Arizona republican., 1916-10-19

and snubbed. and, looking back I am amazed al the success which under l the circumstances rewarded them. Ire | land had 151.0O0 men in the army of whom 92,0OO were catholics, and O.OO0 l Tn the navy. Thirty thousand nation alist volunteers had enlisted and if it had not been for distrust of Ireland in the early phases Of the war the numoer of volunteers would have been trebled.''
 The nationalist leader complained that the delay in putting the home rule bill on the statute books gave the op- ponents in Ireland an opportunity of saying that they were about to be cheated in their trade. The promises made bv Premier Asquth as to the creation of an Irish army corps also never had been acceded to. he com mented
 The new national university was not allowed to organize an officers train Ing corps. while a number of privileges had been granted Trinity University l lie complained generally of the unsym- i pathetic attitude of the war office in regard to various measures suggested ! to popularize recruiting in Ireland | Changes were made but too late he l declared
 1 Taking each thing individually he
 went on. the effect was small, but cum
 ulatively the effect was enormous and
 the undoubted enthusiasm at the com
 mencing of the war began to dWindle l The final blow came in the formation 1 of the coalition government the speaker said. From that day recruiting for the army had diminished and recruit ing of the Sim Feiners had increased From that day things went from bad to
 worse and finally came the rebellion.
 T am profoundly convinced that if
 the rising had been dealt with in the
 spirit with which Premier Botha dealt with the rising in South Africa il
 would have meant the saving of the
 situation" MT. Redmond went on. Ire
 land was denounced because a couple
 of thousand men had attempted this
 mad rebellion. Ireland had not been
 trusted like South Africa; Ireland, who
 had not had ten years experience with
 free institutions. like South Africa" Mir. Redmond asked what was the
 purpose of the government in setting
 up a unionist administration in Dub
 lin and what they proposed to do.
 Had the new chief secretary found a
 solution? Was it proposed to maintain
 martial law? He said he would do ev-
 erything possible to maintain the Irish 1 regiments al llelT Iull strength, bul II
 was no use asking him to do the im-
 possible. It was the duty of the empire
 to remove all that made for bad faith
 and bad management and settle Ire
 land on a basis of freedom and respon-
 sibility. Compulsion, he declared only
 would aggravate the difficulty. and he
 asked that the Irish recruits enlisted in
 the United kingdom should be sent to Z Irish regiments.
 "The whole situation can only be . met by boldly grapplng with the Irish situation continued Mir Redmond. "So long as the present state of government , exists in Ireland. so long will the pres ent excited and irritated public feeling z exist; so long as the Irish people see z that England fighting for the rights of , small nationalties in Europe is main , taining by martial law the "unionis' government against the people no req
 improvement can be hoped for , Let the government withdraw mar 7 tial law and put in command Of the I forces in Ireland a man who has moi
 been connected with the unhappy tran sections of the past. Let the admins
 traitor of the defense of the realm ac q be as stringent as they like, but ami I mated by the same spirit and carried h into effect by the same machinery al III ArTtdl itd1Il. Let llit 1uV uilti it P prisoners be released. Let the pena Q servtude prisoners be treated as polit d ical prisoners and above all let tn , government take courage in it's owl :, hands and trust the Irish people ono {. and for all by putting the home rul . act in operation and resolutelv and o F. it's own responsibility face any prob ia ems which that might entail"
 e MT. Redmond declared that presen r conditions were iniuriously affectin V the British cause throughout Americ , and the dominions, especially at tn " present moment in Australia. As on 10 who had honestly done his best an n who was prepared, to continue honestl If to do his best and who was prepare ll to continue henestl" to do his best r. win the war. no matter what the risk 70 of his own popularity and influenc l., might be, he begged the government IS harken seriously to his warning ad ,f vice.
 $ Sir Edward Duke, the chief secretar l. of Ireland replying to MT. Redmon' .d