The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-10

SATURDAY, JUNE ~, 1SAO.
land and the ideals of my own people
when went to find Leopold on the
Congo and Julio Arana on the Putu-
mayo.
And please God before 1 die I'll do.
something still for Ireland!
"Goino Back to Erin"
And so my dear old far-off friend of
other days-of Lourenco Marques! ah!
so far-off now-all this means that I
can't 60 and battle up the Hudson Or
meander through its woods with you
and drink your good coffee. am,
please God, gong back to Ireland very
soon now-to stand behind the Volun-.
teers in keeping my country's con-
orgie of greed and plumber masquerad-
ing under the garb Of "holy war;" If
l, and those who stand with me in Ire
land, can ensure it John Bull shall do
his own fighting to "dismantle the Ger
man Navy" and sweep German COM
merce from the Seas, Let Lord Cur
zon, instead of killing the Kaiser with
his mouth (the contemplate cad!1 go,
to the front and face the Kaiser's sons.
Let Lord Crewe instead of "venturing
the opinion that now the Home Rule
Bill is on the Statute Book, Irishmen
will rush to enlist" 60 and enlist him
self, as every German prince and peer
has done. Let Lloyd George, instead
of forging Silver Bullets and lies of
base metal go out as volunteer to
guard the fields of Belgium and the
vineyards of France.
+ No-these preux chevaliers, instead
of bearing the brunt of that war they
have plotted and planned for years.,
are calling for more expensive food.
and drink" in the smart London
restaurants "to celebrate the German
defeats"-by the French!
knew Lord Curzon-once-and I've
met Lloyd George and all the rest of
them. I'd walk out of any room they
were in today and prefer the COM
pany of the walters.
The British-American Campaign.
Unless this country makes up it's.
mind to fight, if need be, for it's neu-,
trality, Great Britain will destroy it's
neutrality and compel it to take sides
against the enemy of civilization"
see the game being steadily played
hereby the Kiplings, Conan Doyles,
H. G. Wells, Winston Churchills and
all the rest of the Westminster troupe
of artists. They are only beginning
today. Just breaking ground-but the
trenches are being dug for an assault
on American neutrality all along the
line-to open fire with a universal
howl whenever John Bull gets seri-
GUS reverse at sea. Let the German
navy score, by chance, any decided
naval victory and we shall find con-
certed yell for help sent up through
out all the american press" Com
mon IDEALS "our Anglo-Saxon heri-
tage of culture" "the cause of human
freedom" etc., etc.-all these will be
at stake - and deliberate effort will
be made to stampede this people into
the camp of the Allies.
l am as certain of it as was three
years ago that this war against Ger
many would be brought off. The plans
are already drawn up and everything
prepared and laid.
The Saviours of the U. s.
Two elements alone in this popula-,
tion-perhaps three-will prevent it
being carried out-or will try to pre-.
vent it. They may succeed.
IN any case the thing will be much
harder to accomplish than the British
government hopes. And if it succeeds
it will end this republic. 1t will turn
this country into a vassal State to
that one holding the Empire of the
Seas.
! Until there is freedom at sea; equal
lty OF sea rights for all; equal oppor-
tunlty, and navalism recognized as:
greater foe to humanity than militar.
ism there can be no peace to mankind:
no security against war-but an eter.
nal pledge that war to break that nm
just monopoly must surely come, and
come again, until the mastery of the
seas is dissolved in the neutrality of,
'ne ocean, Yours ever,
ROGER EASEMENT.