Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-02-04
FOR IRELAND'S AID
BIG MEETING MONDAY NIGHT
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Mass Meeting Called to Promote the
Cause of Irish Freedom Well
Attended by Citizens

auspices of the committee appointed
by the Newark Trades and Labor As
sembly and the Association of the
Friends of Irish Freedom was well
attended by representative and
enthusiastic audience, who heartily
applauded the sentiments of the
speakers.
The meeting, which opened by the
singing of America" by the Elks
Glee Club, was called to order by VIM.
H. Smith, who delivered an address
of welcome and introduced Mayor H.
A. Atherton, chairman of the evening.
In addition to the speakers, the fol-
lowing members of the committee
were seated upon the stage: John j.
Carroll, j. R. Fitzgibbon, Frank S.
Neighbor, William Burke, Harry
Swisher, William E. Miller, John
Bush, Rev. Father O'Boylan, John
Cox and John H. Sharritt.
The first speaker of the evening
was B. F. Mcdonald, who briefly re-
viewed American history from the
Revolutionary days to the present
time, and told how gallantly the Irish
people had come to our aid during all
that time.
At the conclusion of his address it
was announced that Rev. Maurice
Murphy, a Methodist minister, was
assisting Miss MacSweeney, sister of
the late Lord Mayor of Cork, on a
tour through the south and would not
be present. The following telegram
from Congressman-elect VIM. M.
Morgan, who was in Washington, D.
c., was also read
unable to attend mass meeting.
AS you desire expression from me
subject to Irish Freedom, | offer fol-
lowing:
"The desire to secure political and
religious freedom is inseparable from
the nature of all oppressed. 1t has
| its root in the strongest passions of
man. 1t is through it we secured and
enjoy the inalienable rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The blessings we enjoy under a free
government should inspire US to pro-
mote the principles of freedom and
justice for oppressed of all countries
Am therefore convinced we should
lend our moral support to Ireland in
her effort to secure freedom as far as
international treaties will permit"
The principal speaker of the even
ing, Capt. Monteith, of the army OF
the Irish Republic was then intro
duced, and for upwards of an houl
held the closest attention of the
audience with a statement of the
deplorable conditions existing in un.
happy Ireland, and related many in.
stances of the tyranny of the English
government and the barbarous anC
inhuman acts of cruelty committed
by her authorized agents, the motor.
ious "Black and Tans."
At the close of Capt. Monteith's
address cards were distributed which
pledged the signer to use his endeav.
ors to promote the cause of ireland
and to assist in the movement tt
secure the recognition of the Irish
Republic by the United States. Prac
tically everyone present signed the
pledge, and also contributed a dollar
as membership fee.
Attorney Ray Martin next made {
short but eloquent and forceful argu
ment in favor of the cause.
The following resolutions were the1
presented by James R. Fitzgibbor
and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, unimpeachable evidence
proves that Eengland is now engaged
in war of determination of the Irisl
people and employing criminals t.
inf1ict torture on children, men anC
women, to destroy crops, homes, vii
lagos, cities, schools, churches, fac
tories and melting anarchy through
out Ireland.
Therefore, be it resolved that we