The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-21
REV. C.T. AKED
 PLAYS ENGLISH
 RULE IN IRELAND
Says Misrule Has Caused Ireland Seven Hundred
 Years of Agony"

Irelands claims for national lnde- pendence was placed in the light or an international problem by Dr. Chas. F. Aked, the English clergyman, TOT merly pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church (generally referred to as the Rockefeller Church,, New York City, in a recent sermon at the First Congregational church, Kansas City. Mo. Dr. Aked made a severe ar raignment of British misrule which had condemned Ireland to suffer seven hundred years of agony ana exe9riated those who have stirred up religious prejudice In referring to the war pledges made by the Aines to small nations, he said that he con sidered it his Christian duty to appear for justice to Ireland
 Eaesan&'s attempted conquest or that country, which. Dr. Aked, said began in the XIIth century and today leaves Ireland still unconquercc has been marked by centuries Of fe.ce and fraud, Of plunder and oppression, of endless crimes committed without prete4ase of law, which it is 1mpossl- ble not to recognize in any study or the Irish question today. lrlshmen and Englishmen are not only or olI- . ferent races, he pointed out, but are the inheritors of irreconcilable differ ences of temperament. The Home Rule Bill at present under the con sideration of the English Parliament pr. Aked condemned as wholly inaoe- ouate to meet the situation He re- called the fact that the Irish by popu- lar vote had already indicated <the form of government which they pre- ferred. "Out of every five votes cast, four went with the party of Irish freedom" said pr. Aked- Where in America would a majority of four 10 one be considered indecdsive?" The private English citizen, he suggested, is today experiencing revulsion o1 feeling and learning to face the facts of the case
 '-The average Englishman." he said, has had enough of coercion. The great mass of the British people dislike the idea of separation, but one thing they have come to dislike thousand times more, and that t dornination-~
 Dr. Aked, who was born in Noting ham, England, has been well knowr lecturer in the United States since 1S92- He was pastor of Pembroke Chapel Liverpool from 1890 to 1907 when he came to this country, chiefly through the instrumentaIty of John ID. Rockefeller, to take charge of the Fifth Avenue BaptSt Cnurch m NeN York He was made pastor of the First Congregational Church, SaI Francisco, in 1911. and has only re gently taken up his duties in his new parish in Kansas City, In his recen sermon om the Irish question, Dr Aked chararterized British misrule a follows
 ~-The ru2e of the English in Irelart is marked by six centuries of fore and fraI1d, of plumber and oppression of famine artificially created or per petuated, of endless crimes committed within the law and without pretenc of law, of high-handed wrong whicl ceased not night or day. Lord Ches terheAd, Engish aristDcTat, LOT Iiertenana of Ireland in the 18th cen tury, is notto be cited as a wid Irish man or as an carrier Sim Feiner. Hi testimony at the time was- The Iris peope are worse treated than negr Slaves.'
 ~The British crown, the Britis government, the British parliamen struck down Irish trade whenever raised its head, para1yzed each fires attempt to create Irish industry, COT dernned the Irish people to povert and 1aziness1 When Ireland began send cattle to English markets, Pal Hament prohibited the trade. Whe