The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-01-07
WHY NOT LET IRELAND COZ
(New York Sum-

The best thing that England could do today
would be to set Ireland at liberty There Is moth
ing else that would much conducc TO English
happiness, prosperity and security
Give Ireland. not home rule. but complete sepa-
ration and liberty. Let her be a race people and
nation apart. Tie no string to her freedom i'm
pose no restriction but the between and let her
go free as the air, like bird from its prison
There is no way, and there never will be any
way, of turning Irishmen into Welshmen or Scotch
NEIL They are impossible of absorption. 10 gov
ern them is vain. They might be all shot or the
might be all drowned, but they can never be do
mesticated while Ireland remains an island
Since England became civlizcd-abou5 cen
tury agone-aIl her attempts at governing instead
of numbering Ireland have been the derisop of at
= tentlve nations. Her injustice has been hard to
bear but her Cancellation has been more intoarable
yet The more she placates the more she bears
gifts with both hands, the more exasperating and
utterly without hope the situation becomes
There was once that did languish seven
teen dreadful years Iii darksomc dungeon foul
when bright thought struck him and ne opened
the window and got out There is the very idea
Put away the futility of ages, open the window and
let Ireland free
Captain Mahan, who is really an Irishman in a
heavy disguise says that England cannot afford TO
set Ireland free because of the fatal weakness that
would then be hers when she went to war with one
OF the powers by reason of having hostile nation
tAN''N'SA
word of it.
Ireland, given her liberty without condition.
agreement, treaty stipulation could never De an
enemy IN the rear. The Irish are nos built that
way. 10 make such thing possible, Ireland would
have to be removed to the furthest spot on the globe
Contlgulty for Irishman other things being
equal is fatal to hostility If Ireland were set free
as an act of spontaneous nobility generosity and
justice. and the continent of Europe were 10 set
upon England. the Irish would swim across the
channel, II they couldn't get boats to be in the fight
from the start
No matter what the row was about the Irish
would have to be i'll it; and nowhere else I'm the
whole world would they fight so eongenfaily. heart
lily and naturally as on the side of the Sassenach
for the cause of Albion, Albion the perfdious never
more Human nature is more potent than all the
ties that statesmen fashion or impose and hui
man nature is much the same all over the world
but nowhere else Is it of a warmer quality than it
is in Ireland
What would the whole world say Il England were
to proclaim today: Next Christmas day as ever is
the soil of Ireland and all the people that inhabit
Ireland shall be quit of Britain forver On that
gracious and haowed day it shall be theirs. with
out let hint or hindranee, to shape fate to their
own liking; and may benefcent Deity smile upon
the time!"
1t would take year to Withdraw the parapher-
nalla, whitewash the Pigeon house. get the castle fit
tor gentleman to live in prepare the Bank of Ire
land, for the senate and the house and otherwise
get everything ready
What would the world say? The world would
say that England had not done so good or so grand
thing since her people took her rulers BY the neck
and extOrted from them the great charter The
Worid would say, too, and truly, that never at all
had England done an act so wise.