Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-19

L lNNASAA1ID.
For twenty-one months England
has been able TO control public opin-
ion in America by lies and Hypocrisy
But those days are OF the past now.
The British firing squads in Dublin
putting to death some Of the noblest
men Of the Irish race, have suddenly
ended that control Under the above
caption the Irish World says in it's
issue of this week:
England's hideous hypocrisy is
now apparent to the whole world.
Long was il known and loathed by
the men and women OF the Irish race
Today in all its repulsiye defOrmity
IL stands revealed to all mankind
The nation that unctuously claimed
TO be the champion Of small national
ities has butchered tho noblest Of our
race because they risked their lives
in an attempt to win for their native
land the very rights England lyingly
asscrts She is championing in the
case Of other small nations. The
contrast between her nauseating pro
fessions and her actual deeds has
been such as to make her friends in
this country hang their heads in
shame Since the outbreak of the
European War they have been pro-
claiming that the land of their love
deserves and should have the moral
support OF all men because it had
drawn the sword in defence OF weak
and wronged nationalities too feeble
to defend themselves.
The echoes Of the rifles OF the
firing squads that shot to death
Padraic Pearse and his fellow Irish
patriots make answer TO this mons
trous claim for England. With those
echoes ringing in their ears the most
rabid OF our pro-Britishcrs are con
strained to pass sentence of con-
demnation upon acts that have
shocked tho whole civilized world.
William Dean Howells, who holds so
conspicuous a place in American
literature, is one Of these pro-
nounced Anglomen, who are grieved
sorely over the revelation England
he's mdae OF her true character. In
communication to the New York
Evening Post he writes:
THE shooting Of the Irish insur-
rectionists is too much like shooting
prisoners OF war;. In giving way
to her vengeance, England has
aroused the moral sense Of mankind
against her" Then follows this OK
preston Of poignant regret over the
butchery Of Irish patriots, which was
as STUPID as il was savage: what
pity, what an infinite pity She has
left us who loved her cause in the
war against despotism without an
other word to say for her until we
have first spoken our adherence Of
her inexorable legality in dealing
with her Irish prisoners"
The person who gives expression
to this sentiment wrote an article for
the North American Review OF May,
1915. in the course of which he said:
my own neutrality is Of such
measure and make that l would have
our nation bear everything from the
belligerents short Of invading our
shores after sinking our ships" We
have here the measure of William
Dean Howell's loyalty to England.
Yet even he is shocked by the helm
BUSINESS of the crime perpetrated
when sixteen Irish patriots were
summarily executed after they had
surrendered as prisoners OF war.
The New York Tribune is equally
shocked 1t too realizes how Eng
lands partisans on this side OF the
Atlantic are handicapped by England
giving way to her brutal instincts. A
leading pro-British organ, It is quick
to perceive that pro-British propa
ganda in the United states has re-
ceiYed severe blow by the sudden
unmasking Of England's hypocrisy.
Here lis what il has to say on the
subject when the great war be-
gan. Mr. Asquith told the world that
Britain had drawn the sword on be-
half OF the little peoples, on behalf
Of the Serbians, on behalf of the Bel
gians Now with all the differences
that men can point out there is one
point Of resemblance between the
case Of the Irish rebels and the Bel
gians. Both are loyal to an ideal Of
a race, and for this ideal the Irish
rebels, like Belgian soldiers, fought.
You cannot liberate the Belgians with
one hand and subjugate the Irish
with the other.
The New York Tribune, like Will
liam Dean Howells, recognizes that
one OF The chief arguments employed
by Anglomaniacs has been spiked.
II says: "But what is TO be said by
those who in this country have de-
Tended Britain, maintained that she
entered the war to serve the cause Of
liberty2 1t is only the friends OF
Great Britain that need to be silent
now" Many similar extracts equally
outspoken in condemnation of Eng
lands latest qrinpo AGAINST humanity