Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-20 | Page 1 | Chicago Gives $50,000 Fund to Irish Relief

CHICAGO GIVES SSO.000 FUND TO IRISII BELIEF Five Hundred Persons Give $100 Each: Walsh Is Speaker CHICAGO, Feb. 19 Five hundred persons tonight raised 160,000 for relief re-lief work In Ireland by paying $100 each for a dinner given h tju American Ameri-can committee for relief In Ireland. Senator David I. Walsh ol Bdassa chusetts In an address said that while no American held any ill-feeling against the English people or deslrod to create dissension between England and the United States, this counter could not matnluin a hands off policy pol-icy as to Ireland. VALLEY OF DEATH. ' The people of Ireland are passing through iho valley of death." he said More than 100 towns have been more or less burned and destroyed. Nearly a quarter of a billion dollars worth of property has been confiscated More than 200,000 nun. women and children chil-dren are In need. Industry has been destroyed." DESIRE FRIENDSHIP. "No American dares to think of bringing about any Incident In relationships rela-tionships that would lead to serious misunderstanding between England and the United States It is because we desire friendship between r,ur nation na-tion and Great Britain that we seek to Impress on England the necessity of ending tho unhappy state of Ireland. Ire-land. But neither America nor any other civilized nation can stand Idly by and allow the conflagration to sweep through Ireland The policy of 'hands off Is a policy of stagnation and death "America ennnot but feel a real con-corn con-corn and cannot complacently watch a situation in any part of tho world when millions Of Americans Of Irish blood will know no contentment nor happiness until peace Is restored and suffering ended among their kindred."