The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-03
RECOGNITION BY US. OF IRISH REPUBLIC
 NO CAUSE OF WAR

keep it's promises of freedom for all the oTspressei nations of the world. He also said that Ireland did not have to wait for the signing cE the treaties to know that she was given hes free dom as she did not expect that Eng land would apply the doctrine she had accepted to herself.
 The opening speaker of the evening at the Casino was Senator Dillon, who told the assembled thousands that if as Lloyd George said the separation of Ireland would mean the death of England, then ''let her die"
 Mayor Clifford B. Wilson was the next speaker and said that President Wilson gave to the world 14 points in which he said that peoples should have the right of self-determinatio ation and the people of this country should insist on their being carried out until Ireland was free. He closed with the words, May the day soon come when Ramon DeValera with his own hand write the epitaph of Robert Emme et.''
 Rev. pr. Frank E. Phillips, a Con- gregational minister of New Haven, was the next speaker of the evening and he told of the struggles of the Protestants and Catholics to gain a free Ireland. All are united in a common cause and with but one thought, a free government for 1re- land.
 The Rev. James Grattan Mythen. assistant rector of All Souls church South Norfolk, Va, was the next speaker. Rev. Mythen has served ir the navy as ''gob' during the wal and he spoke straight from the shoul- ho hn ho z been congratulated by Vice President l Marshal and Fuel Administrator Gar field on his speeches during the war I They said he echoed the very mint | of the President when he spoke o, Irish freedom and the separation O. all the people from the reign of op i pressing government. He closed with the remark that promises of sell ! determination for all had been mad' | in the last war but if the boys hat l been fooled by these stateme ents ant l the "pretty posters they would b.
 missing when Uncle San called again Rabbi Samuel J. Abrams, of th' i Park avenue Temple, was the nex l speaker and told of the oppression |, of the Jews and how they felt to ward the Irish race and question O freedom and stating that it was al | 1 promises of freedom. l The Hon. Lindsey Crawford, edito ] of the Toronto Statesman and found | CT and first president of the Inde l pendent Orange Institution as well a l president of the society of Protestan 1 Friends of Irish Freedom was tn next speaker.
 MT. Crawford said in part: "It i not question of a conflict of Roman 1 Catholics and Protestants. If 1t wa 1 l would be arrayed on the side of tn | Protestants, but it is 6. question O
 England using the pretext of religion
 to further her ecoconomic interest l and are afraid to come out in tn I open to defend principles which ar
 not tenable in the 20th century,
 He then explained the question 0 labor in IreaaIhd and said that wealth linen manufacturers were backin Carson, and are arraying Protestan
 against Catholic to keep down tn | rate of wages paid In the linen mill which today are less than any paid Il
 any place in England. He hoped, h
 said, for the day to come soon wher
 the Irish would see things in thei
 true light and would go out for a fai
 rate of pay.
 1 lie said there were put TWO side
 to the Irish questionable question (
 religion arrayed against right an
 the Imperial side of England, wh
 would hold Ireland to the last ditch
 it was possible.
 MT. Crawford then spoke of th
 situation in Canada. He said ths
 the British had nothing to do wit Canada, but was to them simply tt 1 king of Canada but he was advise and ruled by diplomats in Downin
 street, 5000 miles away and this ws bad. He then said that Canadian , were thinking and speaking as the 1 never thought and spoke before, ar said that the day was coming whe , Canada would be a republic. F predicted that within ten years En.
 land will be a republic. He sa
 that the British Labor party will I in power, and this party favors ti z freedom of Ireland.