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3.

Whatever Executive action in the
direction of true American neutrality
may yet come from Washington, will
be due to the Irish in America more
perhaps than to any other influence.

Without them and their political
organization, America might well be,
today, openly assailing Germany in
the ranks of the Allies.

We may not yet have secured
the prohibition of War materials to the
Allied armies. We have, at any rate,
kept the United States out of the ring of
active assailants of Germany.

We have done more.
We have practically killed recruiting,
I believe, in Ireland.

Instead of the 200.000, or even 300.000
men, England relied on from Ireland, as
the advance payment for the Home Rule
Bill, There have been only some 50.000
voluntary recruits from all Ireland, up