Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-02
LETTERS TO HE EDIT0}
TayPay the Missionary; and His
 Mission


 Mfr. Editor: A gentleman with an Irish name and an English rank tand decidedly English sense of humorD
 whose chief function of late years seems to be to write eXtraVagant eu- Ioeies of EngIis;, ministers has ar rived in America with all his works and pomps. and is now appealing to Irish Americans to put on winkers and support and tolerate his view of the Irish question. We are speaking of of the Queens college. Galway. T. r. O'Connor is. or was, associate editor to Reynolds newspaper in Great Brit ain in which there was never d scrap Of real news from the force of his pen He has taken his voice to America. where he will do the most of his slob
 perins in American papers where the people do not know him So well. One may well ask, is there a real Ireland at ali? Is the real Ireland dead CT has she become intellectually bank
 rupt or dumb, and must she to give expression to her real sentiments. he represented and placed iIl false light by missionary of the T. P. o'Connor type? Proclaimed as Irelands envoy, TT. P.' pleads the cause of the Irish rarliamentarE party before the tribu- nal of American public opinion IL would he enough to say q more unfit person could not be found to repre- sent Irish sentiment He is not only an Anslicized and denationalized Irish man, the representative of ar Eng fish constituency in the British par lament he has earned for himself the bitter contempt of the vast majority of his countrymen by low exhibition of West Britonisn. observation-disclosures share in full this contempt. Ahhored as a deserter whose first fidelity is due. not to the land of his nativity. but to the barbaric rulers of alien power who hold his country men in bondage. Recognized as the evil gen Iy-ie .-fi rlr-+x
 he broadly intimates that his visit to America be termed q visit of cOnciiia- ton and peace. It is nothing of the kind: it is an attempt to corrupt the ing Of the true conditions in Ireland) and is arrogant insult to the in
 teIligence of Irish Americans. an as sumption that we are all ielly-h It is not too much to say there are few of the species who will receive T. P with slavis1 worship, there will be presentation of addresses from cer- tain corporations and councils, much adoration. and no doubt certain amount of -bestoWing on some of the jeIlyhsh. His masterpiece of puff fiery will be his explana ton of the rebellion in Ireland. fife terms it some sad mistakes.) Some of the young ideaIists who gave their lives for their convictions were-practicaIly ali-born since T. P. entered politi- cal life, most of them long after that 1-ed-lett day in his life They grew up in disgust of this Londonizing of Ireland and rose in rebellion as a protest against ii. He had never spent a day with one of these men. Writer as he claims to be. he was never able 10 notice their valuable literary work. And he never spent two successive days in Ireland since these men were corn. It was on the morrow of their execution that T. P. reached the heights. From his cathedral in Lon don he cabled the American press the eist of the whole matter. An eXplana- tion most absurd and contrary to facts. Such is T. F.'s knowledge of Ire land. and as get it from his facile and ever active pen. Tay Pay and his motto-do nothing for nothinc-some can afford to pay handsomely for puff fiery, T. P. has puffed and slobbered over his dictators with magnificent eulesies. they reciprocated by giving him a new tob (by which he pockets several hundred pounds a year more than his parliamentary salary. and his earnings on the press) and makes se- cure, the political offices he and his friends have at their disposal. Tho tipple of Fay Pays pen must some time staReer aground In something stronger than ink: did it happen af- ter he had secured admission to q swell wedding of some thirty first