| Show f About Broken Treaties T ie atie I il By y John F Finerty t I Chicago News Nowa The cry of a portion of or the British h press rea headed by the London LoR on the ancient tad md consistent con enemy my of Irish Independence In soy any aD shape the cry of I the English h tories at present is Cut down the Irish Iri b representation In perils paella Th Is the th centennial year of the legis legie union n between e Great Britain and Ireland td The Tho ge Irish population It of a at cen e I tury ago was W 8 then about what It In Is to 10 Uy tsy I rend and In the Irish house houe ho e of commons common sat oat about rs r Including I those for counties i boroughs b g and the Dublin university When the act was by the th grossest t forma forme of r corruption r and I the t terrorism tf Morl m of or v rule throughout the Island It was w enacted by the fourth article of or tn the us treaty of union after providing for four tour lords lor ls spiritual and lords J 8 temporal to rep s Ireland In the h nr house o of peers er that trtat one oe hundred commoners commoner two or ch county of Ireland two for the city of Dublin u two for the t city of 1 Cork nu one for the University es y of Trinity ol olge oge ge sad and one for each of or the thirty one on most considerable cities towns and boroughs borough be the number to sit alt and vote on the th i art Part of o Ireland in the house of of the th parliament of the tile united kingdom Until now no serious proposition to de do crease the original number of Irish rep rt ha be bean n made m de A gener genera lion tion or more mere ago Ireland eJ had increased I da daI her representation r r to but b a more mere ro re cent ent apportionment gave her IVi W which Is IC the present pre ent number of 9 her parliament ary sty delegation d One On of the chief sentimental causes o 0 01 Irish hatred of or English rule has been the unfortunate British habit of break I ing jog treaties made mad with Ireland Thus Janice James i I broke his hi compact with the chiefs C and dh earls rl Hush Huith J ONeill nt of Tyrone Tyrene saul and Rory ODonnell of or I hell In 11 1007 They hJ to fly from Ire land and wil their elves and children awl and a all sll their near relatives t eI in arro es as I cape tape death or imprisonment Those brave and able abie chiefs WhO had maintained a sanguinary war with England during nine years rears found a refuge refu e on the con of et Europe and tiled died fin all in fn e Roma honored o ege pensioners e of the t reign el log ing pontiff Their lands which comprised Om fd I 1 six IX counties of or Ulster were tp t VIA the crown Q for ao so good reason as ge the chiefs e had kept keilt faith th with h James ames af a unjustly ter thir mr acquired surrender were anti and lt given ge the lands hr thus t the faithless lire monarch to Scotch planters from the loWlands lowland J ra and a to t English guilds for a very small consideration ONeill O 0 eill and ODonnell oDon I wet were ett mere Irish and the Stuart king looked upon the plunder ing lug ot of them thOIn with about the same ame ItI UC ference that our American executives have displayed in I th the opening to set by either cither political chicanery or th strong trong arm of the rich lands lends of 01 our native Indian tribes Cromwell made only one Important treaty tr with the Irish t th that governing fg the I lurrender of Clonmel after a most gal lant defense and strange to say not his massacres maa aeres at and Clonmel he kept It although the tIle able Irish Hush Huh ONeill the deceived him tg by a ruse rue de di guerre This same e ONeIll e r afterward ate d in iii 1651 1661 defended Limerick against t Old iiiI I NoI IH the ferocious Ireton who on the Irishman Irl s surrender would i certainly have hanged him on the ground I that he had resisted re after all reasonable hope hol ot or succor had passed away ay but ho for Tor the th intervention of Cromwell to te I whom ONeill appealed his case cale I r regret to say that in no other In Instance stance did the great geet Ire t regicide show any am an fare Ieee of mercy to the vanquished td Irish edWI whose land l he devastated lIt as with a very ery besom of destruction destructionS a S j About everybody ever bod who has ever conde condo condescended to read Irish or his history I tory rat at all knows something about t the tb a violation n of the treaty ee of Limerick I A tt D B I i atSU Still as many may not have haye HO so con descended I 1 will wilt state tate in general gereral terms terme I i That It was agreed between Sars Sara I I held Do Posse Tesee and others representing g Ireland and France then her ally allyan and it Baton Balon de do the th lords commissioners commissioner a and others t representing t England and her he r 1 No df nines allies that the Irish who fought Ah for King Kin d g Janses J 11 It should remain undisturbed in ii a lon of their civil and religious hit cr r y and of or their tIu lr property and that the lb C Irish army anny of or Limerick and other Irish it cities should march out with all the hon hoci ors ora of war ar a d proved l if it so ed to France The Th last 18 t part of the treaty was W wu s I fulfilled in the main although many poor pee women and children who were vere assured ut cj It passage pas age with their husbands and fath d 4 were left behind Scores of the desperate in their love clung to the shi j a cables as they thy sal leu from shore and per Macaulay y and other historians hl of the Jacobite wars wall It was wall to this U ul d Incident the th Irish Irl h poet post Thomas Davis alluded In his lila fiery flery ballad of Fontenoy How lIow tierce fierce the look these exiles Giles wear I whore wont to be o 0 gay The treasured trea wrongs wrong of lilly lifty years ears are In their hearts today The treaty broken ere are the Ink wherewith tw tV write could dry they Their plundered homes t ruined shrines their parting cry cr crr r But BuL it Is now a far Car cry to the days da of ff f Fontenoy Fonteno nd Irish memory has treasured of up r tich since then many r rn parting parsing r l cries tH t te tS e the ghastly I famine period of half a cen tory tury since S for a hundred I more e terrible The civil of the tha treaty treat wore were utterly and absolutely Brok en n not indeed by b William III and Mary II who to their thir justice ratified th m In good faith I but bott by the A I I colonial ft parliament t of Dublin aided Y and abetted tt J bv by b the parliament of England for Cor or fc ot land Jand fortunately lor tor her hal nal ita net Dt t yet t come into the tM British combination l t as H a parliamentary partner That rha retro Jiro remained for tor the days of Quen Anne Ane AI e the th last reigning re of If f the fIe line the British Bourbons Bourbon her sway swa all tho the penal enact enad ments of her h r worst predecessors on the tho throne aganet the hapless Irish Irl h Catholics were pre renewed and Intensified although the penalties were increased because f j Irish devotion to the cause cuse Jf f Annes miserable father James Jamra II I but such a father lAth could coul have begotten be oten S such sucha KI KIa I a a daughter unless it was ws King Lear him self C i d 1 ar I know some Ime Jn l h r deren even some Bre Americans and An a A few Invertebrate Irish wl will say MY Why by dot dee dO this thi man reopen old sores Why not nt let them heal hoal Be Bt Because cause causo cUI they ty wont heal hel while a single I tating cause cu lingers beneath their fb scabs i It Is i sometimes necessary nery in physical cur sur surgery ur i gery to scrape the t c bone in order that the et i cc W flesh dealt may have e a chance chanco c to muster Iwick surgery its healthy hety The tissues te So also ala al should In IUra mental N be JJ I take themselves to a H desert d t where neither oppressors nor oppressed exist exl t to mako make I the tho earth t disagreeable oppre IW There Thero was still another treaty with wih Ire land which England brok the most mot im Ian that of o which gave lode inde independence to th the In pf Irish Irh parliament and re rf renounced Ennd claim to th the Appeal of risk law cas ca H to her hf r house home of herds These h acts were war N passed almost almot without dissent of a serious nature England wa was then at war with France and had bed just jut rel ed liar her he war with wih us u by both ho of the t English parliament and a the 1 t tt ln sanction r of King g ga George IH lit III Yet within t less lesa J than twenty years Eng Ens lands fortunes having changed yel f for fer r Kni in tb the better the Irish parliament was W an att ted d by bY method metho that would make a de do decent decent docent cent Turk Turk not to speak spek of or a decent Eng r t U hman brn blush for tor the record of his race case 5 raG of the Irish Inca parliament were men me of English blood blo all an were of Some dome form Conn of Protestant belief They t tire jre re not fur tur the most moat mot part the men who composed Jre the greet great t parliament the magical voice v of Henry Grattan r aroused to action aton In The borough h hmm member mm system ly each seat being In the girt gift gIt of some Mm peer phad had demor demoralized or allied aled It It One On honorable h ruffian le hen rhen reproached with wih his venality t ed edn God that he had bad a country to sell a companion n remark to o that r of ot l the Scottish or ore Member e who In 1767 17 when the parliament ant of or Scotland fa was as Burns Burna u hath bath f It t bought I and sold ld for tor English gold shouted v u fib fil glee t y There here Is 1 an od of or an shouted old song Ih Juda was a a i mild mid kind ln of a traitor who at least lest had tho the common decency to hang haN himself after ater getting his Wood blood bood money mone compared with the ruffians who betrayed for money mOne allies or title sometimes for or all three the distinctive nationality of those thoa al two greet great cradles of the Gaelic race Scot lid lard and Ireland As the irony of fate would lda have V it the c t who took the purchase money were er mainly of Saxon blood blO I dont wish wl h t tl to be severe but the e truth h this terrible thing thine thins called cled truth compels me Yet Tet my good god friend Dr K 15 Benjamin Andrew Andrews now nw of Lincoln Il N Neb Neli b university says avs it t If I i well wel to t lie le discreetly dl on o son oh oi Oi X Dr r Andrews Andrew wore were you ou ever ef r at the th bottom tom of or a 0 well If I you vr W rr N you ou and Truth must have had a What at English force for could not subdue Through many warlike ages a Js ta g now o by b a craven few For Fo hireling traitors wages The T he English steel stel we could wg disdain Secure S N in station But B ut English gold has be been n our bane Such a parcel of rogues in a nation naton So S o sung Bobble BobbieS Burns of or Qi Qu Queen Quen een Annes Anes union and more than a cen con tury tur y Laer Lter Lter an Irish poet sun this of the tile infamous Ini amous transaction of at sur 11 I How did they pass the union I By per jury and fraud J By B B y slaves slave VE sold Ild their land for gold As A Judas IH sold k his God By B y all aU the savage acts that yet et Have followed follWe track The T he pitch j anal ana an the Tho The gibbet and the rack And Ad A nd thus gt V iJas Ia s passed Ped the union By Pitt Pit and Castlereagh Could C Satan send n for such an end Moro More w irthy tools tool than they the end Many gr great at t Englishmen denounced the union an ion of o their country with Ireland Lord Byron By ron said of f It in the house houed J or peers p Ifa I ts the union of or the shark shark with Its It prey pr ey And Anti in his Irish Avatar refer ring rin g to the same ame subject he sold said sad My lly voice voice though but hut humble Was raised for thy right My veto as a freeman n Still voted f thee r tree free This hand though but feeble Would have armed in thy fight And An this heart hert though outworn Had Hd a throb still sUI for thee thee John ohn J Bright the tho greatest perhaps of modern mo dern English orators said sid If Ire la ha land add nd could be unloosed l from her moorings I Ire f and an d towed 1000 miles T westward n Into r the broad brod br oad Atlantic she would be among the happiest h ha and most prosperous ru of nations n The T ho late rn Mr Gladstone one of lonh the worlds wo I ablest statesmen said sid The union un ion with Ireland was carried by bYa a sort resort re to unspeakable Jc blackguardism Everybody E knows know the result of the union o of Ireland dead ded the other half d dying dy ing And still the tory government ov of Eng la land ud la Is not satisfied ed The m victim I must t b be degraded still further a Redmond Redmon and Dillon Dion it is said sid con te tend te nd that the reduction of the tb Iri parliamentary pe representation would be unconstitutional constitutional un Do those worthy gen temen tle men suppose that such a technical upp a tr as a I constitution can stop Sails Salis bury bu ry and d Balfour in their predestined dm w ink o of making m ri Ireland x on crutches cr turned adrift to beg or starve re rew Why d has baa not kept t with w wi th the nf Irish Protestants Ste n 1 la shOd shed no tears tar te ars over the disestablishment ot of the Anglican A J n state church in Ireland by b Gladstone adstone Gl and his bid hJ followers in But B ut Gladstone deliberately broke the fil th article of ot the treaty treat ot union which reads reds re ads thus j That the churches of o England Encl nd and Ireland Ir eland as now nw by b law established be I united unite un into one Protestant Episcopal church ch to be called cled The United Unie Church of or England and Ireland Irelnd and that the doctrine do worship IS discipline I and d govern government e eI ment m eat of the tr said united u church r shall sg be betI I and and an tI shall remain r main in full ful force fore forever HS ts the same are now by law Jaw established for to fo the Church of or England and that the continuance co and preservation of the said United U church as the tho established Church of England l and Ireland shall abel be deemed and a nd taken to be an nn essential and funda fundament ment m en 1 part rt of the union and that in inke like li ke lanner the doctrine doctrin worship die cl and government of the church of or Scotland S shall remain and be preserved as the tho th same Ame are now nw established by b law lawand lawand and a nd by the ac acts act for the union of the tho two kingdoms kI of o England antI and Scotland Love laughs laugh at locksmiths and surely su urel rely England laughs at treaties I 1 could enumerate numerate more broken treaties with w ith Ireland and some other countries chargeable c also to account but b ut what the need nd If I Redmond Dillon and anti their theirL friends fr rely l solely on the union n treaty treaty e to toke L ke k p ih the Iri Inch h representation s r at West Westminster f minster m in statu quo their cause i 11 b lost lot and a bas been for tor thirty years England did d id not hesitate to break faith with wih her herrn own o wn adherent in Ireland when e It suited uit her h er rn policy f J she he likely to concede 0 to the tho t Irish nationalists nato what she denied to totne totne t oe Irish I h imperialists Im the of o f the tIle union treaty It I will wi soon be a parchment p with many holes punched 1 through it I holes through which the t he wise wis may count the Irish sheep who till still s believe belleve In the conscience of or the wolf wolfs wol s England line been ben called cale the mother of or parliaments p It I la Ia It a claim that the Greeks G s and the Romans and an others other among mong a the ancients might safely chal challenge challenge lenge enge l but if it she keeps keep on her herI compacts with Ith the Irish Irl hor of rather a s Uon of or by b piece lect she will wil I 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