Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-05-05

the red men. Incidentally he de-
stroyed thousands of gallons of in
toxicants, made nearly 5000 arrests
in four years, brought to justice
murderers and desperate characters,
and displayed through it all a most
remarkable personal courage and
judgment He struck quickly and
hard and he got results. 1t is a
good book for boys library, as
well as for those who wish short
detailed account of the prohibition
movement in America
THE red hand of Ulster, as its
motto makes clear, is a friendly and
not a threatening hand" says CAP
tain Ernest w. Hamilton in his
short, well-written book on "The
Soul of Ulster (Dutton). Its sin
lister color, founded on legend, was
painted many hundred years before
Ulster was planted with British col
anists and must not be taken as in
dicative of its habits or designs. 1t
was adopted by Ulstermen ready
painted, and-red as it is--it is the
/ hand OF good will, and never yet
( has it been raised by them against
a neighbor, except in self-defence.
In a very clear and logical man
ner, with an orderly array of his
torical facts and records, Captain
/ Hamilton gives the Irish question
from the Ulster viewpoint.
Speaking of the aid given by phil
anthropic landowners during the
famine period in the way of food,
attendance in sickness (many died
, of disease contracted on such kindly
errands), and thousands of pounds
to carry the surplus population to
America, he says;
There is method-and very sys-
tematic method-behind the appar-
ent unreasonableness of Irish polit-
ical agitation. Nearly 70 years have
passed since the Clearances and for
the benefit of the third generation
knowing nothing of the circum-
stances-it is easy for the agitator
to draw up a moving picture of in
justice. The policy of the
Professionals towards the natives is,
and always has been, honestly pa
cific. They have no wish to inter
fere with anyone's possessions, res
ligion or liberties They only want
to live and let live. Their parades,
their drills, their mo surrender
resolutions are neither aggressive
nor even provocative in intention.
They are simply precautionary meas
ures against dangers, the reality of
which Ulstermen know, and England
will not be persuaded Of
He calls attention to the fact that,
whereas Napier Tandy pathetically
complains: They're hangin' men
and women for the wearin of the
green it was not for that, but for
a succession of particularly cold
blooded murders that the hangings
III HhSoIiOh bOOh pitINC' 1 " NlIC 10
tive mind they were not murders at
all, but justifiable and even glorious
acts of war, because in furtherance
of the sacred cause 1t must be re-
membered, before cOndemning such
point of view. that the native mind
has for centuries been trained to the
idea that the art of war lies in the
attack of the defenceless and the
avoidance of the strong. This fixed
idea is reflected throughout the his
tory of the country. They see no
ethical difference between the kill
ing of a hundred enemy soldiers in
battle and the killing of hundred
enemy neighbors in cold blood, ex-
cept that the latter is the safer and
therefore the preferable course. 1t
therefore arouses honest and genu-
inc surprise and Indignation when
those convicted of unprovoked muir
ders are not treated as honorable
+ prisoners of war"
Some New Books
The Outline of History, by II. G.
/ Wells (Macmillan)
To the Last Man, by Zane Gray
(Harper).
What Frances E. Willard Said, by
Anna A Gordon (ReveT).
Washington and the Riddle of
Peace, by H. c. Wells
Conn OF the Coral Seas, by Be-
atrice Grimshaw.
China Awakened, by NJ. T. z.
Tyan.
VIII Shakespeare, by Clemence
Dane.
Negro Folk Rhymes, by Thomas J.
Talley.