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Show Appeal urges I MDFOR IRISH Letter From Bishop Glass Is Read Here: Monsignor As- . ' sails "Black and Tans" Appealing for funds to relelve distress dis-tress brouitht about in Ireland by the J Struggle for independence, a letter; from the Rt Rev. Joseph S. Glu-s. bishop of the Ball Iake diocese, was read iii the inornini? services in Rt. I loseph i ' ol if iiurh yesterday by! ! Monsignor P. M. Cusiinahan. j Monsignor Cushnahan eonKratul.it- I ed the members for their generous re- ' spoiTse to the central F.nrope relief I fund appeal of the previous Sunday and s.n.l (hat it eonld not he deferred. ' Tho collection will bo taken up next j Sunday. ss mi g flI V( K m, , NS Branding the "Black and Tans" as an organisation made Up largely of eT- on lets of unscriiptilous character, I Monsignor Cushnnhan told of a state- ment made py one of these men and heard by th,. pastor on his retfnt I islt to Ireland: I aot thirty years for killing my wife bul draw thirty" shillings now for hilling a Sinn! I- einer." I I l l II fr I R The letter from Bishop Clacs reads: , in rrel ind ultlng from rei i u1 i I this country the American Commit-! to r Rei I e( frel and , n n s la 1 of hi i n liner ee, Card ibou Moi in .i O'Brii I : in Sod Joh D R ' ' i Sd-?ard Sd-?ard i . Dohcnj and '';chobj P "A local American Committee fori' Relief In Ireland, to cooperate n ILIt a the national committee inenlloncd j i above, win be organised within a tewfr -lays in Salt hake City, i: is :i,e pui I poo of these committees to snd food' l and clothing to Ireland and Is relieve I the suffering and distress In the b trn-! ou mm uQvssuiiea regions ana .imoiu the needy and destitute ronenu ttpd 'Ichlldreh wherever required. T'ic ob- j Jecta of these committees are ei'liivly A nonpolltlcal. and it is hoped that rep-; rep-; resentatLve Americans, wiieilur of Irish ancestry or not. In sympathy j with the plan to render such relief. ! will cooperate regardle- of re.'ig'on and political considerations and narty ' affiliutions. "It would be impossible in a short j letter to portray tho wretehe ine-js I and misery, the suffering and sort ow thai have ronie upon Ireiun.1. The brief statement Issued by the cardinal P'lmate and archbishops and bishops of Ireland on the present condition Of their ounlry tells us ln no uncer-l uncer-l tain tones of the unhappy state of ; anarchy and distress to which their country has been reduced I VRDIM IL'S I li M'.cl v ' They tell us of the truly nppalllug results of ih countless indiscriminate i raids and arrests In the darkness of night; of the prolonged imprisonments without trial; of the savage sentences i from tribunals thai command and de- serve no confidence; of the burning I of houses. town halls. factories. , creameries am! crops: of the desiruc- I lion of Industries to pavo the way. ; to famine hy men maddened with arMuacu iiiiniv ;inii oeiu on loot; oi the flogging and massacre of civilians: of the reign of frlghtf illness, which for murdering the innocent and destroying de-stroying their property has a parallel only ln the horror of Turkish atrocities atroci-ties or in the outrages of the red army In Bolshevist Ruseia. 'These things have, gone on unchecked un-checked and unabated Until the world ; has been horrified by tho deeds perpetrate per-petrate on prostrate Ireland. In one town alone nearly tec thousand 10.-000) 10.-000) workman were thrown out of employment and or twenty-three thousand (2S,p00) people w-re re-J reiving dally relief. "The statement of Cardinal Logue and the hierarchy of Ireland is con-1 firmed and augmented by the testl-mony testl-mony of countless witnesses who are I neither Catholle nor Irish. "An appeal for the relief of the I poor, suffering inhabitants of that un- happy land must meet eloquent re-1 sponse from us and from all who love humanity We ask you, then, to give! as generously as you can to aid the i sick, the helpless, the wretched the I suffering of Ireland." |