The Lamar register., 1920-11-10
loyal children seem aware.


ocean liners bound for Europe. carry
few English propagandists, who
spread terror to the hearts of those
tourists wishing to visit Ireland. Such
tourists are told that ireland is a
Wild country. where their lives would
not be safe and they are warned to
keep away from it.
Americans on board, seeing Ire
land for the first time, with her
quickly varying climate of alternate
sun and showers $50 typical of hu-
man smiles and tears). her verdant
lills. her kind hearts, exclaimed;
mo wonder England wishes to cling
to such a country, and is it not a
country worth fighting for?" When
one looks around him on an exquisite
ly beautiful and naturally fertile
land. capable, under proper cultiya-
tion. of supporting twenty million
people; when he Is made aware OF
many Industries which might be prof
itably managed there with capital and
suitable encouragement; when he be-
holds her many noble harbors. rare
ly furrowed by keel; and when he
finds in art and architecture abund
ant proofs of Ireland's illustrious
past: he asks himself in sorrowful
surprise: What is the cause OF this
stagnation. cruelty and massacre
which for centuries stained the an
nails of this lovely section OF earth's
surface. and left to generation after
generation an enduring legacy OF
hatred? 1.-The question is persistent"
says ]. L. Stoddard in his lectures.
And he gives the answer "'Some
terrible vampire has fJr thousand
years been draining the life-blood OF
ireland. What is It? Can it be idle
ness, as is so often stated? The ac-
cusation is disproved by facts. Tho
Irish are a race OF workers. If there
ever was one. The earth Is full of
their labors. eccleastical. mechanical,
military and manual. America TO
large extent has been built by Irish
Drawn. II is often said of the Irish
that they are never without q grlev-
ance and they are perpetually COM
planning. But neither. Individually
nor collectively. do people usually
moan. unless they are in pain. In
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred r
cry of distress means suffering"
Whether the blame for Irish dis
content should rest upon the gov
ernors or the governed. has been for
years a matter of dispute. To under
stand the present unrest one must ex-
anime the past
The first misfortune of ireland Is
her geographical position in the At
lantic. The other misfortune is that
England collects a vast amount Of
taxes from Ireland. "England's mode
OF ruling Ireland in the past finds lit
tie Justification either in common
sense or the laws OF God" The fol-
lowing statement from a great Eng
l.sh scholar. Alfred Austin. says
much; NO one can read the history
of the economic relations of Great
Britain with ireland during the
seventeenth or eighteenth centuries
without feeling. II he had any sense
of Justice. that reparation is due to
Ireland for the monstrous CONNER
cial letters in which It was then for
So long a period bound: and any as
sistance wisely or discriminatory Civ
EN- to Ireland for the purpose of slim
ulating material amelioration will
be neither a bribe or dole. but the
restoration of something owing" At
all events. II is only too evident. at
the present day. that the principal
cause of Ireland's misery Is bad gov
ernment.
You ask me TO give my opinion
the opinion of one who has witnessed
during the last three months, condi-
tions in Ireland. II is war with an
organized army on one side, and a
civil population we'll nigh helpless,
spiritually indomitable, on the other.
1t is a disreputable and cowardly
war by its very nature. because il is
waged by the strong against the
weak for base and selfish end
tho military domination of a people