Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1884-01-02
For the Smyrna Times.
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! MR.. EDTTOR.-I will again ask your
permission to present a few more facts
D concerning down-trodden Ireland y
AS for those solid truths" by w.
McC., in late issue of the Record, it is
hardly worth my while to notice. as
the fact is apparent to every one who
has read his article and seen the wav
IN which he has endeavored to twist
the single sentence he has quoted from
me, that his article is entirely mis-
named. 1t is much like the editor of
the Record, teaching the laws and Gus
TOMS OF country of which he did not
even know the geography. And when
this man purpOrts to tell "solid truths"
and begins by perverting and turning
and twisting a sentence that even a
child could understand, what depen-
dence could be put in the rest of his
article? l answer; none. His evil
dence would not be accepted in anv
court of justice. And let me assure
the people of Smyrna that that SEN
tence is no more twisted and the mean
ing perverted than is the rest of his
article. Why, he cannot even talk
about Delaware without throwing his
slurs and calling our State "bleak salt
marshes" And when he goes to his
home in New York, or wherever it is
II he has any, he will be talking about
Delawareans as Ignorant foresters."
have heard such people before.
But there is some excuse for him as |
he no doubt is a monomaniac ON the
subject of Ireland's wrongs :" per-
maps descendant of one of the old
irish chleftains, tracing his ancestry to
Phelim O'Neil, or perhaps away back
to Phinn Maccool. And as he no doubt
mas his heart set on the Mansion of
Lord Donraghmore he is afraid of find
ing some relative to contest his right
when Ireland is free-to cut their own
Threats. But as he also wants to "hurl
from power the hybrid head of the
British Empire" it is likely he is aim
ing at being " Lord of the Highlands,
then how those poor Scotch would suf-
fer; the dragons of Claverhouse were
nothing in comparison with what w.
McC.'s Fenian army will be. You
need not be afraid w. Nee. never
will contest your right, as neither Won
nor will ever see that day. But as
you talk great deal about citizenship.
saying there is one subject of Great
Britain in Delaware" let me ask you a
few questions. What constitutes a
citizen of these United States? Does
1t take a man to be Communist in the
land of his birth to become a citizen ;
And cannot man be citizen if he I
wishes to see all the world at peace? !
Can not Russian be a good citizen if
he wishes and prays for the downfall of
Nihilism and for the prosperity of his
native land? And cannot an Irishman
be good citizen if he wishes to see :
peace and prosperity reign in the Brit
ish dominions and to see that "f]ap
that has braved a thousand years the
battle and the breeze" float over a
happy and contented peopleP Now
search your own heart w. McC. and ..
tell us how far your citizenship ex- :,
tendsP You can say hate England :
and came here to forward the interests
of my Irish friends and when they gain
the cause for which they fight I will :
return and demand my portion of the /;
spoils. What an empty title is such j.
But it is no wonder he ,
hates English rule when he could only
make $1.25 week, as 1 know female
hands who used to make from 81 to Sc c
every week of their lives in one of t
those linen factories. He reminds me a
much of some of the peach-plucks l I
heard this last Summer when the @
growers would only give them rs cents /
q day, and because they could not get t
more, and get employment all the i
time, l have heard them breath out v
some terrible anathemas against not b
only the farmers but also the State and g
even the Government. And if those .
factory operatives are in a state of A
iemi-starvatiOn " they are a mighty b
healthy looking lot of people to be t.
as 1 never saw factory hands A
ook more like having their food and a
plenty of it. And for dress, why they
ire monOpolists of all the fashions of >,
he day. But I will speak more of this
1t another time and will also give some q
acts concerning the famine of '46 and :"
AZ. w. Nee, your solid truths" :,
stand on a mighty shakey foundation
md like the house built upon sand, =
he first blast knocks the whole rotten, y
hakey structure wriggling in the :. q
mud" and as they never attained much
height or magnitude we cannot even a
ay How great was the fall thereof" u
| will now give some extracts from !,
gentleman well known in this commu- II
lity, if not personality at least by rep :,
man who stands high among p
'ur Methodist divines, and who is p
by all who know him as a n
nan, a scholar and Christian. l !
mean DIR. Stokes, President of the ;,
Ocean Grove Association, who is now !,
travelling in Europe, and from his cor !;
published in the Ocean r
Grove Record of December 18th, from a
The Land of the Shamrock" / take =;
he following quotations: After tell T
ng how he passed from Cork and :.
Killarney ON the extreme South to =
Giants Causeway at the extreme :
North he says Ireland is much bet.
,er than we expected. Its land is bet,
,er." Then after giving the general 2