Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-30
ULSTER WAR
ONLY WORK Of
D.E|.NtGOGUES
Orange Author DeploreS mis-
leadership" of Carson and
Fellow Countrymen
iBy Latest NALL
BY SEUMAS MAC MANUS.

peace sake, now wants to lathe Eng
land to prove his loyalty TO her and
throttle England TO make her love
him. And Sir Edward Carson is trail
ing his coat from Belfast to London
and back defying Engiand's king and
England's men to tramp on the tail
of it!
. Because | am an Ulster man. thou
sands of Americans in all corners of
the country have eagerly asked me
whether the Orangemen will really
right
+ Knocking the Orangemen, my
neighbor, as l do, from the soul to the
skin, the question has always caused
me to smile, and | have answered:
That will depend upon the quality OF
the fight"
as II a Private Fieht?"
You know the story Of the country
man OF mile, who, on entering a
saloon, and being informed by the
dgitated barman that fight was pro
ceedipg in the back parlor, eagerly
asked: rs 1t a private fight, or can
anyone who wishes take a hand?"
, If the kind Lord provides a freq
for-all ruction of the usual Belfast
hideand-seek, go-as-y ouplease, type,
with plenty of shipyard bolts and
lruts for ammunition, the Orangemcn
of Belfast and Derry will be the first
into it, and the last out. 1t will be
breakfast, dinner and supper to them,
and snacks between meals.
But a regular orderly, Christian
like war, where you have got to stand
up and let 100 men, whom you can
hardly see through a spyglass, shoot
holes through you, isn't fight that
there's any fun in; and your Ulster
0rangemen will have none of that,
thang you, if it ever somes near that
it will be a case of Two Of you hold
him-one-will do to hold me"
AS the Orangeman is my dear. good
friend and neighbor,, with whom
have been fraternizing and fighting
all my life, i know what / am speak
ing of when. assure you that the
Ulster Army" thinks as seriously of
engaging in regular warfare as it
Goes of flying over the moon.
War Rumors Joke.
Returning to Ireland last summer
after having read and enjoyed in the
American newspapers the rumors and
rumblings of the coming Ulster war
the Orangemen. my neighbors, heart
lily Joined ME in laughing. over the
good joke. Er.&z' .
But" they said, TITS good enough
to brighten the English voter"
And that is what the ulster War"
amounts and will amount TO- All the
seeming madness of Sharpening
swords has cool method In IT. And
Carson's brilliant scheme almost won
cut. Yet. though he is finally failing
in his object, he has shown himself as
clever a general as ever was beaten.
He made the scare so eminently real
istic that most people. who did not
know Ulster, were deceived. And it
would not have surprised me if some
bands of them. responding >. to the
things they read about themselves in
the newspapers, had gone out with
their Anticipated guns; to work de-
i. "
For the most part the destruction,
of course, would have been behind
the guns. Yet, nevertheless, even that
would have been another deplorable
ending to one of the many things that
are innocently begun in fun. So Car
son himself even began ITO get ner-i
vous lest some of his followers live
up to the regulations which, overcOm-
ing both ridicule and roasts, he had
almost succeeded in giving them.
BY giving the timid Epglishman a
good, wholesome scare, Mr. Carson
aimed to crumble the liberal party
and make himsef-then the white
haired boy - leader Of the great
Unionist party that should rise upon
the ruins. His guns, however. must
have been stronger than the stage
guns that he imported for his follow
crs, for he overshet the mark But
the gun kicked ferociously and did all
its demolishment in the rear.
May Be Some Rioting.
AS have said, because the Orange
men have had their feelings played
upon. and been excited by Mr.. Carson
and other demagogues, and because
they have read in the papers that
they are most wonderful fellows the
world has known since the heroes of
whistled their own fu
neral march, and because they are as
5ured that, far. from being traitors to
their own country. ireland. they are
really fired and inspired Ny some
noble if nebulous ideal, some few ir-
handfuls of them may
make business for'the moving picture
man by going out with their guns,
and inviting the British empire toI
come on. And. anyhow. there is GER
tain to be an aftermath Of rioting.
So whatever way you take it, the
great Ulster war, of which the whole
world has been sharpening its abpe-
lite Ito the amusement Of us who
know will find its end in the police
the heroes who survive
will be doing seven DAYS hard" in
he hotels of his much beloved maj
asty. George. king. by grace o. God.
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