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IRISH PETITION TO PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
Six Hundred Delegates Of The Clan-na-Gael From All Parts Of The Country,
Assembled In Conference In New York On Sunday Last And Basing Their
Action Ou Mr. Wilson’s Great Speech Of Sept. 27, Appeal For The Applica-
tion To Ireland Of The Splendid Principles Of Liberty And Democracy Which
He Enunciated—tlis Pronouncement Regarded As Creating A Wholly New
Situation Favorable To The Small Nationalities And Particularly To
Ireland—Copious Extracts From His Address Quoted In The Document And
All Fully Approved —Decision Reached To Raise A Fund Of $100,000 To
Carry On ACampaign Of Enlightenment In Order To Counteract The English
Propaganda Against Ireland And Place The Actual Facts Before The
American People—Pledges For $78,000 Received At The Meeting And Confi-
dence Expressed That The Rest Will Be Forthcoming—A Splendid Gathering
From Which Many Young Men Now At The Front, Or Dead Or Wounded
In France Or In The Training Camps Were Missing. .
A National Conference of Delegates
of the Clan-na-Gael from all parts of
at the Central
Opera House, Sixty-seventh Street and
Third Avenue, New York, on last Sun-
day, and it unanimously adopted a pe-
tition to the President and Congress of
the United States in favor of Self-De-
termination for Ireland. Over six hun-
dred Delegates were present, among
whom were many priests, and the great-
est harmony and unanimity prevailed
throughout. the sessions, which lasted
from 10 o'clock in the morning, with a
short intermission .for dinner, until
6:45 P. M.
it was a splendid ene fully rep-
/ ysical man-
hood and the intellect of the race. But
it was almost entirely composed of men
beyond the age which would make them
liable to the first Draft. Several thou-
d members of the organization are
either at the front in France or in the
Many men. who were present have sons
or younger brothers in the army or
navy—one man having three sons and
several others two—and more than
twenty, delegates have found their sons’,
n the
a
cently killed, and the same kind of
story was in. conversation with
friends by men from all parts of the
country.
SATISFACTION OVER THE PRESI-
DENT’S SPEECH.
was largely
the President’s strong pronouncement
in favor of the rights of all peoples to
overn themselves and his emphatic
assertion that no people should be held
In face of that pronouncement of the
felt that it will give a new impetus to
the movement to secure American inter-
vention in favor of Ireland, which has
been the chief aim of the Clan-na-Gael
since America entered the war, as was
clearly shown by documents issued in
April, 1917, which were read to the
gathering. These documents effectually
dispose of all the absurd stories of in-
surrectionary ts with which the Eng-
lish Am n press has been fill-
of arousing prejudice against Ireland
among the American people.
TO RAISE FUND OF $100,000.
Although these malicious stories have
the minds of many well-meaning Ameri-
cans. The English Propaganda against
Ireland in the American press has
somewhat abated, but enough of it still
remains to inflict serious injury on the
f
absolutely necessary to meet these at-
tacks on Ireland, by a vigorous campaign
a campaign was decide
ried out by perfectly open and legal
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