Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-28


Ireland's history is told in her ruins.
in the ruins Of her once glorious
schools, colleges and churches before
the innocent lamb Cromwell visited
Ireland with his battering ram. He
did the work well-he destroyed the
seat Of learning of all Europe, but
left the ruins to the present day as
monuments OF his glorious doings. He
eCromwelD ordered the rishtfuI OWL
ers of the soil to Connaught, forbid
ding them to recross the Shannon uII-
der pain of death. There they salted
the earth with their laws. to use the
expression Of a correspondent to the
Star-Bulletin. Still the correspondent
finds no oppression Of Ireland by the
British government It is useless to
tell our tale Of woe regarding the in
human massacre Of men, women and
children at Drogheda, of which the re.
petition took place at the fall Of Wex.
ford town, and the whole country be-
came terrified: the selling and send
ing of the Irish as slaves to Barba-
does and other countries; the religious
persecution. nnheard Of in any ciyiliz.
ed land; the eonfiscation OF the es-
tates of the Irish and given to aliens;
the tyranny and despotism of landlord
ism, Of which have been a sad eye
witness for years. Every well-mean-
ing Englishman is ashamed of the past
and, is willing to repair. but like in
every country there are fanatics in
England whose cry is: mo freedom
for Ireland" They do not seem to
understand that coercion never ac-
complishes anything in Ireland; coer-
cion was the cause of Americas inde-
pendence. Honey shah catch flies but
vinegar never: honey or Kindness cap
tivates the Irish heart, but vinegar
or bitterness has been always handed
to them If England continues to pour
vinegar on Ireland's bleeding wounds
it smarts the Irish at home and abroad
to the quick and England cannot ex-
pect Ireland's cooperation After the
Cromwellian wars the Irish did not
wait for the patriotic and hyphen
Irish-loving heroine Of the twentieth
century, one of the correspondents
to the Star-Bulfetin." to raise their
churches and schools from the ashes
of the old doWn-trodden country. They
already did it in the nineteenth cen
tnry, through the exertions of the IL
lustrious hero, Daniel O'CopneIl,
whose name will be eyer dear not only
to IrishmeH but to every foe. of OPP.
preston and to every friend Of civil
and religious liberty.
Daniel O'Connell stayed at home
and shared the misery Of the Irish.
He did mot advise them to stay and
till the soil, work by. the. sweat OF
their brow until they starved, and in
the meanwhile he would emigrate to
the land of liberty. MOI He loved
Ireland, he loved the Irish and all
things Irish .and not only said it but
showed it-he stayed with them
through veal and through woe
Let the Irish teach their children
loyalty, honesty, ambition, etc, said
"a correspondent to the Star.Bulle-
tin Can that correspondent show
me one instance in Ireland's history
of her disloyalty to England? She
fought side by side with England and
always faithful to the end. Every
nation has its natural rights, the laws
OF nature give the right to every man
to live on the land of his birth. Is it
therefore disloyalty for Ireiand's sons
and daughters to tight for their birth.
right? What right, according to the
laws of nature, has England to Ire
land? The only right, that might
makes right. | do not believe in she'd
ding blood even for a natural right
if it can be accomplished Otherwise.
But the Irish tried for years other
wise. but tried in vain. Daniel O'Con-
nell devoted all his talents and ener-
gies for a settlement and the Repeal
Of the Act of Union in an amicable
way. but he was fined and thrown into
prison and he died OF a broken heart.
The conditions in ireland are better
in ireland now than ever before. said
"a CORRESPONDENT to the Star.Bulletin. .
The CORRESPONDENT tacity admits that
conditions must have been pretty bad
before, if they are better now. It is
true. ireland is not given over to
hunger and death now as il was in
1S45, 1876 and 1847 when the potato
crop failed, when Ireland lost two mil
lions of her population through star.
walton, unaided by the government