The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-01
The Isle of Heroes.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle
rejoiced in my heart and aloud at thi
| able answer of Jas. D. Mcguire sent 4
| your article Irish Ingratitude." l burn
ed with Indignation against It, and
! feVer to answer X, but delayed 20 get tht
very data which he has supplied. viz
| the nationality of 'tthe Irish leaders IL
/ parliament, Daniel Macaluse, NJ. P. fol
Carlin. etc, who telegraphed their sym
! pathy to Maria's boy. Alfonso XIII"
There is no Irish ingratitude, no Irisf
| disfavor to America. and no Irish fmpo-
] tence 10 aid this cause against Spain; but
there is the most growing alarm on The
Irish integers of this nation, lest on the
proffered Anglo-Saxon alliance, their pool
kinsman in the Emerald Isle be left tc
eternal bondage. There is the suotesi
foresight In furthering this alliance. IN
the expressions of sympathy 10 Spain by
those Scotch leaders of the Irish in the
English parliament: who love England
more than their constituents or their
cause. and the editor OF the Eagle knows
that when famine and pestilence visits
the island, 1t is not its patricIan III. P. S
who suffer.
The contemplated alliance is abhorent "a
every American who is but the scion OF
the oppressed Purftans who sorrowfully
LEFT the tyranny Of England. and died TO
protect the spirit Of freedom they con-
ceived. 1t IS unbearable to the Irish
Americans, who know that England, the
oppressor OF the Irish. not for a century
as Mr.. Murdoch again wrongly states,
but for nearly four centuries. now sohctts
II That philanthrophy prompts this al
lance no one dreams. That honor IN
tegrity. devotion, friendship, kinship or
any other virtue, is equally impotent cali
out her mighty aid. all concede. Il is not
because OF our weakness. but or our
strength. she seeks a common palladium
to use later to her advantage.
The Irish, whose every pulse peat mas
Quckened for America, her foster mother.
her only hope for emancipation. scorns
this alliance with her implacable enemy,
than whom 'sMaria and her boy and all
their mouldy ancestors who instigated the
Spanish InQuisition." can never equal.
Even the hateful nationality was fasten-
ed upon horse, and It became crime
by the Kilkenny statutes, to allow an
Irish horse to Craze upon-grass What
kind of grass? The grass of Ireland that
was not Irish, of course, because wrested
from the Irish by confiscation, fines and
determinations from the time of the GOOD
Queen Bess." From that time to less
than fifty years ago the penal laws that
engendered illiteracy, slothfulness and de-
generacy that made Englands and Ire
lands history shameful by the first use
u the MOIu PdOpCiB A4o'O SSN+A -
That the indicative spirit, preserved. par
adoxicaI as it may seem by the very sun
rise and sunset laws" that were enacted
to destroy It, now rises up In wrath and
fury by the fantasy Of this alliance, proves
the Irish spirit to be of the strongest con-
stitution OF nations, ana its gratis all over
the world will succeed in w1ping from
IreIand's fearful but truthful face, the
stains of ages.
Every Irish woman, or woman with q
drop of Irish blood and Irish patriotism,
should in these earthquake times enkindie
her love with learning the history of the
isle that was once the university to the
world the green spot that has gloriously
mothered heroes and herosm for nations
to emulate.
AS mother earth precedes all her pro-
geny. so does mother conception Of right
and Justice precede all valor and patriot
ism. She is the ''secret and heart Of hu-
mainly; in her thoughts is the embryo Of
future destinies." The study of an op
pressed but still vigorous people cannot
but add to American valor while 1t in
cludes Irish patriotism.
Let Wichita women add one more club TO
her twenty-seven. and organize Pa
triotic Club of Irish History. The time is
fitting. suspicious this centennial year OF
the dreadful "9S."
MRS. r. H. ELLSWORTH.
Wichita, Kan, May 2S, 1898.