The Irish standard., 1919-09-27

IeF from LOrQ DenDlgn IN WnlCn the
English peer talked of the impossible
ity of an Irish Republic. Father Rope
thus tears to pieces the absurd stace-
ment.)
"Impossibility" of an Irish republic?
Why is it impossible? Ireland and
America both think it possible, and
Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Fogarty,
Archbishop Walsh and others to whom
telligence (see the London Tablet,
May 10. Dominion Home Rule may
we'll be impossible, because Q) Ire
land expressly declines it, and (2) is
not to be fooled with Westminster
pledges again, while 90 England has
no moral right to dominion in Ireland
(see DR.. Coffey In Irish Ecclesiastical
Record, June, 1879.
Can any man whose moral sense
is not hopelessly blunted doubt that
she (England) will have to pay, to
the uttermost farthing, the penalty
of her centuries of tyrannical oppres-
sion and remorseless cruelty in Ire
land?" wv. S. Lilly, "On Right and
Wrong" p. 1857. Now, Mr.. Lilly is
not precisely Sim Feiner.
The strategic danger" the changes
of public opinion? For Catholics
there is higher principle. We were
told that the Peace Conference would
be guided by justice the farce is
still kept up. Lord Denbigh does not
apply, does not even allude to this
principle. A strange obsession of the
UniOnist mind is that strategic dan
GER! Why and how is it safer to
have for neighbors dragooned slaves
than free nation more clear than any
other from one stain of imperial brig
andage?
'The strategical position" of Bel
gium with it's harbors on the North
Sea front must always be fatal OBJ
stacle to" her freedom-from the Prus-
sian point of view! Austria has as
good right to hold Bohemia as Eng
!and to hold Ireland, indeed, a better
right Yet Ireland was expected to
commit suicide to rescue Belgium and
Bohemia!
The Excuse Of the Tyrant.
II must go on throttling him, for
he might throttle me-" What prin-
ciple could be more anti-Catholic ir.
rational and savage than this union
ism? How can English Catholics &C.
cept such guidance without (in ef-
feet renouncing Catholicism? And
then to denounce Prussian Unionists
C"Huns"), to lecture Rome on the
treatment of Bishops in conquered
countries to proclaim oneself Tin the
anti-Catholic London Times) almost
ashamed of" the name Catholic, be-
cause, forsooth, the Irish Bishops will
not cooperate in very obvious de-
vice to exterminate the youth of Ire.
land-surely this is little too much?
Patriotism, the love of ones own
country, is contrary to Imperialism,
the desire to seize or retain that of
ones neighbors when they have strate-
gical frOntiers-Or gold mines
Helping the supply of men would
have done untold good to the Irish
cause" BY getting rid of the Irish
and leaving only West Britons, Car
sonians any aspiring sergeants! Un-
told good to the cause of the editor
of President Steyn's dispatches and
other champions of small nations:
Helping the supply of men when
free America was bringing over every
week twice the available population
of enslaved Ireland. Is not the ar
gument fimsy? 1t was generally be-
lieved, too, that some ardent con-
scriptionists in England were shell
tered from practising their theory,
and preferred committing suicide on
other people,!
The Talk Of "Law and Order"
THE restoration of law and order"
What daring mockery of God is this!
Orange law and order! The law and
order that kidnaps children, insults
the Blessed Sacrament in Belfast pris-
ons, throws lighter" bombs at Cul-
len-the law and order of the garotter
with his fingers round his victims
throat! Can any well-informed Catho.
lie repeat such blasphemy? Objec-
lively it is blasphemy). Can Lord
Denbigh be ignorant that Constantly