The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-26
Peter MacSwiney, New York shoe
Cutter Speaks With Pride OF
Younger Brothers Sacri-
flee
PATRIOTISM Is FIRST
It Conquers Over FiliaI Love as Case
of Lord Mayor is Dis
cussed by Aheri-
can.
by Harold D. Jacobs, United Press
Staff CORRESPONDENT.

Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. ga gray
haired man sat in little room on
the east side today and tried to speak
bravely of his kid brothers" slow
suicide by starvation in an English
prison.
He was torn between patriotism
and brother love. His lips rempleu
and tears filmed his eyes. His hands
shook from the nervous STRAIN ne
had been under for days, and every
move betrayed the fact that the near
ness of his brothers death had
brought him close to mental ana
physical collapse. His friends nave
almost employed force to prevent
him from unwittingly emulating ms
brothers hunger strike through
sheer absence of a desire for food. :,
But patriotism finally triumphed
"Terry's right" he said. mo true
Irishman could have done anything
else.
Its hard to know your brother
YOUR kid brothers. dying; but It's
great to know that his sacrifice has
conferred the eyes Of the world on the
greatest CAUSE Va IiS
cause of Irish freedom.
The grey-haired man was Peter NC
Swiney, brother Of Terence Mac
Swiney, lord mayor OF CORK VINO -
near death from the effects OF nun
ger strike in Brixton prison.
Peter has been in this country Ten
wears, following his trade as shoe
cutter.
It Will Be- Murder.
'If my brother dies in prison-anC
won't believe that he will-the
British government will be guilty OF
deliberate murder" he said.
81 can't say what his friends II
! Ireland would do. But whatever they
do will be right. The newspaper
saw tho Sim Fein will try tho gov
eminent officials responsible TO
Terry's Imprisonment in republican
! courts. sentence them to death 10
murder and execute the sentences.
am not in a position to know if thu
would be done. But do know ina
! the republican courts are the onl
! legally constituted tribunals in Ire
land. and their acts, and theirs alone
constitute the law in that country
Presiding at Court.
~Why. it was when Terry was pre-
siding at such a court that the Ene
/ 1isb surrounded the building, nc
named him and threw him into PR:
on"
/ "The fight my brother is maxim
i is a fight which, under the new ci
ercion act of Lloyd-George's govern
ment. may have to be made by an
Irish man or Irish woman at an
time" he said. unless the BIRTHS
army of occupation is to have IRE
hand to imprison any Irish citizen &c
any term they please, and for nothln
hut the crime of loving Ireland, tn
individual whose rights are thus on
ragged must protest. The only pr
test available-the only one who
will draw the attention Of the worl
70 the infamy of the British condut
in Ireland-is resistance by the pc
son imprisoned. That Is the protes
my brother is making.
INV brother, or any other lrishma
seized by the British, has only or
weanon-that of the spirit. The
Amav oyerwhelm us by brute fore
but they'll never be able to crush OF
spirit or principles.
Could Control People.
Macswiney charged that the Br1
ish government wished to remove Il
lord mayor because of the latter
ability to- control the people of Coz
. and keen them from taking the init
: tive in any acts of violence whit
:. would give the soldiery an excuse
!, make reprisals. He exhibited col
> OF the speech for which his broth
was convicted of sedition and Sc
!, fenced to two years imprisonment
y contained such statments as thes
y at is not they who can inflict u
! most. but they who can suffer, WI
d lwill conquer. y
5 I'VE ask for no mrcy and we W
n make no compromise
r Peter said that Terry" who W
5 horn in Cork forty-one years ago, n
a devoted all his life to the cause
T. irish freedom. He was unanimous
. elected lord mayor following I
murder of Lord Mayor MacCurtain.
] "Terry's a good boy said Peter
d "a good boy, a good brother and
1t good husband, aAd-thank God
te GOOD IriShman."