Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-24
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Rush on Irish Politics.

Omaha, May 22.--To the Editor Of
The Bee: A letter from W. V. Ben
nett appeared in recent issue OF
your paper, protesting against dec
laration of mine that the detaching OF
some counties in the northeast Of Ire
land from the operation of Mr.. Lloyd
Georges recent plan of home rule is
preposterous.
AS the gentleman has submitted no
argument, it would be useless to an
swer his communication, If 1t were
not for the fact that his insidious as
sertions are an attempt to throw chaff
in our eyes The state of New York
does not want the county Of New
York to be separated from the state
government. Such separation would
be parallel case with that suggested
by Englands prime minister. But
here comes in the irresistible "argu-
argument" of my friend: Consider the
seditious uprising which the south OF
ireland permitted the German nation
to aid them in and the fact that Ul-
ster has furnished most of the vol
unteers in the war, ETC." There you
have it. Presumably the 100000
Orangemen who a short time before
had threatened a rebellion against the
granted to Ireland are the "volun-
teers" whom Mr.. Bennett refers to.
They became loyal when thy found
that home rule was a sham-"a scrap
of paper" But in the present session
of Parliament Redmond declared there
were 10000 Irishmen, not including
any of Mr.. Carson's rebels of few
years before, fighting in the trenches.
no one in the house denied his as
sertion: therefore / presume 1t must
be true. The uprising of Easter time
last year occurred In Dublin, not in the
south of Ireland. The people were
goaded to desperation by the promises
made and broken by the British Par
Lament. The conduct of the Ulster
men when they found that home rule
was possibility, is not 10 be wondered
at when we recall the incidents which
led up to the disestablishment of the
Irish Protestant church. ]. B. Yeats,
distinguished Irish Protestant (and
thank God we have many Of them),
writing recently to the New York
Tribune said: II remember that when
Gladstone introduced his bill for the
disestablishment of the Irish Protest
ant church the men of Ulster said that
If it was passed they would kick the
queen CTOWn lulO the bOyut.
The titled aristocracy which gov
erns the British empire is afraid of the
FISHERMAN, because IL he ever joins
hands with the Leinster, Munster and
Connaught men then surely there will
be home rule and Irishmen can again |
establish the numerous factories for !
which they had been noted before the |
Infamous "union"--so infamous that |
the perjured Castlereagh, who accom- |
plished 1t, like Judas of old, commit |
ted suicide. The charge that the Eas- |
ter uprising was aided and abetted by I
the German government Is erroneous. |
Poor Easement himself. who was the
soul of truth, denied under oath that
Germany had anything to do with it. |
But here again are shown the tact |
and diplomacy of Mr.. Bennett.
The United States, for the first time
in its history, has BECOME an ally of
England and therefore during the ex-
istence Of this unique and surprising |
affiliation loyalty demands and pru-
dence suggests that nothing shall be
said or done to affect the partnership.
IT'S true that Britain on three sue
cessve occasions tried to destroy this
republic. This is pretty hard on Mr..
Bennett, but he must not blame me.
He must blame his ancestors, whose
organ, the London Times, shouted
after the first battle of Bull Run, 1.-THE
JOHN RUSH.
Another thing-will widowers go to war,
or will 1t be considered that they have
seryed their term P-Dal1aa News