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Show OPEN CAMPAIGN 1 FORFREE STATE OFFICIALS OF PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT GOV-ERNMENT DEFEND TREATY BEFORE LARGE CROWD Union of Ulster With South Declares Certain When Home Rule Is Established In Ireland Dublin The crowds which gathered ! , Sunday for the opening of the campaign cam-paign in favor of acceptance of the j Anglo-Irian treuty were notable not olny because of their vast "proportion, but also for the high degree of en- ' ihusiasm evinced. The orators, in addition to Michael Collins and Arthur (Jrlffith, included Joseph McGrath, mlnlstei of labor; William Cosgrove, minister of home affairs, af-fairs, and other leaders In the provisional provi-sional government. Two platforms were constantly employed by the speakers. With the exception of a minor flag incident, when girls and women tore down a Free State tricolor, perfect order or-der was maintained by the republican police. Mr. Colling. In a long speech, defended de-fended the treaty. He asserted that once the Free State was established, the union of northeast Ulster with the remainder of Ireland was certain. He expressed determination to proceed to the establishment of a police force, despite the warnings of Eamonn de Valera. It would not be a political force to protect any special section, but would be' for the protection of every citizen In Ireland. Mr. Griffith's address was brief. Both he and Mr. Collins pointed to the British troops leaving Ireland as being proof that Ireland had not been betrayed. The position in the northeast, Mr. Collins said, was not ideal, but there were only two alternative Issues coercion co-ercion d,r conciliation. Whichever alternative al-ternative was adopted must be adopted whole-heartedly. All were agreed against coercion, but the treaty contained con-tained forces for persuasion which would bring the northeast Into bankruptcy bank-ruptcy if it stayed out of the Free State. i The speaker asked why British agents were being attacked and their arms taken away from them when there was no war In progrss, unless It was intended to turn those arms against the people. |