New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-01-26

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should be given a government of her
own choice-yet Congress ignores the
claims OF the Philippines for the same
justice! Consistency, thou art, in
deed, rare jewell
7 Hitting England's Pocketbook.
The Labor Bureau Of the American
Commission on Irish Independence
has sent to the labor unions of the
United States plea for action on be-
half of the Irish nation in it's struggle
for freedom from British rule.
In connection with the plea, re-
ference is. made to yEngland's many
atrocities committed against the liber-
ty-loving inhabitants of the Emerald
Isle, and the insiduous propaganda
published in the pro-British press o.
the United States to the effect that
Ireland's independence is British
domestic question which does not con-
Germ us. The imperialistic British
government is called by its true name:
"The mightiest and most unscrupu-
lous empire the world has ever known"
The Labor Bureau reiterates that
the fate of Ireland is not only an inter
national matter, but it is the concern
of the workers of all countries and
particularly of the labor movement
of the United States. 1t also calls
attention to the fact that representa-
tives of the organized workers Of Eng
land, who investigated the atrocities
of their government in Ireland, re-
Gently reported, denouncing the British
government-their own government
as having, by it's brutal Irish policy,
made itself a stencil in the nostlils Of
all civilized countries.
The natural sequence of the over
whelming preponderance of testimony
and facts submitted, proving that
England, by her uncivilized and brutal
official conduct in the Emerald Isle,
has placed herself beyond the pale, is
that the only punishment .#hich can
be applied with any hope Of success
against on outlawed criminal, is to
make him suffer in whatever manner
that may prove the most effective.
Where there. is no conscience, where
there is a super-a bundance of moral
turpitude, especially in the case Of
mercenary nations, or individuals, a
strike at the pocketbook is the most
effective weapon to use in combating
such nations and individuals.
Realizing this strategical vulnerabi.
lily of England, which is popularly
known as nation of shopkeepers, the
Labor Bureau of the American ON
mission on Irish independence asks
the American laboring people which
in brief, mea ms the common people
to place ban on all English made
goods of whatever nature, as well as
on the goods of all pro-British firms
in this country, and refuse to purchase
any article that has the @remotest
English tinge about it. At the same
time, the American people are asked to
do all in their power to impress upon
Congr SIS the necessity of officially
recognizing the Irish Republic.
In it's plea, which is too lengthy to
publish verbatim in the Review, the
Labor Bureau of the Commission
points the finger of guilt for the World
war on England, stating that i'm
perialistic expansion, England's COM
mercial supremacy, exploitation of the
common people, and the dangerous
combination of autocracy and con-
centrated wealth to treat the in
dustrial community as pawns and run
the world for the benefit of that
dangerous combination, was the real
motive and the. actual effect of the
tremendous holocaust.
Additional indictments of England
include charges that it exploits the
United States and outrages American
ideals. That these are not mere as
sertions, conditions during and since
the World war have amply proven.
American money, and, worst Of all,
the flower of American manhood, was
sacrificed that England might gain
her ends, and now that we have saved
her from a sound trouncing, her lead
ing statesmen claim for herself the
laurels ofvictory.
The friends of Irish freedom are
hopeful (and have every reason to be
that hitting England's only vulnerable
spot-her pocketbook-will finally
compel the British government to
apply self-determination to the en-
shaved inhabitants of the Emerald
Isle.
We hear a great deal Of idle talk
about the government endeavoring
to assist the farmer This NAV, no