The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-10-20


diabolical ingenuity she has depopu-
lated our country and filled the ranks
of her fighting men at the same time.
This policy was not started yester-
day, but before the fathers of our
fathers were born it was working bit
ter ruin to our country.
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1915, the ad-
visers Of Henry VIII urged him to
make conquest of Ireland.
They told him that if Ireland was
subdued and the king could call out
its soldiers to do his bidding. then no
man in England would rebel against
him as they had often done before
An Irish army would thus force the
English to bear all the injustice and
cruelty and heavy taxes imposed by
their own sovereign.
More than that, they said that the
armies of Ireland would conquer Scot
land and compel it TO be always in
obedience to the king of England.
Thus, when the Irish had lost their
freedom they were to be used 10 destroy
the freedom of others.
And there was to be a yet greater
gain to Henry VIII for the Irish army
would then serve to conquer for the
English monarch great Empire
abroad, so that when he had subdued
France and overrun all Europe he
should die Emperor of Rome, so said
the Imper1alists of that Gay.
Twenty-seven Years later. i'm 1912,
Henry obtained the title of King of
Ireland by exactly the same means
that the PniCn was proclaimed in 1900.
He remembe ed the dream Of a military
empire, and his first act was to order
over an army from his new kingdom.
Three Thousand soldiers. a very large
In -,
the Scotch war. A second army was
paraded in St James Park before the
LondOnerS. on its way to cross the
Channel with the king. for the con-
quest of France. Brave men they
were. no better gunners than they
be. famed all of them that they do
not lightly abandon the field. but bear
the brunt 10 the death" There had
been seven years war and slaughtering
in Ireland since the death of Silkdsn
Thomas, Earl of Kildare. and in the
very month that the soldiers crossed
the Channel. there We're rumors in Ire
land that the son of Silken Thomas
was coming frC m France with an army
10 help the Irish. 1t was with infinite
trouble and violence that the wretched
levies had ben forced across the Irish
sea. Maddened and despairing war
riors they stood. sacked and burning
farms and a ruined country behind
them, an imperial army sent out in
the pride If England to the Staying
OF Scotsmen and the pillage Of France
Year after year from that time Irish
peasants were violently torn from their
homes to swell the glories of the Eng
lish army. and the state papers give
the reasons.
The king for his part, sent orders
over TO Ireland that those Irishmen
who most bravely defnded their homes
from the invaders Tor as Henry said,
the most wild and savage Of the
lrish'D should be sent to the killing in
Scotland their absence. he said, would
rather do coed than hurt
The Irish lord deputies or governors.
on their side. who were conducting
remorseless war. to drive the Irish GU:
of their lands and plant English set
tiers in their farms. advised that as
many Irish rs possible should be draft !
ed away as soldiers to the foreign
wars, so that there should be fewer
at home TO resist the seizing of their |
farms. and that if there was any fight /
ing the English troops would be safely I
rid Of so many.
Later. the English planters on the |
ancient lands Of the Irish also wanted !
10 ship the native owners across the |
sea to die in the wars; and begged |
that even the tribesmen. who humbly |
submitted TO the king in hope of win