The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-04-05
IRELAND MUST Be ALL BRITISH OR ALL ROMAN
Priests Declaration at Aberdeen S. D., States the Issue
As it Stands Between Rome and England and Be-
tween Rome and the Whole Word---Nothing Said
About Making ireland All Irish.

either must be oil British or all Roman.
As for myself, prefer to see her all
Roman This statement was made by
the Rev. Father NJ. j. Dermody, rector
of Sacred Heart Catholic church in
Aberdeen, as he made an address on |
ireland at public meeting at the audi
torium Of the Sacred Heart parochial
school at which time an Irish play was
presented to large audience.
Father Dermody had recently re-
turned from a meeting Of Irish sym
pathizers at Philadelphia, and he made
an eloquent half hour address in be-
half Of the island, In which he insisted
that Ireland was entitled to the right
Of self determination guaranteed by
President Wilson'S IA points. Father
Dermody eulogized Sir Roger Easement
MS martyr to Irish freedom, and told
his audience they could not depend upon
their daily papers for correct informa-
ton in regard to the progress of events
in Ireland, because all the daily papers
we're under British control and printed
only what Great Britain wanted the
American people to know.
By some inadvertent impulse to
tell the truth, or by some unac-
countable slip Of the lip, Priest
Dermody states the real issue be-
tween the popes Irish and the
British government.
He does not say that Ireland
must be all British or all Irish; he
says that Ireland must be all Brit
ish or all Roman. 1t is the pre-
else equivalent Of saying that
home rule for Ireland means Rome
rule for Ireland
And that is exactly what the
present Irish rebellion, like other
Irish rebellions, is intended to
bring about. The truth about Ire
land is a very simple matter when
so simply and straightforwardly
told.
Why Dermody is so frankly out
spoken when all other priests Of his
cult are hiding their real purpose,
must remain something of a mys-
terry for the present. He may
think that the rebellion is SO near
success that further pretense is
unnecessary. He may have come
back from that Philadelphia meet
ing so inflated with Hibernian ora
tory as to confidently throw aside
the hypocrisy and lies prompted
by expediency and peddled here
tofore to gull the gullible.
However that may be, he, like
every other Roman Catholic priest
who says anything about it, pre-
fers to see Ireland all Roman. If
he didn't feel and talk that way
about it he couldn t very well hold
his profitable priestly job as an
agent Of the pope.
We careless and Indifferent Am
orleans may not care very much
whether ireland is all British, all
Roman, or all anything. We used
to care as little about what the
Prussian kaiser pulled off in Ger
many; but we found out one day
that an autocrat on land may also
play pirate on the sea-that power
in wrong hands is danger to all,
I What We ought to know, and
think about, and prepare against,
is the fact that Romanizing Ire.
land is but a new beginning OF
Romanizing the earth. The pro.
cess begins in ireland for the
simple reason that the papist pop.
ulation of that island makes il
more feasible there than elsewhere
1t was revived in war time with
the hope that Pope Benedict's fel
; low monarch, the kaiser, woulc
win the war; England would bt
humiliated and shorn of power
and the two autocrats would effect
a mutually satisfactory division o.
western Europe.
Plans were badly disarrangeG
when kaiseriAm collapsed; but i
had all gone too far to abandon
the campaign. War had failed Il
detach Ireland, so Jesuit diplo
macy and cunning set about tt
realize the same end by means o.
the peace to be made. Reconstruc
ton offered another opportunity
! and Rome is making all its ennis
saries can get out of the situation
America cannot ignore the pop,
with any more safety than it ig
nored the kaiser. Papal propa
: ganda is just as disturbing here a
, Prussian kultur.- This is especial
} ly true when papists try to sti
this country up to enmity will
England which is practically ou
ally in a war yet unfinished.
What are you going I'd say, MI
Z American, when the Roman Cath
3 olic population becomes grea
enough in the state Of Missouri
, for some priest to declare, "Mis
souri, must be all American or al
RomanY 2"
; Maybe when that not impossibl