Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-03 | Page 1 | Irish Manifesto is Made Public

KING rERDINAND of Rumania, I wlio will make triumphal entry ; I into Budapest, Hungary, alter the j fall of the Bolshevists. . . p i 1 t ! ', ' 1 ! I r J, f i ' 0 W 9 , ; H 4 1 - ' IRISH MANIFESTO : IS IU PW Declaration of Independence, Independ-ence, Suppressed in Ireland, Ire-land, Received Here. XEW YORK, May 2. Supreme Court Justice Cohalan received today from Sean T. O' Kelly, the representative of the Irish republic at Paris, a copy of the declaration declara-tion of independence adopted by the Irish republic parliament, publication of which had -been suppressed in Ireland. This is the first copy to reach this country. The text of the declaration reads: "Whereas, The Irish people is by right a free people; and, "Whereas, For seven hundred years the Irish people lias never ceased to repudiate re-pudiate and has repeatedly protested in arms against foreign usurpation ; and, "Whereas, English rule in this country is. and always has been, 1 used on force and fraud and maintained by military occupation oc-cupation against the declared will of the people; and, "Whereas, The Irish republic was proclaimed pro-claimed in Dublin by the Irish republican army, acting on behalf of the Irish people: peo-ple: and, "Whereas. The Trish people is resolved to secure and maintain its complete independence in-dependence in order to promote the common com-mon weal, to re-establish justice, to provide pro-vide for future defense, to insure peace at home and good will with alt nations, and to constitute a national polity based upon the people's will, with equal right and equal opportunity for every citizen; and, "Whereas. At the threshold of a new era in history the Irish electorate has in the general election of December, 1918. seized the first occasion to declare by an overwhelming over-whelming majori ly its firm allegiance to tiie Trish republic; "Now, therefore. vp, the elected re pre -sen tatives of the ancient Ij isli people in national parliament assembled, do. in the name of the Irish nation, ratify the establishment es-tablishment of the Irish republic and (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) (Continued from Paqo One.) . - pledge oursolvos and uur luoplo tu make this derl.u-.i ; ion en'cclUt: by ci'i-y im-ans at (.uir roinnKiU'l ; '"To ordain tMat i'f! el -'t ol rfprr"iita-tives rfprr"iita-tives 01" tii.: Irish pcule aMm jiat power t" make laws hJiuJihi: on tin.- ifoplo of j Irlatui. and ih:it the Irish paiiiatiirpt is I t'.;-- oniy i-ariianirm to waioii that people : its alit i: :anr--; "'e suh mnl (k-iiaro forficn government govern-ment in Ir-'I i:;d" to l'O an in;i:on of our national riia whioh wo will ne t r tolerate, tol-erate, a kil we iU -maml the ova emit ion of our coup i r y hy t '.k- 1 -Iiil; li :i .arri-on ; "We r'ai:n lor our national indp-n-denee the rerL-nuion and .-uppori of j every t rt na t ion of the rM, ami we proelaim the indepemienee to - a condi- i tion pi-eccd(nt to interna tional i-eaue j hereafter; "In t:,e name of the Irish pi'pe we j humbly eommi: uur destiny to Almighty j God, who j.-ave oi:r fat hws the i-ouray i and determination to pors-'re thru-icu loiu centuries of a riKhh ss tyranny, and. J strong in the justice of the cauto wiiioh , the.'.- li:'.ve handed down in us we ak j his divim1 bU'sine: on this, the last stace j of ti-. stru'irlp whi.-'n we ir:- pledurd t ourselves to carry through to f redom."