Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-10
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sir. we can never make ones home
safe and secure from evil tendencles"
through falsehood
On what authority do you make the
startling statement that Should the
United States take up the champion
ship of Ireland in her desire for nome
rule that it would Immediately involve
our country in war with England 2
Did England engage you for her
spokesman? England would not dare
to fight US Why, the very mention or
such a possibility is little short OF an
insult. Do you recollect that the flag
of the United States was the only flag
that never retreated in this world
WARP Dig up the record OF England
in the war. Only a year ago on the
21st of March her armies ran back
twenty-five miles under the able lead
ership of General Cough. And from
the almost universal assertions of our
returned soldier boys, to beat up"
Tommy Atkins would be pleasant
pastime Dig little deeper into his
tory, especially the history Of the pres
ent decade, and you will be quite eau
tiOus in asserting that England would
try to whip anyone. Read Admiral
Jellico on the Navy and Gen. Maurice
in his comments on the war, and after
you have read you will realize she will
not try war with us, even for Ireland,
that produces SO many golden eggs,
because every Irish man and woman
would help to finish her off, even it
they had to swim the Atlantic to do 1t.
They can fight. Do you remember
that it took 10000 English troops one
week to subdue 600 Irish men and boys
in 1916 in Ireland? And then they
took their vanquished fellow-citiZens
out and shot them. Oh, no, England
would not try to fight us; she would
try as she is trying now, to confound,
defeat and confuse us through her in
trigue. But she will not succeed. Her
brain is too solid from disuse. Could
she grasp the wisdom of experience
she would grant Ireland self-determi-
nation without further discussion and
would thereby be the winner
On what do you base the presumptu-
Gus statement that IAN favoring Ire
lands cause have small regard for the
welfare of this country when they
would induce us to take up the cudgel
III Ireland's behalf as against English
ruler" We have taken up the "cudgeP'
for every other small country, every
other oppressed people, why leave Ire
land out?
Do you know that when the quee,
ton became so insistent, as to whether
England had rght to utilize her de-
Tendencies for her own interests ire
spective Of their consent, the wise Ben
Franklin visited Ireland in 1771. After
his return to the colonies he said: 81
found them disposed to be friends OF
America in which | endeavored to
confirm them with the expectation that
our growing weight might in turn be
thrown into one scale and by joining
our interests with theirs a more eQuit
able treatment from England be OBJ
tanned for themselves as we'll as for
Is" That day has come and when We
give the help we promised $50 years
ago we can stand before the world
justified.
Had Ireland fought against the al
lies she would be falling into our lap
as it we're" as are the other small
countries, and her case would be con-
sidered But because her sons min
gled their blood with the blood of our
sons on Flanders field, her claims are
still unconsidered. Let the prophet of
Eureka Springs cease from troubling
about England She is afraid of us,
and we'll she may be.
MRS. HUGH KELLEY.
BaraboO.