Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-20

John Hughes, who delivered stir.
ring address on the situation In Ire
land mt the +. NJ. G. 4. last night.
swore dire reprisals against England
and England's king if such measure
became law. but when it did become
law they accepted it as an insult to
them from England Some twenty
| five years later. Gladstone brought in
bill to disestablish the English
lchurch in Ireland He thought, and
! the majority of English and Scotch
conceded with him, that ii was hard
lly Just for the IRISH Catholic who
led a miserable existence in the boys
of Connaught. TO be taxed for the
support of an alien clergyman and an
ialien church, Again the orange
Hodges met in serious conelaye: again
they resoluted, protested and threat
ened war against such an 'iniquitous
law but the law was passed and
they quietly subsidized.
Coronation Oath Revised
A few years ago. wnen the present
king came to the throne, words and
sentences, humiliating, insulting and
UNJUST to his Catholic subjects were
illuminated from the coronation oath.
Ulster orangemen again beat drum
and footed fife. They threatened to
throw the crown into the Boyne, but
their thunder did not avail.
During the Boer war the orangemen
we're very busy They met In council
many times and passed many resolu-
Itions of sympathy for British soldiers.
They promised to send volunteers to
1.-THE front If they did, there is no
record of it. However, there was
some Irish there 1t was Harris gal
liant Irish brigade which forced the
passage Of the Luegula and relieved
1.-THE heroic defenders Of Ladysmith.
For this and other gallant services
rendered during that war the king
Horned new irish regiment, pre-
scented it with. colbfs and christened it
the Irish Guards.
! On each st. Patrick's Day they pa
rade with shamrocks in their helmets
Ibefore the king I honor the bravery
]of Irishmen whether as Protestants
defending the city of Derry and in
j the face of much suffering held 1t
against Catholic army and Catholic
king. just as / admire the bravery of
Catholics in defending the erumbling
walls of Limerick against Protest
ant army and a Protestant king. In
the maiden city of Derry represented
in Parliament by strenuous sup
porter of Home Rule, is a gigantic
statue of the Protestant bishop. its
strongest defender at that siege,
whilst in Limerick, also represented
| by Home Ruler, is another monu-
ment 1t is a block of granite stone
and engraved upon its sides is the
treaty made between the contending
hosts. This treaty granted full re-
| ligious freedom to the Catholics. This
larticle was broken before the ink
on il was dry. 1t was also stipulated
that the Irish army should march
from the city, with flags flying
and all their arms, ammunition and
Announcements of war, and take SER
vice under the flags of France OF
England Two regiments took sery-
ice under England. The remainder,
known as the Irish Brigade, took SER
vice under France and only went out
of existence at the tine of the revolu-
ltion They fought on every battle
| field in Europe, and WREN faced by
| their ancient foe. the memory of raw
tished homes and broken treaty neryed
their arms for revenge. :f.=.. .....#
Series Of Religious Wars :.
The Siege of Derry, the battles of
| the Boyne and Aughoim and siege of
Limerick, which decided the issue OF
! the revolution of 1920 and placed
| William OF Orange on the throne,
were series of religious wars. The
sectarian hate, and prejudice, engen-
dered then is ever kept alive through
the years that in other Christian
lands have been healed by the hand
iof time. The orange lily is admired
by Catholics all over Ireland, but in
Ulster when July sunshine ripens it
/ into gorgeous splendor, the orange
mans hate and passions are at. white
! heat. and he is then another being
| This sectarian and racial feud is due
to the tragic history of Ireland There
iare even some tolerant orangemen-
even in Ulster. One of them was
heard saying, Il am sorry to find peo-
lple dissecting a long-yanished corpse
| in cold blood" The attitude OF the
lorangeman's mind is illustrated by
THE following stories: @~..
i A householder from the south, a
Catholic, was examining a horse at
Ian Ulster fair On running his hands
over the animals knees and finding
them thick, he remarked, I'D swear
/ that horse is a great hand at saying
] his prayers .'Yesd swear wrong,
then, said the FISHERMAN; hes not
/ your religious sort at all. He always
iprays standing up.
Al Belfast man was charged at the
police court with entering Catholic
ishcp kept by widow and smashing
her stock of religions pictures. When
asked reproaehinliy by the magistrate
did you destroy this poor woman s