The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-10-21
FATHER KENNEDY
TELLS OF IRELAND

iy returned to Battle Mountain from
two months visit to his old home
In Ireland, gives the Battle Mountain
Scout the following interesting story
as to the true conditions existing IN
ireland, from his own personal OBJ
servation:
Unlike SO many of my fellow
countrymen, l have come back from
the land Of Gra-ma-chree with a mes-
sage OF hope and a CHEEKY word about
Auld Ireland.
Just as official reports of various
European governments for the first
two years OF the great war, would
have captured almost every living
German except old Kaiser Bill, 30
press reports of the last few months
would have killed of almost every
living Irishman except De Valera
himself. Interviews given to various
newspapers by our returned visitors
have filled the minds of Americans
with the idea that Ireland is another
seething Flanders; that our broth
ers across the sea are bandits and
murderers Of the lowest type; that
the hand Of poverty Is nailed to sv-
cry door; that the mental processes
OF such as these need not be further
considered, as they are outside or be-
yond the standards of reason and of
values accepted by ordinary human
beings Mark you, some of them,
and very distinguished ones are
now ashamed of being Irish. Our
sympathy goes out to them in their
great sorrow. May we suggest, as q
healing balm, the addition of an or
an o to the surname. The change
will not be resented by Dark Rosaler,
IL they have no better to offer In her
regard, than the determinations and
calumny printed over the sea of the
names that have humiliated them.
THE atmosphere in which we live
has a peculiar effect on our mental
as well as upon our physical health.
The press, too, works q strong In
fiuence upon our judgments and opin-
ions. Atmospheric conditions, in cer-
tain parts of Ireland this Summer,
were foggy and unsuitable to unpre~
JUDGED conclusions-we refer to the
political atmosphere. The press were
better imprinted. Truth was not it's
aim and its impressions were made
at the point OF the bayonet and the
suggestion of the cunning little
Welshman. who footed US again.
These we offer as an apology for the
clouded mental conditions of our
fellow countrymen mentioned above.
Personally. we see no reason for
all this lamentation. For two long
months we went over the old stone
roads of gallant Tipperary and never
did we see a shot fired. For two long
months we traveled-sometimes 1t
was difficult-from north to south,
from east to west, and thank God we
are proud to be able to say that we
never saw one of these Irish muir
dered. No doubt there were plenty
OF fine type of young men with rifles
and revolvers, no doubt there was
some trouble of some kind, but give
them a chance. don't call them by all
the filthy names at your command,
don't fan the fame. don't make
mountains out of moles, keep your
hands of and things will ultimately
right themselves.
1T is strange how few there are
who really understand the present
trouble in Ireland. 1t is also strange
that many of those who pretend to
understand absolutely miss the fun
damental principle. But It is strang-
er still that many who write on 1t.
even theologians and other dignitar-
les, make use of such sweeping exag-
gerations that they feed the public
with much that is not true.
"The trouble in Ireland to-day is
not the Civil war. for that is not ser
ious; the real trouble is the old trou-
BILE, the rope by which Ireland has
hung from the scaffold for years Is
tightening every day; the head is
about to be separated from the body.
the nation is on the dissecting table
and the real Irish are making the
last effort to battle the anesthetic OF
allegiance and partition.
but since we have mentioned this
Civil war, let US see in whose favor
hangs the balance Of right. To es-
tablish this 1t will be necessary to
examine facts and apply them as best
we can. What was the civil author
ity in Ireland at the outbreak OF this
local scrap? The second Dali elect
ed by the people decreed. on May 20.
elections
"(1) That in order to maintain
peace and produce stable govern
ment, the national position required
that the Republican and Free State
parties in the Dali go forward as
one body to the electorate.
"(2) That after the elections
national coalition ministry be formed