The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-03
risk your anger and tell the plain truth than fatter you.
 With American Money

FISK yOuT dDS0T dHd C0ll the pldlu truth than fatter you.
 With American Money.
 T am going to point out to you another big responsibility which rests on your shoulders. You have left 60.00O of your finest dead on the fields of France. You have gone into the war and come out and left your ideals shattered. But you have done something more. You have lent Eng land five thousand million dollars, {, mighty sum of money. You have lent all that money in the name of liberty, and she is using that money today to destroy liberty, to destroy the trade and business of Ireland and to de- vastate our cities, to starve ouf women and children. That conduct of England in Ireland would be inn possible if she had not your money to pay her soldiers, to pay for her armored cars and tanks and aero planes, and all the other engines of rorizing my people night and day, and it is being done with American money and in the name of liberty.
 T ask you how can you shake off responsibility for what England is doing when she is using your money to do it? In this mornings papers, after my arrival at Bridgeport. I saw saw announcement that an Eng fish nobleman had left London on his way to America. What was his
 
 sand million dollars England owes you is repayable on demand. If you sisted on getting it back in one week, she would have to give it back or go bankrupt, and this English nobleman is coming over to consult with your government to fund that loan so that England will not have to pay 1t back for 30 years. Citizens of America, 1T that loan is renewed for 30 years. you are giving England 30 more years in y,yI,i cI, fo the world Yon giving her a free hand in Ireland. While England holds that money or yours repayable on demand, she dare not refuse to listen to you Are you going to allow your government to renew that loan for 30 years, and in the tname of liberty destroy the last trace of liberty in the land to which you owe so much?
 "I put it to you that you have a heavy responsibility, and though l known perfectly well that America will not go into war with England on Irelands behalf. I tell you that you have responsibility, and I ask you to look to it, I ask you in the name claim still waves over the home of the free and the land of the brave, ask you in the name of the Declara- tion of Independence, and of your tra- ditions of liberty to see to 1t that crcG recognize the government of my land as you swore when you entered | the war you would do.
 Ireland's Valley Forge.
 | t'When you went out to fight fol small nations you made no exception If you had mental reservations keep | ing Ireland out, you did not publish them to the world, and the worlo l takes your words. as you speak them You went out to fight for all smal nations, and therefore you owe duty to Ireland to recognize the govern ment which she has set up. We have declared our republc as you de | clared yours in 1776. You didn clear out your army of occupation fol | several years. We haven't cleared ours out yet. You had much to suf fer after that Declaration of Inde pendence. think it was in thu winter of ITS, your soldiers had ; hard, bitter time to go through. Il Valley Forge that winter many diet of starvation and of cold and Wash | ington'S heart, We are told. was al most broken with the suferings O the soldiers. We in Ireland have Valley Forge this year. We are fight ing cold and starvation, the starva ton deliberately planned by Eng l land to force our people into submis sion. As surely as your Yorktowl followed, so will ours, but I tel | America today it is your duty to hell us in the name of the liberty fo which we are fighting, and for whicl our common ancestors fought ol American ground in 1T76.
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