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Show A GROSS LIBEL ON THE IRISH. That's What Alleged History of Ire-. Ire-. land In the "Historian's History of the World" Is. ' I (Letter to the - Irish World.) . Editor Irish World: A copv of 'the accompanying letter was. mailed to the Outlook Publishing company. New York, protesting against the rank bigotry shown in the treatment treat-ment of Irish history in their "111510-rianir "111510-rianir History of the World." They solicit; d by subscription for the work and sent volume 21, treating of Irish history. I read It through and found it full of errors, and what appears ap-pears to be wilful suppression of well-authenticated well-authenticated facts and other historical data. It is not only a special plea for the ratification of English rule in Ireland, but it maligns and villifiea the Celtic race at every opportunity. The murderess mur-deress Queen Elizabeth and the moil' ster Cromwell are lauded for thcir great statesmanship towards Ireland. Evidently, in the. mind -of the modern Anglo-Saxon compiler of the "Historians' "Histori-ans' History." the -butchery of unarmed and helpless Irishmen, Irish women and Irish children was good policy: and the only sorrow, but illy concealed, in the satanic heart-of. the scoundrel who wrote the so-called Irish history'for the Outlook, was that the work inaugurated inaugu-rated by his English predecessors was not more thoroughly carried out by Cromwell in entirely destroying the Irish race in Ireland. The Campaign of slandn- and degradation degra-dation against the Irish race is assuming assum-ing a new phase, and is directed principally prin-cipally towards influencing the more highly, educated element of the Amer-' Amer-' ican people. It Is enough to-denounce 1 j this typical Anglo-Saxon scoundrelisni. I ' but Irish-Americans should insist on tne oniy true and effective remedy for such villification, namely, that Irish history be taught in all-Catholic schools and that it should be on an equal footing with English. French or German Ger-man history In our public schools. I often wonder at th? lack of interest inter-est and especially at the ignorance of human nature displayed by our American Ameri-can clergy In not utllizhig to its fullest extent the noble and sublime heritage of our Irish forefathers in their unparalleled unpar-alleled and victorious fight for the Catholic faith and Celtic motherland during the long and terrible centuries of England's accursed and persecuting rule in Ireland. Irish history is the most, potent antidote, to Protestantism and infidelity. Where Is the American with even a drop of Irish blood in his veins who would not feel proud and most highly honored to claim kinship with those illustrious and indomitable Irish saints who spread the light of Christianity and civilization over, pagan. pa-gan. Europe from the fifth to the tenth century? The names of Columbia of Iona. Columbanus of France and Italy, St. Gall ot Switzerland, Adamnan. Fur-sey, Fur-sey, Fridolin, Brendan, Vtrgilius and hundreds of others who are honored and immortalized not only in the beloved be-loved isle of their nativity, but all over continental Europe. Anglo-Saxon Ideals of plunder, persecution per-secution and perfidy went down in defeat de-feat and disgrace before the divine Celtic Cel-tic Ideals of religious and political freedom. The example and victory of the brave and generous Celts over the cunning and cruel Saxons should be an inspiration and beacon light to all oppressed op-pressed and downtrodden peoples. But as eternal vigilance is the price of political polit-ical liberty, so is it also of religious lib-, erty and equality. Anglo-Saxon Ideals, driven out of Ireland, are acquiring a firm foothold Mn the United States. These ideals no longer seek the destruc- . , v i tion of the American Celts, but their ; alienation from the Catholic church and I their allegiance to Protestantism. An-I An-I glo-Saxonism is essentially an organization organ-ization for the propagation of English Protestantism in the United States, and " some of its most blatant shouters are men with unmistakable Celtic names. The Anglo-Saxons are aggressive, boastful, unscrupulous Their influence over Ar. erlcan public opinion through the prf; . both secular and religious, i3 tiemen.- . s. Anglo-Saxon misrepresentation and culmination is the cause why fifteen million Americans, chiefly of Irish descent, de-scent, have fallen away from the Catholic Cath-olic church, and are now in the ranks of its enemies: and the awful work of perversion per-version still goes on increasingly. How many Catholics of the third or fourth generation have we in this country? They are very few, notwithstanding the fact that at the time of the revolution half of Washington's army was Irish, including a large Irish Catholic population popula-tion at that period. The wolves have i been devastating the fold while the shepherds were asleep, and for the one ' Puritan convert won by the beautiful symmetry of our Catholic theology hundreds hun-dreds have beer, lost to the church through want of a little human heart food. Where is the nation that fiuffered a more prolonged and agonizing martyrdom martyr-dom than did Ireland under the most relentless and bloodthirsty penal code that was ever evolved from- the brain of demons Incarnate? The complete I and entire destruction of the Irish Catholic race was the object of those ' infamous penal laws, and whoever es-! es-! caped destruction were to be reduced to a condition of ignorancTe and brutaliza-1 brutaliza-1 tion even lower than the beasts. For more than three centuries the Irish race J was in the throes of a life and death struggle for their very existence, the conflict finally terminating in a glori- ous victory fou,the unconquerable Celts j It was not theology or metaphysics that made the early Romans Christian. It was the hlood of the martvrs And I if the American Catholic church is to hold the affections and allegiance of the Celtic race In this country she must utilize that most powerful instrument which God in his divine providence has placed in her hands. She must appeaf to the blood of the saints and martyrs of Ireland. They are flesh of our flesh and bone of our tone. They are a God-given God-given bond between the Celtic race and the Catholic church, whether in the Old or New World. Their sufferings- are our sufferings, their glories our glories, their Irish church is the mother of our American church, and their history is as inseparable from ours as the soul is from the body, or the spreading and luxuriant hranches from the parent tree. If the American church is to grow and prosper she must vitalize the minds of her children with the sublime Christian ideals, the heroic history, and the beautiful traditions of our Celtic ancestors. Truly, DR. HENRY W. CURTIN. An Insult to Truth and a Travestry on History. (The Outlook, New York.) Gentlemen: I return you Vol. 21. "Historians' History of the World." 1 have read through several pages of your Irish history and find it not only utterly unreliable and glaringly false but even slanderous and vindictive characteristics- 'entirely in accord with the unctuous hypocrisy and narrow-minded narrow-minded bigotry of the "Creeping." Blackmailing, Brutish Anglo-Saxon race, who are the International Blackguards Black-guards and. the most degraded national criminals to be found anywhere on the face of the earth. You begin by explaining ex-plaining and exculpating and end by Justifying England's inhuman and devilish career in Ireland. You, or your Anglo-Saxon writer, have not a word of condemnation for the wholesale whole-sale butchery of the Irish people carried car-ried out by Elizabeth, Cromwell and their successors. You seem only to regret that the Celtic race was not entirely en-tirely exterminated. To call such a work a "Historian's History" is an insult in-sult to truth and a travesty on history. his-tory. A more appropriate title would be the Anglo-Saxon Liars' History for circulation amongst salacious preachers preach-ers and their ignorant dupes. Very truly. DR. HENRY W. CURTIN. |