Sinn Fein and France
To the Editor of the Hppner
Herald. j
Dear Sir:
Iq view of the fact that the lo-j
cally received newspapers fre
quently publish statements in re
gard to the Sinn Fein party in
Ireland that are misleading. I
take the liberty of enclosing an
article by Jean Ma'iye, one of the
best known writers of France,
which article I trust you will in
sert in your valuable dispenser
of news in Morrow county.
Thanking you in advance for
the courtesy, I remain, dear sir,
Sincerely yours,
(Rev.) P. J. O'Rouhkf..
"In the first half of the nine
teenth century the debris of time
had covered many of the ancient
landmarks of the Holy City, and
Verbal tradition hud acquired the
unreliability with which long ages
often endow it. So after a short
stay in Jerusalem it was possible
for Chinese Gordon he who la
ter added imperishable glory to
England as the hero of Khar
toum to propose with some
semblance of reason a reversa
of many of the current beliefs
concerning the identity of vari
ous holy places. Yet the doubt
about landmarks, and even the
complete disappearance of im
portant sites, did not detract
from the essential sancity i f the
Holy City; Jerusalem still re
mained the city beloved of God
. thecradle of our creed, the st rong
hold of nut faith. In Pke man.
ner. lime had changed the nut-
ward aspect of France The
irrnwth nf uniti-i iuliMii, wl
like rt funtfus spreads nver uur
modern industrial civilization,
had covered the ess nihil Cath
olicism id' France; anil Latin and
other cultures with winch as a
continental nation we come in
I'lit't n't, b'ld formed a Veneer
over I he Cei'iclsiii that Is III rs
setpial racial at.i i :bute of France.
Excavator i fi .JhiumiIiiii uiicov-
l Mi. i ' ' in .11. d i .iks ii I'd
s'ei Ii. d l,e ii'CiiiMe ill uur liili
in'.tl oiHiements. .Similarly, the
upheval of war once more brought,
to light in Franco the spirit
which made men proudly point
to her as the Jille attire t aimce
del' Eglise, and revealed to a mar
veling world the courage, the
courage, the chivalry and tin;
genius for self sacrifice that is
France, a cbaplet of virtues dis
tinctive of our Celtic origin
"The revelation of our Celtic
nature did not astonish me 1
have always believed that Franco
is a Celtic nation, licfoi-e war
broke out I hail only one aim in
life, the revival of the lluriiianl
Celtic national .sninl nf Fiance.
Tofltinyself for the acliievinenl j
of this purpose it was necessary
that I should st rdy Cell icism in j
a count ry which had not heen i
Contaminate I by the alien nil-!
land many souvenirs ot the close
friendship whbh for centuries
has linked the Irish and the
French. As a Frenchman I had
been taught gratefully to remem
ber the debt that the arms of
France owe to the valor of the
Irish; the memory of Fontenoy
and of the Irish brigade is en.
shrined in the heart or every
Frenchman. Similar memories
are cherished today in Irish
hearts. I chanced to spend a
few weeks in an Irish-speaking
district of Connemara. The peas
antrj there told me that I was
the First Frenchman who had
been in these parts since the days
f the '98 Rebellion. Old white.
haired peasants, who bad heard
of these days at their mothers
knee, streamed out to welcome-
me with a cead mille failte, and
escorted me amidst a forest of
waving hats to a spot where a
tine, tall, young fellow stood,
singing in Gaelic, "The French
are Coming on the Sea" for the
sake of the Shan Van Vocht.
"These friendly relations be
tween France and Ireland long
antedate the Rebellion of 1798.
It is from France that St. Pat
rick went to Ireland and it is
from the land of the saints and
the poets that ot. Colum came to
France. . For centuries Irish
missionaries, poets and teachers
gave freely to Frince the bene
tits of their unrivaled culture,
and traces of their famous schools
still remain to remind France of
these bygone days of Irish great,
ness.
"In Ireland I soon became ab
sorbed in t he Irish national move
ment, especially in the unprece-
denied language and literary re
vival that was rapidly placing
Ireland among the most notable
of i he cultured nations of the
earth. I learned to Know the
Irish writers, poets and thinkers
in ii like Yeats, Douglas Hyde,
A 10 ,1'adraic Colum, P ll.Pearse,
men of whom any nation would
be justly proud, I worked with
t lit-in . 1 pin.) i d ah hue in. i shared
I hell' le pes X llll 1 lell I hell' SOI
rows
The.v welcomed me to the Sinn
Fein movement because I wus a
Frenchman, and because of their
clear vision I was a unit of a na
tion tnat held ideals of national
ism identical with their own.
liiey were making a supreme
and a successful effort to change
by their mystic power the poor
old j aded woman into the young
and beautiful Kathleen ni Uooli
hau. They fought agaiust the
migration that wusdruining them
of their life blood; against tuber
miosis which was the conse.
q ience of their economic degra
c.uion; and against the drunken
ness iii which the weak of heart
sought to forget their state
I'hey supported Irish industries
mil they encouraged co-opera.
went in Ireland I found that my
French nationality was a pass
port to their favor. And the
Sinn Feiners were always eager
to know France better and to be
better known in France.
"Returning to France I worked
to make the Irish reviavl known
in France; I founded a small
newspaper devoted to the inter
ests of Celticism; I established
the Gaelic League of France; and
I planned for young French stu
dents to go to Ireland; and for
Iri9h Gaels to come to France.
"Then the war broke out; and
from the first day of the mobili
zation I have had perforce, no
other Interest than to aid in the
defeat of Germany. I therefore
lost touch with Ireland. But in
the trenches I found the school
of Celticism. There we daily
learn that the racial attributes of
the German are alien, and de
structive, to the racial attributes
of the Celt; and our gallant sol
diers constantly reveal by their
deeds that the Celticism of their
ancestors is the fundamental
force in their souls. They are
indeed the inheritors of the chiv
alry of the knights of old, the
knights of the Holy Grail, the
knights of the Fiana of Erin.
They right not for themselves,
not even for their own, but for
France and for liberty, that plain
peoples everywhere may live and
be free.
This then is our compelling
reason, l conceive it to be also
the essential purpose of the Sinn
Feiners whom I have been privi
ledged to know. At the end of
the war, should I survive, I feel
that as a Frenchman I can then
best, serve my country by re
turning to Ireland and by labor
ing there to strengthen the
friendship that does exist, that
has always existed, and that,
happily, ever shall exist between
the Irish aud the French. That
friendship contains much that is
of good augury for the future of
Ireland, and for the future of
France. The nationalism which
the Sinn Feiners were preaching
in Ireland when I was among
them is the nationalism that
France is now fighting to defend.
I therefore consider that every
true Celt is an enemy of Ger
many; and hence that evjry Sinn
Feiner who is true to his essen
tial principles is necessarily a
friend of France in her present
struggle."
Marce! Gets His
Barn Mended
Red Cross Helps This 15 Year
Old French Boy and His
Family.
tures that had alTecled F. a 1 I """ 'K peasantry. iu
therefore went lo.lieland here ",,r rt,S- "trove to make
Celticism bus s h i v ii ,ts u.,ees, ; In"'"" young, healthy, prosper
viiuiou .... i ..i ,i . i' ii. iousand free. Where is the true
....... j , ...... ... , , V ,1, ,
gfiliim leigns iii its purest form '
I wetll lo 1 relaiid and sm nl there
a most happy and protiuhlc year,
fttudying the Gaelic lincuaee,
learning Irish Ii sii.D . an I gilu.
ing insight into the nat ion ii 1 1 ails
of the Irish people
"I Was delinlitt d to tin, I in 1 re.
Frenchman who would not hon
or these patriots, who would not
applaud such a national effort?
"The Sinn Feiners were not
pro German, otherwise as a
Frenchman leould not have found
myseil iii tntnnotiy with them.
On the coiiirary, us I have al
reaily mentioned, wherever I
Nursery Stock? See Harry Cummings
I am re-stocking our Nurseries
with the very best varieties of all
the different trees and plants
desirable for cultivation. I am
bettor equipped to supply your
needs In any thing you may
want than any time before.
In addition to our own, I have
the stock of three thousand acres
of the finest nursery goods
grown anywhere, all healthy,
vigorous, true to name and all
grown in Oregon. You can get
the Milton Stock from me more
advantageously than elsewhere.
I am the only fellow that has
genuine nursery grown Cork
Elm.
Cummings Nurseries, Hepp.
ner, OregonJ 42-tf
Marcel Is a man. Fie Is Just fifteen
years old, but yet be ts a man. 1 say
he Is a man because In the last four
years' time has burned Into his child
heart marks that sliould wait for stern
er maturity. He Is a mao because he
has the responsibility of a woman. He
has no father. The Germans saw to
that Marcel has bad to stand by and
see his small brothers and baby sister
ask In vain for food while he fought
off the pressing call from his growing
boy's stomach. He has had to see
tears from his mother's eyes drop on
the plowed ground as she worked the
soil his father would have tilled had
he not gone away out of the peaceful
ness of the Marne valley Into the Iron
hall of the Alsne and on Into the here
after. The boy, who was now a man, work
ed hard, yes, too hard. With his hair
less bands and his boy's strength he
fought almost alone the unequal fight
against want with what little help bis
frail mother could give.
Mother Can Keep Children.
One of the 70 or 80 local societies
In France, handicapped by lack of
funds because deluged by calls for
help, tried to relelve the family by tat
Ing away the children. But to the tor
ture twisted brain of the woman thle
seemed like losing all she had.
And then when everything seemed
lost and despair came they beard the
news: "No, It could not be true.
They would help them with food and
clothing? They would till the soil!
Mend the barns and stay near by to
see that things went well?" Yes, and
the children could stay, said the Red
Cross, as they had said to hundreds
of others.
That was two years ago. Today this
family ts self supporting and has some
to spare for the more needy ones, who
still are being helped. Little Jean Is
taller. He looks well fed and he If
well fed. The baby la so roily poly
that the dimples have come again.
They are tn good spirits on their feet
once more.
And Ma reel He has finished the
course that the Red Cross gave blm
In an agricultural school. It is he who
has been running the farm so well. Be
did It all. At least they let blm think
so, for heaven knows he has seen the
bottom of the bitter cup. And 1 know
that the Red Cross will want me to
say he did It, for that Is the way they
work quietly, earnestly, efficiently,
without stint, without waste, without
boast.
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Timidly she entered the Red Cross
Bureau aud stood Just within the door
way.
Her poor, dimmed old eyes spoke to
eloquently: "I'm friendly, ladles, but
a little afraid."
Several of us rose, but Mrs. Crew
ford reached her first and asked ber
to come In and sit down.
"Oh, thank you so much," quavered
the old lady as she sat down. "Too
see, my boy my grandson bas gone
and" with Spartan fortitude she re
strained the tears that glistened In her
eyes "gone with his regiment. Now
I'm all alone In my little cottage lo
Tansy Square. And. oh, ladles, do an
ot you know the dreary lonellneas
when there la no on who come bom
at nlghtr
YV almost hogged the dear old lady,
so forlorn, yet so brave. We drew op
our chairs closer, and she told as ber
story.
The little old lady owned vine
embowered cottage In Pansy Square,
There she kept bouse for ber grand'
son, who worked In downtown office.
When America took up cudgels for &
mocracy the lad. In patriotic fervor.
was among the flrat to enlist.
"Ah, how I loved him and oeed4
hlml" whispered the old lady broken
ly. "But my dear country needed hint
more. So I told blm to go. Hut
what will you do. granny? he asked.
I told him I bad enough, and en he
went. Krave. brave heart I My hue-
band was soldier, and I bav hi
IH'imlon. Hut It Is amalL After pay
in the taiea oo my cottage there
llttl luff an.f nnvt II la anna I'm aI4 I
but I'm willing. All I ask la rhanr
to earn my bread till till be returns."
Through the Home Service worker
of her community the Hut old lady
of I'anay Square has been provide
with simple task, such as making pre.
arrves and delicious cake and Jellle,
a labor of love for ber and an oof su
ing source of revenue.
Some day. pleas Ood. ber aoldle
tny will come back to the little old
U'ty of I'anay gquar. and he will And
hi as he left her barri coo-fonabui
aud slf reliant. .
rxo co, twin, vs. i
m aW C'oa m4 CJ I
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