Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-10-20
Local Pastor States He Did Not
Stop at Amy Of the Places Visit
cd by DR.. Robinson
IRELAND PROSPEROUS IN
TWELFTH CENTURY, HISTORY
Trade and Commerce of ireland
Reduced Under English Rule
Rev. Fr. O'ReilIy States

In answer to a letter printed in
this paper and written by Dr. B. N.
Robinson concerning his version OF
conditions in Ireland, Rev. FIR. E. G.
O'Reilly, pastor of st. Joseph's church,
who was born in the much talked
about country and who knows CON
siderable concerning the history OF
the Emerald Isle, writes the follow
ing:
DR.. Robinson brands my flesh and
blood in Ireland as murderers and
assassinS. And why? Because they
are trying to shake off the chains of
slavery that have bound them for
over seven hundred years. Because
they are trying to apply to their own
country the principles of Democracy
for which the great war was fought.
"the right of nations, great and small,
to determine for themselves the form
of government under which they wish
to live" Yes, he brands as murderers,
a people who are fighting for the very
same principles America fought for
in 1776. There were many Of Robin
sons type in the days of the Ameri-
can revolution, who branded Wash
ingt0n and his army as murdererS
and assassins, and it was to that class
Washington alluded in 1888 in his
famous exhortatiOn to the people of
Ireland, when he said, patriots of
Ireland, Champions of Liberty in all
lands, be strong in hope. Your cause
is identical with mine. You are calum-
mated in your day, I was misrepres.
scented by the loyalists in my day
Had / failed, the scaffold would have
been my doom but now my enemies
pay me honor stood true to my cause
even when victory had fled. In that
] merited success. You must act like
WISE Mount Vernon 1881
Yes, De Valera and his brave com
patriots are branded as murdereds as
Washington and his noble followers
were. And they will follow Washing
toms advice and stand true to the
cause" till they have achieved their
God given rights to National Inde
pendence. And when that day
comes I would not be surprised to
find DR.. Robinson in the forefront
struggling for the honor Of kissing the
hem of President de Valera's gar
ments
DR.. Robinson says that the place
where he stayed in Queenstown was
very dirty. Well have no doubt but
there are dirty places in Queens
town, as we'll as every other seaport
town. But l never visited any such
places, and so know nothing about
them. But I have stopped at nearly
every respectable hotel in Queenstown
and I can truthfully say that n point
of cleanliness, they can compare very
favorably with any hotel in this coun
try In contrasting the unprogressivt
and delapidated condition of Queens
town with the magnificent cathedral
instead Of commencing the poor peo
pie for their sacrifice and zeal in er
SCLIuS q WOAbhS AOl COFAh
Worship, he seems TO insinuate tina
the church is the cause of their back
wardness and poverty. Well, if tho
doctor makes as poor diagnosis O
his patients troubles as he does II
the case of Ireland's ills, he win have
to find out some other means of ma
king a living besides practicing medi
cine.
If he wishes to know the real cause
of Ireland's poverty and lack OF pro
gress, let him scan the pages of his
tory for the past seven hundred year
and he will find that when England in
vaded Ireland in the 18th century, Ire
land was one of the most prosperoui
and the most enlightened nation il
Europe But her manufacturing indus
tries were legislated out of existence
her commence ruined, her lands takel
away from her and given to the blood
thirsty followers OF James and Crom
well. It was then that countless thou
their blood trying to protect thei
homes. All yes, and it was then tha
the heartrending scene was so ofte
witnessed, when thousands of littl
children were snatched from thei
mothers arms to be transported an
sold into slavery In the Virginian co
onies and the West Indies. No wonde
that Ireland is in poverty Her trad
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