The Washington herald., 1920-12-14
Rector Of C. u Calls Brit.
ish in Ireland Worse
Than Germans. \
SEES REDH HORRORS
IN SACK OF LONDON
Riot Spirit Let Loose Is
Bound to Destroy Eng
land, Priest Declares.

The burning OF Cork, as reprisal
for attacks by members of Sim Fein
was characterized as a super crime"
worse than the sacking of Louvain
and wild eyed anarchy" in a state
ment issued yesterday by tip Rt.
Rev. Bishop Thomas ]. Shahan, rec
tor of the Catholic University of
America
The burning of Cork surpasses In
grim horror and fierce injustice the
crime of Louvain." said Bishop Sha-
han. The little academic city of the
Belgians was given over to arson
and pillage in the name of the Ger
man Empire, and under direction of
the German military forces. where
Upon England reused the entire
world with her passionate denuncia-
tion of the crime of the ages.
Now she has herself committed
a super-crime. not in the name OF
an authorized government agency.
but in the name. spirit and principle
OF anarchy.
Says London viii Suffer.
'Maliciously the English Parlia-
ment squints at it's own agents and
encourages Bolshevist practices that
tomorrow will come home to Lon
don with sanguinary interest in so
far as the loot of London surpasses
that of Cork, and the red-eyed rage
of its dumb masses can work in
deeds OF horror that will make the
ashes Of Cork look like a play
ground.
t. ~
English government would force
upon Ireland, who can blame the
immense majority of the Irish peo-
pie for rejecting 1t, backs to the
wall? Better a thousand times to
die by the bullets of English an
archy in defense of true liberty than
to yield poltroon, abject compli-
ance with the dictates of a drunken
of London, petted like hired gladi-
and peaceful nation.
Describes Parliament.
When will this berserker orgy
of the English Coalition Parliament
cease? Covering beneath the whip
of Carson and a small rump of dis
credited and disintegrating Prot
estants in a corner of Ulster, dis
avowed by the fellow Unionists of
the South of Ireland, it was de-
scribed yesterday by A. G. Gar
diner, of London, as the basest
House of Commons that has been
known within living memory, a Par
Lament composed of the dregs of
all the worst motives of war. hate.
greed and ignorance" Was it to
breed in Ireland the anarchy we are
fighting from New York to San
Francisco that millions of American
youth fought to serve England?
when the Goths burned Rome,
when Robert Guiscard burned it
again, and when Charles V. sur
passed both. it was done in the
name of law and order, the cruel
law and order of conquest. but still
proclaimed and enforced. fierce and
bloody as were its rules. and in
human as were its sanctions.
"Louvain Surpassed.
Cromwell and Ireton walk the
earth again, and cheerfully recog-
niZe their own craft, much bettered
by the gains of modern SCIENCE. Was
it for this evil pass that we granted
relief to England in the matter of
the interest on her great war debt
to US, that she might support an
army of occupation in Ireland, and
pay thousands of English convicts
to burn and pillage a sister nation
that asks only it's natural and right
full liberty? This last English crime
is against civilization, and far sur
passes the horror of Louvain.
Once Prince Albert said that the
only solution of the Irish question
was to sink the island for one-half
hour beneath the sea, that it's human
vermin might be exterminated.
Lloyd George knows something bet
ter: it shall be made a red cinder.
Let all Washington arise as one
man to denounce this unspeakable
crime. which is directly aimed at
ourselves, for IL anarchy can reign
supreme in Ireland, by what logic
can we repyess anarchy in New York
or in Seattle3'