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Abandon Treaties with
Assas.ias, Urge Women

aU0uU0U UIe0ueS VIII
Assas.ias, Urge Women
tion is suffering from the cynical dis.
regard of pleges made by statesmen"
Senator Phelan promised the wo-
men that within few hours he would
deliver in the senate an oratorical
reply to. the charge by Prime Minis
ter Lloyd George that the Irish In
dependence movement is comparable
with the secession of the southern
states and Eamonn DeValera only an.
other Jefferson Davis.
4 Lloyd George Lie Mailed.
The statement by Lloyd George
is utterly false and unworthy" said
Senator Phelan.
Certain of the senators began their
replies to the women by saying that
they would appeal to the President or
the State Department for more exact
information about Ireland.
To this Mrs. Corliss replied that
the principal aim Of the women was
to make Congress reclaim its free
dom from executive dictation.
For the Freedom Of Congress-.
1T is Congress that has the right
to declare wars and to recognize for
eign governments" she said. I'VE
stand ready to assist Congress to re-
gain its own lost freedom, but that
cannot be done by appealing to the
executive branch of the government.
Congress, like Ireland, must assert
4 it's own rights or it will never recover
them
The woman pickets were met by
Senator Gore OF Oklahoma, Phelan of
California, and France OF Maryland.
At the head Of the procession was an
open motor car, in which was fig
ure representing Ireland in chains.
draped in the flag Of the Irish Re-
public. Miss Amelia Rosser, a grand
niece of General Thomas Rosser, of
Virginia, symbolized Ireland.
About fifty women marched behind
the car. They were from every sec
ton of the country and represented
various shades of political opinion,
all united on the common ground Of
freedom for Ireland.
Flacards carried by the women
marchers. bearing brief, pithy argu-
ments for American Intervention,
were the feature Of the demonstra-
tion. They bore the following words:
"Amercans! You cannot afford to
maintain treaties with English assas-
sins!"
"Lincoln said: The first duty of
real American is to aid any people
struggling to be free.'"
Congress intervened at the Peace
Conference in behalf Of the recog-
nized Irish Republic"
"Americans! Did our men die to
make it safe for England to murder
i. the lrish?"
1.-THE official American policy to-
ward the recognized Irish Republic is
FrO-6n9lISn 1nIervSntJons
1.-THE Senate defeated Article X"
1.-THE executive policy preserved
territorial integrity of the British
Empire with every force except ac-
tuaI military participation.
Congress constitutionalIy recog-
nized the Irish Republic on March
q, 1919, and June s, 1912"
"Armenians Massacred-
! "Intervention.
"Irishmen Massacred-.
"SiIence."
"Massacres plus oil and copper in
Armenia are crime calling for Amer
ican intervention!"
"What about massacres in the rec
ognized Irish RepubIic7"
Among those in the line of paraders
were Mrs. Walsh, Mrs. Charles Ed.
ward Russell, Washington; Miss Ann
Organ, daughter Of the late New
York Supreme Court Justice Of syra-
cuse; Dr. Gertrude Kelly, New York;
Miss Ann Riley Hale, Tennessee;
Miss Mary Glare O'Brien, Baltimore;
Miss Ruth Russell, Chicago; Mrs. T.
Corliss, Miss Mollie Carroll, Miss
Leonora Sheehan, New York; Mrs.
Laurence Todd, Washington; Mrs.
ellison Gardner, Washington; Miss
Margaret Ryan, Boston; Mrs. Paul
Hanna, Washington; Mrs. Lynn
i; Haines, Washington; Mrs. John
Brown, Boston; Mrs. r.. Boeckel,
Washington; Mrs. Peter Golden. New
York; Miss Mary Bebrow, Miss Ann
Marten, Nevada; Miss Mary Done
gan, Mrs. Malcolm Duncan, Mrs.
Hughes, Mrs. Hickey, Miss Anna Muir