" ONE DE VALERA"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 8

" ONE DE VALERA"

HIS RECEPTION AT SEATTLE ■ DISCUSSED. Characterising - Eamonn de. Valera, whoso invitation ,to speak at Seattle as a. guest of the city was recently under consideration by tho City Cpuncil, as an opportunist, the members of tho Presbyterian Synod in session there unanimously adopted a/resolution demanding that no official notice be taken of him (states the Seattle correspondent of the Christian Scionco Monitor"). The resolution wng introduced into tho City Council by Councilman John.,®. Carroll'. In asking that the city refrain from taking any official notice of de Valera's presence in the city,'the Synod's resolution is as follows:—

"Whereas, It hag been brought to our attention that a resolution is soon to bo presented to you urging that you in your respectively offioial capacities invito one do' Valera, who purports to bo the president of some imaginaiy republic of Ireland, to speak in this city; and "AVheroas, The said de Valera is the same 'person who led a revott in Dublin against the British Army when civilisation was battling for. its existence against tho Germans, and "Whereas, The cowardly action of this opportunist caused tho keeping of over 21)0,000 troops stationed in Ireland who were sorely needed by - their bwtliren at the front; and "Whereas, The keeping of thljl force at homo cost countless thousands of lives to the S.oyal troops of Ireland and :tho prolongation of the war and undoubtedly the cost of more lives to our ftwn troops before the war was ended; aiid

"Whereas, This man is not a statesman, representing the best traditians of Irolni/d, but is an opportunist with tho spirit of a traitor, wo most strenuouety opposo any official acts on your part should this person bo invited to the city.' "Wo wish to add that we in no manner are opposed to the solf-dctermination of Ireland, nor aro wo in 'any manner opposiing the freedom of speech to any who may corno to our midst, but wo aro opposed to officially receiving one who in tho darkest hour of tho world's need was willing to sacrifice his fellowmen and their hopes for setilsh and narrow purposes.. Wo, therefore, most earnestly petition Your Honour and the honourliblo City Council of Seattle that no officii act'whatever bo takon in this matter."

An American legislator, Senator A. Capper, of Kansas, has penned tho following appreciation of President Wilson's sartorial niceties: "The President reoeived me in the largo reception room just off tho -room that ho uses as an office. No ono elso was present. I spent an hour with. him. . . .. Next to his amiability I was most impressed by tho liicoty of his dress. Ho was attired in a blue coat, while flannol trousers and the most immaculate of white kid shoes. His cravat, or tie, as we say out West, was tied with the mo6t punctilous care. It recalled an old saying of my boyhood. Ho looked like he might have 'just stepped out of a bandbox/ I had observed tho samo care in regard to his attiro when ho appeared before the Sonato to ideliver tho Peaco Treaty. Certainly Woodrow Wilson deserves the titlo of our 'boat dressed President.' Not in aur timo has any President been so punctilious as to dreea."