Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-10

Czecho-Sloyakia and Jugo-Slavia, are permitted ito choose
their own way Of life and obedience"
That the so-called Protestant delegates themselves do
not believe in the religious DOGGY is evidenced in the fact
that the Ulster opponents of Irish independence and prom
inent English Catholics have combined iq the past to de-
feat the Irish demand for freedom.
No American Protestant, who knows the history Of his
country and its fight for freedom, can be led astray by the
religious dissension. The suggestion might lead some astray
who do not think very deeply on such matters that Ireland
is anti English simply because Ireland is a Catholic and
England a Protestant country. But the war of American
independence was not a Catholic rising. The revolt of Graf
BY war. was not a Catholic rising. There was no Catholic
at the bottom of the Boer war in South Africa; no Catholic
inspires the Egyptians. the Indians and the Persians to
arraign England today because of her tyranny and arbi-
trary power in depriving these peoples of their rights and
liberties! Why must t,be assumed that 1relands fight for
independence today. when Catholics are in political power
through the franchise, differs from the fight of the Irish
Protestants in 1882, or of the Beers, and other nations not
protesting the Catholic faith, who find in English rule the
.antithesis of national freedom? The truth is that Protestant
ENGLAND as stubbornly resisted all tendencies towards
Irish independence in days when the Protestant Ascend
al'cy party alone had political power IN ireland, as she
does today when a widened franchise confers political
power upon a Catholic majority. And all down through the
iods, has been in closest alliance with Rome. It was so in
the days of William III That Protestant sovereign and the
helped to furnish the arms that enabled William to cross
the Boyne and to drive James from the throne. These
things are not recorded in the Orange lodges OF Ulster.
nor will they be so much as limited at by Mr.. Coote and
his Ulster clerical associates who are seeking to stir up
years during which Irish Unionists distributed millions Of
pamphlets and leaflets in England with the object Of de-
1eaClng nome rule. n place. OIL honol, III Lnls GHlonls6
propaganda literature, was given to the Vatican and
other Catholic declarations against the porttical and social
tendencies of the Irish people. Two notable examples of
the dishonesty of the Unionist Home Rule cry are to be
found in the circulation by these Irish Unionists Of Pope
Leo's denunciation of the plan of campaign and Cardinal
Cullen's famous denunciation of the home rule movement
as anti Catholic in it's tendencies. Mr.. Coote and his friends
straddle both sides of the fence when Its suits their pur-
pose. To the Catholic electors Of England they point to
the Pope'e Rescript on the plan Of campaign and to
Cardinal Cullen's expressed fears that the Catholic church
in Ireland would be the first to suffer from the inroads II
the idea Of nationality and all 1t implied.
Could there be a more Striking example OF rampant
clericalism than the spectacle presented by this troupe Of
clerical nomads in their visit to the United States, as TIE
apostles of sectarian hate and bigotry: To English Catho-
lies these Ulster Protestant pulpit politicians present the
Rescripts of the Vatican and the warnings Of Cardinal
Cullen to show the dangers to the Catholic church OF the
struggle for Irish national freedom. In the United States
they present the other side Of the ehield-they try to con
vince American Professionals who are unacquainted with the
facts that the Irish national movement is another Popish
plot for the extirpation of Professionalism. and they will
knowingly lie in the face of Irish history and Of all the
facts when they raise the cry Of Rome Rule"