The Irish standard., 1911-12-02
CROMWELL NO MODEL
FOR AMERICAN YOUTH
Literary Committee of A. 0. H. Con-
dennis Idea of Linking His
Name With Lincoln's.
Was Monster of Cruelty Destruct-
i've of Lofty Spirit of the
Heroes of History.

life of Oliver Cromwell as q model for
the American youth. The Milwaukee
Free Press commented editorially on
the lecture dissenting from the view
taken by DR.. Hills. The literary COM
mittee of the A. O. H. Of which Prof.
Rohan is member sent a communities
ton to the ve-mentioned paper in
which the life of Cromwell is shown in
different light from that represented
by DR.. Hills. After complimenting the
Free Press for taking issue with the
lecturer the writer's continued:
Intolerance is an evil which many
races and nations have suffered, and
when accompanied with wild and
riotous ambition has caused most mer-
| CHESS savagery. So, to say that Oil
YER Cromwell was intolerant is to
treat him mildly, for history records
that an enlightened people, whom the
doctor insinuates We're superstitious,
after 300 years can hurl no more dire
full vengeance upon anyone than the
horrible Course Of Cromwell" Conced-
ing that mans genius is, as the speak
er said, the ratio between his ambi-
tions and his achievement, what must
| be our estimate of this resurrected
hero?
Fierce and Inhuman Outrages.
| The ambition Of Cromwell was the
| oxrfo ,jv,o ti1,, re C,kI ~;
| land. What were his achievements In
| this regard? AT the massacre Of
Drogheda in violation of his solemn
promise of quarter, il the city would
surrender, Cromwell ordered every
man, woman and child to be put to
the sword. The history of nations can
his army in murder at this historic
place. Babes were ruthlessly torn
from their mothers breast, and their
bodies were pierced with swords or
they were dubbed to death at the COM
mand Of the tyrant. Women cried in
vain for mercy from his inhuman ra-
pacity only to meet death in the most
cruel form that savagery could con-
trive. Wholesale murder regned SUI
preme, memorial to which remains
today in unfortunate Drogheda in the
form of a highway known as "Crom-
wells Bloody Street." What an awful
commentary Is this on the Christian
lily of the proposed model of Amer
lean youth.
| Shortly after the massacre Of Drog-
heda, Cromwell attacked Wexford,
Waterford, Dungarven, Cork, Youghel,
Insale, Banton and Kilkenny. At
Kilkenny, though the town was suf-
fering from a plague, the sick and the
aged were not spared, fierce and
inhuman outrages Of the man whom
you mildly say was intolerant.
The sieges just mentioned are but a
few Of the many which the Cromwell
liam thirst for blood was satiated, and
1t proves Cromwell to be unworthy Of
mention in the same discourse with
the name of Abraham Lincoln, Amer
icas immortal patriot and humanitar-
ian.
If Cromwell Had Come.
Mr.. Hills discourses on what
Cromwell had done for England, yet
he omits entirely to tell the American
youth the means by which he accom-
plished his unworthy designs. He
states that had Cromwell come to this
knows what the future Of America
would have been. This dubious COM
pliment to Lincoln's twin brother"
bears more truth than perhaps the
speaker intended, for had Cromwell
emigrated hither, our beloved land
would have been the adopted home of
a tyrant, bigot and murderer who
has no counterpart or prototype in his
tory. That the lord protector has no
memorial in Westminster abbey is cit
ed by the speaker as an exemplt1ca-
ton of England's ingratitude. England
may be ungrateful, but the dissertation
Of the bones Of Cromwell and the eras-
ure of his name from the history OF
his country Is but the just and natural
ignominy of the tlend and regicide.
An Unfortunate Comparison.
Space will not allow US to fully
elucidate to our readers the sacrilege
of calling the man whose country has
forgotten him twin brother of Alb
} raham Lincoln" Abraham Lincoln by
his calm and broad patriotism, states
! manship and forbearance saved and
) perpetuated the greatest nation under
, heaven and procured the most precious
benefits of government to it's most
lowly class. Abraham Lincoln was
! tolerant of all kinds Of creeds, religious
, and political and economic dogma
OLIVER Crornwa11 iptn1oroo t> ov-