IRISH OR JEWS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 124, 29 May 1922, Page 7

IRISH OR JEWS

LORD CARSON'S APPEAL

RESCUE FOR SOUTHERN

LOYALISTS

"BRITAIN'S DEBT OF HONOUR."

- (UNHID PRESS ASSOCIATION.—CW-IRIOHI.) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 28th May. ' Lord Carson,^ in an article in the 'Sunday Express, entitled "Ireland and Palestine," pleads for the loyalists in the South and West of Ireland. "It is as a humanitarian that I venture to ufcter a humble plea for those still living, still breathing Irish., loyalists who are still clinging to the hope that they will be succoured by the great Empire' which in the past has been sustained, and which in the present ought not to be embarrassed,' by their unbroken and unbreakable allegiance. Their only safety "is in flight. They number some 300,000 women and children. The thin voice of parsimony may tremble at the prospect of a redemption that can only be wrought by the expenditure of money, but in'Uhis case it is the price of honour. I do not know whether the deliverance of these Irish loyalists can be purchased for ten, twenty, or fifty millions. It is not 'a matter, for cheeseparing' calculations or miserly bargaining. It is a public debt. It may be said^ that England's burdens are too heavy, that Her people are taxed, beyond the limit of endurance, and that she cannot afford to pay her Irish debt of honour. /The retort' of''the Irish loyalist is. blunt and bit- . ter. It says :» 'You can afford to spend millions on the Jews in Palestine. Your pity overflows in rivers of gold for alien Jews. You subsidise the Jewish State in Palestine. You foster and protect these Jews, at Vast expense. You send" your soldiers to uphold their rule over the Arabs. You guarantee their safety and security. Why, we humbly ask, is an alien Jew dearer to you than an Irish loyalist? Why do you'take the bread of your own children and cast it unto strangers ? The millions you are wasting on the Jews in Palestine would save our lives. . Must we die that aliens may live?'"