Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-21
APPEAL TO AMERICAN LABOR
To Join in Demanding Immediate Recognition of
the Republic of Ireland, the Condemnation of
British Atrocities and Refusal to Handle or
Buy English Made Goods.

{ Our politicians Of whatever party,
subsidized as they are by Big Bust
ness, are not free to represent or to
save from being thwarted the liberty
| loving mass Of American citizens
Big Business uses its power to defeat
the ideals and purposes of the Ameri-
can people. Added to the power of
the eXploiters in this country is the
power and influence of the imperial
! istic British capitalists with whom
ur money masters are allied. This
unholy alliance controls not only our
government, by controlling our poll
( tics, but has subsidized the press as
well, and its ability to counteract or
paralyze any just movement is
enormous.
Ireland, which, in the American
struggle for independence, helped to
the extent of supplying one-half Of
Washington's army (without which
he could not have won the Revolu-
tionary War;, Ireland which has
fought for us in all our wars and
contributed some 20,000,000 loyal
citizens to our poulation, has, by
strictly constitutional vote of her
| citizens, in accordance with the
promises for which the war was
fought, cast off English rule and has
established a republic which is now
functioning successfully
Instead of welcoming the newly
free people, our president denies to
Ireland the right of self determine
ton; refuses to recognize the new
republic; refuses to recognize the
only constitutional government now
existing in Ireland and receives Eng
lands nominee as representative of
Ireland, knowing him to be, in that
character, an imposter; lends Ame"
can money-our money-free of in
terest, to enable the imperial British
government to pay it's army OF re-
| leased cOnvicts, to provide them with
all the equipment for the work of
devastation and determination; for
the assassination of 203 men, women
and children in 1920; for the viola
tion of girls, desecration of graves:
the burning of corn and hay, to pro-
duce famine of man and beast: ter
rorizing old people and infants, flee
| ing from their ruined homes for ref
uge to hills and bogs; arresting, dis
alming, Handwriting and tying to-
gether, back to back, officers and men
Of the Irish Republican Army and
on the pretense that they we.e at
tempting to escape; f1ogging indiviG-
uals to death; placing handcuffed
prisoners around the sides of m. litary
motor lorries as screens for English
soldiers in the middle; all carried out
by English soldiers, drunk with looted
whiskey and paid and supplied with
engines of destruction by American
money.
When did it become America to
help gratuitously the tyrant against
the oppressed and look upon the vic
tim nation with callous Indifference?
We assert that Americas interest
and honor are perilously unsafe in
the joint custody of tools of the
British government and the pro-
British, who have dragged US down
from our reputed high estate of re-
buker of tyrants and champion Of
their victims, and are now dragging
us further on the slippery nath as
participants in the British govern
ment's guilt and as the wanton enemy
of an ancient and friendly people
the Irish people.
The British government has no
more right to call its atrocities in
Ireland domestic than Germany had
to call her atrocities in part of bel
gium domestic. They are committed
against a nation distinct geograph
ically, racially, intellectually and
are of such character thai they put
the guilty power outside the pale Of
civilization.
1t falls to Americans in self re-
spect, for self defense and in the in
terest of common humanity, to lead
where an outraged world will gladly
follow; by reverting to our adherence
to the principle of self determination
for all peoples and to deprive hat
assassin state of the riches we have
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