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There is a lesson in this tale of woe. It has been demonstrated that in this case, as elsewhere, the persons who wave the flag, make the "eagle scream," and are most volubly interested in the preservation of "personal liberty" are the gentlemen engaged in illicit liquor peddling and their idea of the "pursuit of happiness" which is guaranteed by the constitution goes very little farther than the privilege of profit...
...statement that a 'howling mob of McGill University students here tore down an American flag in Montreal on November 20th, spat on its trampled it underfoot and then did a snake dance on the soiled and trampled remnant,' is wholly and unqualifiedly untrue. The entire story which follows, established on these false premises, is equally untrue...
...insult directed at the flag of a great nation is indicative of serious and dangerous feelings. Judging from what the CRIMSON mind had to say in a recent editorial entitled "Greater Ireland," it appears that aspersions cast upon the Union Jack in America are regarded as more important and less friendly than the trampling on the Stars and Stripes by students of McGill University in Canada two weeks ago, and the similar defiling of this country's emblem by sailors of the British Navy over a year ago in Bermuda. Perhaps gross ignorance of what is going...
Aside from all contentions as to the right or wrong of the Sinn Fein movement and "free Ireland", the group of Irish sympathisers who attacked the New York Union Club, demanding that the British flag which was flying in celebration of the Pilgrim Tercentenary, be furled, made a grave mistake. While such an act cannot possibly hurt England, or England's honor, it may, however, easily bring harm to the Irish themselves. Such a demonstration of mob violence is only too likely to prove a boomerang. A people which loses its head and charges at an unprovocative flag like...
Canadian and Canadian newspapers will naturally find it difficult not to resent keenly the action of this gutter element among our nearest neighbors at the expense of an emblem which means a good deal to us. But we should realize that the insult is less to the British flag than to the United States itself...