The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-02
aHoLlER THAN THOU ART"
Candid Commentary on Rudyard Kip
Ing's Southport Speech.

| Huuydru hlpliHS III al auui COD maui
June q, 1915, at Southport, England,
said the Belgians receive enough
food to support life, as the German
thinks it should be supported (by the
way. | believe the United States of
America supplies large part of that
! food). In return they are compelled
| to work at the point OF the bayonet.
| If they object they are shot. They
| have no more property and no more
rights than cattle, and they cannot
lift hand to protect the honor of
! their women. There has been moth
/ ing like the horror of their fate in all
history"
| Suppose the charge here against
| the Germans were literally true, the
| statement that there has been moth
ing like the horror of their fate in all
history in cheap buncombe. do not
I wish to plead for the German who is
| fighting like tomcat that has DELHI
erately jumped into a ring of dogs,
but it is worth while asking is all this
| heavenward rolling of the English eye
an evidence of lack of humor?
| Positively there have been several
cases in history like the Belgian hor-
| ror, and the English themselves sup
piled the cause for the feeling of
| horror.
There were three main revolutions
in ireland during the days of the
transcendent Eliza. Shane O'Neill's in
1860, Desmonds in 1867 and Hugh
O'Nein's In 1896, all excited by syste-
matte violence and suppressed by
Wholesale devastation and massacre
Lccky said C'Eistory of England in
|gthe Eighteenth Century" volume Q,
page $50: 1.-THE suppression sof the
|inatfve race in the wars against Shane
O'Neill, Desmond and Tyrone was
carried out with a ferocity which sur
passed that of Ava in the Neither
lands and has seldom been exceeded
in the pages of history" In Munster
the soldiers of Pelham and Ormond
killed men, women, children, the
blind, idiots; they filed barns with
peasants and then fired the barns;
they tossed babies from man to man
by the points of their pixies Percie
left neither corn. barn nor house I'M
burnt between Kinsale (where the
Lusitania went DOWN and Ross"
In 1879 the garrison of Smerwick,
which had surrendered, was massacr
ed by Gray in the presence of Sir Wal
iter Raleigh. This Cray murdered
400 other people at Sleulogher Sir
George Carew estimated ("Pacata Hi
bernia'D that in six months of 1882
the English succeeded in starving to
death 10000 people in Munster, be-
yond those killed by the sword, There
was no United States of America TO
feed them. Malbie and Bingham act
ed III the same manner in Coniiaught.
Lecky says that 5000 people were
starved in Tyrone in the course of
few months.
In the seventeenth century the plan.
tations' massacres and confiscatiohs
practically never ceased In 1871
owen Roe O'Neill rose In insurrection
and in the suppression of this upris.
ing Coote, St Leger and Hamilton
acted like Mountjoy, Carew and Nal
bic of the preceding century. A single
regiment of Coote's killed by starya-
ton 1000 people, and this Is his own
report. They butchered the babies
with prudent foresight, because. as
they said. "nits will be lice" Crom-
well came in 1649 and 'in the name
of Jesus" butchered 10000 at Droghe-
da, He did like deed at Wexford.
Sir William Petty (see Lecky, volume
z, page 172) estimated that in the
eleven years after Owen Roe O'Neilrs
uprising the English slaughtered 616,-
900 persons in Ireland. About 10000
lrishmen fed to France and Spain.
Cromwell confiscated all Ireland ex-
cept part of the west, and drove the
irish ito hell or Connaught' to make
room for his carpetbaggers ~
In February of this year the present
Pope signed a decree of Identification
OF PSI Irish men and women who
were killed by the English for their
religious faith in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and these arc
not half the actual number The first
name on the list is that of Dermot
OHurley, Archbishop of Cashel He
was tortured, then his legs were put
into tin boots filled with oil, resin and
salt, the oil was boiled over crate, |
the boots were jerked off with what
remained of the legs. he was thrown
into prison for four months in this |
then he was taken out and
hanged. The other 256 were treated
IN like manner, except that the leg
boiling was omitted The leg boiling
in Archbishop O'Hurley's case was
done at the suggestion of Walsing-
ham, the English President of the
Council, and put into effect by the |
English Archbishop of Dublin, solely |
because O'Hurley would not renounce
his religious faith
AS late as 1898, within the memory
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