Arizona republican., 1916-06-30
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lNNhNpNSab FNs 1CaSNh NhNl LONDON, June 29.AViscount Read ing, lord chief justice of England with | black cloth by tradition called a cap spread over his head and his two as- sistants in scarlet gowns, likewise black capped, pronounced the sen tence of death for high treason on the Irishman, Sir Roger Easement, shortly before o'clock this afternoon. half an hour after the foreman of the jury in shaking voice, gave the verdict of guilty. An appeal will be taken by Sir Roger.
 Sir Roger addressed the court. read ing his final statement with explana- lion that he wished it might reach much larger audience than the one be- fore him. and particularly the people of America from whom had come many messages of sympathy to him and whose own struggle for liberty. he said. always had been an inspira- tion to Irishmen.
 Sir Rogers auditors, among whom were Viscount Bryce and many other prominent men and women, listened in deepest silence, some moved to tears. The prisoner declared he did not re- gard trial by Englishmen in an Eng fish court as a trial by his peers to which he was entitled. He reviewed recent events in Ireland from the be- ginning of the formation of the Ul- ster volunteers, and said:
 We have seen the constitutional army refuse to obey the constitutional government and We were told the first duty of Irishmen was to enter more firmly Small nations were to be the first consideration. l saw no reason why Ireland should shed any blood fol any people but her own.
 If that is the reason. I am not ashamed to avow it here. If tho unionists chose the road they though would lead to the good side. I knew my road led to the dark side Botl of us proved right. So I am proude to stand here in a prisoners docl than to fill the place of my accusers.
 Self government is our right. It il no more a thing to be withheld iron HIS or doled out to us than the righ to life or light, to sunshine or sprint flowers"
 There were numerous striking sen AtlttS III eSlI Roger \ speech.
 There is an objection, possibly no good in law but surely good on mora grounds he said, against the appli cation to me here of this old EngHs statute, 565 years old, that seeks to de prive an Irishman today of his If and his honor not for adhering to tn kings enemies but for adhering to hi own people
 When this statute was publishe in 1851, what was the state of men mind on the question of a far highe allegiance that of man and his Go to his kingdom2 That law of tha day did not permit him to forsake hi church or deny his God save with hi life. The heretic then had the sam doom as the traitor Today a ma may forswear God and his heavenl realm without fear or penalty. all ear Her statutes having gone the way Nero's edicts against the christians but that constitutional phantom tn king, can still dig up from the dun geon and torture chambers of the dar ages a law that takes a mans life an limb for an exercise of his conscience
 If true religion rests on love, is equally true that loyalty rests O love. The law I am charged unde has no parentage in love and claim that allegiance of today on the is norance and blindness of the past
 T am being tried, in truth. not b my peers of the living present, bt bv the fears of the dead past nc by the civilization of the twentiet