The Irish standard., 1920-01-03
THE REPUBLIC is THE ONLY TRUE
T., GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND. &

The elected government OF the Republic of Ire
land is functioning. 1t is a government, not of
name but of fact Its will is recognized in Ireland
as the will of the majority of the people of Ireland
Its Parliament is representative one, meeting in
regular session and performing all the ordinary
duties of an elective assembly. Its authority is
recognized. Its courts are sitting throughout Ire
land, despite the presence of a vast English Army
- of Occupation 1t is the only real government in
Ireland. The so-called English government is vir-
tually suspended. 1t is not recognized by the peo
function Its appointed officials their authority
denied by the citizenry carry their DEGREES only
by physical force exerted through the military
armed with rifle, bayonet and grenade, and sup
ported by armored cars and bombing planes. Such
is not government, but sheer anarchy.
The foregoing are among the facts brought out
by the American Friends of the Irish Republic at
the hearing December IL and l3 before the For
elgn Affairs Committee of the. House of Represen-
t4tiyes in Washington. The Committee has before
funds for the support of Minister and Consuls to
the Republic of Ireland. The hearing on this bill
will go down in history of the greatest and
mostrmomentous given in National Capital.
Five hundred delegates, representing millions of
American citizens, gathered in Washington from
nearly every State in the Union. The East was
represented, and the West the States of the Lakes
and the States of the Gulf Coast.
Not only were the Friends of Irish Freedom as
body, represented by such leaders as Justice Dan
- iel F. Cohalan of the New York Supreme Court,
Hon. Frank P Walsh, former joint chairman of
the National War Labor Board, Hon. Bourke Coch-
ran, James M. Mcguire, and Major Eugene F. Kin
kead, but of affiliated organizations were
represented there-the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, by its National President, Hon. James E.
Deery, of indianapolis; the Auxiliary by Mrs. Mary
ers of prominence. The Protestant Friends of Ire
land, organization with headquarters in New
York City, voiced its opinions through Rev. James
Grattan Mythen, Of Christ Episcopal Church, Nor
W., Tot l1ol1o I'D of T spdca
Crawford, editor of The Statesman and founder in
Ulster of the Independent Orangenen; and Judge
Eugene Bonniwel Of Pittsburgh.
The Mason Bill should be reported upon favor
ably by the Senate. 1t is an expression of Amer
icas sympathy for the oppressed peoples of the
world and an evidence of her determination carry
-out the pledges with which we entered the war.
!: . Sims Contradicted by Irish Council.
Unless the British military authorities in Ireland
have removed the communication from the mails,
ecretary of the Navy Daniels has by this time re-
eived copy Of resolutions adopted by the Midle
ON Urban Council of Ireland denying emphatically
che charges made by Admiral Sims in his magazine
writings The resolution reads:
"Resolved, That we, the members of the Middleton
Urban Council, beg to contradict in the most en-
phatic manner the unfounded allegations made by
Admiral Sims of the U. S. Navy, as appearing in
the Irish daily press of the 2oth ut as taken from
the November issue of "The Worlds Work" of
New York, regarding the relations between the
Irish people and the American naval forces. The
relations between the people of Middleton and the
U. S.. Navy forces were at all times of the most
friendly nature. The Irish people were never pro
- German'-they simply and solely 'pro-lrsh'.
The other allegations regard as too ridiculous
for refutation and we feel sorry to think that man
of Admiral Sims standing should allow himself to
be used for British propaganda purposes"
This is particularly significant because Middleton
is the nearest town the Aghada Air Station estab
1ished in Ireland, near Queenstown, by our Navy
Armen, to which Admiral Sims made particular
reference. Speakers at the meeting declared that
only the most cordial relations existed between the
American Naval men and the people in East Cork;
that evening after evening in the time in which the
Americans were stationed in ireland, our boys
visited the town and fraternized fully and freely
with the residents, who threw their homes open to
them. 1t might also be noted that it was at this
*Aghada Air Station that an affair took place to
which Admiral Sims made no reference. In the
dead of night, Sergeant and Constable Of the Eng
fish police force while attempting to break into the
storeroom at the station, were discovered by United
States officers. They were placed under arrest,
tried convicted and sentenced to imprisonment 1t
was not the friendly Sim Feners but the cockey,
hostileG and arrogant British military police authors
ties that our American sailors had to fear in Ireland
snE England Controls Con 1relands Shipping. 5a
Ri tocontenty with obtaining grip upon all the
Inland transport faciltiesaof Ireland through the
passage ofsa ParliamentaTy Act creating the Min
Istrysef Ways and 1aunieations, English inter
Fests have IN The last year Or two been busy obtain
of Native