IRELAND WANTS
TO BE MEMBER
OF NEW LEAGUE
PARIS, May 23 (by Associated
Press).—Here are the claims of “the
provisional government of the Irish
republic” to the right to participate
in the peace conference and to join
the league of nations, as free and in
dependent, laid before the conference
in the form of a memorial presented to
Premier Clemenceau by Sean T.
O’Ceallaigh, the Sinn Fein delegate
of the “republic” in Paris:
“Ireland is a nation which has ex
ercised the right of self-determination
in harmony with the principles formu
lated by President Wilson, and accept
ed by the belligerents as the only sure
foundation for a world peace,” read
the memorial. "It is not only in the
past that Ireland, generation after
generation, has striven by force of
arms as well as by all pacific means
to regain her national freedom. At
the general election last December,
the issue, and the only issue, placed
before the Irish people was the inde
pendence of their country, and by a
majority of more thafa three to one the
representatives elected by the consti
tutional machinery of the ballot box
are pledged to the abolition of Eng
lish rule in Ireland.
“In none of the small nationalities
with which the peace conference has
hitherto occupied itself is the unani
mity of the people so great; in none
has the national desire for freedom
been asserted so unmistakably and
with so much emphasis.
“Following upon the general elec
tion, an Irish National Assembly has
met; an Irish republic has been con
stituted and proclaimed to the world;
a president has been appointed and
with him ministers to direct different
departments of state; a program of
domestic policy has been issued; and
an appeal has been addressed to the
nations of the world to recognize the
free Irish state that has thus been re
called to life.
“But while the national will nas
been declared and the mechanism of
free government is ready, the former
is being stifled and the latter par
alyzed by England’s ruthless exercise
of military power. The president .is
a fugitive; the Irish parliament I«
forced to conduct its business in se
cret; the most elementary civil
rights are abrogated; courts martial
are sitting at every center; and the
goals are filled with prisoners, vic
tims of every brutality and indignity,
whose only offense is that they have
sought the freedom of their native
land. It is in these circumstances
that the Irish nation, through me, ad
dresses the peace conference.
“Ireland manifestly comes within
the scope of the principles that have
been endorsed by civilized nations,
and it is for the application of these
principles that the peace conference
is now sitting. Ireland is weak; Eng
land is strong. Ireland in every pos
sible way has asserted her right to
,freedom, which England, by sheer
militarism, is intent now as always in
the past to destroy. It is only by the
exercise of tyrannical power that Ire
land’s right to freedom can be denied.
It is to the great principle of national
freedom, represented in the peace con
ference, that Ireland, exhausted by
the cruelties of English rule, her pop
ulation annihilated by one half within
living memory, her industries destroy
ed, her natural resources wasted, her
civil liberties ended, her chosen lead
ers proscribed and treated as felons,
now makes her appeal.
"Article ten of the draft convenant
of the league of nations Is framed to
secure national independence against
aggression of an external power. Its
terms are as follows:
“ ‘The high contracting parties und
ertake to respect and preserve as
against external aggression the terri
torial integrity and existing political
independence of all states members of
the league. In case of any such ag
gression the executive council shall
advise upon the means by which this
obligation shall be fulfilled.’
“Ireland, as a nation that has de
clared its independence and is pledged
to the principles of freedom, justice
and peace, desires to subscribe to the
covenant of the league and to claim
as against England the protection of
article ten. I submit to the conference
with profound respect that Ireland’s
claim is clear and cannot with any
shadow of justice be refused. Should
it be rejected the consequences would
be as follows:
“I—Ireland henceforth must rely for
her deliverance wholly upon her own
efforts. No such rule has been laid
down with regard to any other of the
smaller nationalities whose emancipa
tion has been made the care of the
conference.
"2—Nations which never have de
nied the right of Ireland to freedom
will deprive themselves for the future
of the power of countenancing her
claim, and will in consequence be
bound, for the first time in history, to
leave her unaided to her own re
sources as indicated in the preceding
paragraph.
“3—Article ten will impose upon all
nations, as a condition of membership
of the league, the obligation to guar
antee to Great Britain a title to the
possession of Ireland and dominion
over the Irish people.
“Against the imposition of such
slavery upon Ireland, and especially
against the giving of such a guarantee
of title to Great Britain, I enter on
behalf of the people of Ireland, in
whose name I have the honor to speak,
Britain’s title to Ireland rests solely
upon ‘the military power of a nation
to determine the fortunes of a people
over whom they have no right to rule
except the right to force.’ The com
Jabaed . guarantee of such a title
’agalnst the declared protest of Ire
land would constitute a definite denial
of ‘the principle of justice to all peo
ples and nationalities and their right
to live on equal terms of liberty and
safety with one another, whether
strong or weak,’ and without the ac
ceptance of that principle ‘no part of
the structure of international justice
can stand.’
“The guarantee of such a title would
be subsersive of ‘the reign of law
based upon the consent of the gov
erned and sustained by the organized
opinion of mankind.’ The guarantee
of such a title would constitute re
cognition of the right of the strong to
serve its own material interest and ad
vantage through the exercise of its
‘exterior influence and mastery.’ The
guarantee of such a title would give
Great Britain a warrant to make a
nation weaker than herself ‘subject
to her purposes and interests.’ It
would confirm the claim of Great Bri
tain to rule and dominate the people
of Ireland ‘even in their own internal
tffairs by arbitrary and irresponsible
'orce. Any guarantee, under article
ten of territorial intergrity and polit
cal independence as affecting Ireland,
can rightly endure only to the bene
fit of the people of Ireland themselves.
“In the name therefore of the people
of Ireland, I ask that the Irish nation
may be invited to give their adhesion
to the covenant of the league of na
tions, and that membership of the
league—a membership available under
article seven even to colonies who
have freely and legilatlvely subscrib
ed to the supremacy of the English
imperial parliament—shall not be de
nied to the government of a free, in
dependent Irish republic."
BECOMES EXPERT AS
ONE HANDED GOLFER
DEL MONTE, Cal., May 23 (by As
sociated Press).—The possibility of
achieving athletic success even under
the handicap of extreme physical disa
bility is being demonstrated on the
golf links here by Captain F. A. Sut
ton, a British army officer who lost a
hand in the great war.
Always a golf enthusiast and rated
a first class player, Captain Sutton
had forever dismissed from his mind
the possibility of ever being able to
indulge in his favorite game again.
The possibility of, at least, amusing
himself by one handed putting oc
curred to the captain. The experiment
was a success and he continued to im
prove in accuracy. Incidentally he
was strengthening his remaining hand
and arm by constant use.
It was not long before he was try
ing out some of the other clubs and,
in the course of a short time he found
himself going through with his swing
quite as he did in the old days. Today,
there is not a club that Captain Sut
ton is not able to manipulate and he
is able to go out and play a round
with any of his friends without asking
anything in the way of a handicap ad
vantage. In fact he is considered the
marvel of the course, and always at
tracts a gallery.
Recently he paired with Jack Ne
ville, former California state charn
pion, and defeated another, pair of ex
cellent players. Captain Sutton’s work
on the green was a distinctive feature.
In driving approach shots and putting,
he quite held his own both in the mat
ter of distance and accuracy. He has
made a' medal score of 84 over the
course which is better than a large
majority of players are able-to accom
plish. He is considering entering a
Decoration Day tournament which is
to be held here.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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MARATHON RACE <
HELD DENVER
ON JUNE 7 ;
DENVER, Colo., May 23 (by Asso- .
elated Press).—The seventh annual '
marathon race held under the aus
pices of the Rocky Mountain News,
will be held over the Littleton-Denver ■
course, a distance of ten and two- 1
fifths miles Saturday morning June 7.
The race which annually attracts
the best long distance runners of the
Middle Western states will have more I
entries this year than ever before,
judging from the number of applicants
that made known their intention of
entering the western classic when the
date was announced.
Many of the men who have partici- '
pated in the race in previous years
were*unable to enter last year because j
they were in some branch of the ser
vice, but with their return and the re
sumption of athletics at the colleges
of the state on greatly enlarged scales
the entry list this year promises to
be the greatest since the revival of
the race seven years ago.
The race is open only to amateurs,
the winners to receive a trip to the
National A. A. U. track and field
championship meet which will be held
sometime this fall in the east. Special
medals will be given to all service
men who participate in the race.
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