Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1920 — LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

In WAch &. &pN«. ’EdifeM- MeAad and Exarifner:,. I Sir— letters in your ‘‘Letters. iFrom the People column criticizing an alleged statement to Senator Harding and attributed to me have been published in the last two days. I did not tell Senator Harding the Irish-American* would support him generally. The trend of the IrishAmerican vote was never discussed by us. I think we both consider their so complete and full that they ought not to be treated as a class, or division, in this country: ■ I am not responsible for the statements of zealous reporters, and I am not deUvering any vbte except my own, to any person. That vote I expect to deliver against the league of nations, both oh. account - of my Americanism and my ancestry. . ■ My first reason is that I will try to withhold this Country from entering into a league of nations that is to be ruled by a council of nine, knowing, as I do, that six of those nine members sent to that council are from countries ruled kings and emperors. While but three come from republics. That would be putting freemen in bondage, instead of making bondmen free, which was the declared purpose of this .world's

war. My second reAson is that I refuse to vote this country into a league of nations, where, in the other court—the assembly—England sends six Votes, and America one, while Ireland sends none, and, as a practical man, I know that England, by her naval force, embracing all the eseas, can bring ' such economic" pressure as would compel every other country on the globe to vote her will when her interests are stake.' My third reason is that I will not ask this country, to enter into a league of nations when after having been given six votes, is also giyen the secretary-general in the person of Eric Drummond, a •member of England’s aristocracy, who received his training as the private secretary to Arthur Balfour, i PATRICK H. O’DONNELL. I (Taken from the Chicago Herald;Examiner). . f The writer of the above letter is well and favorably known here. He ।is one of the best lawyers and keenest thinkers in Chicago. He is an •Irish-Catholic and is a true American representative of that splendid group of loyal Americans.