The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-03-22
The san shine and shadow osItelahd.

Father Powers on the subject of
the "Sun Shine and Shadow of Ire
land" The speaker seemed to be
In the pink of feeling, and 1t was
not far into his subject that he had
gone, until his vast audience were
on tip-toe with his eloquence. He
painted beautiful pictures of Ire-
lands "Sun Shine" Not bright in
material things, shaded in poverty
and oppression, but burning,
brilliant star in freedoms spirit
and sanity hope. The "shadow"
that palled this glorious land, was
the oppression and tyranny of
England.
The speaker said, In the study of
this subject, he had tried not to be
prejudiced, but afte- long search
and much labor he had come to an
unbiased conclusion that no words
in the vocabularies Of any existing
language were demeaning enough
to express the infamy and tyranny
of England towards Ireland.
To prove that England's tyranni-
cal treatment of Ireland was in
spired by selfish and sordid motives,
he quoted from speech of Lord
Macauly "On the state of Ireland'
Ia 1874, In which he said that Eng
land never made any concessions
to Ireland unless compelled by
necessity to do so. He then show
ed from docu .nentary evidence that
a committee was sent to Ireland
by the King OF England in 1896 for
the express purpose of examining
into the country and reporting the
best means of keeping her In SUBJ
lection.
The committee reported that a
standing army In the hands of
Englishmen and checking the
growth of the country In trade and
manufacture, would prevent Ire
land from becoming dangerous to
England anywhere. Working on
the recommendation Of this COM
mittee, England convened Parlia-
ment In Dublin in 1896 for the ex-
press purpose of destroying Irish
trade, and laws were enacted which
made 1t illegal for the people of
Ireland to raise cattle, wool, to
manufacture hemp, linen, leather
or glass; In fact for centuries all
that the people of Ireland could
legally do was to pay rent tC
English landlords. One hundred
years ago the Irish found they
could reclaim their peat land BY
building ship canal from Galway
to Dublin, that the cost of the cana
would be more than Eve times re
: paid by the enhanced value of the
land, that by means of this cana
they could shoi ten the time seventy
hours in sailing to and from north
ern Europe; but the merchants il
the southern parts of England
thought this might prove Injurious
to them and hence Parliamen
would not allow It.
: The speaker then asked, "Afte
legislative record of this kin(
with one of her most vigorous ant
, productive dependencies, does no
England's pretentions to be a grea
civilizing agency cut ludicrou
figure"
"And the same motive" said h
switch prompted her to kill the in
] dustries of Ireland, has caused he
: to send In overwhelming number
her vandals to invade and murde
n mere handful of liberty lovin
Beers. Is il not strange coinci
g dence that the Boer's breakup
}, faith with England was simultane
r Gus with the discovery of the dis
K Inond mines in the Boer country
g And still the thought has found
= voice in this country, that thl
England, this veritable pirat
J. among the nations, this blood stair
J. ed exponent of oppression an
plunder, should be joined with U
2 for the benevolent purposes {
higher civilization"
- "Great God of Heaven and ver
Grated shades of our revolutionar
dead, strike us from the roll {
nations before permitting sue
degeneracy; let the tea that Is sti
brewing in Boston harbor loose II
flavor, let that monument of glor
which crowns the summit {
i. Bunker hill be broken and its fras
e. ments cast into the sea, let the Sol
stirring story of Paul Revere's rid
- fade into myth of cloud land, Il
every American battle field froI
Concord to Appomatox turn whit
as snow to show that the blood ,
free men is no longer reeking