The New York herald., 1922-01-08
|IRELAND'S DECISION
MEETS PRAISE HERE
Bryan L. Kennedy Glad Irish
Free State Is at Last a
Reality.

Bryan L. Kennedy, president of Bryan
l.. Kennedy, Inc, and vice-president of
the Hartman National Bank. said yes
terday that the ratification by the Dali
Eireann OF tho Irish peace treaty was
one Of the most happy occurrences in
history.
Il am glad the Irish people have
spoken as they have" said Mr.. Ken
nelly, "and thus made the Irish Free
State at last q reality. They alone
knew what they wanted and what was
best for them and now that they have
spoken the world must accept their de-
cision as final and one to be generally
commended. The clergy. as well as the
great majority of the Irish people
through their associations. societies
clubs and business and social organiza-
tons. concluded that the pact signed
by the members OF the Irish Cabinet in
London should be upheld. and their open
declarations that it must stand took the
form of definite expression of the will
or the whole nation directly along the
lines OF what / heard expressed during
my tour through Ireland last August.
THE Irish peoples verdict is in keep
ing with the new spirit Of the day
the spirit Of sanity and of wise and
clean diplomacy. 1t probably will mean
the end OF warfare in Ireland for all
time and the ultimate eradication OF
old animosities
"All those Americans genuinely in
terested in the future peace, happiness
and prosperity of the Irish people can
render no greater service than by bend
ing their efforts to encourage them TO
Ireland and by lending their moral sup
port. at least toward the advancement
of art, science, literature and education
in Ireland"
Darmid Lynch. national secretary of
the Friends of Irish Freedom, when in
formed of the ratification of the treaty
said:
II desire on behalf of the friends of
Irish freedom to state officially that the
position of this organization Is as fol-
lows:
Expressly disavowing the intention
to interfere with or dictate the decisions
of the people Of Ireland as to the form
of Government under which they may
unalterable faith in the republican insti-
tutions of liberty as esta blished in the
United States.
"Our belief remains unchanged and
Interchangeable in the blessings to accrue
from the establishment in all lands of
forms of government modelled upon the
Government of the United States, and
we pledge to such republican party in
Ireland as may carry forward the tradi-
tional struggle for liberty a continuance
in full measure of that hearty support
which we have given in the past. Our
position as thus expressed was unani-
1N., - lAlA toe sags-
sembled in convention less than month
ago.
Even if the Irish Republic be now
abandoned by majority of the present
spokesmen for the Irish people, we of
Irish blood refuse TO accept for our
race a position of subserviency TO any
other race on earth"
The Rev. John j. Wynne, s. J. writer.
said:
1.-The Dali ratification of the treaty
between England and Ireland Is tri-
umph for the new method of settling
disputes among nations by conference
and mutual concession rather than by
arms and mutual destruction. Opponents
as we'll as advocates of that treaty can
now join in working out their own
Irish system of government which they
already had inaugurated and developed
in spite of coercion and martial law of
the past five years. Englishmen will
gladly yield their own liberties to their
valiant foe. Americans will rejoice that
their example and influence has had
such n large part in this peaceful set
tlement."
Seuman ArcManus said: 1T is not a
treaty but a truce forced upon an ex-
hausted Ireland with a Lewis gun at
her head. 1t Is to be remembered that
England has only granted this truce
after she had exhausted every diabol-
ical means for crushing out Ireland's
life To unwillingly grant half freedom
TO three quarters of the Irish State and
then nickname It the Irish State is a
cruel joke of humanity's friend-Lloyd
George.
The end IS not yet"