Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1919 — WAS TRAITOR TO THE ALLIES [ARTICLE]

WAS TRAITOR TO THE ALLIES

And Likewise a Traitor to the United States of America. Just why any real American citizen should extend the glad hand to that arch traitor, De Valera, the so-called “(president of the Irish republic,” passes all comprehension. De Valera, In the first place, never ought to have been permitted to land In this country and even now should- be given his walking papers and a swift kick under the coat tails and headed back to his Seln Feiners, who did everything they could to aid the Germans In the late world war. It should not be forgotten either that De Valera is seeking support on the theory that he and his followers stabbed an American ally whenever the opportunity was offered. It may well be remembered also that It was De Valera’s Seln Felner constituency that mobbed American sailors in the , streets of Cork so that in order to avoid further trouble It was necessary to declare the city “out of bounds” for our men. He boasts that Ireland justified her nonparticipation in the world war and was glad of an opportunity to stab the mother country—England—and that Ireland, as such, refused to recognize the principle of conscription and declined to give aid to Great Britain at a time when Germany threatened to crush the empire.