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Friends of Irish Freedom : ; Willard Be Lue,
Weational Bureau of tnformtion. Shief, Seetion of Information.
1051 Mansey Building.
NASHINGTON -- Following is on address delivered by His Emincnae,
William Cardinal O'Connell, nt Boston, Sunday, Feb. 29, before the Catholic
Women's Lengue. His Eminease said in part:
“We have heard so often that the Irish question is an emotional one,
one thet stirs the sentiments only, and that 2 meeting like this of people of
Irish blood listening to the Irish que stion being defined is very ap t to be a
very stormy one. I defy onyone -- anyone == no matter how cooled his blood,
no matter how unsentimental he may be, no matter what may be his philosophy,
to say after listening to the question as set forth by Judge Cohalen today and
» beholding the perfectly level-headed way in which the audience took it and
followe dit, although there is plenty of emotion cnd plenty of sentiment, as
there should be in every great question of truth, that either the judge in
his presentation of the case or we as his audience were moved primarily either
by emotion or sentiment. - » » Since the English or Anglo-Saxons pride them=
selves upon looking at matters in a purely white light of reason and of wishing
by these inferences to trent the question entirely without sentiment, very welt,
then, we present this case to you in that way,without sentiment, and on that
basis, I cefy anyone living to take execption, and I may say to disprove
any one statement which Jucge Cohalan made here today. It simply cannot be
done.
"Therefore, we are in the presence of this statement that is absolutc=
ly unassailable from any point of view as stated by o man who personally hss
nothing to gain no matter how the question is finally cecided, the man who
before all his fellow citizens came and gave and whose life is under tho con-
stant judgment of all, and yet who presents a case, and the only thing we want
is sinply an honest, straight answer and that answer as yet has not come. . . .
"We get evasions as the judge said, from this statement and thet.
We get a2 coloring of the question, but never the direct answer. But we heve
now arrived ct the point where we are insisting upon a direet onswer, and we
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ean and wo shall take no other. Either they must simp ly state 'we never ‘ss