New-York tribune., 1900-04-15

sycophant falsifer history and a forger, and
in contriving the Bull OF Adrian and pawnng It or
genuine upon credulous age he was merely
living up TO his record It a clever forgery and
clevery promulgated. The world first heard OF II
as being produced IN council OF Irish bishops
nearly twenty years after the Pope who was said
TO have given ii had passed from busy life to
the silence of the The council OF Irish bishops
the coinage OF John OF Salisbury's brain. It
never received promulgated the precious docu-
ment. Had the Bull existed before n76 Henry
would have gladly produced II either Of his visits
to Ireland. The Bull signed, sealed and de-
nvered at Rome, according to John of Salisbury.
but the day and date Pope Adrian was in
exile far from Rome Again. were the Bull genuine
a copy would have been religously preserved like
all similar documents in the records of the Papacy.
No such copy exists in the archives of the Vatican
and there is evidence that IT ever has existed
No sane man who knows the history of Pope
Adrian's time believe the genuineness OF the
reputed Adrian Bull Nicholas Brakespeare
scion OF the hated and downtrodden Saxon race,
had carved his way 10 the throne of Supreme Pom
tiff. His rise from serfdom poverty and obscurity
is of the dramatic incidents of the Middle
Ages, and in the resplendent office which he achieved
he the impacable foe of the feudal barons
and kings that then scourged Europe. He hurled
anathemas a the head of every wrongdoer and
the wrongdoer paid him back with hate and scorn.
Pope Adrian knew Henry II well He had seen
thousand evidences Of the unbridled passion lust
and Of Henry Pantagenet before that worthy
acquired the throne Of England. Adrian knew
that with that same Henry the Church rated
a deadly struggle. He him in Normandy
approprattng the revenues of Church and
thrusting hts unworthy minions and tools into
Church dignites He disliked and feared the
young tyrant, and Pope he preparing for
a fierce struggle with Henry when he died. John
of Salisbury Adrian knew the most unscrupulous
of this tyrant King, and IL Is prepOsterous %
imagine that this great democratic Pope, whose
boIa aOda Ipyvla aya inst
the despotism of medieval kings, could have ever
given such document Henry II and John of
Salisbury fathered upon him.
POINTS THAT ARE IRRELEVANT.
Your correspondent also wishes to know which
of the clauses OF the Treaty Of Limerick is unful-
filled. He might just unreasonaby ask which
parts Of the mutilated Venus of Milo are unre-
stored. Again. he wants to know whether William
Of Orange Engishman. and whether the
Jacobtes not really majority OF the Eng
lish people. I cannot see what relevance such
academic questions with the subject under
discussion. What matters whether the blood
of Stuarts. Of the BourbOns or Of the House OF
Orange were uppermost in the veins Of William.
excelled the Stuarts in falsehood and the Bour-
bons IN ability. He the greatest liar and
cheat in Europe, but withal able He
wheedled his English Parliament for gold TO fight
the battles of the Dutch with France. II we can
believe his confidential communications to the Pope.
whose ally he was he strove 70 curb the scoundres
TO whom he had given the government or Ireland,
but he himself was a sharer in the plunder they
wrung from that unhappy land. Why waste time
discussing such kings? Why waste space alludng
OF Stuart to the vile, vulgar
profigate House of Hanover that England sub
stituted for them? 1 think It is Euripides that
makes Hecuba say, "Accursed be the whole race
of kings and princes" l do not go SO far but
the fetichism of loyalty 10 princes does not COM
mend itself to
But after all we are looking for light on wider
"a a
exact picture of the Ireland the past that Amer
leans may clearly understand conditions In the
Ireland OF to-day and that they may also under
stand the real inspiration the Irish through
out the world. Life s short waste time
quibbles. and humbug. believe in calling
a spade a spade up 10 the very end OF a spades
handle, and the man who states in your columns
or insnuates in your columns or elsewhere that
II was an Irish Parliament and Irish executive
that inflicted all the evils Ireland suffered during
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must be
a sophist fool a humbug. RE may have read
history. but he Is incapable of sitting fact from
fiction and silence Irish history more
becoming him than speech The Norman knights
and warriors that went 10 Ireland IN the twelfth,
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries soldiers
OF fortune in search of adventure and having
fought with Irish chief against the other they
usually ended up by ntermarriage with the fair
daughters of Erin, and settled down and became
Irish in heart and sentiment. The assima ton of
the Normans with the Celts Of Ireland formed a
of the word But when Cromwell marched through
ireland and parceed the lands OF the old chiefs
and leaders among his canting sodiery. he estab-
ished ireland a horde OF pirates who had nHught
in with the old or with the Anglo-Irish
families. Forty years after Cromwell. William OF
Orange came. and a connscation and
settlement OF Ireland made for the English.
Dutch and French Adventures that followed VIII
lam. Ireland last conquered. and Cromwell
ianite and Villa mite made common cause together
for the purpose OF effectualy pundering and
robbing the Irish people resent little short OF
insult TO my intelligence the insinuation that
either Wiilinmite Cromwelianite were Irish.
WHY THERE WAS NO SYMPATHY.
Twelve generations OF Ottomans were born in
sight OF Salamis and Thermopyie and in the
shadow the Acropolis Children of satraps and
pachas gazed upon the blue waves OF the Ionian
Sea. and from the cradle 10 the grave beheld the
sun the sky the hills and the dales the rills
and the fountains the flowers and the foliage
that inspired the Greeks OF old 10 deathless deeds
OF glory. But they caught inspiration from
such scenes. and never iei, thrill glow az