Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-13
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| Sir: "A Reader OF the Star Buile
tin" writes to ask me If think Mr.
Cleary's all right He hints that be
cause Mr. Cleary Is Irish and not Ger
man, may be silent.
The fact is. | had already writer
| something about the matter for my
regular column, but as il may be some
| time before that could appear, I'll copy
the letter here:
| think Mr.. Cleary has no grievance
against Messrs Henry May & Co
They were perfectly Justified in th3il
action. went slowly, and with unusual
tolerance
Other firms might we'll take them
for an example. The fact that Mr.
Cleary so tauntily justifies his action
is prima facie evidence that he lacks
true conception OF the duties of an
American citizen.
From literary standpoint his poem
is good, very good: its sentiment is
rank
Nothing can excuse 1t for any period
of American history, before, during, q!
after the war.
Mr.. Allen says editorially: Many
an American citizen still sympathizes
with ireland, ami is frank about ex
pressing that sympathy. But 1t is one
think to speak for Ireland, and another
thing to speak for Germany" That 8
it.
This poem speaks for Germany
cruellest outrages upon innocent wo.
men and children in England:
when Germany shall batter down
And SET aflame the wooden walls,
When grey coats march through Lon.
don town
And Britain's bloody sceptre falls,
When stands exposed before the world
The leper Of humanity
Then Freedoms flag shall be unturled,
ireland will stand-with Germany
Before writing such disgraceful
stuff Mr.. Cleary should have given a
thought to his own personal necessi-
ties.
Well, this war is settling a lot of
things. One important matter is the
citizens accountability to his neigh,
Dor, his community. his government
not to some distant land from which
he came.
This war is going to make a country
Of the United States; a homogeneous
people.
/ We're going to be closer to England,
Ireland, Scotland, France, and the
other countries. even Germany, but
we're going to protect the United
States of America, too, within and
without. You bet! 4
We're going to be more careful who
gets in, and when they get in, how
they conduct themselves.
America has too long been made q
field for lawless campaigns against
other peoples: insane, anarchistic
crusades, in which wild-eyed socialists
OF all countries have raised their
bloody flag.
We want to be done with BLOOD,
and the hideous creatures who preach
it.
We want true brotherhood and com.
partnership and love in this broad land
Of plenty
We don't want our food wasted in
feeding exiles who come here to
breathe out murder and revenge.
Ireland has had grievances, but they
are being corrected by country we'll
inclined to do the right thing by all
its people. That lreland's problem is
still problem is due largely to Ire.
land itself.
That's plain to every man who
reads history Alright. And the Irish
temperament, delightful as it is in
~ Of &c nh {,
Of the difficulty of dealing with the
Irish.
England is coming slowly but surely
to solution.
There's no bloodiness or marching
through London" required, and so far
as the United States is concerned, it's
not our affair.
The Irish who come here to live
must leave that matter overseas. They
cannot inject It into our politics or our
social life They may think what they
please, but the law is going to regulate
what they write and say.
We have as much right to demand
this of the Irish as we have of the
Germans.
Our efficiency has been impaired by
German, English, Scotch. Irish. Rus.
sian, Polish, Jewish, Italian and other
kinds Of Americanism.
It's time we shut up about the blood
that's In US, or the bestever country
from which we ourselves or our faith.
ers were glad to be expatriated.
We're no better than we are, no mat.
ter who we are.
II we get drunk on German beer,
English port, Scotch whisky, Irish
Fenianism. Russian anarchism. Italian
blackhandisn, Jewish graft, we're not
fit to live in America.
This country. has treated everybody
Except possibly the negro and the
Chinese) right. We have treated them
with good nature and generosity. Till
now, we have trusted their goodwill.
II anything. we've been too good to