The Irish standard., 1911-09-09

and maintaining huge |
armies which England inaugurated,
will ultimately cause clash among
the Powers unless averted in some |
way by such policy and diplomatic !
moves as England is striving to in
augurate for her selfish ends az our
expense, under the guise of working
for universal peace. England knows
that another Boer War would be the
beginning Of the end Of the empire,
and there may not be another Lloyd
George to devise. Budget for her
financial salvation.
If England was, or is really, acting
with the humane motive and intention
that treaty with the United States
would lend to universal peace, why
did she refuse to take part at the
first Hague Peace Conference in 1899?
When it was agreed by the other Eur
opean Powers, except Italy, that the
Pope's representative should take
part in the Conference, England,
had for some time previous, been
anneXing some valuable territory in
North Africa, which by right should
be and was designed by Italy as hers,
but England bullied her out OF it,
and to give her a sop of consolation
instead, England, through her then
Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, de-
clared that as Italy had refused to
take part in the Conference on ac-
count of the Pope's representative be-
ing present, she would also refuse,
thereby rendering the Conference fu-
tile and insulting the Catholic uni
verse, as we'll as blocking the most
potent agency in behalf of universal
peace, His Holiness, the head of the
Catholic church.
After this, just think of the profess
sional Hypocrisy of talking about uni
versal peace on England's part and
her coterie of Anglo-Maniacs in this
country pretending to speak for the
whole American people and against
the fundamental policy and tradition
Of this country, as forewarned by the
Fathers of the Republic in the words
of Jefferson: Despite all treaties
England is still our enemy" and in
the words of Washington: Against
the insidious evil of foreign 1nflu-
ence, believe me, fellow-citizens, the
jealousy should be constantly awake,
since history proves that foreign in
| f1uence is one Of the most baneful foes
of Republican Government"
Imagine, if you will, the humiliating
spectacle of young giant Republic
whose present and future is or will be
immeasurably greater than the Roman
Empire ever contemplated and the
humblest of whose citizens will at
tain an eminence, which the Roman
soldier never reached, with unlimited
| resources, in her isolated grandeur,
without entangling alliances and with
unstained escutcheon in all her Spar
tan purity-imagine such nation
with all it's glorious possibilities be-
+ ing hitched up in alliance to the wheels
of hoary juggernaut empire whose
great possessions and wealth are
| built and resting on the bones of
slaughtered nations, and who, now in
this twentieth century is holding in
servitude and bondage the virtuous
and Industrious people of Ireland, aft
! er more than seven centuries of
crushing tyranny, designed to end
their existence as people or Nation,
having reduced her splendid popula-
tion from eight to four millions or
people in less than a century, during
which time other nations doubled
their population. And, in addition to
other methods of crushing her life
blood, has proportionately overtaxed
her limited resources $15,000,000 an
nually for the past one hundred
years or more in support of her i'm
perial government
Surely, twenty millions or more of
American citizens of Irish birth and
lineage will protest against any al
lance or treaty with alch a blood
stained power as England, and his
tory will justify them as having acted
in the best interests of this Republic
So also will the spirit of Washington
and Jefferson animate the citizens of
this country in opposing such a
treaty.
At Pacific Exposition.