Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1921-02-24

! that fixed p0llcy OF tne government
Of the United States, recognition
without intervention. Under that
policy, Clay offered his resolution re-
cognizing Buenos Aires in 1919. Dan
iel Webster offered the same PROPOSE
ton for Greece in 1921.
The following eases of recognition
without intervention have occurred
and without the slightest threat of war
have occurred:
South American states, recognized
by the United States: Columbia,
1922; Brazil, 1922; Venezuela, 1885;
Uruguay, 1886; Ecuador, 1898; Para
quay, 1852. The same is true of the
Central American states that have
been recognized by the United States.
IRELAND's CASE
Ireland today is on the way to either
victory or crucifxion. 1t is frankly
admitted by Lloyd George. Sir hamer
Greenwood and all who care to honor
the truth that so percent of the peo-
pie of Ireland want to be free. This
right and this freedom the British
government denies not with logic, truth
or reason, but with cruel laws des-
potic DEGREES with the fire and swords
of the blacklist laws. Conditions in
Ireland today have never been paral-
leled in the history of the world. Bel
quinn under Won Kissing never suffered
like Irish men and Irish maidens, and
mothers are suffering today at the
hands of the crown forces of England.
This fact is acknowledged by such
English statesmen as Earl Grey, AS
quith, Lord Morley, Lord Cecil and
a host of others who denOunce Eng
land s treatment of Ireland. The same
fact is acknowledged by England Is
leading men of letters, artists and
poets.
1t is forcibly acknowledged by the
London Times, the Manchester Guard
ian and confirmed by the British labor
commission.
Ireland asks nothing that has not
been given to Poland and other
nations. AS nation, she de-
mands no rights except |
those the allies fought for The prin- |
;iples for which Americans fought and |
lied at Chateau Theirry, Verdun, Bel |
lieu Wood and the Argonne are the |
principles for which Irishmen are dy- |
ng today. This being so, where should |
svery true American and sincere friend |
If liberty in Great Britain standP The |
rue American has no choice between
government in Ireland under English |
'ule and government by the will of the
irish people. Everyone who pretends
o be an American, son of Lin
'oln, or a disciple of Jefferson, but
$ not in favor of Irish freedom, is
coward and a hypOcrite. The same
s true of every Englishman who
ew years ago asked America to come
o her aid and take her out of the hole.
II the name of truth, justice and civil
cation | say to every American, would
GU want any country in the world TO
o to America or to the people of
america what England is doing to
he people ors IrelandP Would you
eny to others the rights you demand
or yourselvesg If you would you are
ypocritel. If you favor the cause of
'ngland, but would not have your own
ountry take Ireland IS place in her
resent struggle then you are not
My hypocrites but false to the ideals
the rel ublie, the Irish helped to
5tablish and preserve by the blood
her sons who fought and suffered
nd died for us at every step on the
ighway of progress from Lexington
} Yorktown, from Fort Sumter to
ppomattox. Their deathess deeds
Iorify the pages of our history while
leir holy ideals and matchless wisdom
Italize the soul of the republic
hese men would have died thousand
saths rather than impose their gov .
'nment upon any people without the {
'nsent of the governed. {
/ hope now | have made it clear why I
ISIS Maes'weeney is in America Her
ission is n mission of mercy, her mes t
&c a message of life. She is appeal c
& to the people of America asking t
EN- to do little, a very little, too, S
r Ireland. She only asks them to |
cognize the Irish Republic. She is t
'pealing to those to whom the war d
I'd cost the most To those whose t
pes it has cut off like a spider s web c
whose gifts of love and life il has o
aced under seals of clay in a for s
On land. Ask them today in Idaho &
no can never again look across its a
and valleys and see the sun a
Sc gid their snow-capped SUBMITS II
thout thinking of the graves that it a
lded first far down below the hori- IL
n-who can never again look upon J
Id flower bloom in spring without il
mixing what dust it is that feeds N
e wild flowers that grow along the t
arne and in Belleau woods and up Il
the fields of Flanders. Ask them a
lat they think of Ireland s cause and g,
lat they think America should do ii
r Ireland, and you viii find that if Ii
ey answer only with a sob, it will A
ape itself into the old Celties war cC
Y that has resounded upon the hills &C
d in the glades of ireland, "Fight u:
brave men, until the world has been co
lde decent place to live in. - That th
Ireland as [ see her today Al
rough the mists of the Atlantic. G.;
citing ON and smiling as she suffers, es
ling a. she watches the polished OF
met of the English soldiers march
: through her streets burning her as