Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Truth VIII Prevail.

Mr.. Editor: There came to the
shores of America a short time ago,
a dark, slight woman. with an intense,
intellectual face and quiet voice. With
her came her son, a lad Of seven.
Months before she left her native land
she was bounded by secret agents. her
letters were opened, and her home was
watched night and day by the police,
and when the English government
found she had set sail for the United
States, it appealed to the American
immigration officials to refuse her
landing. And the only crime charged
against her, is that she is the widow
of man murdered by an English
army officer.
This lady is Mrs. Shelby Skeffing-
ton. The murder of Skemngton was
an uncivilized crime, still we know of
anologists who try to justify the deed
on the ground that British military
hirelings in Ireland can commit nj
wrong. Her object in coming to Amer
clo'k of infamy that England covers
over the reign of lawlessness and in
timidation she has installed in Ire
land She tells the true story of
British misrule and shows they are the
same bloodthirsty savages as in the
days of Cromwell. His widow tells of
her husbands arrest, his treatment
while in custody and how he was shot
ministrations of the priest before his
death. How his body was buried, I'M
coffned, and no information given to
her of what had occurred. How, aft
er the murder. they came to her home
to terrOrize her and his little son.
Mrs. Skefhngton is here to awaken
public opinion to the real conditions in
Ireland She is highly educated, and
will make a deep impression. The ar
rangements for her lecture tour are in
the hands of John D. Moore, 26 Cort-
iandt street, New York. After hearing
her lecture you have a clearer percep-
ton of the unjust character of the for
eign rule with which her native land
IS cursed. She burns the brand of
Cain on the assertion that England is
for democracy and the rights of small
nations. If we pursue England's
course in history we find a number of
deeds which unfurIs her standard as
nation. From the landing of Strong
bow in 1172. to the present time under
George V, she has always been the OPP
pressor of Ireland. History recalls
how she destroyed Irish men, women,
and children in the years Of ruthless
rule of Oliver Cromwell, and it was
she who put Irish Protestant patriots
to death by the pitch cap, the rack, and
and misrule. she reduced the popula-
ton of Ireland and not only that, she
tried to deprive the Irish Of learning
and civilization and plunge them in
TO ignorance, poverty, perjury, and
drunkenness and send them forth into
the world without trade profession, or
calling and poison the minds of men
against them because of their religion
and nationality. What is England's
career with other small nations? What
did she do to Wales in 1894? and
Scotland in 1907? It was she who rob-
bed Spain of Jamaica and other West
India Islands in 1856. From Holland
she stole Caoe Coast Castle in 1864,
New Netherlands in 1854. and the Cape
Of Good Hope in 1907. She overcame
and robbed Madras. 1889, Bombay in
1851, and Calcutta in 1881. From
Key to the Mediterranean in 1904? and
part of Honduras in 1888. and the Is
land of Trinidad in 1893? Did she not
wrest from France, and others their
West Indian possessions? Who de-
stroyed the power of Spain? Who
Comperdsun and robbed her of her
eastern possession? Who was the arch
enemy of France. after she had been
her ally, and destroyed her sea power
at Abouk2- and Trafalgar? Did she not
take the Danish fleet without even the
declaration of war in 1897. on the pre-
text that If England did not, Napoleon
might? Who was the vampire Of IN
dia in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries? Who was the poisoner
of China, who brought on a war to
compel the Chinese to use opium? Did
she not bring about the infamous
jameson raid, and followed it by the
humiliation of the Boer republics IN
1899 to wet the Rand. the richest min
ing district in the world. This is the
same England who proclains herself
the defender Of the weak.
]. H CUMMINGS.
Norwich, January 10, 1917.