Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-12

, STA upon members of their race, we
as Americans promptly interviewed,
and told the mighty car that such
cruelties must cease. Did we not
make the matter a domestic question
and was not our action founded upon
the principles of true Americanism?
When Spain sent Butcher Weyler to
slaughter the Cubans' did we not
make the question a domestic one
and even go to war to end the cruel
ties inflicted upon the Cuban people?
Did we not enter the Great War for
humanity, and had we not the pledge
of both England and France that
they were fighting for the same prin-
ciples for democracy?
Now, why do you say that Ireland
should be excluded from rights, that
we are ready to concede in other
cases? Why criticise Americans of
Irish extraction, and all fair mind
ed Americans in general, when they
insist that American honor is above
all other considerations; and that the
object and purpose for which we
spilled our blood and gave up our
all, shall and must be fulfilled?
We fear that a great many people
are like Sims. they know nothing of
| WIldl IIlty say VI W., I'M We l
give a few facts:
First of all, England never had the
slightest legal right to a single inch
of Irish soil. There is no such thing
as an Irish problem. The religious
question is a mere bugaboo. All of
Ireland's leaders for the past three
hundred years with but two excep-
tons. were ~protestants. Lloyd George
founded a separate parliament for
Ulster, but has made no provision for
the Catholic minority. There Is
nothing to this religious controversy.
England made use of it for centuries
as a to fool the world and
keep the Irish people in bondage.
The problem is Of English origin and
Lloyd George can solve it very
readily by Withdrawing his barbar-
ians from Ireland and let the Irish
govern their W country.
For the information of the general
public we quote some English III
thorities on English rule in Ireland.
That grand old man. w. e. Glad
stone. said: go into the length and
breadth Of the whole world, ransack
the literature of every land and find,
if you can, a single book that treats
on the government of Ireland by
England, with anything but profound
and bitter condemnation"
The English labor commission:
British atrocities in Ireland are a
stencil in the nostrils of civilization"
From the Liverpool Catholic Her
aid we quote part of an able article
as follows: England is a foreign foe
OF Irish soil. She is there solely by
right of might. She has no more
justification for her presence than
has a burglar in another mans
house. Such an invader, 'tyrant and
oppressor, is a criminal of the deep
est dye. BY all the laws of God
and of man. by every principle OF
justice, liberty and right. resistance
to his presence, to his laws, to his
force, is a duty" ......
ut is England's presence in Ire
land, her troops, her government,
her emissaries, her laws. that are a
crime. an outrage. an infamy. She
holds Ireland by the throat. and de-
clares that her will, her interests, her
mere resolve, are superior to Ire
lands rights and demands. England
Is the criminal in Ireland. 1t was SO
In Norman days. 1t was so in Eliza
beth's days. 1t was 81 under Crom-
wells sway. 1t was so in '9S. 1t is
so in 1921"