La Junta tribune., 1908-12-26

was Qeiapludte0 ana showed tue re-
suits Of whiskey. These brothers
had the same start. the one labored,
improved his farm. saved his money,
bought cattle and had just bought
another tract which adjoins him.
while the other has lost his farm, is
drunken wreck and he and his
family are out in the streets. Why
need cite this example. We see
one. now and then. in America.
Whiskey is the same the world over.
1t debases a people and fills the
country. where 1t has sway, with pow
erty. ignorance and crime.
suppose every man and woman
in ireland belongs to some religious
denomination. The Irish are in
tensely and fanatically religious.
say this without regard to any par
ticular church. Religious supersti-
ton and prejudices have divided :he
Irish people into bitter, irreconcilable
religious factions; SO that they hate
one another. are at eternal war with
one another, and what one does is
opposed by the others. There is
no unity of sentiment, no united people
Each faction or church watches the
others vigilantly to defeat any pur-
pose or work OF the others. For
instance. upon the great question OF
Home Rule, they are divided. The
Protestants oppose Home Rule. They
do so from most selfish, narrow
and bigoted motive. The Catholics
are IN a majority and the Protest
ants fear that should Ireland have
Home Rule, the Catholics would gov
ern the country to their disadvantage.
There is no justification in the posi-
ton taken by the Protestants. The
majority in any country should rule.
The minority should submit to the
rule OF the majority. The majority
should and no doubt at all. would
respect the rights OF the majority.
The Protestants oppose the first
principles of government, when they
oppose Home Rule for Ireland. Re-
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kept the Irish people In ignorance. TO
the churches have always assumed
the right to educate the Irish people.
and religion has only had baleful
influence upon the education of the
masses. Here. too. religion has kept
the people apart and this lack OF
unity, this false system OF education
has interfered with the establishment
OF firm public school system upon
lines of modern education. Ireland
is religion oppressed nation. The
influence Of religion. as 1t has here
tofore been practiced. has had much
to do with the poverty and ignorance
OF the great Irish people. The RENE
dy is absolute independence Of the
public school system of every church
and the absolute freedom Of the
people in all religious questions. and
the right OF the people to govern
themselves. The Catholics are afraid
to trust the people to educate and
govern themselves. and the Protest
ants are afraid to trust the people
to govern themselves. These rights
the people must have and are going
to have.
Ihave given the conditions as they
have heretofore been. These condi-
tions are changed and are changing
rapidly There is bright day dawn
ing for Ireland. The sun has already
risen, in fact, and its beneficent rays
are flooding Ireland with light. heart
and throbbing life. Landlordism is
giving place to the ownership OF the
land by freemen, by the farmers.
and by those who toll and cause the
earth to yield its fruits England has
tried suppression and oppression.
until she grew wiser-untii she
learned that she never could make
citizens Of the Irish people until she
made them citizens OF Ireland, and
she has adopted wonderful and
most magnanimous policy. She is
now atoning for the long in
justice OF the past towards the Irish
people. England is the greatest
people ON the globe, excepting only,
II there is one exception, the liber-
ty loving. liberty giving and square
dear' republic. She is now doing
more for the Irish people than was
ever done for any people on earth,
by another.
England has passed laws compel
ling the sale Of the great landed es-
tates, their sale to the farmers. To
accomplish this, she has come be-
tween the landowner and the farmer,
with great wealth and resources. and