The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-11-04
INDIA'S MESSAGE TO IRELAND
FROM MAHoMMED kHUDA

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my co-religionists as most of us hate
you. But we are brothers all bound
as we are by the bonds of sympathy.
The clouds of our religious hatred
vanish into nothingness in our COM
mon hatred for our enemy, the great
est enemy of humanity the world has
ever seen, l mean England-the Eng
land of Cromwell and of Cline, the
England of George Ill and OF George
V.
Greetings from the Hindoo and the
Mahommedan Nationalist of India.
10 liberate both Ireland and India
from the CALLING yoke of the ire
sponsible English despotism, we, the
workers for the same cause must
know each other better, and we must
be fully acquainted with our respec-
tive problem. We must compare notes
and organize together for the destruc-
ton of the bloody empire, for the
liberation of three-fourths of the
human race, and for the sacred cause
of the freedom of the seas.
What nation, what country, what
race, and what hemisphere hath not
been ravaged and outraged by the
Englishman? We are using extraor-
binary methods to smuggle this letter
out of India, and If it reaches you in
America safely, you would catch a
glimpse of the fact that India is
ground down like Ireland under the
iron heel of tyranny and that the same
fire of patriotism is burning within the
hearts of our Moslem and Hindu
patriots as burn within you.
Judging by the famished truth of
the war that reaches us here in India,
and the differences we can make from
it, we feel certain that the British
empire is doomed to early destruction.
And it is our sacred duty to do every
thing in our power to hasten the long
longed for end. The English cobra
must be crushed. Its deadly bite has
benumbed the entire humanity. 1t has
parlyzed even the sensibility of
that America, where
George Washington lived, fought and
died-that America where Boston still
stands and Valley Forge still is in ex-
istence. We in far off India often
hang down our heads in shame and
wonder: Are these the descendants
of those noble martyrs who persisted
that the great republic might be born?
Are these the descendants Of those
patriots who wrote and signed that
noblest of all human documents-the
Declaration of independence, and sub.
sequently crushed CORVALLIS and his
army. This piece of failure in Amer.
lea was afterwards sent to India to
rule. .
Let America betray her traditions
and side with her past, present and
future enemy, England; let the Irish
man of the north and the traitors like
Redmond sell their birthright for a
mess of pottage; let the renegade
princes and the damnably cowardly
and self-seeking Of our public men
pledge their loyalty to their conquer
ors, and let the self-styled National
lists bray like jack-asses in America
for self-government in India like Can
ada or Australia to debauch American
public opinion by their vitiated breath
and mercenary pen, but the true Ma
tionalists of India shall never forget
the ideals of Asaka and Akbar We
have pledged ourselves to live for, to
work for and undoubtedly die for the
establishment of the great republic in
India. The United States of India.
We are dreamers like your Pearses
and Plunketts, Skeffingtons and Con-
nollys and other martyrs of Irish lib
erty. Perhaps you do not know, for
the British censor and the British
cables do not allow you to know that
for dozen of your massacred pa
triOts we may name a hundred. For
each hundred of your imprisoned CO.
workers, we can count thousand;
for each thousand of your dead from
famines, Englands generous gifts, we
can count at least a ten thousand, and
for each paper that has been gagged
in Ireland, we can count hundred.
Ireland has suffered longer than India,
but my motherland has suffered more
intensely, more abjectly, more pitt
fully and more helplessly.
India was not and is not yet allowed
even a single member in the parlia-
ment to kick up row on 1ndia's be-
half. India is tied hand and foot, and
some Manchester rags are thrust down
her throat, and then dashed and bleed
ing in that perfectly ruthless manner,
which none but the English know so
well.
The recent republican revolution
in Ireland has been frustrated for the
time being by the superior brute force
of England. Our hearts are bleeding
in sorrow for the tragic story of Ire.
lands revolution and the massacre Of
its leaders. Even man of such an
international reputation, humanita-
M. M. BEJNAR & co.