Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-04
Moro ON the Irlsh Qnestlon.

!
Before beginning her campaign
of frightfulness in Ireland, Eng
land, on the advice of Lord Beav-
erbroOk sent, under the generalship
of Mr.. COote, a delegation OF So
called ministers to raise in this
country the sleeping monster of re-
ligious intolerance and be it said
to the honor and glory of the
American people, Protestant, Cath
Ollie, Jew and infidel, they refused
to listen to their infamous appeal.
1t is with regret that we see our
idols fall and the article in the cor
respondence page of the Journal of
January 81, on the Irish question
fills US with regret, as at one time
the Christian Science Monitor was
considered a fair and liberal publi-
cation and we are sorry as an
American to see it stoop to the
un-American principle of trying to
spread religious intolerance. Did
the editor of the Christian Science
Monitor go in for a study of the
history of Ireland or is he a dupe
to some of Mr.. Coote's propagan-
da, The latter we could forgive,
ham Lincoln declared: "You can
fool all of the people some of the
time, etc." but any one who is ac-
quainted with history must smile
at the old camouflage of a Protest
ant Ireland and Catholic Ireland.
We didn't hear anything of Ia
Protestant England and a Catholic
Belgium or a Catholic Poland and
a Protestant England during the
war with the central powers and
you are not going to fool a Protest !
ant America or q Catholic Ameri-
ca or a Jewish America with any
British propaganda for we, the
Americans are Americans first,
last, and all the time and we gave
of our best to establish the rights
of small nations. Since the article
of January 81 declared that Ire
lands trouble back in history has
always been a struggle not against |
England but between the Protest |
ants in the north of Ireland and |
the Catholics in the south. This is |
a damnable lie" No milder state /
ment will express it. Ireland's |
struggle for freedom extends back |
before the days of the bloody |
Cromwell" Yes, Ireland's strug- |
gle extends back $50 years when |
there was no Protestant Ireland |
and there was no Protestant Eng |
land. when England was a Cath |
Ole country she prosecuted and |
oppressed ireland the same as she |
does today" l defy any historian |
of any country to refute this |
statement. In the $50 years that
ireland has struggled against Eng
lish tyranny she has never admit
ted defeat. Jrelands claim to ma
tionality is just as strong as Bel
GUMS. England's claim to Ire
land is based on exactly the same
principle as was Germany's claim
to Belgium. Does the fact that she |
has enslaved Ireland $50 years in
stead of four years alter the prin-
ciple? l leave it to the readers to
judge.
There were those in Ireland who
believed during the war that Ire
land should fight for her own free
dom instead of for the freedom of
other countries. Why blame them?
DO you know ireland furnished
$4,000 men to fight in the British
army for the rights of small ma
tons. That is, as if we had sent
about 100000 men across the
seas. When they arose and de-
manded freedom, what did they
get? For how long did not Ireland
meet British tyranny and terrorism
with passive resistance. To prove
that the people of Ireland are back
of the movement of the Irish rel