New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-13
Let Ulster Go!

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I dare say you would be highly Of
Tended if somebody should assert that the
bias of your editorial columns is kept in
position by English money. Your sentiments
are so English that one can feel the dull and
treacherous thud of the English lions move
ments in many of your compositions.
Your another Crisis in Ireland" editorial
could not be much more acrimonious If writ
ten by England's rankest bigot. When Will
lam of Orange planted his mercenary Scotch
men in the North of Ireland by wholesale
and unconditional eviction of the lawful
owners of that part of the island. united
Ireland received It's first bad blow. They
were put there for that purpose, with an ex-
ira expectation that they would after while
occupy the whole island and the passing
decades have seen how we'll they have main
tanned the English determination to keep
Catholic Ireland in poverty and letters.
II would be ridiculous TO expect that Eng
ishmen should take their politics from a
Dublin parliament, and it would be still more
strange TO expect England's spurious Irish
subjects in the north to take them, except
they decided to lose their inoculated hatred
of everything Irish, and the reward Of an ill
gotten sway of special privileges.
The condition or weakness Of the Nation
aist party to-day, tomorrow, or at any other
time to which you refer, should have moth
ing to do with the natural demand of ma
iority Of men in obtaining what your favotite
civilization forces" in Europe are said to be
fighting for-justice, and the much EN-
blazoned principle Of the small nations in
tegrity."
The Obstetrics, like your own pro-German
Senators, are the permanent flibusters of
Irish freedom. Majority rule" is becoming
if not long since, an abstract phrase, sub
missive to the traitorous expediency OF a
pampered minority.
Your sneering criticism of Mr. Columns state
ments and figures on the same subject is too
BIASED to disprove them. You create the i'm
preston that the Nationalists, while they
will have nobody over them" will surely
prosecute those who come nder them. That
is British. not Irish sentiment Ireland has
dragged along in the trail of broken promises
and preconcerted coercion for centuries; she
has tried to conciiate the antagonism of
England by every means in her power, to no
avail Then to what further humiliation or
human duplication do you want Nationalist
omy? Is it necessary that she should lose her
soul-the very identity of her time-honored
character?
Now, the only thread on which the govern
ment hangs its success in keeping Nationalist
ireland from home rule is the sentiment Of
partition. It is, of course, very pitiful to
lose limb, but if that limb is so defective as
to threaten the life and health of the whole
body, by all means sever it. Nationalist
Ireland can we'll afford to part with limb
that has not only been useless, but per
sistent opposition to the industrial and au-
tonomic life of its people.
Mr. Redmond should put the government to
the acid test by accepting Lloyd Georges
offer of separate autonomy Under home
rule. time will ultimately heal wound that
England has long kept open and painful.
Freedom and an opportunity to prosper will
remove the bitterness that now exists, and
industrial intercourse between north and
south is bound to cement in time the latent
fraternity of two peoples so long set at one
anothers throats by the Vaccinations of u
jealousy perversive government. l.. S. NJ.
New York, March 10, 1917.