The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
.SINN FEN MEETING M|SREPRESENTAT|VE
 OF SENTIMENT HERE.
Not a Single Constructive Thought Advanced By Chief Speaker Sun
 day Afternoon

scorned.' So writes the poet, but he would have changed his mind had he been at the Lyric on Sunday afternoon, when the Protestant Friends of Irish Freedom" consisting of the jovial eX- governor, Emmet ONeal, and a gentle man named Mythen, an apostle of Sim I'ein. who loudly protested that he was a Protestant minister met to lambaste England with wealth of frantic rhetoric that reached the sublime heights of Sim Feinism.
 This was the greatest hosting of the Gael since St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland and the distillers put them back again. That MT. Mythen is a Protestant there is not the slightest doubt. He protested against the bigotry and intolerance of the Protest ants of the southern states. He pro- tested against the delegation of Prot estant ministers, who are over here from Ireland to combat the insidious propaganda being spread over the land by the Sim Fein organization. He protested with all the passion of his rabid oratory against the desecration of Protestant churches by those "liars' who, he says. have come here to this country to tell lies about Ireland, at the instigation, of course, of the king of England.
 According to this very protesting gentleman, the arch lie is that there is any religious question at all in Ireland. l think the gentleman a little prema 5 ture. I'll agree that if Ireland were made governing nation there would be no religious question from then on, for the very simple reason that there would be none of the oppo- sition left. An Associated Press dis patch in Monday mornings newspapers gvies an account of a speech by wo- man in Antrim, Ireland. in which she says, "The enemy is at our gates and must be fought, and when the time comes let us be ready as one man to strike for the Protestant faith, liberty, king and country" Oh, no, there is no religious question in Ireland. This wo- man, of course, is a liar, too. This gen tleman is quite anxious that the United States should go to war with England in order that Ireland be given over to Sim Fein, body and soul, and Ex-Gov- ernor O'Neal boldly threatened that the solid "organized Irish vote" millions strong, would go only to the political party that would do as the Sim Feln dictated. It is dreadful to contemplate what will happen to the Irish vote when both the democrats and repub- slicans refuse to take the responsibility of bringing on civil war in Ireland.
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 Besides, MT. O'Neal is mistaken if he thinks for one moment that the Irish vote is solid. Thousands of Irishmen in this country, both Protestants and Catholics. are absolutely opposed to a Sim Fein republic and deeply resent these professional Irishmen speaking in their name.
 It seems deplorable thing at this critical period in the history of the country that these men, who are far more Sim Fein than American, should 1 inject this miserable propaganda into our midst to further distract an unset tied and restless people, but just as their branch organization in Ireland took advantage of the war they refused to fight in to stab the allies in the back by organizing a rebellion. so these men have taken advantage of the un- settled reconstruction period here to attempt to force the legislative bodies of the United States to start bloody war in Ireland by recognizing a gov ernment which an important part of the Irish people will rather die than submit to.
 If the British government is the fiendish thing Father Mythen would have us believe, why is it that Ireland is not unanimous in asking for inde- pendence? Can England Scotland and Wales forsake this important minority drive them out of a government that they respect and force them into a government they fear?
 This peripatetic Sim F'ein propa- gandist. MT. Mythen. after the manner of his kind would have us believe that the British government is borrowing money from the United States to loan to the "squint-eyed, flat-faced yellow man." as he so poetically calls the Japanese, to build guns with. It must be true. a man in New York told him so, he says This use of falsehood as a means of creating. blind prejudice against other nations is typically Ger man and Sim Fein, and much to be de- plored.
 England is busy at present, melting up her thousands of guns for indus trial purposes. One would have thought she would have sent the guns instead of money. being much more in need of the latter than the former. But you know these Sim Feiners are as full of logic as heavens full of Huns.
 NOISY BARRAGE During the whole'of Father Mythen's oration he did not utter one single con- structive thought vituperation, vio- lent abuse, islander. malice and hate constituted his verbal artillery. He laid down a noisy barrage with the precision of a blind fanatic. but his shells were duds to all but the igno- rant and prejudiced.
 That Emmet O'Neal should have said during his speech. and the ex-governor is a real orator, that England had acted fairly to everybody but Ireland must have caused consternation in the Sim Fein camp. To say one decent thing about England is nothing more nor less than a blazing indiscretion. likely to call down on his devoted head the wrath of De Valera, the gentleman of Spanish extraction born in New York. who believes his destiny is to free Ireland from oppression that doesn't exist. and to gather in the good the Irish republic, that can never be redeemed.
 The really serious thing that oc- cured at this meeting was the reso- luticn adopted and so worded. copies of which were forwarded to the mem bers of the United States Congress, as to n\ke it appear that the Protestants of Birmingham are indignant because the Protestant religion is being em- ployed for the preparation of an un, Christian campaign of religious malice and hate.
 This resolution does not in the slightest degree represent the ideas of the Protestants of Birmingham. and is nothing more than an impudent fraud.
 Taken altogether. Sundays show at the Lyric was the most unique put on in long time. Yours very truly. ]. NJ. CRAIG. 1110 Fountain avenue. Birmingham.
 
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