Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1921-06-09


mlnatlons continue undated The
English jails today are filed with the
Hover of Irish manhood. some Of
whom have been murdered. and others
put to the torture The simple posses
sion Of firearms is the charge on which
several lrishmen have been executed
Prominent citizens are carried IS hos
tages by English troops. and their
lives forfeited if the unit with which
they are travelling be molested. All
TINS, and much more, is done for no
reason, but Ireland S claim To her
national, God-given right, and her adj
herence to principle which even the
demon S master themselves have pre-
tended to serve.
A few months ago committee of
hundred American citizens from the
various walks of life, went over to
ireland to learn the facts of the Irish
situation. That committee was made
up of men of unimpeachable integrity
and impartiality-United States sena-
tors, governors, congressman non
Catholic clergymen, teachers, writer's,
labor leaders and mayors of many of
our big cities. The names of very few
citizens of Irish birth or descent an
pear on the list. After making a care
full investigation, they brought in
verdict of guilty against England. No
comment that can be made can accentu-
ate the injustice of England s course
or the rectitude of Ireland s cause
than this verdict, written by an Ameri-
can jury and this verdict is passed on
both the religious and political phases
of the difficulty.
But, l presume, our reader of the
Globe, no more than Dublin Castle, will
accept this American verdict. Strange
Is 1t not, that tbs patron of the Globe
forgot to tell up of the $4,000 Catholic
souls that have been on the verge of
starvation for the past nine months
in one diocese alone, because they
We're expelled from the shipyards of
Belfast, by their Orange friends. Dub
lin Castle did not give him that, and
therefore it is not authentic. - What
were the motives that prompted this
fellow, who is worrying so much over
the Protestants and Catholics of Ire
land, to air his assinity and the views
of Dublin Castle in the columns of the
Grangeville Globe2 The answer is sim
pie. English propaganda, in the hope
of convincing the non-Catholics of
America that the trouble there is
a religious one, an objection that has
often been refuted by Protestant min
isters both in England and America.
England s truculent policy, whether
in southern Cork or northern Belfast,
has brought . blush of shame to every
decent Englishman.. That country,
which for centuries has boosted of its
benevolent institutions, its civilizing
its Christian spirit, now
confesses that it knows no other
method of conquering Ireland than to
lead men out under the smiling sun and |
shoot them for love of country. Glad |
ly and proudly, as he has been taught /
at his Irish mother S knee, does the /
martyred Gael give up his life. Yet, |
the British government believes it /
will settle the Irish question with the /
rifle and the machine gun. In one Of
fetal pronunciamentO, We are told that
the government is obliged to keep
troops in Ireland, for the island is
in a state of war, and in the next,
that the militant Irish are rebels
against the crown, and that no state
of war exists. If war exists who of
all the nations in the world besides
Gre: Britain, would take out her
prisoners of war and shoot them down
ike dogs, manacled and defenseless,
md then refuse their dead bodies to
heir sorrowing relatives because Dub
in Castle, fOrsoOth, has so decreedg
f no state of war exists, what ma
ion would be guilty of lining her own 2
people up against the wall and shoot
ng them for resisting the form of
government to which they are subject
,d9
How long would the people of the
United States tolerate an admins
ration which, in lieu of law-enforce-
nent, would slaughter its citizens in
score of iails for exercising the God
,iven right of free speech for demand
NO civic rights and ssmple justice9
england drsse McSweeney and hun
reds of Others fearless heroes to
nartyred graves and their widows and
listers have become the most powerful ,
Instruments that can be employed
against British tyranny. For every
widow and sorrowing brother and
lister England makes, she creates a
thousand enemies, not in Ireland
lone. but in every land where red
flooded people thrill and weep with
hose who in their cOuntry's cause, .
tand undismayed in front of the
ring squad, or walk undaunted to
he rallows tree.
Very truly yours,