Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-26 | Page 12 | Mass Meeting for Mac Swiney

MASS MEETING . FOR MAG SWINEY I I Englishman Beaten By Crowd ! At Gathering of Irish Sympathizers i NEW YORK. Oct. 26. Thousands of Irish sympathisers attended mass meetings lost night, protesting acaint what the termed the "murder by the Imperialistic jgoYernmeht of Oreat Uri1.-ain," Uri1.-ain," of Lord Mayor Terence M;u -Swiney Dudley Field Malone, Farmer-Labor parly candidate for governor of New York, Walter E Halloway. of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, and several Irish women, speaking to a great crowd in Columbia Colum-bia circle, criticised the government at Washington and the Kepublican and. Democratic national candidates "for refusal to intervene in tho Cause oi l Ireland ' IRISH FLAGS THERE. F'lags of the Irish republic and of) America and buttons bearing the pho-1 tograph of Mayor MacSwiney were dls-1 tributed in the crowd, which booed and hissed every mention of the British government and Premier Lloyd I George, while references to MacSwl , ney as "one of the greatest martyrs In history." and to the "Irish repub j lie," wero greeted sith prolonged applause. ap-plause. BRITON BEATEN. A younr man in the crowd who said he was an Englishman belittled remarks mad? by one of the speakers J and was severely beaten before rescued res-cued by policemen. "The torture and death of MacSwl-' ney," Mr. Malone said. "Is a sacred I service to liberty everywhere. Not in half a century has one man bv ih-pimple ih-pimple offer of his life, done so much 1 to arouse the moral conscience of men ; 'and women everywhere who love lib , erty. This man's death ha destroyed the prestige of the British government beyond the power of the combined land to repair it The death of this wealth and economic influence of Eng hero, after many days of torture and agony has exposed thr pretenses that Great Dritian wants the league of nations na-tions to assure self-determination to i.iiiiri-s-i d i" "pi"-. RESOLUTIONS ADOFTED. ' If this young Irishman could leave his wiie and child and lay down his life for his country's freedom, will not millions of men and women in this country of every blood, stock and creed, raise their voices in a compel! ing demand that our president and our government at Washington officially voice the indignation of ihe American people at England's contempt for man kind ?" Resolutions adopted by the Frlendi of Irish Freedom in another meeting protested against "the murder of Ter once MacSwlney" and declared: "We charge Lloyd George with the com mission of this most heinous crime."