The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-30
Britain Uses Our War Loan 10 Coerce Erin,
 Says Mrs. MacSluiney

yours. when, it is being done with your money? Without your money
 England wouldn't be able to pay her
 troops, and they are not of the type
 land.
 "You pledged yourselves to fight
 for small nations everywhere. Is
 Ireland not nation? Is it not the
 in 1776 and 1872? When you sent
 Benjamin Franklin to Ireland in 1769,
 he reported back that Ireland was
 favorably disposed. When war broke out in 1775, England wanted to raise regiments in Ireland to fight Ameri-
 ca, and because the Irish shores had to be guarded she was bringing thous-
 ands of Hessians from Germany to
 guard Ireland. Ireland said: We will guard our own land and won't fight America and the Hessians were
 brought over to fight you.
 "If you love your own mighty re- public with it's ideals of freedom, you cannot remain indifferent to what is money.
 'I don't suggest you go to war with
 England on Ireland's behalf. You 1 will not go to war on any but an American issue. We don't ask for
 war, but you can help us by insisting that your government call in the five | thousand million dollars which Eng land owes America and which Eng | lad is spending for the destruction of | liberty.
 There is vast deal of unemploy-
 ment in America today, and young
 soldiers who fought in the world war | haven't been able to get all that they should have secured, but England's s soldiers getting it with your
 money. Englands soldiers are get ting the money you subscribed to Lib
 erty bonds. You were fighting for
 liberty and England's soldiers are
 getting that liberty money and de-
 stroying the liberty of sister na- ton.
 England has made up her mind to exterminate the young men of Ire land and starve the rest of the na ton. She is going about it sys-
 tematically She is destroying all the
 resources of the country, burning the 1 business houses, t. factories, the
 creameries, throwing hundreds of
 thousands out of employment. She | is burning up the farm produce stor- ed for the winter. She is running
 all our ports and every method of | transport.
 When she ruined our railways ant | closed down the trains, we formed | councils to raton the cities by motol i cars! She issued a decree forbid 1 ding anyone but the English govern | ment to have a motor car that would | carry more than ato II. A ton o1 | food won't go far in a big city. She | further hampered our plans to feed
 the people by forbidding any motor
 car to travel more than 20 miles, ol | outside the hours of 8 a. m. to D. l m.
 | 'I am not going to harrow you with | descriptions of atrocities. could | keep you here until morning with | facts that would make your blood TUT | cold. I'm not going to do it. be-
 cause We do not claim our freedom | on the ground that England is treat. | ing us badly, but on the ground thai | England is interfering with us, and | if England had made us the richest
 nation in the world, we should stil | demand our freedom. Ours is a jus l cause. Our country is ours | Join the American Association for | the Recognition of the Irish Republic | first because it is an American as i sociation, and second because it de | ciares openly what 1t is aiming at After the ovation which followed l Miss MacSwiney's address had sub. | sided, Postmaster Troup said: What England is doing today in