The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-30

Bridgeport added spectacular touch to the greeting extended Miss MacSwiney. sister Of the ls-te Lord Mayor of Cork at New Haven, Tues day, when delegation of more than 100 from MacSwiney Council, A. A. R J. R., of this city, marched into the crowded auditorium. Enthused by the inspiring strains of the Irish war pipers who led the column, the entire audience of nearly 5000, rose to their feet and cheered the Bridgeport delegation marched down the aisle 70 seats reserved for them. More than 100 members made the trip, equally divided between the sexes, and the women showed their devotion to the cause by marching with the men on the long route from the New Ha- ven station to the hall.
 Postmaster Philip Troup, in intro ductng Miss MacSwiney, said:
 We have with us one who can speak from experience and authority in regard to the situation in Ireland. We are interested not only because we sympathize with liberty wherever it is struggling for recognition, but because we owe a debt of gratitude to the people of Ireland. There are murders and reprisals, shootings and burnings and killings in Ireland, and they will cease tomorrow if England will withdraw and give the people the Government they want. The trouble in Ireland is the same as it was here in 1776,-the insistence upon govern ing people without the consent of the governed. The Irish want to rule themselves and are entitled to do so by every dictate of justice.
 "We are glad to greet this good lady tonight, a. teacher by profession, an example of all that is ennobling and inspiring in Irish womanhood, the sister of a man who has taken his place in the roster of great Irish pa triots and martyrs. His was blood sacrifice on the altar of liberty, but holy sacrifice because he emulated the great words of Patrick Henry: Give me liberty or give me death |"
 Miss MacSwiney was accorded tremendous greeting when she arose, clad in deep mourning, her lips little tremulous but her slight figure erect. She spoke for half an hour and her telling points were interrupt ed by cheers There was no at tempt to ingratiate in her remarks and no effort to choose phrases that would fall softly the ears of her auditors. Determination to speak plainly and a sort of wistful faith in America were the outstanding fea- lures of her discourse. After thank ing the audience for the greeting and giving a history of the Irish move ment from the days of Parnell, she said in part:
 'I remember well the morning my brother and I discussed together the ideals of America as interpreted by your President. We look those IA points one by one and analysed them as to how they would affect Ireland. We rejoiced that at last, though you were Eng1and's ally, she had an ally she would have to pay attention to, .an ally that had nothing to fear from her, and who would never bow the knee to her.
 You applaud, my friends, but who was right, we or England? Have you carried out your ideals? Have you won the objectives for which you en- tered the war? Have you made the world safe for democracy? Have you secured that no nation should live under rule alien to her?
 Those gallant lads who went across to France, 50,000 of whom you have left there, went in the belief they were fighting for freedom and you believed it when you sent them, but I want you to think seriously of What your failure to carry out your Fdeals has meant to one small nation.
 There is a heavier responsibility on your shoulders. England was a bankrupt nation when you lent your money to her. You have lent her five thousand million dollars, and she is using part of it to pay her soldiers and her Black and Fans to devastate my country, to ruin my people and to Starve our women and children into subjugation. How can you treat as a casual matter EnSland's bad behavior in Ireland if if m nf