Show fJ 11 TILE THE QUESTION 11 I Ireland Yester nd Today TodY Is 1 the b by the tho thoI title oC o a 11 book just published I I Philadelphia North American The au I J J i thor La Is Hugh Sutherland who 1 Ic Ireland In 1902 and 19 and question thoroughly thorough lie Ho I the tho I wrote a number of oC letters oti on I I question to the tho North and form Corm these are arc now Issued In book It Two periods In IrIsh Irith aro 1110 ree reC I Ono One Is the I period of oC the land landt i t 1 problem with all and of the other Is the period The I the tho land problem letters l dealing with title this part I Bet forth fort l the tho wonderful ss ssI the tho I in hl soven soen years cars through III I of oC tenant for The Tho Irish demand domand Lor Ol OlI I homo home rule rulo Is also discUsSed I i There Thero Is stIll a great deal drol of oC l Inor nor mice anco In the tho world concerning tho Irish I For centuries II a nation has hasI I been struggling tor or life and existence against odds In broad brond had f daylIght and yet et very er few have havo any Idea of the tho real al nature of oC tim the trouble To many tho tim Irish question II J 1 has lias been II a joke jolce A London clergyman t said IlS as It If speaking for fo Irishmen F minutes earlier rises The ho sun lIun J il In London than Dublin Is III that justice I i would je r to Ireland 7 and that Ito he hearers understand was WILS I have his I I about all thoro WItS was to tile tho Irish I lIe He added that the tho only solution f 11 baptism by It ho he hoI heI I I said Bald could be Immersed for tOI only half an hour all Us its troubles trouble would bo be ended This proved how deep seated Is tho Ignorance about the tho i Emerald Isle Islo even In London rho of oC tort fort ol of the North American to state the tho Irish question from flom an point Joint of oC view Is very ery laudable It ItI I I should awaken interest In inthe the tho coating struggle for homo home rule rulo and create creato sympathy for a L people that has bas given Iven to this country so largo large a contingent of oC Its bet blood Or Of special Interest h is the religious that wore brought Lo 10 bear upon the people of Ireland not notI I more the tho two brief centuries ago nd I I this persecution did not consist In n J torture or burning at the tho stake but In inthe l the enactment of oC legislation by which the tho people rero robbed of their prop J lId their rights was wasl l united to hYPOCrisy per dy to corruption corruption tion and tim tho highest honors and aud ro wards were reserved for Cor the tho apostate un find In this respect his history to tory lies has sadly repeated In the persecutions of oC our ourI I on da day dayt Thu Tho laws passed against Ireland In Inthe Inthe t the bc ot of the eighteenth con cen tur tury tolerated Catholic worship only on sufferance Public ceremonies and pilgrImages were prohIbited bells and were Interdicted Tim Tho nation of oC any now cl bras as for forbidden forI I bidden bishops and members of oC religIous Ious bus orders were el banished and seen lar priests could only If would take nn an which the tho church forbade them to take Every Ever Papist was ordered to be an informer against 1 his t The Catholics were de of oC all political rights lights they were I barred from obtaining any pUblic em employment emI I and they could not hold J property And this persecution was not the tho outburst of oC religious fanaticism cism mere merely but It was vas Inspired by greed groe The object of oC the tho penal lows laws oven In the tho worst period was much less to produce II a change of oC relIgion than to secure property power b by reducing to complete impotence those thoMe who had formerly possessed them And the result was a 0 stream of oC em f of oC the tho best elements amon among 1 the a drain which was novel never to cea It Is difficult to realize that n a brave nation has been subjected to such indignIties after the tho un under tier der a hag that stands for 01 humanity and freedom but the tho feats facts speak for lor themselves It Is stIll more difficult to r tim the situation created b bbl by bl and greed In our own country at t a 11 much later day even here In I Utah Rut But again tito tho facts acts speak sleak for tor themselves elves |