The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-12-29
RELIGION DOES
NOT Inter INTO
IRISH QUESTION
PROTESTANT FRIENDS OF IRE
LAND SEC ASKS FOR SPACE
TO CORRECT MEASUREMENT

!, We are in receipt of the following
letter from a secretary Of the Pro-
testant Friends of Ireland and for
the sake of placing the information
which comes first-handed and can DC
relied upon, before our many read
ers who may have formed the idea
referred to in the articles, we gladly
publish it.
Editor Banner-News,
Bedding, Mich.
Dear SIR
Owing to an assiduous prop
uganda, many Americans have been
misled into believing that the Irish
question is purely of religious
character. The very government
which employs this argument against
the granting of self determination
to a long oppressed people are al
the same time engaged in trying 70
arouse anti-Irish feeling in Catho-
lie countries and in persuading the
Pope to exert his influence against
the men who are striving for recog-
milton of the Irish Republic.
We believe that in the circumstan-
ces you and your readers will be in
terested in the enclosed excerpt from
in Detroit News Retailer in which
are ably presented the views of an
eminent and widely known English
Protestant divine on this subject.
1t is worthy of note that owing to
the British control of our news as
sociations, by which America is de-
prived of adequate information re-
garding the atrocious treatment of
the Irish people, our papers, as rule
have been giving much less sympa-
thetic consideration to Ireland's un-
happy condition and to her demand
for the right to rule herself than the
press of England, to say nothing OF
the press of Continental Europe,
which is clamoring against the cam
paign Of murder and starvation Brit
aims ruling oligarchy has been wag-
ing.
We hope you will see your way
clear to republishing Rev. Mr.. Dun
nico's article.
Sincerely yours,
Protestant Friends of Ireland,
By: w. l.. Ruttledge.
(From the News-Retailer Of De-
troit, published Nov. &c, 1920, under
the heading "The War in Ireland")
Liberty loving people of the Unit
ed States, glorying in the sacred
traditions which have made us the
friends of the poor and the comfort
less are not to be deceived by the
mass of British propaganda with
which the country is being flooded,
but will tended to Ireland the same
measure of sympathy and heartfelt
good wishes that has ever been the
Offering of our people to nations
gouged by tyrant heel.
Those who read the amazing story
of sixteenth century cruelties now
being done in our own day will draw
knowledge that no information can
come from that most distressful
country" that has not first been tine
tured with what poisons the con-
trolling English party may deem ad-
visable.
The same government that con-
cealed the story of Amritzar from
its own people for nine months is
today telling US what it will about
conditions in Ireland. They control
the cables, the mails and in a large
measure, the press. The version you
read in the average daily paper is
the version that the directors of the
"black and tans" want you to read.
In good time, the actual facts will
be CLEANED and the government of
Lloyd George and the dictator Car
son must face the fury of an out
ragged generation. No country can
plunge the world back to barbarism
and live. Germany could not, Rus
STA failed and England will lose if she
tries to hold any portion of the world
subject by means of the bullet and
the torch in the twentieth century.
In some peoples minds, the Irish
question is one of religious differen-
ces. We take the liberty of present
ing an English Protestant viewpoint
an article from the pen of the Rev.
Herbert Dunnico. Mr.. Dunnico is a
county councillor in a district of
Greater London, a magistrate sitting
at both Stratford Police Court in the
city of London and at the Quarter
Sessions, Chelmsford, Essex, a mem
Der of the International Law Asso-
citation, and the accepted candidate
for an English constituency in the
next general election. He is an ex-
president of the Liverpool Free
Church Council, has occupied the po-
sition of District Moderator of the
Lancashire and Cheshire Association
of Baptist churches, was vice presi-
dent of the Worlds Union of Peace
Organizations, with headquarters at
Berne, Switzerland, and has recently
preached in some of the largest Bap-
fist, Methodist, Presbyterian and An
glican churches in the United States
and Canada.
His article in the Statesman reads,
in part, as follows:
ireland is suffering today from
malady which has many evil effects,
hut nnlu nnn ca11an-fho frt1ctrnhtn,