The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-05

Hartford Republican, Of October 10,
bearing an article under the above
caption assailing an editorial which
appeared in The Herald of Septem-
Der II, 1919, in which gave a
summary Of opinion concerning the
mooted Irish Question" | wrote
recently an extensive article on this
subject for The Herald. but the copy
becoming misplaced. it was not pub
lished. Our informant, who lacks
the courage or inclination to sign his
name to the article but parades I'M
der the nom de plume of For JUS
tice Sake, asserts that he is one
having not the honor of even a re-
mote claim to Irish ancestry nor
swayed by mere sentiment" but is a
lover of justice purely and simply;
and in the conslommeration of fan
cies, DISTORTED facts, religious bitter
ness and misquotations that follows,
he plainly sets forth the fact that
his prime motive is the defense of
Roman Catholicism, the reference to
We do not know why he waited I'M
til now, when the one who wrote the
article has severed his connection
with the paper and is a thousand
miles away, to write this article of
condemnation, unless he spent the
interim in preparation of it's match
less rhetoric and in assembling the
istnrical - facts which relates only
40 American history and have no
beari:.g whatever on the subject un-
der discussion.
1t is really cruel in me to tax the
readers of this paper with an an
swer to all the vagaries which he
holds as arguments. I'm going to
couch my disposition of these poorly
presented theories in as brief man
ner as possible, then devote the re-
mainder of this article to a discus
sion of the question in the light of
history. To lay at rest his senti-
mental whims and misrepresenta-
tions requires but sentence para
graphs.
In the first place, he devotes con-
siderable space to the fact that Irish
men helped fight the American Rev
olution and lays this as basis for
his claim that America should help
them obtain Home Rule. Well, well!
Poor old Baron Won Steuben was
Prussian who drilled the American
armies and made them victorious ov-
er the British and yet, only a year
ago, we finished a war in which the
ungrateful Yankees whipped Won
Steuben's country black and blue.
The Jews fell on an hundred fields,
Jewish hands lifted the first Ameri
can banner over Savannah, carried
the bleeding Jasper from the field,
withstood the redcoats at German
town,-and yet, when the Russians
tried to massacre all Isreal, America
stood passively by. Poles came across
the waters and gave their life-blood:
Kowlscki, Pulaski and Kosckiusco,
and yet Poland has been oppressed
by Russia these many years and we
said never a word. And because the
Irish, like so many other nations,
chose to help the colonies, Ireland
has been bellyaching all these years
and crying ingratitude. During the
war Of the Revolution, according to
Parnell the Irish organized a great
army for the sole purpose OF fight
ing the Americans, but France threw
her aid to the colonies and Ireland
held off.
He asked IL Ireland ever had a
chance to govern herself. Let us
see. Ireland was converted to the
Christian faith under the preaching
of emissaries from Rome some five
hundred years before England ever
became an Independent power. She
Immediately became a tool of Den
mark. the then ruling papal power
of Europe. 1t was in 1869 that
Strongbow, the Saxon chief. came
over from England directly after his
conquest of the portion of England
which was not taken by William the
ConQueror. The Irish chief, Der
mod McMurrough. gave his daughter,
Eva, in marriage to the Saxon leader,
thereby granting the heritage of the
Irish crown to the Saxons Thus by
right of lineage, IL for no other reas-
on, the Irish crown belongs to the
ruling house of England. An Irish
parliament had already been estab-
lished years before this, and bound
Ireland as a vassalage to Rome. II
was during this time that Henry, of
Germany, denied the temporal pow
er of the pope and the great ensuing
al ruRgle rasultad directly in tho Ra