The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-04
IRELAND TO U. S.
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George Hughes Discusses Re-
Gently Popped Question.
TOpekan Says That stranger
Things Have Happened"
4 GOOD MOVE FOR ENGLAND
She Would Not Have To Worry
Over America.
And the Irish Could Be Real
Republic at Last.
4 GOOD MOVE FOR ENGLAND

George Hughes, master Topeka
political philosopher and able sup
porter of the single tax. a former resi-
dent of the British empire, and the
son of the famous Tom Brown
at Rugby Hughes, who was a
member of the house of commons. in
q speech recently before the Jay
hawker club of Topeka took up the
proposed solution of the Irish ques-
ton which included The incorporation
of Ireland into the United States of
America.
In pointing out the advantages of a
move of this kind and stating that
stranger things have happeped," Mr..
Hughes said in part:
Recently an English member of
parliament startled his countrymen by
suggesting that the best solution of
corporation of Ireland into the United
States of America with the full con-
sent of the British empire.
Ethiopian and extravaganza as it
sounds, this suggestion, when carefully
analysed, has many points of merit,
and is far from being either impos-
sible or impracticable especially under
present abnormal conditions, when the
whole world is being torn apart and
reassembled.
There is no difference in the prin-
ciples involved between this sugges-
ton and the recent transfer of the
Danish West Indies from Denmark to
us. provided the three parties are will
ing. A 'quid pro quo between John
Bull and Uncle Sam could doubtless
be amicably arranged. For example,
the Philippines would possibly be of
more use to John than to US, owing to
his other interests in the far east.
Let US consider the arguments in
favor of the proposed transfer from
the standpoint of America, England
T~AI 7a6a n11r-
interests and those of the entente al
lies will be identical for some consid-
era BILE time, and we can never again
eva : our responsibilities in the affairs
of the world. and more especially Of
Europe.
Advantage to Z. S. A.
ITO keep alive the requisite national
interest in this responsibility we need
a tangible stake in Europe, or as the
lawyers say "A property interest in the
venture What better can we have
than Ireland, separated from US only
by water, the motherland of countless
Americans and bound to us by many
other ties of friendship and sympathy.
Should we not therefore offer her a
seat in our family circle of free re-
publics for these reasons alone. An
other reason: We have freely criticized
England in times past for her failure
to properly govern ireland, and have
pointed with pride to the happy lot
OF Irishmen who have emlgrated IL
our shores and live under our institu-
tions. Here, then, is an opportunity
to back our words with deeds and to
prove to skeptical world that we car
succeed where England has failed.
England repeatedly has said in re-
cent years that she will welcome any
solution capable of ensuring perma-
nent peace and prosperity to ireland
without endangering the safety of the
British empire. She admits in effect
that while able 20 hold the friendship
respect and loyalty of all the myriad
races in her vast and loosely knit EN-;
pire she cannot satisfy the majoritJ
of the Irish.
No Danger From Abroad.
s'If she would she could not gram
ireland absolute independence because
of her proximity to England with the
possibility of some great unfriendl.
power taking advantage of Ireland:
Isolation and the consequent danger