The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-09

Whole districts are devastated and the
products destroyed in the hone OF
furnishing the population. Individual
citizens are held mp at the point OF
a bay0net and robbed ON the public
streets. Every act Of self-defense On
the part of the victim Is advertised
by English propogandists as a crime
and the murderers and robbers pro.
claimed champions Of law and order
These denominations continue hnabat-
ed The English jails today are All.
ed with the flower Of Irish manhood
some Of whom have been murdered
and others put to the torture. The
simple possession Of firearms 10 the
charge on which several Irishmen
have been executed. Prominent citi.
zens are carried as hostages by Eng
iish troops, and their lives forfeited
IL the unit with which they are trav-
cling be molested. All this, and much
more, Is done for no reason but Ire
lands claim to her national, god
given right, and her adherence to a
principle which even the demons
master themselves have have pretended
to serve.
A few months ago a committee Of a
hundred American citizens from the
various walks Of dife, went over to
Ireland to learn the facts Of the Irish
situation That committee was made
up Of men of unimpeachable integ
rity and impartiality United States
senator's, governors, congressman, nom
Cathode clergymen, teachers, writers.
labor leaders and mayors of many of
our leading cities. The names Of very
few citizens of Irish birth or descent
appear on the list After making
careful investigation, they broug ht In
a verdict Of guilty against England
No comment that can be made can
accentuate the injustice Of Englands
course or the recttude of Ireland's
cause than this verdict, written by an
American jury and this verdict La
passed on both the religious and po-
litical phases of the difficulty.
But, / presume, our readers Of the
Globe no more than Dublin Castle,
will accept this American verdict.
Strange, Is it not, that this patron OF
the Globe forgot to tell of the 10000
Catholic souls that have been on the
verge Of starvation for the past six
months in one diocese alone because
they were expelled from the shipyards
of Belfast by their Orange friends
Dublin Castle did not give him that,
and therefore it Is not authentic"
What were the motives that prompt
ed this fellow who is worrying so
much over the Professionals and Cath
9ics of ireland, to air his assinity and
the views Of Dublin Castle lib the
columns of the Grangeville Globe'
The answer is simple English pro-
paganda, in the hope of convincing the
non-C Catholics of America that the
trouble there is religious one, an
objection that has been often refuted
by Protestant ministers, both in Eng
land and America.
England's truculent policy, whether
in southern Cork or northern Bel
fast, has brought the blush of shame
to every decent Englishman. That
country, which for centuries has
boosted of its benevolent institutions,
its civilizing influence, 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
Gladly and proudly, as he has been
taught at his Irish mothers knee,
does the martyred Gael give up his
life. Yet, the British government b.
lieves Vt will settle the Irish question
with the rifle and the machine gun.
In one official 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
Great Britain. would take out her
prisoners OF war and shoot them down
like dogs. manacled and defenseless,
and then refuse their dead bodies TO
their sorrowing relatives because Dub
I'm Castle. forsooth, has so decreed?
If no state of war exists, what ma
ton would he guilty Of lining her own
people up against the wall and shoot.