Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-03-29
Promoting Underhand Propaganda
Against Ireland Smoked
From Cover.
Father John T. O'Connor Presents
Strong Plea in Behalf of
Irish Freedom.
Urging President Wilson Only That
He Recognize Right of
Self-Government.
WITHIN SCOPE OF CONFERENCE.

Rev. John O'Connor, pastor of
Holy Name church, speaking as an
American, makes the following
strong and patriotic plea for justice
to Ireland in the Louisville Herald
of last Sunday, which we print in
full for the benefit of many who
may not have read it, Father
O'Connor says:
No one need now look far to
realize that there is CONSERVATION
in the British camp in the United
States. The Irish self-determination
bomb has struck home. The army
of emissaries that England has
filed certain portions of this coun-
try with for the past four months,
notably the city of Washington,
which has been busy with quiet,
rather underhand propaganda
against Ireland, which England was
not slow to realize after Wilson's
"self determination point became
prominent, would at once loom up
on the horizon with better right
than any other nation held in
thraldom by a more powerful one,
smoked from cover and no longer
able to stem the tide of sentiment
in this country, rushes out in the
open at last, clustering, believing,
lying as John Bull always has done
when brought to bay. In Thursdays
COurier-Journal the Washington
correspondent, NJ M. Milford. ex-
poses his hand and gives us evil
dence that Louisville has been well
represented in the British ranks in
Washington. For out and out
British Misrepresentation lying,
confusing and brutal, nothing like
1t has appeared in any newspaper in
this land.
Until this penny-a-liner took
hand the Irish question has had no
thoroughly versed exponent in this
country. All others have been
cropping in the dark, talking, writ
ing, discussing question they little
understood, but all at once a light
has dawned on him and with SNUG
assurance and self-satisfied dog
matism he informs us that ireland
is no separate nation anyhow, not |
a colony, has had full representa-
ton in the British Parliament and, !
oh, We gods, her Peers have sat in |
the House of Lords; is more a part
VI thO III lush CiuPllC lidu Gdudud
or Australia and has no more right !
before the Peace Conference than |
New England or California This !
is characteristic British tactics, lie. |
lie, lie; if all is not believed at !
least some will be. Such is the only
resort in the present predicament.
England has not a sound leg to
stand on in resisting Ireland's claim
n r.c Oh h. ~.
ence.
When we read in Milford's corre-
spondence that ireland is not a
separate nation we can safely wager
dollar to doughnut that he has
never read the history of nations,
especially of ireland; that he is as
ignorant of Irish history and of
English misrule of Ireland as 4
seven-year-old boy is of the pro-
blems of Euclid; that this pro-
nouncement of his has been whis-
pered into his ear by some indus
trious British friends. II
Indeed Ireland is the only country
In the world that is today as purely
of the same race as it was at the
beginning of the Christian era. The [
Celtic people are still more than
of the inhabitants. 1t /
Is today racially what it was when |
Hengist and Horsa were effecting '
heir little Saxon settlement on the '
Kentish coast of the British Isles. s
t is today more truly nation than I
England or France or Italy or Bel I
rum. The peoples In these coun- c
ries have undergone more than one n
hange in this time. The Anglo D
,axon became Anglo-Norman. the v
iauls gave way to a Teutonic tribe Il
the Franks Italy is but a mix \
ure of Iatins, Cloths and yandals,