Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-05
A COMMENT ON cLEARY's REPLY

Honolulu. 7. H.,
Dec. :. 1871.
| Editor St2r-3u:!etia.
Sir: May ! be accorded the privi-
Iege Of your columns to take Issue
! with Jack ID. CIeary with reference TO
his explanation and plea 10 the citi-
zens Of this community concerning
his actions which led up 10 his dis
charge by his late employers? In the
| first place | desire to state distinct
iy that my remarks are made adTts-
eddy, with extreme emphasis, without
| heat, and with nothing out the lul!eat
| sympathy for the innocent who are
made to suffer through the actions
Of others.
an not acquainted Wiz. ;he mar,
! but have heard a great deal concern
| ing him and his Hunnish utteranCCs
| for some time past and have seen the
copy of that scUcrjlCus publication.
| "Eiereck's Weekly" formerly issued
under the name. o. The Fatheriand.
| in which his poem was printed and
must confess that my blood has boil,
ed over his traitorous conduct.
Jack D. Cleary states that his &C
tons Of August last year were quite
within the law How this claim can
| be reconci1ed with the neutral stand
every American citizen was supposed
| to take at that time | fail to see; aud
| would specifically point cut here
that his actions took place after the
rape of Belgium" and the sinking of
| nc oil To
trying to do for Ireland what the
patriot fathers did for America, /"
| there IS not the slightest parallel in
| the prenises-they took their own
| stand and fought for it, he hid under
| the cloak of the citizenship of his
! adopted country-and l am Of the firm
| belief that this citizenship would
| have been denied him if the proper
authorities had known his views when
\ it was sought
Did Jack D. Cleary have any
| thought for those of his own who
might be made to suffer through his
actions or any consideration for other
innocent ones who have gone through
| the Valley of Sorrow" by the terrible
losses and sacrifices they have borne?
| think not, and speak with deep
feeling on this point, for my wife, who
Is Of British birth, of which fact am
| exceedingly proud, has already lost
| two of her next of kin who quit them
selves like men" and died in the de,
Tense of their country.
Jack D. Cleary claims to have been
faithful to his employers for the last
seven years." but l will contradict
| that statement fatty and undertake
to show him and others of his ilk that
he has on the contrary been a traitor
| of the lowest type due undoubtedly
to the peculiar perverted mental
| twist he has acquired from his Hun.
nish teachers. His former employers,
| some of whom are personal friends OF
mine, are stockholders in a corpora
| tion originally founded by British
| capital, and IL am correctly inform
ed considerable amount of that
British capital is still invested in this
corporation alongside Of good Ameri-
can capital, and yet this man claims
to have been faithful" nothwith.
standing the fact that in his con.
temptible attempt to stab his mother
country in the back in her hour of
direst need - the hour when every
man, whatever HIS differences of any
and all kinds, was willing to put them
aside for the time and stand shoulder
to shoulder with his countrymen
against a common enemy-he through
| these attempts made a direct effort
against the very business life of his
employers.
A number of the ablest writer's Of
I the times have warned Americans re-
peatedly of the unscrupulous and pre-
meditated double-dealing of the Pots
dam gang, and also of the fact that
when eornefed their perfidious
agents will be the first to whine"
and. plead for mercy; and for that rea-
son and relying upon the Judgment
of these same writer's, desire to
point out to my fellow citizens that
it viii he suicidal and derelict for us
to allow our better judgment to be
set aside in dealing with the enemy
In our midst and in fact that we shall
be "slackers" of the worst kind If we
do not protect our own country, kim
dred and homes to the EXTREMIST eff
forts possible and assist in placing
kthe traitors where they can do no
harm. do not undertake to prophesy
but mark you we'll, Mr. Editor, to my
mind the indications of the times to
come are that they be those that will
try the very souls of men.
With pride and deep gratitude that
was born and bred an American, l
am, Sincerely,
W. II. SOPER.