The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-17
CARDINAL MANNING ON IRELAND

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went to Maxwell in 1915 and pleaded
for the condemned patriots, giving
the example of how Botha had treated
the insurrectionists in South Africa,
Maxwell replied: "Botha was treating
with his own people. We are not"
France and Spain.
What is said of Spain may be re-
peated fortiori of France. The truth
is that neither in France nor in Spain
was there group of nations, prop
erly so-called No nation was de-
stroyed in the fusion nor was there
conquest of any by foreign inva-
sion What happened in Gaul and in
Spain was at most as If the Normans
who came to Ireland had cut loose en-
tirely from England and fused" with
the Irish peoplei That would not have
destroyed Ireland's separate nation
hood The Cardinal seemed himself
to see the flaw in his argument for
his conclusion should have been that
the Irish and English "are now one
indivisible race and people" He uses
the more elastic term realm" which
may simply mean that they were un-
der the same monarchical government.
But except the complete fusion into
one race and people and nation be
claimed the argument from France,
Spain and the Heptarchy does not
prove anything. The cases are not
parallel.
In America.
In America, the Colonies were not
so many nations, nor claimed to be
nations. They united against a COM
| mon tyranny, and, having obtained
their freedom, they framed and agreed
upon common constitution in the
making of which all gladly took part.
1t was under that constitution the ma
ton was born and developed, and it is
still the bond of union. That is not
the history of the union between
| these islands"
Of course, the Saxon Heptarchy af-
fords no parallel. The boundaries of
England are we'll defined Its people
were one in race and language There
was, properly speaking, no nation, but
| chaos, for five generations after the
Saxon invasion.
The Cardinals arguments do not
hold, therefore. His conclusion does
| not follow. His logic is false. His
solution solves nothing. And he is
illogical and wrong for the simple rea-
son already given, that he fails to
realize that Ireland is nation. He
fails to concede Ireland's national
right; and he fails to remember that
the conquest was crime that has
never been forgiven nor acquiesced In
on the one side, nor atoned for on the
other. "The Irish nation cannot be
said to have at any period abandoned
its claim to independence"
Cardinals Prophecy Disproved.
| His policy of the system of doles
needs no refutation. He judged wrong
| ly. Time has abundantly proved it.
The Church" has been disestablished.
The University has come. The land
laws have been reformed. Has the
national demand been weakened? Has
Ireland become ''loyal?" Was there
ever time since the Fall Of Limerick
when the demand was so persistent,
the national consciousness so awake
and robust "disloyalty" SO manifest?
The University that was to breed 10y
alists" and "pacify extremists" has
produced generation of national pa
triots, and has elected four republican
members of republican parliament,
and the emancipated farmers who
were to be forever content in their
homesteads under English rule were
the very first constituencies in Ros-
common, Clare and Longford to return
Count Plunket and. De Valera as the
standard bearers of new era in the
Irish demand.
(To be continued.)