St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-08-09

he had no right to go to Germany af-
ter the Irish leaders had decided to
throw in their lot with the allies.
ireland as nation had the right to be
neutral, but she was not neutral, as
the German legions discovered to
their cost.
Easements behavior in the prison
camp was very sad and showed the
hopeless middle a good man could
make. He asked Irishmen who had
gone out to fight and die for the sake
OF home rule to join the service of the
Kaiser-who has about as much wish
to bring about the liberty of the Irish
people as (if l may say so) the liberty
OF his own enslaved Germany.
LAS a result of Easements endeav-
ors, it appears that the conditions Of
the Irish soldiers were made worse
and, though it has not been wholly
proved, two good Irishmen, Privates
Moran and Deylin, We're shot for OBJ
structing the guard. They, too, were
dying for Ireland and England will
remember their deaths as well as the
deaths of thousands of good home
rulers in the allied cause.
But L should like to shed new light
on Easements adventurous trip home
L have a letter with indirect word
from one of Easements friends in
England which will, 1 think, make a
better case for Easement than even
Sergeant Sullivans imprisoned de-
fence. 1t reads:
He started from Germany with
the sole idea to prevent the rising, as
he thought it was hopeless. The sub
marine broke down at Heligoland. |
He was delayed-got into another
they landed him at wrong place-he |
was not in any connection with the
Aud. The two men, Bailey and Mon !
teith, went to look for a motor and |
then were delayed by police and could |
not find him. Meantime he was ar !
rested. When he heard of the motor
with two men drowned he thought it I
was Monteith, so cried. He tried to
stop the rebellion, but they would not
let him communicate with the leaders.
Even at Scotland Yard he tried to ex-
plain bloOdshed was coming, and they
would not listen. He would not give
for fear of being misunder-
stood by those who rebelled and those
in America
Does Not Doubt Truth.
81 think this final piece of Quixot-
sm will be interesting to his sympa-
-hizers in America. I have no doubt
IS to it's truth, because my informant
saw his diary between Germany and
Ireland.
ST am afraid the effect of his exc
eution will be to increase the bitter
ness between England and Ireland,
which is useless and only postpones
he final settlement.
1.-The settlement can only be on a
RedmOndian basis. He is our only
statesman in Ireland, what Jonescu
s to Roumania and VenizeIos is to
Greece.
THE grounds of a generous settle
nent in favor of home rule and a :
,eace between the two islands are al
Ways there. On the one hand let
England recall the dauntless courage
# 10000 Irish troops in the field and 9
orget the Sim Fem rising which was
aused by muddling officialism on her :
)art as much as by anything. On
he other hand let Ireland remember
hat she cannot afford the luxury of
eing on both sides in this conflict.
he has already sacrificed the cream
f the country in GallipoH and Elan
ers. Let her not obscure the graft r
ude and reward which all civilization
yves her for what she has done. +
1.-The first step towards a settlement c
7ill undoubtedly be the withdrawal of
martial law in ireland.
he next step will be a rally of all the +,
IRISH race around Redmond in the
pposition he is now showing the gov
rnment The final step will be the
1stallation of Redmond as an Irish 10
remier in Dublin. 1 am convinced
his will occur before the end of the
immediately-if only the :
IRISH at home and abroad are united
/ support of their one and only 4
,atesman.
''The best advice I can give Irish
in the present crisis is to
ack Redmond as they would back
Roland herself N
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