Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-01
TEE IRISH QUESTION.
Hon. p. H. RahilIy's Review From a Prac-
tica1 Standpoint.
ITO the Editor of the Plsinview News.l


Perused your leading editorials
no the Irish question" il
the last three issues of your interesting
paper. Permit me to extend my deep fell
gratitude for the patriotic course you have
taken on this all absorbing question of the
present day. For it is not alone, an Irish
question, but question of the human
family the world over. notice that some
OF the local papers are taking exceptions
to your articles; one of them says: "Par-
ads is not an Irishman.'' Well, it is just
such gallant American writers the
drish cause needs at present.
Designate any man who wishes to
protect his own race only, and will have
no difficulty in pointing out the man that
should never be trusted in public pc
sition, that it was a mistaken freak of
nature that such ever existed under re-
publican form of government. No great
mind ever favored the persecution of
human being, of any race or color. In my
Judgment if the editors of the leading pa
pers of the United States would take
the same view of this greatest of
human prosecuting Institutions, ''Brit.
ish misrule in Ireland" it would not be
twelve months before the Irish people
would be IL possession of their native
parliament, for who don't know that
England is the greatest tyrant
on earth to her interiors, and
the most submissive to her superiors. Tt
IS astonishing the lack of knowledge of
Irish history displayed by some American
writers, otherwise intelligent and educated;
bat, of course, their knowledge of Irish
history = Ap pit l6
and one OF highlands greatest weapons, is
her lying press to Islander the Irish race in
this country. You correctly state that
England from the earliest times has rob-
bed the Catholic Irish, first, of their prop
erty, then of their labor, and not content
with this, has murdered innocent men,
women and children, by the thousands in
the vain hope of robbing them of their
religion" You might have gone
further, and stated that Catholic
England treated Catholic Ireland
as harshly as did Protestant England. The
impartial close student of history will find
no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion
that England has always been prepared, as
far as in her power, TO enslave the human
family to aggrandize her own aristocracy.
Some of the journals referred to applauded
the patriotic Irishmen at the Philadelphia
convention. So did we all. That conven-
ton had principles to sustain, and policy
to uphold. But if England will persist, as
she has in the last six hundred years, to
hang Irish heroes, and imprison Irish
statesmen, much as we abhor dynamite,
We sincerely believe that every true
American will agree with US in wish
ing the Irish patriots God speed in their
efforts, fair or foul, to relieve themselves
of British tyranny. Indeed, the man with
a drop of Irish blood in his veins who
would refuse assistance to brave struggl-
ing people, to be relieved from the most
brutal tyrants on earth is unworthy of the
freedom he may enjoy himself. 1t is much
TO be regretted by the friends of freedom
everywhere that there are a few miscalled
American journals who seem to be willing
to defend the wholesale confscation, muir
der and rapine of the English government
in Ireland. If such journals had exist
ed when the great American people con-
verted Boston harbor into teapot"
they undoubtedly would have at
tempted to defend British rule on this
side of the Atlantic. You will notice in
every large city at least one of these IN
principled papers enters the infamous
employment of a foreign government. The
time is not far distant when such will need
all the dishonorable coin it can get to pro-
long its existence, but, the English corrup-
Gion fund can never affect the American
press as whole. II reply to those writers
who hold up their hands IN holy horror at
O'Donavdn Rosa and his followers, |
would simply say: Every man with a con-
science must deplore the appearance of
such a symptom in the Irish question.
Denunciation is in order | admit.
but it is denuncjation of the system
that created this shocking condi-
ton of things. The real Dynamite
fends" are the English government and
its jackals in Ireland, of the Forster stamp
England has sowed the seeds of dynamite
in Ireland, and everywhere her accursed
rule has been chained on the necks of the
ruined nation. Evil arrives at the brink
of the precipice sooner or later; England
must turn back from her present course in
Ireland, or she may have explosions nearer
home. This dynamite work is evidently the
direct result of the long continued wicked
ness of the government of England, in Ire
land. Brute force begets brute force, and
chains, cells, starvation and scorn have made
the Irish ''irreconcilable" The English
government and O'Donovan Rosa repre-
sent precisely the same thing, saw
agery. The only difference is that
English government began the deviIish
system, for which they framed laws as vile
as their purpose was dishonest, and threw
their explosives from their cannons, so you
see the right of the matter is on the Irish
side. Bayonets and cannons do not make
right. God is not necessarily on the side
of hireling judges. In fact, the entire
English organization in Ireland, army,
law, and social order, is body Of lawless-
ness and robbery unequaled on the civil
lied globe. This organization has driven
certain number Of Irishmen out Of rea-
son, and into recklessness, and hence, the
dynamiters and their secret organizations.
There are two points I wish to call the at
tention of your intelligent readers to.
First-Are the Irish people Justly en-
titled to the sympathy of Americans II
their struggle for freedom from a relent-
less foe:
Second-Are the Irish people capable
and deserving of self-government?
In answer to the former 1 would say that
during our civil war the English govern
ment was our greatest enemy and no doubt
prolonged the conflict much longer than
it would otherwise have been. In fact it
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