New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-08

terms OF n definition; one has TO write
IL in some flaming symbol or 10 ring
it in music riotous with the uproar OF
Heaven"
These are the words Of poet, nor
Of a President. OF a Walt Whitman, not
Of a Washington.
PIupkett Dreamer. Too.
So these Celtic enthusiasts were
thrown by fate into strange company,
among revolutionaries, Socialists and
German intriguers. IL would be dim
cult to realize the moral gulf between
Potsdam and St. Enda's. II was the
gulf between idealism and materialism.
As for the others, / only remember
Joseph Plunkett and Countess Marke.
wicz. Plunkett was poet. ana lines OF
his will live. | can only recall;
"The stars sang in Gods garden
The stars are the birds of Cod
The countess, or Connie Gore Booth
"a she was. was a wild Irish girl with
out a Celtic or Catholic drop In her.
She combined adventure with humanl-
tarianism. She was wonderful at picking
m drunkards or keeping the pot boil
ing during a strike. Only in Ireland
could settlement or SOCIAL work bring a
Girl under the shadow OF the gallows.
She used TO write and act plays IN
which some Of the recent scenes we're
foretold. She was a delightful contra
diction, as her house was stacked
equally with rifles and the material OF
charity. The English will make 2 pro
digious blunder If they make her
martyr.
Surely they have one Joan Of Arc in
their history.
Resides. matters have reached pitch
IN ireland when hate and vendetta can
xe no further. Whatever is 70 De
achieved now must be done by foroear-
ance and forgiveness. Hate IS so stu.
pid and so German. II is no good
hating the rebels or hating Carson or
Redmond or the Pope to sum up the
four objects Of commonest v1tuperatlon
in Ireland. Hate cats itself out.
The time has come for an Irish Toll
STOW. and for an appreciation OF the
principles for which Nurse Cavell died.
She did more than die for country
She said: standing before God and
eternity. | realize this: Patriotism -
not everything. | must be free from
hate and bitterness"
Patriotism Forbidden Sin.
By the spirit OF those words alone,
understood and exempliRed both in
Ulster and Leinster, by the English and
the Irish. can ireland rise out OF the
nightmare of her hell. Patriotism IL
not everything, and imperialism is less
( than everything.
Nav add this personal reminiscence,
that when in the year 1907 | went to
visit Leo Tolstoy in Russia, bearing
the salutations Of Young ireland, the
prophet received me as he had received
/ the members Of any distressful coun-
] try remember. the day left, asking
4 for a message to take back 70 Ireland.
And the old man said 70 me. very de-
I liberately: Tell them that patriotism
[ is the sin forbidden in the Gospels
As believed then that patriotism
should be the breath Of an Irishman's
soul. 70 the exclusion Of every other
consideration, / never delivered the
message. Intensely as ! still believe IN
patriotism, I recognize that there can
come a time when higher cause can
come into the horizon-the cause OF
international civilization and because
some Dublin dreamers have been so
soul-engrossed by the National patriot
ism as 10 lose sight Of the interna-
tional-that is no reason why we
should upbraid them.
They are dead, and we must simply
find another way to help Ireland; and
the English must find another way, too.