons proposal of freedom Of the seas,
and we assert our confidence that the
power OIL Lue DIltlSu government D0lN
by land and sea will be unable to pre-
vent the entrance of his idea into Ire
land and England and other parts of
the British Empire as we'll, and that
his outrageous arrest and detention
will not defeat or destroy the republic
which he so ably champioued in Aus
ITALIA and for whose recognition he so
eloquently pleaded in the United
States."s
Message to Mannix
The message to DR.. Mannix, as pre-
scented by Mr.. Golf, read: Fifteen
thousand citizens in public meeting de-
nounce the unparalleled outrage COM
mitted on your person. Such things
are possible to-day only in Turkey and
Ireland.
eve compliment you on your open
defiance of this invasion of the funda-
mental principles of democracy and are
protesting tonight to our own govern
ment against its entering into partner
ship with nation guilty Of the auto
cratic and savage acts which England
has recently committed"
Other speakers were Monsignor Joseph
Mooney, vicar-general of New York;
DR.. Norman Thomas, the Rev. Maurice
j. Murphy and the Rev John Talbot
Smith.
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