Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-11-15
RESOLUTION ON
IRISH CAUSE
Mass Meeting Held Here at
Which Noted Speakers Tell
of Great Injustice Done.

of Great Injustice Done.
A citizens mass meeting was held
in the Strand theatre yesterday af-
ternoon for ..the purpose of paying
tribute to the heroic sacrifices of
Lord Mayor Terrence MacSwiney,
Michael Fitzgerald and Joseph
Murphy and, to pledge support TO
the Republic of ireland. over j 900
people of all nationalities attended
the meeting.
The meeting was opened by the
singing of the Star Spangled Ban
ner." after which Chairman William
Hallahan introduced Rev. w. A.
Allen, Episcopalian minister of the
diocese of Long Island. Among
other things, he said that the United
States entered the war for the free
dom of the small nations which is
the cardinal feature of the doctrine
of self-determination. He declared
France and England had acquired
immense tracts Of territory, all this
in spite of the fact that Lloyd
George had said that England did
not seek single foot of land. He
showed how the principle of self
determination was applied only In
so far as it set up buffer states and
protected the territory of European
countries.
The speaker stated that the peo-
pie of Ireland showed conclusively
that they are overwhelmingly in
favor of the Republican form of
government, the elections held In
Ireland in December of 1918, super
vised by the military, sent seventy
eight Republicans. twenty-five Un-
ionists and six Nationalists to par
lament. Rev. Mr.. Allen stated that
the twenty-five Unionists were sent
from the county of Ulster and Lon
q donderry, and that IL the principle
OF Observation-Disclosures Was applied to
Ireland, She would be a free coun-
try long since.
On the religious side of the ques-
tion, the speaker showed that the
leaders in the cause of Ireland were
Protestants from the earliest times
down to 1908, when John Redmond
was placed in control. The great
leaders such as Parnell, Wolftone
and Robert Emmett were all Prot
estants, he continued. and the cause
Is one that is advocated by every
lover of liberty.
After song by Miss Mary Hig-
gins. the chairman introduced Major
Eugene Kinkead. He started his
Grafton by paying a tribute to his
friend of long standing Very Rev.
Dean William p Cantwell. In his
address, he stated that President
Wilson on July 4, 1918. at Mount
Vernon, in the presence of diplo-
mats from all over the world, stated
that the United States was fighting
fnt All. .f,1I< zf ..Alf 1AtA
ton. Citing the provost marshal
general as the authority. he said that
over 100000 of .our fighting men
were of Irish extraction. These and
the rest of our fighting forces have
done their part. he said, now let
President Wilson put into effect what
those men fought for and free that
nation.
He compared the way our revolu-
ton was brought about and the way
England is treating the people of
Ireland today. The indictment found
against England by the founders of
the American Republic in 1875, he
claimed was: "She has plundrered
our seas. ravaged our coast, burned
our towns and destroyed the lives
of our people" the speaker pointed
cut. Sucn is the indictment of the
Irish Republic against the English
government in 1920, he stated.
The following resolutions were in
troduced by Chairman William Hal
lahan, seconded by Major Kinkead
and unanimously passed by the en-
tire assemblage:
LAS loyal citizens of the United
States for whose honor and interests,
we have always stood, we offer our
protest against the English govern
ment for the murders, incendiarism
and destruction of property in Ire
land and appeal to the American
people to repudiate it for the fol-
lowing reasons.
I'VE brand. the speech of Lloyd
George delivered at Chamarvon on
Oct. 8. 1920 in which he defended
as JustifiaPle reprisals, murders, acts
OF lncendhrism and wanton des-
truction of property and industrial
estaDilshments perpetrated by the
British armed forces in Ireland as an
attack on civilization and a return to
barbarism of the dark ages, and we
accept IT as confession that Eng
llsh rule in Ireland can only be main
tanned by such savagery.
1t is apparent to all well-inform-
ed men that England in the present
condition or her finance can only
wage this inhuman warfare and
maintain her army of occupation in
ireland by means of money derived
from American loans, on which the
does not collect even
the interest. The immediate pay
ment OF these loans with interest in
luii should be insisted on by our
president of whose declarations in
favor of self-determination for all
people is being made very much
mockery.
The sale in the United States of
goods manufactured by firms that
are largely responsible for the saw
age warfare being waged on the peo-
pie OF the Irish Republic, our peo-
pie in America are large users of
English goods and no better weapon
can be used on this side of the At
iantic at the present time than ceas-
ing TO trade with the enemy of
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