The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-03-25
Walter Wade Chicago Editor Visiting Makes
Plea for Support for Ireland in Fight
for Home Rule.
FIGHT LIGHTNING WITH CHARCOAL.
Associate Editor of Modern Miller and Leader in the
Fight Analyses American Situation
as to Free Ireland

have followed closely the movements
made by the Irish people to shake
off the yoke Of English rule. They
have sympathised with Ireland, they
have contributed to the Irish funds
and they have prayed for free Ireland.
Most active in the work in Chicago
to arouse interest in the Irish cause
is Walter Wade, associate editor of
the Modern Miller" He has been a
leader in the many movements in
Chicago to seek the freedom of Ire
land and he is regarded as one of
the closest students of the Irish ques-
tions in this section of the country.
Mr.. Wade has been visiting in Kenosha
for several days and while here was
asked to make some statement of the
up-to-date situation in America as re-
CARDS the Irish question. He has made
the following interesting statement
of the sentiment of America towards
free Ireland:
BY Walter Wade.
Although Irishmen the world over
are dumfounded over the action of
the United States senate in recogniz-
ing the justice of Ireland's independ-
ence, it is no surprise that the whole
treaty has been rejected. 1t can
scarcely be said that the insertion of
the Irish clause is accountable for it's
rejection; but Irishmen in America
and in England's dominions are we'll
aware that no pressure from outside
so,,roo, mill onpopa1 Euo1anJ r. ooooJo
to the just request of Irishmen.
With the death of John Redmond,
the greatest nationalist leader Ireland
sver had, the old spirit of insurrec-
tionism grew up in the land. The end
was independence and the means was
force. No sane man could ever believe
that by sane force Of arms, in the
twentieth century, Ireland could win
war against England, and although
war is not openly professed the doc
trine of the Sim Fein implies it.
What would be the result of war
betwC IN England and Ireland? It might
be that victorious England would
ALLEVIATE the respect of all nations. But
one thing is certain, it would mean
certain destruction for Ireland, the
complete ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the land,
and a state of human disaster, such
as Ireland never knew before.
Done With Foreign Questions.
Sensible Americans have come to the
conclusion that we should have done
once for all with every foreign ques-
tion that does not affect our interest.
The Monroe Doctrine is founded on
a denial Of European alliances and
power to interfere in the concerns of
this western hemisphere, yet since
America entered the war with the
avowed intention to apply the policy
of self-determination to all lands that
are denied it, it is quite feasible that
we can still be good Americans while
giving our moral support to the OPP
pressed.
The solution of the Irish question
is the same solution advocated by
Gladstone, by every wise and just man
in America. 1t was voiced by Judge
Marcus Kavanaugh in Chicago at the
Irish Fellowship Club. Ireland has
more to gain by remaining with the
British Empire for a decade, than by
struggling in state of independence
that is not independence at all.
Nothing short of a revolution in
England, by which the laboring classes
would come to be the ruling classes,
surely an impossible condition, and
from this political vantage, recognize
the injustices inflicted upon Ireland,
and free her; nothing short of a revo-
luton in the British Isles could ma
terialIy affect the political fortunes of
the Irish people.
Independent Republic Suicide.
Strategically, an independent repub-
lie in Ireland would be suicidal to
England, politically, it would have lit
tie significance, commercially. Eng
land, by merely continuing it's mer-
chant marine policy, would still be
in control of foreign trade. Ireland
must become a manufacturing coun-
try. AS a manufacturing country she
could not compete in the markets of
the world against her more powerful
neighbor, and the machinery of foreign
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the union, would be altogether archaic
as a foundation for commercial re-
surrection.
Fighting Lightning With Charcoal.
Ireland will achieve her indepen-
dence. Of that every decent man is
certain. But by striving at this time
for complete separation she is fight
ing the lightning with charcoal" For
deep rooted in the heart and conscience
of every Englishman in power is ae"
sire to keep Ireland submerged,
Along Australian lines, along Cana
dian lines, the plan of home rule
within the empire, advocated by SIR
Horace Plunkett, whether lrishmen Ike
it or not, will prevail, the truth must
be faced. If any measure OF freedom
is afforded the land, it will be only
on the basis Of federated state with
in the empire. Ireland must work out
its own salvation from that condition.
While excuses are practiced in the
land and Ireland is faced with con-
dition not bordering upon, but actual
" impossible, there will be no free
Ireland. There will remain 9 land OF
poyes=es and bondage.