The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-03-28
SENATE STIRRED
BY CORES TALK
Galleries Applaud Ad.
dress Of Oklahoman
on Irish Rule.
SCALES ARE TURNED
Eloquence of Blind Senator
Tips Beam IN Favor of
Reservation TO Treaty.

the mnucrfm spcoch of senator
Gorc OF Oklahoma. which aurred the
senate ana tipped Lno scales iu favor
OF the Gttry reservation .o tho peace
treaty MIr.h Is lG printed below.
FoII1wiug ltg delivery. tho blind H'n-
ntor wa surrounded boy colleagues,
democratic and republican. who CON
graduated him upon his ORATOR.
Tho speech came $50 tho midst OF
a battle led uy Senator Lodgo and
his supporters, who used every par
iancutary strategy tu prevent adop-
ton of the reservation which pat
tho United states on record a8 adj
herring To tine principle OF s'it.d'-
termination and expressing syupa
NY with tho aspirations Tor ltish
self government
Text of cores Speech.
MIR GORE. Nh rrreidcut, have
listened to this diHousalou Win great
interest ! remember brilliant
critic once remarked that Paradise
Lost" was poem which everybody
admiros and nobody roads ! have
sometimes thought that the Right OF
self-dctormination iH "a principle
which everybody praises and nobody
practices. Pretty much everybody
is n favor Of the principle of self %
determination with reservations
VOL night everybody believes thai
IN the abstract the principle Of a'll-
determination ought TO be sacred,
that the principle Of Hvlf -dctutmlna
ton ought 10 be- universal except
when applied to ireland, and 10
Egypt. aud to South Africa, ana to
India. and 10 Korea, ana TO shan.
ung: and except when applied 49,
prcntiHs would say. to those "brlght.
warm isles which gem the oriental
seas and are kissed 10y the fiery sun
OF the tropics" which, Tor rcasonH
too delicate to mention, 1 shall not
mention.
Mr. President. Is there such a
thing az the principle OF acif-de-
lcrmlnationy II so. whom should
this principle apply2 N 80, whore
should the principle apply should
that principle apply TO tho relation
ship between ireland and England.
under which there have boon Aoscn
centuries of English tyranny and
seven centuries OF Irish agony Mr.
President. IN the last general election
In ireland there were more than
l.2O0,OOO votes cast In favor OF irish
Independence. IL love OF liberty be
qualification for liberty, the Irish
are not disqualified. In the last gem
eral election I'm Ireland "a OF the ~
counties in ireland returned to the
British parliament unanimous
delegation In favor OF Irish indc-
pcndeucc. Twcuty-scvcu counties
out OF 90 In Ireland either returned
"a unanimous delegation or returned
"A majority OF republicans to pariia-
mcnt.
No solid Uuionlst County.
Not ono county In Ireland rp'
turned n solid unionist delegation 10
the parliament or tho lul mems
bers OF parliament chosen In ireland
IN that election, ~ arc avowcd
champions of Irish Independence
and, Mr. President, the more IL the
pity, of those AZ irish republicans
returned to parliament 6S are
eithor In iuil this day or they have
done service sin durance vilo' dur
ing the recent agitations In ireland.
Only 90 were out OF prison nt TIA.
limo they were chosen to parlll-
mont. Under the dominion OF free
and glorious England, GS Irish mems
bers of the British parliament have
been inoarcorated as political pris.
onors.
The first woman chosen to parl!n.
mont was not Lady Astor OF Ameri-
can birth, she was n woman of Irish
birth. aud she was elected TO par,la
mcnt while she was confined IN
prison English liberty versus Irish
ChiValry
when and whore should the prln-