The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-02-06

deed. on racial lines. with an immed-
| late success as the result. Would
that the same could be written of the
as yet nebulous army corps of mar
tial Ireland.
Mr.. Redmond and Unionists.
MANY days have come and gone
since Mr.. Redmond, in the most
frank and unequivocal terms, called
upon the Nationalist manhood Of the
/ sister isle to take their part in the
stupendous struggle now being
waged against the common foe of
civilization and humanity. Inciden-
tally, it may be observed that the
Irish leaders loyal action cut the
ground from under the feet of those
Unionists who, like myself, had al
ways honestly believed that the bad
old Fenian maxim about 'England's'
difficulty being Ireland's opportunity
won't find sinister expression in the
event of Britain being involved in a
great European war;"
Tribute to Irish Bravery.
Major Stuart-stephens expresses
the erroneous view that "the res
ponse to Mr.. Redmond's exhortation
has, so far, been at best a half
hearted one." but he goes on: ut
goes without saying that this atti-
tude on the part more particularly of
the Munster and Connaught Irish is
not due to any fear of facing the
hordes of Attila Secundus. The
Duke of Wellington said of Mr.. Red
mond's countrymen that nine-tenths
of the population would rather fight
than leave it alone Not seldom has
the forefront of British battle been
a pile of Irish dead. Full often has
the superb Irish war cry, 'Faugh-a-
ballagh' (Clear the way), been
choked with blood when these fiery
soldiers from far Galway and rebel
Cork emulated meath shade of Afg-
han hill or African kopje the whirl-
wind assault Of their forbears at
Fontenoy."
Saxon Stupidity.
He proceeds to ask why should
Irishmen "leave it alone?" and pro-
.vides his own reply: II much fear it
is chiefly due to the eternal lack of
knowledge of things Irish displayed
by the Anglo-Saxon in dealing with
his very peculiar near neighbor the
Hibernian Celt."
"Too many of the Nationalist man
hood of Ireland are being urged to a
course from which they would assur-
eddy be turned if the War Office sent
the right sort of recruiting agents to
work in Ireland-Irish Catholic Of
ficers and others who, by word of
mouth, were capable of making their
countrymen and of religionists ap-
preciate the real bearing of the war
upon the Irish Nationalist point of
view"
An UIsholy Alliance.
1.-THE way to deal with this under
ground campaign of the German rep
tile Press, masquerading under an
Irish revolutionary cover, is to send
to the men of Ireland few Catholic
officers who could tell them such
things as it would be good for them
to hear. For example, among other
matters they could put the case of the
unspeakable Sir Roger Easement in
its true light. He is referred to in
the Berlin-Dublin sheets of distilled
sedition as 'one of the purest-hearted
Irishmen that ever lived What is
required in Ireland now is the truth
about this awful war. Were the
reality of it only brought home to the
Irish, such an unholy alliance would
become unthinkable as one between
st. Patrick's sons of the Faith and
the goddess iconoclasts who destroyed
Rheims, the heart of Catholic France
and reduced to ashes Ypres, where, in
the Benedictine Abbey, transferred
by James II, from Dublin, remained
for all those long years in the keep
ing of les danes Irlandaise, the his
toric trophies of the Irish Brigade
who fought in the service of France
Young Ireland, when in the con-
quering ranks Of the army corps OF
Ireland, must demand from the new
friends of Sir Roger Easement, K. G.
NJ. G., where now are those time-hon-
ored trophies of our historic Irish
Brigade.
The Irish Brigade.
"Why not bestowal by the War Of
flee of uniforms of a more pro-
nounced green than those of the fam
iliar Rifles. the permission plenteous-
ly to emblazon their apparel with
golden shamrocks. the raising OF
corps with Irish family names remin-
iscent Of Sarfield's Brigade? Why
not. for instance, an O'Brien regi-
ment, commanded by Lord 1nchi-
quin? Why not provision of priest
as chaplain to every unit of the force,
and, more important than all, the
preaching at once of Franco-Irish