The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-24
THE PEOPLES SAY
Editor Bridgeport Times:

Editor Bridgeport Times:
 The Sunday Post editor refused to print the enclosed letter which is an answer to editorial of Sunday 18th. Hope you can give it a little of your valuable space:
 Bridgeport, Conn.,, S-19-192O.
 In last Sundays Post (15th inst) you certainly made a quick and thor ough settlement of the Irish question. it vas short, sharp and decisive; and the decision which is nothing more or less than attestat ton of the pol icy of Imperial Britain that might is always right, could not be more ably rendered by Lloyd George or even the House of Lords.
 fail to understand what you mean when you mention the extrem- ists. Were not the Belgians extrem- ists when they tried to save their country from the devastating hosts of the Kaiser? Were not the French the Poles, the Slavs and many other European nations doing the extreme act when they repelled and finally vanquished the invaders? May I ask then what force befogs your brain or films your vision when you can't see a parallel in the Irish Republic vs. England?
 Were not the Patriots of 1776 ex- tremists and Benjamin Franklin who went to Ireland for men and money, 1 must of dire necessity be a super ex- tremist. We find on record that he received the aid that was so sorely |. needed, even though the Irish people knew they would suffer for their loy- | alty to the colonies, and true to her | reputation England did wish one of her infamous coercion acts on them i which meant untold suffering 1 throughout the Island for several | years afterwards.
 And what do we find today? The | United States, the greatest nation ir 1 the world, lending millions of dollars | to that same common enemy to equiI l and maintain an army of invasion numbering about 100000 men to de
 vastate, burn, pillage and slaughter the i defenceless people of Ireland, whose crime is simply that of Belgium or l France, to dare call their country l their own.
 l You say an Irish Republic is 9 | dream, but that some dreamers have ! held the vision. Is it possible tha you as an American hold them views l when you know that by an over
 whelming majority the electorate o. 1 Ireland voted for Republic, ever l capturing many of the Unlonls 1 strongholds, and notwithstanding youl dpaClOuS 1ndS1aLlOn to the contrary l I fail to find one Irish leader outside l the Republican ranks, because there | is no other political organization tt lead, with the exception of Edward Carson, who holds slight Unionis | majority in four out of the 32 coun ties. George Bernard Shaw is a yer! | loyal Britisher consequently not al l Irish leader. Another of your out
 landish vaporings is that no bargain
 CT ever begins by asking what he ex poets to get. The Irish people ar' not bargaining with England in an, sense of the word as there is nothin; to be bought sold or bartered. The,
 simply voiced their ultima tun through the only legal and logica
 channel, the ballot box, and in no un
 certain terms told the invader to ge out, as they had no desire to allow foreign ruler, be he king, czar or en , peror, to continue the farce of mls governing their land in future. \ That is the firm and united stan' l that is being made more manifest a
 time goes on among the millions O
 Irishmen the world over, who will no
 yield one iota, nothing less than tn | recognition of the Republic that va : founded over the blood of thei , murdered kindred in the streets O Dublin on that memorable Haste
 week in the year 1916.
 |. J. J. SULLIVAN,
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