The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-10-24

on trial for the alleged plot.
The lava flow from the Irish Mauna
Loa has crystalized on the hillside of
Irish life, has plunged over the preci-
pice of despair, that it was figured on
would leave Ireland in the lurch, il
the Plot were successful. The Irish
Republic has solidifed in the econo-
mic life of the country. Like the
healthy sugar cane it sprouted with
increasing vigor through the British
mulching paper of coercion, which
serves only to keep down the weeds.
No the Irish Republic is not founded
on hate for the British; it is founded
on natural right and justice. The
date of its recognition by Britain
should be the happiest day in the ex-
istence of the British Empire, because
then, in truth, would commence the
real union, between Great Britain and
Ireland. Great Britain is alive with
the Irish" In Scotland alone before
CONSUMPTION was ever mentioned go
600 Irish boys donned the British
uniforms (Which they hated) and died
on the Marnei The Redmonds re-
cruited in Ireland (before consumption
was spoken of in England) one hun
dred and seventy thousand, and went
over the top with them at a time one
who doesn't understand the Irish
would have wagered his last nickel
that if st. Patrick himself came he
could not get one recruit for the Brit
ish. The Irish are a gifted people,
and the world has been robbed of
their talents because the talents have
never been allowed to flourish or
develop in Native soil. l have no de-
sire to make unfavorable OF unfriend-
ly comparisons between Ireland and
America, but according to figures COM
piled by a British officer (Maloney),
America to be equal to Irelands' quota
in the war should have five million,
seven hundred thousand (5,70 ,000)
dead, not to mention the wounded,
and yet, according to some critics, Ire
land has done nothing. How can the
world ever get free if such people are
allowed to poison the channels of in
formation. School children should be
protected from such stuff, if their
parents desire them to learn the truth
about every thing. There is no stint
to the praise that British statesmen
give to Ireland for her share in the
war. Anyway we are satisfied that the
intelligence of America is well aware
of the facts. We have the word of
Lord Wimbourn, the Viceroy in Ire
land, even after the rebellion, that the
Sim Feiners were not pro-Germn.
Looking around the gloomy aspect
says Sir Edward Grey in the House Of
Commons, there is one consolation;
one bright spot on the horizon, Ire
land is with us in this war"
Who ~blackened Grey's bright spot?
We are tired of listening to a lot of
clap-trap about the Irish not agreeing
among themselves. Why they are as
united today under President De Vale
ra as they were under Brian Borou
when he routed the Danish marauders
/ that cursed the Western Islands for
centuries. They were united under
O'Connell and Parnell. Lo! and mark
well, the failure is on the British side;
they are too narrow to trust the Irish.
Unable to agree amongst themselves
the British played politics at the very
time the Irish factions agreed to a
truce during the war. The British
have failed to grasp the physiological
moment and lost for ever the one and
only golden opportunity that has ever
been presented by circumstance to
fuse the two great races into one. The
| British were too weakened to fol
low that great Irishman and Imperial
list, John Redmond, across the chasm
that the war had bridged to the lofty
plane of magnanimity where all could
f%raternize and nip the war in the bud.
! Ireland has been bled to death in this