Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-06-17
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Admiral Sims Stirs Up Hornets
Nest by His London Speech
About the Irish.
SECRETARY OF NAVY ACTS
Mexico Told She Must Sign Treaty 10
Obtain Recosnition-Pueblo R's-
Ina From Flood Disaster
New Parliament OF North.
ern ireland Meets.
gv EDWARD W. PlcKARD.

Some of our eminent Americans
have positive genius for saying the
wrong thing when they are abroad
Closely following the EXTRAORDINARILY
tactless utterances Of Ambassador
Harvey In his first address In London
comes the speech of Admiral Sins al
a meeting of the English Speaking
union in the British metropolis. lie
is quoted In the press as saying:
II do not want to touch on the
Irish question, for | know nothing
about II. But there are many IN our
country who technically are Amerl'
cans, some of them naturalized ana
some born there, but none of them
Americans at all. They are Americans
when they want money, but Sim
Feiners when Oh the platform. They
are making war on America today.
The simple truth of 1t Is that they
have the blood of the British ana
American boys on their hands for the
distractions they placed In the way
of the most effective operation of the
allied naval forces during the war.
They are like zebras, either black
horses with white stripes or white
horses with black stripes. But we
know they are not hOrses--they are
asses. But each of these asses has a
vote and there are lots of them"
Of course the numerous friends OF
free Ireland" in the United States
were enraged by these words, ana
Senator Medill Mccormick of Illinois
went to the front promptly, denounc-
ing the admiral's speech as repre-
henslble and disgusting" He called
the attention of Secretary Of the Navy
DENLY to the address and asked that
Sims be disciplined If 1t developed
that he had been correctly quoted.
Without bothering the President
with the affair, Secretary DENLY
cabled to Admiral Sims the substance
of the press reports and ordered him
to inform the department Immediately
whether or not he had used the Ian
guage attributed to him.
The senate, taking to itself some
of the admiral's harsh expressions
unanimously adopted a resolution or.
derlng the naval affairs committee to
make thorough investigation Of the
matter.
Forecastlng his reply to Secretary
DENLY, Admiral Sims declared he
would not repudlate single word Of
his speech.
No doubt both Ambassador Harvey
and Admiral Sims thought they were
engaged in the laudable task Of main
tanning and enhancing the amlcable
relations between the two great Eng
lish speaking nations; but If they had
wisdom comparable with their years
and experience they would have
known that utterances like theirs al
ways injure rather than aid that
cause On the other hand, 1t is unde-
niably true that Nhe efforts OF cheap
American politicians to entangle this
country In the Irish controversy are
disgusting to millions Of American
citizens.
OF prime Importance In the news OF
the week was the announcement by
Secretary Hughes of the admlnlstra.
tons policy In dealing with Mexico
In sentence, this is that, If Mexico
desires to obtain recognition by the
United States, she must enter into q
treaty Of amity and commerce that
has been presented to President Obre
gon and in which she will guarantee
American property rights within Mex.
lean territory against confiscatlon
Says Mr. Hughes: Mexico is free ia
adopt any policy which she pleases
...one N he. uu..k.l.