Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-02-14
IRELAND AND GERMANY.
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From The Irish World.

Rudyard Ilipling has been known
as the champion of brute force
ever since he first broke into poetry
He is a type of the average British
cr who, believing that England's
is 10 grab everything within
sight, Is convinced that any means
which win enable his country to do
SO is iustifiable Rudyard Klpling
puts into verse the convictions his
entertain about interna-
tional robbery being sanctified If p
only adds TO England's worldwide
sports. His latest exhibition OF
brutality is furnished in a published
interview in which he advocates the
total determination Of the Germans
and the handing over of their coun-
try TO a commission that will adj
minister it for the benefit Of
France, Russia, England, italy Ser
bia, Montenegro, Japan, Australia,
New Zealand Canada, South Africa
and Belgium"
In other words, the Fatherland,
If it should lose in this war, Is to
be treated as ireland was when she
was plundered and misruled in Eng
lands interests. The chief differ
ences between defeated Ireland
and defeated Germany will be that
England will not be able to monop-
olIae all the spoils, as she did in the
case OF our Motherland. She will
have to divide them UP between her
European and European allies
What must be done before the di-
vision takes place Is thus described
by Rudyard Kiphng. "The idea is
beginning TO penetrate the Teuton
head that this is not war Of vic
tories, hut q war Of determination
for his species. We in England are
better informed on this point than
we were a year ago. When whole
nation goes into the trenches there
can be no victories; there can be on
ly killing, and at least three ma
tions desire greatly that the Teu-
ton be killed in retail since he can
not be killed III wholesale"
The person who gives expression
to these sentiments thereby proves
the he Is q Saxon of the Saxons. He
writes Of the total determination Of
seventy millions OF Germanys as
coolly as il he were dealing with
ridding the world Of so much ver-
min. Indeed, he speaks Of the
must cultured poopc Of the world as
il they were so many rats. Listen
to him: "All the rats are before uE
in the same ditch, and, as far as
England and the Empire are con-
cerned, we can put as many men in
to the lines in France to hold the
Teutons as the French have" We
are told that when the human battle
is finished there viii be nothing
left of the German nation.
In true English fashion Rudyard
Kipling measures all things by
pounds, shilling and pence. He holds
that VI would bc cheaper to slaughter
than nay an indemnity OF any sort.
| Tho question Of indemnity to Cor
many" he writes, has disappeared
by force Of facts. II she claims one
/ it will be cheaper to continue kill
inE. II she demands peace without
indemnity returning to the status
quo, what guarantees will there be
that civilization being disarmed,
she will not throw herself upon MS
againe" The conclusion from this
! process of reasoning is, kill and keep
1 on Killing till England's German
| foes be wholly extirpated. There no
| mercy to be shown to them by Eng
land. Rudyard Kipling tells us that
III the Allies had won five or six
months ago, they would have loft
! Germany still capable OF regaining
/ her lines" AS it is. mo Germany
Will remain. This may sound OK
J fravagant, but all that rcmain will
/ be n few people living on the eternal
defensive in moral, social and politi'
cal trenches.
All this is a clear case Of the wish
being father Of the thought Y
demonstrates what England would
! do If she had her much-hated and
much-dreaded commercial rival IN
! her absolute power 1t, also, should
/ suggest TO Germany the need foi
1 Gripping for all time her envenomeo
foe, in case victory should declare
4 itselflin favor of German arms. Rud
yard Kiplng. voicing the sentiment
of his countrymen, would not only
cripple, but would exterminato tht
German nation. 1t will be the dut'
OF victorious Germany to place
vindictiyo England under bonds thai
will prevent hcr again plungiuj
Europe into war in the interest o
British commerce. There is an ef
fective way of doing this. An inde
pendent Ireland would restrain Eng
land for all time to come. Will
Irish freedom would De linked thu
freedom Of the Atlantic from Brit
ish domination of the sort that ha
treated the rights Of the Unite'
States and Of other neutrals as non
existent
In self-defense victorious Germa
ny would have to adopt this metho'
Of safeguarding itself against tn
danger with which she will b
threatened so long as England rule
tho waves. Count Won Reventlol
put the whole matter in a nutshell
when he declared in communica
| ton to the German Foreign Office
80 long as Britain rules the waves
humanity must remain her slave
This is a fundamental truth An
another fundamental truth is tha
Britain's maritime policy cannot b
destroyed until Ireland is a fre
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