The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-05-20
IRISH BISHOPS ON IRELAND
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moralization spreading, but the eco
nomic security of the nation stands in
imminent peril, with it's concomitant
OF unemployment and hunger.
Free Soul of Ireland.
"We can hardly believe it possible
that the Military Executive are in
earnest when they claim the right,
if they like, to suppress the election
by force of arms, to shoot their own
brothers and fire upon their own
fathers and mothers, when engaged
in the exercise of their civil rights.
What is this but ITO murder the
free soul Of Ireland, and what national
crime more shameful and wicked and
more calculated to disgust the world
and make our fair name byword
among the nations?
"This whole system of military
despotism is detestable and unbear-
able to our people, who regard it with
horror and disgust, and are beginning,
because of it, to abhor the very name
of men whom but yesterday they
loved and gloried in.
A National Uprising.
"The impressive protest made
against it by the Labor world on Mon
day last commands universal admira-
tion. That protest of Labor is but
the first ru1hbling of a general upris-
ing of the nation against this attempt
on the part of few to trample in the
dust our most sacred rights as Irish
men.
"For the free life of the country is
at stake by the operation of these
fatal principles. 1t is for the people
as a body to assert themselves, and
save ireland, save their own rights,
their lives, their property, and their,
homes from wanton violation and de-
struction.
"They should make their voices
heard from one end of Ireland to the
other
Digging Freedoms Grave.
freshmen all over the world expect
it of us that we will not allow free
dom of speech, freedom of the press,
freedom of election, freedom of civil
life-in all it's branches-to be stified
by a few because they have guns in.
their hands and foolishly think they
are acting as the champions of liberty.
when they are but digging freedoms
grave.
1--WE expect the priests by kindly
influence to support the people in the
assertion of their rights, and to win
our young men SO truly loved by us all
from evil tenets and evil ways.
Lastly, we appeal in the name of
God, of Ireland, and of national dig
nifty, to the leaders on both sides, civil
and military, to meet again, to re-
member old fellowship in danger and
suffering, and if they cannot agree
upon the main question. to agree upon
two things, at all events, and publish
their agreement authOritatively to the
.world-tfat the use of the revolver
must cease, and the elections, the ma
tional expression of self-determination
be allowed to be held, free from all
violence.
sThe man who fails to hearken to-
this appeal, made not SO much by us
as by Ireland, will carry with him to-
the grave an odious and a dreadful
responsibility.
The signatories are:-CardinaT
Logue, (Armagh); DR.. Byrne, Club
linz; DR.. HARRY, (CasheD; DR.. Gilman
tin, (Tuam); DR.. O'Donnell, Cat
tania); DIR. Brownrigg. (Ossory); DR..
Browne, (Cloyne); DR.. Hoare, Car
dagh); DR.. Foley, (Kildare); DR..
Kelly, (Ross); DR.. O'Dea, Galway
DR.. Fogarty. (Killaloe): DR.. Gaugh-
ran, MEATH; DR.. Ntzhugh,, Derry); 4
DIR. M,Kenna, (Clogher); DIR. Finegan,
(Kilmore); DR. Morrisroe, (Achonry) !; !
DIR. Naugfton, (Kiilala); DIR. Coyne,|
(Elphin); DIR. Cohalan, Cork; DIR.
Down; DR.. Hackett. (Wa-
terford); DIR. Mulhern, Oromore) 4
DR.. O'Sullivan, Kerry; DR.. Codd, |
(Ferns); DR.. Mailman, Qimeriek) Il
DIR. O'UOhertv. (CIonferto. I