Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — Hewitt and the Irish Flag. [ARTICLE]

Hewitt and the Irish Flag.

Mayer HeWitt, Tuesday, sent to the New York board of aldermen a communication defending his action in refusing to permit the Irish flag to be raised on the city hall on St. Patrick’s day. In it he says he is of the opinion that no flag bat the American has any right to float from puhlic buildings in this or any other city. He cannot see why, if Germany has to be ruled by Germans, and France by Frenchmen, America ought not be raled by Americans. It might be consl rued, he Bays that his action showed a feeling adverse to the Irish citizens of this city, bnt it is well known that their struggles ano aep r tiona for home rule always had, end always will have my heartiest support and sympathy.