The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-16
SPEAKER MAKES PLEAzz
FOR IRISH NATION
LOCAL ORGANIZATION LOOKING
TO RECOGNITION OF
IRISH REPUBLIC

American Association for the Recog-
milton of the Irish Republic at a well
attended public meeting in Eggan's Is
hall last night.
Past Commander Robert Barton of
the G. A. R. presided and addresses
were delivered by Mayor Frank
Dempsey of the city of Mallow, coun-
ty Cork, and Michael Harkin, former
Dublin newspaperman. The meet
ing, organized by J. J. Keane, Thom-
as Halpin, and other we'll known citi-
zens, was brought to a close with the
singing of the Star Spangled Banner.
The following officers were cleo
ted: Geo. ]. Doherty, president;
Robert H. Barton, vice president;
Prof J. ]. Gill, secretary; Thos.- H.
Dev1ne, treasurer.
'.5z-- -.s.1s subject of the payment of
England's war debt a resolution was
adopted in the following terms:
Resolved that this meeting Of the
citizens of Moscow protests against
any funding of the British war debt
as proposed in the Penrose bill Civ
ing Secretary Mellon blanket au-
thority in regard to the disposition
of the entire allied war debt of eleven
billion dollars, and
RESOLVED, further that we re-
spectfully ask Senators Borah and
Gooding and congressman French
and Smith to oppose the said bill and
insist on the immediate payment of
interest and principal of the loans
of five thousand million loaned to
England, and
"That copies Of the resolution be
sent to our said representatives to
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chairman was carried unanimously.
Chairman Barton, in introducing
Mayor Dempsey, expressed his SYM
ipathy with the movement to make
Ireland an independent republic.
Mayor Dempsey explained at the
outset he had been invited to this
country by the American Commits
sion of One Hundred, purely
American body Investigating condi-
tions in Ireland. "As mayor of NAL
low. one of the cities destroyed by
the black and tans," said the speak
er, II appeared before this commits
sion to tell of what occurred on the
night Mallow was sacked. When
curfew had driven the citizens to bed
200 fully armed British forces just
before midnight suddenly swOoped
down on the town. They arrived in
military armored cars, announcing
their presence by sweeping the
streets with machine gun and rifle
fire.
'Then smashing in the doorways
right along the principal street they
began spraying the houses with gaso-
line with specially constructed
pumps for that purpose. Inside half
an hour the torch was applied and
MalIow given to the flames.
3Ireland by 80 per cent of it's peo-
pie on no less than three occasions
since the signing of the armistice
declared for republican form OF
government. The issue before the
country was clear. 1t was an Irish
republic or the continuation of the
British connection The elections
were held under British law and
five-sixths of the people voted for
Irish independence; and the republic
then established and since function
ing is the only government recog-
nized by the Irish nation.
"The only authority England has
in Ireland today is the authority of
the bullet, the authority Germany
exercised for a time in Belgium, the
authority of might against right.
"Now it has been said that the Irish
as well might it be said that the
struggle of Catholic Belgium against
Protestant Germany few years ago
was a religious question. The peo-
pie that make these charges appar-
emily forget, and think you forget
that Ireland's struggle has been go
ing on for 750 years while Protest
antism in England has lasted less
than 400.
"Since the 18th century down to
this day in the Goth the leading
Irish revolutionary and republican
leaders have in almost every in
stance been members of the Protest
ant church. And no names today
are more venerated in Ireland or
more sacred to Irishmen than those
of Molyneaux and Swift, Wolf, Tone,
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Robert
John Mitchell, Thomas
Davis, and ParneIl, every one of
hem PrOtestants.
"And today there are no less than
i've members of the Irish republican
Catholic church. The republican
will but the active support of the
Protestant intellectua1s of the coun-
ry. A few weeks ago when the
peace negotiations were instituted
oy Lloyd George two of the Irish
delegates to London we're Catholics
Ind two were Protestants, and the
nan who signed 5.se Truce on Se.ia I
If the Irish republican army was
JDmmandant Barton, leading
Protestant landlord Of the county
Wicklow.
Mayor Dempsey in conclusion said
hat Ireland had contributed to the
allied forces 250,OOO men and had {
ost more than the U. S. A. in the
world war. that Irish soldiers Of the
world war returning to their home
and found that liberty they had been
lighting for abroad had been denied t
heir cOuntrymen and that the mill
arism they helped to put down on
he continent was now established {
a Ireland These veterans of the {
World war, he said, are today the {