Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — JUDGE RILEY MAKES ADDRESS [ARTICLE]

JUDGE RILEY MAKES ADDRESS

IRISH ORATOR MAKES DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS IN THIS CITY TUESDAY NIGHT. Judge T. R. Riley, of Boston, Mass., made an address at the New Ellis Opera House Tuesday evening. There was a good sized audience present, many of them being of the sam* nationality as the speaker. From the standpoint of an orator, the judge was equal to any one who has spoken in this city. He recited the glorious history of this great nation in a most interesting, while somewhat extended, “discourse. He attempted to be fair, but evidently would still have been against the League of Nations, had not his life long participation in the Democratic party impressed upon him the necessity of party regu- ' larity. ' He said that he had made five thousand speeches in the Irish cause. For many months he talked against the League of Nations. That he had traveled extensively in the old world and during the war made addresses for the government. » He is a man of large means and had offered the Democratic national committee the largest, gift they would receive or to give his time and effort, paying his expenses in the campaign. The committee told him to go out, and he has spent a week in Kansas, a week in Missouri, last week he was in Kentucky and this week he is stumping Indiana. Everything he said was from the standpoint of the. Irish question, he having been sent here to try to line up the Irish, most of whom stand with the “Friends of Irish Freedom’* against the League of Nations. . He made the statement that the only hope Ireland had in its fight for freedom was through the league. He said that 4he idea of Great Britain having six votes to every other nation’s one amounted ,to nothing as only the negative votes count. He did not tell his Irish friends that one vote, in tj»e negative would lose their cause in the league and that England would always have one vote and. later may have more in the Council as Canada has been assured that she may be elected a member of the Council. Nor did he tell them that England could have - the question referred to the Assembly and there England has six votes and all propositions are carried or lost by majority vote. - Every Irishman, who will read the League of Nations, must know that every nation which joins the League, pledges itself to England’s side of the ' controversy. The league guarantees the political integrity of every nation which is a member. - < - Irish freedom will be lost instead of won should the League of Nations as it was written by an Englishman and fathered by Woodrow Wilson become effective.