The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-28
"HOLIER THAN THOU ART
Candid Commentary on Rudyard Kip
llng's Southport Speech.

hus > SOutupOTt SpeeCU.
To EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. Mr..
Rudyard Kipling in an address made
June 81. 1915. at southport, England.
said the Belgians receive enough food
to support life. as the German thinks
II should be supported tby the way.
believe the United States of America
supplies a large part of that food). In
return they are compelled to work at
the point of the bayonet. IL they OBJ
ject they are shot. They have no more
property and no more rights han cattle,
and they annot lift a hand to protect
the honor of their women. There has
been nothing like the horror of their
fate In all history"
suppose the charge here against the
Germans were literally true, the state
ment that there has been nothing ike
the horror of their fate in all history
IL cheap buncOmbe. | do not wish to
plead for the German who is fighting
like a tomcat that has deliberately
Jumped into a ring Of dogs, but 1t is
worth while asking is all this heaven
ward rolling of the English eye an evil
defCe of a lack of huInOr! Positively
there have been several cas- : In history
like the Belgian horror. and the Eng
lish themselves supplied the cause for
the feeling IT horror.
There were three main revolutions In
Ireland during the days OF the trans
cendent Eliza, Shane O'Neill's in 1860,
Desmond's in 1861 and Hugh ONeill's
in 1896, all excited by systematic vio-
lence and suppressed by wholesale dew
astation and massacre. Lecky said
("History of England In the Eighteenth
Century volume 2. page 95) THE
suppression of the native race in the
wars against Shane O'Neill, Desmond
and Tyrone was carried out with a
ferocity which surpassed that Of Alya
IN the Netherlands and has seldom
been exceeded in the pages of history
In Munster the soldiers of Pelham
and Ormond killed men, women. chill
dren. the blind. idiots they filled barns
with peasants and then fred the
barns they tossed babies from man
to man by the points Of their pixies.
percie left neither corn, barn nor
house unburnt between kinsale lwhcre
the Lusitania went down. and Ross
In 1879 the garrison of Smerwick. which
had surrendered, was mastered by
Gray in the presence OF Sir Walter
Raleigh. This Gray murdered 400 other
people at Sleulogher. Sir George Carew
estimated t"Pacata Hibernia") that In
six months of 1852 the English sue
ceeded in starving To death 10000 peo-
Pile In Munster. beyond those killed by
VIZ " ~ III tllAtNl ENAatAfN
of America to feed them. Mdlbie and
Bingham acted in the same manner In
~Connaught. Lccky say that 1900 peo-
pie were starved In Tyrone in the curse
of a few months.
In the seventeenth century the plan
tations' massacres and conhsCatlOns
practically never ceased. In l6ii owen
Roe ONcill rose In instruction n in
the suppression Of this uprising Coot..
At yr .Al IIf,-. a. 10
Mountjoy. Carew and Malhie Of the
preceding century. \ single regiment OF
Coote's killed by starvation 1000 peo-
pie. and this is his own report. They
butchered the babies with prudent fore
sight, because, as they said. "nits will
be lice" Cromwell cam in 1919 aud
in the name of Jesus butchered 30. 900
ut Drogheda. lie did a like deed at
Wexford. Sir william Petty ,see
Lecky. volume .. page 1879 estimated
that In the eleven years after oven Roe
o'Neill's uprising the English slaugh-
tered $4,000 persons In Ireland,
About 10000 Irishmen fled to France
and Spain. Cromwell confiscatcd all
Ireland except a part Of the west. and
drove the Irish TO hell or C~onnaught"
TO make room for his carpethaggers.
In February Of this year the present
Pope signed "A decree Of beatificatiou ~
80 TVS tHtn anu NblA'l WHO NtIf
killed by the English for their religious
faith in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. and these are not half the
actual number. The first name on the
list Is that OF Dermot O'Hurley, Arch
bishop of Cashel. II. was tortured,
then his legs were put into tin boots
filed with oil. resin and salt, the oil
was boiled over a CRATE. the boots were
jerked off with what remained OF the
legs, he MAS thrown into prison FOR
four months in this condition. then he
was taken put and hanged. The other
256 were treated In like manner except
that the leg boiling was omitted Tia
leg boiling in Archbishop O'Hurley's
case was lone at the suggestion Of
Walsingham, the English President OF
the Council and put into effect by the
English Archbi shop Of Dublin. solely be-
csus O'Hurley would nos renounce bis
religious faith.
As late as 1898. within the memory
Of my own grandfather. the English
used the pitch cap in ireland tsoe
Myles O'Ryrne's "Memoirs"D. 4 cap
filled with tar was fastened to the scalp
and the scalp was jerked of with the
cap. This was more effective than the
scalplng process employed by the Ameri-
can savages. Between l749 and l77l
the English in their own country hanged
los men and women FOR shopttfting
alone, and as late as 1920 they had 22s
capital offences on the list. They
hanged a mar for draining a fish pond.
for stealing a shilling. for c~hopping
down a tree. for cutting "A hop bind
1903 hangings followed the Lent Assizes
Of 1888, They are authorities on
atrocity. AUSTIN O'MALLEY.