Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
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given. 1t consisted of piano solos by
Ruth Frazer, Eleanor Weed, Lauretta
Foley, Audrey Murphy, and Alice Lar
kin; two very beautiful piano duets
by Audrey and Roger Murphy and
Marie and Lauretta Foley. The club
was then entertained by listening to
Rev Father OReilly on Ireland.
In discussing Ireland's national
struggle, Father e. c.. O'ReiIly said
that Ireland is one of the oldest ma
tons on EARTH that the world is in
debted to Ireland for the preservation
of Christian faith and learning, during
the dark days when the savage tribes
were devastating Europe. Ireland alone
repealed those barbarian OnslaughtS
and recusee Cdhri tisaZvnciliieetaOic
and rescued Christian civilization
from blight and ruin. It was then
that the lovers of learning and reli
giOn, from every country in Europe,
locked of that Green Isle" which had
won the peerless title of The Land
Of Saints and Scholars"
Not only did she throw open her
colleges and universities TO the people
of England and continental Europe,
but she sent her missionaries and
scholars with the torch Of Faith and
learning to ciyilize the savage tribes
that settled in those countries. For
seven hundred years, sle was the
great missionary of civilization, faith
learning and sanctity, lifting the ma
ton from the mire barbarism, opposing
The spirit Of war and blOOdshed, and
binding men in peaceful federation by
the ties of human brotherhood-learn
ing and religion.
Father O'Reilly went Gil to give an
other picture of Ireland, Beginning
with TIC English invasion III the 18th
century, and continuing TO the pres
ent time. How Ireland. whose COM
merce was equal to that Of Britain,
is now reduced to one and One-half
Der cent, while England controls the
ether ninety eight and onC-half per
cent of the commerce Of the British
Isles. The same hand which robbed
Ireland of her industries and COM
rnerce robbed her also Of her land.
James l. drove the people from five
counties of Ulster and distributed
their land among his followers. But
it was left to Oliver Cromwell, thirty
years later, to complete the robbery
and slaughter of the poor Irish peas
ants who deared to defend their
homes. After numbering countless
thousands, and transporting other
thousands of tOys and girls into slaE-
cry in the Virginian colonies ard the
West Indies. he drove the others &C
cross the river Shannon to the boys
and mountains of Connaugh, while ne
rarcelled out their lands among his
English soldiers. Father q Reilly
went on to show how the Irish Cath0-
lies were denied the right ii citizen
ship. could not hold office, could not
enter aay profession, inherit property,
or own horse of greater value than
S25. If a man found himself in pos
session of a more valuable animal, he
was obliged to report it 20 his nearest
ENGLISH protestant neighhor, who
could come and take possession OF the
horse. They were forbidden, TO educate
their children, a price of live pounG5
being placed on the head. OF a. school
master. They were commanded oy
law, to attend Protestant worship, has
to pay seven million dollars year
for the support of English Protestant
ministers. while at the same time,
their priests were hunted down like
wolves, and a bounty of five pounds
nut upon their heads.
He said, that while England has
been compelled in recent years TO re-
lax the cruelty of her laws in some
respects. the conditions in Ireland are
still intolerable, and her history for
the past hundred years may be sum
med up in three words, Taxation,
Starvation and Emigration. He salq
It is a matter of publ c record, ~ae-
eording to the finding of the ChilterS
Commission in 1904, that England has
been overtaxing Ireland twelve mil
lion and one-half dollars per year the
Get OF the. Union in 1891. that. the
fertile plains of Ireland have been
turned into hunting grounds and cat
tie ranches, and that while the fat
cattle have been driven to England
the lean children have been driven tt
America, so that in the last 70 years
the population Of Ireland has been cu'
down from nine million to four anc
one-half million, 5E
In 1914, when by an act OF Parlia
ment, Ireland was granted Home
pule. Sir Ed. Carson, the leader of
little Oragne faction in the North o.
Ireland, protested against it. He or
ganized an army to oppose Home
Rule and solicited the aid OF the
Kaiser to make war upon England
4 few months later, Sir Rodger Case
lnent solicited the aid Of Germany il
behalf of Ireland's freedom; but, whii'
Sir Edward Carson was rewarded To-
his treason by receiving a high posi-
ton in the English Cabinet, Sir Rod
x,roc foroo.d on an I'm o.