The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-10-24
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IN DEFENSE OF IRELAND
Editor Maui News,

N ENSE OF IRELAND
Editor Maui News,
Dear Sir: Americans in these Is
lands who sympathize with Ireland in
her struggle to fulfill one of the OBJ
iects for which we entered the war,
namely: "The freedom of small ma
tions," may well ignore the insulting
remarks of newspapers, l prefer to
conceal the identity of these malign-
ers lest l may confer unmerited dig
nifty on them by associating them
with such a theme. Attacks of this
description only suggest the compari-
son of the dogs that bay the moon.
Around Ireland they have wrapped
clouds of falsehood and poisoned gas
that are quickly being dispersed while
she still sails on leaving the clouds
trailing in rags and leaving the efflu-
vium of those poisoned gases to suf-
focate the perpetrators, who stand
convicted before the world, Of the
henious charge of conspiring to rob
Ireland not alone of her purse, which
is trash" but, also of her good name
and thereby her best friend, America.
But their conspiracy from the start
was doomed to failure. With the high
percentage of Irish in the American
Army and Navy it would have been
brother Staying brother. Apart from
such valid reasons, Ireland was in the
wal from the start and the Irish are
no cutters. The alleged German
plot was the offspring of diseased and
vicious minds, totally ignorant of the
true character of the Irish people.
These German plot artists forgot that
they were dealing with a people that
cannot be judged by ordinary stand
ards; they figured that everybody
would believe them when they said
the Irish were pro-German, or pro-
devil, so long as Great Britain was in
volved. Surely the situation was an
embarrassing paradox; but when we
think along these lines we forget that
that proud little country values prin-
ciple above the material things of this
earth, for which she has been marty
red so long. 1t is a pity that the ac-
ton of a few wooden-headed, clumsy,
secret diplomats. or politicians, or
whatever else they are, should bring
such disgrace on Great Britain; for
the glory or disgrace of the few re-
fleets On the whole country. The plot
is a worthy companion for 1.-THE Lon
don Times plot" which sought to
brand Parnell and Redmond and the
Irish Party as murderers and assassins
a couple of decades go; so the idea
is a bit stale. The plot was Matched
and launched at the time we were in
a life and death struggle for the free
dom of the world, and at the moment
best calculated to impress the world
with lreland's perf1dy and brand her
forever in Jul eyes as the most cal
ious type of hypocrite and migrate.
But, thank heaven! "The best-laid
scheme O. mice and men gang aft a
gley", and instead of damning the
Irish for ever to the tender mercy OF
Great Britain, the German Plot was
the greatest boost for the Sim
(Shinn) Feiners; because the insult
it contained fermented the indigna-
lion of the Irish people, whose pent-up
rage found vent at the ballot boxes
all over the country. Last December,
when the hot lava Of distrust and con-
tempt boiled over and flowed, as il
from Mauna Loa, in a hot stream obi
terating the British connection for
ever, in its course to the sea Of sympa-
Thy, that surrounds the Irish struggle,
it had increased the temperature too
much for the existence of the cold
blooded sea serpent who thought out
such a diabolical plot. Though hun
dreds were arrested and jailed for