The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-09-21
IRELAND MUST BE FREE
SAYS REPUBLICAN SOLON
Hogan, of New York. Declares She De.
serves IL As Reward for Her Heroic
Fighting In World War.

be given liberty as a reward for her
sacrifices in the World War is the con-
tention Of Representative Michael ].
Hogan of New York, who is the first
to voice Republican sentiment in the
House on the subject. He says:
ireland has played conspicuous
part in the development Of that Eng
disappearing Cultivation which has
accomplished so much for liberty and
right. Wellington and Kitchener, the
soldiers who did most to save England
in her two periods Of greatest stress,
were born In the Emerald Isle, Ed
mund Burke, oliver Goldsmith, Rich
ard Brinsley Sheridan, and George
Bernard Shaw have long helped to in
spire the intelligence of the entire
British Empire, and they, too, first
saw the light on that spot. For Eng
land to say, with prejudice which is
unworthy of our age, that she is Prot
estant and Ireland Catholis and that II
Ireland gains her freedom she will
menace Professionalism is beside the
mark. Nearly every one of the most
reyered martyrs and leaders OF Irish
liberty during the past century was
Protestant. Neither Wolf Tone, Robert
Emmett, John Philpot Curran, Henry
Grattan, Edward Fitzgerald, or
Charles Stuart Parnell were within
the Catholic faith.
ireland is prepared to go on with
her work for the betterment OF man
kind, but her people feel that IN order
to do SO she must have that same price
less heritage of liberty which her sons
and daughters have enjoyed in Ameri-
ca. No people can ever feel the same
incentive to accomplishment while
under foreign domination. Lloyd
George promises Ireland full meas
ure of self-goverment under His Maj
esty, the King. This is a promise he
can not fulfill. Full self-government
is impossible under any King. Liberty
recognizes the majesty of no person
Irishmen, like Americans, are willing
to concede majesty only to the govern
ment of free people, their God, and
their conscience. And Ireland deserves
liberty. How much she contributed 10
the sustenance of the British flag on
the western front only the English
Government can tell. That she did
her full part in helping the Empire to
nreserve itself from utter destruction
| no fair-minded man will deny. Every
true American who cherishes the
ideals of the government Of his faith
ers ought to admit no less than that
Ireland should have the full right to
independence as a reward for her sac
rifice in both the British and American
armies.
1.-THE concessions by Lloyd George
to De Valera and the Irish patriots
who surround hi mdo not emanate
from any ewly acquired altruism on
the part of the proud empire which in
creased its domain from fourth to a
third of the globe as the result of the
war. They arise from a realization
that the tendency of our time is to-
ward augmented freedom, that the
movement toward self-government in
Ireland and India is a part of mighty
forces which can not be stayed, and
that public opinion in the United
States has been growing more and
more impatient with injustices and
atrocities which have been continued
by the British Government in Ireland
without cessation for many centuries.
She knows that while 1t is true that
ireland is a part of her domain by
force of arms alone and that she can
continue to mistreat her people to the
limit of the resources Of tn mightiest
empire the modern world, she can
not afford to ppear a hypocrite in con-
tending against the right of might
with all her strength on the one hand
and then exerting the same might to
subject a plucky little people whose
sole resource is the spirit of liberty.
She fears that Irelad will be to her
what the Spanish ulcer was to Napoi-
con- In his ruthless trampling OF the
liberties of the Spanish people the
great emperor found the grave Of his
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