The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-13

IN lil' l4Eul which lIfldHu lNN
still 90 wage to win her liberty from
England She will need the public
opinion OF the world TO support her
| know her cause to be just, and
feel certain that II will be supported
by the right minded everywhere ~
only they can know it as 1t is.
As ! proceed to write these ar
ticlcs, addressed to the American
peoplc--who are at this moment
about to take a decision on ques-
ton which vitally affects the land
love and have the honor to rep
reseut--as | reflect on the motives
have in writing them a natural
association Of ideas suggests TO me
the opening paragraph Of docu-
| ment addressed to the people of Ire
| land on May 10th, 1775, and signed
| by John Hancock
1--WE are desirous, as is natural to
| injured innocence, OF possessing the
| good opinion OF the virtuous and
| humane. We are particularly desir-
| Gus Of furnishing you with a true
state OF our motives and objects, the
/ better to enable you to judge OF our
! conduct with accuracy and deter
| mine the merits of the controversy
| with impartiality and precision"
| have the document at hand, and
as ! glance through II, to refresh my
memory / cannot help wishing that
| every man and woman I'm America
had also a copy Of this appeal made
by the fathers OF their country when
/ they, suffering from unbearable at
tacks on their liberty, and deter
! mined TO end them, sought the good
| will OF the virtuous and humane in
Ireland, as we today seek the good
will Of the yirtuOus and humane In
America.
| know no better introduction to
/ what / propose 20 write than 10 give
It in full. As / may need to refer to
! II in the further articles | would
ask those who intend TO read these
articles not only TO study 1t care
fully now, but TO keep It for refer
ence later
II is interesting on its own ac-
count as n Complementary document
10 the Declaration OF independence
setting forth Americas grievances
at the time TO a people who could
well understand them, because they
were themselves suffering from Ike
wrongs-similar abuses OF arbitrary
power
| wonder whether Americans to-
day can at all understand, by which
/ mean realize, what were the sur
ferings and what was the spirit that
drove their ancestors to cut them
. selves off from England's dominion
, The Irishman can realize them, the
/ Indian can, the Egyptian can, for
they endure even today-even as
write and you read-that your fore
fathers won themselves free from.
Fellow Feeling Absent.
Today with scarcely the change
r OF a word, except those which imply
= legitimate right on the part Of tht
p British crown to rule US che Irish
/ nation il not an English colony, ant
owes now, ana has never owed any
loyalty to Eugiauds king) | mIgh
put my signature to that document
instead Of BInCOck's and present J.
2 7 to the Amct,can people on behalf OF
p Dali Eireann, the national congress
: in ireland, now sitting
2 To Irishmcn 1t would appear
e perfectly natural presentation o.
70 ,hclr present position, but Amer!
2 cans. accustomed now 20 enjoy th'
RI liberty of their OWn laws, cannot,
I fear, understand as our forefather'
\ understood as their tOrefathcri
would understand, as we understand
The follow feeling begot OF actua
experience Of the wTonEs complained
o OF is necessarily absent.
{ To make Americans feel what
Il
v would need 20 write a Commentar!
|, upon IL. The yoarning TO be under
4 stood by those whose good opinion
y one vqlues-what it is-only thos
5 can know who have experienced m
= bitterness Of heart Of seeing a nobl
2 cause successfully misrepresented
The fierce Indignation Hancock AM
his comrades felt against the powe
that, whilst trying by brute fore
\ 10 crush them into slaves adde'
. ! mockery and insult to force thei
I chaf.ng at the advantage England
. hyprocriucal mask--her reputation
as a champion Of liberty-gave he
then as Il gives her now-IrishmeI
hayo but 20 glance through the doc
ument TO appreciate. All this mus'
e however, be lost to the ayerag
y American reader Of today,
T. The selfishness Of England, m
X callous brutality Of England, he
prostitution Of law and the artfu