The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-07

little woman of 22 into New York to put John Bull in his proper place.
 With a woman like that, after all she has gone through, fighting our battles. Ireland is going to be recog- nized. Don't talk about anything else, because I assure you as an American woman that until the prln- c1ple laid down in the Declaration of Independence under which we Ameri- cans must be guided is recognized by the countries of the world towards Ireland there will be no peace. The women are in this game now and own. Married men particularly must recognize that. We are not so easily handled and it's rather hard to guide us, but if you put Just cause be- fore us, we won't need 10 pc handled, we will handle ourselves.
 Every woman, whether of Irish blood or not. if she has the ordinary principles of Christianity implanted in her heart by her Creator, must un- derstand the principles at stake in this fight. The people who are op-. posed to recognition of the Irish re- public today are the people who op- pose human liberty all over the world. and right here in America itself.
 If the flag of the Irish republic stood for empire, it would have gain ed recognition long ago. John Bull doesn't want any more republics In the WOrGO, put W1ldl JlASNiiSdtAO1 Sdh any American have for saying that he believes in the extension of the pr1n- cip1e of empire rather than the ex- tension of the principle Of our be- | loved Stars and Stripes. The reason the flag of the Irish republic IS having g such difficulty in gaining recognition | in Europe today is that it stands for American ideals, American principles and American characteristics.
 | '"The immortal Lincoln gave us the l ultimate meaning of sim rem when | he said, A government ot the people, by the people, for the PeoPle. @ a oe e4he the 1 by Lincoln and place the nag or the Irish republic beside the Stars ana Stripes among the free nations of the world" | A parallel between the cause oi | American liberty and the fecognltlon | of the Irish republic was drawn by
 Jeremiah O'Leary in a speech replete with historical allusions Re1erTlns | to the campaign of reprlsals In Ire
 land, MT OLeary said that 1t was the
 threat of reprisals by Amerlca | against British prisoners that secur
 ed the release from an English pr1so1 | of Ethan Allen, the hero Of Ilcon deroga. Continuing, he sald: We
 are told the Irish mustn't take re | nrisals against the British, but mus | hare their breasts to the bullets. Tha
 wasn't the good old Yankee way, ane
 it isn't the Sim Fein way. Let us read our own AneTicdn hi9 tory" said MT. O'Leary, and see nov these Irish business men Of the clt
 If Cork whose places of buslness ar
 now being destroyed by the Black ant Fans at the risk of their lives stol
 out in the night in small boats loaoe'
 with food and clothing for the Yanke rebels languishing on the Enghsi prison ship in the harbor.
 | ''The country that produced Mae Anthony Wayne, General John J. Sul liyan Fitzeera1d of Valley Forge, Dll lon of Ya l<town, Commodore Jacf
 Barry the father of the American navy. O'Brien of Machias, Maine, Wht won the first American naval victory asks America to be true to the splriIs of these men, who combined the fln' Irish rebel spirit with the fine Yanke' rebel spirit to make possible the VIC tory of 1776.
 ''The American people sent Benja
 min Franklin to Ireland. Ireland un
 der the same circumstances now send IDe Valera to America on the sam
 mission. Franklin said to Irelant
 then: T have in my commission t
 repeat to you, my good friends, tn
 cordial concern that Congress take in everything that relates to the hap piness of Ireland.' Further on, Frank lin said: If the government Whon ) you at this time acknowledge doe
 not in conformity with it's own tru interests take off and remove ever restraint upon your trade, commerc and manufacture, I am charged to as t sure you that means will be found t } establish your freedom in the ful1es