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FORE WORD.
The writer of the following article is one of the brilliant group of in-
tellectuals who, responding to the oall of their blood, have in the last two
years done so much to make our country understand the question of Ireland
and its importance to mankind-and America in particular-in the world-
wide contest that is now being waged between the forces of liberty and
imperialism.
Studious, painstaking, scrupulously fair to his opponent, he presents
lucidly and temperately his arguments and his facts.
Lloyd George and the other spokesmen for English tyranny no longer
attempt to deny the patent fact that the people of Ireland are overwhelm-
ingly in favor of independence and of republican government. With char-
acteristic opportunism the English Premier, now seeks to hold uninformed
American opinion, not by the old falsehoods that Ireland does not seek
liberty, or that Irishmen are unable to govern their country, but by trying
to draw a parallel between the status of Ireland and that of the former Con-
federate States. ’
Mr. Mahony shows how utterly without foundation is the argument
of Mr. Lloyd George and proves conclusively that there is no analogy what-
ever between the two cases. -
I hope he may, in the near future, amplify his paper so as to cover the
entire history of England's relations with her Parliament in Ireland, which,
in spite of much good done by it in many directions, was never really rep-
resentative of the people of Ireland.
Lloyd George has less than a century and a half to go back to find a
real secession from England when the Thirteen Colonies, against the will
of English Imperialism, left the control of the English Ruling Class and set
up our matchless institutions of liberty on this Continent.
The American Revolution was not alone right-it has turned out to be
one of the greatest blessings a Beneficent Creator has bestowed upon man-
kind.
May the world, within the year, hail as another milestone on humanity's
march of progress, the international recognition of the Republic of Ireland.
New York April 7th, 1920 DANIEL F- COHALAN
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LLOYD GEORGE ON “SECESSION.”
“I think it right to say that any attempt at secession will be
fought with the same determination, the same resources, the
same resolve as the Northern States put into the fight against
the Southern States.”
(Lloyd George, on the Outline of 4th Home Rule Bill.)
“Mr. De Valera is putting forth the same claim in exactly
the same language as Mr. Jefferson Davis. . . . If persisted in
(it) will lead to exactly the same measures of repression as in the
Southern States of America.”
(Lloyd George, House of Commons-March 31, 1020.)
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