Evening star., 1920-07-13
ORANGE DAY FETE
IN BELFAST LACKS
: SIGN OF DISORDER
Parade Gives Prominence to
United States and Cana.
dian Delegates.
ny WILLIAM Fl. BRAYDEN.
By Gable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1920.

Daily News. Copyright. le20'
BELFAST. Ireland, July 1a.-Bel-
fast carried through an Orange day
demonstration without any sign of dis
order. Fifty thousand men. with bands
and banners. marched out to hear
speeches by Sir Edward Carson and
other leaders, and then marched back
again in the same impressive process
sion. On the 18th of July the process
sion is the important thing. This year
1t was as big as ever and as enthusiast
| tic. But It had lost It's nerceness. for
| the Orangemen were satisfied that they
had won and need not fear rule by d
Dublin parliament.
The important feature Of the assem-
bly, was the prominence given to the
delegates from Canada and the United
States. and the frequency OF references
In the speeches to the confidence felt
| in transatlantic opinion. Rev. George
Lemon, supreme grand master of the
| Orangemen of the United States, en-
| couraged this confidence in an effective
speech in which he said: 1T is one
thing to hear the voice of Irish in the
| United States and a different thing to
! hear the voice of the American gov
ernment. which could never speak with
an Irish brogue. The language of the
American government is according to
| the same ideals as that of the British
| empire, and Orangemen may look to
America not for dictation, but for
| brotherhood"
Retains Sim Fein Power.
| Sir Edward Carson's speech was a
threat to reorganize the Ulster Vol
unteers to put down the Sim Fein in
| Ulster if the government did not do
so, and was an amazing admission of
the power the Sim Fein has gained.
The most significant part of his
! speech however, was a warning
against all attempts to divide Orange
men on the labor issues.
| Ninety per cent of the people in
the procession in the three hours it
took in passing were laboring men.
| A new feature in this years process
sion was furnished by the great num-
Der of banners which commemorated
| the feats of the Ulster division in the
war in Flanders. Another noteworthy
| feature was the great number of tenn
perance Orange lodges. Orangemen,
| like the Sim Feiners, are growing
| dry.
Majority Of One Vote.
1t was only by twenty-nine votes
against twenty-eight that the Belfast
city authorities decided to permit the
saloons of the city to remain open
The day was universal holiday.
all shipyards, factories. stores, and
even restaurants and tobacco shops
being closed. The closing applied
irrespective of politics or religion,
and the Catholics filled in their day
by a great athletic gathering at Gel
tic Park. Each side kept within it's
own boundaries and conflict was
avoided. The Orange flag, with the
union jack. fioated over most of the
city. In Catholic quarters few re-
publican flags were displayed but
there was no trailing of coats" and
no challenges. Eight thousand SOL
diers were available in the event of
trouble and the approaches to the
city had been barricaded with barbed
wire, like the approaches to Dublin.
This precaution was generally re-
garded as unnecessary and excessive
and was attributed to the govern
ment's contrition for it's failure to
intervene in time in Derry.
BELFAST, July 12.-Lieut. John
Stokes, who was discharged three
weeks ago from the British army
and appointed to organize the de-
fense of police headquarters in Ire
land. was killed during an attack
on the Newport barracks. in County
Tipperary, today.