Hence. in sulnitting this nmemorandunm against the inclusion of Irish nationals In the scope of the pending treaty. I wish clearly to disavow all intention to impute to your Government the motive which might be supposed to require this protest. Among the Irish here who *have not already volunteered are refugees of the revolutionary government of Irelanid. It is of the ethics of statehood to give sanctuary to political refugees. Even the unspeakable Turk refused. at the risk of war. to deliver up to Austria and Russia the Hungarian revolutionaries who within living nieinory sought haven at Constautlnople. And I do not for a moment fear that the Irsli refugees Ii the United States who conscientiously object to aid. either directly or indirectly. ii the aggrandizement of the British Empiro wilI be forced by treaty to attempt to lice to Mexico in search of a. safety denied them here. The results to be obtained from the inclusion of the Irish in such a treaty aire negligibl. Among immigrants the Irish are of the first to seek eitizensbTip. Of the hundreds of thousands ofadolescent Irishmen who before the war found existence impossible ini an Englishridden Icland almot all have becolme declarants or citizens. almost all are
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