The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30
Trust in Germany and in Sir Roger
Easement One of the Many Blund.
ers in Fight for Freedom

IrlsnFntU ot ltN. iSpbert .fsfnfnpl
coming with his fortune spen, in rifle.
and muskets In 1903 are holy figures in
their cause; both are MARTYRS in the
Irish calendar. Scarcel! below them
are the Young Ireland group Of the
European revolutionary era in ISIS.
Thomas Davis. John Mitchell. Thomas
Francis Meagher. william Smith
oRrien. Charles GaNan Dufy are
sacred names in Ireland. although their
rising was of the slightest AMI
shortest. ASain in 1856, the Fenian
movement with its crop ~ prosecu-
tons. it's futile rising in 1867. It's
Clerkenwell explosion in L,Ndon, its
rescue ~ prisoners az Manchester. and
names like James stephens. John
UIeary. Thomas Clark 1.uby. jeremiah
ODonoyan Rosa and the Manchester
men. Allen. Iarkin and o'HrIen. In
scribcd in the naticNal \alhalla II IL
~ W. E'ANA l'A'i ENhN''h W ~ fFHa
song and story. altogether outside OF
! the men who worked on constitutional
N moral suasion lines for IN" bread
and butter development. tn" ec"nonic
modern amclioratlon IT conditions TO-
their country. hut not To he disrcc.rde!
NV the philosophlc on,noker 81 that
ccoun
And to-day as p~rotagonist ~ this
lates, rising We find a strange new
: figure. Sir Roger Easement. y man
Of Ulster bath and Protestant faith,
who has Q a quarter ~ a rentuIy
q his manhood away from Ireland
and as Consul FOR Great Britain here
! and there in remote lands-at lnrcl2o
! Marques. az the coast Of Guinea, West
Africa: in the Gahoon and the Congo
Free State. AZ Santos IN South Amer
lea. al Hayti and Santo Domingo. AT
Para. Brazil. and at Rio de ,Ianelro.
He rouses al the latter post the IN
dignities Of the world against the
atrocities Of the English cNploiters Of
the rubber trade in the forests of the
Amazon Then. oul of the English
service, he suddenly appears as The
most ~"advanced' "t Irish revolution
lists. He visited America a couple NJ
years ago full If designs for Wish
independence. Ito writes a hriet elo-
Iueht chapter for The Glories of
lre'a nd a book Of short papers puh-
lished IN Washington In 1914 IN ,"sti-
mony II the achievements of his pco-
pie. calling his contribution The TO
10y saying with significance IN view
OF his plight to-day:
The history Of ireland remains to
he written, for the purpose 81 Irish
men remains yet Ia he achieved
The struggle for national r~caliza-
ton, begun So MANY centuries ago. is
no, ended, and II the long story offers
81 frequent u recurd Of failure. 1t Of
fers a continuous appeal to the high
est motives and a constant exhibition
of a most pa;hstic patriotism linked
with the stcrncst courage.
Irish wars, Throughout, an time,
have been only against one enemy, the
invader. No nation, no peo-
pie can %reprnaCh ireland with having
wronIed them
The physical weakness ~ Ireland
WAS clear 10 his ewes. Her weakness
lay in the absence NJ n central or
ganization, u state machine thai cou,t
mobilize the national resources to de-
fend the national life"
He disappeared from America ana
was next heard Of in Germany trying
in vain to induce Irish soldiers pris-
oners there 10 Join the German army.
Next We learn of him captured on the
southwest coast Of Ireland as he steps
from a boat rowed by the sailors Of
IA German submarine, the German ship
bearing rifles and artillery which the