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TIIK BEND IIU1XKTIN. I)AII,Y EDITION, liKM, OHKGON. HATlltDA V. DECEMBER 87. 1019 PAGE a : 11IW1I, yB, a . a a a a a v a, a-a A (Conllnuod from 1'iik" 2.) .Mian in', Ml 1M1IIIIOU. I IIOfilT iwimaiii io were planted In Ireland, In vry turn of llni provinces, a nil lhorofni'0 the Irish ru en h not puro, any inure Mum I hn rn cu nf any modern nation. Thny tiro all mixed; tins blond Im mingled of tlunl anil Oniil, iin wo Buy, ho muuh ho that Iho Cluul liuU Ioiik uk btn nbsoibod Into Ihn Irish nation. And Ihimo mo ii, tholr uncoslors wore lomo of llm sturdiest HiipportiU'H of lrlnh Independence. (Initial! win of that mock; flood wiih of that stork; Wolfn Tone wiih of that mock; llo bort Kininoil wiih of that mock; (un pin nun) Mitchell wiih of that stock; Hinllli-O'Ililon, even pni'luipH, In IiIh case not ho purely; I'arnell wiih of lliul Htock; (applause), There fore, II Ih u inlHrepreHiinlullon to mnkg It uppmii' that thoHo who lu huhll lliul iiiiiihenst cornnr of Ire land differ In any way from thu rent of the pitoplo u f Irelund, except In Ihn fact Unit thoy hold different pol 1 1 lt-i t vIowh. Thoy ure nlmply a dlf I I'm n I polltlrul party, with different political iwih-h, Juxt iih your Demo r in l lei parly unit your llepubllciin parly mlKlil dlttor. And Ihn Holld Houlli Unit 1 huve hoard talked of hero Ih In no wine different from IIiIh. Thny liuvn voted politically for till) past. In llm inonl purl. In tlm hiiiiio way. ThuiT.foro, you can nee that I h ho men ran put forward no Junt claim for Holf-dolornilnutlou, "There Ih oiiu i'Si'Hiw inlnlil ho put fin ward: We mlKlil Im told, 'Well, Hutu will lieu minority In Ihn whole rouniry. Now, you run liavn no democratic government wlihout u minority. In no rouniry will nil the people of Ihn country hiivu Ihn Hnme pnllllrul opIuloiiH. Therefore, If you wore lo have dniuorrucy in nil. you j in iihI have it minority. Hut suppose lliul pleu ih put forwurd. If you nil i dial portion on, iih I told vou. you! would have difficulty to II ml what to fill on. berailni It would he one thing today and another thliiK tomorrow. : I l.uiiKliler. I Hut HiippiiHe we liikn tlm! results of the IiihI election, rill lliul: portion off up llii'.re, will ii soldo the n I nor 1 1 ' problem? No; II crealeH two minority problems. You have here it minority of the name political VleWH IIH tint OHIIIKO (llldlotlltlllK on the map), mid In that portion which w have marked orunitn the colors, only Hhow you th- maJorltleH In I that portion which Ih marked oraiiKol you would have the NutlonallHt nilti-j orlty, which will have lo be Hiihject to thn mujorlly, a minority which Ih relatively hlKXer. In that area thorn urn more NatlonallHlH, relatively, to I iilotilHtH, than I here ure ciIIoiiIkIh relatively lo thu whole of Ireland. Thut Ih, In that portion ytui would be creating another minority question, n more Intense, question, and there- fori Vol! ran Meal II Wltm nnvnr mil fw- ward In Rood fill th liy nnyhouy, uh u political Holtitlou of the dltnciilty. or hiivInK a minority Hiibjert to a ma jority. Vou can't noire that question with democracy. , Von mum alway linvo. If you tiro to have any popular rule, you iiiuhI hum a minority Hub- Ject for the. time being to the major ity. They have a habit of changing from minority to majority. That U what political purlieu do. Today the ItepubllcntiH will be In a minority; tomorrow they may he In a majority, and tho tlmu after the Democrats tony be In thu majority uguln. So, you nee. you can't nolve that lo at tempt to uphold the attitude of the minority which says that the major ity are not to rule. Ih to uphold a principle thut Ih going to end till rule of the people by Hie people. Not ii Hi HkIoii" Vuoslion. "Now. I have mild n couple of 1 1 men thnt IIiIh (iticHtlon Ih a political ciucHtlon. You tiro told very hhIiI uoiiHly by llrltlHh propaganda that It In u rellKloiiH q in-Mt Ion. In mher words, you are told that tho ban In of division In Ireland helw i parties Ih rellKloiiH. n lid not pollllcul. I nay that Ih u lie, a deinoniilrahle lie! (AnpliitiHo.) To provo to you that It Ih false, will you not mailt mo thin. lliul If It were n division on religious I grounds, (hat it would he very, un likely to have the lendora of the Ca tholics Protestants, null to have koiiio of the Protestant loaders Cn HiollcH?' If IIiIh were a question of l'mtcHtanl and Catholic, don't you think thai the Catholic-, would choose Catholics for their lender and I'rolcHliintH would ehosu Prot estants? I think you will agree with mo that that Is n fair teat. "Now. let u h conHlder the hlnlory of this Republican movement. It wiih Btnrtod llrnt by the man of that very cornnr which today In orange. II wan Hlnrted In tho northeast cor ner of Ireland by Presbyterians from Mint corner. (Applause.) Thev were I hollo follow countrymen, with whom thoy wore at one at tho tlmn in Ire land, entered Washington's army. Whon you hour of the ProtasnnU In Washington's army, remember that Ihoy wore Irishmen who wanted IrlHh Independence, and It didn't matter whether thoy were Protestants or Ca tholic., thoy oil wantnd thnt in Ire land, and they wore willing to give tholr lives In fighting for It In their now country, America. (Applause.) Ho thoy are mnkluR a point for uh. and not for the present Inhabitants of the northeast corner of Ireland , with tholr proHiint. political views. TIioho who drnw tho attention of the' Americans to the fnct that Protesl nntn fotiRht In Washington's nrmv. thoRO Protestants Htood for the IrlHh ropublln. Wolfo Tono was tho Unit, the founder of IIiIh Republican move ment.. Tllllt fliitr nf nn,.a I Annlononl wiih choson iih ii Rnptthllcun Mug, ' trl-color, and tho orniiKo In It Ih-to typify the me,n from tho northeast nornor, tho Orangemen, who aro united with thu Nationalists, green, lo win Irish Independence. (Ap plause.) It stnrtnd, then, this ro od Hod Catholic movement, Htnrted with ProteHlnntH. Ha founder wns a ProtoHtunt; hlH comrndoB wore Prot estants. You had Orr and McCnbe nud Russoll and myriad names at Iho time, thny nil Nlund out In the hls tory of tho period. "Eleven I'ruHhytnrlau inlnlslors wore luuiKi'd by thu lirltlxlt for Htnnd Iiih for Irish liidnpeiidiilicn. Hurnly thny wnreji't haiiKed for alaiidlUK for Catbollclly. ('time down u few yeurn fiiither, tho next iiaino, the next tlmu a tl Klit wiih foiiKht for IiIhIi IikIo peudencn, an untied IlKht. IKM.'I, we have thu mime of Robert Kinmet, an other Protiilunt (loud applause) a not her ProtoHluiil who, I HiipiioHe, wuh huiiKcd for IcadliiK tho Ciilhollcn. (l.uiiKbter and uppliiuse. ) Thut ru mlndH me, In I bene dayN. when you are IlKhtln for Irultind. you ure pro Kronoh, ho hit wun linni-ed uh u Kronrli pinlHsiiry, If you please. The Irish men of that day worn pro Krnnch when , they founht for Ire land, because KliKluiid wuh IlKhtliiK Krunce; and a few centuries earlier tho Irishmen who were IIkIHIiik for tho Independence of Ireland were pro-Hpiiiilsh, Just ho Hamo uh the Irishmen In the Inst war who foiiKhl fur IrlHh Independcnru were Hald to ho pro-Unriunn, or pro-HomelhlHK elHu. (ApplutiHu.) An Old I'lulil. "This war of ours heKiin seven hundred and fifty yours uko. Wo have, hud one enemy, one IIkIiI, for seven hundred and titty yen is; and those who say we stubbed America In the hack I would like them to remem ber tliiit wo were In this purilcular IlKht of (iiiih before Columbus wiih horn; (applause) that we were IIkIiI lUK that IlKht of outs befor , I think u member of the family of lhilieur.ol lorn Hat on liny t hi one In Prussia. And. uh I am on that iiiichIIoii. I might point out lo you. tkoso who say wiih Htalilied, Ainerlcu in the hack, that I Hi II. April. I 111 II. Ih exactly one year before April, ID17, and that wo foiiKht our IlKlit and were In Kuk llsh convict Jails when you Htnrted Into this war. and. therefore, thut when we founht our IIkIiI. IIiIh one battle, in u Ioiik campalKU of seven hundred and lifly yours, we foiiKht It at a time when you did mil believe that profession of Hrlluln that Ilrl t ii I ii was IlKhtliiK for any altruistic motives; that she was IIkIiIIiik for any country exce.pt IlKhtliiK for that which thu Kecret treat Ioh showed Hhe wiih IlKhtliiK for, und which the peace that bus been slKned at PurlH hIiowh she did not IlKht for In vuln. (Ap pliiuse. ) We foiiKht In Dublin; und If we hud foiiKht even utter you came into the war it would prove not IiIiir. We have our enemy, and iih Ioiik uh we huvu thut enemy we don't want any morn. ll.aiiKhier and Applause. (Aud iih Ioiik hh wo have that enemy, no mutter who Ih IIkIiIIiir for her or imnlnsl her. we will be uKulust her. (Loud appluuse; nin p removed from alaKe. ) Aioerlin'H Iteslsiimre. "When I think of that. I nlwnys remember the Hpeech of the Karl of Chulliam at Iho time, of tho IlKht of tho Colonies for their independence, when he excused the altitude of the Colonies, HiiylnK. "If I were au Amer ican, ho Ioiik an there whs a forelKn army, a foreign aoldler. In my coun try. I would never lay down my arniH; Never! Never! Never!' (Ap plnuse.) Many of you have mad that Hpeech. and many of you felt that a Americana ha spoke truly of you. that If foreign army wan here on your Rhore you would never lay down your a run: Never) Never! Never! (Applause.) And I nak you to consider this, and Hiippose that after a tfhntiHand yenra of freedom a foreign foe worn to come In here and doHtroy your clvlllxiitlon. or at tempt to destroy' It. and enforce his will with a Huperlor army to youra for tho time belnx; do you think that If for eovon hundred and fifty yenra you contested or were conlesl InK hlH rlnhl. that If George Wash ington and .lelTerson and his com- radi'H had not won their IlKht (up- piuiiHt ) had not won their IlKht. but had been hanged, drawn and quarlered and burned in quicklime by llrllaln. and the next generation produced new Wnshlnglons and new. JelTersonH. iih 1 am nine In thin coun try It would produce the.in; had they, too. HUfTered the fate of the llrst. and had JofTerson and Washlngtons foiiKiil again In the next generation. iih they would in every rouniry whore good red blood Hows In Iih Inhabit ants; had they. too. shared Iho fate of those that had preceded them, and If at the beginning of this war Kiik land was trcathiR your countrv. sub jecting it to all the misrule. 'w hich wiih audi at tho time of '76 that Jef ferson coiiHldered it. and his com radnH considered It, n Justification for throwing olT llrltuln'a rule for ever; do you think that vou would have Rone lo IlKht under England's IliiK, that you would be deceived by Knglund's hypocrisy about democ racy, making the world Bate for democracy? (Applause.) It Ih not ho many years ago that Kngland showed her anxiety about dumocracy and about the freedom of small peo ple by robbing tho Boor republics of tholr freedom to mako, uh I heard an American any (applause) to mnko, ns I heard an American say. the world afo for diamonds. (Ap plause and laughter.) "If thoeo wore tho circumstances nt tho beginning of thin war, would you have said to the British Imperial power that was putting Its herd upon your neck, would you say, I go and holp yon analnst tho forces that are attacking you, nnd then, when I have helped you and saved you I will put down my neck in order thut you mnv drive your heel more Urmly into it whon you are safe again?' (Laugh ter nnd npplnuo.) I don't think there Is any Amorlcnn hero who would forget that tholr Hrst duty was to Arnorlcn ns long ns a foreign soldier (appluuse) n foreign Holdler wns upon their soil; nnd Americans would not forgot Hint If there was a blow to be struck for freedom the first country to whom thev owed It it duty to strike for lis liberty was uieir own country. I have heard Americana say they are, 100 per cent Americans; I have heard them stiv that they are Americans all the time! Why should it be a crime for Irish men to say thnt thoy are Irishmen first, Irishmen last, and Irlshmwi all tho time? (Appluuse.) , "I have drifted Into this question of thu war; I might uh well llnlsb It before I go buck to the succession of ProtoHluiil lenders. In Ireland there were Irishmen who held that creed of 100 per cent Irishmen; men who said. 'Kngland will not deceive uh;' men who said, 'Wu know Kng IuiiiI'h history, we know Hint she Iiiih never yet fought a IlKht for freedom except when the liberty of peoples that she wanted to free wiih going to break her commercial rivals and give her greater Hiipremiicy, when the llberly of the people she was go ing lo free meant thut she wiih going to huvo plunder out of the war.' I ask you, point to any war that llrl laln has been In that Hhe Iiiih not got plunder out of It. (Applause.) "Ungliiiiil'H history, to those who know It and we in Ireland know It lo our coal- those who know Kng liind's history nnd when 1 talk of Kngland. now, mind, I urn not anim ated with any halo for the English people; I think the English people have a right to rule in their own country, und If thny contained them hoIvuh lo ruling their own country they would be iih good iih uny other people (applause); I have nothing to nay to thn lliltlsh democracy, except this, that I bey say I heir country Ih ii democratic country, a country In which government Is bused upon thn will of the people; If that be ho, they are responsible iih Ioiik uh they live for any power, tlie.y aro roHpoiiHlhlo for the misdoings of the government that they have put III power. (Ap plause.) It Ih wllh the government of England ns it Iiiih been for con- liirluH past that wn have, the quar rel. Once England ceases lo do III Justice to Ireland, wn ure ready to forget (ho past. (Applause.) Hut Ho Ioiik uh England Is guilty of Ini quity In Ireland, was shall bate Itrl- tuln'H Iniquity and we shall hate the. Instruments of 1'iut Iniquity. (Ap pluiiHO. I Hut llrilaln's history Iiiih been this: Klie lias today sided with A to beat II and get Home of the pos sessions of II. aud tomorrow Hhe bus Joined wllh II to rob her previous partner. A. und gel the possessions of A. nnd Hhe robs them botll in turn. (Appluuse.) That lias been llrltuln's history. Hemps of l'uMr. "Of the sanctity of trout les in the mouth of the representatives of the nations, there wiih noun iih promising uh pel lldlous Albion. The sanctity of treaties, indeed! Irishmen can point to scraps of paper, and It wuh not un ! Imperial Gorman government, or any other government, that tore up these i scraps of paper: It wiih the Hrltlsli government, tho Hrltlsli Imperial government, and Lloyd (ieorRo. who Ih their spokesman. himself tore them up. (Appluuse.) We. partic ularly those of uh who have any re lation lo limerick, remember Lim erick, remember Limerick und Saxon trejichery, because Limerick was a pluce at which a treaty was signed, a treaty signed by Drltftlii's repre sentatives and violated before the Ink with which it was written was dry. And we had luter treaties. In 1783. the year that Kngland recognised tho Independence of America, she also, by a solemn act of her Parlia ment, recognised the sovereign In dependence, of the Colonial Parlia ment of Ireland and duclnred thut henceforward these are the words Henceforward, forever, the sov ereignty of the Irish Parliament should be unquestioned and unques tionable, and Pitt set about tearing up that treaty within eighteen years, when England could afford to tear It up. And so wo have not forgotten, were not misled, particularly be cause, as I hare said, Asqtiilh him self, and Lloyd George and their companions had even ut that time, within a few days before, violated solemn pledges that were given to tho people's representatives, the rep resentatives of the IrlHh people, and ho we would be fools If we were ta ken 4n by England's altruistic pro fessions at thut time. We knew thut It wns not for the sake of IlelKtum. ir the sake of Krance, or any other country, but for her own splflsh sake, that England gutcred the war: and wo (applause) we, the Irish people, of whom It was said that they fought every mil Ion's battles but their own, we thought sotuo of us, anyhow thought that the time was come when nt least we should light for once our own battles. We (lid not want to be Instruments to be used by Kngland. and then, when she had used uh. that she should fling ns uslde. "I'lifortunntely, there were people In Ireland who. In tho generosity of their hearts -and It Is hard to blame them. It is hard to Und fault, even, wllh their want of judgment, be cause the cry of liberty Is a cry which has a potent spell over tho heart of every Irishman: for generation after generation Irishmen have been striv ing for thut liberty. They have soon themselves ruthlessly crushed by a power that they knew wns inferior in everything but In brute force. And the cry, 'Remember Belgium! See Helglum!' Belgium to which some of them, 'fugitives from British mis rule, once fled 'See France!" ot which Sarsfleld and his brigades went 'See them! Thoy wore your friends! See them invaded now! Will you not go and help them?' And the Irish people, I would like you to consider how generous they were, these Irishmen who have lot their hearts, as I have often put it. their hearts run away with their heads, they forgot tholr own countrv. thoy forgot that they wore fighting for a power that was commlttlug a crime against their own land. even, at the tlmo- lrlshmen and women wore shot down In the streets of Dublin, three days beforo the declaration of war, by British soldiers they were to forget that tho power. under whose banner they wore going to serve was in power that wns committing on . thomsijlves exactly tl fce things which they rep esented O e r m a n y ns committing 1 against Belgium, nnd in their own case there could be no doubt about It, they could see It with their own eyes; thoy knew from their history that time after time In the past it bad beeu done, by England. They forgot that; they forgot thut tho flag under which they were going to serve was a flag every shred of which wus Hlulned with the blood or th noblest of their own ruco. They forgot all that. Aye, they forgot more, or, rather, they put aside ull that: they put aside more; thoy put aside tho knowledge thut they must huvu hud, that even then Kngland was laying thn lines to cheat them at the end. What wuh the meunlug of Kuil lirey's stalernont. which wiih Unshod out through the whole world. 'Ireland Is the one bright spot?' Thu meaning of that Htntement was that they were even starting then to mis represent Ireland. Thny wanted to make It appear that those men who went Into England's armies out of tho generosity of their hearts, thut thuKe men were lighting, not for Bel glum, not for Krunce, but were IlKht liiK becuusu they loved Kngland. (laughter), IlKhtliiK because at last thoy were HutlHlled with Hrltlsli rule. Oh. they begun lo exalt und to glout, mid they said, 'Oh, there will be no Homo Rule. quitHlloii any more. It Ih settled forever. The Irish ure at lust usslmllaled. The IrlHh nation in dead at last. We have won this I IlKht of seven hundred and fifty yearn. The Irish In the eyen of the, world will no longer be dlstiiiKuish able from thn English. Why have lliny Kdlie nut Ml IIKIII. Uliuer uur ilea, . Who will believe them If they say thut they were oppressed by the na tion which t tin t Hug wuh the symbol of?' Oh. who would believe them? Do you think. If we could hear throughout the world today, we would be laughed at If we said we; went Into that tight wllh all these grievances against Ktiglund. that we went in under her banner and forgot them ull. Wliul would you Hay? You would say, "They munt have been very IlKht grievances, indeed, if you were able to forget them so eusy.' And ho England wuh beginning then to misrepresent them. If they hud eyes open they could see It. Ireland mill I'olumL "England bus wiped out. In seven ty yenrs. four and u half millions of that race. She bus cut down In sev enty yenrs a population of eight and a half millions to four and a half. The part of Poland that was under the Czar has doubled its population In these seventy yenrs. The purt of Polund thut wus under the Emperor of Austria bus doubled Its pallia tion and increased Its prosperity in theso seventy yeurn. The purt of Poland that was under the Kaiser, oven and you know how the Kaiser's rule of Pojund was written up during the. wur Poland under the KalKor Iiiih doubled its popula tion In these seventy vears. Hed Ire- land been ruled as well as any part of Poland, we would today not be a nation of four und a hulf millions; wo. too. would huve doubled our pop ulation; wn would have hud today a population of eighteen millions. (Ap plause.) Yes. wiped out ruthlessly, when the world wns not looking: wiped out four nnd a half millions of people. Ah. 'Tls she did It! Don't think it is a question of race suicide, or anything of that sort in Ireland. (Laughter and appluuse,) Scienti fically estimated, there Is but one people in the whole world who have a higher birthrate than ours, and thut people Is the people of Holland; and today, for some, time past, we have had the highest, in fuct. the only Increasing birthrate well, the highest; in fact. I think It Is the only Increasing birthrate in Europe. So that, you see, thai not merely should we have, doubled our population, as Poland did. these countries In sub jection, but thnt we should have done much more. If Knglund's rule was only us good In Ireland a the Czar's rule was In Polund, or the Emperor of Austria's rule was In Polund, or the Kaiser's rule wus in Poland. Ireland's Volunteers. ' "And, hence, you see thut we are a nation of only four und a half mil lions. We huve more than our share of old people, because wo have the old people for a populutlon of almost double the size. We had, lis so esti mated by Britain, available for mil itary service, in Ireland of course, when they wanted to misrepresent Ireland thoy put It much more -but when their own estimate wuh given they estimated thn total men avail able in Irelund. wllh the same meth ods followed as lu Knglund. would only be four hundred thousand. Of these four hundred thousand, this na tion thut was supposed to be Hellish during the war contributed two hun dred and lifty thousand volunteers. (Applause.) Two hundred and fifty thousand volunteers from a nation that was destroyed by British rule. And the aim of Britain was to take all the young men and to kill them all off and thus end the Irish ques tion forever. But you probably don't appreciate what two hundred and fifty thousand men. at first sight, out of four und a half millions, means. You would, to be as gener ous uh Irelund, huve to give six mil lion volunteers. Aye, and you would have to have given them from 1914 to 19 IS; you would have to huve given six million volunteers to equal In proportion what Irelund gave in that wur against all the odds, every thing that would make her selfish. Then this nation that you accuse of selfishness in the wur. If you were to lose as many soldiers as many of her youth that she can so. even, spare If you were to have given as many of these to Flanders fields and to Mesopotamia and all the rest of it. you would be mourning today, nut seventy-five thousand, you would be mourning three million in pro portion to the . number Ireland mourns Aye. und she has not the satisfaction of knowing that if she wanted not to be cheated she could not be cheated; you have that satis faction; you know that If you want ed It you can see that they shall not be cheated out of their blood, of your seventy-five thousand. Ireland has lost her sons knowing that she will be cheated out of their blood. Insofar as they fought In the hope that liber ty would be established everywhere Thev fought believing they were fighting for the sake of Btnall na tions, believing that they were help ing these, countries; aye. and believ ing, too and since I have come here to America I have met Americans whd'are as much 100 per cent Amer icans as any Americans, who have said. 'We fought in that fight, we have Irish blood in our veins, and when we were engaging in that fight we thought, as did the men who went from Ireland to tight in that war. we thought that we were fighting for Ireland amongst the other nations that we sought to free.' (Applause.) But Ireland bus lost her men. her youth, she has lost them. In men, as I said, that would correspond to three million from yon. and she has no satisfaction In feeling that she will not be cheated out of their blood. As a matter of fact. Ireland mourns these men today, knowlug that they have the tragedy of all tragedies in the war. Every one of them, as she feels, has laid down his life on Flanders' fields, felt as their life blood flowed, felt again what Sarsfleld felt, when he. on the same field ot Flanders, saw his blood flow ing for France, said. 'Oh. if it were only for Ireland.' (Applause.) And these men, we know as they died, as they saw their life blood flow. Ah, many of them didn't die before they recognized that England hud again fooled them. They did not die before they recognized that it was not for the principle of freedom everywhere they were, fighting, but thut their blood would be used to strengthen the power thut had been crushing and strangling their own motherland for seven hundred and fifty years. Ah, that has been the tragedy of the war! "The tragedy of the war, as far as Ireland has been concerned, i not these men who went out and challenged England's power Easter week in Dublin. It was not thn men who were taken out and shot by Britain, thought they had fought as soldiers of war; they were tak en out by Britain and shot, as Britain would have shot Washing ton and the rest if she had been able to beat them. (Applause.) Tho tragedy of the war has not been their death, for they, when they saw their life blood flowing, could with pride look at it and say. 'Oh. thank Cod. this Is for Ireland.' (Applause.) They ronre- sented the men. who. as I have said, did not allow their hearts to run awuy with their heads. They wore men who said, 'How can this be a war for the freedom of thn peoples? If Kngland wore anxi ous to give freedom to all peoples, there are many millions she could give freedom to and to give them their freedom she had to conquer no Kaiser, no Emperor, no Sultan.' She could give them their free dom with a single stroke of her monarch's pen, and if she were unwilling to give them their free dom was she not there and then proven to he a hypocrite? And as such (Applause) -as such, those of us who took the other line of action, those ot us who said. 'Aye, if this Is a war for liberty, we can be in It. We have a nation to free right here in Ireland. (Ap plause.) We don't want If we want to fight for small nations, we don't need to cross to Plun der's fields; we have thn only small nation in Europe here in our own home, to whom we owe onr first duty; we have that here to fight for ourselves, and If .It be imperialism we want to fight against, if it be imperialism we want to destroy, oh. we don't need to go across the Channel to find imperialism that should be destroyed; we have imperialism here, we have British imperialism, British to use the word that was used during the war British Prussianism , which would put any Prussianism to shame. We have that (Applause): we have that to fight against. And we knew, we fought, we at least could not be cheated out of our blood.' 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