The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1919-08-16
ON NsAMERlCA'S
:, ! lMl!AD|Ne N ITS
own BUSINESS
~iticism, Like Charity, Should Begin
at home-A Reply to carson's In
solent and Offensive Threat to
the United States:
Had America Not Minded Europe's
Business Year Ago German
Family Would Be Rulers of
Great Britain.

Great Britain.
Much front page publicity was given
the offensive advice of Sir Edward
Carson, the leader of the 10 per cent
minority in Ireland opposed to an
Irish Republic. With few exceptions
the replies by British and American
papers were carefully concealed in
some obscure corners Among the ex-
ceptions was the following from Mr..
Hearst as printed in all of his papers:
Sir Edward Carson forgets more
than his good manners when he says
that the United States should mind it's
own business.
We would like to call Sir Edward
CarsOn's attention to the fact that If
the United States had minded its own
business the Germans would now prob
ably be in full occupancy of England
and be demanding of England the op-
pressive indemnities and the territor-
ial extensions which the Allies are
now demanding of Germany.
If the United States had minded it's
own business and not taken any action
in regard to the late European conflict,
another German house than the house
of Hanover would be heirs to the
throne of England, or would hold Eng
land as a dependent province with
Canada, Australia, Ireland and other
parts of the British Empire separated
from Great Britain and at liberty to
conduct themselves in individual in
dependence, or in such confederation
as they might see Mt. w. ''1S' %
Perhaps it would have been we'll for
the United States to have minded its
own business, but considering the fact
that England chiefly benefited by the
United States not minding it's own
business, it is not particularly good
taste for Sir Edward Carson to be
insolent and offensive in the matter.
Even minding it's own business, the
United States has perfect right to
be sympathetic with Ireland.
We are supposed to be genuinely
democratic government and people,
favorable to democratic institutions
and republican forms of government
everywhere, solicitous for oppressed
nations and for weaker countries held
in bondage by the military force of
stronger nations.
Such have been our national Ameri-
can ideals and policies since the foun-
dation of this government, and these
ideals have been ably expressed in
words, II not in acts, by the President
of the United States at various con-
ferences attended by representatives
of the British government, to which
sentiments these representatives of
Great Britain assented, in words
again, If not in deeds.
The sympathetic attitude of the
United States toward Ireland is en-
tirely within it's moral rights and en-
titrely within it's legal rights, accord
ing to the laws of nations. The United
States has not outraged law, as Sir
Edward Carson did when he smuggled
arms into Ireland and paraded his
riotous following in open rebellion
against the government of England.
The citizens of the United States
have not committed treason to their
own country, as Sir Edward Carson
did to his country, and Sir Edward
Carson is not even telling the truth
when he says that the. American mis-
sion violated hospitality in Ireland,
although that would have been only a
violation of fundamental moral and
legal rights which Sir Edward Carson
committed.
America, despite Sir Edward Car
son, will probably continue to exercise
the rights of it's citizens to sympa-
thfze with oppressed people every
where, and particularly with the
people of Ireland, for the simple rea-
son that these people seem to be
among the most unrighteously op-
pressed and unreasonably oppressed
of all the people of the earth.
There is not one subject nation
which the Convention of Allied Coun-
tries at Paris has released from the
dominion of Russia or Austria or Ger
many or Of any European power which
can show the same ineradicable and
uncontrovertible record of oppression,
of wilfully and stupidity unjust govern
ment as Ireland can show.