Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-13
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Editor Honolulu star.Bulletfn.

Editor Honolulu Bulletin.
Sir: A Reader OF the Star Bulle
tin" writes to ask me il I think Mr
rlesrys 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 m.
regular column. but as it may be som'
time before that could appear. III cop!
the letter here:
I think Mr.. Cleary has no grievance
against Messrs. Henry May & CO
They we're perfectly justified IN thot
action. went slowly, and with unusua
tolerance.
Other firms might we'll take then
for an example The fact that Mr.
Cleary, so iauntily justifies his action
is prina facie evidence that he lacks
a true conception of the duties OF al
American citizen.
From literary standpoint his poem
is good. very good its sentiment ii
rank.
Nothing can excuse 1t for any periot
Of American history, before, during, q
after the war.
Mr.. Allen says editorially: Many
an American citizen still symrathize'
with ireland. AMI is frank about eN
pressing that sympathy. But it is one
think to speak for Ireland, and another
thing to speak for Germany" That
II.
THE man, cpaaLs for CorDopu's
cruellest outrsges upon innocent NO
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 worlc
The leper OF humanity
Then Freedoms flag shall be unfurled
ireland will stand-with GERMANY"
Before writing such dfsgracefu
stuff Mr. Cleary should have given &
thought to his own personal necessi
ties.
: Well, this war is settling a lot OIL
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!
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 a
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 well
inclined to do the right thing by all
its people. That lrelend'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
many of its phases, is also one cause
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 politics7or 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 Araerfcanism.
1t's time we shut up about the bloc
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
blackhandism, Jewish graft, we're not
fit to live in America.
This country has treated everybody
Except possibly the negro and the
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