Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-09
The Irish Question.


Albuquerque, N. M, Feb. 5, 81.
Editor Morning Journal:
Dear Sir:-I should like to say
a few words regarding the Irisl
question as l believe it is viewed
by those who are for justice anC
truth in ali matters, as all fair
minded people know the Christian
Science Monitor stands today just
! where it has always stood--fol
principal and truth.
In answer to certain articles
printed in your paper under the
heading of GAS the People View
It. criticizing articles from the
Monitor and calling It a damnable
lie, and the views of the editor
l believe that the editor of the
| Christian Science Monitor eX-
| pressed the understanding of the
majority of Americas brQad-mind-
ed, right-thinking people.
The facts of the matter are that
Ireland's trouble is internal; there
are those in Ireland who are seek
| ing it's freedom for their own greed
and power; they are trying to EN-
broil America in something II
should take no sides in; that there
| is q decided division in religious
Ideas in Ireland is well known to
most Of the world ana cannot be
hidden by those who would have
their church rule Ireland and de-
prive other religions of their
freedom.
The only solution to the Irish
question is for the religious fac
lions of Ireland to bury the Ratchet
and unite in one body, with one
idea, and that to establish a gov
eminent that will be acceptable to
all Irishmen, with equal rights ac-
corded to all regardless to creed.
This will settle their troubles and
gain their independence. Their
continued policy of religious hatred
and bloodshed will never gain what
they desire, for right will prevail
unto the end.
Taking the words of Abraham
Lincoln, as quoted by one writer,
that you can fool all the people
some of the time, and some of the
people all of the time, but you can't
fool all of the people all of the
time'-that statement, | believe,
fits the Irish question today, There
are many right-thinking people to-
day that view the matter in diff
ferent light than they would nave
a few years ago, and these people
know this is a matter to be settled
in Ireland by the Irish, not by
America.
The claim by some who come
here to America to stir up symPa-
thy for the Sim Fein party of Ire
land. that England is Wagins an
unjust war against the whole OF
Ireland for greed and hatred, Is
without foundation, and the ma
iority of the people will not swal-
low such stories. There is always
two sides to every story, and let
us have a look at the other side
which the average person does not
get because the newspapers of Am
erica refuse to take sides in mat
ter that they know would stir up
religious hatred between the prot
estant and Roman Catholic church,
so they give the public only what is
handed to them to print. This gives
those who are spreading one side
of the story their chance, which
they are making use of and the
public, in a small measure, is fail-
ing for it without stopping to think
of the other side which they have
not heard.
am sure had the late Lord
Mayor of Cork, whp recently land
ed in America without a passport
come to this country to seek pro
lection from unjust prosecution in
Ireland, instead sf to testify before