Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-17

Hapsburgs and the HohenzoIlerns l thrown into the discard, a state where every man born into this world would be guaranteed a free, full and happy existence
 At the end of the war, whoever wins, he said, would be confronted by the same problem that England faced when 1000 soldiers home from the Boer war walked the streets of London, shouting in unison we want work" and the consequences will be a social revolu- tion. The working man will ask the masters to give an account of their stewardship, for the working class is now called upon to take over the gov ernments which the master class have n1isused and abused. For a time the cause of the working class has been set back by this war. but at it's con clusion they will be in a better posi- tion than ever to take over the reins of government.
 As one of the facts bearing upon his assertion that the war was pre- cipitated by the Knowledge held by the governments of the fmminence of the control passing into the hands of the working class he stated that the dec laration of war came just four days ahead of an international congress to be held in Paris at which one of the questions to be under consideration was an agreement by the working classes of Germany and France to seize ali the means Of transportation and so make war impossible should either France or Germany declare war on the other.
 Mir. Lehane also made the predic- tion that one of the results of the war would be the actual freedom of Ire land, whose hopes of again obtaining her independence were brighter now than they had ever been before and he also declared that recruiting in Ireland now for the British army was as dead as a doornah, for the expected O0,OOo troops, had amounted to only l5,OOQ and if conscription is tried by force by the British there will be bloodshed and they will have to kill an Irish army before a British officer can lay hands on a man in Ireland to force him into an army to which he does not want to belong.
 The reason for this attitude, which he said is the present day feeling cf the working class in Ireland, is first historical we in Ireland know or put one foreigner. and that is the British government. We will fight to hold lre- land for the Irish. but not for England our young men to light on Irish soil .o save Ireland for the Irish, but we nave no quarrel with the Germans and we refuse to fight nation with which we have no quarrel he declared.
 The sentiment was vigorously a2-
 
 When the meeting opened Mir. Le- hane was introduced by ArbSrt Board- man, who spoke of the international character of socialism as Tnoveme 1t upon the platform of the Workingmen rights against the interests of capital, and said that in the speaker of the evening he was glad to introduce a real Irisl1uaan from Ireland and not a. whitewashed Irishman or Jewish Ir1shman.
 FNfT might imagine that the cause Of eH this war, said MT. Lehane, was the shooting of 0 foolish grand duke who was g relative of the emperor or AUS tria, but it is absurd to think Of this as the cause of so great a conhasra- ton which has a meaning for all the future of mankind. All the news We read Is not written by newspapermer, but iH the reports of military officers. English and French, and Is one sided becadRe-t they have control of the means of communication, From the reports the Germans have been on the retreat pretty constantly, but the speaker said he should not be surprised to hear Of their next retreat being to Paris. tudS- ing from the strength of their retreats so far,
 Austrta,s. need of an outlet on Ihs Mediterranean and her seizure of places In Bosnia and Servta, England assumption of her right to have inc largest and most powerful navy, Ger" railroads built on military and not commercial lines to provide for quick drives towards either border were all pointed out by the speaker as presag- ing the war,
 He warned against the pre-British feeling which hs said was to be creat- ed here to enable the British to make a war loan and said that one of the factors that was being used was the ascribiRg of atrocities to the Germans, which he did not believe,
 He Fidieuled England's claim that she was in the war because of. her guarantee of Be1giuna's neutrality and asked what about the neutrality bf Egypt and of Persia, which England had also guaranteed, In the same line he also said that if Churchill were sin cere about the promised reuniting of Poland and the extension of Italy into Austria to cover tf1a Italian parts of Austria, he might extend the Eame