New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-08
Bv SHANE LESLIE.

The last few days have swept Ike
hIaqt of he'll over the minds Of all think
ing Irishmcn. They have been days IN
which all that is terrible in Ire!ands
mast has returned like a ghost to shriek
in the present.
q All TINT remains il for Trishmen and
Englishmen to try to be just TO one an
other patriotic hate on the one mana
and military vendetta on the other can
not avail one whit. 1t is pity either
should have been tried.
Tho Irish Rebellion OF 1918 has
arisen. directly or indirectly, out OF
three movements reacting against each
other the Home Rule Parliamentary
novcment. the Gaelic literary move
ment and the Carsonite anti-natlonal
movement.
Between them they have thrown the
Younger and more ardent Irish Nation
olists into this terrible pass. All Ire
land will disclaim the responsibility
and the heads Of these movements Will
gravely deplore what has occurred
thev are more the less among the con-
! trbuting causes.
The war has really been but an out
side part in what has occurred. All
this might have happened easily
CROUCH without England being at war
with Germany. There is no race ele-
ment more instinctively opposed to the
Teutonie than the Celtic. But Irish
Nationalism has proved so intense that
these Young men have been unable to
gauge the international situation. they
were wrong-h headed. but not wrong
/ hearted. 1t is not a question whether
the world is TO become German or
English. but whether it is to be leu
tonic or non-Teutonic. That is the
abiding question.
Celt Is Anti-Teutonic.
Now. the Celt. and the Irish Celt es-
pecially, has been anti-Teutonic ior
vigorous two thousand years. The
| Irish soldiers in the field are hghting
against exactly what Emmet and LORD
/ Edward Fitzgerald fought against a
/ hundred years ago In the sphere OF
world ideals IL is the same enemy ana
nationality does not count when inc
world is at stake.
/ Considering the war in its interna-
tional aspect. it is even possible 70
saw that England has come over 10
/ Ireland's historic attitude toward
might and right rather than vice versa:
Anti-iron Imperialism. the cause OF
small nationalities and right generally
against mieht-surely this is the most
/ Irish programme the Irish have ever
fought for. When Redmond ranged
/ the Irish party and the majority OF
I the Irish people against Teutonism he
was acting in accordance with the
highest traditions of the race. Local
aspirations had 10 be shelyed, though
! If England had had any foresight the
Home Rule act would have been put
( into immediate effect. Under Home
Rule Redmond could far more easily
have raised his recruits-and there
would have been no riot in Dublin.
What has occurred in Ireland has
blackened the spring. The mad blum
der Of idealism was followed by the
sad blunder Of retribution. The eXecu-
tions were legal and logical, but II
they were carried out by England they
we're ordered and paid for by Ger
many.
Demands Blood for Money.
Germany's expenditures of money
and propaganda in America had not
seriously affected the Irish here. A
certain number pocketed German
money and gave slight return except
promissory aid in fermented air. But
Germany always requires blood TOT
her money, and so many Irish mar
tyrs" were bargained for. The IN
happy Easement, accompanied by a
corporal's guard, was launched on his
doom. One does not like 20 ask II the
Jolly Roger" as the skull and cross
bones flag used 10 be called, was hoist
ed over him in mockery. Germany
needs him dead The ideslistic youth
Of ireland were entrapped by vain
PROMISES. and the miserable execution
of their leaders is the trump card Ger
many had in view 20 play in the united
States. Germany needed them dead.
Few of these men, whom IT IS SUI
nremelv uniting that either the fol-
lowers of Carson or Redmond should
lexecrate. wished TO be catspaws OF
Germany. In the number OF New Ire
land" dated April 22 is this statement;
Nothing could be more. unfair to re
land and to the Irish Volunteers than
20 attribute TO them desire to assist
Germany Every reason both Of sentl-
ment and expediency is against Ire
land showing the least inclination TO
assist Germany. and the vast majority
OF officers and men in the Irish Nolun-
teers. we believe, hold this view as
vehemently as we do. 1t 10 our pro
found conviction that no serious body
of Irishmen would consult any inter
est bu, Irelands, and that nothing