The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-12-23

one thing had the revolutionists done
that Sir Edward Carson and his fol
lowers had not openly plotted to do
The citizen army had but followed
the Ulster example; even the seizure
OF the postoilice was copied from the
Carson plans. For Carson, a place in
the Cabinet; for Patrick Pearse the
firing squad and the rifles at his heart,
I, 1t was too much; the senses of all
just men revolted at it, And now
there came this narrative of the limo.
cent Skeflington. struck down in the
sheer lust of bloodshed. The state
of Ireland when that story became
known sent at last reasoning chill
into the densest member of a dense
government. Instead of the insurrec-
ton having been suppressed by the
summary shootings, it had only begun
with them! Ireland was under mar
tial law with a bayonet at every corner
or certainly We should have had some
extraordinary scenes.
On the top of all this the incom-
parably stupid government now pro-
ceeded to hang Easement. Armed
and open revolt the London press
called his otfense. Yes-but how
about Christian DeWet? In the early
days OF the war he had organized and
led an armed and open revolt" much
more dangerous than the poets pro-
test; he was taken red-handed, but he
was not put to death. Why, then,
this manifest discrimination against
Irislimen? 1t can mean only one
thing, men said. In spite of all the
belated professions OF philanthropy
and better sentiments, England is still
the England Of Strongbow and Crom-
well. AT heart, men said, her hatred
has never abated; and all the good
effects Of the land-purchase act and
the rest vanished over night, shot to
pieces by a government determined
to have blood and plenty of it.
1t has no sense; it deserves any
misfortune that may bcfall it in Ire.
land. 1t does things so small and
mean that a mosquito in the cham
bered recesses of his consciousness
would be ashamed of them. James
Connolly left Il widow and five child.
rem, all girls, the oldest II years old,
They were in the utmost destitution.
Mrs. Connolly, decent, kindly wo.
man, had no knowledge of her hus-
bands so-called treason. When he
had been propped up and shot, dublin
friends tried to find work for the
Oldest girl. The only place they could
find paid 62 cents a week. A fund
was now raised to send the family to
America. where Mrs. Connolly had
friends and relatives, who would care
for her. The tickets were bought and
all arrangements made when gov
eminent officer stepped in and forbade
the departure on the ground that in
America the family would be exploited
by the Clan-naG Gael. After which the
government censor would not allow
a word OF any of this to be published
or to pass through the mails.
The result of this is a new spirit
in Ireland, and one that the bungling
government might we'll look upon with
the utmost concern. Instead of the
old enthusiasm of few revolution.
lists, there is a deep-seated and abid-
ing conviction of wrong. This gener.
alton will not see the end of it. Grimly
silent now, it will find an expression
as surely as the world wags on it's
way. The bayonet cannot always be
at lreland's throat. When it is taken
away | think there is going to be
trouble. There are today in Ireland
ten times as many of what the Lon
don press calls Sim Feincrs as there
were two years ago. The dullest poll
tician might draw instruction from
that one fact.