Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-08
WHO BETRAYED THE IRISH
PEOPLE?


"A. Coilman has written an interest
ing article for the Fatherland. We
quote from il as follows:
April Wolf Won Igel arrested.
His papers seized. Plans for re-
bcllion in Ireland discovered and
immediately betrayed to Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice, the British Ambassa-
dor i'm Warrington.
Spring-Rice cables the news TO
his home government.
April 10Th United States officials
tell the newspapers that plans for
an Irish uprising were learned
from the Won Igel papers, and that
persons on this side Of the water
were" concerned in them.
England, warned by SPRING Rice,
hurries guards to that part OF the
Irish coast where Easement is eX-
pected TO land.
April 20th-21st ~ Easement cap
tured through this act Of treachery
on the part Of American Tories.
April 2d.-~Engiish bankers in Wall
street are secretely informed or
Easements capture.
April 23d Morgan hurredly dou-
bles his guards at his home and
Office.
April Gath. The stock Exchange
authorities follow Morgan's lead
by placing doubled guards at all
the doors of the institution run by
war stock gamblers, and prohibit
members from taking friends to
the Luncheon Club.
April 25th. Delayed public an
nouncement made OF the capture
of Easement.
Terrified by the expected public
resentment over the betrayal Of the
Irish patriot, Federal officials issue
anxious statements that no persons
on this side OF tho water We're im-
plicatod in the Won Igel papers.
Delayed public announcement
made Of the uprising in Dublin.
Now the question that history Will
demand is this: "Who betrayed the
plans for the liberation OF Ireland to
the English Government Upon these
infoimers will rest the exocration of
the world. Upon their heads is the
blood guilt for the murder OF Irish
patriots in Stephens Green. - for the
death OF Irish women and children
from the gums OF British warships
that bombarded the city Of Dublin.
The Irish liberators fought against
the same tyrannous country against
which our ancestors OF the RcYolu-
tion fought.
The aims OF Sir Roger Easement
and George Washington were identi-
cal. The American Tories OF Wash
ington'B day tried to betray him as
the American Tories OF our day have
betrayed Easement
Has IL come to pass that in this
Republic there are men SO base that
they would betray a noble people in
their fight for liborty2
quote tho following from the
New York Times Of Friday, April
2Sth;
Tho Gaelic American, in it's issue
Of tomorrow, will devote most OF it's
space 20 bitter attacks on President
Wilson and his administration. 1t
was stated that John Dewey. editor Of
the paper. had written the editorial,
which reads Gin part) as follows:
The sinking of the German ship
loaded with arms and ammunition
Off the Irish coast was the direct re-
suit OF information treacherously
given to the British Government by
a mcmber OF the Warrington Admins
stration on the orders Of President
Wilson. Ii was a deadly blow aimed
at the heart Of Ireland and II it does
not prove fatal, it will not be Wood
row Wilson's fault
Wilson S officials obtained the in-
formation by an act Of lawlessness --
a violation Of international law -
committed with the deliberate pur-
pose Of helping England, and il was
promptly placed at the disposal Of
the English Government, whose SER
want Woodrow Wilson is Fore
warned by this most disgraceful and
dishonorable act ever committed by
an American President, the British
fleet which had been baiiled and
eluded by the arms-laden German
cruiser, was sent to the right spot,
the cruiser was sunk, and the Irish
people deprived Of the means of fight
ing for their rights and liberties.
This was Americas official expression
OF gratitude for the SPLENDID services
OF Irishmep in the Revolution, the
War of 1872, the Civil War, and the
Spanish-American War.
The Irish people here have as good
a right to collect money and supply
arms to their countlymen in Ireland
as j. T.. Morgan and the munition
manufacturers have to send money,
arms and munitions OF war to Eng
land and her allies And they viii
not DO tcrrorized BIZ the petty Gar
who Is now King Georges Viceroy in
the White House He allows not
only arms, ammunition, and torpe-
does to be carried as freight on pas
senger steamers with American wom-
en- and children on board, but he al
lows explosives to be carried in cab
ins and staterooms, and this infam-
mable material is permitted to come
in crates falsely labeled and are
passed by his inspectors.
Come on, Mr. Wilson, start your
ofIrishmen for breach
es of neutrality" and between now
and election day you will wish that
you had never been born.
Can This Charge Re True?
The indignation that swept the
country over the betrayal Of Case
ment caused great uneasiness in