Before the Treasury at Washington, yesterday (says the "Daily News" of June, 4), Irish-American women, in the presence of soldiers, sailors, and police, and with officials watching from the windows, burnt the British flag in the street. Gasoline was first poured on the Union Jack.
One woman kicked the embers saying: "Just another little Boston tea party to remind assassins not to go too far." Banners were displayed bearing such inscriptions as: "Congress, you need not enact laws to pay soldiers' bonus. Call in loans on England"; "England pays bonuses to soldiers fighting Ireland and India"; "Call loans to england and pay our boys"; "Kngland, hands off our oil wells"; "England seeks American friendship, but keep your eye on oil."
and "movie" men attended with The affair was carefully staged, cameras. When all was over, de-tactives turned up, but took no action. This feminist extravagence emanates chiefly from Boston and Philadelphia. Its origin is ultra-clerical, and against the movement the freemasons are organizing steadily but in great numbers.
Further excesses must be expect ed, and British opinion must recognize that a fierce religious struggle for temporal power is proceeding with Ireland as a pawn in the game.
'A confident belief here is that money exceeding a million dollars has been sent to Ifeland to k things going there, while politics proceed here. In Congress various Irish resolutions are the centre of ceaseless agitation, and the Press is at present being threatened in a manner which makes a fair statement of the case difficult. There is, however, a deep and growing resentment among Americans of average sympathies at the audacious strategy of the Irish Catholic sections.
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