The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-08-01

guarantee for liberty and peace in
Ireland.
"News from Ireland"
Lord Northcliffe formerly Sir
Alfred Harmsworth). the founder of
Answers" and the DAILY Mail', the
controller of the "Times," and of
hundreds of newspapers and periodi-
Gals from one section or another of
the Harmsworth press, has been on
motor tour through Ulster, and the
trst result is, as might have been ex-
pected. the announcement that he
has opened an office in Belfast to
supply the readers of the DAILY
Mail" and the London Evening
News" with what he calls news
from Ireland" The Unionists in
Belfast and in London are very sore
over the failure of their two-million
pound campaign against Home Rule.
1t has broken down everywhere. and
they blame it all on the British
liberal press, which, they say, has
suppressed the truth" They are
good judges of truth" in Belfast
and at the DAILY Mail" headquart-
ers. The DAILY Mail" published an
exclusive" of the "Peking mas
sacre." painted in lurid colors. altho
the massacre never took place. It
opened its columns to an attack up
on the priests of Ireland by one of
its own truth" gatherers. sent to
Ulster, and then refused to publish
the reply forwarded to it by Father
Mccartney, the respected administra-
tor of Letterkenny. At an early
stage in the fight, it warned ulster"
that resistance to the law of the
land was rebellion" and would be
put down by the forces of the crown.
Now the DAILY Mail" and the Even
ing News" are the champions of Car
sonism, and, since Lord Northcliffe
has taken the work personally, need
less to say, no expense will be
spared. He announces that, 1--WE
have opened an office in Belfast, and
have stationed corps of distinguished
and photographers,
not only throughout Ulster, but in
the remainder of the provinces likely
to be affected" How the local
Unionists will take this is matter
for conjecture. They certainly have
nothing to learn from even Lord
Northcliffe in the matter of sensa-
tionalism, and, where they failed to
affect England, he is not likely to
succeed. But the DAILY Mail'' has
another claim to remembrance. The
late Mr.. Chamberlain claimed that
the Boer war was his. "It is my
war;" he said on one occasion. Lord
Northcliffe might have disputed the
claim. 1t was the DAILY Nails"
war as much as Mr.. Chamberlain's
Who can ever forget the stories of
Boer "outrages," illustrated, and of
attacks on the Beers, which were the
staple of the DAILY Mail'' for weeks
until war was declared? The North
cliffe organ also declared perpetual
ennity against Germany, about the
same time Mr.. Chamberlain was in
sulting that great nation publicly,
and talking about ''long spoons.
Judging by precedent, therefore, the
presumption is strong that Lord
army of correspondents
and photographers is not likely to
promote the interests of peace in Ul-
ster. They cannot bluff England,
whatever they may do. There is the
confession of Mr.. j. L. Garvin, in
the Pail Mall Gazette of Saturday:
'Those who made merry over
the wooden guns of the in
FAINT Volunteer force are now
splitting their sides over the
wooden thunderbolt." We
were led to expect revolu-
tion,' say they, and behold
resolution
Lord Northcliffe's work is, there
fore, cut out for him, if he means
to change this attitude of the British
people towards Carsonism.
"A War of Determination
The fourth Earl of Clanwilliam,
in the course of an interview with
a London Evening News" represen-
tative, published in that newspaper
on July 10th, stated:
1T is a chance shot or insult
that may lead to retaliation,
and then no influence which we
leaders possess-a1d we have
the greatest influence over our
men-will prevent war spread
ing like wildfire.
"In the country districts,
feeling is running very high.
One battalion of mine, 1900
men, is spreading over an area