The Irish standard., 1915-04-10

| AASA CASIdISSS WHICH, COAlle W our OIL
flee contain repeated instances of ar
rests for utterances against recruit
ing and the arrests OF individuals for
distributing literature and posting
anti-recruiting cards. In Ireland today
not an Independent paper is published.
In Ireland in 1898 two newspapers
were suppressed, four were suppressed
In lS48, one was suppressed in 1865,
but since August of last year eight
Irish newspapers have been suppress
ed. The last issue of the Freeman
Journal reaching our desk contained
graphic description of the manner
in which raid was made on the Of
fees of two different papers published
in Dublin. One Dublin newspaper, the
Freeman Journal, has already slain
more Germans than the entire number
now opposing the Russians in the East
and the Allied armies in the West. Ac-
cording to reports of these Anglo-Irish
journals, the Russians have advanced
so far that they should at the present
time, by press calculations, have
marched completely over Germany,
passed the trenches in the West and
are now somewhere between Daunt's
Rock and the Statue of Liberty. Ac-
cording to the same journal the armies
of England and France supported by
the mongrel horde of barbarians have
advanced far enough to have gone
through Germany in an eastern direc.
ton and by the same basis of calcula-
ton should presently appear in the
vicinity of Shanghai. 1t would seem
that Lloyd Georges demand for tenn
perance and the support he has given
the cause of prohibition was intended
for the British press, whose intemper-
ance of speech and thought is so no
toriously Incorporate. Surely it must
seem to the British public and to the
readers of the pro-British press in
Ireland that the Allied armies now en-.
gagged in Europe must be like the
heroes in the story of Don Quixote who,
In order to show his chivalry and valor,
was topping over the windmills to
win the applause of the ladies'. With
all the victories credited to the Eng
lish army in its operation in northern
France (and to the occasional assist
ance given by the French, whose
military maneuvers are directed by
British officers), according to the
British press, there can not be much
left to be done. The only real activ-
ity that remains is to keep Ireland in
line. Sixty-seven thousand English
troops is large number of men in
country one-third the size of Mime
sofa, where the population is supposed
to be pursuing the arts of peace and
whose sons are enlisting according to
the nationalist leader in the British
army. Eight papers is large num-
Der of journals to suppress in a coun-
try having population about equal to
the population of the city of New
York. All is not we'll when a man is
arrested and charged with treason
when he asks, What did the English
government do for Ireland SO years
ago." lrish-American newspapers are
confiscated, unless in rare instances,
they sing the praise of British rule in
Ireland. 1t is no time for the people
of Ireland to be lulled to sleep and
inactivity by gracious promises of
home rule. Facts are stubborn things
and the facts belle the statement that
the people of Ireland are vieing with
each other in their desire to shoulder
the British musket, wear the British
uniform, and be taught to hum rag
time ditty for the honor of serving the
king.