Today -100: May 3, 1920: Of moral leprosy

Pres. Wilson naturally opposes the Republican measure passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to repeal the declarations of war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Homer Cummings, chairman of the DNC, presumably speaking on behalf of the White House, says it is evidence of the “moral leprosy which is eating out the heart of the Republican Party.”

Some days ago Sinn Féin kidnapped 6 men who had robbed a large sum from bank officers in Cork, presumably intending to extract that money from the robbers for The Cause. They have held a secret court and pronounced the men guilty and will deport them, to where is not revealed, though they offer to hand them over if the bank wants them, but not to any British officials.

The last 35 hunger-striking Sinn Féin prisoners are released from Belfast jail.

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