Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17
The Case Of Eureka Springs VS..
Kelley

cosmopolitan than that OF any other
nation, every people under the sun
be ng represented. Sandwiched in be-
tween the various foreign elements is
remnant of the old, original, true
blue Americans, but their numbers are
now so small that if any one of them
opens his mouth on a subject of vital
interest to this country, he is at once
sat upon by some foreign fire-eater,
who imagines him or serself the whole
thing. A case in point was when, re-
Gently, I, as a free-boTn American citl-
zen, had the rashness to object to the
Irish propaganda now being aired at
Baraboo, Wis, as being inimical to
the peace and welfare of our country.
For my audacity in the matter | was
Immediately assailed, called names,
insulted, and otherw Sc lambasted by
a rabid Irish sympathizer, in the per-
son of one Mrs. Kelley, Of the same
city. | have not the pleasure OF Mrs.
eKlley's acquaintance. and, from her
due to the rights of her fellow citizens,
10 not crave her acquaintance.
The name american" is now made
to cover any person having been grant
ed natural cation papers. But the
mere act of taking out papers does not
at once transform the foreigner into
genuine true-blue< American, but
sorry to say-far too many remain
aliens at heart during their life. Mrs.
Kelley appears to be one Of this sort.
The difference between Mrs. Kelley,s
Americanism and mine is this:
firmly believe in America first. last
and all the time, while she evidently
believes in Ireland first, and America
for Ireland forever.
AS to her insulting insinuation that
| am an agent i'll the employ OF Eng
land, | would say: | was born in
America, as were also my parents, and
a long line of ancestors before them,
many of whom fought through the
War of the Revolution to free this
country forever from the rule Of John
Bull. And | make bold to say that far
more Of my ancestors were in that
of Mrs. Kelley's relatives. And again,
if our country was ever assailed by
John Bull, Mrs. Kelley may rest as
sured that more Abbotts would grab
u gun in it's defense than there would
he Of her iliustrious family, because
the Abbotts are all American to the
backbone.
Mrs. Kelley is fond of quoting his
tory, history, history. But she is very
silent as to that portion Of it which
tells of the Fenian movement which
was Matched in our country, in or
about 1858, and kept us in an uproar
for over sixteen years, and finally met
a just censure at the hands of Presi-
dent Andrew Johnson. She makes no
mention of the historical fact that, in
1916, when the savage Huns were
numbering and drowning our wives
while England was battling nobly to
stop the unholy slaughter, the Sim
Feiners were plotting here in America,
with agents OF the beastly women
slayers, to stab England in the back.
A very pretty scheme, was it not?
Ireland can never expect the sympa-
thy and much less the assistance of
any true American in her struggle for
home rule by such coWardly, Sneaking
methods. But Mrs. Kelley does invite
me to dig up the history of how, on
March Fl, year ago, the English
lao or n: Of
Cough, ran away before the Huns,
distance of twenty miles. Now, a
prominent speaker at the recent meet
ing Of the Irish propagandists in Bar
aboo stated there were 100000 Irish
men in the English army. Can itsbe
they also Fan back with their English
companions? Impossible, for Mrs.
Kelley says they are so anxious to
fight an enemy as to sw N the ocean.
Perhaps, though, they were heading
for the ocean, to swim over and tell
Miss Columbia how the naughty Eng
lish were compelling them to fight
their dear friends, the Huns.
| have no more time for an Irish
propa gandiSt than I have for a German
propaganda, or any other of the de
testable vermin that are using the
freedom of our country to hatch their
unholy schemes, If any foreigner is
spanked for his misdeeds at home, be
at once hustles over here with a tale
of woe, to weep and snob and blow his
nose on Miss Columbia's apron, hoping
for her sympathy and assistance. And
instead Of giving him another spank
ing, which he deserves, and sending
him home~where he belongs, she lets
him stay to wax fat, and to snub and
insult her own children.
We are at the close of one of the
most cruel and inhuman wars in the
history of the world. The most of us
are feeling its after effects too forci-
bly, to desire a repetition of its hor-
rors. But evidently Mrs. Kelley is
not of this class, but would delight in
turning our propag anda-pestered coun-
ry into a sort of Donnybrook Fair,
| where she might trail her coat, daring
4 anyone to fread on it's sacred tail As