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Show AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. Parade of Irish Societies Resolutions Resolu-tions Adopted. Columbus. O.. Sept. 2.i. The Kinmet centennial celebration here today was participated in by Irish-Americans from all sections of Ohio. It is estimated that 25.000 excursionists were brought into th3 cilv. There was a parade early in the afternoon of Irish societies. About Z,v) men were in line. Followins the parade there was a mass-nieeting mass-nieeting at the Columbia auditorium, at which addresses of welcome were delivered de-livered by Governor Nash and Mayur .Tef frev. The following resolutions were adopted: "We. Irish-American citizens of Ohio, affirm our undying allegiance to the principles prin-ciples for which Robert Kmmct fought and died. Our ambition is th:it of Km-niet. Km-niet. to see a republic established 011 I Irish soil. "We believe with the American colonists, colon-ists, that whenever a government fails to secure for its people those unalicnabto rights, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, happi-ness, that that government is a failure 'Hid it is not only the privilege biit the dutv af the people to resort to revolutionary revolution-ary measures to secure those rights tor themselves and their posterity. "We. as American citizens) are unal- teraoiy opposed to any alliance, open or secret, written or verbal, between the I'nited states and Great Britain. "We congratulate the Jrisli race on the fact that through the hundreds of years of unparalleled persecutions they have maintained their spirit of nation-alitv. nation-alitv. Ami we have unbounded faith that I this spirit will he maintained' until V.fi takes her place among the nations of tin-earth." |