The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-26
IN ANSWER To
MR.. MINOR

Editor The Star. A few days ago
there appeared IN your paper let
ter from a gentleman Of the name
Of Minor on the Irish situation. the
same helng an appeal for T. :.
Intervention on frriands behalf.
These days one can hardly pick up
q paper or magazine without coming
across some echo OF this Irish.
American wall. all duly estimated
rs to It's probable effect on the com
ing elections. bat il was certainly
some surprise that you should sacri-
flee column and half 81 your
EDITORIAL page to such buthcfing
baldsrdash as flowed from the pen
OF Mr.. Minor
Doesn't II strike you. Mr.. Editor.
that In this city there are at lsas.
- many people of British descent -
Scotch. English. Welsh. Canadians
ax there are Irish or Irish American
In your midst Yet from the noise
u the one element and the silence
Of the other. one would think them
Mr.. Minor piles up against them
and bloody King George CO.
Being OF British birth myself |
tan assure both yourself and your
readers that there Is not a Hritlshcr
either AZ home. In the colonies. or IN
this country but would be glad
from the bottom Of lbs heart 10 see
the Irish question settled once and
fnr ali--and settled right. You will
=. L. H..
Why Isn't II settled forthwithT- and
TIE only truthful reply to that Is.
because OF the Irish themselves
Never was there q nation that bet
Ter Illustrated the saying. "a house
divided against itself cannot stand
For the past Is years the Irish aucs-
ton has been approaching q solu-
ton. ireland was never an pros
porous as In that period. and despite
the pusnacity Of Sir Edwafd Car
<ou just previous to the war under
the leadership OF John Redmond the
Irish question was never 80 near
= solution than when. on the out.
break Of hcstilities OF the great war.
that gentleman rose In the house
and pledged Ireland's support 70 the
empire and begged that British
troops be relieved for service abroad
Then came the Easement fsasco. fol.
lowed later by the Dublin insurrec
tion- Probably the British govern
ment used harsh measures. They may
have been mistaken In that. but
when you are engaged IN a deadly
struggle In front. II Is hardly the
time 70 expect one 70 gently slap
thu wrist OF a benevolent gentleman
who attempts to stab you In the
hack. IL 1T And so the merry game
went on from bad 20 worse. But
even after all that. and In the midst
Of the war. Lloyd George called
convention Of all the irish factions
and gave them carte blanche to
0raw up a constitution OF any kind
outside OF absolute separation. but
once again IL was an Irishman,
Bishop O'DonneIi. who. after an
agreement had been reached, upset
the whole arrangement again. The
truth Is. Mr. Editor. that there was
q body OF men In and out Of Ireland
who did not want TO see the Irish
question settled. and that same body
Il at present attempting 10 run the
country by system Of terrorism
that would hardly be tolerated In
any country outside Russia --certain
" not BY any Anglo-Saxons. In
what part Of the u. s could n hap
pen that man could be dragged
from street car and shot to death
In broad daylight az was Alan Bell.
an ex-officeholder. in the streets OF
Dublin. and no man have CUTS
enough either 70 help the man him.
self or TO notify the police station
just around the corner, nor yet 10
appear as witnesses in the case
afterward7 Let the reaction 10 the
Cfntralia murders answer that ques-
ton.
Mr.. Minor walls 20 the American
people that machine guns are being
run thru Irish streets Pifnel Mr.
Minor. Why. man alive, don't you
know that only a few moons ago
they ran machine guns thru the
streets OF your own Seattle. and for
just the same reason--a buncn OF
idicts mistook this place for Russia
and thought they could upset an
Anglo Saxon government without
using the ballot box7 1t can't be
done. Machine guns? OF course
they have machine guns; what do
you expect them 20 use when you
start an instruction? Pea-shoot.
ers2
As for brutal King George" III
bet every man OF British origin in
Seattle who rcad that laughed out
riEht Any man with an atom OF
Information or intelligence knows
King George has no more to do
with ruling Ireland than does De
Valera himself. And speaking Of
that gentleman, II sounds very crude
10 whole lot Of US 70 hear him
and MacSwiney lauded as the peers
Of Washington, Franklin, ct al
How do you get that way7 Much
as II may annoy you, Mss Minor.
George Washington was Of English
descent and even IN his day Il had
long been out Of fashion to remove
your political opponents by asgassi
nation. George used cleaner meth
DDS. Also have never read that
he had himself declared the presl-
dent Of the United States and
sfraighfway left for France 10 raise