The Irish standard., 1916-07-29

gan & Co. were exposed, and some of
them were found guilty of robbing in
surance companies whereby widows
and orphans We're deprived of the saw
1ngs deposited by their departed pro.
viders. The world was shocked.
Wall Street received what is gener.
ally termed black eye.
But the beast was not dead, only
stunned. 1t never sleeps, it never dies.
Its motto is everlasting vigilance.
From being a domestic beast of
prey, it becomes international by join
ing forces with Lombard street with
history of hundreds of years of sue
cessful piracy, whereby millions and
millions of human beings have been
slaughtered in war, starved to death
as hordes did in Ireland few decades
ago.
Give me three grains of corn, mother,
Only three grains of corn,
1t will keep the little life that I have
Till the coming of the morn.
am dying of hunger and cold, mother,
| Dying of hunger and cold,
And half of the agony of such a death
My lips have never told.
| What mas poor Ireland done, mother,
What has poor Ireland done,
That England looks on and sees us
starve,
Perishing one by one?
| Or, again, where grain was export
ed in such large quantities that mil
lions and millions died from starvation
as in India in recent years, where half
of the natives today are veritable
skeletons due to want of food, or by
forcing opium on helpless China at the
cannon's mouth whereby as many peo-
pie died an untimely death as there
dear country.
China's trade with the United States
is almost nil, because England has
taken all the wealth out of the coun-
try. Two billions for opium in fifty
years, of which third went to the
unspeakable Rajahs of India to keep
them by this bribery subservient to
England. Wall Street was to exploit
our country for the benefit of this
international beast of prey Cecil
Rhodes gave the stupendous sum of
$22,0O0,0OO, f,lched from the Beers of
South Africa, to subsidize our press
(see copy of the Rhodes will), and
race hatred was to be the battle cry
of this system of frenzied finance.
New fuel was to be added to the al
most smothered flame of prejudice
whereby you, as an American,
would hate me as an American of
another stock. This division of our
country would have been a serious
handicap to our future development
and prosperity, which was shrewdly
calculated in London. You have been
informed by a frenzied press that Ger
many started the war. Now Russia
states that she started it, her armies
crossed the German border 1S hours
before war was declared by Germany.
Smoke could have been seen for
fifty miles from German cities on fire
when the hated Kaiser declared war.
What else could he have done? See
publications of Allied booklets, print.
ed by Mausel & Co., of London. Yet
you may believe the Allied papers in
our country. You still believe the
Germans were guilty of unspeakable
barbarity. after Gen. French, comman.
der-in-chief of the English armies
stated in a communication to Parlia.
ment that they were not guilty. See
Minneapolis Journals of October, 1914
DO you know that Germany did not
declare war on France, but it was the
French who sought this pleasure?
England, of course, declared war on
Germany on account of the violation
of the Belgian territory. after she had
notified Germany through Prime Min
lister Earl Grey. that I'VE cannot bind
ourselves to abstain from taking pos
session of Belgian territory if mill
tary necessity demands it." 1t was
therefore case of who got there first
1t was a fatal move for Germany, for
if Belgium had not been inside of the
war zone, Germany would now have
been assured of undisputed victory
for her western lines would then have
been seventy miles in length instead
of three hundred and this short line
would have enabled her to crush Rus
sia into submission. Then Portugal de-
clared war after the perfidious Italian
had accepted the bribe of $500, ,000
in cash and a promise of the east coast
of the Adriatic whereby the fifty mil
lions of people in central Europe would
be cut off from the ocean and thereby
be at the mercy of Italy commercially
as we'll as military. To this injustice
we gave our support. Japan was prom.
ised part of China providing she gave
her assistance to crush free people
The ODDS are not greater against Ger.
many than when Deborah rekindled
the hope Of victory in the hearts of
the thinned ranks of the tribes of
Israel, than it is today against Ger.
many.
One hundred millions of people in