South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-18
HIBERNIANS PLEA
TO AMERICANS TO
AID IRISH CAUSE
Enthusiasm Voiced by Mem
bers of Club at Goth Annual
Banquet Last Night.

This year we celebrate St. Pat
ricks birthday in Passion week.
said Rev =. J. Carroll. POSTMASTER
at the thirty-ninth annual banquet
/ OF the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
/ held Thursday evening in the Ro-
/ tary room Of the Oliver hotel. at
which 275 attended. land the case
of Ireland might well be compared
with the life OF our Savior, Jesus
/ Christ. during his stay on earth.
1.-The parallel between the two
| cases is striking. Christs crucifiXiOn
and Irelands subsection are so alike
\ in principle that when the sub
stance Of each is reached we find
/ that the positions OF each are so
closely analogous that there is very
little distinction
/ 1t is a deplorable fact that the
case of Ireland is not espoused by
/ statesmen, business men and jour
nalists. Yet. despite the fact that
/ she is downtrodden and prosecuted
now there will be day in her his
! tory when ireland will emerge from
/ her present status and assume her
position as the most glorious and
/ beloved of all nations. That day
will resemble the Easter noon Of
\ 1000 years ago. when Christ arose
/ from the dead.
Faith VIII live.
! 'The faith of the Irish people can
never be obliterated or wiped out
Only last week typical scene took
place there. An Irish mother stood
before a scaffold with dry eyes
F., watching her son being hanged He
| had died a martyr TO a worthy
/ cause and the mother felt proud
/ that she had been singled out 70
! give such a noble sacrifice for the
/ cause of Irela1d's freedom. Such
faith as that can not be destroyed;
it is invincible and unconquerable.
/ Every year that / have attended this
banquet there were always some sad
hearts who feared that Ireland
would be no more, yet / see those
faces here tonight I viii probably
see them here next year and the
year after next Indomitable faith
Is the keynote 10 Ireland's cause, and
that cause being a worthy one. will
i soon find fruitiOn," said Father Car
roll I'm conclusion.
Hon. Timothy 2. Calvin. Of VAL
paraiso. Ind, was then introduced.
He said in part: There are many
in America today who object 10 the
activities Of Americans in behalf of
ireland. but we contend that the
very principles for which America
fought in the great world war con-
stitutes the basis for Ireland's claim
10 independence. and therefore in
advocating Ireland's independence
today we are advocating nothing
more nor nothing less than that for
which America fought and that for
which American men died. Presi-
dent Wilson declared that. National
aspirations must be respected; peo-
pies may now be dominated and
governed only by their own con-
sent
MORE AAO1NE
Gives Ireland's Claims.
self determination is not a mere
phrase. It IS an imperative princi-
pie of action which statesmen will
henceforth ignore a; their peril.
Hence II Ireland is a nation she
/ posses ses a right under this declara-
ton Of American principle 20 do
exactly what she is doing today.
namely. 10 assert her independence
and ask the nations OF the world
TO recognize that independence"
Mr.. Calvin then discussed Ire
lands claim 70 be called a nation,
pointing out the Irish are a distinc-
tive race. occupying a territory geo.
graphically separated from all
: other territories: that the Irish have
at all times claimed and still claim
b 20 be "a nation; that the Irish pos
sess powers OF sovereignty and were
recognized as sovereign power for
thousand years before foreigners
usurped her soil: that the right OF
foreigners 10 rule has never been
3 recognized but has always been dis
puted and resisted BY the great mass
5 OF the Irish people; and finally
whenever the opportunity has pre-
scented itself the Irish have reas-
serted their sovereignty and the
. hope OF recovering that sovereignty
, completely and permanently has al
/ ways existed in the breasts of the
Irish people and has been the main
sLring OF all their activities
To show that the right of SOW
ereignty is not only denied the
Irish but they are grossly Iersecut-
ed. MIR. Calvin quoted from leading
English authorities describing the
devastation in ireland today Final
! Is the speaker concluded that the