The daily critic., 1890-10-07
THE TIMES ANSWERED
A FITTING REPLY TO THE SNEERS OF
The "THUNDERER."
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Every kind American heart has been
moved to indignation by the brutal arti-
Gle in the London Times Of Thursday
last describing the movement for the
relief Of suffering in Ireland as
bogus famine BOOM and sneering at
it as an elecioneering dodge on the
part Of "the party bosses and wire
pullers OF all sorts TO win Irish votes
in The coming elections. This
DIsCREDITED AND DIsREPUTABIE NEWS
PAPER
has the impudenCe to tell the American
citizens who are moving for the relief
of ireland, first, that there Is no famine
or imminent danger of famine, and
secondly, that Il is an impertinent In
trusion for them TO meddle in a work
of philanthropy which belongs TO the
British Government and the British
people.
There is an executive government in
Ireland says the Times with q sneer,
that Is primarily responsible for the
lives OF its subjects. The appeal of the
committee with splendid consistency
Ignores the existence Of this country,
Its governments, and It's people" And
the London Times goes on with
BoyBAsTIC RHETORIC
to ask "Do Mr. Wilson and his friends
soberly imagine that they can persuade
America that the English people, whose
magniilCence In all good work Is known
TO the end Of the world, would tolerate
the shame Of seeing their own fellow
citizens suffer hunger unreleved 2
When has any land, cause or people
appealed in vain? Is it to be supposed
that TO the distress Of Ireland alone the
charity Of Britain is closed2'
TIE DIRECT ANSWER
TO these humbug boasts Is to be found
In the editorial columns of this same
newspaper of forty. four years AGO. On
April %, 1916, the terrible year Of
starvation for Ireland. the London
Times made this inhuman reply 20 the
pathetic appeal from across the channel:
What does the Irish party expectY Is the
State to do all, and individuals nothing? are
we, the people Of England, TO furnish all
the money and the landlords Of Ireland to
put 10 IN their pockets In the shape Of rent?
suppose Il 20 be true that the measures
hitherto attempted for the relief Of Ireland
have not answered the expectations Of the
country, what does this prove? What but
that TO feed starving nation Is a task be-
yond the ordinary power Of Government
The men Of Ireland appealed for
food for their starving wives and dying
little ones, and the London Times re
piled "Arc we, the people OF England.
TO furnish all the money, and the land.
lords Of Ireland to put Il in their pocl.
cts In the shape Of rent p"
AZ that time hundreds Of thousands
Of men, women and children IA Ireland
were
ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT FOOD
In that year Of grace 1916 alone 2i5..
600 people were starved TO death In Ire
land and In the dreadful six years
which followed more than 900, 900
human beings perished on that island
from ismine or from the pestilence
that resulted fom the famine.
The London Times is now good
enough to say that when the awful
emergency OF iSl8 appealed 10 Inc sym.
pathy Of the world the American people
displayed a noble charity; but We search
In vain through the editorial columns
NA NAAA Hff'Nn va NAANA NNAANhA AhA "a nAAkIE
word designed TO stimulate the gener-
oslty Of the English people. The In.
tuence and power of that newspaper
were then almost limitless. 1t had not
then by stupid and
CRbnNALIY DISHONEST MANAGEMENT
fallen 10 an inferior place In English
journalism. II could have saved thou
sands Of human lives by presenting in
good season the dire necessities OF
Ireland 10 that magnificent British
philanthropy 10 which, as the Times now
boasts, no land, cause OF people ever
appealed IN vain. Old men and women,
perishing Of hunger, and babes starving
In their dying mothers arms cried out
TO the London Times for help and food
and the only response Of the Times was
the heaTtless paragraph which We have
already quoted, and, fortnight later,
this magnilOquent disquisition on state
Of affairs which 1t made no effort to
remedy, but pronounced hopeless;
What Is to be done with Irelaudg What
Is 20 be done for Irelauds On an other
questions human sagacity finds It's due,
human experience utters its oFacles, human
charity traces IT'S mission. But here ex-
perience, charity and sagacity are an at
fault. Time, which aCcumulates rich sp0lls
fTom the fragments Of empires, and pours
the full tide Of ancient memories 70 illus
uate and 10 guide the statesmen OF the
present day, has reserved nothing from the
stOTehOuse Of antiquity which can enlighten
or reward tie wanderer IN the labyrinth OF
Irish policy. The blackuess Of thick dark
ness Is gathered over the future, the gloom
Of sin aud suffering OTeTshadoWs the past
of Irish history, One By one, each axiom
Of our commercial or our international
policy has been promulgated and Affirmed.
We have learned the arts Of colonial do
miUiOu and Of foreign influence. We have
established the theory of trade and eX-
tended the privileges of constitutional
liberty, but We have not learned how 10
govern Ireland
Is there here a sufficient answer 70
the questions asked by this organ of
injustice aud this instrument Of heart
less crime which now impudenuy warns
the American Relief Committee 10 desist
fIOm an enterprise undertaken iu the
name of common humanity
Two Workmen Injured