The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-24
PLEt FOR IRISH UNITY.
An Al Protestant Parliamen, Preferable
10 Secession.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN--Sir. NO
mutilation OF our country" should be the
watchword now OF lrlshmen the world
over Let us have subdivision least of all
along religious lines; no arbitrary or III
defined boundaries made In n spirit OF
cowardly compromise and in vain en-
deavor TO obliterate the great natural
boundaries set by God and nature and so
unmistakably defined in the outline of an
iron bound coast washed by the eternal
seas. Nothing less than an Irish Parlla-
ment In Dublin. the recognized and right
ful capital. will satisfy the aspirations of
even the most moderate OF home rulers.
Tho economic consequences OF the CO.
existence OF two petty rival legislative
bodies would be chaos in the operation OF
railway. telegraph and postal facilities
and tho dislocation OF the fiscal and com
mercial systems OF the country. Better
far an Irish Parliament In Dublin like
Grattan's. every member thereof a Prot
estant, with a Cabinet and administrative
departments filled wholly by Protestants,
than an unsightly excrescence on the body
polite In the form OF a petty provincial
legisla ture In Belfast accompanied by the
forclbe exclusion of n large body OF Irish
men, merely to aid the policies and suit
the eXgencles of tn" Tory party or t.
crafty the local pride OF few Belfast
politicians or on the preteNt of allayng
the imaginary fears OF a few Orangemen
who still live and move and have their
being in the gloomy atmosphere OF the
time OF the Peep o. Day Boys. say bet
ter a Government composed exclusively OF
Protestant Irishmen than particolored,
patchwork Ireland. a crazy quilt compost
ton. here blotch of green. there blotch
of yellow. II necessary to do 80 We can
trust our Protestant fellow countrymen,
the Easements, the Warburtons. the Plum
kets and the Hobsons, as we trusted in
a. -. -. .,.,u elA IN
nells. the Smith O'Briens and the Graf
tans. But we cannot trust the English
Tory, the sower of the seeds of religious
dscord. be he Catholic or Protestant, be
he Norfolk or Balfour.
How absurd for the apostles OF religious
hate to point to the English Catholic
Duke OF Norfolk and the Orange Sir Ed
ward Carson walking arm In arm In the
streets OF Belfast, while yelling in pre-
tended alarm at the danger TO which the
poor Orangemen would be exposed II
abandoned 10 the tender mercies OF an
Irish Parliament, Only IN Ireland, and In
an anti-home rule district in Ireland at
that, would the differentiation OF an Eng
llsh Catholic Tory and an Irish Protestant
Orangeman be ostentatiously paraded to
Illustrate tho danger of cOnslgning the
Protestant minority 90 the rule OF Cath
olc majority. Much moro significant is
the fraternizing Of the Nationalist Volun-
teer ana the orange volunteer IN f.HHls-
killen and other parts OF Ulster.
Again. how absurd seems the cry OF III
simulated alarm from the Ulster anti
home ruler when we consider that not
word of protest or OF fear arises from the
protestants In the east. west and south
of ireland. They live In amty and In the
enjoyment Of equal rights with their
Catholic neighbors. How absurd, too. would
be an Orange subdivision. such AS that
proposed, which would include within its
limits not only nearly equal numbers OF
Catholics and OF Professionals, but would
also include tho two great Catholic shrnes
Of Armagh and Downpatrlck the one the
see OF the Cardinal Archbishop and Prl-
mate the head Of the Catholic Church in
Ireland and the other containing the
tombs OF Ireland's three greatest saints,
Patrick, Bridget and Colombkillc, II
would moreover include the strong
hold Of those heroes Of Celtic Ireland the
Red Branch knights and the domains OF
those inveterate foes OF foreign domina-
ton Red Hugh and Shane tho Proud.
There should be no mutilation, no Sc
cepsion, no north, no south, no crazy quit
particolored composition. no patchwork or
green and yellow 10 offend the eye shock
the artistic taste. perpetuatc religious DIFF
ferences and disrupt tho new born nation.
New York, June 20. john KeNNY.