The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-05
For Justice Sake and
The Irish Question.

I mark and a subject of the Saxons.
And this is the kind Of muddle these
highly intelligent Irish had gotten
themselves into. or course, wars fol-
lowed, for in those days the strong
ruled. The Saxons, later the Eng
fish, won; and since then in theory.
If not in fact, Ireland has been an
English dependency. The Irish, I
repeat, have never shown themselves
capable Of concerted action and in
dependence of thought necessary to
establish an independent govern
ment After the English disturb
ances, the Wars of the Roses. the
Tudors and their wrestlings and a
thousand other petty wars over the
English crown, the Irish were left
largely to attend to their own bus
mess. Still unable to control them
selves, they bound themselves as vas
sails to Spain, the then ruling Cath
Ollie power, and become a menace to
England in such a manner to cause
the inevitable union. Fired by a
zeal to murder "heretics'', as a great
catARaign was then going on to ex-
terminate the Protestants, they be-
gan to send bands OF marauders and
thieves across the Irish sea, to kill
the defenseless women and children
of the western coast of England.
These bands. often led by priests.
/ halted and held mass before sacking
towns and tearing little children OPP
en- and burning them with sulphur,
in custom of the party they represent
ed-the Spanish Inquisition. If my
Informed assailant denies this, let
him go to history. During the Wars
of the Commonwealth they seized an
opportunity to murder all the Eng
lishmen in Ireland and paid the price
for their savagery when Cromwell
went over with his 'Ironsides." But
we are going too fast. Let US look
at Ireland during the rule of Queen
Elizabeth. Bound by thai tic o: re-
ligion to cruel and barbarous Spain.
they tried in every way to aid her in
the attempt to crush England and the
Protestant religion forever from the
face of the earth. Being at England'S
back door, they spread signal flrc5
to aid the Spanish Armada in its ap-
proach to the E,nglish coast. but the
gallant Drake ade.. by Providence,
s,r:s.alled their combined attempts
and saved civilization fro:t being
swallowed in the nav OF Romanish
superstition.
In 1886. James, the Catholic ting
of England, had played traitor to his
own peopl' and gave the irish unre-
stricted freedom under the guidance
of his Deputy, Lord Tyrconnell. This
dignitary supplied the Irish with
arms and prepared them to be ready
at the given word of Rome to fall up
on their unsuspecting neighbors. the
English Protestants, and sadly
enough, Irish Protestants as wei!
and kill them in one night. During
this time the Esglish and Irish Pro-
testants suspected something and
ongregated in a small district around
Dublin which they called the Pale
and it was thought to be almG,; GER
tain death to go beyond the Pale,
hence that phrase.
The founding OF Ulster by the Eng
lish r - "nen coTG. mneI al a former
artic.. This is one OF TIE causes OF
greats. friction hetwe=n the Irish
and English. Protestant Ulster will
never submit to the rule OF Cathc ic
Ireland, and Ireland will not have
Home Rule unless she can rule s.
ter too. She cries. Home Rule over
all Ireland or nothing. The prospect
is, as the Louisville Times has SAID.
she will get nothing. The province
of Ulster before the English settle
ment was uninhabited, all the IrI'h
dwelling in the south Of Ireland.
See Macauley's History of Engiand
and Ireland. 1t was visited only by
the most savage tribes, description
of whom Macauley gives as follows;
"Careasses. half raw and half burn
ed to cinders, some still bleeding,
sometimes in a state of loathscme
decay, were torn to pieces and eaten
without salt. When they wanted
boiled beef. they cooked the steer
in his own skin. They were crowd
of hGlf-naked Celts, singing Celtic
songs and dancing around an OK.
They cut their steaks out OF an ami
nal while still alive and threw the
bleeding. quivering forms onto the
burning Goals" This was the class