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Show Id ran wherever required. The) objects of thaaa eosnxaitteea ara entirely non-political, non-political, and H La hoped that representative repre-sentative Americans, whether of Irish ancestry or not. In sympathy with tha plan ta render each relief, will ca-eoerata ca-eoerata reirardleaa of religion and po-U po-U tlral considerations and party affiliations. affilia-tions. ANARCHY ANP DISTRESS. "It would ba Imposatble In a sheet letter to portray tha wretchedneea and misery, the suffering and sorrow that have coma upon Ireland. Tha brief statement laaued by tha cardinal primate pri-mate and archbishops and b la bo pa of Ireland on tha preaeat condition af their country telle aa in ao uncertain tones of tha unhappy atata of anarchy and distress to which thalr country has been reduced. They tell os of tha truly appalling 'results of the countless ladlecrlmlnale raids and arreets la tha darkneaa af J,nlicht; of tha proloajced imprieoa-intent imprieoa-intent without trial; of tha savage ! sentences from tribunals that com- j man and deserve no confidence; of I the burning of houses, town halls, fae-I fae-I lories, crenrneriea and crops; af tha ! destruction of industries ta pave the way to famine by mea maddened with plundered drink and bent on loot; of tire flossing and masaacro of civilians; civil-ians; of the rotten of frlghtfulness. which for murdering the Innocent and destroying their property hss a parallel paral-lel only in tha horrors of Turkish atrocities or in tha ou traces of the red army in liolshevlat Russia. AID IS REQUESTED. "These thince hava gone an unchecked un-checked and unabated until tha world has been horn led by the deeds perpetrated per-petrated uei prostrate Ireland. In one town nlone nearly ten thousand workmen work-men were thrown out of employment and over twenty-three thousand people peo-ple were receiving daily relief. "The statement of Ordinal Loirue and the hierarchy blreland Ta confirmed con-firmed and augmented by tha teatl-i mony of countiesa wltnessaa who ara neither Catholic nor Irish. I "Aa appeal for the relief of tha poor, suffering Inhabitants of that unhappy hind must meet eloquent response from us and from all who lova humanity. We ask you. then, ta give aa generously gener-ously as you can to aid the aick. the helpless, tha wretched, the suffering I of Ireland." ML RESPOND TO BISHOP'S PLEA FORIRISH Thousand Dollars Raised at Memorial - Mass for Terence MacSwiney In rrflf to n apical by tha Rt. Ilrv J.r.'h fllana. C M., D. D.. htuhop . m 'nholic rlioc" Of Htitfc j I-ist-. ral tt th ifisfmorial hirh maai I ysniriin v m-rtttrtsT In honor of Tvr- M4ifiw-y, lal lonl mayor of 'urk. t tK '.'Mlhrilmi f th Mhi1-l-inf. the IriPh r lirf fnnrl raa awvllrd t m r than $10. 'ulU-ctin takan up tn oths-r ruthtilic churchrg ai.lel miiirrtally tn lh fund. It wm announcdbd that th Salt Lake Irmh rtltf rommittft pinna an alab-orate alab-orate crU tn-Mtion on Su I'alrWk day in th rauM of rrllt-f of th Iriah po-th po-th affair to be atrictly nun rrlicioitfi. In ndrtltton to th ra(ftnjr of the rcHiimunicatlon of Miahfip Gtafn. thr whs rtfttn-tal muflc hy Mrs. hancra Harte-I'arkn. who aanc two noUm. at itimpantptl hy afrit. M. H. IUkithby, hai pint, d Sliu MiMrfd Manpin. viu- :rtl.t. Th choir ranv the ErMi mi as, with Irnf t'aaor A niHl Trrm -' tfnv nt ths oraran - BISHOP'S LETTER. The letter of Hit hop 0?u followa: - Hf u rfs yrf Thp wMfwpiM )mrm in Ireland resulting from recent events, there has be-n urKHiilzed tn thla enun- j 'ry the American committee for relief! in I rotund., consiatinK tf his eminence, j irdlna fJihUna; Mortran J. O'Brien. Thomaa V. Kyan. Mwrtnc (lodkin, John 1. Kyan. Kflward I. iXiheny and Xichol.taj K. Heady. "A local American committee for re lief in Ireland to ctHtpfraie, with the natTon;! I committee tnenth-ned above J J wl'i hf or-Titn aed within a ftw days In j Kait I-ake City. It iu the purpoee of t t hsi commit teen to r nd food and cloihina: to I rein ml and to rlicva the; rurriTin it nd diHtri' in the burned und tlfxaftatfd ri;iona and union the iH'edy andf"stftiite women and fhjl- |