The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13

race mas never known. | love Amer
lea because she gives every man an
opportunity to be a man among men.
These are my sentiments. A man
who marries a wife and loves her with
all his heart and soul until death will
part them does not necessarily love
his mother any less. The true Amer
lean knows, feels and with enthusi-
asm declares that of all human emo
tons, of all human passions, there is
not one more pure, more noble, more
conducive to great and glorious deeds
than that which bears us back to the
spot that was the cradle of our child
hood, the playground of our boyhood,
the theater of our approaching man.
hood. Has the Holy Book passage
more deeply touching than that which
pictures to us the daughters of a
captive race in their desolation of
soul, weeping by the waters of Baby
Ion, when they remembered their last
homes and the vanished towers Of
Zion. Has profane verse a line more
eyquisitely eloquent than that which
tells us of the brave young Greek,
beautiful and radiant as his native
land, bleeding and dying on the plains
of Latium, with darkening eyes fixed
on Greece.
My dear Mr.. President, be of good
cheer, England is bankrupt. If Amer
lea had not crossed the Atlantic to
a d her, the king, Lloyd George and
Carson, would be occupying the posi-
ton that the kaiser and his managers
occupy at present.
An empire begins to totter and de-
cay when it withdraws it's forces from
its outlying provinces. And crowding
them on Ireland, England today says
to Canada and Australia, 20. take
your government into your own hands.
| do not want to be bothered with YOU
any more" England, that one hun
dred and forty years ago fought the
United Colonies of America as long as
she put man in the field. An en-
pire is crumbling to decay when she
begins to buy off her enemies as in
the case of the Roman empire. After
the Civil war, America presented a
little bill to England: John Bull said,
Il owe YOU nothing and swore he
would not pay a cent. Then Amer
lea said: Look here. John. if you
don't like this" and he hauled out a
sword and put it in the ether hand,
and said, take which ever YOU like.
John Bull paid the bill.
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men, run the cycle of the years of
their life, and then die. No matter
how extensive their power; no mat
ter how mighty their influence; no
matter how great Their wealth: Or
invincible their arms, the day comes
it disease and disruption. Thus it was
with the empire of the Modes and
Persians. Thus it was with the
mighty empire of the Assvrians. Thus
it was with the Egyptians of old. Eng
land has long been at the top of the
she will always remain there? I do
not want to be more loyal than Lord
Nacaulay, and Lord Macaulay de-
scribes a day which he forcsees. when
the traveller from New Zealand will
take his stand on the broken arch of
London Bridge and sketch the ruins OF
st. Pauls. Yes, England will Gle
hard. Great heavens! Just imagine
sending over to free America seven
clergymen, expecting to influence their
people here against granting Ireland
her freedom.
1t looks very much as if the day of
the visit of Macaulav's New Zealander
was rapidly approaching. In that day
my position is that Ireland will be
mistress of her own destines. with
the liberty that will come to her, not
from England. If Ireland does not
obtain her liberty this month. or next
month. or this year or next year, it
will only prolong the fight. | am only
talking philosophy.
A word about my humble self: |
am proud to say my health is good
as good as it was the day | sailed from
Limerick Linnet in 1S4S, with the
British press bowling. The Irish
were going with a vengeance.
Most respectfully your friend,
-PH. Rah'Hv.
ENcOuRAGE THE CHI DIS EE