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Show I Ministers Vho I Are in Favor Of Rome Rule I j protesiant niinistera in favor of' ome rule for Ireland hae sent out I' mhc followinc statement: ' Rp-.ri !.! :.'. I : r Brother I TV- religious aspect of the question B Irish Independence concerns you : Ml tally. Stripped ol its camouflage of fcolilical propaganda, the religious is-K is-K Eae of Ireland rnmes to this. the I Hrorid Is asked to believe that to main- H Bain its supremacy In Ireland the Trot Estant religion ; desirous of keeping j nation in political bondage and 10 Bttain the unhoh end is willing to use Kacblne guns, bomb-dropping nero-Ejanc'.-, the dungeon and the sword. I This Is a slander against our rcli-Boa rcli-Boa that Protestants ihe world over ; 5 enclave an p- r pie, no matter whal rflheir creed nm-hi be Protestants glad-lv glad-lv fond ' ' t'r- .;.!' . holic I it :m : 1 !.': !'!' estantism Is more hurt by the charge that it is selfishly opposed to the freedom free-dom of the Irish nation than is the cause, of Irish freedom President Eamon de Valera is the accredited representative of four-fif'.bs four-fif'.bs of the Irish people, duly elected to speak for them in a regular election ordered and held in Ireland under British supervision He is in our country to put. the case of his people before the bar of American public opinion. While he is in your city he will be glad to meet you and to answer any questions you may see fit to ask. We are not asking you to change your opinions, but we feel we have the right to ask before you give utterance Lo them that you assure yourself for the sake of moral probity as well as intellectual in-tellectual honesty, that your opinions are based upon a fair study of the case from both sides- Thus only can an honest conviction be arrived at The Inter-Church League invites you to hear President de Valera to accord him the same courtesy that the Irish people accorded to Benjamin Franklin when he advocated the cause ot the American colonies in Ireland. The Committee on arrangements In your city will be glad to see that you have a private interview with Mr. de Valera if you so desire We as': that you avail yourself of this opportunity for the sake of justice and fair play. We are fraternally vours, NORMAN THOMAS, 118 E. 28th St., New York, Minister of Presbvterian church. OWEN LOVEJOY, Charltlet Building. New York, Minister Minis-ter of the Congregational church W. B SPUFFORD, St. George's church, Chicago. Minister of the Episcopal church. G S. EACKLAND, Grace M E. church, Denver, Colo., Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church. Following are the names that ap pear on ihe letter head of the Inter-I Inter-I Church league: President, the Hon. John Milhol-iland, Milhol-iland, New York; vice president, Lind-laay Lind-laay Crawford, president Independent i Orange Lodges, editor The Statesman, Toronto; secretary, the Rev Noiman! 'Thomas, editor The World Tomorrow, N v York; treasurer, the Hon Wil liam Harmon Black, Woolworth build ing, New York; executive committee,! ; the Rev. Owen Lovejoy, president National Na-tional Conference of Social Work,! J New York; Mrs. William Johns Brown,; jWalbrook, Md.; Miss Garcia Goller, I i New York; Mr3. Nathaniel G Sexton I Jr., Baltimore. Prof. Herbert E. Cory, ! University of California; Trof. Arthur Uph'am Pope, New York; the Rev. G. A. Lackland. Ph. D.. Denver; the Rt, I I Rev. Frederick Lloyd. Chicago; thel jRev. William Ben Spofford, Chicago;1 Daniel C. O'Flaherty, Richmond, Va- |