The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-26
PUBLICLY CENSURED

Admiral Sims, the man who compared the
Irish-Americans pardon the hyphen, with
boshevikS and called them a zebra-striped
bunch Of iackasses, in a speech delivered to
an audience Of monacled Britishers, has been
publicly censured."
We do not know just how public this CEN
Suring was, or whether it consisted Of more
than the gentle admoniton Billy, be good
boy now' but we do know that Rear Ad-
miral William Sims still holds his rank in the
American navy, the navy which he belttled
and publicly stated had been overestimated
for the part it played in winning the world
war, and that so far as has been given out to
the general public, he stands in little fear of
being denoted.
Men like Rear Admiral Sims, men who
willingly, maiciously and premeditatedly
speak derogatorily of Americans and things
American, are not fitted to hold places of trust
under the flag of this nation Such men are
menaces to our patriotism, are dangerous to
society in that they set most harmful exam
pie for the coming generations and a most
reprehensible example, which may be follow
ed, greatly to this country harm, by the
imported" citizens who have been flooding
through the gates Of every port of the United
States.
publicly censured" admiral, to the Irish
sympathizers in America, we will not attempt
to dwell upon the merits or dement's of Ire
lands struggle for self-government, for home
rule but, admitting that it may be none of
our business, holding that it is matter which
may properly be settled between England
and Ireland without any sort of interference
upon the part of the American people, did
mir ms hot ha cir
minded man, wholly disinterested, or did he
indicate that the sympathies of this people
should be cast with England?
1t was fitting and proper for Admiral
Sims to be censured, bitterly and severely, in
public, but might it not have been more in
keeping with the neutrality which this gov
ernment processes to take in the Irish-English
matters, TO have told him that he had dis
graced the uniform of the navy of the great
est nation known to civilization and that he
was not fitted to wear that uniform that his
remarks characterized him as man whose
Americanism is below par. and that, there
fore he stands convicted of being unworthy
of the trust and confidence of the administra-
ton and Of the great American people?
We trust sincerely that Mr.. Harding has
had his lesson, and that he will. in future, be
more circumspect in his selection of those
whom he sends as plenipotentaries to the
Court of ST. James"
1t took seven years bitter war, seven years
spent in privation and the most intense hard
ships upon the part of Americas patriots. to
make this an independent country, country
free from the calling yoke of Great Britain,
1t took seven years of marching and fighting
and starving to place the Stars and Stripes
of an independent Republican form of gov
ernment above the Cross of ST. George, and
1t is nothing less than an insult to the men,
ories OF the men who marched with Wash
ington, in the rank and file of the continental
armies, 1t is nothing less than insult to the
memories of the heroes who fought. with
Jackson, behind the cotton bales. at New
Orleans for this government to send men
like Harvey and Sims across the waters.
vested with high honors and permitted to
hurl anathemaS against any of the people
who compose the rank and file of one of the
great elements of our population, or to speak
IN derogatory terms of the men who sailed
across the seas, American marines to charge
through the death valleys of Chateau Therry
and Belleau Wood, there to change the tide
OF battle and wrest victory from defeat as
they drove through the hitherto impregnable
lines OF conquering Huns